# List of Stuff You Should Know episodes (2019)

This is a list of episodes from 2019 for the Stuff You Should Know podcast.

## 2019 season

| No. in series | No. in season | Title | Length | Original air date |
| 1125 | 1 | "Rockettes: Still Kicking After All These Years" | 50 minutes | January 1, 2019 (2019-01-01) |
| 1126 | 2 | "What was the Tunguska event?" | 47 minutes | January 3, 2019 (2019-01-03) |
| 1127 | 3 | "How the Spanish Flu Worked" | 63 minutes | January 8, 2019 (2019-01-08) |
| 1128 | 4 | "The Great Finger in the Wendy’s Chili Caper" | 49 minutes | January 10, 2019 (2019-01-10) |
| 1129 | 5 | "How Airbags Work" | 45 minutes | January 15, 2019 (2019-01-15) |
| 1130 | 6 | "The July 20th Plot to Assassinate Hitler" | 52 minutes | January 17, 2019 (2019-01-17) |
| 1131 | 7 | "SYSK Live: The Kellogg Brothers’ Wacky World of Health" | 76 minutes | January 22, 2019 (2019-01-22) |
| 1132 | 8 | "The Legend of Betsy Ross" | 47 minutes | January 24, 2019 (2019-01-24) |
| 1133 | 9 | "How Ping Pong Works" | 62 minutes | January 29, 2019 (2019-01-29) |
| 1134 | 10 | "How Central Park Works" | 58 minutes | January 31, 2019 (2019-01-31) |
| 1135 | 11 | "The Insidious Abuse of Stalking" | 62 minutes | February 5, 2019 (2019-02-05) |
| 1136 | 12 | "The True Story of BlacKkKlansman" | 50 minutes | February 7, 2019 (2019-02-07) |
| 1137 | 13 | "Could There Be A Loch Ness Monster?" | 67 minutes | February 12, 2019 (2019-02-12) |
| 1138 | 14 | "Elephants: The Best Animals?" | 66 minutes | February 14, 2019 (2019-02-14) |
| 1139 | 15 | "Yeti: The Asian Bigfoot" | 50 minutes | February 19, 2019 (2019-02-19) |
| 1140 | 16 | "How Galaxies Work" | 51 minutes | February 21, 2019 (2019-02-21) |
| 1141 | 17 | "The Science of Break-Ups" | 65 minutes | February 26, 2019 (2019-02-26) |
| 1142 | 18 | "Tuskegee Airmen: American Heroes" | 52 minutes | February 28, 2019 (2019-02-28) |
| 1150 | 19 | "What's the deal with ASMR?" | 51 minutes | March 5, 2019 (2019-03-05) |
| 1143 | 20 | "How Dyslexia Works" | 48 minutes | March 7, 2019 (2019-03-07) |
| 1144 | 21 | "The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti" | 60 minutes | March 12, 2019 (2019-03-12) |
| 1145 | 22 | "The Great Stink: The Stench So Bad They Gave It A Name" | 40 minutes | March 14, 2019 (2019-03-14) |
| 1146 | 23 | "Desert Survival: Josh and Chuck Save Your Tookus" | 50 minutes | March 19, 2019 (2019-03-19) |
| 1147 | 24 | "How Disgust Works" | 59 minutes | March 21, 2019 (2019-03-21) |
| 1148 | 25 | "How Druids Worked" | 59 minutes | March 26, 2019 (2019-03-26) |
| 1149 | 26 | "Etch A Sketch!" | 44 minutes | March 28, 2019 (2019-03-28) |
| 1151 | 27 | "How Rape Kits Work" | 55 minutes | April 2, 2019 (2019-04-02) |
| 1152 | 28 | "Were Nazis Drug-Fueled Crankheads?" | 50 minutes | April 4, 2019 (2019-04-04) |
| 1153 | 29 | "How Free Range Parenting Works" | 56 minutes | April 9, 2019 (2019-04-09) |
| 1154 | 30 | "How the Electric Chair Works" | 65 minutes | April 11, 2019 (2019-04-11) |
| 1155 | 31 | "How the Hoover Dam Works, Part I" | 51 minutes | April 16, 2019 (2019-04-16) |
| 1156 | 32 | "How the Hoover Dam Works, Part II" | 47 minutes | April 18, 2019 (2019-04-18) |
| 1157 | 33 | "Is birth order important?" | 56 minutes | April 23, 2019 (2019-04-23) |
| 1158 | 34 | "What Were Human Zoos?" | 46 minutes | April 25, 2019 (2019-04-25) |
| 1159 | 35 | "Michael Dillon: Trans Pioneer" | 60 minutes | April 30, 2019 (2019-04-30) |
| 1160 | 36 | "What Happens When the Government Thinks You're Dead?" | 44 minutes | May 2, 2019 (2019-05-02) |
| 1161 | 37 | "Remembering Live Aid" | 57 minutes | May 7, 2019 (2019-05-07) |
| 1162 | 38 | "Do Dietary Supplements Work?" | 60 minutes | May 9, 2019 (2019-05-09) |
| 1163 | 39 | "How Trampolines Work" | 59 minutes | May 14, 2019 (2019-05-14) |
| 1164 | 40 | "10ish Cases of Really Bad Luck" | 55 minutes | May 16, 2019 (2019-05-16) |
| 1165 | 41 | "How Crystals Work" | 54 minutes | May 21, 2019 (2019-05-21) |
| 1166 | 42 | "What was Tin Pan Alley?" | 46 minutes | May 23, 2019 (2019-05-23) |
| 1167 | 43 | "The Tylenol Murders, Part I" | 50 minutes | May 28, 2019 (2019-05-28) |
| 1168 | 44 | "The Tylenol Murders, Part II" | 51 minutes | May 30, 2019 (2019-05-30) |
| 1169 | 45 | "How Barcodes Work" | 59 minutes | June 4, 2019 (2019-06-04) |
| 1170 | 46 | "What is perfect pitch?" | 48 minutes | June 6, 2019 (2019-06-06) |
| 1171 | 47 | "What's the gig economy?" | 48 minutes | June 11, 2019 (2019-06-11) |
| 1172 | 48 | "How Area 51 Works" | 56 minutes | June 13, 2019 (2019-06-13) |
| 1173 | 49 | "How the Hygiene Hypothesis Works" | 50 minutes | June 18, 2019 (2019-06-18) |
| 1174 | 50 | "What happened to the Neanderthals?" | 55 minutes | June 20, 2019 (2019-06-20) |
| 1175 | 51 | "Planned Obsolescence: Engine of the Consumer Economy" | 62 minutes | June 25, 2019 (2019-06-25) |
| 1176 | 52 | "What is the Civil Air Patrol?" | 50 minutes | June 27, 2019 (2019-06-27) |
| 1177 | 53 | "Is photographic memory a real thing?" | 50 minutes | June 2, 2019 (2019-06-02) |
| 1178 | 54 | "How the Fairness Doctrine Worked" | 58 minutes | June 4, 2019 (2019-06-04) |
| 1179 | 55 | "Cleopatra: Ms. Understood" | 56 minutes | June 9, 2019 (2019-06-09) |
| 1180 | 56 | "How Sloths Work" | 60 minutes | June 11, 2019 (2019-06-11) |
| 1181 | 57 | "How Going to the Moon Works" | 59 minutes | June 16, 2019 (2019-06-16) |
| 1182 | 58 | "Sand Dunes: They Are What You Think They Are" | 47 minutes | June 18, 2019 (2019-06-18) |
| 1183 | 59 | "MOVE: Or When the Philly Police Dropped a Bomb on a Residential Neighborhood" | 57 minutes | June 23, 2019 (2019-06-23) |
| 1184 | 60 | "How Eyewitness Testimony Works(?)" | 61 minutes | June 25, 2019 (2019-06-25) |
| 1185 | 61 | "Will Deepfakes Ruin the World?" | 49 minutes | April 30, 2019 (2019-04-30) |
| 1186 | 62 | "What Were the BONE WARS?" | 58 minutes | August 1, 2019 (2019-08-01) |
| 1187 | 63 | "Iran-Contra Affair: Shady in the 80s, Part 1" | 51 minutes | August 6, 2019 (2019-08-06) |
| 1188 | 64 | "Iran-Contra Affair: Shady in the 80s, Part 2" | 49 minutes | August 8, 2019 (2019-08-08) |
| 1189 | 65 | "Solar Power: The Future or What?" | 66 minutes | August 13, 2019 (2019-08-13) |
| 1190 | 66 | "How Peyote Works" | 46 minutes | August 15, 2019 (2019-08-15) |
| 1191 | 67 | "Nuclear Semiotics: How to Talk to Future Humans" | 59 minutes | August 20, 2019 (2019-08-20) |
| 1192 | 68 | "How Ventriloquism Works" | 54 minutes | August 22, 2019 (2019-08-22) |
| 1193 | 69 | "A Brief Overview of Punk Rock" | 57 minutes | August 27, 2019 (2019-08-27) |
| 1194 | 70 | "The Rubik's Cube Episode" | 54 minutes | August 29, 2019 (2019-08-29) |
| 1195 | 71 | "Ed Gein: The Serial Killer's Serial Killer" | 52 minutes | September 3, 2019 (2019-09-03) |
| 1196 | 72 | "What's the deal with MSG?" | 61 minutes | September 5, 2019 (2019-09-05) |
| 1197 | 73 | "How Government Shutdowns Work" | 58 minutes | September 10, 2019 (2019-09-10) |
| 1198 | 74 | "Special Effects: A Short History" | 60 minutes | September 12, 2019 (2019-09-12) |
| 1199 | 75 | "The Skinny on Lyme Disease" | 53 minutes | September 17, 2019 (2019-09-17) |
| 1200 | 76 | "How the US Interstate System Works" | 66 minutes | September 19, 2019 (2019-09-19) |
| 1201 | 77 | "We Are Running Out of Sand and That Actually Matters" | 51 minutes | September 24, 2019 (2019-09-24) |
| 1202 | 78 | "What are paraphilias?" | 57 minutes | September 26, 2019 (2019-09-26) |
| 1203 | 79 | "Guardian Angels: Behind the Red Beret" | 105 minutes | October 1, 2019 (2019-10-01) |
| 1204 | 80 | "What were the Freedom Schools?" | 51 minutes | October 3, 2019 (2019-10-03) |
| 1205 | 81 | "How Environmental Psychology Works" | 54 minutes | October 8, 2019 (2019-10-08) |
| 1206 | 82 | "The Ins and Outs of Beekeeping" | 69 minutes | October 10, 2019 (2019-10-10) |
| 1207 | 83 | "How Project Blue Book Worked, Pt I" | 46 minutes | October 15, 2019 (2019-10-15) |
| 1208 | 84 | "How Project Blue Book Worked, Pt II" | 49 minutes | October 17, 2019 (2019-10-17) |
| 1209 | 85 | "What's the deal with subpoenas?" | 56 minutes | October 22, 2019 (2019-10-22) |
| 1210 | 86 | "How Historic Districts Work" | 50 minutes | October 24, 2019 (2019-10-24) |
| 1211 | 87 | "Where Did Trick-Or-Treating Come From?" | 56 minutes | October 29, 2019 (2019-10-29) |
| 1212 | 88 | "SYSK’s Scare Your Socks Off Halloween Spooktacular 2019" | 40 minutes | October 31, 2019 (2019-10-31) |
| 1213 | 89 | "How Ironman Triathlons Work" | 61 minutes | November 6, 2019 (2019-11-06) |
| 1214 | 90 | "Cockney Rhyming Slang: Beautiful Gibberish" | 48 minutes | November 7, 2019 (2019-11-07) |
| 1215 | 91 | "Augmented Reality: Coming Soon?" | 63 minutes | November 12, 2019 (2019-11-12) |
| 1216 | 92 | "NYC Water: An Engineering Marvel" | 53 minutes | November 14, 2019 (2019-11-14) |
| 1217 | 93 | "The Murder Mystery of Ötzi the Iceman" | 58 minutes | November 19, 2019 (2019-11-19) |
| 1218 | 94 | "What Makes a Must-Have Christmas Toy?" | 54 minutes | November 21, 2019 (2019-11-21) |
| 1219 | 95 | "How Carbon-14 Dating Works" | 61 minutes | November 26, 2019 (2019-11-26) |
| 1220 | 96 | "How Conversion Therapy Doesn't Work" | 69 minutes | November 28, 2019 (2019-11-28) |
| 1221 | 97 | "Did Climate Cause the Collapse of the Maya?" | 49 minutes | December 3, 2019 (2019-12-03) |
| 1222 | 98 | "What's a gap year anyway?" | 57 minutes | December 5, 2019 (2019-12-05) |
| 1223 | 99 | "Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Gin" | 54 minutes | December 10, 2019 (2019-12-10) |
| 1224 | 100 | "How Anorexia and Bulimia Work" | 65 minutes | December 12, 2019 (2019-12-12) |
| 1225 | 101 | "MC Escher and His Trippy Art" | 62 minutes | December 17, 2019 (2019-12-17) |
| 1226 | 102 | "Cave Diving: Totally Nuts" | 56 minutes | December 19, 2019 (2019-12-19) |
| 1227 | 103 | "The SYSK Holiday Spectacular" | 44 minutes | December 24, 2019 (2019-12-24) |
| 1228 | 104 | "SYSK Live: Andre the Giant" | 69 minutes | December 26, 2019 (2019-12-26) |
| 1229 | 105 | "Are broken arrows a problem?" | 54 minutes | December 31, 2019 (2019-12-31) |

### Short Stuff (2019)

| No. in series | No. in season | Title | Length | Original air date |
| 14 | 1 | "Short Stuff: Khipu" | 17 minutes | January 2, 2019 (2019-01-02) |
| 15 | 2 | "Short Stuff: How Often Do You Need To Change Your Oil?" | 16 minutes | January 9, 2019 (2019-01-09) |
| 16 | 3 | "Short Stuff: Olestra" | 13 minutes | January 16, 2019 (2019-01-16) |
| 17 | 4 | "Short Stuff: Johnny Appleseed" | 14 minutes | January 30, 2019 (2019-01-30) |
| 18 | 5 | "Short Stuff: Ellen Richards" | 13 minutes | February 6, 2019 (2019-02-06) |
| 19 | 6 | "Short Stuff: War of Jenkins' Ear" | 14 minutes | February 13, 2019 (2019-02-13) |
| 20 | 7 | "Short Stuff: Turbulence" | 13 minutes | February 20, 2019 (2019-02-20) |
| 21 | 8 | "Short Stuff: Black Loyalists" | 14 minutes | February 27, 2019 (2019-02-27) |
| 22 | 9 | "Short Stuff: Wigs in English Court" | 14 minutes | March 6, 2019 (2019-03-06) |
| 23 | 10 | "Short Stuff: Bedbugs" | 14 minutes | March 13, 2019 (2019-03-13) |
| 24 | 11 | "Short Stuff: The Sandman" | 14 minutes | March 20, 2019 (2019-03-20) |
| 25 | 12 | "Short Stuff: When Elvis Met Nixon" | 16 minutes | March 27, 2019 (2019-03-27) |
| 26 | 13 | "Short Stuff: Unspent Campaign Money" | 13 minutes | April 3, 2019 (2019-04-03) |
| 27 | 14 | "Short Stuff: Lake Peigneur" | 15 minutes | April 10, 2019 (2019-04-10) |
| 28 | 15 | "Short Stuff: Emu Wars" | 14 minutes | April 17, 2019 (2019-04-17) |
| 29 | 16 | "Short Stuff: Fear of Public Speaking" | 14 minutes | April 24, 2019 (2019-04-24) |
| 30 | 17 | "Short Stuff: The Number 23" | 15 minutes | May 1, 2019 (2019-05-01) |
| 31 | 18 | "Short Stuff: Nicknames" | 15 minutes | May 8, 2019 (2019-05-08) |
| 32 | 19 | "Short Stuff: Honorary Degrees" | 15 minutes | May 15, 2019 (2019-05-15) |
| 33 | 20 | "Short Stuff: James Polk, Disinterred" | 14 minutes | May 22, 2019 (2019-05-22) |
| 34 | 21 | "Short Stuff: Look-Alike Old Couples" | 15 minutes | May 29, 2019 (2019-05-29) |
| 35 | 22 | "Short Stuff: Robert Johnson and the Devil" | 14 minutes | June 5, 2019 (2019-06-05) |
| 36 | 23 | "Short Stuff: Smoke Signals" | 16 minutes | June 12, 2019 (2019-06-12) |
| 37 | 24 | "Short Stuff: Emperor Norton" | 16 minutes | June 19, 2019 (2019-06-19) |
| 38 | 25 | "Short Stuff: Prison Food" | 13 minutes | June 26, 2019 (2019-06-26) |
| 39 | 26 | "Short Stuff: Mitsuye Endo" | 13 minutes | July 3, 2019 (2019-07-03) |
| 40 | 27 | "Short Stuff: The Coconut Cult" | 18 minutes | July 10, 2019 (2019-07-10) |
| 41 | 28 | "Short Stuff: Yellow Rain" | 14 minutes | July 17, 2019 (2019-07-17) |
| 42 | 29 | "Short Stuff: Aristides de Sousa Mendes" | 14 minutes | July 24, 2019 (2019-07-24) |
| 43 | 30 | "Short Stuff: The Man Who Didn’t Eat for a Year" | 14 minutes | July 31, 2019 (2019-07-31) |
| 44 | 31 | "Short Stuff: Time Zones" | 15 minutes | August 7, 2019 (2019-08-07) |
| 45 | 32 | "Short Stuff: Petrichor" | 14 minutes | August 14, 2019 (2019-08-14) |
| 46 | 33 | "Short Stuff: Horseshoe Crab Blood" | 15 minutes | August 21, 2019 (2019-08-21) |
| 47 | 34 | "Short Stuff: Dead Bodies and Airline Codes" | 15 minutes | August 28, 2019 (2019-08-28) |
| 48 | 35 | "Short Stuff: Barbed Wire" | 15 minutes | September 4, 2019 (2019-09-04) |
| 49 | 36 | "Short Stuff: Papasan Chairs" | 15 minutes | September 11, 2019 (2019-09-11) |
| 50 | 37 | "Short Stuff: Scurvy" | 15 minutes | September 18, 2019 (2019-09-18) |
| 51 | 38 | "Short Stuff: Dare Stones" | 17 minutes | September 25, 2019 (2019-09-25) |
| 52 | 39 | "Short Stuff: Fish n' Chips" | 15 minutes | October 2, 2019 (2019-10-02) |
| 53 | 40 | "Short Stuff: The Devil's Den" | 15 minutes | October 9, 2019 (2019-10-09) |
| 54 | 41 | "Short Stuff: The Disappearance of Ambrose Bierce" | 14 minutes | October 16, 2019 (2019-10-16) |
| 55 | 42 | "Short Stuff: The Toxic Death of Gloria Ramirez" | 14 minutes | October 23, 2019 (2019-10-23) |
| 56 | 43 | "Short Stuff: Our Shortie Halloween Spooktacular" | 14 minutes | October 30, 2019 (2019-10-30) |
| 57 | 44 | "Short Stuff: The History of Paternity Testing" | 13 minutes | November 6, 2019 (2019-11-06) |
| 58 | 45 | "Short Stuff: The Conch Republic" | 16 minutes | November 13, 2019 (2019-11-13) |
| 59 | 46 | "Short Stuff: Backyard Burials" | 15 minutes | November 20, 2019 (2019-11-20) |
| 60 | 47 | "Short Stuff: Niagara Falls Dewatered" | 17 minutes | November 27, 2019 (2019-11-27) |
| 61 | 48 | "Short Stuff: Macadamia Nuts" | 14 minutes | December 4, 2019 (2019-12-04) |
| 62 | 49 | "Short Stuff: Whisky or Bourbon?" | 15 minutes | December 11, 2019 (2019-12-11) |
| 63 | 50 | "Short Stuff: Obituaries" | 15 minutes | December 18, 2019 (2019-12-18) |
| 64 | 51 | "Short Stuff: The Santa Claus Association" | 15 minutes | December 25, 2019 (2019-12-25) |