Selects: How Freak Shows Worked

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

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🗓️ 2 July 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Not too long ago, people would pay money to gawk and stare at a performer with a physical disformity. They were called freak shows and they began in large part thanks to P.T. Barnum, whose circus we still enjoy today. Sounds awful, but some of these performers became rich folks as a result. Exploitive? You decide, after taking in this classic episode.

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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.
0:31.0	Hey everybody, it's Josh and for this week's Select, I've chosen our March 2016 episode
0:37.2	How Freak Shows Worked.
0:39.0	It's one of those episodes that turns out to be more complicated and complex than you
0:42.7	might expect.
0:44.0	And as an aside, a pre-assied, I guess, I'd like to say Rest in Peace to Ronnie and Donnie
0:49.4	Gallion, who we lost in 2020 and who come up in this episode.
0:54.0	Okay, sit back, release your expectations and enjoy this classic app.
1:03.5	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio.
1:07.2	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
1:14.8	I'm Josh Glock.
1:15.8	This shows the Beach Up Prime.
1:17.8	It's Jerry.
1:20.2	And this is Stuff You Should Know.
1:21.8	You intro'd as if you were asleep and I just walked by and poked you with a full cue.
1:28.0	And that's your first thing you do is you wake up and just go, hey, welcome to the podcast.
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