Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

Margaret talks with historian Ben Egerman about his work studying less-trodden queer history
Find Ben's book at: https://redemmas.org/titles/51654-a-gay-little-history-of-maryland-volume-1/
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Margaret and Hazel read you a found documents story about a government experiment gone wrong
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Margaret continues talking to Andrew Ti about the strange hippie who found mainstream success with a message of peace and puppets
Sources:
https://www.gothamcenter.org/blog/bread-and-puppet-theater-in-gotham
https://nypost.com/2021/04/23/the-civil-rights-rebels-that-created-sesame-street/
https://www.henson.com/jimsredbook/page/36/
https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Jim_Henson%27s_Memorial
https://www.newsbreak.com/herbie-j-pilato-1590342/4941153104564-the-shocking-racist-history-of-early-sesame-street-lore-a-tragic-look-back-6-decades-later
https://worldmetrics.org/relationship-cheating-statistics/
https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/bert-ernie-are-gay-couple-sesame-street-writer-claims-n910701
Jim Henson, Idea Man
Jim Henson, Brian Jay Jones
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Margaret talks to Andrew Ti about the strange hippie who found mainstream success with a message of peace and puppets
Sources:
https://www.gothamcenter.org/blog/bread-and-puppet-theater-in-gotham
https://nypost.com/2021/04/23/the-civil-rights-rebels-that-created-sesame-street/
https://www.henson.com/jimsredbook/page/36/
https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Jim_Henson%27s_Memorial
https://www.newsbreak.com/herbie-j-pilato-1590342/4941153104564-the-shocking-racist-history-of-early-sesame-street-lore-a-tragic-look-back-6-decades-later
https://worldmetrics.org/relationship-cheating-statistics/
https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/bert-ernie-are-gay-couple-sesame-street-writer-claims-n910701
Jim Henson, Idea Man
Jim Henson, Brian Jay Jones
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We continue our conversation with Dr. Treasure about Herny Dumas and touch on all sorts of topics from Hoodoo to Fannie Lou Hamer to being mentored by one's father.
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