SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: What Makes a Must-Have Christmas Toy?
Stuff You Should Know
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4.5 • 82.7K Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Ever since Cabbage Patch Kids came along in 1983, there’s been an annual holiday frenzy around one particular toy – the must-have Christmas toy of the year. But what makes a toy a must-have toy? Josh and Chuck investigate (and kick off the holidays).
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.5 | Happy holidays, everybody. |
| 0:07.1 | This is Chuck here with one of our episodes for our stuff you should know. |
| 0:11.4 | 12 days of Christmas toys playlist. |
| 0:15.6 | Now we decided to put this together. |
| 0:17.4 | Thought it would be a fun little holiday idea to kind of gather up some of our toy-centric episodes and release them this December all packaged up. |
| 0:24.7 | So here we are with, I think this is the first one, either the first or the second one |
| 0:28.8 | on the list. |
| 0:29.8 | And the episode title is, what makes a must-have Christmas toy? |
| 0:33.6 | If you want to know, listen in and find out. |
| 0:36.2 | Happy holidays, everybody. |
| 0:42.0 | Music If you want to know, listen in and find out. Happy holidays, everybody. Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of IHeartRadios, How Stuff Works. |
| 0:51.8 | Hey, and welcome to the podcast. |
| 0:54.0 | I'm Josh Clark, and there's Charles W. Chuck Brian over there, |
| 0:56.7 | there's Jerry over there. And this is stuff you should know. |
| 1:00.9 | Early Christmas a dish. |
| 1:03.0 | Yeah, we're kicking it off early. |
| 1:05.5 | Like the rest of the retail world. |
| 1:09.1 | Do you, yeah, man. This year you could find Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas stuff in stores at the same time. |
| 1:16.6 | Like it was just the most normal thing in the world. |
| 1:19.5 | But you don't follow me on Twitter, and you should. |
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