Because It Is My Heart, Part 1
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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🗓️ 10 February 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Join Robert and Joe in this classic episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind as they discuss heart removal rituals, supernatural concepts of the heart and the European tradition of heart burial. (originally published 02/14/2023)
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:10.0 | Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. |
| 0:12.4 | My name is Robert Lamb. |
| 0:13.6 | And I am Joe McCormick. |
| 0:15.6 | And it's Saturday. |
| 0:16.6 | Time for a Vault episode. |
| 0:18.7 | This originally aired February 14th, 20203, and it's called Because It Is My Heart Part One. This is the first part of a series we did about heart removal and heart burial and such concepts. Yeah, because it's that time of year, you know, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's a ponice. So get in there and enjoy this heart-related content. |
| 0:40.1 | Let's jump right in. In the desert, I saw a creature, naked, bestial, who squatting upon the ground, held his heart in his hands, and ate of it. I said, is it good friend? |
| 0:55.2 | It is bitter, bitter, he answered. |
| 0:59.4 | But I like it, because it is bitter, |
| 1:02.9 | and because it is my heart. |
| 1:08.4 | Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, |
| 1:10.5 | a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 1:19.0 | Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. |
| 1:21.3 | My name is Robert Lamb, and I'm Joe McCormick. |
| 1:24.1 | And that, of course, is the poem in the desert by Stephen Crane, a poem that |
| 1:29.6 | I've long found nice and creepy and thought-provoking. I think a lot of it depends on which |
| 1:37.1 | word in the last sentence you emphasize. Does he like it because it is my heart or because it is my |
| 1:43.3 | heart? Yeah, there are several ways to piece it apart there. |
| 1:49.5 | But it's also the perfect poem for Valentine's Day. |
| 1:53.0 | Today is Valentine's Day. |
| 1:54.0 | I don't know if anyone has ever taken in the desert and transformed it into a Valentine, |
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