217 episodes
Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff Cool Zone Media
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3.6 • 7 Ratings
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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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May Day Rerun Part Two: The Haymarket Affair: The Bomb & the Eight-Hour Workday
Margaret's taking a week off post mouth surgery and wants to celebrate May Day! Here's a throwback to the first episode where Margaret sat down with journalist and podcast host Robert Evans to talk about the anarchists who were hanged in Chicago in the 1860s for fighting for the rights of the working class.
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May Day Rerun Part One: The Haymarket Affair: The Bomb & the Eight-Hour Workday
Margaret's taking a week off post mouth surgery and wants to celebrate May Day! Here's a throwback to the first episode where Margaret sat down with journalist and podcast host Robert Evans to talk about the anarchists who were hanged in Chicago in the 1860s for fighting for the rights of the working class.
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CZM Book Club: "The Fortunate Death of Jonathan Sandelson" by Margaret Killjoy, Part One
Margaret reads Danl a story about hackers using drones to disrupt for-profit incarceration.
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Part Six: Kronstadt and the People Who Tried to Save the Russian Revolution
In the SIXTH part of this longest-series-ever, Margaret finally gets to Kronstadt with Mia Wong and talks about at least four Russian revolutions and general strikes, workers councils, and rebellions that tried to keep them on course.
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Part Five: Kronstadt and the People Who Tried to Save the Russian Revolution
In part five (can you believe it?), Margaret continues to talk with Mia Wong about at least four Russian revolutions and general strikes, workers councils, and rebellions that tried to keep them on course.
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Part Four: Kronstadt and the People Who Tried to Save the Russian Revolution
In part four, Margaret continues to talk with Mia Wong about at least four Russian revolutions and general strikes, workers councils, and rebellions that tried to keep them on course.
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Customer Reviews
Superficial and shoddy research
Honestly, it’s very hard to listen to entitled people who don’t actually understand their topics discussing things without bothering to do their research. Hard pass.
Disappointing Waste of Time
I really wanted to like this podcast.
I had a look at their topics - all of them seemed really interesting, I couldn’t wait to sit down and listen to an episode or two.
About 40 mins into the episode about COINTELPRO I just had to stop. I genuinely couldn’t listen anymore. I actually unsubscribed right afterwards. The podcast was like they gathered all the things that make a podcast bad and used it as a framework.
- Too much off topic conversations. I’m all for banter and the conversational approach but the podcast makes you feel like your on the bus just listening in on people talk between themselves. Way too many in jokes and drawn out laughter over nothing. I had to skip ahead several times to actually hear some of the topic of the episode.
- The general tone of the hosts comes across as smug and almost dismissive. Couple this with all the off topic chatter and it’s like “why are you doing a podcast if you actually don’t care about it?”
- Vocal fry. Male, female, everyone: vocal fry sounds bad. I can understand it’s unavoidable in a long episode because people get tired, but here, it is just too grating.
Anyway, the show looked like it had great potential. The topics look excellent. Maybe get some new hosts that actually want to talk to their audience and not just each other.
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