Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

Part One: Lead Belly: How a Man Named Huddie Ledbetter Beat Everyone Who Tried to Keep Him Down

58 min · 29. juni 2026
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Margaret talks with Prop about the Texan musician who sung his way out of prison. Sources: Bring Judgment Day: Reclaiming Lead Belly’s Truths from Jim Crow’s Lies, Sheila Curran Bernard https://www.nytimes.com/1962/05/20/archives/if-youre-woke-you-dig-it-no-mickey-mouse-can-be-expected-to-follow.html [https://www.nytimes.com/1962/05/20/archives/if-youre-woke-you-dig-it-no-mickey-mouse-can-be-expected-to-follow.htmlhttps://www.usatoday.com/story/news/local/2022/12/22/what-is-woke-meaning-naacp-leaders-talk-about-the-word-martin-st-lucie-indian-river-treasure-coast/8091099001/ [https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/local/2022/12/22/what-is-woke-meaning-naacp-leaders-talk-about-the-word-martin-st-lucie-indian-river-treasure-coast/8091099001/https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/03/09/what-is-woke-meaning/11425775002/ [https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/03/09/what-is-woke-meaning/11425775002/https://www.vox.com/culture/21437879/stay-woke-wokeness-history-origin-evolution-controversy [https://www.vox.com/culture/21437879/stay-woke-wokeness-history-origin-evolution-controversyhttps://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/scottsboro-boys [https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/scottsboro-boyshttps://www.history.com/articles/scottsboro-boys [https://www.history.com/articles/scottsboro-boyshttps://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/ledbetter-huddie-leadbelly [https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/ledbetter-huddie-leadbelly]  See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

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episode Part One: Lead Belly: How a Man Named Huddie Ledbetter Beat Everyone Who Tried to Keep Him Down cover

Part One: Lead Belly: How a Man Named Huddie Ledbetter Beat Everyone Who Tried to Keep Him Down

Margaret talks with Prop about the Texan musician who sung his way out of prison. Sources: Bring Judgment Day: Reclaiming Lead Belly’s Truths from Jim Crow’s Lies, Sheila Curran Bernard https://www.nytimes.com/1962/05/20/archives/if-youre-woke-you-dig-it-no-mickey-mouse-can-be-expected-to-follow.html [https://www.nytimes.com/1962/05/20/archives/if-youre-woke-you-dig-it-no-mickey-mouse-can-be-expected-to-follow.html]  https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/local/2022/12/22/what-is-woke-meaning-naacp-leaders-talk-about-the-word-martin-st-lucie-indian-river-treasure-coast/8091099001/ [https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/local/2022/12/22/what-is-woke-meaning-naacp-leaders-talk-about-the-word-martin-st-lucie-indian-river-treasure-coast/8091099001/]  https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/03/09/what-is-woke-meaning/11425775002/ [https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/03/09/what-is-woke-meaning/11425775002/]  https://www.vox.com/culture/21437879/stay-woke-wokeness-history-origin-evolution-controversy [https://www.vox.com/culture/21437879/stay-woke-wokeness-history-origin-evolution-controversy]  https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/scottsboro-boys [https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/scottsboro-boys]  https://www.history.com/articles/scottsboro-boys [https://www.history.com/articles/scottsboro-boys]  https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/ledbetter-huddie-leadbelly [https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/ledbetter-huddie-leadbelly]  See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

29. juni 202658 min
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Part Two: The Gay Ottomans: Homosexuality in the Medieval Ottoman Empire

Margaret continues talking with Kaveh Hoda about the complicated history of homosexuality and homoeroticism in one of the most important empires of the medieval era. Sources: https://www.jstor.org/stable/41299403 https://www.thecollector.com/osman-i-ottoman-founder/ https://islamichistory.org/osman-gazi/ https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/jmurj/vol9/iss1/4/ https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/homosexuality-ii/ https://www.webology.org/data-cms/articles/20220528061731pmwebology%2019%20(2)%20-%20670%20pdf.pdf https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6074556/ https://yoksis.bilkent.edu.tr/pdf/files/10.1177-0363199013519126.pdf https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/164086 https://www.juancole.com/2025/12/literature-societies-homoerotic.html See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

24. juni 20261 h 14 min
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Part One: The Gay Ottomans: Homosexuality in the Medieval Ottoman Empire

Margaret talks with Kaveh Hoda about the complicated history of homosexuality and homoeroticism in one of the most important empires of the medieval era. Sources: https://www.jstor.org/stable/41299403 https://www.thecollector.com/osman-i-ottoman-founder/ https://islamichistory.org/osman-gazi/ https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/jmurj/vol9/iss1/4/ https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/homosexuality-ii/ https://www.webology.org/data-cms/articles/20220528061731pmwebology%2019%20(2)%20-%20670%20pdf.pdf https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6074556/ https://yoksis.bilkent.edu.tr/pdf/files/10.1177-0363199013519126.pdf https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/164086 https://www.juancole.com/2025/12/literature-societies-homoerotic.html See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

22. juni 20261 h 0 min