Part One: Peter the Painter and the Latvian Revolution of 1905
Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff
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🗓️ 6 April 2026
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Margaret talks with Becca Ramos about one of histories most notorious fugitives and his days fighting against the Tsar
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.9 | CoolZone Media. |
| 0:09.3 | Hello, and welcome to cool people and do cool stuff. |
| 0:11.9 | Your weekly reminder that I lose my brain reading history and bring you adventure stories from the past. |
| 0:17.6 | My name is Margaret Kiljoy, and my guest today is Becca Ramos. Hi, how are you? |
| 0:24.1 | Hello, I'm good. How are you? I'm good. I wrote you down as longtime podcast veteran, but also the host of a |
| 0:32.6 | brand new show. Welcome to El Barrio, a podcast about Puerto Rican identity. Yeah, that would be correct. I've been |
| 0:39.2 | a producer of some of your favorite shows like Las Coulteristas, mess with Sydney, Washington, |
| 0:44.7 | Marie Foster, Stradio Lab. But now I am on my own venture with the Michael Tudor Network, |
| 0:51.0 | doing my own show. You get to do twice as much work. Twice as much work. |
| 0:55.5 | Becca also our colleague. Yes. I love. It was so funny. Becca put out these requests to like |
| 1:03.5 | guest on other shows and like the system sent it in and I was like, that's cool. Who's hosting that? |
| 1:09.4 | And then I realized it was Becca and I was like, I will book you on anything you want to come on. Yeah, it was like, that's cool. Who's hosting that? And then I realized it was Becca, and I was like, |
| 1:11.1 | I will book you on anything you want to come on. Yeah, it was like 20 seconds after that email came that you |
| 1:16.6 | were like, can Becca be on cool people? Which grateful, because you're the only person who looked at that |
| 1:22.3 | and actually followed up because I will say a little inside baseball for listeners, we use a system called Airtable and |
| 1:30.6 | all of us hate it. |
| 1:32.0 | And so therefore, everyone forces us to use it, but no one looks at it. |
| 1:35.6 | So it's like, I'm trying to guess on other shows and no one's checking the request. |
| 1:39.8 | Well, if it goes by email, then it's like everyone gets constant. |
| 1:44.0 | I get constant emails being like, hey, I have the CEO of this center-right company. Yes. It would be great to come on your show. And I'm like, cool. You clearly have paid any attention. Yeah. Like, how about never? I'm like, where did my name get on this list? Because I have gotten increasingly those specific types of |
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