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Stuff You Should Know

SYSK Selects: Sherpas: Warm, Friendly Living

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.679.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

What exactly is a Sherpa? Tune in and learn more as Chuck and Josh explore the culture of the Sherpa people.

Transcript

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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

Happy weekend everybody.

0:32.4

This is Chuck here bringing you my selection for this stuff you should know, select episode

0:36.8

on this fine Saturday.

0:38.7

This one is from April 5th, 2011.

0:40.8

Sherpas, Colin, warm, friendly living.

0:44.0

And I know for a fact Josh came up with that title because I thought it was very fun.

0:47.9

And it really kind of embodied what Sherpas are all about.

0:52.7

You know, Sherpas will lead you up Everest or maybe some other mountain range in the

0:57.1

area.

0:58.4

And the more we dug into Sherpas, the more we realized just what warm, hospitable, amazing

1:03.8

people they are.

1:05.4

And it's really easy to overlook the Sherpa because you will often hear about the wealthy

1:11.9

climber of Everest and not much about the Sherpa that really got them there.

1:16.3

So this is our bid to shine a little light on the Sherpa.

1:19.6

So here we go with Sherpas, warm, friendly living.

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