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– Hey, you guys ever notice how every episode just starts with us running and finding something? – Hold that thought, Tanner! I think I found something. – [Calamity] A cannon? – Well get in, big guy. (fuse hissing) What? Who put Fish Stick in charge of the matches? – Woohoo! – This is it, guys. The treasure we've been searching for all these years. – Oops! Ouch, aw! Sorry! – Hey, wow, check it out, skins! – Look at all this treasure! We just became the richest people in the world! – Good idea, Fish Stick, let's keep moving. […]

Hello young people. The Columbia River Basalt, near Quincy, Washington. We're at Quincy, Washington but we could pick any spot between Spokane, Washington and Seaside, Oregon to do this show. These brown layers of basalt are everywhere in the places where the Ice Age Floods did massive amounts of erosion thousands of years ago. There's more than 300 layers of basalt here. 300 separate volcanic eruptions and the stack of basalt is more than two miles thick in places. The lavas started erupting 17 million years ago. And flooded a landscape, buried a landscape in lava. The obvious question is […]

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Hey Squeaks, did you know that while you were asleep last night, a volcano off the coast of Italy was wide awake? The Stromboli volcano has been awake for at least the last 2,000 years! That means it’s been erupting for longer than any other volcano. Stromboli’s eruptions happen really often, practically non-stop! At night, its glowing light-shows have reminded some people of a giant lighthouse. [Squeaks squeaks] That’s a really good question! How does a volcano like Stromboli form in the first place? Deep inside the Earth — and I’m talking waaaaay deeper than our fort goes — it’s […]