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Vladimir Lenin and John Lennon. The Other Life of Marilyn Monroe. How nonviolent protests have shaped the world we live in today. In five seasons, OZY’s hit podcast Thread showed listeners how intertwined major world events can be across time and space.
Each episode illustrates how history is made up of various narrative threads woven together to create the famous characters, big ideas, or unthinkable tragedies we all know. That’s why, in today’s Daily Dose, we’re highlighting some of the ThreadThe most intriguing and surprisingly serendipitous episodes that are sure to get you deep in thought and, perhaps, challenge your long-held beliefs.
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First season
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1 – From Lenin to Lennon
The latter had lived in exile for years, watching from abroad the era of the Russian Tsar crumble and a new, albeit short-lived, political establishment take root. Changing political winds brought Vladimir Lenin home. And with it communism, a new form of society that would shape and redefine the world throughout the 20th century. Sixty-three years later, when the first was shot down, the world shook again. What connects the two? Well, both harbored the hope and the dream of a socialist and utopian society. We talked about it in his songs. The other took over a country and changed the course of history.
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2 – John Lennon’s Murder
After shooting rock star John Lennon outside the Dakota Building in Manhattan on December 8, 1980, Mark David Chapman remained at the crime scene reading his favorite book, The Heart Catcher, until the police arrived. Chapman strongly identifies with Holden Caulfield, the alienated protagonist of the novel, and in this episode,Thread explores Chapman’s motivations, their roots in Catcher, and asks the question: What drives someone to kill their own hero in cold blood? And hang out to get caught?
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Season 2
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1 – The Woman Who Won’t Die
Marilyn Monroe. Soft-spoken celebrity? Sure. Sex goddess? 100%. But beneath the larger-than-life figure was another woman, far bolder than most people realize. Monroe was an actress ahead of her time and had to have a night out with some of the most powerful men in America to make that happen. But there was more to Monroe, who was partly raised in foster homes as a child. Plus, the actress wasn’t afraid to stand up to some of Hollywood’s most powerful men – the kind of nefarious people she called “wolves”, the kind of people she was forced to push away. From the earliest age.
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2 – From MGM to #MeToo
The Hollywood casting couch existed long before Harvey Weinstein. In the latest episode of ThreadIn the second season of, host Sean Braswell explores some of Weinstein’s background in the industry, the scandals and crimes they covered up, and how a new generation of women inspired by Gloria Steinem are beginning to end old practices. of Hollywood and other men. -dominated industries.
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Season three
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1 – Nonviolence shapes the world
Fifty years ago, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated after leading the most influential protest movement in American history. King revolutionized the use of nonviolent resistance to address racial injustice in the United States, but the Alabama preacher didn’t always believe in nonviolence. In fact, from the start, King relied on armed guards for his protection until a former Quaker activist named Bayard Rustin walked into King’s house and changed the direction of the civil rights movement.
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2 – An angelic troublemaker
Veteran activist and Quaker Bayard Rustin was King’s mentor in nonviolence and the genius organizer of the March on Washington in 1963. Many believed Rustin was on his way to becoming “American Gandhi.” There was only one problem: Rustin was gay and, therefore, would be forced to remain on the fringes of the civil rights struggle and on the fringes of American history.
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Season Five
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1 – A whole team
On those shoulders, Megan Rapone and co. walk. In the summer of 1985, the first United States women’s national soccer team made its debut in Italy. The motley group, cobbled together in less than a week and with a shoestring budget, little time to train and uniforms in hand, struggled to keep up with their international competition. But their perseverance and love of the game laid the foundation for the winning team culture that fueled the champion teams of the 1990s. Recent years have brought World Cup triumphs and Olympic gold medals.
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2 – Too strong for a woman
After learning that she hadn’t been considered for any of the teaching openings in her college department and that she was “too strong for a woman,” Bernice “Bunny” Sandler came home and cried. Then she showed what a strong woman she was. Sandler’s remarkable efforts behind the scenes proved instrumental in the passage in 1972 of Title IX, the federal law prohibiting sex discrimination in higher education. Soon after, Sandler headed a new National Advisory Council on Women’s Education Equity, writing some of the nation’s first reports on rural women’s education and highlighting sexual misconduct. in education. Prior to her passing in 2019, Sandler was praised for highlighting gender discrimination against women on the college campus.
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Check out the other OZY podcasts!
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2 – Future of X
Over four seasons in Future of X, OZY fast forwards decades into the future to explore the industries and fields that will shape our world, and some of the dreamers that shape it. Some of the topics we dissected: the future of health and how it is decidedly feminine; the future of the workplace and how headhunting may be a thing of the past; and the future of agriculture, and how “Big Ag” is getting even bigger is something you should know.
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