All the Gold In Fort Knox: Meh

Stuff You Should Know

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4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

When Fort Knox was built in the 1930s to house America’s gold supply, it was billed as an impenetrable, impregnable, don’t-even-think-of-trying vault. But as the world has moved further away from gold, the stockpile’s lost a bit of its luster.

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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.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.3	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio's House Stuff Works.
0:35.4	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
0:42.9	I'm Josh Clark and there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant and Jerry's out there somewhere and
0:49.3	this is Stuff You Should Know, a character played in Goldie Dresden.
0:54.9	Gold played it.
0:55.9	Isn't that what happens?
0:57.4	Like if you put a bunch of gold together, it means more carrots.
1:01.3	I think so.
1:02.4	I'm afraid to doubt you though because I had a movie crusher say that all I do lately
1:07.9	is say you're wrong to you.
1:10.6	What do they mean lately?
1:12.8	I know.
1:13.8	I don't know.
1:14.8	They must be a newcomer to the podcast.
1:17.3	The slight interest is Josh is all the time lately.
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