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Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

Part Two: Diogenes: The Greek Philosopher Who Pissed on the Rich

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture, History

4.8717 Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Margaret continues her dicussion with Dana El Kurd about Diogenes, the founder of the Cynics, who was kind of an edgelord and lived in a jar

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.5

Guaranteed Human.

0:06.0

CoolZone Media.

0:08.9

Hello, and welcome to cool people who did whatever the name of the show is.

0:12.8

Cool stuff, which is a terrible thing for me to forget, because everyone who ever talks to me at a party says that they love my podcast.

0:19.3

Cool people who are doing good things,

0:22.8

or some incarnation, something like that. I am your host, Margaret Kiljoy. I know the name of my show.

0:28.5

I also know that my guest this week is Dana. Hi, how are you? Hi, good. Thanks for having me.

0:36.1

Yeah. Before I do anything else, I have to say that we have a producer

0:39.7

named Sophie who's not here right now. But we also have an audio engineer who's here in spirit

0:44.4

because is listening. Eva, how are you? I mean, hi, Eva. I need to eat sugar or something.

0:51.5

Or maybe I don't. Sometimes people can tell when I like, I don't drink caffeine

0:55.1

and every now. And then when I'm like driving or something, I drink a little bit of caffeine.

0:59.3

And then when I show up places, I talk completely differently.

1:03.1

Like, have you been on the coffee?

1:05.6

Yeah, exactly. So, this is part two of a two-parter of Diogenes of Sinope, just Diogenes.

1:14.5

Every other Diogenes is Diogenes something, but he's...

1:18.0

He's the original.

1:19.3

He is.

1:20.6

He's the main one we remember.

1:23.1

And the most famous image of Diogenes is that he lived in a barrel.

1:29.5

But barrels didn't exist, so he didn't live in a barrel.

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