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Stuff Mom Never Told You

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4.2 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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In this episode of Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff, Margaret Killjoy and Anney talk about vaccines and complicated historical characters.

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:02.6	Guaranteed Human.
0:09.2	Hey, this is Annie.
0:10.4	And Samantha.
0:11.2	And welcome to Stuff I've Never Told You, a production of IHeart Radio.
0:28.9	And as we are approaching the end of the year, we're bringing back some of our favorite things that we've done.
0:32.2	Honestly, listeners, to be real.
0:35.4	Samantha and I don't know what time is anymore.
0:37.2	It could have happened. In the 90s.
0:38.8	Samantha accidentally said it was the 90s, more than once.
0:42.2	More than once.
0:42.9	I'm all over the place with years.
0:45.7	But I believe this did happen this year for me.
0:48.7	Okay, okay, okay.
0:49.9	Yes, I got to guest on cool people who did cool stuff with Margaret Kiljoy.
0:55.7	It was a two-part episode, and it was on vaccines.
0:59.6	Which right now feels like a pretty important topic.
1:05.0	Yes.
1:05.7	Yes, and it was really interesting because it was episodes about this guy wasn't great in a lot of ways,
1:15.1	but he did do this thing. That was really good. And also, as people who know me,
1:22.9	especially Samantha knows, I'm shy. So in the first episode, I don't talk that much. And then Sophie and
1:32.6	Margaret were like, you really should interject more. So if I'm kind of absent in the first bit,
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