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Selects: Fallout Shelters: Probably Useless (Let’s Never Find Out)

The advent of nuclear weapons and the Cold War kicked off a craze in the US for building rec rooms with foot-thick reinforced walls and outfitted with survival rations and board games. Would they work? Probably not. Find out (but not really) in this classic episode. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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  SYSK Gets Weird Playlist: What is Collective Hysteria?

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  SYSK Gets Weird Playlist: What was the Philadelphia Experiment?

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  SYSK Gets Weird Playlist: Mermaids: Not a real thing

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  SYSK Gets Weird Playlist: Will We Find Evidence of Aliens by Their Enginee…

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  SYSK Gets Weird Playlist: The Mystery of the Mary Celeste

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  SYSK Gets Weird Playlist: The Max Headroom Incident

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  SYSK Gets Weird Playlist: Dragons: As Real as Mermaids

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  SYSK Gets Weird Playlist: The Creepy Legacy of the Hotel Cecil

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  SYSK Gets Weird Playlist: What's the deal with blue people?

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  SYSK Gets Weird Playlist: Doppelgängers: Hey you, you're me!

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  SYSK Gets Weird Playlist: The Story of the Nuclear Boy Scout

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  The Cancer Episode

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  Short Stuff: Leisure Suits

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  How Boredom Works

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  Selects: Wasps: Not as cute as bees