WEBVTT - The HowStuffWorks Story Part Two 0:00:04.480 --> 0:00:07.800 Text with technology with tech stuff from how stuff works 0:00:07.800 --> 0:00:14.640 dot com. Hey there, and welcome to tex Stuff. I 0:00:14.680 --> 0:00:18.320 am your host, Jonathan Strickland, executive producer here at how 0:00:18.400 --> 0:00:23.040 stuff Works. And our previous episode was number nine hundred, 0:00:23.800 --> 0:00:27.800 which by my math makes this one and one. And 0:00:27.880 --> 0:00:30.600 in episode nine I talked about the founding of how 0:00:30.680 --> 0:00:33.640 stuff works and how it changed since it first started. 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:37.240 Back is the first part of the how stuff Works story. 0:00:37.320 --> 0:00:41.239 So if you've not heard that, go here that and 0:00:41.280 --> 0:00:43.599 then come back here and I will I will make 0:00:43.640 --> 0:00:46.040 you hear other things about how stuff works because in 0:00:46.080 --> 0:00:49.159 that other episode I focus mostly on the website side 0:00:49.159 --> 0:00:52.280 of the story. That is the older part of the business, 0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:56.080 the thousands and thousands of articles about all sorts of subjects, 0:00:56.440 --> 0:01:01.120 heavily researched and expertly written. So if you're not familiar 0:01:01.160 --> 0:01:03.400 with how stupworks dot com, I recommend you go check 0:01:03.440 --> 0:01:06.200 it out. But in this episode I'm going to focus 0:01:06.240 --> 0:01:09.959 more on the podcast side of the business. How stupp 0:01:09.959 --> 0:01:13.400 works podcasts got their start in two thousand eight, so 0:01:13.480 --> 0:01:17.120 ten years after the founding of the website itself. The 0:01:17.120 --> 0:01:19.560 original idea is that we would launch our shows to 0:01:19.760 --> 0:01:23.280 complement that website, so episodes were meant to be very 0:01:23.319 --> 0:01:26.120 short and to cover an article that you could find 0:01:26.160 --> 0:01:28.680 over at how stupp works dot com. This was thought 0:01:28.720 --> 0:01:32.440 of as a brand extension, right. It wasn't a way 0:01:32.480 --> 0:01:35.240 to make money. It wasn't like an article where we 0:01:35.240 --> 0:01:38.319 would serve up web advertising against the article. There was 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:41.440 no plan to monetize the podcast when they first began, 0:01:42.000 --> 0:01:43.880 and there was not really an easy way to do 0:01:43.959 --> 0:01:47.000 it if we wanted to. So in other words, this 0:01:47.080 --> 0:01:50.400 was essentially a marketing expense. We were operating the podcasts 0:01:50.600 --> 0:01:54.320 at a loss. It costs money to host podcasts, so 0:01:54.360 --> 0:01:56.160 we were spending on the shows, but there was no 0:01:56.240 --> 0:01:58.640 way to directly make that money back at the time. 0:01:59.160 --> 0:02:01.160 The fact that we were allow to launch the shows 0:02:01.200 --> 0:02:03.760 and choose what to put on there and keep making 0:02:03.800 --> 0:02:08.160 them for years it's pretty amazing now. Conal Byrne, who 0:02:08.240 --> 0:02:10.800 was the managing director at how stuff Works at the time, 0:02:11.280 --> 0:02:14.200 was the guy who said, hey, we should be doing this, 0:02:14.720 --> 0:02:18.040 and he approached several of us about starting shows in 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:21.320 two thousand and eight. I was eager to jump on board. 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:23.480 I had been listening to podcasts for a couple of 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:26.400 years and one of my favorites was c nets Buzz 0:02:26.440 --> 0:02:29.560 Out Loud, which was a show that hasn't existed for 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:32.359 several years now. I miss it a lot. Molly Wood 0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:35.200 and tom Merritt and lots of other hosts have been 0:02:35.240 --> 0:02:38.040 part of that, and they were phenomenal. They gave tech 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:43.200 news really cool context and commentary, and I loved their delivery. 0:02:43.480 --> 0:02:46.560 So I was eager to give this a try myself, 0:02:46.600 --> 0:02:48.480 and I jumped at the chance to be in on 0:02:48.560 --> 0:02:52.120 the launch of a technology themed podcast. Now, out of 0:02:52.160 --> 0:02:55.799 all the folks who started podcasting at that time, there 0:02:55.800 --> 0:02:59.639 are only a few of us who had a background 0:02:59.680 --> 0:03:03.600 in performance. Most of the people who started podcasts were 0:03:03.600 --> 0:03:06.800 coming at it from a researcher and writer perspective, but 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:10.440 not someone who would typically perform on microphone. They were 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:15.640 not I mean, they had personalities, but they were not personalities. 0:03:15.800 --> 0:03:19.880 There is a difference. Also, there's a term that is 0:03:19.919 --> 0:03:23.080 frequently used in the industry to describe people who are 0:03:23.160 --> 0:03:30.680 podcasters besides jerks. It's the term is talent. And boy 0:03:30.880 --> 0:03:35.680 does that feel pretentious to be called the talent, as 0:03:35.720 --> 0:03:38.600 if everybody else who works on this isn't talented, That 0:03:38.760 --> 0:03:43.520 is patent lee untrue. I have had a sweet, a 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:47.720 veritable army of talented people who have made my show 0:03:47.760 --> 0:03:49.840 and the other shows at How Stuff Works possible and 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:54.160 sound great and go out on time. So I object 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:57.680 to being called the talent, but that is another common 0:03:57.800 --> 0:04:00.360 term for it. At any rate, none of us at 0:04:00.400 --> 0:04:04.320 that time were the talent. We were talented, just not 0:04:05.000 --> 0:04:08.040 We weren't meant for for performing in on top of microphones. 0:04:08.080 --> 0:04:10.840 We would instead do research and write an article and 0:04:10.880 --> 0:04:13.480 submit it and get edits back, and then work on 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:16.160 those edits and submit it again. That's that's how we worked. 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:19.560 So if you listen to some of those old episodes, 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:23.480 those first few of any given show, you might notice 0:04:23.560 --> 0:04:29.279 some hesitancy, some uncertainty of how to talk into a 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:32.440 microphone and how to relate to an audience that isn't there. 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:35.960 But most of us, in fact, I would say, everybody 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:38.240 who's still around, picked up on it pretty well and 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:42.880 now does an amazing job of it. Myself excluded, I've 0:04:42.880 --> 0:04:48.719 always done an amazing job. Now. Four shows launched that 0:04:48.960 --> 0:04:51.400 summer of two thousand and eight to extend the presence 0:04:51.400 --> 0:04:55.440 of How Stuff Works into podcast land. Those four shows 0:04:55.440 --> 0:04:58.680 where Stuff You Should Know Factor Fiction, which would later 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:02.279 become Stuff You Missed in History Class, Brain Stuff, which 0:05:02.320 --> 0:05:06.880 was hosted by the site founder, Marshall brain and Tech Stuff. 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:11.159 All four of those shows still exist, though brain Stuff 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:15.240 has changed the most in format since it started. Stuff 0:05:15.240 --> 0:05:18.359 You Missed In History Class has had several hosts throughout 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:22.279 its own history. Only two people have remained co hosts 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:26.640 or hosts of their respective shows since the launch of 0:05:26.680 --> 0:05:31.159 those first four shows. Those two people are Josh Clark, 0:05:31.600 --> 0:05:34.240 the co host of Stuff You Should Know, and me, 0:05:34.920 --> 0:05:38.440 host of Tech Stuff. We are the only two original 0:05:38.480 --> 0:05:41.719 hosts from that original slate of shows who are still 0:05:41.720 --> 0:05:45.000 hosting those shows, and I will have Josh Clark on 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:48.320 this episode a little bit later. Now. Over time, the 0:05:48.400 --> 0:05:53.880 podcast transformed from brand extension marketing to revenue generating shows, 0:05:53.920 --> 0:05:57.320 so in other words, we started selling ad spots and 0:05:57.360 --> 0:06:00.880 getting sponsorships. These days, the podcas ask business is a 0:06:00.880 --> 0:06:04.279 big one, so much so that were now considered a 0:06:04.320 --> 0:06:09.240 podcast network company. And this change was a gradual one, 0:06:09.360 --> 0:06:11.960 but it's also a really big one. It's kind of 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:14.960 hard to communicate to anyone outside of how stuff works. 0:06:15.640 --> 0:06:19.359 How enormous a change this was. When I first started 0:06:19.520 --> 0:06:24.200 at the company, we didn't even have podcasts, not at 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:26.359 How Stuff Works. I mean they existed, but we didn't 0:06:26.400 --> 0:06:31.160 have any. Later, we were considered a website that also 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:37.039 did podcasts these days were a podcast company. So I 0:06:37.080 --> 0:06:40.200 started off as a staff writer, I became a senior writer, 0:06:40.680 --> 0:06:43.680 and now I'm a podcast executive producer and host. It's 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:47.640 kind of an interesting journey because there was no career 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:51.279 ladder that way when I started, because there was no department, 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:54.479 there was no podcasting. And a bit will u we'll 0:06:54.600 --> 0:06:57.080 touch in with a Josh and talk about his perspective 0:06:57.080 --> 0:06:59.200 on the podcast business of How Stuff Works. But first 0:06:59.560 --> 0:07:01.279 I thought would be fun to run down a list 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:04.440 of shows we've done over the years, a podcasts, not 0:07:04.720 --> 0:07:07.800 episodes of tech Stuff. And some of these podcasts are 0:07:07.800 --> 0:07:11.440 still in production. Others have been phased out, which is 0:07:11.480 --> 0:07:16.480 a nice way of saying canceled. Sometimes shows are canceled 0:07:16.520 --> 0:07:21.280 because we failed to get a good, strong audience. Sometimes 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:23.240 we have to cancel them when we realize the amount 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:26.720 of work it takes to put into the show is 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:29.120 so much that we cannot do other things that we 0:07:29.200 --> 0:07:32.880 need to do. Sometimes it's because people who are working 0:07:32.880 --> 0:07:35.400 on the show move on to go work somewhere else. 0:07:36.080 --> 0:07:37.680 There are a lot of different reasons, so it's not 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:41.240 like we have a cruel taskmaster who is watching a 0:07:41.280 --> 0:07:43.480 needle and if the needle doesn't get out of the 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:45.720 red in a certain amount of time, they just say 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:47.920 out the door with you. I want to make sure 0:07:47.960 --> 0:07:50.680 that you guys realize that. So we're gonna start with 0:07:50.720 --> 0:07:53.480 the big one, the first of all the podcasts to 0:07:53.640 --> 0:07:56.040 launch in two thousand and eight, that would be Stuff 0:07:56.080 --> 0:07:59.600 You should Know. It's still our most popular show by far. 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:04.000 It is the the flagship, the rock star of the 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:08.160 house stuff Works Network, and it's helmed by Josh Clark 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:11.320 and Chuck Bryant. At least it is today. Back in 0:08:11.360 --> 0:08:13.640 the day, Josh Clark hosted with a couple of other 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:17.000 folks on early episodes. He'll talk about that a little 0:08:17.000 --> 0:08:20.000 bit later. And typically they choose an article and how 0:08:20.040 --> 0:08:23.840 stuff works, and they each do some supplemental research looking 0:08:23.880 --> 0:08:27.040 into other sources on their own, and then they meet 0:08:27.120 --> 0:08:29.560 up to have a conversation about the subject matter. They 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:32.600 don't share their notes, they don't share their research. They 0:08:32.640 --> 0:08:34.559 just sit down at the table and what you hear 0:08:34.559 --> 0:08:38.000 on the podcast is their conversation it's a really effective 0:08:38.040 --> 0:08:41.640 and engaging approach. Their chemistry is undeniable. They've posted more 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:44.240 than a thousand episodes of their show since it launched 0:08:44.240 --> 0:08:46.160 in two thousand and eight, and they covered pretty much 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:50.840 any topic imaginable, though they tend to leave the technological 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:54.640 ones to me. We published several episodes of stuff you 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:57.600 Should Know at once so that people would have multiple 0:08:57.640 --> 0:08:59.880 episodes to listen to right out of the gate. So 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:04.160 on April two thousand eight, the first three episodes to 0:09:04.200 --> 0:09:08.960 come out were how grass Aline Works, How lame Ducks Work, 0:09:09.320 --> 0:09:13.560 and how Altruism Works. Stuff You Missed in History Class 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:16.679 Today is hosted by Tracy V. Wilson and Holly Fry, 0:09:16.760 --> 0:09:20.320 though numerous other hosts have helmed the show in the past, 0:09:20.600 --> 0:09:23.800 and they take a deep dive on interesting, obscure, or 0:09:23.880 --> 0:09:28.040 otherwise overlooked historical events and give them real context and explanation. 0:09:28.840 --> 0:09:30.400 We guess, out of all of our shows that we 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:33.720 produce here at the company, that's the one that requires 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:36.560 the most in depth research. And my hat is off 0:09:36.600 --> 0:09:40.000 to them, because I do about eight hours of research 0:09:40.080 --> 0:09:44.280 per hour of tech stuff that you hear. I think 0:09:44.360 --> 0:09:47.240 they do even more than that because it requires it 0:09:47.280 --> 0:09:51.120 to to find out as many sources about these historical 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:54.360 events as possible and corroborate with other sources to make 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:58.600 sure that they are communicating the most accurate information. The 0:09:58.600 --> 0:10:00.600 first episode of Stuff You Missed in his Street Class 0:10:00.679 --> 0:10:05.160 was did Genghis Khan really kill one million, seven forty 0:10:05.240 --> 0:10:07.960 eight thousand people in one hour? And that it published 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:11.760 on June nine, two eight. Now you know all about 0:10:11.960 --> 0:10:15.760 tech Stuff. It's the show you're listening to right now. 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:19.679 But originally tech Stuff was a two person show and 0:10:19.720 --> 0:10:22.520 my editor, Chris Pallette was my co host and the 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:25.880 purveyor of puns. If you think my puns are bad, 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:29.560 you need to listen to some old shows. Our first 0:10:29.559 --> 0:10:33.560 episode was and I'm embarrassed to say this, how the 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:38.360 Google Apple Cloud computer will work? Yeah. I published on 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:43.160 June tenth, two thousand eight. So our show is one 0:10:43.280 --> 0:10:47.240 day younger than Stuff You Missed Industry Class. There show 0:10:47.280 --> 0:10:50.400 came out the day before ours. Brain Stuff was originally 0:10:50.400 --> 0:10:53.200 hosted by Marshall Brain that is his real name, and 0:10:53.240 --> 0:10:55.840 the episodes were really really short, like a couple of 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:59.000 minutes each When it first came out. Each one would 0:10:59.000 --> 0:11:01.720 answer a question and a quick overviews such as how 0:11:01.920 --> 0:11:06.160 Nano Solar Works. That shows still around, and I hear 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:09.280 that there are some interesting ideas that might be happening 0:11:09.440 --> 0:11:11.840 with brain Stuff in the near future. So if you 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:14.000 haven't listened for a while, you may want to go 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:16.560 and subscribe. I have a feeling there's going to be 0:11:16.600 --> 0:11:19.520 some changes made in all sorts of interesting ways, a 0:11:19.559 --> 0:11:23.000 lot of experimentation. Um, but that's all I can say 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:25.120 about it because it's still in flux at the moment. 0:11:25.160 --> 0:11:27.720 But the first episode of the show was How Stealth 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:31.400 Technology Works, and it published on July four, two thousand 0:11:31.400 --> 0:11:35.120 and eight. Best Deal Day. Car Stuff is a show 0:11:35.120 --> 0:11:38.400 with Ben Bolan and Scott Benjamin used to be called 0:11:38.480 --> 0:11:42.200 High Speed Stuff and then they changed it eventually as 0:11:42.240 --> 0:11:47.439 a show about vehicles, and it's really incredibly entertaining. Scott 0:11:47.520 --> 0:11:50.240 is a treasure trove of car information. If you've heard 0:11:50.280 --> 0:11:52.520 any of the episodes where he's been a host here 0:11:52.520 --> 0:11:57.120 on tech Stuff, he has phenomenally informed about vehicles and 0:11:57.120 --> 0:11:59.000 it's also fun to break his heart by talking about 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:03.720 autonomous vehicles. And then Ben, well, he's he's pretty smart. 0:12:04.600 --> 0:12:07.720 Ben's a very funny, smart guy. He's also my arch 0:12:07.920 --> 0:12:12.320 nemesis here at How Stuff Works. I declared that pretty 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:15.480 much my first month of working here, because I wanted 0:12:15.480 --> 0:12:17.720 to have an arch nemesis who was actually very courteous 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:21.000 and friendly and would sometimes bring me lunch. One of 0:12:21.040 --> 0:12:23.880 the hardest working folks here at the company would be 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:27.680 Mr Ben Bolan. Their first episode was How kar Theft Works, 0:12:28.679 --> 0:12:30.760 which honestly does not surprise me at all because Ben 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:35.080 is also a bit shifty. It published November eight. They 0:12:35.080 --> 0:12:37.280 had a second episode go live that same day titled 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:40.280 what will Luxury Car Mean? And twenty thirty so we 0:12:40.280 --> 0:12:41.600 still have a few years to find out if they 0:12:41.640 --> 0:12:45.240 were right about it. Chuck Bryant and John Fuller. They 0:12:45.320 --> 0:12:48.720 launched a show for a while. It was called Stuff 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:51.440 from the B Side, which was all about music. I 0:12:51.480 --> 0:12:54.439 miss that show a lot. You'll hear me and Josh 0:12:54.480 --> 0:12:57.559 talk about that a little bit later. The podcast was 0:12:57.600 --> 0:13:00.559 an interesting look at music and music product action and 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:05.480 related topics. The first episode was called How Debut Albums Work, 0:13:05.840 --> 0:13:08.679 which is pretty clever when your first episodes about debut albums. 0:13:08.880 --> 0:13:11.360 It published on December thirteenth, two thousand and eight. The 0:13:11.480 --> 0:13:15.920 final episode was titled Before They Were Robots, early craft 0:13:15.920 --> 0:13:19.120 Work and it published on December tenth, two thousand nine. 0:13:19.600 --> 0:13:22.319 So this show lasted about a year, and it's when 0:13:22.360 --> 0:13:24.800 I really wish we could bring back, and maybe someday 0:13:24.800 --> 0:13:27.600 we will in some format. Then we have Stuff Mom 0:13:27.720 --> 0:13:30.600 Never Told You, which was originally hosted by Kristen Conger 0:13:30.679 --> 0:13:33.600 and Molly Edmonds. And I remember when Kristen and Molly 0:13:33.720 --> 0:13:35.800 first pitched this show because I got to sit in 0:13:35.880 --> 0:13:37.800 on some of those early recordings and I could tell 0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:41.760 right away that they had an incredible idea. Molly would 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:45.480 leave the company in two eleven, with Caroline Irvin joining 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:47.800 the show, and then Kristen and Caroline did an amazing 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:51.800 job evolving the show into a strong feminist voice. Caroline 0:13:51.800 --> 0:13:55.679 and Kristen left How Stuff Works in late The show 0:13:55.840 --> 0:13:59.560 itself has returned and now has new hosts Emily Airies 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:03.000 and Bridge Todd. The first episode of the show ever 0:14:03.440 --> 0:14:07.600 was Doo, Men and Women have different Brains. It published 0:14:07.640 --> 0:14:11.200 February four, two thousand nine. I suspect the answer is yes, 0:14:11.200 --> 0:14:15.679 because we can't all share the same one. On January 0:14:15.960 --> 0:14:19.560 we launched a new show called Stuff from the Science Lab, 0:14:20.120 --> 0:14:23.000 but we would rebrand this. This is sort of like 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:25.360 Factor Fiction. We changed the name of it. Now it 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:28.600 is known as Stuff to Blow Your Mind. This is 0:14:28.640 --> 0:14:32.360 a science based podcast. It's currently hosted by Robert Lamb, 0:14:32.680 --> 0:14:36.200 Joe McCormick, and Chris stout Sayer. Although our editor Alison 0:14:36.240 --> 0:14:39.120 louder Milk was an original co host with Robert. Julie 0:14:39.160 --> 0:14:41.840 Douglas would also host some of these episodes of the show, 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:46.720 and the first episode ever was called Amazing Investations. In 0:14:46.800 --> 0:14:50.520 twenty eleven, we launched a short lived podcast called Stuff 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:53.920 to Make You Smarter. This was hosted by Rob and Chris, 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:56.920 who were not actually part of the editorial department, and 0:14:57.120 --> 0:15:00.000 this show explored all sorts of various topics but didn't 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:03.040 quite last half a year. The first episode launched a 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:06.400 May second, two thousand eleven and was called of Cinema 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:09.760 and Sound The Story of Music and Film. The final 0:15:09.840 --> 0:15:12.880 episode was called Can We Teach Our Children to Be 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:17.960 Bully Proof? And it published on September. So this was 0:15:18.000 --> 0:15:20.840 the time when we were actually opening up the ability 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:25.160 to podcast beyond the editorial department. And it turns out 0:15:25.200 --> 0:15:28.360 that podcasting is it requires a lot of work, and 0:15:28.400 --> 0:15:31.080 sometimes it requires more work than you can put in 0:15:31.360 --> 0:15:34.440 and still do your regular job at the same time, 0:15:34.560 --> 0:15:38.120 So that I suspect was the reason why this podcast 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:41.920 ended up being canceled about six months in from its launch. 0:15:42.680 --> 0:15:45.920 Um just imagining it was along those lines. It certainly 0:15:46.000 --> 0:15:48.320 wasn't anything about the quality of the show, which is 0:15:48.400 --> 0:15:50.240 quite good. You can still go back and listen to them. 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:52.720 All of these, by the way, are still online, so 0:15:52.800 --> 0:15:54.520 you can go back and find them if you like. 0:15:55.480 --> 0:15:58.400 Now I've got more to talk about with the podcasts 0:15:58.440 --> 0:16:01.960 that were and still are with the House Stuff Works Network. 0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:03.880 But before I do that, let's take a quick break 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:13.120 to thank our sponsor. All Right, we're back. We got 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:14.960 a few more shows to talk about before we get 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:17.920 to the interview with Josh Clark of Stuff You Should Know. 0:16:18.520 --> 0:16:22.640 On August nine, we published a new show called Stuff 0:16:22.760 --> 0:16:25.400 for a Stylish Home, which was a d I Y 0:16:25.480 --> 0:16:28.960 and home decor show hosted by Christie and Sarah, and 0:16:29.000 --> 0:16:32.280 their first episode was the importance of having things unique 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:35.360 to you in. The final episode, which published on February nine, 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:40.600 two thousand twelve, was Move Away from the Carpet Flooring Alternatives. 0:16:41.240 --> 0:16:43.080 This was another one of those shows we launched and 0:16:43.120 --> 0:16:45.840 canceled in just a few months, and I never really 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:48.080 got a chance to talk with Sarah or Christie, so 0:16:48.120 --> 0:16:51.720 I really wasn't in the realm where that show was 0:16:51.800 --> 0:16:54.080 launched and then canceled. I don't really know what the 0:16:54.080 --> 0:16:57.000 story is behind it, but this was during our days 0:16:57.360 --> 0:17:00.480 as part of Discovery Communications, and that may have had 0:17:00.480 --> 0:17:02.560 something to do with it. I honestly don't know what. 0:17:02.640 --> 0:17:04.080 It may have had something to do with our our 0:17:04.080 --> 0:17:08.720 relationship with TLC. Now. Before they became the hosts of 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:11.800 of Stuff You Missed in History Class, Tracy V. Wilson 0:17:11.880 --> 0:17:14.240 and Holly Fry also hosted a show called Pop Stuff, 0:17:14.280 --> 0:17:17.120 which was all about pop culture. The first episode published 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:21.639 on October It was about time traveling through Fall TV. 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:24.040 It was actually all about the shows that the hosts 0:17:24.040 --> 0:17:26.439 were excited about. So if you want to hear which 0:17:26.720 --> 0:17:30.000 shows in two thousand eleven Holly and Tracy were really 0:17:30.720 --> 0:17:34.280 waiting to see, you can go and download that episode 0:17:34.320 --> 0:17:37.520 and find out it's like time traveling all over again. 0:17:37.800 --> 0:17:40.440 The final episode of Pop Stuff would air on June third, 0:17:40.600 --> 0:17:45.280 two thirteen. It was called Greatest Hits Perfume The Culture 0:17:45.359 --> 0:17:49.359 of Scent. I used to host a show called Forward Thinking. 0:17:49.760 --> 0:17:51.760 It was a video series, and it had a companion 0:17:51.880 --> 0:17:55.280 audio podcast. The focus of both shows was to take 0:17:55.320 --> 0:17:58.760 a speculative look at the future. Often this would center 0:17:58.840 --> 0:18:02.679 on technology, but we'd also take science, art, culture, and 0:18:02.720 --> 0:18:06.720 other topics into consideration. Joe McCormick and Lauren voege Obaum 0:18:06.960 --> 0:18:09.199 hosted this show with me, and our first episode was 0:18:09.240 --> 0:18:12.840 called The Internet of Things More Efficient than You and 0:18:12.920 --> 0:18:17.720 it published on February fi fun fact, that was my 0:18:17.920 --> 0:18:21.640 sixth year work anniversary the day that show went live. 0:18:22.320 --> 0:18:26.240 Later that same year, Ben Bolan and Matt Frederick launched 0:18:26.280 --> 0:18:29.200 a new series called Stuff They Don't Want You to Know, 0:18:29.760 --> 0:18:33.320 which focuses on strange stories and French theories. I actually 0:18:33.720 --> 0:18:36.959 gave the show that name. That name was my idea. 0:18:38.080 --> 0:18:39.880 It's one of like three good ones I've had since 0:18:39.920 --> 0:18:42.880 I started How Stuff Works. Noel Brown has since joined 0:18:43.040 --> 0:18:46.040 that show, and their first episode ever was called Edward 0:18:46.080 --> 0:18:48.719 Burnet's the Most Famous Man Man You've Never Heard of? 0:18:49.240 --> 0:18:53.720 That published on octobirteen. Julie Douglas, one of our editors 0:18:53.760 --> 0:18:57.240 actually she used to edit my articles, hosts a show 0:18:57.280 --> 0:18:59.919 called The Stuff of Life. Her show tends to publish 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:03.040 in seasons and it requires a lot more work, both 0:19:03.080 --> 0:19:06.199 on the research side and the post production side, but 0:19:06.240 --> 0:19:08.280 it's a really cool show. You should check it out 0:19:08.280 --> 0:19:10.439 a few episodes if you're not familiar with it. The 0:19:10.480 --> 0:19:13.160 Stuff of Life had both a trailer and an episode zero, 0:19:13.240 --> 0:19:15.080 as did many of the other shows that I will 0:19:15.119 --> 0:19:18.399 talk about soon, but the first real episode was called 0:19:18.480 --> 0:19:23.040 The Power of Fear and published January two thousand sixteen. 0:19:23.960 --> 0:19:26.840 Lauren Vogelbaum hosted a show called How Stuff Works Now 0:19:26.920 --> 0:19:29.240 for a while that was based off the blog posts 0:19:29.280 --> 0:19:32.119 that folks like myself we're writing for the Now brand. 0:19:32.440 --> 0:19:35.840 We've since discontinued that brand and the series, but the 0:19:35.840 --> 0:19:39.320 first episode of that podcast published on April two thousand 0:19:39.440 --> 0:19:44.400 sixteen and was titled Microbots, Babies, trust, and lead contamination. 0:19:45.720 --> 0:19:49.000 Three things you don't want to go together. Lauren and 0:19:49.080 --> 0:19:52.880 Annie launched a show this year in March called Food Stuff, 0:19:52.880 --> 0:19:56.320 in which they explore the amazing world of food. So 0:19:56.440 --> 0:19:58.280 if you like food, you should check it out. It's 0:19:58.320 --> 0:20:01.879 pretty awesome show. The first episode is titled Champagne and 0:20:01.960 --> 0:20:05.640 Sparkling Wine and it published on March first, two thousand seventeen. 0:20:06.920 --> 0:20:09.879 In twenty seventeen, our company also hired Will and Mangesh, 0:20:09.880 --> 0:20:12.960 who had co founded the magazine Mental Flass back in 0:20:13.000 --> 0:20:16.040 two thousand one. They joined our company and they launched 0:20:16.119 --> 0:20:20.640 a new podcast called Part Time Genius. Their first real episode, 0:20:20.720 --> 0:20:24.760 getting Past the Trailer in episode zero, published on June seven, seventeen, 0:20:25.240 --> 0:20:27.840 and it's called What Are the Sunniest Places to Hide 0:20:27.840 --> 0:20:32.000 My Taxes? Jack O'Brien, who was once an editor of Cracked, 0:20:32.160 --> 0:20:34.919 joined How Stuff Works in twenty seventeen as well, and 0:20:34.960 --> 0:20:38.920 in October of seventeen launched a news oriented comedy show 0:20:38.960 --> 0:20:42.720 called The Daily Zeitgeist. Now that show is particularly timely, 0:20:42.880 --> 0:20:45.960 so listing titles and launch dates doesn't really apply because 0:20:46.000 --> 0:20:48.680 it's dependent upon the news. But trust me, it's there. 0:20:48.760 --> 0:20:51.040 You should check it out if you haven't heard it already. 0:20:51.080 --> 0:20:54.919 On October nine, we launched the show Tech Stuff Daily. 0:20:55.480 --> 0:20:57.320 If you haven't heard of it, it's a short form 0:20:57.400 --> 0:21:00.280 show and yeah, it proves I can show it up 0:21:00.320 --> 0:21:02.920 if I have to covers tech stories that are part 0:21:02.920 --> 0:21:05.200 of the current conversation, and then I explained the context 0:21:05.200 --> 0:21:09.760 behind them all within seven ish minutes or less. The 0:21:09.800 --> 0:21:14.000 first episode was about augmented reality, and then we launched 0:21:14.119 --> 0:21:17.320 Ridiculous History with Noel Brown and Ben Bullen, which looks 0:21:17.359 --> 0:21:21.040 into really odd historical events. Their first episode is The 0:21:21.080 --> 0:21:24.359 Wild Hippos of Pablo Escobar and it went live on 0:21:24.400 --> 0:21:29.359 octob You should definitely tune into that show. I hear 0:21:29.440 --> 0:21:34.000 a rumor that a certain text stuff podcast host might 0:21:34.040 --> 0:21:40.120 be showing up regularly un ridiculous history to quiz people unfairly. 0:21:42.000 --> 0:21:43.840 I won't tell you where I heard that. One of 0:21:43.840 --> 0:21:47.600 the most recent shows that we launched is called Movie Crush. 0:21:47.680 --> 0:21:49.800 That's a show hosted by Chuck Bryant and which he 0:21:49.840 --> 0:21:53.200 interviews notable people about their favorite films. And the first 0:21:53.200 --> 0:21:56.840 episode featured Janet Varney and it's all about Tron. So 0:21:56.880 --> 0:21:59.480 you guys who heard my interview with Mr Listburger should 0:21:59.480 --> 0:22:03.840 definitely check that one out. The Movie Crush first episode 0:22:03.880 --> 0:22:08.239 published on November three. And we've had all sorts of 0:22:08.280 --> 0:22:11.840 interesting celebrities come in and out of our office. There 0:22:11.840 --> 0:22:13.800 are times when I'm recording and I'll look through the 0:22:13.800 --> 0:22:16.680 window and I'll see someone I recognize, and I just 0:22:16.800 --> 0:22:19.760 have to keep everything together and keep recording as if 0:22:19.760 --> 0:22:22.880 I didn't just see someone super cool walk by the window. 0:22:23.160 --> 0:22:25.760 It is a challenge. We've got a lot of other 0:22:25.800 --> 0:22:29.960 shows coming up soon. There's one called Atlanta Monster that 0:22:30.160 --> 0:22:33.360 is going to be all about the Atlanta child murders 0:22:33.400 --> 0:22:36.679 that happened in the early eighties here in Atlanta, and 0:22:36.720 --> 0:22:41.160 that that promises to be a very hard hitting, serious 0:22:41.240 --> 0:22:46.159 investigative piece. So if you are a fan of that style, 0:22:46.240 --> 0:22:49.800 that genre of podcast, you owe it to yourself to 0:22:49.880 --> 0:22:52.960 check it out. I've seen some of the early work 0:22:53.080 --> 0:22:55.680 and it is phenomenal, and we've got a lot more 0:22:55.720 --> 0:22:58.880