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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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Short Stuff: The Style Cycle

October 7, 2026

Josh Clark (0:04)

Hey, and welcome to The Short Stuff. I'm Josh, and there's Chuck, and I'm super stressed out. Jerry's there too, and she's sitting in for Dave, and this is short stuff.

Charles "Chuck" W. Bryant (0:12)

That's right, about the style cycle, thanks to Popular Science, Sartorial magazine, baracko.com and not barackobama.com, but baracko.com and earth.com for this information.

Josh Clark (0:24)

So the style cycle, if you haven't guessed already, refers to that idea that fashion styles come back in vogue again, to use a fashion term, every 20-ish years.

I always thought it was more like 30, but I think 20 is what most people say. And it's always been this anecdotal observation that most people agree on. But I think recently, I didn't see when the study was conducted, but some researchers from Northwestern University came up with a very clever way to actually study…

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