E281: Nellie Bly (part III)

Fresh Hell Podcast

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True Crime, History

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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In Part 3 of our Nellie Bly series, the whole world starts to pay attention. We’ll follow her from the publication of Ten Days in a Madhouse to her globe-circling race against the fictional Phileas Fogg. Along the way, Nellie becomes a household name, fields marriage proposals from strangers, and gets immortalized on trading cards and weird ads. But fame doesn’t make her lazy. She investigates shady servant agencies, interviews America’s most notorious female killer, and keeps writing stories no one else has the nerve to touch. Nellie Bly, Nellie Bly podcast, Around the World in 72 Days, Ten Days in a Madhouse, female journalists, Gilded Age, investigative journalism, Lizzie Halliday, New York World, Joseph Pulitzer, Phileas Fogg, servant scams, 19th century media, women in journalism, historical women, Fresh Hell podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Fresh Hell podcast.
0:14.6	Fresh Hell contains stories of a disturbing and often graphic nature and is intended for a mature audience.
0:20.6	Please don't let your kids listen to this, or they might turn out like us.
0:23.6	Hi, I'm Annie from Massachusetts, where we have a proud tradition of sarcasm, ghost stories and wicked aggressive driving.
0:40.1	And I'm Johanna from Austria, where we love rules, but love finding clever ways around them
0:45.1	even more. And you're listening to your favorite international podcast.
0:51.1	The podcast hosted by two women who, yeah, that's right, still haven't met in real life,
0:59.3	but who turned a research spiral into a full-time podcast. I'm proud of us for that. Before we start,
1:07.7	we'd love to give a huge thank you to our patrons and everyone who supports
1:14.3	our Weird Little Indy podcast. Whether you are helping to keep the lights on over on Patreon,
1:21.7	sharing the show with your friends, or just listening along while folding laundry and judging
1:26.3	history with us,
1:30.2	we appreciate you more than we can say.
1:33.4	Seriously, thank you so much.
1:37.8	And now, Johanna, I want to challenge you to give us a recap of the first two episodes on Nellie Blye in less than 200 words. Can you do it? I feel like you can, I couldn't. And no,
1:49.5	you can't use your long-ass German-like words. What are they called the compounding? Yeah.
1:55.5	It's a word count, not a speed test. Okay, let me think.
2:03.0	You're funny.
2:03.6	That's already two episodes, you know that.
2:05.4	But okay, challenge accepted.
2:08.1	All right.
2:08.8	Start counting now.
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