Episode · Stuff You Should Know · 2026-09-19
Books mentioned on 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?
Other mentions in this episode (4) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged Stuff You Should Know
“we should talk very briefly about our audio book. Oh, yeah. Because this week in real time, we are each recording our respective parts for the audio book. And first of all, we just want to tell everyone there's going to be an audio book version.”
Passing The End of the World
“I just told you there's a lot of yelling and crying. It was very stressful. Yeah, it was fun. It reminded me a lot of recording The End of the World.”
Plugged Stuff You Should Know
“And a bona fide book that you can pre-order now. And we're also working on getting that pre-order gift available to the UK and Australia and other parts of the world because we have different publishers there.”
Plugged Stuff You Should Know
“So Chuck, I think since we've got one act under our belt, we need to start the second act by telling everybody they can pre-order our book.”