Part Four: Peter the Painter and the Latvian Revolution of 1905
Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff
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🗓️ 15 April 2026
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Summary
Margaret finishes telling you about the histories most notorious fugitives and his days fighting against the Tsar.
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| 0:56.8 | But then I realized I can't sing-it in a sing-song voice because you just listen to the beautiful composition written specifically for the show by Unwoman and it wouldn't really work because this introduction probably overlapped with that. It might |
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| 1:10.4 | Your reminder that when there's bad things happening, |
| 1:12.7 | there's people trying to do good things, and your reminder that everyone is morally compromised. |
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| 1:22.9 | always cool, martyr at killjoy. This is part four of a four-parter, which means it's the last episode. It is the last episode talking about Peter the Painter. I promised you he gets away in the end. He does. He gets away in the end. The street cleaner, no, that's not what he's called, but I want him to be called that. I'm just |
| 1:44.5 | going to call him the street cleaner. He gets away, the land surveyor, he gets away, the bulldog |
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