Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff
As long as there’s been oppression, there’ve been people fighting it. This weekly podcast dives into history to drag up the wildest rebels, the most beautiful revolts, and all the people who long to be—and fight to be—free. It explores complex stories of resistance that offer lessons and inspiration for us today, focusing on the ensemble casts that make up each act of history. That is to say, this podcast focuses on Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff.
Episodes
Margaret talks to Dana El Kurd about Diogenes, the founder of the Cynics, who was kind of an edgelord and lived in a jar.
Sources:
The Dangerous Life and Ideas of Diogenes the Cynic, Jean-Manuel Roubineau
How to Say No: An Ancient Guide to the Cynicism, Diogenes (edited by MD Usher)
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-16916263
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_Greece
https://www.historyskills.com/classroom/ancient-history/ancie...
Who says ecoterrorism is bad? In fantasy games?
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In part two, Margaret talks with Robert Evans one more time about the English rebels who threw on dresses, declared a fake person their leader, and set about fighting the Industrial Revolution.
Original Air Date: 3.20.2024
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Margaret talks with Robert Evans about the English rebels who threw on dresses, declared a fake person their leader, and set about fighting the Industrial Revolution.
Original Air Date: 3.18.24
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There's nothing left to do but track these cultists to the source.
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Margaret continues her talk with Jamie Loftus about Shawnee resistance to the American colonialism and a woman who led them in battle.
Sources:
https://colonialquills.blogspot.com/2017/07/revolutionary-mothers-nonhelema-of.html
https://kentucky-museum.org/nonhelema-hokolesqua/
https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-345-44554-4
https://sundownohio.substack.com/p/the-gnadenhutten-massacre
https://newreligiousmovements.org/b/bohemian-...
Margaret talks to Jamie Loftus about Shawnee resistance to the American colonialism and a woman who led them in battle
Sources:
https://colonialquills.blogspot.com/2017/07/revolutionary-mothers-nonhelema-of.html
https://kentucky-museum.org/nonhelema-hokolesqua/
https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-345-44554-4
https://sundownohio.substack.com/p/the-gnadenhutten-massacre
https://newreligiousmovements.org/b/bohemian-adamites/
https:...
More mighty beasts assail our brave antiheroes!
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Margaret continues her talk with Hazel about how the Romans were stopped from conquering Germania and how a bunch of terrible people are excited about it.
Sources:
https://www.thecollector.com/teutonic-meaning/
https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/world-population-by-year/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-ambush-that-changed-history-72636736/?c=y&page=3
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news...
Margaret talks with Hazel about how the Romans were stopped from conquering Germania and how a bunch of terrible people are excited about it.
Sources:
https://www.thecollector.com/teutonic-meaning/
https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/world-population-by-year/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-ambush-that-changed-history-72636736/?c=y&page=3
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-excavati...
All is not well in Bogbottom...
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Margaret continues talking with Io about the Iceni revolt of 61 AD that almost drove Rome out of Britain.
Sources:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4434717
https://ul.qucosa.de/api/qucosa%3A31804/attachment/ATT-0/
https://web.archive.org/web/20120612044230/http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba83/feat3.shtml
https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cassius_Dio/62*.html#2
https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3...
Margaret talks with Io about the Iceni revolt of 61 AD that almost drove Rome out of Britain.
Sources:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4434717
https://ul.qucosa.de/api/qucosa%3A31804/attachment/ATT-0/
https://web.archive.org/web/20120612044230/http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba83/feat3.shtml
https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cassius_Dio/62*.html#2
https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.007...
Can our heroes best the mighty beasts who await them in the swamps? Who will Trant throw a bomb at?
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Margaret continues her talk with to Gabriel Dunn about the gender deviants of the ancient world and how basically nothing ever changes.
Sources:
https://arkeonews.net/getting-to-know-matar-kubilea/
https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/56909/what-is-the-difference-between-galli-and-metragyrtai
http://www.thehypertexts.com/Epigram%20History%20and%20Examples.htm
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/boadicea/
https://s3.amazonaws.com...
Margaret talks to Gabriel Dunn about the gender deviants of the ancient world and how basically nothing ever changes.
Sources
https://arkeonews.net/getting-to-know-matar-kubilea/
https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/56909/what-is-the-difference-between-galli-and-metragyrtai
http://www.thehypertexts.com/Epigram%20History%20and%20Examples.htm
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/boadicea/
https://s3.amazonaws.com/arena-attachments/...
Margaret continues her talk with Sophie about the philosophers of the celts.
Sources:
https://irishfolklore.wordpress.com/2017/03/13/blacksmiths-and-the-supernatural/
https://folklorethursday.com/folklore-of-archaeology/ferrous-friend-foe-iron-became-enemy-fairy-folk/
https://www.thearchaeologist.org/blog/28y8zwazfxaq2tsb933b54wf0slfcj
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/05/02/woodhenge-is-just-as-fascinating-and-mysterious-a...
Margaret talks to Sophie about the philosophers of the celts.
Sources:
https://irishfolklore.wordpress.com/2017/03/13/blacksmiths-and-the-supernatural/
https://folklorethursday.com/folklore-of-archaeology/ferrous-friend-foe-iron-became-enemy-fairy-folk/
https://www.thearchaeologist.org/blog/28y8zwazfxaq2tsb933b54wf0slfcj
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/05/02/woodhenge-is-just-as-fascinating-and-mysterious-as-its-famous-ne...
Margaret reads you a haunted house story about real estate desirability.
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Margaret talks to you about the history of suicide prevention hotlines and the complications of state intervention in emergency mental health care.
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