Interesting Origins of Everday Phrases
We don’t think about the words and phrases we use all the time - until Josh and Chuck look into them and tell everyone what they found. That’s the gist of this episode!
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About the Podcast
Stuff You Should Know, often abbreviated as SYSK, is a free, award-winning podcast and video series published by the HowStuffWorks website and hosted by Josh Clark and Charles W. "Chuck" Bryant, both writers at HowStuffWorks.
The podcast, released every Tuesday and Thursday, educates listeners on a wide variety of topics, often using popular culture as a reference giving the podcast comedic value.
Facts about the show:
- Show is downloaded more than 1 million times per week.
- Hasbro released a special edition of Trivial Pursuit: The Stuff You Should Know Edition based on episodes from the podcast.
- Josh and Chuck receive over 350 pieces of fan mail a week.
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