It has been said that history is written by the person at the typewriter, but I've always wondered who else was in that person's orbit.

Who did the person who made history depend on?

Often it's impossible to find out,

but once in a while we get lucky,

and the story was not only recorded, it's really good.

Hi, I'm Liza Powell O'Brien, and this is what my podcast from Team

Coco is all about.

It's called Significant Others,

and each episode tells a story you might not know about a person you probably do.

In season two, we're bringing you eight more stories of lesser known figures who played

integral roles in the lives of some of history's most

notable and notorious subjects. We'll learn how Amelia Earhart would neither have found

fame nor possibly perished at sea had it not been for her husband

George Putnam and how Benedict Arnold might never have turned on his country were

it not for his wife Peggy. We'll learn who is really to blame for Friedrich Nietzsche's connection to Nazism.

And we'll dive into the story of Duke Ellington's collaborator Billy Strayhorn, who wrote, among many other things,

what might be the great musicians' most famous tune.

With the help of some super talented team cocoa friends, like Ted Danson, Flula Borg, Laura Ramoso and

Open Mike Eagle will bring these surprising stories of interdependency to life.

And a series of brilliant guests,

like Sarah Vowel and MIT Professor Darren Asamaglu

will help me think out loud in our follow-up episodes

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