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Hey and welcome to The Short Stuff.

I'm Josh and there's Chuck and this is Short Stuff and we're talking about Firewalking

which is interesting because you can explain how it works and I love those.

I was convinced we had done this but we have not.

No we haven't.

I don't know.

I thought it fell into our Circus Arts or something.

It does seem like a 2010-2011 circus stuff you should know episode, like a full episode

doesn't it?

Yeah but it's not a circus arts thing at all.

No.

You know I don't think it, I mean maybe like a Jim Rose circus might do something like

this but it is generally sort of a religious thing in most cultures right?

Yeah and they think that it dates back at least 32-100 years.

The first mention of it is in an ancient Indian text from around that time and either it spread

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