Part Two: The Lusty Lady: The Worker-Owned Peep Show
Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff
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4.7 • 902 Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Margaret continues her conversation with Raechel Anne Jolie about labor organizing among sex workers in the United States.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.0 | CoolZone Media. |
| 0:09.4 | Hello, and welcome to cool people who did cool stuff. |
| 0:11.7 | Your weekly reminder that there's a podcast |
| 0:13.2 | and it's called Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff and you listen to it. |
| 0:16.1 | I am your host, Margaret Kiljoy, and with me today is my guest. |
| 0:20.5 | Rachel Angelie. Hi. Hello. I'm happy to be |
| 0:23.3 | back. Yay. On this totally, no, I've got to stop pretending like it's a different day. All right. I'm |
| 0:29.3 | totally glad to still be here. Yeah. I've learned this really important trick where I eat before |
| 0:35.6 | recording now instead of slowly running out |
| 0:40.1 | of energy as the recording goes on. Also on the call is Sophie Ray Lichtenen. Hi. Hi. What kind of tree do you |
| 0:49.0 | hope that gets named after you? Because we have the plaque already. Oh, God. That's a really hard question. |
| 0:56.0 | Something that bears fruit. |
| 0:58.9 | That's a good answer. |
| 1:01.1 | I mean, I kind of always wanted to be a lemon tree. |
| 1:05.4 | You'd be a good lemon tree. |
| 1:07.7 | You could see that. |
| 1:08.6 | Or like a guava tree or a mandarin tree. |
| 1:11.9 | I think I'm going citrus. |
| 1:13.9 | Okay. |
| 1:14.7 | Have you seen those, the citrus, the oranges that have like huge thorns? |
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