Selects: How Skateboarding Works

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Selects: How Peanut Butter Works

No food is more all-American than peanut butter – 80 percent of homes in the country have a jar of it in the pantry right now. And while the rest of the world might find peanut butter peculiar, maybe even gross, the rest of the world is wrong. Enjoy a smooth ride through one of o ...  Show more

How Russia Shapes What the World Thinks

Operation Doppelganger was a Russian propaganda project discovered in 2022, a minor part of the enormous, ongoing disinformation and chaos-sewing campaign Russia spreads across the world through social media. And some of your views may have come from it.See omnystudio.com/listene ...  Show more

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How to Skate Like a Girl, Part 1
Stuff Mom Never Told You

Since skateboarding arrived in the 1950s, women like Patti McGee, Peggy Oki and Elissa Steamer have proven that skating like a girl isn't second-rate. Cristen and Caroline shred the history of women in skateboarding and how it evolved from a gender-neutral California pastime i ...

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How to Skate Like a Girl, Part 2
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Since skateboarding arrived in the 1950s, women like Patti McGee, Peggy Oki and Elissa Steamer have proven that skating like a girl isn't second-rate. Cristen and Caroline shred the history of women in skateboarding and how it evolved from a gender-neutral California pastime i ...

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The Double Kick
99% Invisible

Watch a skate video today, and you'll notice how similarly shaped the boards are. It’s called the “popsicle” design, because the deck is narrow in the middle and rounded off at both ends, like a popsicle stick. This may seem stupid simple, but that basic, clean popsicle shape is ...  Show more

Skateboarding Primer
Go! My Favorite Sports Team

Attention 90's kids, and everyone else too...it's time to dust off those decks, tighten up those trucks and stock up on bandages! This week on GMFST, 90's punks, friends, and illustrious co-hosts, Tyler Scheid and Markiplier are dropping into the wide, wild, and maybe, physics-de ...  Show more