In 1967, Joseph Stalin's only daughter,

flees Russia for her new home, America.

Hello, everybody.

I am very happy to be here.

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.

It has KGB agents, a Frank Lloyd Wright commune,

weird sex stuff, three Olga's two Spedlana's,

and one neurotic gay playwright.

That's me.

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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.

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

And into the city of the rails.

There I found a surprising world,

so brutal and beautiful that it changed me,

but the rails do that to everyone.

There is another world out there,

...