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Ted and Woody are back together to bring you a brand new podcast from Team Coco! Itâs called âWhere Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (Sometimes)" and itâs out right now! Theyâre talking to guests like Conan OâBrien, Will Arnett, Jane Fonda, Billy Eichner, Kristen Bell, and so many more. Head over to âWhere Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (Sometimes)" to subscribe and listen now!
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Are we, in fact, living in a time of revolution? What it means and what you can do about it, according to one of MITâs greatest thinkers.
Power and Progress: Our 1,000-Year Struggle Over Technology & Prosperity
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A man who looms as large as Karl Marx needed multiple Significant Others (although when it came to wives, he only had one).
Starring Ted Danson as Karl Marx, Maddie Ogden as Jenny von Westphalen, and Patton Oswalt as Friedrich Engels.
Also featuring Katie Sharer and Matt OâBrien.
Source List:
Love and Captial: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution by Mary Gabriel, ©2011, Hachette Book Group
Engels by Terrell Carver, ©2011, Oxford University Press
Revolutions Podcast, Season 10
Reason.org, Donât Blame Karl Marx for âCultural Marxismâ
The Washington Post, âLove and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution,â by Mary Gabriel
National Library of Medicine, Friedrich Engels: Businessman and Revolutionary
Britannica, Young Hegelians
CCSNA.org, Duke of Argyll
Marxist.org, Yearning: A Romance, The Holy Family or Critique of Critical Criticism, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte. Karl Marx 1852
History.com, Paris Commune of 1871
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What is a fan to do with unsavory intel on their idol? Is it possible to separate the art from the artist? Should we even try?
Claireâs book, Monsters: A Fanâs Dilemma is out now.
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Lover and muse to multiple artists, Gala notoriously spit on people she didnât likeâor worse. Her marriage to the renowned artist Salvador DalĂ was as surreal as his paintings, which he signed with both of their names even though she never held a brush.
Starring Laura Ramoso as Gala DalĂ and JosĂ© Arroyo as Salvador DalĂ
Also featuring Stephen K. Amos, Nigel Daly, Neve OâBrien, and Tavis Doucette
Source List:
MUSE: Uncovering the Hidden Figures Behind Art Historyâs Masterpieces by Ruth Millington, ©2022, Pegasus Books, Ltd.
The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women & the Artists They Inspired by Francine Prose, ©2002, Harper Collins E-books
The Secret Life of Salvador Dali by Salvador Dali, Trans. By Haakom M. Chevalier, ©1993, Dover Publications
Biography.com, The Surreal Romance of Salvador and Gala DalĂ
The Paris Review, When Your Muse is Also a Demonic Dominatrix
The Art Story, Gala DalĂ: Russian-Spanish Art Patron and Muse
Wikipedia, Gala DalĂ
Fahrenheit Magazine, Anna MarĂa and Salvador DalĂ, Different Paths for the Same Blood
The DalĂ Org, Gala DalĂ
Poetry Foundation, Paul Ăluard
The Art Story, Salvador DalĂ
Briannica, Salvador DalĂ
El PaĂs, DalĂ and Lorcaâs Games of Seduction
Gazette du Bon Ton, The Surreal Life of Salvador DalĂ
Art Hive, Love Story in Pictures: Salvador DalĂ and Gala
Time, Salvador DalĂ
The New York Times, Gala DalĂâs Life Wasnât Quite Surreal, but It Was Pretty Strange
Yang Gallery, DalĂ & Gala: The Love Story
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Sandra Newman was given one assignment by the Orwell Estate: Re-write 1984 from the point of view of the character Julia.
Julia: A Retelling of George Orwellâs 1984
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George Orwell has never been accused of being a feminist. And yet his wife Eileen left her mark on his most important works.
Starring Sally Drexler as Eileen Blair and Nigel Daly as George Orwell
Also featuring: Ben Partridge, Luke Millington-Drake, Thom Wickes, Amelia Chappelow, and Colin Anderson.
Source List:
Eileen: The Making of George Orwell by Sylvia Topp, © 2020
Wifedom: Mrs. Orwellâs Invisible Life by Anna Funder, © 2023
Orwell: The Life by D.J. Taylor, © 2003, Published 2015 by Open Road Integrated Media
Orwell: The New Life by D.J. Taylor, © 2023, Published by Pegasus Books, Ltd
1984 & Coming Up For Air by George Orwell, © 2021 by True Sign
1984 & Animal Farm by George Orwell, © 2022, Sanage Publishing
The Guardian, Looking for Eileen: how George Orwell wrote his wife out of his story
The New York Times, One Biography Questions Orwellâs Image, and Another Brings His First Wife Into Focus
New Humanist, Eric, Eileen and Norah
The American Scholar, Down and Out
The Guardian, Orwell by DJ Taylor Review - A Very English Socialist
The Orwell Foundation, Remembering Eileen: An Interview with George Orwellâs Son, Richard Blair
The New York Times, How âOrwellianâ Became an All-Purpose Insult
Online Etymology Dictionary, Orwellian
The Sydney Morning Herald, The Mysterious Absence of George Orwellâs First Wife
The Guardian, Another Piece of the Puzzle
The Orwell Society, Eileen - and Orwellâs Shifting Attitudes on Gender Issues
The New Yorker, Honest, Decent, Wrong
The Article, In Defense of George Orwell
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The one who does the work is not always the one who gets the glory. Also⊠what is an orchestrator, anyway?
Find Fernandoâs work on his Instagram here
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Did Duke Ellington really used to say: âHe does all the work and I take all the bows?â One thingâs for sureâneither man would have had the career he did without the other.
Starring Fat Tony as Billy Strayhorn and Open Mike Eagle as Duke Ellington
Also featuring: Sasheer Zamata, Sam Sanders, JaRon Ferguson, Miles Gross, Chris Hayes, and Tavis Doucette
Source List:
Lush Life by David Hajdu, ©1996, North Point Press, 18 West 18 Street, NY NY 10011
Something to Live For: The Music of Billy Strayhorn, by Walter van de Leur, ©2002, Oxford University Press
Beyond Category; The Life and Genius of Duke Ellington by John Edward Hasse, ©1993, Da Capo Press
Music is my Mistress by Duke Ellington, ©1973, Da Capo Press
JUST JAZZ No. 3, Ed. Sinclair Traill and The Hon. Gerald Lascelles, ©1959, Four Square Books, Landsborough Publications Ltd, 173 New Bond Street, London, W.1
JUST JAZZ No. 4, Ed. Sinclair Traill and The Hon. Gerald Lascelles, ©1960, Pub. Souvenir Press Ltd, London, WC1 and Canada, The Ryerson Press, Toronto, Printed GB by Clarke, Doble & Brendon, Ltd, Oakfield Press
JazzProfiles, Billy Strayhorn - The Bill Coss Interview
National Jazz Archive, Duke Ellington
CBC News, Billy Strayhorn, Duke Ellingtonâs âright armâ, to be paid tribute to at Capilano University concert
The New Yorker, The Hot Bach - I
The New Yorker, The Hot Bach II
YouTube, Duke Ellington Interview by Jack Cullen 1962
Colburn, Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellingtonâs Collaboration
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Creator and host of the podcast Philosophize This!, Stephen West, on how long-dead philosophers can still offer guidance in a modern world.
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Friedrich Nietzsche spent the final years of his life incapacitated by illness while his sister bent his works to her use as a social-climbing fascist.
Starring Laura Ramoso as Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche and Flula Borg as Friedrich Nietzsche.
Also featuring Matt Gourley, Jessica Chaffin, and Anja Albertson.
Source List:
Nietzscheâs Sister and the Will to Power by Carol Diethe, First Illinois Paperback, ©2007, ©2003 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
I Am Dynamite!, by Sue Prideaux, ©2018, Tim Duggan Books, an imprint of The Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York
In Emergency, Break Glass: What Nietzsche Can Teach Us About Joyful Living in a Tech-Saturated World, ©2022 by Nate Anderson, WW Norton & Co
The Making of Frederich Nietzsche: The Quest For Identity 1844-1869
By Daniel Blue , ©2016, University Printing House, Cambridge CB2, 8BS United Kingdom
The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols And Other Writings
by Frederich Nietzsche, Edited by Aaron Ridley and Judith Norman
Cambridge University Press, ©2005
Haaretz, Was Nietzsche Hitlerâs Spiritual Godfather?
Big Think, How the Nazis Hijacked Nietzsche, and How it Can Happen to Anybody
The Guardian, Far Right, Misogynist, Humorless? Why Nietzsche is Misunderstood
The Nietzsche Channel, Nietzscheâs Writings as a Student
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Friedrich Nietzsche
The New York Times, Rocken Journal, No Superman, Perhaps, but the Titan of his Town
https://www.philosophizethis.org/
Cambridge University Press, Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophize This!
London Review of Books, It Wasnât Him, It Was Her
Britannica, Return from Exile of Richard Wagner
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Amelia Earhartâs husband George Putnam didnât invent ghostwriting, but he relied on it heavily to produce his best-sellers. What kind of job is ghostwriting today?
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The man who made Amelia Earhart famous may also have gotten her killed. But their marriage was completely on her terms.
Starring John C. McGinley as George Palmer Putnam and Christa Miller as Amelia Earhart.
Also featuring Conan OâBrien, Neve OâBrien, Tavis Doucette, Maddie Ogden, and Miles Grose.
Source List
Amelia Earhart, A Biography by Doris L. Rich, ©1989, 2010 by the Smithsonian Institution
The Sound of Wings by Mary S. Lovell, St. Martinâs Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY, 10010 ©1989
Letters From Amelia by Jean L. Backus, Beacon Press, ©1982
Soaring Wings by George Palmer Putnam, Manor Books Inc., ©1939, ©1967 by Margaret H. Lewis, Published by arrangement with Harocourt, Brace, Jovanovich, Inc.
Wide Margins, a publisherâs autobiography by George Palmer Putnam, ©1942, Harcourt, Brace and Company, NY
EAST TO THE DAWN,The Life of Amelia Earhart by Susan Butler, Da Capo Press, ©1997
Whistled Like A Bird by Sally Putnam Chapman, Warner Books, Inc., Hachette Book Group
Project Muse, âThe Earhart Phenomenon and the âAccident of Sexâ
PBS, âAmerican Experience: Amelia Earhartâ
âAmelia Earhartâs Last Flightâ by Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, Sept. 7, 2009
National Air and Space Museum, Earhart and George Palmer Putnam
New England Historical Society, Amelia Earhart, Reluctant Bride
Purdue University, Putnam, George Palmer, 1887-1950
CT Insider, Amelia Earhartâs âSecretâ Connecticut Wedding: From the Archives
UPI, Husband of Missing Flier Earhart Secluded After Long Vigil
The New York Times, 1932: Iâm Not âMrs. Putnam,â Iâm Amelia Earhart
PBS American Experience, Amelia Earhart Program Transcript
Palmer, Amy Phipps Guest Portrait
History.com, Charles Lindbergh Completes the First Solo, Nonstop Transatlantic Flight
Charles Lindbergh House and Museum, New York-to-Paris Flight
Britannica, Charles Lindbergh, American Aviator
NASA.gov, Realizing the Dream of Flight
Medium, Ghostwriters in 2020: The Current Trends and Beyond
The New York Times Archive, Tuesday, June 19th, 1928. Wednesday, June 20th, 1928.
Flight Paths: Purdue Universityâs Aerospace Pioneers, The Earhart Brand: Amelia Earhartâs Impact on Celebrity Culture
PBS, Navigating the Truth Behind Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan
Ghost Writing and History by Ernest R. May, ©1953, The American Scholar, Published By: The Phi Beta Kappa Society
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Founder and host of the podcast Making Gay History, Eric Marcus, on Rustinâs heir and the stewardship of his legacy.
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The architect of the March on Washington and co-author of Dr. Kingâs memoir was a mentor to the great civil rights martyr. But he was nearly hidden from historyâlargely by choice.
Starring: J. Holtham as Bayard Rustin and Anthony Obi as Martin Luther King, Jr.
Also featuring: Miles Grose, Matt Gourley, and Jesse Thorn.
Source List:
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute, Bayard Rustin, To Bayard Rustin, Glenn E. Smiley, From Bayard Rustin, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., Address at NAACP Mass Rally for Civil Rights
Facing History & Ourselves, Brother Outsider: Remembering Gay Civil Rights Leader Bayard Rustin
Lambda Legal, 67 Years Later, Bayard Rustinâs California Arrest and Jail Time Have Been Pardoned
Jewish News Syndicate, Bayard Rustin (1912-1987)
Bill of Rights Institute, Bayard Rustin, Nonviolence vs. Jim Crow, 1942
PBS.org., Who Designed the March on Washington?
The Weekly Challenger, The FBI Plot to Bring Down the Gay Man Behind the March on Washington
Making Gay History, Bayard Rustin
Washington Blade, Looking Back: 50 Years of the Blade
The Washington Post, Bayard Rustin, Organizer of the March on Washington, Was Crucial to the Movement, In âI Must Resist,â Bayard Rustin Lived a Life with No Apologies
Montgomery Advertiser, 21, 22, 23, & 24 February 1956
Cross Country Solidarity, The Montgomery Bus Boycott: The Full Story
LA Times, Glenn Smiley; Advised King on Nonviolence
The Guardian, When Martin Luther King Gave Up His Guns
Why a Gay, Black Civil Rights Hero Opposed Affirmative Action
Malcolm X and Bayard Rustin Debate on WBAI
CivilRights.org, Bayard Rustin and the Presidential Medal of Freedom: A Perfect Fit
Yale Law School, Bayard Rustin Centennial
Researchgate.net, Arrest Record for Bayard Rustin
Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
Beacon Broadside, Roy Wilkinsâs Reluctant Tribute to W.E.B. Du Bois
Legal Defense Fund, Brown v. Board of Education
Greensboro.com, Thurmond, FBI Had Close Ties, Records Show
The New York Times, Negro Rally Aide Rebuts Senator
I Must Resist, Bayard Rustinâs Life In Letters, Ed. Michael Long, City Lights Books, ©2012
Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin by John DâEmilio, Free Press/Simon & Schuster, ©2003
ALABAMA V. KING, By Dan Abrams and Fred Grey with David Fisher, Harlequin Enterprises, Ltd., ©2022
Martin Luther King, Jr., Homosexuality, and the Early Gay Rights Movement By Michael Long, First published by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN, a division of St. Martinâs Press, ©2012
Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference by David J Garrow, ©1986, Edition published 2015 by Open Road Media
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Author Sarah Vowell on the particular struggles women faced in revolutionary America and how Peggy Shippenâs environment influenced her decisions.
Sarahâs books can be found here.
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Benedict Arnold is famous for betraying his countryâbut it was his wife who made the treason possible.
Starring: Susan Yeagley as Peggy Shippen and Andy Richter as Benedict Arnold. Also featuring: Luke Millington-Drake, Jim OâHeir, Matt Gourley, and Roman Mars.
Show notes:
John Andre sketch of Peggy Shippen
Source List:
American Battlefield Trust, Peggy Shippen, 10 Facts: Benedict Arnold and Peggy Shippen, Benedict Arnold
History.com, Benedict Arnold
New York Historical Society, Life Story: Margaret âPeggyâ Shippen Arnold
National Endowment for the Humanities, Love and the Revolution
Massachusetts Historical Society, Letters from John Adams to Abigail Adams
NPS.gov, Benedict Arnold
History.com, Why Benedict Arnold Tried to Capture Quebec
The George Washington Presidential Library, Joseph Reed
Medium.com, The Highest-paid Spy in the American Revolution
Brobeck, Stephen. âRevolutionary Change in Colonial Philadelphia: The Brief Life of the Proprietary Gentry.â The William and Mary Quarterly, vol. 33, no. 3, 1976, pp. 410â34. JSTOR
Benedict Arnold, Patriot and Traitor by Willard Sterne Randall, ©1990 by Willard Sterne Randall, 2001 Dorset Press
Defiant Brides: The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-Era Women and the Radical Men They Married, Nancy Rubin Stuart, ©2013 by Nancy Rubin Stuart, Beacon Press
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Significant Others is back for season 2! Starting February 14th, join Liza Powel OâBrien as she explores more stories of the little-known individuals just beyond the spotlight of history. Would Benedict Arnold have betrayed his country were it not for his wife, Peggy? Who is really to blame for Friedrich Nietzcheâs connection to Nazism? Find out when Significant Others returns, February 14th with new episodes every Wednesday and follow-up episodes on Thursdays.
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In our final bonus episode before the new season, Liza is joined by psychoanalyst and couples therapist Dr. Susan Flinn to explore the significant others within ourselves and how they impact our relationships. They also discuss this idea of our ideal self, our ideal mate, and how these can set us up for disappointment.
Season 2 premieres on February 14th! Want to support the show? Rate and review wherever you listen to your podcasts, and keep sending suggestions of Significant Others youâd like to hear about our way at [email protected]!
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In this monthâs bonus episode, Liza is joined by Liza Mundy, journalist and author of the book, The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA, to discuss the profound influence women have had at the CIA from itâs creation in 1947 to present day in the post-9/11 world. Liza Mundy shares how women fought to become operatives, facilitated their husbandâs spy careers, and tracked down Osama Bin Laden.
Weâre working hard on Season 2! Until then we will be releasing special bonus episodes from time to time. Want to support the show? Rate and review wherever you listen to your podcasts, and keep sending suggestions of Significant Others youâd like to hear about our way at [email protected]!
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