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Geology (ROCKS) Part 2 is up! Let's discuss. (Patreon)

Published:
2022-09-22 00:42:00
Imported:
2026-06

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Do you have a favorite rock now? A favorite rock pun? Are you sorting gravel from your driveway? Do you look at road cuts differently? 

Part 2 with the beloved Schmitty Thompson is up and it's all of your questions. I said so many names -- I hope I pronounced yours right. 

We are back in the swing of things and doing TONS of interviews in the next few weeks -- so keep an eye on your inbox or this page to submit your wonderful questions. 

Thou dost rock,

Your Internet Ladydad 

Files

Geology (ROCKS) Pts. 1 & 2 with Schmitty Thompson - alie ward

What is a rock? How big is a boulder? Why are they pretty and heavy? It's rock talk with a true enthusiast, the charming and beloved Geologist Schmitty Thompson. Schmitty walks us through different types of rocks, minerals, geological formations, roadside wonders, countertop crystals, stone skipping

Comments

Emmett M Wald

I cackled about roadcuts and immediately texted my geologist parents, who were like “omg yes roadcuts! 😍” except not in millennial speak.

Kate Tildes

All of them. But some of my favorites are amethyst, obsidian, selenite. But I sometimes see a shiny rock in a driveway and decide it has to be mine.

bee

I thought all of the puns were absolutely marbleous.

Scott Sheldon

Between vinyl and natural…countertops. I’d rather have a vinyl countertop than granite (specifically). I’d choose quartz cause it’s so hard than granite. But money…vinyl vs natural. I’d choose fossil fuel end result than fossil fuels for worthless usage

Emily Krieger

i loved all this rock talk, thank you! my family used to collect rocks from a river in West Virginia that are black and very smooth and sometimes perfectly round and sometimes have cracks running through them. We called them thunder eggs but after listening to your app today I realized they're not the thunder eggs that everyone else refers to. So what do I have? Some kinda iron ore?

Emily Krieger

dang i thought i could post a pic sorry 😆

Emily Krieger

also i got a shout out this ep, thanks!!

Anna Thompson

I listened to part one while driving around Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park. I don't think I can top that while listening to part 2!

Kyla C (KAI-luh, rhymes with Myra or Lyla)

noo I missed the opportunity to ask them if they have watched Steven universe (with famously nonbinary characters named after rocks!) and what their favorite character is. but alas, this was excellent and I learned so much :)

Trevor Doty

Ok here we go internet Ladydad! My favorite rock must be obsidian, you can’t take your schist for granite, and you’re in deep schist now because you’ve got to come up with so many questions. You’re Pebbably gonna be fine though, I’m sure things will begin to crystallize, but if they don’t it’s not your FAULT!

One Dova

It's kind of sad that I finally got to the last episode... Well, I skipped the encore episodes because I binged all the episodes this year and Last year. It's been wonderful listening to your podcasts

One Dova

P.S. it literally takes a year and a half to listen to all your episodes. Like 3 or 4 of your posdcasts a day. Minus breaks, it's just crazy how many topics you did and you only scratched tue surface!

Diane Heise

I can’t drive past a rock cut on the highway without wanting to pull over and look. And in Kentucky there are a lot of rock cuts. I showed my granddaughter your pictures of Lake MacDonald and now she has a map and her tablet determining the best route there.

Amanda McClendon

Oooh my name got read out loud (I asked if ice was a rock) and I did a double take while I was driving! I wasn't a first-time question asker at that point but it was the first time my question made it to air! :) This was a great episode and I learned so much about rocks for the first time since high school.

Reiley Allison

Awesome info:) can't wait for a geomorphology episode. One of my areas of research currently:)

Lee Wang

As someone who took a Rocks for Jocks class as an undergrad (big caveat being that I am pretty far from being a jock), I'm pretty sure the term was meant to suggest that the class is an easy A.

TheMushy

I like rocks

Somerset Francis

I love you both so much, also when Schmitty said about whipping out their gneiss whenever they said something was nice I shouted OH MY GOD aloud in my car A* episode👌🏽

Scott Hanley

Love rocks and heard that tag #rocksforjocks when I took Geology 101 at Indiana University in 1989. The professor in a huge lecture hall even called upon one of the basketball stars in the class and suggested he go see active volcanic activity when on the teams trip to Hawaii for a tournament. Sorry I doubted you Dadward and didn’t check my fact first about how many Great Lakes touch Wisconsin. Feeling ashamed I posted that doubt in error.

Brittany Shafis

They were so awesome! I loved this episode.

Jesse Usko - they them

Just here to say I am now a GIANT Schmitty stan, you are a baller human being ♡ Being a human who grew up exploring Northern WI and the U.P. I had a lot of big nostalgic feels too!!! Hecking love you Schmitty!

Laura Cunitz

I loved these episodes with Schmitt. They felt like a Casey Clapp moment, where the guest is so fantastic they should have their own podcast. Completely Arbortrary is my other favorite podcast and I beg Schmitty to consider science education as an option for their future. You definitely rock!

Leslie Feldman

Listening to part 1 now and am fondly remembering the song I wrote in 8th grade (it was an in class group assignment) about the rock cycle. I’d sing it for y’all if you want to time travel back to 2004. It was to a nursery rhyme kind of tune that I don’t know the name of and probably derived from colonial America because it contains the derogatory term for indigenous peoples:

Leslie Feldman

Do you want to learn about rocks? Or something called the rock cycle? There are three different types of rocks, listen and we’ll tell you. Those three different types of rocks they all have different names. They are sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic. Igneous rock comes from magma, cooled down and then hardened to rock. Weathered and eroded into sediments, compacted and cemented. Then you have sedimentary rocks they undergone intense heat and pressure. Their mineral crystal forms changes and then you have metamorphic. Then that metamorphic rock can melt and then become magma. It will cool and become igneous; that’s why it’s called a cycle!

Kinkaid Designs

Just listened to these again. I love them.