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Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

Part One: A War Against Tankies and Tanks: the Hungarian Revolution of 1956

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture, History

4.8717 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Margaret talks with Mia Wong about the communists and socialists who fought for workers’ power against the USSR.

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0:00.0

Hey, I'm Jay Shetty, and my latest interview is with Michelle Obama.

0:04.5

To whom much has given, much is expected. The guilt comes from, am I doing enough?

0:09.3

Me, Michelle Obama, to say that to a therapist. So let's unpack that.

0:13.9

Having been the first lady of the entire country and representing the country in the world,

0:19.3

I couldn't afford to have that kind of disdain.

0:23.4

Listen to On Purpose with Jay Chetty on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:31.7

CoolZone Media.

0:34.7

Hello, and welcome to cool people who did cool stuff.

0:37.8

Your weekly reminder that when bad things happen, people often do good things in response to the bad things.

0:44.4

I'm your host Margaret Kiljoy, and my guest today is Mia Wong.

0:48.5

Hi.

0:49.4

Hello, hello.

0:50.7

Very, very excited, very excited to be back for my annual traditional all the communists get shot episode

0:56.0

this used to be the ones that I'm always on I did give me a heads up about this well I was like

1:03.0

who do I know who knows this history and theory enough to talk about this with me and I guess'm always like, I can't spoil the subject to the

1:13.7

listener because the listener has read the episode description. Yeah. But before we talk about our

1:19.0

subject, we should talk about the fact that our producer is Sophie. I'm Sophie. That's me. I'm Sophie.

1:26.0

I'm very glad that Sophie is back. That's me. I'm Sophie. I'm very glad that Sophie is back. That's me. I'm Sophie. I'm back.

1:31.2

We also have an audio engineer who's named Rory. Hi Rory. Hi Rory. Hi Rory. Our theme music was

1:37.1

written forced by Unwoman. This week, I've been really excited about doing this episode.

1:43.2

You have. You've talked about it for a minute.

1:45.5

I know. I know. This was on my like long list at the very, very beginning when I sat down to

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