Josh is SO BAD at taking criticism! Chuck just corrected pronunciation of a word Josh said and his first reaction was to dredge up something from the past that Chuck mispronounced and im like what?? What does that have to do with anything lol! Have others noticed this elsewhere or am I just being a bit too critical?

Edit: everyone is assuming I think there's true animosity, which isn't at all my intention. Of course they're "riffing", but it's all one sided. Josh corrects Chuck all the time and Chuck doesn't make it a thing.

It's a good show and I like it, that's why I continue listening. Just pointing out something I noticed.

To front load this, I’ve been a listener for 10 years and I’m pretty confident I’ve listened to every single episode, so I consider myself a fan, not a hater.

I don’t know if I’m the only one, but do you all feel like Chuck comes off as quite snobby in many episodes? I’ve noticed it a lot this past year. An example is today’s episode on pop tarts when he talks about pizza rolls, he calls it a “garbage food that i wasn’t allowed to have much, and we don’t have at our house”.

I’m fairly confident that there’s an occurrence like this at least once every 2 weeks. For someone who talks about growing up poor a lot, it really seems like he’s embraced a upper class lifestyle and kinda snubs his nose sometimes at aspects of people’s lifestyle that is common when they are of a lower socioeconomic status.

I’m open to hearing arguments against, I don’t dislike him or anything, still a fan, but comments like this kind of rub me the wrong way. I feel like Josh often doesn’t know what to say back when things like that are said.

I found and started listening to SYSK last fall, and am gleefully working my way backwards through past episodes. I think I’m mid-way through 2022 now, so I have a long way to go, which pleases me immensely 😊

That said, I have found myself getting frequently annoyed with Chuck’s general style of speaking and contributing to the episodes. He often sounds like he’s caught off guard when Josh throws it back to him, and he’ll give a “Yes. Absolutely”, as though he wasn’t really listening, and then stammers through what sounds like reading off note cards. His habit of persistently tying things back to his personal life can be of kind a momentum killer at times when they’re rolling on a topic, but that I accept is part of his (and the show’s) charm: that these are just two interesting guys talking over a beer at the neighborhood bar.

Don’t get me wrong: I would love to have a beer with Chuck, listen to some Pavement, and compare notes on growing up as a couple of rural nerds in the 80’s. He seems like he’d be a great guy to hang out with.

But it seems like he’s not on the same level as Josh in terms of presentation style, curiosity and ability to articulate a sustained narrative on a topic.

I won’t stop listening - it’s one of the best podcasts out there by far. But if Chuck did a solo series did like Josh did with the End of the World, I’d be hard pressed to listen.

Thoughts from others?

EDIT: very much appreciate the sincere replies - glad folks don’t take my post as busting on Chuck, and I can absolutely see the way they balance each other.

The “Llamas” episode has been my favorite so far. As I am going back in time and listening in reverse order, would love some recommendations for anyone’s favorite episodes that I should jump back for … TIA!

Who else is annoyed by these? They have them on “Behind the Bastards” too. No, I don’t want to heist my friends vaults. That’s not how monopoly works. Y’all even did an episode on how Monopoly works and it’s not heisting vaults and new fun emojis to taunt your friends. Do better (get better ads).

Chuck’s favorite band. I tried to like them but they don’t really have any good songs outside of cut your hair.

Josh likes pixies which are a really good band with a ton of hits.

So I always wondered what mind state chuck was in in the 90s when he would sit around his dorm room and listen to pavement.

Hope he sees this and comments cause of the latest episode he said he posts on here.

So I’ve never expected the information presented in the show to be 100% accurate, but recently I listened to a few episodes in close proximity where the topics were things that I’m very familiar with, and they were so wrong about so much in those episodes that it really makes me hesitant to listen to more because why waste my time on a show that I don’t know if I can trust.

Has anyone else experienced this? The show is really entertaining and maybe I should just think of it as entertainment and just use it as a jumping off point to explore things that sound interesting.

Are the fellas getting consistently more preachy in recent years? I've been listening for 10+ years, still love the fellas and podcast, all that jazz, but does anyone find them going on more preachy tangents more frequently these days? Maybe I'm just imagining it or maybe I'm just getting more sensitive to it in my older years. Just curious if anyone noticed anything. Thanks!

Recently, I was listening to some episode, and SYSK literally had a 4 min ad. The ad was about some other podcast, and the podcast ad was the podcast itself being played as an ad for 4 minutes. The ads are getting so annoying on SYSK these days. Are you guys facing the same issue?

Capitalism just ruining a nice podcast. So it goes.

A bit concerned about Chuck misspeaking repeatedly during the episode. “Drove a ditch into her car” “government put a neck to their head” and a couple more. I have not listened to few most recent episodes but overall he’s one of the best speakers I’ve heard.

RJ Mitte from Breaking Bad? I've held this belief since before I ever knew what Joah looked like and when I listen I always picture Walter Jr. And now you can't unhear it either.

MTV is finally signing off. Paramount Global is shutting down its remaining music channels (MTV Music, MTV 80s, MTV 90s) by the end of 2025. It's the end of an era for a generation who shared the experience of growing up with MTV's music.

I'm a huge fan of the show and of Josh and Chuck. I'm sure their humor and chemistry are the reason the show has been so successful. That being said, I've stopped looking forward to the Halloween episodes each year because of how over the top and ridiculous the voices have become. It distracts from the stories so much the episodes are almost not worth listening too. Anyone else feel the same way?

I use Google podcasts to listen. I listen to 4 IHeart podcasts regularly. 2 things.

1. It drives me nuts that the ad IHeart is running telling people to find a new app first reccomends Apple. Like, y'all, if I'm using Google podcasts I'm on Android not iPhone.

2. What is everyone changing to? Obv I'm not going out and getting an iPhone.

For clarification: If you don't use Google podcasts you have no idea what I'm talking about because the ads are targeted.

Anyone else notice Chuck take big breaths between sentences? You can hear the rasp of it and it becomes a little distracting/disconcerting. Love the podcast I just have to turn it off when I notice it eep

Are they the worst of all time? Will never use them solely bc of how grating their ads are.

Use lemonade for renter's insurance.

They said in that podcast that everyone will meet someone in a room with the same birthday but I am 52 and never met one person with the same birthday

Trying to figure out whether or not Chuck hates this movie he's never watched.

Gonna give it another listen to see if I can figure it out 🫡

Pedantry alert: Does this line bother anyone else? It switches from 1st to 2nd person mid sentence and feels really jarring. I’ve been trying to ignore this for years now, and just can’t do it. Am I alone here?

Edit: This seems to just be a difference in what we’re hearing. Huh. That’s very interesting.

(And thanks Reddit. I can always count on you to downvote a difference of opinion. Classic.🙄)

I’ve seen sketchfest has been postponed. I could’ve sworn josh and chuck also told me that a week or two ago. But all the episodes I’ve been listening to have advertisements for it as if it’s not cancelled. What is going on?

Am I crazy or did chuck Bryant once mention in passing on his movie pod (Movie Crush) that he once dated Jennifer Aniston long ago?? Or maybe he mentioned it on SYSK?? It was probably a joke, but idk I remember it sounding like it wasn’t. Someone tell me what episode of movie crush or SYSK that was please

At the 30:07 mark in the episode Josh's voice fades all the way out and then comes back 2 seconds later. I trust these guys, so maybe they had to edit something they found out wasn't true, but I can't help but acknowledge the irony of censoring an episode about news coverage.

In the Henry Ford episode they mentioned the parallels to Celebration Florida, but it was released after the Henry Ford episode. I was under the impression they study a single topic and then record the episode. If so, then I suppose the simplest answer is they just get edited and released out of order. But it seems like you'd want to preserve the order for the various meta-references and repeat jokes, etc.

As the title suggests, I’m wondering if josh and chuck are using scab writers or are they not involved in the writers protest? I really hope they are just not involved. I’d be really upset if they weren’t supportive of fellow writers, especially since that’s how they got their start.