The Electrical Grid

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Society & Culture, History, Documentary

4.7 • 15K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Today, electricity in the U.S. is a utility we notice only when it's suddenly unavailable. But over a hundred years ago, electricity in the homes of every American was a wild idea and the subject of a bitter fight over who would power, and profit from, the national grid. This week, the battle that electrified our world and the extreme measures that were taken to get there.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Romtean. We get a ton of episode ideas from you guys and we love that.
0:05.7	Recently, a lot of you have been asking about the same thing, the curts.
0:09.9	Including this guy.
0:11.2	Hello, this is Shwan.
0:12.4	Oh, hey, Shwan.
0:13.6	How are you guys?
0:14.5	Shwan Zooty's pitch actually inspired our current episode.
0:17.4	And now that it's out, I'm wondering, did you have a chance to listen to the episode?
0:21.2	I did. I had to listen to it numerous times. It was fantastic.
0:25.6	Shwan also wanted to know how we made the episode.
0:29.0	So here we go.
0:30.2	All right, after we got Shwan's email, we read and read and read and then interviewed one of our colleagues
0:34.9	that had a VR.
0:35.5	Okay, I'm just going to brush up on the facts here for a second.
0:37.5	We also wanted to interview a Kurdish person, which led us to AYUB.
0:40.8	But you could say Kurdish journalists and authors.
0:44.0	Then we started writing and digging for our kivalty.
0:46.4	We did Kurdish fights as marching carrying posters.
0:48.8	Once we had a script, we went back checking mode, which caused a flurry of rewrites.
0:53.2	And then, Romteen and I went into the studio to track.
0:56.2	And on this episode, the Kurds.
0:58.1	So I can do it again.
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