81. Rhode Island: The Bravest Woman in America with Taylor Wolfe

Here's Where It Gets Interesting

Sharon McMahon

Government, History, Storytelling, Education

4.9 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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In this episode, Sharon sits down with Taylor Wolfe, comedian and lover of wigs, to talk about Rhode Island’s most famous lighthouse keeper, Ida Lewis. A strong swimmer and rower, even as a petite woman, Idawalley Zoradia Lewis faithfully kept the lamp lit at Lime Rock Light Station and rescued as many as 36 people from drowning during her lifetime. These feats of heroism catapulted her to nationwide fame in the mid-1800s and even led to a visit from President Ulysses S. Grant. Ida was sixteen when she made her first rescue, and sixty-three when she made her final rescue, earning the title of the bravest woman in America.

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0:00.0	Hello, hello, welcome to this episode! I am so excited to share this with you because it has been a long time in the making.
0:08.6	I am here today with my friend Taylor Wolf. You may be following her on Instagram at the Daily Te.
0:14.9	Her impressions of influencers are beyond hilarious. If you've spent any time on social media and you know about influencer culture,
0:24.4	you will think she is spot-on. She even does an impression of me. And that's like a Sharon wig. I love it.
0:35.8	Let's have you do this episode, which is about Rhode Island and about somebody incredibly interesting and with my incredibly interesting guest, Taylor Wolf.
0:44.3	I'm Sharon Nickman and welcome to the Sharon Says So podcast.
0:49.9	Taylor, it's finally happening. It's happening. You're finally here. We've been working on this for literal months.
0:58.9	And you're here today. Yay. I debated coming dressed up as you, but then I didn't know if that would be weird or not.
1:05.9	You're kind of dressed as me. You're kind of wearing a sweater that I would wear.
1:10.9	I'm wearing the earrings though. I have to take my earrings off when I'm doing podcasts because they make sound in my headphones.
1:17.9	But you're missing the earrings that come on now and glasses. I'm not wearing glasses either.
1:24.9	I absolutely love your Instagram account. I have been following you for over a year.
1:29.9	And just literally randomly found you one day and laughed and laughed and laughed at your content. And I love how you poke fun at influencer culture. It makes me laugh daily.
1:42.9	Well, thank you. You know, it's been my job to be I just don't like the term influencer, obviously.
1:49.9	Yeah, but I was trying to poke fun at it very lightly because I am fully doing it. Like this is also my job.
1:56.9	But I've never had a job that I can't make fun of to be completely honest. This is just a really easy one to do.
2:02.9	100%. Like what kind of sense of humor do you have? You can't make fun of yourself or you can't make fun of your own profession.
2:10.9	Right. Like lawyers should think lawyer humor is funny. It flows or should like it floats or humor.
2:16.9	Like we should do. Yeah, they do. Yes, it's very funny. Your take on it is hilarious. And I love your different characters.
2:24.9	You're naturally very good at sketch comedy.
2:28.9	Well, thank you. I really appreciate that because I did improv for quite a few years. And I wasn't good at that. No, I was terrible.
2:34.9	Like all my friends went on and got booked and I was like, wow, I'm not good at this. So then I came to Instagram.
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