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Stuff You Should Know

SYSK Selects: Your limb is torn off - now what?

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.582.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 February 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Were you to be the unfortunate victim of a limb removal of any sort, you could take hope. Here in the 21st century, doctors have gotten pretty handy at reattaching arms and legs, replacing thumbs with toes, rebuilding breasts, all to great success thanks to microsurgery techniques.

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

Hi there everyone, it's me Josh and for this week's S.Y.S.K.S. Lex.

0:34.9

I've chosen, so your limb is torn off.

0:37.4

Now what?

0:38.6

It's a great classic episode filled with neat stories about things like exposed innards and

0:44.4

sowing muscles together.

0:46.5

It's a good one and it has a really great intro, if I do say so myself.

0:50.4

It's from January 2014, so enjoy.

0:56.9

Welcome to Step You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio's How Stuff Works.

1:06.7

Hey and welcome to The Podcast.

1:08.1

I'm Josh Clark and there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant and this is Step You Should Know, because

1:13.4

Jerry's over there.

1:14.4

How you doing buddy?

1:15.4

Besides sick.

1:17.4

I'm not sick.

1:18.4

I've got a little bit of a bug, but never.

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