On the new podcast, The Turning, Room of Mirrors, we look beneath the delicate veneer of American ballet

and the culture formed by its most influential figure, George Balonstein.

He used to say,

What are you looking at, dear? You can't see you, only I can see you.

What you're doing is larger than yourself, almost like a religion.

Like, he was a god.

Listen to The Turning, Room of Mirrors on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

The war on drugs is the excuse our government uses to get away with absolutely insane stuff.

Stuff that'll piss you off.

The cops, why are they just like, looting?

They're just like pillaging.

They just have way better names for what they call, like what we would call a jack move or being robbed.

He calls civil as it were.

Be sure to listen to The War on Drugs on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

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-car.

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, and if you want to play with the devil, you're gonna find them there in the Rails yard.

Undenail Morton. Come with me to find out what waits for us and the City of the Rails.

Listen to City of the Rails on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

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