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Stuff You Should Know

SYSK Selects: How the Cannonball Run Worked

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.679.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2018

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

The Cannon Ball Run is a cross-country car race famously portrayed in the campy 1981 movie "Cannon Ball Run." But it isn't fictional.

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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

Hi everybody.

0:33.0

Chuck here for another Saturday stuff you should know selects edition.

0:36.8

This week I picked how the Cannibal Run worked.

0:39.6

October 22nd 2009.

0:41.8

This was a fun one.

0:43.0

The Cannibal Run.

0:43.8

We certainly talk about the movie and the sequel.

0:46.4

It was one of my faves growing up.

0:48.4

But it was based on a real race.

0:49.8

The Cannibal Run is or was.

0:53.0

Jeez I'm not even sure if it's still going on.

0:55.0

This has been a while since we recorded this one.

0:57.3

It is a road race, a cross country road race that seems too strange to be true that people

1:03.9

would actually get in their cars in the United States and drive super fast and elude the

1:08.0

cops all across the country in order to win.

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