Part Two: The Surprising Stories Behind Foosball and Air Mail

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

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Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 3 September 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Margaret continues her talk with Mangesh Hattikudur about the antifascist who invented table soccer and the socialist photographer who invented air mail.

Sources:

https://spainonthisday.com/alejandro-finisterre-the-inventor-of-table-football

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/feb/24/guardianobituaries.spain

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro_Finisterre

https://historia-hispanica.rah.es/biografias/50737-alejandro-campos-ramirez

https://raicesalaire.com/alejandro-finisterre/

https://www.revistadefrente.cl/el-poeta-anarquista-que-invento-el-taca-taca-para-la-ninez-victima-de-la-guerra-civil-espanola/

https://www.adiantegalicia.es/reportaxes/2019/09/08/alejandro-finisterre-la-historia-jamas-contada-del-genio-del-futbolin-en-el-ano-del-centenario-de-su-natalicio.html

https://www.lambiek.net/artists/n/nadar.htm

https://time.com/5289117/aerial-photography-drones-history/

https://www.thoughtco.com/the-first-impressionist-exhibition-183013

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:06.0	CoolZone Media
0:07.0	Hello and welcome to cool people who did cool stuff.
0:11.0	Your weekly reminder that I have a podcast that comes out more than once a week,
0:14.0	and yet I say weekly every single time.
0:17.0	It's part of what I say, and at this point, if I changed it, I would probably get confused and end up rambling, which I'm certainly not doing. I am your host, Margaret Kiljoy. My guest is Mango, who's the host of part-time genius. And this is part two of a two-parter. That is not really a two-parter. It's two separate one-parters. But that's the way that I always introduce the show. So here I am. Wait, wait. If you didn't listen to parters, but that's the way that I always introduced the show. So here I am.
0:41.3	Wait, wait. If you didn't listen to part one, you can actually still start
0:43.3	with part two, which is very different
0:45.4	than normal. Oh, that's true.
0:47.4	Sick. It's true.
0:50.4	It's your time
0:51.4	to shine backwards week, people.
0:56.0	How are you doing today on this day that is obviously the same day as last time you were on?
1:00.8	I'm having a great time. It's so nice to be hanging out with you and Sophie.
1:04.0	Yeah. I am excited. It's nice to have weeks where it's just talking to people who are nice to talk to.
1:10.5	I actually have a very nice job. I complain about working a lot because it takes a lot of work to make this thing. But it's a nice job. It's just like I like talk to people who are cool about shit that matters and it's nice. One day I want to do this with both you and Will. If he ever, ever has a free minute, I want to do that.
1:28.9	I think it would be really fun.
1:31.0	That'd be super fun.
1:32.2	Yeah.
1:32.7	And he's really funny.
1:34.2	I know.
1:37.1	I'll be like, hello, my boss's boss.
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