From the Vault: Whispers of the Speaking Sword

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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Social Sciences, Science, Life Sciences, Natural Sciences

4.3 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Weapons capable of thought, speech and autonomous action appear throughout multiple myths and legends. In this classic episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe explore some stand-out examples and discuss what it all might mean. (originally published 7/29/2021)

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Ophira Eisenberg.
0:03.4	I'm a comedian and a parent.
0:06.1	Uh, the absurdity of telling jokes late at night and then waking up early with a small
0:12.3	child in the morning.
0:13.9	I have a new podcast called Parenting Is a Joke.
0:17.0	I'll talk to other funny people who are also parents.
0:20.5	Will we be laughing?
0:21.9	Will we be crying?
0:23.6	Find out by listening to Parenting Is a Joke.
0:26.2	Find the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:31.2	I'm Dana Schwartz, host of Stealing Superman, a new iHeart original podcast about the most
0:38.4	unlikely art heist of all time.
0:41.4	It was Nick Cage's own personal, national treasure.
0:45.6	At a 1999 New Year's Eve party, someone snatched Cage's priceless comics.
0:53.3	Who?
0:57.3	Listen to Stealing Superman on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you find
0:59.9	your favorite shows.
1:01.3	The world of chocolate has been turned upside down.
1:03.5	A very unusual situation.
1:04.9	You saw this tax of cash in our office.
1:07.4	Chocolate comes from the cacao tree and recently, Variety's cacao, thought to have been lost
1:11.1	centuries ago, were rediscovered in the Amazon.
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