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50 miles will do things to the human body you wouldn't expect. And one of these three statements is a lie. This week we cover both. Caleb takes the science chair for a change and walks through exactly what the human body goes through during a 50-mile race, with his own race from Saturday as the live case study. The fuel system switching from carbs to fat, the blood getting rerouted away from the gut (and why that makes you nauseous), the brain's internal governor dialing down how hard your muscles can work, what a muscle "lockup" actually is (scientists still argue), the strange reason you can't sleep after a race, and the real timeline of recovery (hint: your legs are still rebuilding weeks after your blood tests look normal). Plus his honest account of the pretzels that saved his race, the GPS watch that lied to him, and the last 15 miles with Christina pacing him in. Then Christina flips the format and runs a full round of Two Truths and a Lie. Five themed categories: Accidental Fame, National Parks, Bible Plot Twists, Surprising Résumés, and Animals. BJ Novak, wombat poop, Mackinac Island, Mother Teresa, and sea otters all make appearances. Caleb's job is to guess which one is the lie in each round, and he fails more than he succeeds. Two hosts. Two unrelated topics. One episode that somehow makes sense by the end. Full video episodes and Shorts on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@stuffThatWeLike Contact us at [email protected] with any questions, concerns, or corrections! Follow the show on Instagram: @stuffthatwelikepodcast Christina on Instagram: @Cjoyfully Caleb on Instagram: @CalebcMedia

A profiteer, a spy, and a card-carrying member of the Nazi Party saved roughly 1,200 Jewish lives during the Holocaust. He ended up broke, buried in Jerusalem, and recognized as one of the Righteous Among the Nations. This week we take on Oskar Schindler. For the latest in our Heroes of History series, Caleb and Christina tag-team the story of Oskar Schindler. Caleb walks through the early years: the small-town upbringing in Moravia, the expulsion from technical school for forging report cards, the charm-first salesman who stumbled through jobs, and the pivot that mattered most, becoming a spy for German intelligence and joining the Nazi Party for the opportunities it opened up. From there we move to Kraków in 1939, where Schindler takes over a Jewish-owned enamelware factory, hires Jewish workers because they're cheap, and builds a fortune off the war he helped prepare for. Then Christina takes over for the part that matters most. The slow shift that turned a profiteer into one of the most unlikely heroes of the 20th century. How a man with a Nazi pin on his lapel ended up spending everything he had to keep the people on his list alive, and what we can actually learn from a story where the hero was nothing like a hero when it started. Two hosts. One of the most paradoxical lives of the 20th century. A conversation about how change really happens.

Yellowstone has been a national park for over 150 years, and the whole reason the national park system exists at all is weirder than it should be. Also, carbohydrates are basically LEGO bricks, and understanding them that way makes everything else about nutrition click. This week we cover both. Christina takes the history chair and walks through the origin story of Yellowstone National Park. The 19th-century explorers who first brought back the stories (which nobody believed), the near-mythical tales of geysers and bubbling mud that sounded like tall tales, the campfire conversation that supposedly sparked the whole national park idea, and the surprising political coalition that got Ulysses S. Grant to sign the 1872 bill creating the first national park in world history. Yellowstone didn't just protect a place. It basically invented a category. Then Caleb breaks down carbohydrates using one simple analogy: carbs are LEGO bricks. Single bricks (glucose, fructose, galactose), snapped-together pairs (table sugar, milk sugar, malt sugar), and giant LEGO castles (starch, fiber). He walks through what actually happens from the moment a carb hits your mouth to where it ends up stored in your body, why chewing a cracker makes it taste sweet, why two-thirds of adults can't digest milk sugar, why marathon runners hit the wall, and the real difference between refined carbs (lighter fluid) and whole carbs (a big log). If you've been confused about carbs for years, this is the segment that finally clears it up. Two hosts. Two unrelated topics. One episode that somehow makes sense by the end. Contact us at [email protected] with any questions, concerns, or corrections! Follow the show on Instagram: @stuffthatwelikepodcast Christina on Instagram: @Cjoyfully Caleb on Instagram: @CalebcMedia

You know Jonah and the whale. You know Jericho fell. You've heard of Lot's wife. This week Christina takes an entire episode to walk through everything else. The Bible stories most people never hear, told from the top of the iceberg all the way down. She built a full Bible iceberg list, and this episode is the tour. She goes tier by tier, from the stories you kind of know but have never actually read (way weirder than you remember) all the way down to the ones your Sunday school teacher definitely skipped. Talking animals, unlikely weapons, prophets settling arguments in ways you would not believe, judgments that don't make it into any children's book, and at least one story involving a fat king that has become required listening in this house. One host. One iceberg. A lot of stuff that didn't make Sunday school.

Labor Day started as a day of protest for exhausted workers. Now it's a three-day weekend of mattress sales, beach traffic, and cookouts. This week we cover how we got from one to the other. Christina takes the science-and-history chair for the history of Labor Day itself. She walks through the labor movement that made the holiday necessary, the union parade in 1882 that became the blueprint, the strike that shocked the country and pushed Congress to make it federal in 1894, and the quiet reason a president who was actively fighting striking workers signed it into law anyway. It's a shorter history than you'd think, and messier. Then Caleb takes it live. He built a ranking sheet of every major way Americans celebrate Labor Day now, and ranks them in real time. Backyard cookouts, road trips, pool parties, the Southern 500 at Darlington, the actual Labor Day parade (the whole original point), the 45 million people traveling this weekend, the ever-present mattress sales, and the one option that's arguably the most historically accurate of all: doing absolutely nothing. Two hosts. Two unrelated topics. One episode that somehow makes sense by the end.

He was strangled and burned at the stake for translating the Bible into English. The King James Bible you know today? Roughly 84% of the New Testament is his exact words. And his last words were a prayer that got answered less than a year after he died. This week we take on William Tyndale. For our next joint episode, Caleb and Christina tag-team one of the most quietly consequential figures in Western history. We start with his early life: the brilliant Oxford-educated linguist, the priest who watched ordinary people fumble through Latin scriptures they couldn't understand, and the moment he decided he'd translate the Bible into English himself or die trying. Turned out to be both. From there we trace his years on the run through Europe. The secret print runs smuggled into England in bales of cloth. The bounties on his head. The King and the Church that wanted him silenced. And the friend who eventually betrayed him for money, leading to his arrest, imprisonment, and execution in 1536. Then we get to the part that lands hardest. His final recorded words were "Lord, open the King of England's eyes." Within a year of his death, Henry VIII authorized an English Bible for every church in the country. The man who was killed for translating the Bible into English had his prayer answered by the same king who let it happen. Two hosts. One of history's best. A conversation about what it actually costs to change something that matters. Contact us at [email protected] with any questions, concerns, or corrections!

Humans didn't always sleep 8 hours. And ranking horror comedies is somehow harder than ranking either genre on its own. This week we cover both. Christina takes the science chair for the history of sleep. She walks through how humans actually slept before electricity (spoiler: not in one long stretch), the "first sleep" and "second sleep" pattern that dominated for centuries, why the Industrial Revolution rewrote our sleep schedules almost overnight, and what the research says about whether the way we sleep now is even good for us. Turns out the 8-straight-hours rule might be a modern invention we all just accepted. Then Caleb rolls into a full ranking of horror comedies. The genre nobody takes seriously and everybody secretly loves. He breaks down the movies that nailed both the scares and the laughs, the ones that whiffed on one and coasted on the other, and the surprise picks that shouldn't work but absolutely do. If you've been looking for a Halloween-season watchlist that doesn't take itself too seriously, this is the segment. Two hosts. Two unrelated topics. One episode that somehow makes sense by the end. Contact us at [email protected] with any questions, corrections, or your own horror comedy ranking hot takes!

100 episodes. Two hosts who somehow kept showing up. This week we're pulling back the curtain and letting you actually meet us.We wrote out 20 questions across three tiers (fun and dumb, getting-to-know-you, and genuinely reflective) and took turns pulling from the pile with zero prep and zero editing out the messy answers.Round one is the light stuff. The food we pretend to like but secretly can't stand. The useless skill we're weirdly proud of. Our go-to karaoke songs. The show we're embarrassed to admit we love. It's the round where you learn who's the bigger disaster on any given topic.Round two goes deeper. What we wanted to be when we grew up and why. The person outside our families who shaped us the most. A belief we hold that most people disagree with. A risk we took that we're glad we took. This is where you start to understand how each of us actually got here.Round three is the one we didn't fully prepare for. A moment that changed the direction of our life. Something we're still working on. A piece of advice we still think about. What we'd tell our younger selves. It got quieter than we expected in the best way.100 episodes in, and this is the one where you actually get to know us. Contact us at [email protected] with any questions, concerns, or corrections!

He spent 20 years getting laughed out of Parliament before he finally won. Three days after the law he'd fought for his whole life passed, he died. This week we take on William Wilberforce.For our second-ever joint episode, Caleb and Christina team up on one of history's most quietly important figures. We start with his early life: the wealthy son of a Yorkshire merchant, the reluctant politician, and the religious conversion in his twenties that gave him a moral mission he couldn't put down. From there we walk through the two decades he spent introducing anti-slave-trade bills over and over again, getting shot down by his own government, being publicly ridiculed, and refusing to stop.We cover the coalition he built (Quakers, freed enslaved Africans, everyday citizens signing petitions in numbers no one had ever seen), the passage of the Slave Trade Act of 1807, and the final push that led to the Slavery Abolition Act in 1833. The bill passed on July 26th. Wilberforce died three days later, on the 29th.Then we get to the part that matters most: what Wilberforce actually tells us about how change happens. It rarely comes from a single dramatic moment. It usually comes from someone quiet, stubborn, and unreasonable enough to keep showing up when everyone else has moved on. Two hosts. One of history's best. A conversation about what it actually takes to change the world.

Season 9 is officially here. To kick it off, one of us breaks down whether the stuff you put on your nails is quietly poisoning you, and the other one figures out which sweetener you should actually be reaching for. Two topics that sound small, both with answers that will make you rethink your daily routine. Christina takes the science chair and walks through the full landscape of sugars and sweeteners. Real sugar, high fructose corn syrup, aspartame, sucralose, stevia, monk fruit, and the ones nobody talks about. She covers what each one does to your body, which ones are actually as bad as the internet says, and (most importantly) which sweetener she'd tell you to keep in your pantry if you could only pick one. Then Caleb takes on nail polish. First, the history: where the practice actually came from (spoiler, way further back than you'd guess), how it went from a status symbol reserved for royalty to a five dollar bottle at the drugstore, and the moment it became a mainstream American obsession. Then the real question: is keeping polish on your nails 24/7 doing something to your body, and how worried should you actually be about the ingredients on the label. Two hosts. Two unrelated topics. One episode that somehow makes sense by the end.

Season 8 is officially wrapped. To close it out we do the two lists every listener has been asking us to rank: the episodes we loved the most, and the episodes we learned the most from. Then we hand the mic to Season 8 itself and let it play us out. In the first half we each pick our favorites. The topics that were the most fun to research, the segments that made us laugh the hardest in the recording chair, and the episodes we'd recommend to anyone brand new to the show. Some picks were obvious. A few surprised even us. Then we shift into what we actually learned. Not just the wild facts (though there are plenty of those), but the moments where a topic changed the way we think about something. The ones where we walked away from the mic quieter than we came in. To close things out, we stitched together a compilation of the funniest clips from Season 8. All the moments that made us break, the lines we still quote to each other, and the tangents that had no business being as good as they were. It's a highlight reel and a thank you to everyone who listened all season. Two hosts. One season in the rearview. A whole lot of laughs on the way out.

He was rejected from art school twice, decorated as a soldier in WWI, and less than 20 years later he'd orchestrate the deaths of over 17 million people. This week Caleb and Christina both take on the same topic together: Adolf Hitler. We start with Hitler's childhood in Austria (the abusive father, the doting mother, the failed art career, the years spent broke and homeless in Vienna) and trace how a nobody with a grudge climbed the ranks of a fringe political party to become chancellor of Germany. From there we cover the machinery of the Third Reich, the Holocaust, and the roughly 6 million Jewish people plus 11 million others killed under his regime. Then we get to the part that matters most: what warning signs were there, what did ordinary Germans miss or ignore, and what should any of us watch for in ourselves, our leaders, and our own moment in history. Because "how did this happen" is only useful if it becomes "how do we make sure it doesn't happen again." Two hosts. One of the worst people who ever lived. A conversation about how it happened, and how to make sure it doesn't happen to us.

Christina is off this week. Caleb brought his two best friends instead and somehow it got a little out of hand.Daniel Yake makes the case that most people aim too low on purpose, that we sandbag our own ambitions to avoid the embarrassment of falling short, and that the actual path to growth is to promise bigger than you think you can deliver and then figure out how to catch up to it. Nathan Yake just got back from Europe and has opinions. What it does to the American mind to walk through a city that has been standing for six hundred years. Portugal was a personal highlight. The food in particular. It's part travel story, part unintentional indictment of American culture, and funnier than either of those descriptions make it sound.Three guys. Two topics. One episode Christina will probably have notes on.Caleb, Daniel & Nathan

Caleb and Christina both researched Stalin independently and spent this episode going back and forth on the history. The conclusion they kept landing on: he doesn't get the attention he deserves, and that's a problem worth naming out loud. They get into how a Georgian seminary student became the undisputed ruler of the Soviet Union, how he turned paranoia into a governing strategy, and why the people closest to him were statistically the most likely to disappear. The show trials, the purges that gutted his own military, the famines that killed millions while grain was being exported, the gulag system that ran less like a prison network and more like a forced labor economy. All of it. They also get into why Stalin occupies a different cultural space than other 20th century dictators and what that gap between reputation and reality actually costs us. This one is heavier than usual. It's worth it.

Caleb and Christina spent 32 days reading Dracula together and have thoughts. The short version: it's a classic for a reason, and also it takes a while to get there. Bram Stoker wrote the whole thing as journals, letters, and newspaper clippings, which is either a brilliant narrative device or a genuine endurance test depending on where you are in the book. Probably both. The atmosphere is real, the horror holds up, and by the end you understand why this particular vampire became the vampire. But there's also a stretch somewhere in the middle where you will wonder if anything is ever going to happen again. They get into what actually makes the book work (and what doesn't), whether it deserves its reputation, and what it's like to read a 19th century novel on a deadline you set for yourself. Two hosts. One very long book. Thirty-two days. Contact us at [email protected] with any questions, concerns, or corrections! — Caleb & Christina