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🗓️ 24 March 2019
⏱️ 32 minutes
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0:00.0 | The late, the great, the champion of her kind, Ms. Nellie Bly. |
0:10.0 | Known for her exploits into the unknown, Nellie wowed her readers with amazing tales of fantastic feats and formidable foes. |
0:18.6 | Of course, some of those foes were her own bitter rivals, |
0:21.5 | such as competing female correspondent Elizabeth Bisland. |
0:25.6 | Neck in neck and hand in hand, |
0:27.5 | these two ladies took investigative journalism |
0:30.1 | and the woman's word to the next level, |
0:33.0 | often encountering other literary grates along the way. |
0:36.0 | Such as the case in the following tale from our live show, |
0:39.1 | more from the secret files of Nellie Bly. |
0:41.9 | A little story we call The Meeting at Amiens. |
0:45.5 | It was taped live in New York City on Sunday, February 24th, 2019. |
0:52.9 | The stories my friend Nellie Bly published in her lifetime were colorful and exciting enough, |
0:58.0 | but I have always maintained that it is the story behind the story that is in the final balance |
1:04.5 | the most fascinating. |
1:06.5 | This is doubly true in the case of Nellie Bly. |
1:19.7 | Nellie, riding high from her first journalistic triumph, her expose of the horrid conditions at the woman's asylum at Blackwell's Island, was looking for that next thing |
1:24.7 | that would propel her ascent to the top of the newspaper world. She exposed |
1:29.2 | frauds great and small. She conducted high-profile interviews with notable such as the anarchist |
1:35.0 | and agitator Emma Goldman. She followed the adventures of the rootin-tootin-shooting wild women writers of Buffalo Bill Cody's traveling show. |
1:47.2 | And just for the sake of a newspaper story, she even tried her hand at... |
1:53.0 | Ha-ha! Ha-ha! Ha ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! That's it. |
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