Selects: How Lighthouses Work

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

People have been burning fires on cliffs as long as other people have used boats, but after the Age of Exploration, lighthouses took their unmistakable form and the great stories of the people who kept the lights around the world began. Learn all about them 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.
0:30.8	Hey everyone, happy Saturday.
0:32.6	I hope you have your breakfast cereal and your Saturday morning cartoons all taken care of.
0:37.6	It is in Select Time June 30th, 2016 and we're talking about how lighthouses work.
0:45.6	This is a really cool podcast.
0:46.9	I remember really enjoying this one because I had done some research on lighthouses for
0:51.4	a movie script I was writing.
0:53.0	So this one was really pretty key for that.
0:55.6	So here we go with how lighthouses work.
1:01.4	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio.
1:07.7	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
1:12.1	I'm Josh Clark.
1:13.1	There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant and Jerry over there and this is the lighthouse episode.
1:17.7	Take one.
1:18.7	Can I just go ahead and say that I love lighthouses?
1:24.4	See?
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