Dolls and Dolls, Guys!

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.5 • 82.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In this special Christmas Day episode, we get cuddly with one of the all-time great holiday gifts, dolls! Where did they come from? Why are the so cute? Why are they sometimes creepy? Why do they tell us to do things we don’t want to with their minds?

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:02.5	Guaranteed Human.
0:05.5	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of IHeart Radio.
0:15.7	Hey, and well, I should say Merry Christmas, and welcome to the podcast.
0:19.8	I'm Josh, and there's Chuck and
0:21.3	Jerry's here too. And we bid you good tidings. We're decking your halls and giving you lots of joy
0:29.8	on this festive day. Yeah. Yeah. We're decking your halls if you give us consent, of course,
0:35.8	to do so. Sure. We would never deck halls just willy-nilly.
0:40.7	No. I mean, oh.
0:42.9	We're good guys.
0:44.8	That's right. Wow. This got odd very quickly.
0:50.1	This is our annual sort of toy episode, and we've covered some specific dolls in the past, notably Cabbage Patch Kids.
0:58.6	And you had the brainstorm like, what about just dolls?
1:01.8	What the heck is up with those weird little things?
1:04.5	I sat up in the middle of the night one night and went dolls.
1:08.7	Right.
1:09.0	And he was like, what happened?
1:12.4	And she was holding a chatty-cathy?
1:16.1	That's right.
1:16.9	Oh, I can't wait to get to that part.
1:18.5	Oh, my gosh.
1:20.1	Yeah, we're talking about dolls themselves, and it is a pretty broad category, but actually
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