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Significant Others

By: Team Coco
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  • Did you know that the novel "Lolita" would not exist if Vladimir Nabokov’s wife hadn’t stopped her husband from burning the manuscript? Or that Gandhi learned his legendary method of passive resistance from his wife? Or that the person responsible for Maya Angelou’s genre-defining memoir was her good friend James Baldwin? Significant Others is a narrated, nonfiction podcast about folks just beyond the spotlight of history. Each episode tells the story of a talented, difficult and little-known individual who altered the destiny of their better-known partner, child, sibling, or friend, and impacted the world they left behind. Narrated and written by Liza Powel O’Brien and featuring the voices of Megan Mullally, Nick Offerman, Jameela Jamil, Rita Wilson, Timothy Olyphant, Lisa Kudrow and many more.
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  • Daron Acemoglu on Marxism and AI

    Daron Acemoglu on Marxism and AI
    Apr 4 2024

    Are we, in fact, living in a time of revolution? What it means and what you can do about it, according to one of MIT’s greatest thinkers.

    Power and Progress: Our 1,000-Year Struggle Over Technology & Prosperity
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    28 mins
  • The Marxes

    The Marxes
    Apr 3 2024

    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 O’Brien.

    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, Don’t Blame Karl Marx for ‘Cultural Marxism’

    The Washington Post, “Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution,” 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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    44 mins
  • Claire Dederer on Reckoning with Problematic Artists

    Claire Dederer on Reckoning with Problematic Artists
    Mar 28 2024

    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?

    Claire’s book, Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma is out now.
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    40 mins
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First listen, first rate topic and story

I really enjoyed this story! Being a bit of history nut, myself, I've always wanted the back story to historical figures or even events that caused those people or happenings to become the history that we know. Not knowing much beyond the Wiki version of Tolstoy, and the few books of his I have read, I found this very enlightening. I hope you continue narrating and finding good people in the speaking roles to help you bring the stories to life, Nick and Megan did outstanding jobs! Please, PLEASE continue this cast!

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This Podcast is amazing, seriously a genius idea!

This is seriously one of the best podcasts I've heard in a while!
the promise is beautiful, and I've learned so much about history and these lost stories of the significant people who really deserve to be known and heard!

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So good!

Every episode is engaging and extremely well-produced. I sincerely hope a second season will be made. Looked forward to it every week.

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Love listening to these unique perspectives

It's so interesting to hear about these other sides to very well-known figures in history. It gives a much more holistic view of these people, that they were, in fact, human as well and dealing with their own limitations. lt's such a crucial light to shine, because much of history/humanity is lost simply due to who is in charge of telling the story. By adding different perspectives, these people become much less distant, taken off their pedestals, and given a chance to be seen as the everyday, imperfect humans that we all are.

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Easy listening, love it!

This is such a cool concept and I love Liza’s voice! She’s got a very calming/podcast-worthy tone, very easy to listen to. The Mary Lincoln story and recap episode with Conan was very entertaining!

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