Skyscrapers, Part Two: An Arms Race to the Sky

Ridiculous History

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History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 30 May 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Once society became convinced that you could build skyscrapers without them immediately collapsing, cities across the United States -- and, soon the world -- scrambled to build their own structures. In part two of this two-part series, Ben, Noel and Max explore the continuing race to build the tallest, the strongest, and the most iconic skyscrapers.

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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 for tuning in. That our super producer Mr. Max Williams.
0:34.9	Max.
0:36.9	Sky High Williams.
0:38.6	Have we talked about the poop yet?
0:40.1	We're getting to the poop.
0:41.7	That's Noel Brown.
0:43.0	I'm Ben Boland.
0:45.0	This is a two-parter.
0:46.0	Yeah, yeah, if you couldn't tell already.
0:48.0	I think I'd think it earned two-parter.
0:50.0	Lots of really fun stuff to talk about when it comes to skyscrapers and man's inherent need to outdo
0:59.4	himself, themselves, ourselves, others. Yeah, this is a bit of a bit of a historical flex episode if you think about it.
1:06.7	Let's jump right in. The home insurance building did not just stand up on its own. It became a symbol, something that stood for
1:19.0	an entire architectural movement. We loosely call this the Chicago school and this gave birth to
1:27.1	all of those amazing skyscrapers in Chicago from the late 19th to the early 20th century.
1:36.0	And if you go to Chicago now and you go downtown or you're around the loop,
1:40.0	it's still very much a skyscraper city. You can take the little architectural river tour and they take down the boat and they go.
1:49.0	And if you're lucky, the Dave Matthews Band's tour bus will pull under the overpass bridge and dump the contents of its toilets on you.
1:57.5	Not guaranteed with the price of the ticket, but always a chance.
2:01.5	It will happen. It has been known to happen at the very least was.
2:04.2	I saw the fun, this is really all by the way, look it up.
2:06.5	I saw a funny thing.
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