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Stuff You Should Know

How Water Slides Work

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.582.8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2015

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Water slides have been around in one form or another since the Romans. But back then they didn't know what they had on their hands. With the birth of the waterpark in the 1970s, these rides have only gotten more extreme, leading up to the birth of today's

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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.

0:31.5

Welcome to you, Stuff You Should Know, from Howstuffworks.com.

0:41.4

Hey, I'm Welcome to The Podcast.

0:42.9

I'm Josh Clark.

0:44.1

There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant.

0:45.8

There's Jerry Slowness down.

0:48.0

And this is Stuff You Should Know, The Podcast.

0:52.0

That's right.

0:53.0

The Water Slide Edition.

0:54.0

Yeah, man.

0:55.0

You like water slides?

0:57.0

Who doesn't?

0:58.0

Nobody.

0:59.0

Pretty much.

1:00.0

Water slides are fun.

1:01.0

I used to go to a white water here in Atlanta growing up.

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