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Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts

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.

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2:51

Introducing: Away Days Podcast

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff ·

2025/05/22

Hi, Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff Fans! We want to share a new show, Away Days: Reporting from the Underbelly. About the show: Away Days Podcast is an episodic documentary series focused on unreported stories from the fringes of society.We’re compassionately documenting the underground without watering it down or editorially obscuring it. This is independent journalism with no filter.Real, raw, and ugly. Journalist Jake Hanrahan, the host and creator of Away Days has spent the last 10 years

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49:19

Part Two: Habeas Corpus and the Peasant Origins of...

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff ·

2025/05/21

Margaret continues talking with Kat Abughazaleh about the folk councils that came to define English Common Law.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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44:04

Part One: Habeus Corpus and the Peasant Origins of...

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff ·

2025/05/19

Margaret talks with Kat Abughazaleh about the folk councils that came to define English Common Law.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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57:58

Part Two: How We Beat Polio But Not the Mythmaking...

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff ·

2025/05/14

Margaret talks with Anney Reese about how a group of people made polio vaccines and ended polio but how one guy took all the credit and ruined our understanding of history.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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55:56

Part One: How We Beat Polio But Not the Mythmaking...

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff ·

2025/05/12

Margaret talks with Anney Reese about how a group of people made polio vaccines and ended polio but how one guy took all the credit and ruined our understanding of history.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

en-US

47:26

Part Two: International Antifascists in Ukraine: the...

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff ·

2025/05/07

Margaret continues talking with Ron Placone about three antifascists who died protecting a humanitarian corridor--and one would-be antifascist who died on the other side of the war.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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54:32

Part One: International Antifascists in Ukraine: the...

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff ·

2025/05/05

Margaret talks with Ron Placone about three antifascists who died protecting a humanitarian corridor--and one would-be antifascist who died on the other side of the war.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

en-US

64:48

Part Two: A War Against Tankies and Tanks: the...

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff ·

2025/04/30

Margaret continues talking with Mia Wong about the communists and socialists who fought for workers’ power against the USSR.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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64:40

Part One: A War Against Tankies and Tanks: the...

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff ·

2025/04/28

Margaret talks with Mia Wong about the communists and socialists who fought for workers’ power against the USSR.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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20:04

CZM Book Club: The Barrow Will Send What it May,...

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff ·

2025/04/27

Margaret reads chapter six of her book, The Barrow Will Send What it May.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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54:41

Part Two: Women of War: Partisan Struggle Against...

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff ·

2025/04/23

Author Suzanne Cope continues teaching Margaret about the history of women partisans in the Italian resistance, from her upcoming book Women of War.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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47:45

Part One: Women of War: Partisan Struggle Against...

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff ·

2025/04/21

Author Suzanne Cope teaches Margaret about the history of women partisans in the Italian resistance, from her upcoming book Women of War.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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53:02

Part Two: Black Antifascists In the Spanish Civil War

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff ·

2025/04/16

Jordan from The Dugout continues teaching Margaret about the long history of Black antifascism that brought people to fight in the Spanish Civil War. James Yates, Mississippi to MadridSalaria Kea, “Doing Christ’s Duty”Canute Frankson’s letter from Spain (1937)“The Good Fight” (Documentary)Peter N. Carroll, The Odyssey of the Abraham Lincoln BrigadeALBA-Valb.org archivesTrussel.com, “The Peekskill Riots”National Archives & Harlem Oral History

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61:45

Part One: Black Antifascists In the Spanish Civil War

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff ·

2025/04/14

Jordan from The Dugout teaches Margaret about the long history of Black antifascism that brought people to fight in the Spanish Civil War. James Yates, Mississippi to MadridSalaria Kea, “Doing Christ’s Duty”Canute Frankson’s letter from Spain (1937)“The Good Fight” (Documentary)Peter N. Carroll, The Odyssey of the Abraham Lincoln BrigadeALBA-Valb.org archivesTrussel.com, “The Peekskill Riots”National Archives & Harlem Oral History

en-US

25:50

CZM Book Club: The Barrow Will Send What it May,...

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff ·

2025/04/13

Margaret reads another chapter from the second book in her Danielle Cain series.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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71:02

Part Two: A Madhouse Against the Nazis: the Story of...

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff ·

2025/04/09

Margaret continues talking with Allison Raskin about the antifascist asylum in France that armed partisans and reinvented psychiatry.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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70:16

Part One: A Madhouse Against the Nazis: the Story of...

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff ·

2025/04/07

Margaret talks with Allison Raskin about the antifascist asylum in France that armed partisans and reinvented psychiatry.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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54:54

CZM Book Club: Escape, part two

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff ·

2025/04/06

Margaret reads the second half of an anonymously authored speculative fiction story about what people could do if large scale roundups began, and discusses it with an anarchist technology enthusiast.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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62:03

Part Two: Samizdat: How to Self-Publish During a...

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff ·

2025/04/02

Margaret continues talking to Katy Stoll about how the Soviet people evaded censors and kept poetry, literature, and political critique alive. The Material Existence of Soviet Samizdat, Ann Komaromihttps://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/04/books/04solzhenitsyn.html HG Skilling, Samizdat and an Indepedent Society in Central and Eastern Europe https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/nikolai-gumilev https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/anna-akhmatova https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/osip-mandelstam

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46:51

Part One: Samizdat: How to Self-Publish During a...

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff ·

2025/03/31

Margaret talks to Katy Stoll about how the Soviet people evaded censors and kept poetry, literature, and political critique alive. The Material Existence of Soviet Samizdat, Ann Komaromihttps://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/04/books/04solzhenitsyn.html HG Skilling, Samizdat and an Indepedent Society in Central and Eastern Europe https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/nikolai-gumilev https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/anna-akhmatova https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/osip-mandelstam

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