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Stuff To Blow Your Mind

Thar She Blows, Part 2

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

iHeartPodcasts

Social Sciences, Science, Life Sciences, Natural Sciences

4.36K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe discuss the science of whale spout, as well as various misconceptions about just how watery, caustic or explosive these plumes really are. (Part 2 of 2)

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0:00.0

I'm Amber Reffett and I'm her gorgeous sister, Lacey Lamar.

0:03.2

If in fact Lacey is not that gorgeous.

0:05.2

Amber, get on with it.

0:06.2

Okay everybody, we have exciting news to share.

0:08.4

We're teaming up with Will Ferrell's Big Money Players Network to bring you our

0:11.8

brand new podcast called The Amber and Lacey Lacey and Amber Show.

0:15.0

We did it.

0:16.0

We sold a bunch of books, we conquered late night and now we'll play fun quizzes and games

0:19.8

with friends and take you along for the ride.

0:22.4

Listen to the Amber and Lacey, Lacey and Amber Show on Will Ferrell's Big Money

0:26.1

Players Network on the iHeartRadio app Apple Podcast or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:31.1

Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of iHeartRadio.

0:44.1

Hey you welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, my name is Robert Lamar.

0:48.1

And I'm Joe McCormick and we're back with part two in our series on that most charismatic

0:53.9

anatomical feature of Wales, The Blow Hole.

0:57.9

Also known as The Spiracle or The Spout.

1:00.9

If you are just joining us and you haven't heard part one, you might want to hop back

1:04.8

in the timeline and listen to that one first.

1:07.6

That's where we go over a lot of the basic science of The Blow Hole.

1:11.4

But as I mentioned last time, this is a subject that I was tempted to look into because

1:17.6

there is a whole chapter about The Spout in the classic 19th century American novel

1:24.4

Moby Dick by Herman Melville.

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