From the Vault: The Hearth, Part 1
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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4.4 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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In this classic episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe dig into the powerful resonance of the fireplace and hearthstone in human culture, psychology and myth. (part 1 of 2, originally published 12/17/2024)
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:10.4 | Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. |
| 0:12.9 | My name is Robert Lamb. |
| 0:14.2 | Today is Saturday, so we have a vault episode for you. |
| 0:17.1 | This is going to be The Harth, Part 1. |
| 0:19.8 | This is part 1 of 2. Originally published 12, 17, 2024. This is going to be The hearth, part one. This is part one of two. Originally published 12, 17, |
| 0:22.7 | 2024. This is our look at the powerful resonance of the fireplace and hearth stone in human culture, |
| 0:30.7 | psychology, and myth. Let's jump right in. As I drew in my head and was turning around on the chimney, St. Nicholas came with a bound. |
| 0:44.0 | He was dressed all in fur from his head to his foot, and his clothes were all tarnished |
| 0:47.7 | with ashes and soot. |
| 0:48.9 | He was dressed all in fur from his head to his foot, and his clothes were all tarnished |
| 0:52.7 | with ashes and soot. |
| 0:53.8 | He was dressed all in fur from his head to his foot, and his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot. He was dressed all in fur from his head to his foot and his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot. |
| 1:03.6 | Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 1:15.9 | Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lamb. |
| 1:17.7 | And I am Joe McCormick. |
| 1:19.2 | And today we're going to be kicking off a series of episodes on the fireplace and the hearth. |
| 1:25.1 | The infrastructure through which humans brought their campfires indoors |
| 1:29.6 | inside their homes and other dwelling structures uh we're going to look at how fireplaces work |
| 1:35.1 | where they come from and what they mean and uh just got to apologize again this week like i did |
| 1:41.1 | last week uh still got a cold it's either round two of this cold or a |
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