The Nutcracker

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, Life Sciences, Science

4.4 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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The decorative holiday nutcracker has become a staple of holiday decor and it also constitutes a specialized tool, so in this Christmas themed invention episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe discuss the gadget’s European history, its analogs in other cultures and the general history of humans and other animals cracking nuts.

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0:00.0	Walter Isakson set out to write about a world-changing genius in Elon Musk and found a man addicted to chaos and conspiracy.
0:07.0	I'm thinking it's idiotic to buy Twitter because he doesn't have a fingertip feel for social emotional networks.
0:13.4	The book launched a thousand hot takes,
0:15.3	so I sat down with Isakson to try to get past the noise.
0:18.0	I like the fact that people who say I'm not as tough on Musk
0:21.4	as I should be are always using anecdotes for my book to show why we should be tough on Musk.
0:27.0	Join me, Evan Ratliff, for On Musk with Walter Isickson.
0:30.0	Listen on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:36.0	Tune in to the new podcast, Stories from the Village of Nothing Much.
0:40.0	Like Easy Listening, but for fiction.
0:43.9	If you've overdosed on bad news, we invite you into a world where the glimmers of goodness
0:49.3	in everyday life are all around you.
0:52.0	I'm Catherine Nikolai, and I'm an architect of Cozy.
0:55.4	Come spend some time where everyone is welcome and the default is kindness.
0:59.7	Listen, relax, enjoy. Listen to stories from the Village of Nothing Much on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts,
1:08.0	or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:11.0	Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of I Heart Radio.
1:17.0	Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lamb. And I am Joe McCormick and ooh, I can almost smell hot cocoa and peppermint because the Christmas spirit is alive today.
1:36.0	We're doing our holiday episode and we're going to be talking about the Nutcracker as promised
1:41.0	in the last episode.
1:42.0	That's right on Tuesday we discuss the rat king and of course how that relates to the mouse king, the enemy of the nutcracker from the original source material for Tchaikovsky's 1892 ballet.
1:54.7	We talked about this.
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