Best The Palmer Squares Podcasts (2025)

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January 16 - Palmer Raids Victims Win Right to Legal Counsel 1:59

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Today in labor history, January 16, 1920 thousands of immigrant detainees and labor activists won the basic constitutional right to consult with an attorney. These detainees were victims of the infamous Palmer Raids.By The Rick Smith Show

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January 15 - Deadly Molasses Explosion of 1919 1:59

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Today in labor history, January 15, 1919 marked one of the strangest industrial disasters in U.S. History. That winter day in Boston the weather shifted suddenly and temperatures began to rise. A fifty foot storage container containing 2.3 million gallons of molasses began to make strange noises.By The Rick Smith Show

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346. The Young Grandads 1:42:17

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Watch full video of this week's episode HERE In this installment of TPS Reports the Squares discuss winning trivia night, seeing Luis J. Gomez, classic rock, blowing the silent guy, rhyme biters at the Luigi rally, Term fighting Jake Paul, being unfamiliar with the most popular things & hot cheese soup. Outro song: "Introverted Extrovert" by Kembe …

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January 14 - Remembering Julian Bond 1:59

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Today in labor history, January 14,1940, Julian Bond was born in Nashville Tennessee. Bond was one of the leaders of the Civil Rights Movement. He helped found the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, known as “snick.”By The Rick Smith Show

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January 13 - The Tompkins Square Riot 1:59

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On this day in labor history, the year was 1874. What came to be known as the “Tompkin’s Square Riot,” took place in New York City. The nation was caught in the clutches of the 1873 depression. Unemployed New Yorkers called for a public works program to put people back to work.By The Rick Smith Show

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January 12 - Cox’s Army Marches on the Nation’s Capitol 1:59

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On this day in labor history, the year was 1932, a very unusual army marched on Washington, D.C. Pro-labor Catholic Priest, Father James Renshaw Cox led the march from Pennsylvania to the Nation’s Capital to demand a public work’s program to put people back to work. For more information on Cox's March http://web.stanford.edu/group/progressive/cgi-b…

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January 11 - The Bread & Roses Strike 1:59

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Today in labor history, the year was 1912 this historic day marked the beginning of the “Bread and Roses Strike” of textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts. The strike was led by the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). The state Of Massachusetts passed a law reducing the work week for women and children from 56 to 54 hours.…

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January 10 - Honoring Joe Hill 1:59

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Today in labor history, January 10, 1914, two men were killed during a grocery store robbery in Utah. Their murders were blamed on Joe Hill a Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World, or the IWW, also known as the Wobblies.By The Rick Smith Show

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January 9 - Southern Tenant Farmers Line Missouri Highways 1:59

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Yet farm workers have played an important, and often overlooked role in labor history. Such was the case today in labor history, January 9, 1939. That was the day more than 1,500 Missouri farmers and their families began a “highway sit in.”By The Rick Smith Show

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January 8 - The German Coast Uprising of 1811 1:59

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Often significant days in history pass with little attention. Today in labor history, January 8, 1811, is one such day. On that day Charles Deslonde, an enslaved sugar laborer in the New Orleans territory led what became one of the largest slave revolts in American history.By The Rick Smith Show

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345. Dino Nugs & Corndogs 2:12:03

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Watch full video of this week's episode HERE In this installment of TPS Reports the Squares discuss watching Band of Brothers, not smoking weed, hot yoga, Term rapping with his dad's band, hotdog eating contests, Diddy's prison meals, flesh colored undergarments, Derrick Rose night & Doug Stanhope's new special. Outro song: "Rap 101" by Jarv Smooch…

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Mitch Henderson, Princeton University Men's Basketball Coach 30:26

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In Episode 57 of the Princeton Podcast, our Princeton Podcast host, Mayor Mark Freda, welcomed Mitch Henderson, Princeton University Men’s Basketball Coach. Mitch discussed his journey from a Princeton University student-athlete to the head coach of the Princeton University men’s basketball team. Graduating in 1998 and becoming head coach in 2011, …

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January 7 - Semana Trágica 1:59

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Today in labor history, January 7, 1919 began what is known as Semana Trágica, or Tragic Week in Argentina. Labor unrest had been mounting in Buenos Aries. On January 7, police killed four workers who were striking for better conditions at an ironworks plant.By The Rick Smith Show

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January 6 - Remembering Carl Sandburg 1:59

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Today in labor history, January 6, 1878, is the birthday of renowned Illinois poet Carl Sandburg. He was born to Swedish immigrants in Galesburg, Illinois. Later Sandburg worked as an editorial writer at the Chicago Daily News. He was part of a group of poets and novelists, known as the “Chicago Literary Renaissance.” Sandburg became most well-know…

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January 5 - The Best Customers 1:59

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Today in labor history, January 5, 1914 the Ford Motor Company raised its basic wage from $2.40 for a nine-hour day to $5 for an eight-hour work day. Many of Ford’s contemporary critics scorned his “Five Dollar Day.” Journalists and other auto makers predicted disaster for the industry. Henry Ford implemented the wage increase to head off labor unr…

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January 4 - The Longest Strike 1:59

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Last year Chicago saw the end of what may have been the longest hotel strike in history. On Father’s Day 2013, 130 workers from the Congress Hotel on Michigan Avenue walked off the job. They were protesting a reduction in wages and the hotel’s hiring of minimum-wage subcontractors. For ten years the strikers, let by Unite Here, picketed the hotel. …

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January 3 - The England Food Riot 1:59

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Today in labor history, January 3, 1931 was a day that helped to bring the hunger and poverty caused by the Great Depression to the attention of the nation.By The Rick Smith Show

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January 2 - The January 1905 Conference 1:59

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Today in labor history, January 2, 1905 a secret meeting was held in Chicago, attended by 23 industrial unionists.By The Rick Smith Show

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January 1 - The Emancipation Proclamation 1:59

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Today in labor history, January 1, 1963, is one of the most often misunderstood days in United States history. This was the day that Abraham Lincoln issued the “Emancipation Proclamation.” But did you know that Emancipation Proclamation did not actually free enslaved people in the U.S.?By The Rick Smith Show

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December 31 - The First to Enter Ellis Island 1:59

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On this day in labor history the year was 1891. That was the day that an Irish teenager by the name of Annie Moore arrived on the shores of New York. She was travelling with her two younger brothers. They had taken a twelve-day sea voyage to be reunited with their parents, who were already in New York City.…

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December 30 - Railway Clerks Organize 1:59

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On this day in labor history the year was 1899. That was the day that a group of thirty-three railway clerks gathered in the back room of Behrens’ cigar shop in Sedalia, Missouri. They called themselves the Order of Railway Clerks in America. They affiliated with the American Federation of Labor.By The Rick Smith Show

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December 29 - Pushing Back Against Plant Closures 1:59

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On this day in labor history the year was 2006. That was the day that United Steelworker members ended a nearly three-month strike against the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company. The strike involved nearly 15,000 workers from sixteen different plants across the United States and Canada.By The Rick Smith Show

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December 28 - Sit-Down Solidarity 1:59

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On this day in labor history the year was 1936. That was the day that at 2pm in the afternoon, 200 workers at the Fisher Body Ohio Company on the East side of Cleveland sat down on the job. Fisher was located in Cleveland’s Collinwoodneighborhood.By The Rick Smith Show

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December 27 - FDR Takes Over the Rails 1:59

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On this day in labor history the year was 1943. That was the day that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt seized control of the nation’s railroads to avert a strike. The nation was in the midst of World War II.By The Rick Smith Show

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December 26 - A Rude Awakening 1:59

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On this day in labor history the year was 1996. That was the day that working people of South Korea awoke to some alarming news. That morning the country’s new ruling party had passed a new set of labor laws. The new policies had been implemented at an unscheduled morning meeting.By The Rick Smith Show

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December 25 - And So This is Christmas? 1:59

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On this day in labor history the year was 2001. That was the year that the spirit of Christmas must have seemed very far away from some of the workers who harvested Christmas Trees in the United States. Many of these workers come from Mexico and Central American countries. They come for the harvest as guest workers.…

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December 24 - A Very Tragic Christmas 1:59

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On this day in labor history the year was 1913. That tragic Christmas Eve, came to be known as the Italian Hall Disaster in Calumet, Michigan. A Christmas party was being held for children of striking copper miners.By The Rick Smith Show

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