Can quicksand kill you?

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.5 • 82.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2010

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

In many films, hapless characters meet their untimely demise in a lethal pit of quicksand. It's a gruesome, undignified end -- but is it realistic? Josh and Chuck tackle the properties of quicksand -- and how to escape it -- in this episode.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
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0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
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0:30.4	Brought to you by the reinvented 2012 camera.
0:33.2	It's ready.
0:34.0	Are you?
0:35.8	Welcome to StuffyShitNo from HouseStuffWorks.com.
0:45.8	Hey and welcome to The Podcast.
0:47.4	I'm Josh Clark.
0:48.5	There's Charles W. Bryant, Chuck Bryant.
0:51.0	You pointed at me as if I was supposed to say, hey and welcome to The Podcast.
0:54.5	I almost did.
0:55.5	I was like, uh, uh, uh.
0:57.1	The trick is to point and start talking almost the same time.
1:02.8	There needs to be like a maybe eight or ten millisecond delay.
1:08.4	All right, and all you journalism school students broadcasting tips from Josh.
1:12.0	Everybody off of their game.
1:13.3	It's good point and speak.
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