{"podcast":{"title":"Are You Sh!#ing Me?","slug":"are-you-sh-ing-me-6458770","podcast_index_feed_id":6458770,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/e55363cc/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://aysm.show","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/38374475/38374475-1748451676165-ee7f6a51161c8.jpg","author":"Are You Sh!#ing Me? - Podcast","episode_count":97,"summary":"Are You Sh!#ing Me? (AYSM) is the hilarious, no-holds-barred podcast where hosts Brett & Chuck uncover the weirdest facts, funniest stories, and WTF moments from history, science, music, beer, or pop culture. From bizarre poop science to forgotten presidents, strange sports to songs that almost didn’t make it, each episode delivers absurd and totally useless, fascinating knowledge you didn’t know you needed. We pair a beer with each topic, because... why not? It's just like sitting around with your friends and discussing whatever comes up—best enjoyed with a beer in hand. www.aysm.show","last_synced_at":"2026-07-19T00:17:24.648148+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/are-you-sh-ing-me-6458770"},"episode":{"title":"Finland: The Happiest Country on Earth (And makes me Question things) | (Are You Sh!#ing Me?)","slug":"finland-the-happiest-country-on-earth-and-makes-me-question-things-are-you-sh-ing-me","published_at":"2026-06-24T00:37:02+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/are-you-sh-ing-me-6458770/finland-the-happiest-country-on-earth-and-makes-me-question-things-are-you-sh-ing-me","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/are-you-sh-ing-me-6458770","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aysm/episodes/Finland-The-Happiest-Country-on-Earth-And-makes-me-Question-things--Are-You-Sh-ing-Me-e3l6trt","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/e55363cc/podcast/play/121910589/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-5-24%2F426717632-44100-2-cd344fe9416be.mp3","summary":"Finland has 5.5 million people, 188,000 lakes, five months of darkness, January temperatures around 20°F... and somehow it's been ranked the happiest country on Earth for nine straight years running. Not Switzerland. Not Denmark. Finland. In this episode of Are You Shitting Me? , host Brett digs into what's actually going on in Finland: a country with more saunas than cars (3.3 million saunas for 5.5 million people), lawmakers who conduct official government business in saunas, an education system that skips standardized testing until age 18 and still produces some of the highest-scoring students in the world, and a national concept called "sisu" — a gut-level, refuse-to-quit resilience that once held off a Soviet invasion force ten times Finland's size. It's a deep dive into lakes, saunas, sisu, short school days, and why the happiest country on Earth might be doing almost everything the opposite of how everyone else does it. Grab a beer and find out: are you shitting me? 🇫🇮 In this episode: Why Finland has been ranked the happiest country on Earth for 9 years straight The Finnish concept of "sisu" and how it held off a Soviet invasion Why Finland has more saunas than cars — and why lawmakers use them for business How Finland's low-testing, low-homework education system outperforms the world Where Santa Claus actually (officially) lives New episodes of Are You Shitting Me? drop regularly — weird history, strange science, and "wait, that's actually true?" facts, one beer at a time. 🔗 Listen here: https://open.spotify.com/show/2SrYmUdiCM5PWOCNonDqIW #AreYouShittingMe #Finland #HappiestCountry #Sisu #Sauna #FinlandFacts #WeirdFacts #DidYouKnow #TrueFacts #HistoryPodcast #ScienceFacts #TravelFacts","meta_description":"Finland has 5.5 million people, 188,000 lakes, five months of darkness, January temperatures around 20°F... and somehow it's been ranked the happiest coun…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":223,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/are-you-sh-ing-me-6458770/episodes/finland-the-happiest-country-on-earth-and-makes-me-question-things-are-you-sh-ing-me/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/are-you-sh-ing-me-6458770/finland-the-happiest-country-on-earth-and-makes-me-question-things-are-you-sh-ing-me.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}