Hey Beautiful Nords, it's Roman Mars here to tell you about a

podcast that you might enjoy if you appreciate overlooked details like we

discuss here at 99% invisible. In this case, the overlooked details are

actually humans.

The podcast is called significant others and it tells stories of folks just beyond the spotlight

of history.

Each episode tells the story of a talented, difficult, and little-known individual who altered the destiny of their better-known

partner, child, sibling, friend, and impacted the world that they left behind.

The first episode covers a name I bet you haven't heard

before Peggy Shippin but I am sure you've heard of her husband, Benedict Arnold.

Here's a snippet of the episode that explores how Benedict Arnold may have never

turned on his country and made his own name synonymous with treason

were it not for Peggy.

The scene in Philadelphia when Arnold arrived was bleak.

Citizens were starving.

Whole neighborhoods were burned.

Horses lay dead in their traces.

Churches were stripped of their pews and pulpits and gravestones had been overturned.

Independence Hall was bare and Washington Square was filled with 2,000 American corpses. The only part of town was the one square mile of

the only part of town that appeared untouched by the British Army's

occupation was the one square mile of homes and shops where the wealthy

folk lived. In other words, Peggy Shippin's

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