Part One: Secret Societies and Leftism: The Odd Origins of Revolution

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

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🗓️ 13 October 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Margaret talks to Sarah Marshall about how everything you've heard about the Illuminati is entirely upside down.

Sources:

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Eleusinian-Mysteries

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federaci%C3%B3n_Regional_Espa%C3%B1ola_de_la_AIT

Occult Features of Anarchism, by Erica Lagalisse

https://www.thecollector.com/cult-of-pythagoras/

http://gnosis.org/hermes.htm

https://www.rosicrucian.org/history

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:04.6	Malcolm Gladwell here.
0:05.9	This season on Revisionous History, we're going back to the spring of 1988 to a town in northwest Alabama,
0:11.8	where a man committed a crime that would spiral out of control.
0:15.6	And he said, I've been in prison 24, 25 years.
0:18.3	That's probably not long enough.
0:20.3	I didn't kill them.
0:22.1	From Revisionist History, this is The Alabama Murders.
0:26.4	Listen to Revisionous History, the Alabama murders on the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcasts,
0:31.8	or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:36.1	Call Zone Media
0:37.3	Hello, and welcome to cool people who did cool stuff.
0:41.5	The podcast about the people fighting against bad things, which is completely unrelated to
0:47.4	the current moment.
0:48.3	But if you, dear listener, are terrified because of the news, it's a good month to be terrified because it's spooky month.
0:58.6	Right? Right? See? Almost laughing at my joke is my guest Sarah Marshall. How are you?
1:04.4	Hello. I didn't know if I was supposed to pretend to be backstage in the podcast still.
1:11.2	I'm I'm okay, I'm okay.
1:14.3	I'm in Portland, Oregon, and it's just, it's a war there, I've heard.
1:18.9	It's, yeah, it's, it's so lovely here.
1:21.7	I feel like the city has reacted by becoming even cuter than usual.
1:29.8	And I'm just so happy to be able to speak to you from the literal hell in which I evidently live.
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