One of you sounds like you are in a nursing home! Why do they keep picking people with annoying and aggravating voices to host podcasts. It's really not a radical request.

It feels like you’re hanging out and talking with friends. I love these two and have listened for almost 15 years. No matter the subject, Josh and chuck make the conversation engaging and entertaining!

Awesome show I learned so much.

Great podcast. But wow talk about commercials. Way more than any other podcast I listen to.

I’ve been listening to these guys for years, and they are intelligent, witty, interesting, and knowledgeable but in an accessible way. Thanks for continuing to deliver quality content.

Great content, insufferable commercial interruptions.

This podcast is awesome! It keeps away the boredom and is a delight. However, all the ads are just about constant, time wise and staying wise. And, and and iPodcasts cuts episodes from earlier. They’re cutting from 2014 it’s nuts. Definitely a good show though all the ads. P.s you can use the transcription to skip ads

Thanks for mentioning the P 38 in your recent broadcast you knew your info about Walther and it replaced the Luger. Luber had a lot of complicated parts and I could never afford one. They are so expensive the Walther P 38 stock protection in 1972 but most police department still use them. In fact, almost every movie has one in it. It has a very distinctive shape. It’s a good gun at close ranges. That’s why the police love them 9 mm. It’s the most comfortable handgun I’ve ever owned. Great show well researched. Only wish you had more ads lol

Been listening for several years. If you want a road trip to go by fast, then listen to the podcast on squirrels. I tend to listen to up lifting topics, but all of them are primo productions.

Love the podcast but Iheart has more ads than content in the podcast. It’s too bad. I wish the host could do their own thing for over an hour with legitimate contents and not just 20 minutes of advertisements. Also as an anthropologist, the alchemy episode hurt. Please research pronunciations and the limited amount of facts you share. It wasn’t even decent for an episode.

Never heard another podcast where guys talk for literally 3 minutes and say “should we take a break?”

This is specifically related to the episode about Bengal cats. I appreciate that both guys are not proponents of breeding hybrid cats and people buying them, and while they briefly get into the wild parentage, they don’t talk about these tiny, shy, wild cats being used as breeding stock, and the horrible life that they live. Then there are the wild souls inside domestic looking bodies and sanctuaries across the country that are overflowing with hybrid cats surrendered by people who didn’t realize what they were getting into when they bought the cat for its looks. Breeding and selling hybrids should be banned at a national level!

It’s the best podcast ever created. Simple. Josh and Chuck make it so.

There not boring , they are bored, The. Clowning of Josh and the huh what ,???? from the other guy , great subjects at times, but the delivery,ECCCH!!!! What me worry

I would rate 5 star because I love this podcast and have been listening for years but the ads have increased dramatically over the last year and absolutely destroy the experience! At least there were less before and they were read by Josh and Chuck. Now they are awful loud ads, many in a row and throughout the show, often promoting horrible content such as upsetting true crime stories. It makes this really difficult to listen to, and there is no ad free option. I hope this changes so I can change my review

Yep, still an overly liberal slant on everything.

The information is good, but in my opinion one of the hosts plays a dumb clown too far, and ruins the show.

..Like listening to 2 well-read friends having a conversation in the next room. One is more annoying than the other [read: one of them is more like me], but they love each other well. They’re both curious, and I like that. I bet they’re actually dope. Don’t worry about the title of the episode- just let it play. And if you’re a musician, give us another rendition of their classic intro! Artful novelty is the mood here. Be welcome.

I have been listening for years but the last year I have completely forgotten to listen in. Can’t Waite to catch up on a year or so of episodes. Thanks guys!

In January, 2021 I started listening to this podcast while walking our pandemic adopted dog. Two dogs, a kitten & 4 1/2 years later (listening on 2x speed) I am finally caught up! I’ve learned so much about a large range of topics & recommended this podcast to so many people. It’s honestly quite strange to hear current events mentioned and impossible to go back to 1x playback speed.

Everybody who hates this is just wrong they teach me new stuff every single day and I will spend hours on hours. Just listening to them. Their topics are very interesting instead of just the normal. What is 1+1 and boring stuff. This is actual real. And all those people who say too many ads too many ads that’s how they keep the podcast

Jeremy Brett was the absolute greatest Holmes and there is no better place to start enjoying the character and the stories. Eddie Van Halen was of Filipino extraction. He was born in the Netherlands and his parents emigrated to California when he was a young child. David Lee Roth is a native New Yorker and the nephew of the owner of the legendary Cafe Wha. David used to hang out there as a kid and saw many of the iconic acts that performed and got their start there.

I listen to you guys a lot. Would love for you to do a deep dive into the US debt. Maybe even just talk about how much of the Federal budget goes just to pay interest on the debt. While the amount of foreign aid, as you pointed out in the article, maybe minuscule in comparison, every pet project of every person (member of Congress) in the US has put us into a debt spiral. Here’s an idea, which I didn’t hear you cover in the episode, everyone that feels passionately about the things that USAID did can make donations to other organizations that do those kinds of things. The world would be a better place if people put their money where their mouth is. If you feel passionately about AIDS in Africa do the work and spend the money. The world is changed by what you do. Not what you say.

I love this podcast, and the fact that in one of the jingles, instead of “Josh and chuck” they say “jock and chush” makes me laugh every time. Also I went to the live show in North Carolina, and I’m still waiting to hear about rope trauma

As a kid my history was offended when we asked her political party and stated it disrespectful to ask someone’s party or who they voted for. Wow has things have a changed and personal I speak for many when I say we don’t care about YOUR personal political views. Let’s take your USAID episode.. I already know why you did it and your political leaning. However the point Ill make is this… You did an episode years ago on health inspections that was simply wrong in every way.. I know this because I worked in the food industry for decades and held certifications. The point: you need Experience and inside information to know the truth within an organization. (Such as USAID or Health Depts). You have neither so in both cases your opinion will vary far from fact.

I learn stuff every week from these guys. Always interesting.

I don’t think the words “calm down” have ever produced positive results. It certainly turned me off before being able to give it a chance. Does the public really enjoy these arrogant podcasters slipping in gross insults to those of us that believe in humanity? Disappointed.

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Chuck and Josh have made me sound so much smarter than I actually am to both my wife and friends. If you’re dumb, like I surely was before starting Stuff You Should Know, you should listen too! 😉 For real though, this is a great show for old and young alike. The format makes it easy to follow along and Josh and Chucks terrible (kidding) jokes are oddly calming and help make the subjects lighthearted more than like you’re studying something. If knowledge is power then SYSK is like eating a mushroom in Super Mario Bros.

I’m only 11 but, I like this podcast. but usually, I fall asleep before the episode end.( I’ve been doing that since I was a baby). Also, you should make a hockey episode. You have over 2,000 episodes, and the best you have is a Zamboni short stuff. Don’t know many websites for research, but Inside Out 2 is pretty spot-on. Another suggestion I just thought of: Giftedness. What makes intellectually gifted people different? How does the label “gifted” affect people? What classifies as “gifted”? About how many people in the US are gifted? ALSOOOOOO… in the acne episode, you describe rosacea. DON’T WORRY PEOPLE. My dad has rosacea, and it’s not too bad AND there’s treatments. I have ocular rosacea, (rosacea is genetically passed down) and it’s not bad after my treatments. You cannot tell.

This is my favorite podcast! I’m only 15 but I love learning about random things like this, and it’s very relaxing! ☺️ hope everybody that reads this has a good day!

The Iheart ads have taken over the show. On a recent short stuff, started with ads, middle of show with ads, ended with ads, lots of ads each time. Also, guys, you get way off topic about movies you’ve seen and other episodes you’ve done or should do that add nothing to the subject at hand, then you take a break with more ads. Like the hosts in general but unfollowing the show.

I’d give the podcast 5/5 but having to skip over irrelevant ads by force quitting constantly ruins the experience. Wish I could actually enjoy the podcast.

Have been listening since 2020 and I just caught up & have listened to all the episodes and listened to their audiobook. I started listening to SYSK when I was looking for a podcast about the Tylenol murders. This podcast is amazing. There truly is so much stuff you should know!!

That one guy has to much brain rot good podcast 👌

Love your Podcast Especially the mysteries!

My brother listens to this podcast like 24/7 so I hear this podcast a lot. I like the intro where it’s like 🎶 stuff you should kNowW 🎵 your voices are like super relaxing and chill and it’s just a really nice podcast with a variety of different themes and episodes I like Josh better than the other dude btw

The podcast gives great buddy energy, it’s a great show for people who want to learn, there is only about 5 minutes of ads per episode and 2 for the short stuff

I love these podcasts. The ancillary information around the main subject is so interesting. I lived in E. Africa and so this was really great revisiting some of the history of the place.

AMAZING. Josh and Chuck just in case you read this. I really look up to you and I hope you will talk about me in an episode. Also, can you do an episode about Taylor Swift? If not because I get it, there are a lot of people who disagree. Maybe could you do one about what you do to make the podcast?

I find most episodes interesting and enjoyable, too many ads, enjoy some of the banter but it can lead the hosts down rabbit trails and away from topic

Great Podcast! Knowledge never killed anyone.

Stuff you should know is an incredible podcast where you learn things you didn’t know you wanted to know, things you wanted to know, and things you wish you had known sooner. The host Chuck and Josh have an incredible friendship and camaraderie that builds over the years. This podcast is great for educational purposes as well as personal. I can’t go a day without listening to Chuck and Josh.

Helps me sleep and very interesting and informative I met w/ Josh and Chuck irl once they’re super nice and funny I took a photo with them they’re rly cool guys

The lamest episode they’ve yet to do. Buncha of garbaldy goop.

I’ve listened to this podcast enough that it wouldn’t be right if I gave it any less and 5 stars. Josh seems like a genuine dude but Chuck… not so much.

If I agreed with Looney leftist liberals, I would never talk politics because I would always be wrong

They talk about the listed characteristics of psychopaths but then don’t provide them.

While the topics are interesting. They are so boring. From the voices to the unnecessary banter that doesn’t belong here. Unfollow. In a world where information as at our fingertips these guys offer nothing.

Amusing banter, explanations to what are really common things, and two guys who enjoy what they do. Fun to listen to