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🗓️ 28 May 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Skyscrapers are beautiful -- and utterly ridiculous. In the first part of this two-part episode, Ben, Noel and Max learn how modern skyscrapers were largely inspired by one guy who, no kidding, saw a heavy book resting on a birdcage and thought "yes, that. But bigger!"
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0:00.0 | Ridiculous history is a production of I Heart Radio. The Welcome back to the show, Ridiculous Historians. Thank you as always so much |
0:31.0 | for tuning in. Let's give a shout out to our own towering |
0:35.6 | super producer Mr. Max Williams. I just want to point out that before we |
0:40.9 | started this episode we were talking about the topic in Nolguant, |
0:44.0 | Skyrum, and so we're starting this recording about five minutes later than we were |
0:47.5 | originally going to because we talked about White Run and Iron Dagers, |
0:51.4 | you're Kudos, the Towers Theory, all that kind of fun. |
0:55.3 | And Noel just sat there and was like, why did I do this? |
0:58.0 | So that's Noel Brown, I'm Ben Bolin. |
0:59.8 | Nice to me. |
1:01.0 | And we're all still playing Skyrim, and I think it was the phrase Sky, that got all of us started today. |
1:08.4 | Previously on ridiculous history, we discussed the idea of skyscrapers. |
1:15.6 | What's the, what's the like the tallest building |
1:18.7 | you guys have been in? |
1:20.0 | God, geez, I think when I was a kid I went to the Sears Tower in Chicago, which I think is a is a kind of one of the biggies or at least it was for a while. |
1:30.5 | Yeah, yeah, it's it to look so strange to future historians. |
1:37.7 | Like you fast forward, I think about this often, we've talked about it on the show, you fast |
1:41.9 | forward several centuries or millennia and |
1:44.7 | imagine that you are an historian walking through the ruins of a modern city or |
1:52.1 | what we call a modern city today and you see a bunch of |
1:55.3 | interstates or the ruins of interstates and you see a bunch of |
1:58.9 | weirdly phallic buildings you know like you would you would walk around and you would say the people of this city they |
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