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Stuff Mom Never Told You

'Hooker Teacher' to Activist: A Talk with Melissa Petro

Stuff Mom Never Told You

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.04.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2012

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Cristen and Caroline talk to Melissa Petro, sex worker activist who retired from the New York City public school system after the media publicized her past work as a stripper and Craigslist sex worker. Petro talks to Stuff Mom Never Told You about how she

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They say history is written by the victors, but you know what?

0:03.9

They've left out a hell of a lot of juicy stuff.

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Ah, we all know who invented that, right?

0:09.9

We'll think again.

0:11.0

Truth is, Alexander Graham Bell stole the idea for the telephone

0:15.1

and then claimed it is his own.

0:16.8

We're gonna uncover the forgotten pieces of history.

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You didn't know you needed to know.

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0:36.4

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