Subways: HUH! What are they good for?

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2012

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

As ubiquitous as they've become, it's easy to overlook the marvels of engineering that are subways. Chuck and Josh go boring as they explore these systems of tubes that must circumnavigate rock, rivers, cables and more to get you where you're going.

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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.
0:31.2	Welcome to stuff you should know from house stuffworks.com.
0:41.2	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
0:42.8	I'm Josh Clark.
0:43.8	There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant.
0:47.4	Just sitting there normally, right?
0:50.6	Nothing anything unusual.
0:52.2	I think we should have started this with taking the A-Train.
0:55.6	I think we should have changed up our music.
0:58.4	Let's do that.
0:59.4	Okay, how about this?
1:00.4	All right.
1:01.4	How are we, how are we, take the A-Train?
1:08.4	To find the quickest way to get to Harlem.
1:15.4	We did.
1:16.4	Okay.
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