From the Vault: The Manta Ray, Part 2
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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4.3 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
In this series of classic episodes from Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe discuss the majestic manta ray, from its biology and lifecycle to conservation issues and its portrayal in mythology, folk beliefs and even 1930s horror movies. Learn all about these strange and beautiful creatures and what’s being done to ensure their survival. (originally published 7/8/2025) (part 2 of 3)
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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 | My name is Robert Lamb. |
| 0:14.4 | Today is Saturday. |
| 0:15.2 | So what do we have for you? |
| 0:16.3 | It's going to be the Manta Ray Part 2. |
| 0:18.8 | This is part 2 of 3. |
| 0:20.2 | It originally published 7-8 2025. You know what a |
| 0:23.8 | Manta Ray is, but now you're going to learn even more about them. Let's jump right in. |
| 0:31.0 | Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 0:40.6 | Hey, you welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. |
| 0:43.0 | My name is Robert Lamb. |
| 0:44.4 | And I am Joe McCormick, and we're back with part two in our series on Manta Rays and |
| 0:49.3 | their close, mobulid relatives. |
| 0:52.0 | In the last episode of this series, we kicked things off by talking about |
| 0:56.1 | an experience that you had, Rob, recently where you and your family got to see reef |
| 1:01.3 | manta rays in person while snorkeling in Indonesia, which sounds pretty amazing. Did I get the |
| 1:06.1 | details on that right? Correct. Yes, it was amazing. Words can't quite describe it. Observing them, but not |
| 1:13.3 | swimming, quote, with them. You weren't riding the rays. Correct. They were doing their own thing. |
| 1:18.8 | We were trying to keep our distance and observe from a distance, which is the correct way of going about |
| 1:25.4 | things. So that was what inspired us to talk about Manta Rays in a series of episodes here on the show. |
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