Early Riot Grrrl: Mary Carleton
Ridiculous Crime
iHeartPodcasts
4.5 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2026
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
London in the late 1600s was a little chaotic. So it only makes sense that an agent of chaos like Mary Carleton would become famous for her crimes. Crimes like repeated bigamy and stealing pants in the night. An audacious woman determined to chart her own path, she wrote her own pamphlets like some olden times Riot Grrrl and made herself a witness to history along the way.
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| 0:00.0 | No gloss, no filter. |
| 0:03.1 | Just stories. |
| 0:04.8 | Spoken without fear. |
| 0:06.5 | Person who is not generous can not be an artist. |
| 0:09.4 | The world will be at peace only when it is ruled by poets and philosophers. |
| 0:14.3 | Listen to my weekly podcast, the Pooja Abhaw on the IHeart Radio app, |
| 0:18.5 | Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:23.0 | Come for the honesty. |
| 0:24.9 | Stay for the fire. |
| 0:29.4 | Ridiculous Crime is a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 0:32.5 | Hi, Zeran. |
| 0:33.7 | Hello, Elizabeth. |
| 0:34.8 | How are you doing today? |
| 0:36.0 | I'm doing pretty good. |
| 0:37.0 | It was raining earlier, and I was like a nice rainy day. I know. Yeah, I'm good. How about you? How are you doing today? I'm doing pretty good. It was raining earlier, and I was like a nice rainy day. |
| 0:39.4 | I know. |
| 0:39.9 | Yeah, I'm good. |
| 0:40.8 | How about you? How are you doing? I'm good. I'm good. I'm good in my head and my body. That's the best place to be good. Why not? Do you know it's ridiculous? I do, Elizabeth. Now, I have to admit, I don't know if this is real. |
| 0:55.1 | Okay, it doesn't matter. |
| 0:56.1 | Right? |
| 0:56.4 | But I often have this where I'm like, I spend a lot of my time now. And I'm not just talking like, oh, this is AI slop. Is this real question? But like just news stories. I will see like a news story roll past. And I'm like, is that real? And I have to click on it. I spend a lot of time |
| 1:11.5 | not reading things I want to read, but reading things I have to decide. Is that real? Is that true? |
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