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Invention

Walls

Invention

iHeartPodcasts

Science, Natural Sciences, History

4.6634 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Walls area very old invention, but where did they first divide the tribes of humanity? To what extent were they successful? What can we learn about the modern world from discussions of ancient walls? Robert Lamb and Joe McCormick explore it all in this episode of Invention. 

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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.

0:40.5

Hey, welcome to invention.

0:41.8

My name is Robert Lamb.

0:43.2

And I'm Joe McCormick.

0:47.4

Today we're talking about an invention that had certainly been in the news a bit recently.

0:49.6

We're talking about walls.

0:50.2

Okay.

0:54.7

Now, we're not a political show, but some of the statements on the nature of walls, the purpose of walls, the historical and modern effectiveness of walls are unavoidable here.

1:01.5

And hopefully, this is all going to be useful.

1:04.3

By the time we finish this episode, you're going to have a deeper context regarding the

1:10.3

nature of walls and what a wall is the next time you were subjected to the news.

1:16.9

Now, I noticed we've been on a tear recently of extremely ancient inventions.

1:21.2

I think we did roads and then the wheel and now we're on walls.

1:24.7

It's almost like we're just going further and further back in time.

1:28.5

And so I'm sure we'll get back to some more recent or high-tech gadgets soon.

1:32.7

Oh, yeah.

1:32.9

We've definite biographies involved, too.

1:35.2

That's the thing about the more modern inventions.

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