186. Nellie Bly
Who Did What Now
Katie Charlwood
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Nellie Bly was a whirlwind in a new form of journalism - Stunt Girl Journalism! At 23 years old she spent 10 days in the Women's Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell's Island, exposing the mistreatment of the marginilised in these institutions and sparking reform. Her investigative journalism would take her around the world and even to the Eastern Front during the Great War, but tht's only part of her story.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, delicious friends, and welcome to Hoodhead Wartnow, the Hestry Podcast that is not |
| 0:19.6 | your history class, with with me your host, Katie |
| 0:22.6 | Charlewood, History Harlet and Reader of Books. So I've fainted in work today. I know. I know |
| 0:31.1 | I just threw that in there, just started off strong with fainting at my place of employment, |
| 0:36.3 | which was a wee bit embarrassing and I'm like |
| 0:39.1 | a tiny bit concerning because like for why? For why did I faint? That was very unpleasant. I didn't |
| 0:46.3 | appreciate that at all. Zero out of five stars. Like I'm like why? Am I deficient in something Like, what is going on? Because I know I'm getting enough iron between, you know, the meat I eat and the cereals. |
| 1:03.0 | So there should be that, that in the supplements, right? I mean, I take my vitamins. So one would assume that they do you know get absorbed and I hope they get |
| 1:12.3 | absorbed very expensive so like I should be fine so that leaves some kind of illness |
| 1:19.6 | and I thought oh maybe that's you know connected to the excruciating pain that I've |
| 1:25.6 | been in the last couple of days. |
| 1:33.3 | And I've been in quite a lot of back pain, more than usual, more, which is a little bit, |
| 1:38.4 | again, concerning. And I thought, maybe they're connected. And then I was telling a co-worker about my weekend. And I was saying, oh, I was in the pool with the kids. And then the |
| 1:43.1 | swimming lesson started, so they cordoned off part of the pool. |
| 1:46.0 | And so it's quite deep. |
| 1:47.3 | So my daughter was on my back and, like, I was giving her piggybacks in the water. |
| 1:50.3 | And she was like, hey, hey, maybe you were giving piggybacks in the water. |
| 1:56.3 | Maybe that's what hurt your back. |
| 1:58.1 | And I'm like, oh, yeah. |
| 2:05.4 | Perhaps that could be what that is. Perhaps that be the issue. Yeah. Doesn't explain the fainting, but you know, that is, that is something. But I know |
| 2:12.0 | what you're thinking, you're thinking, Katie, quit your jibble, jabble, and fact me. In fact, |
| 2:16.8 | you I well, but first, we've got to get our source on. |
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