PT Barnum: More Complicated Than You've Heard

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2018

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

When your life is as outsized as the World’s Greatest Showman PT Barnum it’s pretty easy to - you know - gloss over the grimmer aspects when you turn it into an uplifting musical movie. But the way to understand a person is to look at them, warts and all.

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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.
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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.
0:31.2	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know from House Stuff Works.com.
0:41.4	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
0:42.9	I'm Josh Clark.
0:44.1	There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant.
0:45.6	There's Jerry.
0:47.1	Hello, hello, hello.
0:50.8	Hello.
0:52.6	Jerry's got a top hat on.
0:54.8	I know.
0:55.8	I don't know why.
0:56.8	I don't know.
0:57.8	She's trying to be all Mr. Monopoly or PT Burnham.
1:03.0	Oh, yeah, I forgot you wore a top hat allegedly.
1:07.4	Oh, no, he did.
1:09.0	I saw a picture of it.
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