too many floors

my fav skyscraper is the Leningrad´s Institute of Robotics

#jetfuelcantmeltironbeams

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Cholula Hot Sauce

The point about the named skyscrapers and medicean towers etc rhymes really well imo. It reminds me of when i studied archaeology. One important thing they tried to drill into us is physical manifestations of ideology, and this is the same thing

Sanna Amberg

That poem reminded me so much of a quote from the 2010 film Centurion: " In the chaos of battle, when the ground beneath your feet is a slurry of blood, puke, piss and the entrails of friends and enemies alike, it's easy to turn to the gods for salvation. But it's soldiers who do the fighting, and soldiers who do the dying, and the gods never get their feet wet."

heffa

Weren't those italian shouting towers only square on the outside because they were thicker on the inside near the ground? An undescended pyramid, if you will.

Tom Capon

I see what you did there...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/down-side-life-supertall-tower-152526980.html

Triangle good square bad

Marty

[57:30] - "Oh hey, look, it's where I used to work in the Before Times." Dumbest part: we're on the top office floor, and there's this amazing little balcony nestled in the little U-shape in the back - and we get in an absurd amount of trouble if we try to use it. Building fines the shit out of you. Also the elevators suck ass, are mini-sized, and people regularly just get stuck in them for several hours at a time because they're always breaking.

A long time ago I visited the Palazzo Pubblico in Sienna. At the time it was porbably the oldest buiding I had been in. It's amazing, but what really blew me away was that it is still in use as a municipal office block. You look in one of the office doors, wnd there is a junior clerk dealing with parking ticket complaints in an office with a Renaissance fresco on the wall.

Kevin Bodel

Love y'all. keep being great.

nothing gets by you, huh?

lal

Was that massive sniff before you said 'ideology' a diss at Zizek, Alice?

6 or 7 years ago I had a chance to participate in a multi-dimensional protest action in Philly in front of the giant Comcast Center on JFK Blvd. It's a typical shiny new skyscraper - a dedication to capitalism and the god of entertainment. But the most jarring thing I learned that day was the deft and sinister sleight-of-hand that corporations facilitate. Outside the entrance to the building is a plaza that is elevated from the street by about 5 feet. It is open and pleasant and has a small hut that sells snacks during the weekdays (we were there on the weekend). After we approached the guards inside to inform them we were there and what our purpose was for the day (a standard gesture of courtesy in most protest actions) - we found the plaza cordoned off 60 minutes later. We - the protestors - were confined to the sidewalk - because the apparent open plaza was in fact a part of the footprint of the Comcast Center's private property. Huh....not a bad trick: Make a section of the "city" "open" to the public for capitalism (purchasing food/displaying your leisure for any photos the company may use/etc) - but not for free speech. Because that plaza we thought was a part of the commons...wasn't. Great job again all - and fantastic choice Alice!

It was the Intro to Joe Hill

Allison Stilley

WHAT WHAT

That was a particularly good one. Loved the poem!

That and some places that are made into parks to suit human tastes like planting invasive plants and not consulting traditional owners as well about things being classified parks and legally what that means for them - potentially becoming an excuse to re-take land again after they have now made their's again. god im too high

Harrison Sanchez

POINTED ARCH GANG

Harrison Sanchez

Yuck-uh-tan

Gerg Bergler

Fantastic, as always. I’d love to see the cruise industry get its own episode someday.

Hey guys if you really do Ustica I promise you I'm gonna upgrade tier for a couple of months at least, that shit was wacked. Take a look at the movie “The Rubber Wall” from 1991. Much love to all

So is someone going to do a Fallout 3 mod to make the Washington Monument architecturally correct?

Martin

it was dump the bosses of your back i think

Maggie+Al

As an Egyptian I can confirm that our dicks have been plundered, but there are way more than just 4. I can count at least 6 in just the city of Luxor, and there's one in Tahrir Square now that they dug up from storage in a random town in the Delta that just had an obelisk because a farmer found it while digging a canal. Please give us our dicks back, we miss them.

Great episode guys. Your best work either leaves us depressed or laughing our asses off. Please keep doing both! Also, could you guys do an episode on the Ford Pinto? I'm not sure if it will be hilarious or horrible, but I'm sure it'll be engaging at the least.

Evan

"They're for grain storage if you're like Herman Cain" wrong black republican Alice

DumbDumDumbDumb

*sky exfoliaters*.

Danika Hicks

If anything I really appreciated the poem, it really hit the message of the episode home

Olivier Cadotte

ok, now i do sort of want to know. why park bad (sometimes)? is this going to be a racism/gentrification thing?

deeso

I worked at the Washington Monument and there's no mortor between the blocks - only block-on-block friction and pressure. So if you go to the observation deck, there are these two blocks that are off by like 2 inches because of the earthquake back in 2011 lol.

Lauren Cabral

They should have just made Black Flag into Pirate's Creed or something.

TJ Barke

Have you tried opening the video on YouTube so its added to your watch history and then watching it later on your TV/Phone?

Every podcast is certified by the Activate Windows watermark. If you don’t see it, it’s a fake podcast.

Why can't I do that thing where youtube video goes from my phone to my tv with these last few bonus episodes?

Robert P

Babel and Babylon are the same thing though. Bavel (בבל) is the Hebrew name for Babylon.

Hooray, Tacoma Narrows Bridge next week!

Ewald Raming

Fair game, even. Keep trying to edit to fix it, but patreon won’t let me. I studied Art Comservation, and the Parthenon’s fate makes me irrationally angry.

Any chances of an episode on the destruction of the Parthenon? There’s just something about storing a shit ton of gunpowder in your almost complete 2000 year old wonder of the world and/or giving Lord Elgin permission to take stones that had fallen on the ground and him pulling down Parthenon friezes so they were on the ground and fair game for looting!!

I promise that I only link the Exclusives to my friends who have less money than I do, which is really saying something. I don't know what they're doing wrong. They've learned to code and everything!

Ross James

Keep grilling everyone. You're gonna need it in the near future. #grillpill

Len