The Wheel, Part 2
Invention
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 634 Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2019
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
The wheel is perhaps the most iconic of all inventions, and yet we are often too dismissive of wheel technology. We’ve been reinventing the wheel for thousands of years and show no sign of stopping. In this Invention two-parter, Robert Lamb and Joe McCormick explore the earliest examples of wheel technology and discuss why some cultures barely used it at all.
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| 0:00.0 | from iHeart podcast before social media before cable news there was alan berg he was the first |
| 0:06.8 | and the original shock shock that scratchy irreverent kind of way talking to people and telling |
| 0:13.2 | them that you're an idiot and i'm going to hang up on you this is live wire the loud life and |
| 0:17.9 | shocking murder of alan berg and he pointed to the denver book and said, well, there are probably two million suspects. |
| 0:24.9 | Listen on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:40.8 | Hey, welcome to invention. |
| 0:42.2 | My name is Robert Lamb. |
| 0:48.7 | And I'm Joe McCormick, and this is going to be part two of our first foray into the exploration of the wheel. |
| 0:53.5 | The ultimate technology, the one everybody goes to when they're asked to think of an invention. |
| 1:04.2 | The thing that they tell you, let's not reinvent when in fact people reinvent it all the time and thank God they do. The very technology that Anthony Zerbe was so down on in the Omega Man. |
| 1:14.9 | Why did he hate the wheel? I thought they rode on cars and stuff. The wheel was for them, okay, if you haven't seen the Omega Man, based on Matheson's excellent I Am legend, it is a... |
| 1:17.8 | Kind of a sad reworking of it. |
| 1:20.1 | Yeah, it's a corny Charlton Heston led... |
| 1:24.6 | It's redundant, the sentence you just said. |
| 1:35.0 | 1970s post-apocalyptic film in which Charlton Heston is seemingly the last human. |
| 1:39.1 | And then you have these pale vampires that are ruling the night. |
| 1:41.5 | I'm a scientist. |
| 1:42.2 | Exactly. |
| 1:43.2 | He's a scientist. |
| 1:45.7 | It's like Christ-like scientist battling the vampires. |
| 1:50.8 | And the vampires, like, see the wheel as a symbol of everything that humanity got wrong. |
| 1:51.7 | At some point, I think... It's kind of a shaky premise. |
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