This week on Stuff You Should Know, Josh and I both taught you folks and learned a thing or two ourselves. I didn’t know much about either one of these two topics before our research and one of them continued to stymie me until we recorded the show.

We had a little fun with Tuesday’s show on High Fructose Corn Syrup by “acting” for a change. We mimicked the awful and popular HFCS TV commercial and I think we can all agree that there won’t be any Oscar awards coming our way anytime soon. The takeaway for this show was that HFCS isn’t the worst thing on Earth, but Americans are consuming far too much of it because it’s snuck into more products than you can shake a stick at. We got some KILLER listener mail about this episode, so listen up for it soon.

Yesterday I got a little lesson from Dr. Clark about credit default swaps. I wasn’t afraid to admit that it flew right over my spiky head. Some brains just aren’t built to accept certain kinds of information – maybe that’d be a good podcast actually! I won’t go over the show in detail here, since Josh did such a bang up job laying down the 411.

Apologies about Josh’s sickness, but as they say – the show must go on. He’s feeling much better now and wanted to thank everyone for the well wishes in the fan mail bucket.

Have a great weekend, SYSK Nation. It’s spring in Atlanta, the dogwoods and azaleas are bursting with fragrance and color and there’s not much that can top that is there? Leave your comments below and I’ll do a little talkback.

Feed your brain, people – it’s hungry:
What are credit default swaps?
How bad for you is high-fructose corn syrup?
How the Oscars Work