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Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

Part Two: Public Radio: From the Open Source Origins to the Pacifist Poets

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture, History

4.8717 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Margaret talks with Bridget Todd about Jagadish Chandra Bose, the inventor of radio, and Kenneth Rexroth, the poet involved in the creation of public radio.

Sources

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/kenneth-rexroth

https://libcom.org/article/rexroth-kenneth-1905-1982

https://www.montecitojournal.net/2023/05/16/kenneth-rexroth-a-poet-of-montecito/

https://www.britannica.com/technology/telegraph

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/rescue-development-radio/

https://gizmodo.com/a-magician-used-the-first-pirate-radio-station-to-troll-1681527405

https://www.wshu.org/vintage-radio/2015-12-14/so-what-did-marconi-hear

https://www.orarc.org/?p=2297

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v06/n01/george-woodcock/elegy-for-an-anarchist

https://discovernikkei.org/en/journal/2022/8/28/kenneth-rexroth/

https://crimethinc.com/2020/12/22/a-poem-by-kenneth-rexroth-painted-across-the-rooftops-of-the-world-on-the-occasion-of-his-birthday

https://www.thing.net/~grist/ld/young/revkyoung.htm

https://www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/sf/1961.htm

https://www.literatureandarts.com/kenneth-rexroth/project-four-2h97g

 https://www.pgurus.com/multi-faceted-single-minded-nationalist/

https://www.theheritagelab.in/jagadish-bose-home-interior-design-architecture/

https://interestingengineering.com/culture/jagadish-chandra-bose-father-modern-wi-fi

https://www.sciencehistory.org/stories/magazine/the-thinking-plants-man/

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:05.9

CoolZone Media.

0:09.6

Hello, and welcome to cool people did cool stuff.

0:12.1

Your twice a week reminder that when bad things happen, good things can happen too.

0:18.5

I'm your host, Margaret Kiljoy, and my guest this week is Bridget Todd. Hi.

0:23.3

Hi, Margaret. Thank you so much for having me. So excited to be here. Yeah, on this day,

0:27.5

that's totally a different day than the previous day. It's not the same day. Yeah. What are you

0:32.1

talking about? As we all pretend like nothing terrible is happening in the world that it makes it really hard to do

0:38.8

any job i'm sure whatever job you have listening to this i'm sure it's hard for you to your job

0:44.0

this week last week next week yeah but bridget todd is the host of there are no girls on the

0:53.4

internet and is also cool.

0:56.3

And you can go back and listen to a bunch of episodes that she's been on on this show if you want.

1:01.6

You should.

1:02.0

You should.

1:02.8

Yeah.

1:04.0

Our producer this week, actually always our producer, just not the one who's often on mic, is Ian.

1:10.0

Hi.

1:10.3

How are you?

1:12.5

I'm good. Glad to be back.

1:17.4

Excited to hear more about public radio and see where this journey takes us because the first episode was very interesting, and so I'm sure this one will have some surprises as well. So I'm

1:22.2

excited to be back. This one is like, well, I'll get to it. Okay, but first, we have to thank our audio engineer, Eva.

1:29.9

Hi, Eva.

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