From the Vault: The Invention of Roller Skates
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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4.3 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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In this classic invention-themed episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe build on last month's episode on ice skates with a discussion of their wheelbase spin off: the rollerskate! (originally published 6/24/2025)
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:10.3 | Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. |
| 0:13.3 | Today is Saturday. |
| 0:14.3 | So we have a vault episode for you. |
| 0:15.9 | And it's one that I gave you a heads up about a couple of weeks ago. |
| 0:19.7 | This is going to be the invention of roller skates. |
| 0:22.4 | It originally published 624, 2025, and it builds on the episode we did on the invention of ice skates. |
| 0:31.2 | That one recently re-ran as a vault episode, but you can also find it in the archives. |
| 0:37.5 | So either way, here you go. |
| 0:39.3 | Strapping those roller skates. |
| 0:40.6 | Let's have a good time. |
| 0:44.6 | Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 0:57.6 | Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your mind. My name is Robert Lamb. |
| 1:06.2 | And I'm Joe McCormick. And today we're going to be doing one of our invention episodes, and the subject is roller skates. |
| 1:17.3 | I was going to say this is kind of a sequel to an episode we did a few weeks ago about the invention of ice skates, but it might be more accurate to say that episode was a prequel to this one. Because from what I recall, Rob, you wanted to look at skating as a subject because your family has gotten into roller skating or blading lately. |
| 1:26.0 | Is that the case? |
| 1:27.5 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:28.2 | And it's not a huge story, really, but essentially I have some friends who got into roller |
| 1:34.6 | skating during the pandemic, which, you know, increased my awareness of this individual's |
| 1:40.4 | involvement in various local skating meetups and so forth. |
| 1:44.1 | And my now 13-year-old also |
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