Significant Others

Friedrich Nietzsche spent the final years of his life incapacitated by illness while his sister bent his works to her use as a social-climbing fascist.

Starring Laura Ramoso as Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche and Flula Borg as Friedrich Nietzsche.

Also featuring Matt Gourley, Jessica Chaffin, and Anja Albertson.

Source List:

Nietzsche’s Sister and the Will to Power by Carol Diethe, First Illinois Paperback, ©2007, ©2003 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

I Am Dynamite!, by Sue Prideaux, ©2018, Tim Duggan Books, an imprint of The Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York

In Emergency, Break Glass: What Nietzsche Can Teach Us About Joyful Living in a Tech-Saturated World, ©2022 by Nate Anderson, WW Norton & Co

The Making of Frederich Nietzsche: The Quest For Identity 1844-1869

By Daniel Blue , ©2016, University Printing House, Cambridge CB2, 8BS United Kingdom

The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols And Other Writings

by Frederich Nietzsche, Edited by Aaron Ridley and Judith Norman

Cambridge University Press, ©2005

Haaretz, Was Nietzsche Hitler’s Spiritual Godfather?

Big Think, How the Nazis Hijacked Nietzsche, and How it Can Happen to Anybody

The Guardian, Far Right, Misogynist, Humorless? Why Nietzsche is Misunderstood

The Nietzsche Channel, Nietzsche’s Writings as a Student

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Friedrich Nietzsche

The New York Times, Rocken Journal, No Superman, Perhaps, but the Titan of his Town

https://www.philosophizethis.org/

Cambridge University Press, Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosophize This!

London Review of Books, It Wasn’t Him, It Was Her

Britannica, Return from Exile of Richard Wagner

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Amelia Earhart’s husband George Putnam didn’t invent ghostwriting, but he relied on it heavily to produce his best-sellers. What kind of job is ghostwriting today?

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The man who made Amelia Earhart famous may also have gotten her killed. But their marriage was completely on her terms.

Starring John C. McGinley as George Palmer Putnam and Christa Miller as Amelia Earhart.

Also featuring Conan O’Brien, Neve O’Brien, Tavis Doucette, Maddie Ogden, and Miles Grose.

Source List

Amelia Earhart, A Biography by Doris L. Rich, ©1989, 2010 by the Smithsonian Institution

The Sound of Wings by Mary S. Lovell, St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY, 10010 ©1989 

Letters From Amelia by Jean L. Backus, Beacon Press, ©1982 

Soaring Wings by George Palmer Putnam, Manor Books Inc., ©1939, ©1967 by Margaret H. Lewis, Published by arrangement with Harocourt, Brace, Jovanovich, Inc. 

Wide Margins, a publisher’s autobiography by George Palmer Putnam, ©1942, Harcourt, Brace and Company, NY

EAST TO THE DAWN,The Life of Amelia Earhart by Susan Butler, Da Capo Press, ©1997 

Whistled Like A Bird by Sally Putnam Chapman, Warner Books, Inc., Hachette Book Group

Project Muse, “The Earhart Phenomenon and the “Accident of Sex” 

PBS, “American Experience: Amelia Earhart”

“Amelia Earhart’s Last Flight” by Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, Sept. 7, 2009

National Air and Space Museum, Earhart and George Palmer Putnam

New England Historical Society, Amelia Earhart, Reluctant Bride

Purdue University, Putnam, George Palmer, 1887-1950

CT Insider, Amelia Earhart’s ‘Secret’ Connecticut Wedding: From the Archives

UPI, Husband of Missing Flier Earhart Secluded After Long Vigil

The New York Times, 1932: I’m Not ‘Mrs. Putnam,’ I’m Amelia Earhart

PBS American Experience, Amelia Earhart Program Transcript

Palmer, Amy Phipps Guest Portrait

History.com, Charles Lindbergh Completes the First Solo, Nonstop Transatlantic Flight

Charles Lindbergh House and Museum, New York-to-Paris Flight

Britannica, Charles Lindbergh, American Aviator

NASA.gov, Realizing the Dream of Flight

Medium, Ghostwriters in 2020: The Current Trends and Beyond

The New York Times Archive, Tuesday, June 19th, 1928. Wednesday, June 20th, 1928.

Flight Paths: Purdue University’s Aerospace Pioneers, The Earhart Brand: Amelia Earhart’s Impact on Celebrity Culture

PBS, Navigating the Truth Behind Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan

Ghost Writing and History by Ernest R. May,  ©1953, The American Scholar, Published By: The Phi Beta Kappa Society

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Founder and host of the podcast Making Gay History, Eric Marcus, on Rustin’s heir and the stewardship of his legacy.

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The architect of the March on Washington and co-author of Dr. King’s memoir was a mentor to the great civil rights martyr. But he was nearly hidden from history—largely by choice.

Starring: J. Holtham as Bayard Rustin and Anthony Obi as Martin Luther King, Jr. 

Also featuring: Miles Grose, Matt Gourley, and Jesse Thorn.

Source List:

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute, Bayard Rustin, To Bayard Rustin, Glenn E. Smiley, From Bayard Rustin, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., Address at NAACP Mass Rally for Civil Rights

Facing History & Ourselves, Brother Outsider: Remembering Gay Civil Rights Leader Bayard Rustin

Lambda Legal, 67 Years Later, Bayard Rustin’s California Arrest and Jail Time Have Been Pardoned

Jewish News Syndicate, Bayard Rustin (1912-1987)

Bill of Rights Institute, Bayard Rustin, Nonviolence vs. Jim Crow, 1942

PBS.org., Who Designed the March on Washington?

The Weekly Challenger, The FBI Plot to Bring Down the Gay Man Behind the March on Washington

Making Gay History, Bayard Rustin

Washington Blade, Looking Back: 50 Years of the Blade

The Washington Post, Bayard Rustin, Organizer of the March on Washington, Was Crucial to the Movement, In ‘I Must Resist,’ Bayard Rustin Lived a Life with No Apologies 

Montgomery Advertiser, 21, 22, 23, & 24 February 1956

Cross Country Solidarity, The Montgomery Bus Boycott: The Full Story

LA Times, Glenn Smiley; Advised King on Nonviolence

The Guardian, When Martin Luther King Gave Up His Guns

Why a Gay, Black Civil Rights Hero Opposed Affirmative Action

Malcolm X and Bayard Rustin Debate on WBAI

CivilRights.org, Bayard Rustin and the Presidential Medal of Freedom: A Perfect Fit

Yale Law School, Bayard Rustin Centennial

Researchgate.net, Arrest Record for Bayard Rustin

Adam Clayton Powell Jr.

Beacon Broadside, Roy Wilkins’s Reluctant Tribute to W.E.B. Du Bois

Legal Defense Fund, Brown v. Board of Education

Greensboro.com, Thurmond, FBI Had Close Ties, Records Show

The New York Times, Negro Rally Aide Rebuts Senator

I Must Resist, Bayard Rustin’s Life In Letters, Ed. Michael Long, City Lights Books, ©2012

Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin by John D’Emilio, Free Press/Simon & Schuster, ©2003

ALABAMA V. KING, By Dan Abrams and Fred Grey with David Fisher, Harlequin Enterprises, Ltd., ©2022 

Martin Luther King, Jr., Homosexuality, and the Early Gay Rights Movement By Michael Long, First published by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN, a division of St. Martin’s Press, ©2012

Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference by David J Garrow, ©1986, Edition published 2015 by Open Road Media

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Author Sarah Vowell on the particular struggles women faced in revolutionary America and how Peggy Shippen’s environment influenced her decisions.

Sarah’s books can be found here.

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Benedict Arnold is famous for betraying his country–but it was his wife who made the treason possible.

Starring: Susan Yeagley as Peggy Shippen and Andy Richter as Benedict Arnold. Also featuring: Luke Millington-Drake, Jim O’Heir, Matt Gourley, and Roman Mars.

Show notes:

John Andre sketch of Peggy Shippen

Source List:

American Battlefield Trust, Peggy Shippen, 10 Facts: Benedict Arnold and Peggy Shippen, Benedict Arnold

History.com, Benedict Arnold

New York Historical Society, Life Story: Margaret “Peggy” Shippen Arnold

National Endowment for the Humanities, Love and the Revolution

Massachusetts Historical Society, Letters from John Adams to Abigail Adams

NPS.gov, Benedict Arnold

History.com, Why Benedict Arnold Tried to Capture Quebec

The George Washington Presidential Library, Joseph Reed

Medium.com, The Highest-paid Spy in the American Revolution

Brobeck, Stephen. “Revolutionary Change in Colonial Philadelphia: The Brief Life of the Proprietary Gentry.” The William and Mary Quarterly, vol. 33, no. 3, 1976, pp. 410–34. JSTOR

Benedict Arnold, Patriot and Traitor by Willard Sterne Randall, ©1990 by Willard Sterne Randall, 2001 Dorset Press

Defiant Brides: The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-Era Women and the Radical Men They Married, Nancy Rubin Stuart, ©2013 by Nancy Rubin Stuart, Beacon Press

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Significant Others is back for season 2! Starting February 14th, join Liza Powel O’Brien as she explores more stories of the little-known individuals just beyond the spotlight of history. Would Benedict Arnold have betrayed his country were it not for his wife, Peggy? Who is really to blame for Friedrich Nietzche’s connection to Nazism? Find out when Significant Others returns, February 14th with new episodes every Wednesday and follow-up episodes on Thursdays.

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In our final bonus episode before the new season, Liza is joined by psychoanalyst and couples therapist Dr. Susan Flinn to explore the significant others within ourselves and how they impact our relationships. They also discuss this idea of our ideal self, our ideal mate, and how these can set us up for disappointment. 

Season 2 premieres on February 14th! Want to support the show? Rate and review wherever you listen to your podcasts, and keep sending suggestions of Significant Others you’d like to hear about our way at [email protected]!

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In this month’s bonus episode, Liza is joined by Liza Mundy, journalist and author of the book, The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA, to discuss the profound influence women have had at the CIA from it’s creation in 1947 to present day in the post-9/11 world. Liza Mundy shares how women fought to become operatives, facilitated their husband’s spy careers, and tracked down Osama Bin Laden. 

We’re working hard on Season 2! Until then we will be releasing special bonus episodes from time to time. Want to support the show? Rate and review wherever you listen to your podcasts, and keep sending suggestions of Significant Others you’d like to hear about our way at [email protected]!

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