From the Vault: The Nutcracker
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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4.4 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
The decorative holiday nutcracker has become a staple of holiday decor and it also constitutes a specialized tool, so in this Christmas themed invention episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe discuss the gadget’s European history, its analogs in other cultures and the general history of humans and other animals cracking nuts. (originally published 12/14/2023)
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| 1:01.2 | Hey, welcome to stuff to blow your mind. My name is Robert Lamb. And I am Joe McCormick. And hey, |
| 1:08.5 | it's Saturday, so we're heading into the vault for an older episode of the show. |
| 1:12.1 | This one originally published on December 14th, 2023, and it's about The Nutcracker. |
| 1:18.4 | Yes, the object, the tool, the invention, the nutcracker. |
| 1:22.3 | Yes, that's right. And this, of course, is the precursor to an episode that we'll be rerunning later this month on The Rap King. |
| 1:30.5 | The pair of holiday episodes that came out last year. |
| 1:36.3 | Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 1:48.3 | Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. |
| 1:49.4 | My name is Robert Lamb. |
| 1:51.3 | And I am Joe McCormick. And, ooh, I can almost smell hot cocoa and peppermint because the Christmas spirit is alive today. |
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