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Stuff To Blow Your Mind

Antimetaboles: Sometimes You Eat the Bear

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

iHeartPodcasts

Social Sciences, Life Sciences, Natural Sciences, Science

4.36K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Friedrich Nietzsche once observed that if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. That’s an antimetabole, a transposed repetition of words in successive clauses. It’s an ABBA configuration that seems to resonate with meaning, but why? In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe gaze into the linguistic abyss once more.

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0:00.0

When my daughter ran off to hop trains, I was terrified I'd never see her again, so I followed her into the train yard.

0:10.0

This is what it sounds like inside the box-top.

0:13.0

And into the city of the rails, there I found a surprising world, so brutal and beautiful that it changed me.

0:20.0

But the rails do that to everyone.

0:23.0

There is another world out there, and if you want to play with the devil, you're gonna find them there in the rail yard.

0:28.0

I'm Denelle Morton, come with me to find out what waits for us and the city of the rails.

0:33.0

Listen to City of the Rails, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:38.0

Or cityoftherails.com.

0:41.0

In 1967, Joseph Stalin's only daughter, flees Russia for her new home, America.

0:47.0

Hello, everybody. I am very happy to be here.

0:52.0

That story alone is worthy of a podcast, but Spedlana's Spedlana is about what comes next, and it's the craziest story I've ever heard.

1:01.0

It has KGB agents, a Frank Lloyd Wright commune, weird sex stuff, three Olga's two Spedlana's and one neurotic gay playwright.

1:09.0

That's me.

1:10.0

Listen to Spedlana's Spedlana on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts.

1:16.0

I'm Jason Alexander, and I'm Peter Tobin. We know you've been pining for a brand new podcast hosted by a beloved television icon.

1:22.0

And largely unknown talk radio hosts.

1:25.0

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I wrote that.

1:26.0

Pine no more, because we're the hosts of really no really.

1:29.0

The funny informative show that seeks the answers to things that make us say, really?

1:33.0

No, really? You'll lay off your learn and we'll get paid.

1:35.0

That's really no really with Jason Alexander and Peter Tilden on the iHeartRadio app, on Apple Podcasts, or where you get your podcasts.

1:42.0

And anybody who uses the word pining, let me know, because I don't think it's very, very common.

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