Part One: Bread And Puppet: The Dawn of Giant Protest Puppets
Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff
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🗓️ 30 June 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Margaret talks to Jamie Loftus about some radical hippies who built gigantic puppets and an entire culture.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | From IHeart podcast, before social media, before cable news, there was Alan Berg. |
| 0:10.2 | He was the first and the original shock. |
| 0:13.5 | That scratchy, irreverent kind of way talking to people and telling them that you're an idiot |
| 0:18.6 | and I'm going to hang up on you. |
| 0:20.0 | This is Live Wire, the loud life and shocking murder of Allen Berg. |
| 0:24.3 | And he pointed to the Denver phone book and said, well, there are probably two million suspects. |
| 0:29.3 | Listen on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:34.5 | Maybe you've heard that Stonewall was a riot where queer people fought back against |
| 0:38.8 | police or that it's the reason pride is celebrated this time of year. It was one of the most |
| 0:44.1 | liberating things that I have ever done. Legend says Marsha P. Johnson threw the very first brick. |
| 0:50.7 | Start banging on the door of the Stonewall like one, boom. This week on Afterlives, we'll separate the truth from the myth in the life of Marcia P. Johnson. |
| 1:00.1 | Listen to Afterlives on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:07.2 | Show me how good it can get today, God, and show the rest of the world what we already know. |
| 1:12.3 | It can't get no better than being hella black, hella queer, and hell of Christian. |
| 1:17.0 | My name is Joseph Rees. |
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| 1:35.2 | podcast. |
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| 1:40.1 | Hello and welcome to cool people who do cool stuff, your weekly podcast about puppets. I'm your host, Margaret |
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