Short Stuff: Labor Day

Stuff You Should Know

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4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2018

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Labor Day, the day when most people in America paradoxically take off work, is actually rooted in some deeply radical and anarchistic thinking. Learn all about this most subversive of American holidays in this episode of Short Stuff.

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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.
0:34.5	Hey and welcome to The Shorty.
0:35.9	I'm Josh.
0:36.9	There's Chuck and Jerry's over there.
0:39.5	So that makes this stuff you should know.
0:41.2	Shorties.
0:42.0	Welcome to The Shorty.
0:43.2	I like that.
0:44.3	I'm trying to switch things up because these are a little different, you know?
0:47.7	Sure.
0:48.6	They're their own thing, Chuck.
0:50.3	Yeah, we decided that we needed a signal to people that this was different and we decided
0:55.5	against a three minute long.
1:01.2	I suggested a series of blinks, but after a little while we figured out that wasn't going
1:05.3	to work.
1:06.3	Well, I see you're wearing white and that's because it's not yet Labor Day and then it's
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