The SYSK Annual Halloween Freaky Spooktacular 2026!
Stuff You Should Know

The SYSK Annual Halloween Freaky Spooktacular 2026!

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 29, 202651 min
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Get yourself ready to freak out with this year’s extra-freak Halloween freak-fest, starring the voice acting talents of Chuck and Josh. This year we feature stories from WW Jacobs and WF Harvey, both of whom, if they were alive, would love this episode. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of iHeartRadio. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh and there's Chuck and Jerry's here too. and this is stuff you should know. That's right.

0:33

One of our, speaking for me, but I think I can speak for us, one of our favorite traditions is our annual Halloween spooky story reading.

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Speak. Our ad-free spooky story reading. Yeah, it's in our contract. And we got a couple of good ones this year.

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