Lost Media, Part Two: We Didn't Start The Fire

Ridiculous History

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History, Society & Culture

4.3 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Silent films took the world by storm, but the material they were manufactured from was notoriously -- cartoonishly -- flammable. Soon multiple studio buildings were burning to the ground. There wasn't always a spark involved, either: sometimes this stuff just spontaneously combusted. In part two of this two-part series, Ben, Noel and Max explore how silent films became so endangered in the modern day.

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0:00.0	Hey, you'll never believe this. If you know our podcast, Daniel and Jorge explained the universe,
0:03.9	you know we talk about galaxies and other planets, but we never thought we'd be able to have these
0:07.7	conversations in another world. And now we're headed to I Heartland. We're coming to some of your
0:13.6	favorite games on November 17th when we'll be talking about planets colliding with planets,
0:19.2	stars colliding with stars, black holes colliding with other black holes. So we'll see you there.
0:24.6	Come check it out at iHeartReview.com slash iHeartland.
0:55.3	Listen to Story of the Week on the iHeart Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:01.3	I'm Moaraca and I'm back with season three of my podcast MoBituary's. I've dug up even more
1:07.8	stories about the people and things that fascinate me from the fruit that once scandalized
1:13.8	the shape of the banana made it taboo to the band that played second banana to the Beatles.
1:19.8	They were lucky to come in second and the truth is they only came in second for about two months.
1:23.9	Listen to MoBituary's on the iHeart Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:30.7	Radiculous History is a production of iHeart Radio. Welcome to the show Radiculous Historians. Thank you
1:59.7	as always so much for tuning in coming in hot with a lot of coffee and of course as we like to do
2:05.4	at the top of big thanks to our super producer the madman of Michigan Mr. Max Williams.
2:15.9	They called me Ben. No, this is a part two. We wanted to make this one part but we just couldn't
2:22.5	help ourselves, man. No, we just love the pictures too much. We had to we had to wax
2:29.2	philosophical and poetic and nostalgic all those things about them for quite some time.
2:35.0	I have a question, look at what happens if something happens to this part so people are always
2:40.3	going to be sitting around like they're going to hear the end of part one and they're
2:44.7	potentially going to cut this. Why would I cut this? I don't know. This is going to stay here forever.
2:49.6	It's going to stay here for a few people going to listen to part one and they're like, oh yeah,
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