Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff
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Aug 16, 2023
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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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Part Four: Lakota Resistance to the American Empire
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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Introducing: We the Unhoused
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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Part Three: Lakota Resistance to the American Empire
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Dec 04, 2023 |
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CZM Book Club: The Plastic People by Tobias Buckell
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Dec 03, 2023 |
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Part Two: Lakota Resistance to the American Empire
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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Part One: Lakota Resistance to the American Empire
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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CZM Rewind: Part Two - Food Not Bombs, The Criminal Mutual Aid Conspiracy
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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CZM Rewind: Part One - Food Not Bombs, The Criminal Mutual Aid Conspiracy
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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CZM Book Club: Handala. The Olive, the Storm, and the Sea by Sonia Suliaman
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Nov 19, 2023 |
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Part Two: Witches & Vampires in Folklore
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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Part One: Witches & Vampires in Folklore
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Nov 13, 2023 |
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CZM Book Club: The Lost Roads by Sim Kern
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Nov 12, 2023 |
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Part Two: Countercuisine: The Counterculture of the Diggers & Food Co-ops
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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Part One: Countercuisine: The Counterculture of the Diggers & Food Co-ops
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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CZM Book Club: Babang Luksa
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Nov 05, 2023 |
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Part Two: The Surprisingly Complicated History of Halloween
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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Part One: The Surprisingly Complicated History of Halloween
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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CZM Book Club: The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion: Part Four
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Oct 29, 2023 |
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Part Four: Rebellion in Patagonia: When the Rural Argentinian Labor Movement Took Over Half the Country
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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Part Three: Rebellion in Patagonia: When the Rural Argentinian Labor Movement Took Over Half the Country
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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CZM Book Club: The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion: Part Three
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Oct 22, 2023 |
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Part Two: Rebellion in Patagonia: When the Rural Argentinian Labor Movement Took Over Half the Country
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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Part One: Rebellion in Patagonia: When the Rural Argentinian Labor Movement Took Over Half the Country
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Oct 16, 2023 |
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CZM Book Club: The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion: Part Two
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Oct 15, 2023 |
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Part Two: Hobohemia & the Dil Pickle Club: Chicago is Weird & Cool
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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Part One: Hobohemia & the Dil Pickle Club: Chicago is Weird & Cool
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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CZM Book Club: The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion: Part One
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Oct 08, 2023 |
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Part Four: The Surrealists Were Even Cooler Than You Thought
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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Part Three: The Surrealists Were Even Cooler Than You Thought
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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CZM Rewind: The Civil War Within the Civil War: How the South Won the War for the Union
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Sep 25, 2023 |
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Part Two: The Surrealists Were Even Cooler Than You Thought
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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Part One: The Surrealists Were Even Cooler Than You Thought
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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Part Two: John Henry Was Real & Also Became Superman
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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Part One: John Henry Was Real & Also Became Superman
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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Part Four: A Tale of Two Snipers: Simo Häyhä, Lyudmila Pavlichenko & the Eastern Front
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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Part Three: A Tale of Two Snipers: Simo Häyhä, Lyudmila Pavlichenko & the Eastern Front
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Sep 04, 2023 |
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Part Two: A Tale of Two Snipers: Simo Häyhä, Lyudmila Pavlichenko & the Eastern Front
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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Part One: A Tale of Two Snipers: Simo Häyhä, Lyudmila Pavlichenko & the Eastern Front
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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Part Two: Sex Work in the American West & the Start of a Labor Movement
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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Part One: Sex Work in the American West & the Start of a Labor Movement
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Aug 21, 2023 |
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Part Two: The Black Panthers & Breakfast
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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Part One: The Black Panthers & Breakfast
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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Part Two: Escape from the Magdalene Laundries: Surviving & Fighting Theocracy in Ireland
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Aug 09, 2023 |
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Part One: Escape from the Magdalene Laundries: Surviving & Fighting Theocracy in Ireland
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Aug 07, 2023 |
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Part Two: Hunger Strikes: From Ireland to Palestine
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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Part One: Hunger Strikes: From Ireland to Palestine
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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Part Two: Before the Mexican Revolution: Ricardo Flores Magón & the Peasants Who Ended a Dictatorship
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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Part One: Before the Mexican Revolution: Ricardo Flores Magón & the Peasants Who Ended a Dictatorship
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Jul 24, 2023 |
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Part Two: The Molly Maguires: Untamable Irish Rebels Who Had a Really Direct Way of Dealing with Bosses & Landlords
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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Part One: The Molly Maguires: Untamable Irish Rebels Who Had a Really Direct Way of Dealing with Bosses & Landlords
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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Part Two: Gama: An Anti-colonial Icon Who Happened to Be History's Greatest Wrestler
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Jul 12, 2023 |
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Part One: Gama: An Anti-colonial Icon Who Happened to Be History's Greatest Wrestler
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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Part Three: STAR & the Gay Liberation Front: An Army of Lovers Cannot Lose
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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Part Two: STAR & the Gay Liberation Front: An Army of Lovers Cannot Lose
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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Part One: STAR & the Gay Liberation Front: An Army of Lovers Cannot Lose
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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Part Two: The Newsies on Strike: Soaking Scabs & Taking Names
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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Part One: The Newsies on Strike: Soaking Scabs & Taking Names
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Jun 19, 2023 |
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Part Two: The Battle of Cable Street: How Jews & Irish Catholics Destroyed Fascism in Britain
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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Part One: The Battle of Cable Street: How Jews & Irish Catholics Destroyed Fascism in Britain
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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Part Two: Resistance to Franco: The Anarchist Air Force, the Antifascist Space Program & More
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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Part One: Resistance to Franco: The Anarchist Air Force, the Antifascist Space Program & More
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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Part Two: Francisco Sabaté: Franco’s Public Enemy #1
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May 31, 2023 |
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Part One: Francisco Sabaté: Franco’s Public Enemy #1
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May 29, 2023 |
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Part Two: Riot Dogs Are Very Good Dogs
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May 24, 2023 |
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Part One: Riot Dogs Are Very Good Dogs
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May 22, 2023 |
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Part Two: Josephine Baker: The Actor and Spy Who Mighta Saved the World
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May 10, 2023 |
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Part One: Josephine Baker: The Actor and Spy Who Mighta Saved the World
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May 08, 2023 |
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Part Two: Muhammad Ali Risked It All to Stop a War
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May 03, 2023 |
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Part One: Muhammad Ali Risked It All to Stop a War
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May 01, 2023 |
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Part Two: Helen Keller Was a Socialist But Also Complicated
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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Part One: Helen Keller Was a Socialist But Also Complicated
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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Part Four: The Young Lords: How Some Puerto Rican Socialists Changed Everything
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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Part Three: The Young Lords: How Some Puerto Rican Socialists Changed Everything
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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Part Two: The Young Lords: How Some Puerto Rican Socialists Changed Everything
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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Part One: The Young Lords: How Some Puerto Rican Socialists Changed Everything
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Apr 10, 2023 |
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Part Two: Burglars vs the FBI: How the Catholic Left & Their Friends Exposed COINTELPRO
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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Part One: Burglars vs the FBI: How the Catholic Left & Their Friends Exposed COINTELPRO
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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Part Two: Great Trancestors of History: Lucy Hicks, Wendy Carlos & Alan Hart
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Mar 29, 2023 |
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Part One: Great Trancestors of History: Lucy Hicks, Wendy Carlos & Alan Hart
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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Part Four: Stonewall: The Criminal Queers Who Birthed a Movement
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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Part Three: Stonewall: The Criminal Queers Who Birthed a Movement
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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Part Two: Stonewall: The Criminal Queers Who Birthed a Movement
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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Part One: Stonewall: The Criminal Queers Who Birthed a Movement
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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Part Two: Judi Bari Didn't Bomb Herself: Earth First! & the Timber Wars
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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Part One: Judi Bari Didn't Bomb Herself: Earth First! & the Timber Wars
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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Part Two: The Golden Age of Pirates & One Great Polycule of History
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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Part One: The Golden Age of Pirates & One Great Polycule of History
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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Part Two: Chico Mendes & the Rubber Tappers Who Fought for the Rainforest
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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Part One: Chico Mendes & the Rubber Tappers Who Fought for the Rainforest
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Feb 20, 2023 |
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Part Two: Ngo Van & Vietnamese Resistance Before the Vietnam War
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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Part One: Ngo Van & Vietnamese Resistance Before the Vietnam War
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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Part Two: The Popular Olympics: Antifascist Athletes Help Stop a Coup
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Feb 08, 2023 |
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Part One: The Popular Olympics: Antifascist Athletes Help Stop a Coup
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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Part Two: Isabelle Eberhardt: The Genderbending Vagabond
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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Part One: Isabelle Eberhardt: The Genderbending Vagabond
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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Part Two: Grace O'Malley: The Pirate Queen of Ireland
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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Part One: Grace O'Malley: The Pirate Queen of Ireland
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Jan 23, 2023 |
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Part Two: Up Against the Wall: New York City's Armed Love Movement
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Jan 18, 2023 |
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Part One: Up Against the Wall: New York City's Armed Love Movement
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Jan 16, 2023 |
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Here's To You, Dear Listeners: 2023 Q&A
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Jan 04, 2023 |
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Part Two: Keep the Yuletide Gay: Saturnalia & the Puritan War on Christmas
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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Part One: Keep the Yuletide Gay: Saturnalia & the Puritan War on Christmas
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Dec 19, 2022 |
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Part Two: The Tramp Printers: Union Vagabonds
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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Part One: The Tramp Printers: Union Vagabonds
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Dec 12, 2022 |
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Part Two: The Armed Nonviolent Civil Rights Movement
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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Part One: The Armed Nonviolent Civil Rights Movement
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Dec 05, 2022 |
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Part Two: Everyone Hates the Klan
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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Part One: Everyone Hates the Klan
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Nov 28, 2022 |
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Thanksgiving Fiction Special: The Thirty-Seven Marble Steps
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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Part Two: Anti-Racist Action: Because Nazi Punks Need To Be Dealt With
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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Part One: Anti-Racist Action: Because Nazi Punks Need To Be Dealt With
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Nov 14, 2022 |
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Part Two: Baba Yaga: Everyone's Favorite Witch From Folklore
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Nov 09, 2022 |
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Part One: Baba Yaga: Everyone's Favorite Witch From Folklore
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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Halloween Fiction Special: It Bleeds, It Burrows, It Breaks the Bone
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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Part Three: Sholem Schwarzbard: The Jewish Assassin Who Ruled
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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Part Two: Sholem Schwarzbard: The Jewish Assassin Who Ruled
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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Part One: Sholem Schwarzbard: The Jewish Assassin Who Ruled
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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Part Two: The Vampires are on Our Side: Antifascism in Film
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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Part One: The Vampires are on Our Side: Antifascism in Film
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Oct 17, 2022 |
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Part Two: Crime Pays: The Sophie Lyons Story
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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Part One: Crime Pays: The Sophie Lyons Story
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Oct 10, 2022 |
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Part Two: The Modern School & Francisco Ferrer: School Shouldn't Be Terrible
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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Part One: The Modern School & Francisco Ferrer: School Shouldn't Be Terrible
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Oct 03, 2022 |
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Part Two: Aqua Tofana: How to Kill Your Husband
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Sep 28, 2022 |
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Part One: Aqua Tofana: How to Kill Your Husband
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Sep 26, 2022 |
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Part Two: The IWW and the Hobos Who Saved Free Speech
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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Part One: The IWW and the Hobos Who Saved Free Speech
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Sep 19, 2022 |
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Part Two: Dutch Squatters Accidentally Save The Country From Ruin
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Sep 14, 2022 |
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Part One: Dutch Squatters Accidentally Save The Country From Ruin
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Sep 12, 2022 |
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Part Two: Chumbawamba: How to Sell Out, But in a Good Way
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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Part One: Chumbawamba: How to Sell Out, But in a Good Way
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Sep 05, 2022 |
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Part Two: Roger Casement: The Gay Irish Anti-Colonial Knight
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Aug 31, 2022 |
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Part One: Roger Casement: The Gay Irish Anti-Colonial Knight
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Aug 29, 2022 |
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Part Two: The Diggers, the Levelers, the Ranters, and John Darnielle
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Aug 24, 2022 |
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Part One: The Diggers, the Levelers, the Ranters, and John Darnielle
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Aug 22, 2022 |
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Part Two: Food Not Bombs, The Criminal Mutual Aid Conspiracy
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Aug 17, 2022 |
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Part One: Food Not Bombs, The Criminal Mutual Aid Conspiracy
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Aug 15, 2022 |
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Part Two: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising & Jewish Resistance to the Holocaust
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Aug 10, 2022 |
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Part One: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising & Jewish Resistance to the Holocaust
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Aug 08, 2022 |
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Part Two: The Japanese Anarchist Women Who Kept Trying to Kill Emperors
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Jul 27, 2022 |
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Part One: The Japanese Anarchist Women Who Kept Trying to Kill Emperors
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Jul 25, 2022 |
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Part Two: Birth Control Pioneers & the Jerk Who Tried to Stop Them
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Jul 20, 2022 |
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Part One: Birth Control Pioneers & the Jerk Who Tried to Stop Them
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Jul 18, 2022 |
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Part Two: How To Break Out of Prison: In Minecraft and Elsewhere
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Jul 13, 2022 |
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Part One: How To Break Out of Prison: In Minecraft and Elsewhere
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Jul 11, 2022 |
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Part Two: Blair Mountain: When Miners Went to Literal War Against Their Bosses
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Jul 06, 2022 |
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Part One: Blair Mountain: When Miners Went to Literal War Against Their Bosses
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Jul 04, 2022 |
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Part Two: When Women Were Computers: A Tale of Space and Math
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Jun 29, 2022 |
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Part One: When Women Were Computers: A Tale of Space and Math
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Jun 27, 2022 |
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Part Two: The Public Universal Friend: A Non-binary Icon in Revolutionary-Era America
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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Part One: The Public Universal Friend: A Non-binary Icon in Revolutionary-Era America
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Jun 20, 2022 |
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Part Two: The Anarchist Revolution in the Spanish Civil War
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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Part One: The Anarchist Revolution in the Spanish Civil War
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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Part Two: Russian Nihilists: The Gender-bending Subculture that Blew Up the Tsar
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Jun 08, 2022 |
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Part One: Russian Nihilists: The Gender-bending Subculture that Blew Up the Tsar
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Jun 06, 2022 |
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Part Two: Gay Resistance to Nazis
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Jun 01, 2022 |
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Part One: Gay Resistance to Nazis
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May 30, 2022 |
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Part Two: The Paris Commune: How to Steal Back Your Own City
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May 25, 2022 |
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Part One: The Paris Commune: How to Steal Back Your Own City
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May 23, 2022 |
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Part Two: The Civil War Within the Civil War: How the South Won the War for the Union
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May 18, 2022 |
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Part One: The Civil War Within the Civil War: How the South Won the War for the Union
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May 16, 2022 |
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Part Two: The Jane Collective: Direct Action Abortion Access Works
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May 11, 2022 |
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Part One: The Jane Collective: Direct Action Abortion Access Works
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May 09, 2022 |
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Part Two: The Haymarket Affair: The Bomb & the Eight-Hour Workday
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May 04, 2022 |
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Part One: The Haymarket Affair: The Bomb & the Eight-Hour Workday
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May 02, 2022 |
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Introducing: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff
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Apr 22, 2022 |