How the Hoover Dam Works, Part I

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

It’s one of America’s biggest accomplishments in the 20th century, a slab of concrete holding back one of the country’s most finicky rivers, providing water and electricity to a swath of majors cities that otherwise couldn’t exist.

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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 Step You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio's House Stuff Works.
0:41.4	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
0:43.2	I'm Josh Clark.
0:44.2	There's Charles Chuck Bryant.
0:46.2	And there's Jerry Rowland over there.
0:49.6	And if you put all three of us together, you get a little something called Stuff You Should Know.
0:56.6	Oh man.
0:58.6	You did the job.
0:59.6	It's Hoover Dam.
1:00.6	Hoover Dam Edition.
1:01.6	Hoover.
1:02.6	Have you ever been to Hoover Dam?
1:05.4	I have been there twice.
1:06.4	Oh, sure.
1:07.4	Yeah, I went in 91.
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