E282: Nellie Bly (part IV)

Fresh Hell Podcast

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4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

In the final part of our Nellie Bly series, we follow her through yet another reinvention ...as wife to industrialist Robert Seaman and, after his death, one of the first female CEOs in the U.S. We look at her lesser-known interviews with a ten-year-old Helen Keller and the terrifying Lizzie Halliday, and how she returned to journalism under William Randolph Hearst after her business collapsed under fraud and bankruptcy. She exposed corruption in the adoption system, was one of the first female war correspondents during the Great War, fought for women’s legal rights, and quietly placed abandoned children with families from a room at the Hotel McAlpin.

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0:22.4	or they might turn out like us. Hi, I'm Annie in Massachusetts, birthplace of Tupperware.
0:35.9	And I'm Johanna from Austria, birthplace of the croissant, allegedly.
0:41.5	Debatable?
0:42.4	It's not French?
0:44.4	No, it's not.
0:46.5	I had no idea.
0:47.3	We were the first ones to do a croissant, and then the French took it and made it better.
0:52.1	Let's say it like this.
0:52.9	There we go.
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1:46.1	last minute sources that kind of contradict everything you just researched before and took notes
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