It's easy to overlook the importance of ocean currents - they move along out at sea, while we stay mostly on land. But we are globally affected by them every day. Currents form the base of the food chain, drive weather and keep life as we know it going. Explore them with Josh and Chuck in this classic episode.

It's easy to overlook the importance of ocean currents - they move along out at sea, while we stay mostly on land. But we are globally affected by them every day. Currents form the base of the food chain, drive weather and keep life as we know it going. Explore them with Josh and Chuck in this classic episode.

If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.

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Selects: How Ocean Currents Work

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By the 1990s, cigarette makers had been hooking and killing off their customers for about a century. And they’d gotten good at both as well as covering up their harms. In 1994 they were still denying cigarettes were addictive. Then, the 50 Attorneys General of the US rode into town to take them on.

By the 1990s, cigarette makers had been hooking and killing off their customers for about a century. And they&rsquo;d gotten good at both as well as covering up their harms. In 1994 they were still denying cigarettes were addictive. Then, the 50 Attorneys General of the US rode into town to take them on.

The Tobacco Master Settlement: That Time We Got Em

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In this classic episode, Chuck and Josh dive into the funky, cool world of the classic TV show, Sooooooooul Train.

In this classic episode, Chuck and Josh dive into the funky, cool world of the classic TV show, Sooooooooul Train.

Selects: The Soul Train Episode

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Would you believe that Detroit’s crack epidemic in the mid-80s was overseen by one 16 year-old white kid who supplied all the coke? No? Well, that’s not quite true, so okay. The actual story is even more nutso than that.

Would you believe that Detroit&rsquo;s crack epidemic in the mid-80s was overseen by one 16 year-old white kid who supplied all the coke? No? Well, that&rsquo;s not quite true, so okay. The actual story is even more nutso than that.

White Boy Rick

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