Dan and Josh continue their “most beautiful man-made objects in history” series with a wide-ranging honorable-mentions episode. They open with Franz Ferdinand’s travel diaries, hunting, Teddy Roosevelt, Hemingway, Ian Fleming, and Salinger, then return to the beautiful-objects list to cover the great things that did not quite make the top ten. The conversation moves from the Sistine Chapel and Venice to Calder mobiles, cars, aircraft, cathedrals, telephones, firearms, locomotives, gemstones, and Art Deco—arguing throughout about whether beauty comes from proportion, engineering, movement, history, usefulness, or sheer visual power.

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Sistine Chapel — 00:06:51
Venice — 00:24:50
Calder mobile — 00:28:07
Jaguar E-Type — 00:34:31
SR-71 — 00:37:42
X-15 — 00:40:36
Hamilton Standard Propeller — 00:48:13
Wells cathedral — 00:55:40
Chartres — 01:01:52
Hagia Sophia — 01:02:15
AE34 telephone — 01:03:25
Fallingwater — 01:04:57
1911 pistol — 01:06:07
Chevelle — 01:08:48
Big Boy — 01:11:22
Gemstones — 01:13:47
Chrysler Building — 01:15:41

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