Episode #012219: SYSK Live: The Kellogg Brothers’ Wacky World of Health

There’s no way you haven’t had one of their breakfast cereals, but we bet you don’t know the story behind the two brothers who brought the world corn flakes. Buckle in for a lot of talk about poop, religion and masturbation, live from Sydney, Australia.

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# Stuff You Should Know: The Kellogg Brothers

Josh and Chuck traveled all the way to Sydney, Australia to dive deep into the wild and fascinating history of John Harvey and Will Keith Kellogg, the brothers who revolutionized breakfast food and health culture in America. This episode is packed with everything from the bizarre medical machines of the 1800s to some genuinely disturbing practices, all set against the backdrop of the Battle Creek Sanitarium and the Seventh-day Adventist Church. You'll learn how obsessions with digestion and poop led to cereal, how these brothers went from collaboration to bitter rivalry, and discover that one of history's most celebrated health innovators was also a dangerous crank with some truly horrifying ideas about the human body.

Movies Discussed

Friends

1994

★ 8.4

"Will said, no, no, I really, I think this is a good idea. And if you stop and think about it, everyone's had like Kellogg's cornflakes, right? How much sugar do you have to put on those things to make them taste decent? — Josh makes a reference to the TV show 'Friends' when discussing Will leaving John Harvey, saying 'They got the band back together,' which was a Friends reference." — Chuck

Tarzan

1999 1h 28m

★ 7.4

"Johnny Weissmuller, who played Tarzan in the movies, he had a knack for going into the dining room and doing his Tarzan call — Johnny Weissmuller, famous for playing Tarzan, visited the Battle Creek Sanitarium and would do his Tarzan call in the dining room." — Josh

Titanic

1997 3h 14m

★ 7.9

"There's actually a couple that were on the first class gymnasium on the Titanic, which means some of John Harvey Kellogg's weirdo contraptions are at the bottom of the sea in the Titanic — Kellogg's exercise machines were found on the first-class gymnasium of the Titanic, now at the bottom of the ocean." — Josh

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