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Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

CZM Rewind: Part One: All Hail King Ludd: How the Luddites Almost Saved Us

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture, History

4.8717 Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Margaret talks with Robert Evans about the English rebels who threw on dresses, declared a fake person their leader, and set about fighting the Industrial Revolution.

Original Air Date: 3.18.24

 

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast. Guaranteed Human.

0:06.0

CoolZone Media.

0:08.1

Hello, and welcome to cool people who did cool stuff, your weekly reminder that when there's

0:12.4

bad things happening, there's people trying to do good things, and often those people

0:16.7

are trying to destroy technology.

0:20.1

Well, at least that's this week's rewind.

0:22.7

Because we are doing a rewind this week,

0:25.3

because I had last week off.

0:26.8

Imagine that.

0:28.3

And I, for some weird reason,

0:32.0

am thinking about the ways that people revolt against technology

0:34.9

and how it's not actually usually about,

0:37.1

like, I just don't like the future

0:38.7

or technology itself but instead about the way that technology is influencing culture and

0:45.3

economics because this week we're talking about the luddites and this week we're going to include

0:53.0

my favorite last words of all time.

0:59.4

Hello, and welcome to cool people who built a militant, popular social movement and face severe

1:04.1

state repression and therefore splintered into a reformist wing that failed as well as a more

1:07.2

clandestine wing that also failed, but still changed the course of history.

1:10.6

Your weekly podcast, that does exactly what it says in the title, almost every week.

1:15.6

I'm your host, Margaret Kiljoy.

1:17.4

And with me today, as my guest, is, see if I can get this right.

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