Michael Scroggins, Dan Souleles

People Stuff

Comedy EN ↓ 52 episodes

People Stuff is a write-in, anthropology advice podcast wherein we answer all sorts of questions with the weird and wonderful wisdom that anthropology offers. From whether you should make your bed to what you owe to the dead, no dilemma is too tiny, no conundrum too vast for a little bit of anthropology. After all, as a species, we've been human-ing for like 300,000 years already. Surely we've figured some stuff out.

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Author

Michael Scroggins, Dan Souleles

Episodes

Season 1 Trailer 02.07.2025 1:14

In season 1 of People Stuff, Dan and Michael take on CAT scans for baseball cards, stupidity, college admissions, pompous assholes, unionization, the Bakersfield restaurant scene, and much, much, much more. Season 1 of People Stuff will be available in early July. That’s it for this week’s People Stuff — the show where two anthropologists try (and sometimes fail) to make sense of people. If you’ve...

Dan and Michael Go To Ikea: Love, Death, and Flat-Pack Furniture 08.05.2025 46:27

Segments What Fresh Hell: Michael wonders: what exactly is a tariff, and why do they matter? Dan breaks down the economics, politics, and psychological weirdness behind trade policy — and why tariffs might say more about national insecurity than global economics. The IKEA Question: A listener writes in after an IKEA trip threatens to end their relationship. Dan and Michael unpack what IKEA really...