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Stuff You Should Know

How Project Star Gate Worked

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.679.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

In yet another testament to how amazingly great the 70s were, in 1975 the US started a program that tried to harness the powers of clairvoyance to remotely spy on the Soviet Union. Since clairvoyance doesn’t seem to exist, it wasn’t super successful.

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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.

0:30.2

Hey everybody, it's Josh and Chuck, your friends and we are here to tell you about our upcoming

0:35.4

book that's coming out this fall, the first ever Stuff You Should Know book, Chuck.

0:40.2

That's right. What's the cool, super cool title we came up with?

0:43.5

It's Stuff You Should Know, Colin, an incomplete compendium of mostly interesting things.

0:49.8

That's right. It's coming along so great. We're super excited. You guys, the illustrations

0:55.7

are amazing and there's the look of the book. It's all just, it's exactly what we hoped

1:00.3

it would be and we cannot wait for you to get your hands on it.

1:03.0

Yes, we can't. You don't have to wait actually. Well, you do have to wait, but you don't

1:06.9

have to wait to order. You can go pre-order the book right now everywhere you get books

1:12.2

and you will eventually get a special gift for pre-ordering which we're working on right

1:17.8

now. That's right. So check it out soon coming this fall.

1:22.7

Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio's House Stuff Works.

1:32.6

Hey and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. There's Charles W. Chuck Bryan over there.

1:38.5

Jerry's here floating around the office somewhere but she's here everybody.

1:42.6

She's back. Yes, Jerry is here in the flesh. She does exist. She's real. She also is clothed,

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