The Awe-Inspiring, Absolutely Crucial Amazon

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.5 • 82.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

If you’ve ever thought, “What’s the Amazon rainforest ever done for me? Nothin, that’s what,” then you’re dead wrong, friend. It covers 1 percent of the Earth’s surface but houses perhaps 30 percent of its species and it’s invaluable to all life on Earth.

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0:00.0	Horrifying monsters, dangerous gods and heroes, and incredible underrepresented women.
0:06.9	From the truth about Medusa, she never actually heard anyone, to the horrors of Theseus.
0:12.3	He was basically a serial predator.
0:14.5	I am Liv Albert, and let's talk about Midsphabie is the Greek and Roman mythology podcast
0:19.7	here with all the dirty details and then some.
0:23.3	Listen to Let's Talk About Midsphabie on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever
0:29.0	you get your podcasts.
0:33.1	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio.
0:42.7	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
0:44.2	I'm Josh Clark and there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant and Jerry Jerome Rowland and you put
0:48.8	the three of us together.
0:50.4	I put some super glue between us.
0:53.8	Hold us together for an hour and a half.
0:55.6	Oh boy.
0:56.6	We've got an episode of Stuff You Should Know.
1:00.9	I love Livia helped us with this.
1:02.4	I love her title of this one.
1:04.2	It was titled The All Inspiring Absolutely Crucial Amazon.
1:10.7	And that's what we're going to talk about.
1:12.7	This amazing biome about the size of the continental United States.
1:18.3	That is, do you want me to keep going?
1:22.1	Yeah.
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