SYSK Selects: How Monopoly Works

Stuff You Should Know

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4.5 • 82.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Since more than 1 billion people have played it, you’re probably familiar with the board game Monopoly, but we bet you don’t know its secret origins as a left-wing socialist teaching tool. Join Josh and Chuck as they chase it down 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.
0:31.4	Hey there everybody, it's me Josh, your old pal.
0:34.2	And for this week's S.Y.S.K.S.
0:35.9	Selects, I've chosen our classic 2014 episode on the Game of Monopoly.
0:41.9	It's a really thorough episode where we explained everything, everything about the game of Monopoly.
0:48.7	And I was apparently on Kueludes throughout the whole thing.
0:53.3	Go figure.
0:54.6	Anyway, enjoy this episode.
0:56.6	I think you will.
1:01.9	Welcome to Step You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio's House Stuff Works.
1:11.8	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
1:13.4	I'm Josh Clark with Charles W. Chuck Bryant and Jerry Rowland, which makes us step you should know.
1:19.1	That's right, got on my top pet in my cane, your monocle.
1:23.2	Monocle, does he have monocle?
1:24.6	I thought it was, not this Mr. Peanut.
1:27.6	Oh yeah, not Mr. Monopoly.
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