Our Favorite "Making Trouble" Stories

This Day in Esoteric Political History

Jody Avirgan & Radiotopia

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4.6 • 982 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

All this week, shows across the Radiotopia network are doing special episodes around the theme of “making trouble.” It’s being done to celebrate the Radiotopia fundraiser. If you want to support our work, become a member today at https://on.prx.org/367yNHv

For our contribution, we talk about how the word “trouble” has meant different things in different points in history. Then, we each nominate our favorite historical troublemakers.

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And don’t forget about Oprahdemics, hosted by Kellie, coming soon from Radiotopia.

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Our team: Jacob Feldman, Researcher/Producer; Brittani Brown, Producer; Khawla Nakua, Transcripts; music by Teen Daze and Blue Dot Sessions; Julie Shapiro and Audrey Mardavich, Executive Producers at Radiotopia

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from Radiotopia.
0:07.0	My name is Jody Avergan.
0:10.0	Now listeners this is a bit of a special episode it's part of a really cool
0:14.5	radio topia-wide project but every show in the network is doing a special
0:19.2	episode right now in this moment around the theme Making Trouble.
0:23.7	So this is our crack at that and I will just say that as you have heard me say many, many times,
0:29.0	this day is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX,
0:31.8	which is a network of independent
0:33.8	artist-owned listener-supported podcasts, a really great community but what that
0:37.8	means is that we have full ownership and control over this podcast we get to
0:41.9	talk about the story if we want to, but
0:43.5	we're also part of this great collective of other shows, but we're our own
0:47.3	entity and listener support. You knew this was coming. Listen or support is a big
0:52.3	big part of that puzzle for us.
0:55.4	And it's kind of the only way we can make this show work.
0:57.5	So yes, this is Fundraiser Week here at Radiotopia.
1:01.5	If you want to support this show, if you want to support Mickey and Kelly and me and
1:05.0	Jacob and Kala and Brittany and all the folks who help make this show happen, now's the time.
1:10.0	It is the fundraiser. Go to radiotop dot fm and do what you can
1:14.0	and yeah I guess this is to help remind you how cool radiotopia is
1:18.0	every show is doing a crack at
1:20.0	this theme making trouble I'm really excited to hear what people come up with. I don't know. We'll see.
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