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Stuff To Blow Your Mind

Fire From the Rocks, Part 3

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

iHeartPodcasts

Social Sciences, Science, Life Sciences, Natural Sciences

4.36K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

It might surprise you to learn that the oldest raging fires on Earth are actually underground. In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe discuss the world of eternal flames and coal seam fires.

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0:00.0

Hey, I'm Joel Stein. I want you to close your eyes and imagine a pocket watch.

0:05.7

It's moving from side to side. You're getting very sleepy.

0:11.6

Great. Now that I've hypnotized you against your will, you're going to start liking long-form journalism.

0:16.2

Like so much. You're going to listen to a podcast where the host interviews a writer about their long-form story every week.

0:23.6

I'm that host.

0:25.0

Listen to Story of the Week on the I Heart Radio app Apple Podcast or wherever you get your podcast.

0:30.3

I'm Danish Ward's host of Stealing Superman, a new I Heart original podcast about the most unlikely art heist of all time.

0:40.6

It was Nick Cage's own personal national treasure.

0:44.9

At a 1999 New Year's Eve party, someone snatched Cage's priceless comments.

0:52.4

But who? Listen to Stealing Superman on the I Heart Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you find your favorite shows.

1:00.7

Hi, it's Bethany Frankel. My time on the Real Housewives of New York is a few years behind me.

1:05.7

And now I'm ready to put the real back into the Real Housewives.

1:09.0

That's where my new podcast Rewives comes in. This isn't your typical rewatch podcast.

1:13.9

I'm bringing on unexpected thought leaders and celebrities to give their take on the chaos.

1:18.6

In my first episode, I dig into the scary island, Rooney episode with Elizabeth Moss.

1:23.8

It's one of my favorite shows I've ever done, so don't miss it.

1:27.3

Listen to Rewives with Bethany Frankel on the I Heart Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your favorite podcasts.

1:34.5

Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of I Heart Radio.

1:45.6

Hey, you welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lam.

1:52.3

And I'm Joe McCormick. And today we're back with part three of our series on naturally fueled flames and smoldering and burnings that come from the Earth itself or from the rocks.

2:04.3

So in the last episode of this series, we talked about the burning mountain or Mount Wyngin in Australia, down in New South Wales, which is an example of a naturally fueled type of fire called a coal seam fire, a place where coal formations underground are set on fire and then continue to burn as long as they can, as long as they have access to oxygen probably.

2:30.3

And while there's no way to know for sure, Mount Wyngin has been proposed as potentially the longest burning fire on Earth.

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