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A list of potential band names mentioned in the Stuff You Should Know Podcast
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SYSK Band names.md

I started this list way too late, so I know I'm missing most of them. Please submit others you know of so we can complete the list.

  • Tub of Pulp (2017-06-22 - How Ketchup Works)
  • Charismatic Megafauna (2017-05-11 - How Charismatic Megafauna Work)
  • Itch-Scratch Cycle (2017-05-09 - How Itching Works)
  • Worm Burden (2017-03-16 - Southerners Aren't Lazy and Dumb, They Just Had Hookworm)
  • Force Multiplier
  • Indian Territory (2017-03-07? - History of the Trail of Tears, Part I)
  • Winner's Bitch (2012-12-27 - How Dog Shows Work)
  • Extraordinary Rendition (2010-06-22 - How Ghost Prisons Work)
  • Coronal Mass Ejection (2010-01-14 - How the Sun Works)
  • The Whatnots (2009-08-27 - How Muppets Work)

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Acid Fog (2012-06-14 - Whatever happened to acid rain?)

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Leif-One commented Feb 14, 2023 •
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(if anyone reads this, my name is said 'LAYF', not 'LEAF')
Sympathetic Magic (10 March 2021 short-stuff-tooth-fairy-not-real)
Magnetic Fields (5 Jan 2021- space-weather-what-s-that)
Toilet Avalanche, The Puke Avenger, Poop Fusion (31 Oct 2020 how-ghosts-work)
Diesel Fuel (10 Nov 2020 The Bay of Pigs Disaster)
The Sarg McFadden effect (12 Nov 2020 How Macy's Thanksgiving Parade Works)
Needle phobia (17 Nov 2020 how-pain-works)
Faithless Elector, Faithless Electors (3 Oct 2020 how-the-electoral-college-works)
The Bottomland Hardwood Swamp Rats, Mudflats (10 Sep 2020 Wetlands! Wetlands! Wetlands!)
The Travel'in Droplets (25 Aug 2020 How Sneezing Works)
The Plastic Beads the album Cultured Monkey Kidney Cells (21 Jul 2020 How We Almost Got Rid of Polio)
The French Inch (1 Aug 2020 SYSK Selects: How the Rosetta Stone Works)
The Fifth Essence, Mechanical Expression (9 Jul 2020 Essential Oils: Nature's Cure?)
Steeplejack (14 Jul 2020 Flagpole Sitting: A Real Fad)
Gilded Lily (16 Jul 2020 Robber Barons!)
Nouns of Assemblage (24 Jun 2020 Short Stuff: Nouns of assemblage... assemble!)
Usable Beef, Jungle X-ray (26 May 2020 Hummingbirds: Ornery Helicopters of the Animal Kingdom)
Bågenholm (14 Jan 2023 Selects: How Therapeutic Hypothermia Works (5 May 2015))
Boney Hairball (9 Nov 2022 How Owls Work)
Pyroclastic Flow (15 Oct 2022 Selects: How Pompeii Worked)
Audience Response Duplicator (21 Sep 2022 Short Stuff: Laugh Tracks)
Death Master File (16 Jul 2022 Selects: What Happens When the Government Thinks You're Dead?)
From Muck to Diamond album (3 May 2022 The Mystery of Coal)
Frozen Poop Knife (the actual band Diarrhea Planet should change their name to..) (21 Apr 2022 Just Say No to... Bottled Water)
Sloth Moth, Mouthfart (29 Jan 2022 Selects: How Sloths Work)
Kathleen Turner Overdrive, Cooperative Eye Hypothesis (5 Jan 2022 Selects: What's the Deal With Staring?)
Muscle Belly (10 Feb 2022 Littering: Not Cool)
Variety Meats, Sodium Nitrite and the Nitrites (16 Nov 2021 Hot Dog!(s))
Instinctual Living Machines (30 Sep 2021 All About Alligators)
Noize Pollushun (14 Oct 2021 Noise Pollution: Arrrgh!)
Kirk, Gunnar and Flash in the Pan (6 Jul 2021 The Sad Story of William James Sidis)
Rotten Stink (8 Jul 2021 SYSK Live: Koko, the Gorilla Who Talked)
Reject Stream (15 Jul 2021 How Reverse Osmosis Will Save the World)
The Catskill Foie Gras Collective (10 Jun 2020 Short Stuff: Foie Gras)
Hand Chode (17 Mar 2020 Chopsticks > Forks)
Fistful of Neurons, Worm Burden, Tub of Pulp, Threat Simulation Theory, Poor Fred Noonan, Mouth Parts, Sweet Give Me the Teat, Sick Vandalism, Flesh on the Chunks, Hot Plastic Injection, Pyroclastic Flow, Flaming Death Bolts, Conceptual Walls, Framingham Cohort, Offspring Cohort, Omni Cohort, Third Generation Cohort, Offspring Spousal Cohort, Cortical Homunculus, Medieval Synthesis, Magic bullet, Herbal Douches (retracted by Chuck), Slaughtered Narwhale, Peck Lube, Sex-linked Recessive, Manhole Incidence, Graphic Spew, Nuclear Bulge, Local Group, The Electric Death Commission, Doctor Foss Bomb Drop, Death Master File, Mouth Fart, Frozen Poop Knife, Sloth Moths, Radioactive Cats, Static Crush, Damage Night, The Descriptivists, Bathtub Gin, Wasted on Excitement, Mother Culture, Jungle X-ray, Wet Record, Two Whale Bolt, Going Postal (20 Feb 2020 Birthmarks: Probably Not the Mark of the Devil (compiled list from viewer mail))
Toe Thumb (29 Feb 2020 SYSK Selects: Your limb is torn off - now what?)
Genus Canus, Wolf Challenge, Other Wolves, Infinite Fang, Used Mirrors, Mr. Ma'am, Ancient Falls, Dumb and Dangerous, The Loud Mouths (10 Mar 2020 How Coyotes Work)

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