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Biddy Mason & Important Black Inventors

Web Crawlers

Web Crawlers

True Crime, Comedy, Tv, Pop Culture, Crime, News, After Shows, Celebrities, Melissa Stetten, Social Media, Tv & Film, Bimbo News, Ali Segel, Entertainment News, 90 Day Fiance

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

To celebrate Black History Month we talk about Biddy Mason's amazing journey to freedom, entrepreneurship, and philanthropism. We discuss important inventors like Shirley Jackson, Alice H. Parker, the first "Queen of Drag" William Dorsey Swann, and the inventors of house music. Melissa also recounts her time as an elementary school Black History quiz bowl champion. 

We're donating a portion of our Patreon money this month to Black Girls Code


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0:00.0

An e-reo's original.

0:20.0

Hello and welcome to Web Crawlers, the podcast where we do a deep dive into some of our favorite

0:24.4

mysteries.

0:25.4

Each week we will introduce our topic, lay out our research and findings, reveal some conspiracy theories, and conclude with our own hypothesis.

0:32.4

I'm Ali Siegel.

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I'm Melissa Stetten.

0:36.4

And who are our patrons this week?

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We have Taylor B. Kristen, Chris, and Eileen.

0:43.4

Come on Eileen.

0:49.4

Welcome guys.

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We won't sing everyone's name.

0:52.4

But welcome.

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And come on Eileen.

0:55.4

So we did an episode with the lovely Cassidy Ruth about the unknown woman behind FDR's new deal.

1:03.4

That will be coming out next week because we're going to re-record it because I'm an idiot.

1:11.4

No, we're both idiots.

1:13.4

We deleted it by accident.

1:15.4

The files were deleted.

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But I won't get into the episode.

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But I thought it was so interesting that there's women in history who are responsible for such huge things that we take for granted every day or that we think other people did.

1:38.4

And it was really a woman who did it.

1:41.4

And I thought there's going to be so many other women who have done incredible things that have just been lost in history.

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