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Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Venice, Italy has a problem. It's sinking, and the water around it is rising. Thankfully, some engineers are working hard on the MOSE project - huge gates that keep high tide from happening. Learn all about Venice 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	Hi everyone, it's Charles W. Chuck Bryan here on a lovely Saturday in Atlanta, Georgia.
0:36.0	Co-host of the Stuff You Should Know Podcast bringing you this Saturday selects episode
0:41.3	all the way back from June 2nd, 2014.
0:44.5	Why is Venice so wet?
0:47.8	The answer?
0:49.1	Coming up right now.
0:55.8	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio.
1:05.2	Hey and welcome to The Podcast, I'm Josh Clark.
1:08.0	There's Charles W. Chuck Bryan, knows with us again.
1:11.2	And it's another morning edition.
1:14.1	Yeah, we got an email.
1:15.7	I think our last morning session not too long ago and someone wrote it and said, please
1:20.7	don't do that again.
1:21.7	I didn't think it was that bad.
1:23.0	You guys are clearly like really tired and not the same.
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