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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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Selects: Sacagawea: Impressive Teen

October 17, 2026

Josh Clark (0:00)

Hey, everybody, it's me, Josh. And for this week's Select, I've chosen our 2021 episode on Sacagawea, whose name I learned to pronounce correctly after 45 years on the planet in this very episode.

She's one of those figures in American history who's been morphed into more of a folk legend than a real life person. And I think that's because we round out the contours of historic people so we can teach young kids about them, and that after a while that kidified version is all they become in everyone's mind.

SPEAKER_2 (1:02)

Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of iHeart Radio.

Josh Clark (1:11)

Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh, and there's Chuck and Jerry's over there, and this is Stuff You Should Know.

I can't help but feel that I'm being subtweeted right now. What for?

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