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Stuff To Blow Your Mind

Listener Mail: Holiday Beasts

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

iHeartPodcasts

Social Sciences, Science, Life Sciences, Natural Sciences

4.36K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In this batch of Stuff to Blow Your Mind listener mail, Robert and Joe catch up on Jim e-mails, Krampus talk and Leshy feedback.

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0:00.0

In 1967, Joseph Stalin's only daughter,

0:03.5

flees Russia for her new home, America.

0:06.6

Hello, everybody.

0:08.1

I am very happy to be here.

0:10.9

That story alone is worthy of a podcast,

0:13.6

but Spedlana's Spedlana is about what comes next,

0:16.9

and it's the craziest story I've ever heard.

0:19.9

It has KGB agents, a Frank Lloyd Wright commune,

0:23.1

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

0:26.0

and one neurotic gay playwright.

0:27.8

That's me.

0:28.6

Listen to Spedlana's Spedlana on the I Heart Radio app,

0:32.2

Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:35.4

Back in 1999, a young woman from South Carolina vanished.

0:40.0

Seven years passed, she was presumed dead.

0:43.7

Then a tip came in.

0:45.7

He said, I think I found your girl, and she's alive.

0:48.3

She's in New York.

0:50.0

And I said, really?

0:51.9

The detective on the case, he didn't buy it.

0:54.7

He came to believe that he was dealing with an imposter.

0:57.7

Who was this woman?

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