What We Lost When We Lost Home Ec
Stuff You Should Know
iHeartPodcasts
4.5 • 82.7K Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Home economics seems antiquated – a class that teaches high school kids how to bake a cake and sew doesn’t sound super useful. But would you believe that everything from the obesity epidemic to student debt can be chalked up to home ec disappearing?
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.6 | Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 0:15.2 | Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh, and there's Chuck, and it's us today. |
| 0:19.8 | We've got our aprons on. We have our spatulas in hand. We've been spanking each other with them, and there's Chuck and it's us today. We got our aprons on, we have our spatulas in hand. |
| 0:22.6 | We've been spanking each other with them. |
| 0:24.6 | And it's time to go to class with stuff you should know. |
| 0:27.6 | Hey, everybody. Just so you know, there's construction happening next door. |
| 0:31.6 | So if you hear a saw or a hammer banging, it's not me. |
| 0:36.6 | No, it's not Chuck. |
| 0:38.6 | Sometimes you just got to live with the sounds of life. |
| 0:41.7 | Yeah, I mean, we recorded for a while, and every time we recorded, a fire truck would go by, like clockwork. |
| 0:49.4 | Do you remember? |
| 0:50.1 | Yeah, yeah, in the old Buckhead office. |
| 0:51.5 | I think we were near a fire station. |
| 0:54.0 | Yeah, but it was like the exact same time. It was really bizarre. |
| 0:58.6 | It was the radio lab guys pulling fire alarms all over Atlanta. |
| 1:03.4 | So, Chuck, we're talking about Homek today. Did you ever take a Hohmack class? |
| 1:07.6 | I sure did, buddy. How about you? |
| 1:10.0 | I did. |
| 1:13.1 | I have very vague recollections of it. |
| 1:16.0 | I remember the room and everything, but I don't remember anything I did. |
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