SYSK Selects: Could You Live Without a Refrigerator?

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.5 • 82.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Do you know that hulking refrigerator in your kitchen emits CO2 thanks to the electricity it uses each year? It's a comparatively small amount, in truth, but enough that some people have foresworn their fridge and adopted a life without one. See how they do it in this classic 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.
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0:31.0	Hello everyone, it's your old pal Chuck one half of stuff you should know.
0:34.8	Josh is asleep.
0:36.3	I can hear him snoring next to me.
0:38.3	In this episode, for my select pick, could you live without a refrigerator?
0:43.6	Sounds silly.
0:44.8	From January 2, 2014, I guess it was our new year special edition, but hey, can you live
0:51.0	without a refrigerator?
0:54.6	Check it out right now.
0:58.6	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio's House Stuff Works.
1:08.4	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
1:09.7	I'm Josh Clark and there's Charles W. Chuck Bright and Jerry's over there.
1:14.3	And she's eating stalks of broccoli.
1:17.3	Yes, not the florets.
1:19.3	She's eating the chunky trunk.
1:21.6	She throws the florets away.
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