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Stuff You Should Know

Googie: The Architecture of the Space Age

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.679.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

You may not have heard of it, but you’ve definitely seen it before – 50s buildings with bright, loud colors, roofs at crazy angles, and space-age shapes like starbursts. It turns out that Googie architecture is as fun to look at as it is to say.

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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

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0:23.6

Listen to The Big Take on the I Heart Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.

0:31.5

Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio.

0:41.3

Hey and welcome to the podcast.

0:43.0

I'm Josh and there's Chuck and Jerry's hanging out and this is Stuff You Should Know

0:48.7

are continuing architecture slash design suite.

0:53.2

Which we love.

0:54.2

Surprisingly interesting stuff.

0:56.6

Yeah and this one, I mean listen however you listen but if you have a choice I really

1:02.6

would urge you to listen to this when you can look at pictures of things.

1:10.0

This one above many many episodes requires you to look at this stuff as you're listening

1:16.3

ideally.

1:18.7

And so if you can do that do that.

1:20.2

Yeah because we're going to be mentioning specific buildings that you could go check out

1:24.0

and be like oh this is what they're talking about.

1:26.3

We're going to do our best but we're going to be describing structures and it's way easier

1:30.4

to look at the structure you know.

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