Battle Royale: Optimists vs Pessimists
Stuff You Should Know
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4.5 • 82.7K Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Everybody’s always bagging on pessimists and telling everybody they should be more optimistic. Well, nuts to that! There are plenty of benefits from being a pessimist. Although being an optimist still wins in basically every category ☹
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:38.1 | All right, everybody in Canada. We have a pretty big announcement. We are finally going to do our first big, big tour of Canada. We're going to announce the dates and the theaters and cities here first. And then we're going to give you all the ticket info. Okay. How does that sound? It sounds great, Chuck. Where are we going to go first? On June 25th, we're going to be in Montreal at the Olympia de Montreal. The next night on the 26th, we're going to be going to Ottawa, the hard rock live Ottawa. And then on the 27th finish up in Toronto at Massey Hall. And then we're going to walk to the next show, so it's going to take us a few weeks. |
| 1:11.6 | That's right. On July 23rd, we're going to be in Vancouver at Queen Elizabeth Theater. Friday the 24th of July, we're going to be in Calgary at Jack Singer Concert Hall at Art Commons, and we're going to wind it up in Winnipeg on the 25th at Burton Cummings Theater. That's awesome. So tickets go on sale today, everybody, December 16th, starting at 10 a.m. Eastern Time and going all the way to Friday, December 19th, at 10 a.m. local time, we're going to have an artist pre-sale. You can buy your tickets early. Just go to Stuff You Should Know.com and click on the tour button and then click on your city. And when you go to checkout, use the promo code Sysk Live. And if you miss all that, |
| 1:17.4 | don't worry, tickets go on general sale on Friday, December 19th at 10 a.m. Eastern Time. And again, |
| 1:23.5 | you can get all of the tickets and info you need at stuff you should know.com, and we will see you this summer, Canada. |
| 1:32.2 | Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of IHeartRadio. |
| 1:42.3 | Hi, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark, and there's Charles W. Chuck Bryan, |
| 1:47.8 | and we're just going to do a great job here today on stuff you should know. |
| 1:52.0 | Hi, everybody. |
| 1:53.4 | Feeling good, Chuck. |
| 1:55.1 | Feeling great, Lewis. |
| 1:57.1 | That's right, looking great, Lewis. |
| 2:00.0 | Uh, you want to hear something funny? I do. Always. Always. That's right. Looking great, Lewis. |
| 2:02.6 | You want to hear something funny? |
| 2:04.5 | I do. Always. |
| 2:07.6 | You hear that? |
| 2:08.8 | Is that your new windows? |
| 2:11.8 | No, that is new windows. |
| 2:13.2 | What does that mean? |
| 2:22.3 | That is, we were not able to stay in our home this week because, as you know, because I've told you this, because we're getting our electric panel redone. |
| 2:26.2 | So I was not able to print out my stuff as usual. |
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