From the Vault: The Invention of Ice Skating
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
iHeartPodcasts
4.3 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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In this classic invention-themed episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe discuss the origins and physics of skating on ice. (originally published 5/29/2025)
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:10.2 | Hey, welcome to Step to Boil Your Mind. |
| 0:12.4 | This is Robert Lamb. |
| 0:13.6 | It is Saturday. |
| 0:14.3 | We have a vault episode for you. |
| 0:15.9 | This is going to be the invention of ice skating. |
| 0:18.3 | It originally published 529, 2025. It's a standalone, but it is also |
| 0:23.6 | the first of two episodes with the second episode exploring roller skates, but we had to do ice skating first. |
| 0:30.4 | So if you finish this episode and you absolutely have to have roller skating right away, |
| 0:35.5 | well, just go back, look around this time last year and you'll find that older episode. |
| 0:39.6 | Otherwise, just wait a few weeks and we'll put out the other episode as well as a vault. |
| 0:45.9 | I hope you enjoy. |
| 0:50.1 | Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 0:59.7 | Music Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of IHeart Radio. Hey, you welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lamb, and I am Joe McCormick. |
| 1:05.2 | And we're back with another invention-themed episode. Some of you may notice, Joe and I were just chatting about this. |
| 1:11.8 | We were doing an episode here on ice skating. |
| 1:14.4 | It is, of course, the very beginning of summer. |
| 1:16.8 | Most of the articles you find about this come out in December. |
| 1:19.8 | So actually, you might be much more familiar with the seasonal mismatch if you live in the |
| 1:24.4 | Southern Hemisphere. |
| 1:26.0 | But, yeah, I guess for the majority of readers in the northern hemisphere, reading, |
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