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

I'm Denelle 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 iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Or cityoftherails.com.

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.

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

Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of iHeartRadio.

Hey and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh, there's Chuck, Jerry's here, barely, and this is Stuff You Should Know.

Well, we should explain what that means. It's very ambiguous and strange, though.

Should we, though?

Jerry had a poor internet connection, and was a few minutes late. That's it. She's barely here.

Mystery sound, joke, it feels, feels tenuous, too.

That she's just barely hanging on by her fingernails?

Well, no, I think I don't know that internet connection to sound a dodgy.

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