People Stuff

About People Stuff

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.

Publisher

Michael Scroggins, Dan Souleles

Category

comedy · education · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

8 May 2025

Latest episode

1 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

53 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   1 Oct 2026

   Your Brain on Ads: The Ancient Instincts Marketers Exploit

   Advertising creates problems that don't exist, with claims that make no sense, to sell us products we don't need. So why does it work SO damn well?

2. 

   26 Sept 2026

   A Very People Stuff Programming Note

   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 got a question, a dilemma, or just something deeply weird about humanity you’d like us to unpack, send it our way at people-stuff.com Credits Produced by Gabe Bullard Music by The Endless Bummer Art by Siobhan Henegan Marketing by Bryan Haut Legal support by The Law Office of Matthew Shayefar, the one true business uncle. You can also sign up for our newsletter, drop us a voice memo, or become a Friend of People Stuff — which is our fancy way of saying you get to support the show and we get to keep talking about dust, dads, and late capitalism. So go to people-stuff.com

3. 

   1 Sept 2026

   [Encore] Why Do We Care About TV People? (feat. Arianna Haut of Jeopardy & Master Minds)

   An anthropologist, a game show champion, and an increasingly unhealthy relationship with television investigate why celebrities feel like friends, whether violent media changes us, and what TV is doing to modern human life.

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

11 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 18 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

24

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

32

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