SYSK Selects: How Fire Works

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Creating fire was possibly the most important human discovery, but it's easy to take for granted. But. Josh and Chuck get to the bottom of the chemistry of fire in their quest to explain everything in the universe, in this classic episode.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on the I Heart Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.3	Hi folks!
0:32.6	From October 4th 2012, my Saturday select pick is How Fire Works.
0:39.6	Yeah, you can light a match.
0:41.6	Sure, you can use a magnifying glass and you might be able to rub two sticks together
0:46.2	or use a flint in stone.
0:48.3	But that is all just starting a fire.
0:50.2	How Fire actually works is much more complicated and very, very cool.
0:54.0	So give it a listen, why don't you?
0:58.6	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio's How Stuff Works.
1:04.1	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
1:09.8	I'm Josh Clark with me as always, it's Charles W. Chuck Bryant.
1:14.2	Ta-da!
1:15.2	And this is Stuff You Should Know.
1:17.6	Josh, we let me stand next to you, fire.
1:19.8	Sure, okay, come here.
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