Part One: Saint Maximillian Kolbe: A Conservative Who Died Protecting People From Fascists

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

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Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 9 February 2026

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Margaret talks to Molly Conger about a complicated man who spent his early life promoting antisemitic conspiracies before sheltering thousands of Jews and dying in Auschwitz

Sources:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1982/12/05/mass-is-set-for-the-saint-of-auschwitz/18a930db-756e-4f7c-a484-399305713a29/

The Life of St. Maximilian Kolbe, William LaMay

https://pisma-niepokalanow-pl.translate.goog/967-czy-prawda-sie-zmienia?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

https://www.nytimes.com/1982/11/19/world/saint-charged-with-bigotry-clerics-say-no.html

https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/was-st-maximilian-kolbe-an-antisemite-1068

https://web.archive.org/web/20140102091901/http://www.consecration.com/default.aspx?id=41

https://www.reddit.com/r/freemasonry/comments/rva0iu/the_giordano_brunisti/

https://studiaelblaskie.pl/assets/Numery/SE-tom212020.pdf#page=199

https://www.scross.co.za/2023/08/st-maximilian-kolbe-the-remarkable-martyr-to-nazis/

https://www.laprogressive.com/progressive-issues/saint-maximillian-kolbe

Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism, Slavoj Zizek

https://eastwestreport.org/?view=article&id=343:persecution-of-christians-in-tsarist-russia-and-the-soviet-and-post-soviet-union&catid=43:e-20-2

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.6	Guaranteed Human.
0:06.0	CoolZone Media.
0:09.3	Hello, and welcome to cool people who did cool stuff.
0:11.6	Your weekly reminder that when bad things happen, there's people trying to do good things,
0:14.9	including people who are not actually particularly good themselves,
0:17.3	at least by the standards of Margaret Kiljoy, me, your host.
0:20.5	Hi, I'm Margaret Kiljoy, and, your host. Hi, I'm Margaret
0:21.6	Kiljoy and my guest today to talk about this person who did cool stuff, we have complicated
0:26.5	feelings about who we'll talk about in a second. But first, we're going to talk about my guest.
0:29.9	My guest is Molly Conger. Oh, Margaret, I'm so excited to be here to talk about this complicated
0:35.6	anti-hero. I'm intrigued. Molly, you are the
0:39.1	host of possibly the podcast I listen to the most that isn't my own. I actually don't listen to
0:44.6	my own podcast. You are possibly the podcast host that I listen to the most, which I didn't mean to
0:49.2	rhyme. You are the host of weird little guys. What's that show about? I've never heard of it.
0:53.6	It is the opposite of
0:55.4	this show, right? It's about people who are not cool and the stuff they did, extremely not cool.
1:02.2	Okay, so I was listening to your show that I've never heard of before, that I just said I listened to a lot.
1:08.1	And on a recent episode, you were talking about how rare redemption arcs are in your line
1:13.9	of work of studying.
1:14.8	I believe in them.
1:15.7	I just don't see them very often.
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