SYSK Selects: How a Flea Circus Works

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

If you've ever seen a flea circus, then count yourself among the few. It's a dying art, but back in the day they thrilled and delighted young and old alike. Learn all about the tiny big tops 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.
0:32.0	Hi everyone, it's Josh and for this week's SISK Selects, I've chosen how Flea Circus' work.
0:38.1	It's actually one of my all-time favorite episodes.
0:41.7	By the time we recorded it, there was a 10% chance that I still didn't know whether
0:47.7	Flea Circus' are actually real or illusions, tricks of the imagination.
0:53.0	It was a thrilling experience to say the least.
0:56.6	I hope you enjoy this episode because it was a fun one to do.
1:03.0	Welcome to Step You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio's House Stuff Works.
1:13.0	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
1:14.5	I'm Josh Clark and there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant and there's Jerry Roland.
1:20.2	That makes this stuff you should know.
1:23.7	The podcast.
1:25.3	Yeah, who would have ever thought that we could do more than one podcast on Flea's?
1:32.6	Had I thought about Flea Circus' I would have thought that.
1:35.7	Yeah, we covered it a tiny little bit.
1:38.0	I went back and looked just to make sure we weren't being too redundant.
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