EARTH: The Cement Ban

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4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Today we travel to a future where we try to break up with cement. Can it be done? How did cement because so ubiquitous? And what’s so bad about cement in the first place? Guests:Grady Hillhouse: civil engineer and host of Practical EngineeringRobbie Andrew: senior researcher at CICERO Center for International Climate ResearchAmy Slaton: historian at Drexel University and author of Reinforced Concrete and the Modernization of American BuildingDavid Stone: inventor of Ferrock→ → → Further reading & full transcript ← ← ← Actors:The Snowglobe Narrator: Brent RoseLenny Haywood: Evan JohnsonFarah Mousterian: Zahra Noorbakhsh, host of Good Muslim, Bad MuslimJohn Jacob Siwa: Joseph JonesJuana Aguilar: Tamara Krinsky, host of Tomorrow’s World TodayKevin Macklin: Lawrence Carter Long Flash Forward is produced by me, Rose Eveleth. The intro music is by Asura and the outtro music is by Hussalonia. The episode art is by Matt Lubchansky. Get in touch: Twitter // Facebook // Reddit // [email protected] Support the show: Patreon // Donorbox Subscribe: iTunes // Soundcloud // Spotify Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and I am your host slash resident artificial intelligence.
0:04.7	Just kidding. I am totally a human
0:16.6	flash forward is a show about the future. Every episode we take on a specific possible or not so possible future scenario.
0:25.0	We always start with a little field trip into the future
0:27.6	to check out what's going on,
0:29.2	and then we teleport back to today
0:31.6	to talk to real experts about how that world that we just heard might
0:35.2	actually go down. Got it? Great. We're starting in the year 2045. Everybody thinks they're on the verge of the next million dollar idea, but do they have what it takes to really make it big?
0:57.0	It's time to find out.
0:59.0	Real entrepreneurs, real investors, real success. But don't expect anything warm and fuzzy
1:05.4	welcome to the snow globe let's meet the bears
1:09.4	Lenny Haywood is a renegade entrepreneur and billionaire who not only owns the Seattle
1:14.9	Supersonics, he also plays for them.
1:17.4	What am I looking for?
1:18.4	I'm looking for someone who's working like there is someone else working 24 hours a day to take it all away from them.
1:24.6	John Jacob Seuwa is a fashion icon turned fashion mogul who doesn't just walk the runway,
1:30.0	he owns it, literally.
1:32.3	You know why ch jerks get rich?
1:34.0	They get rich because they ask for what they want,
1:36.0	and they don't care what anybody thinks of it.
1:38.0	Farah Mustarian is the daughter of Iranian immigrants
1:41.0	who went on to become a technology mogul like the world has never seen,
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