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🗓️ 13 March 2014
⏱️ 27 minutes
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The director of Girls in the Band helps us get to know the hippest women who played in big bands. Why Emily Pilloton blew up shop class and rebuilt it for teens. Special homework from Mr. Superlative. And a debrief on the finale of True Detective.
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0:48.6 | about that later. Yes we know many of you are probably not caught up yet on |
0:51.8 | True Detective the HBO mini mini series ended Sunday night, but here's the deal. |
0:56.0 | We're going to talk about it, but we will wait until the end of this episode to save you from spoilers, which we know are the the worst and we'll also give you very |
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1:15.8 | In the meantime, we're talking this week with Emily Pilatin. |
1:18.4 | I want to show young girls that there's a whole toolbox of stuff that can give them confidence and the ability to bring |
1:26.0 | their ideas to life. |
1:27.4 | What's great about this is Emily means a literal toolbox. |
1:30.4 | We'll talk to her about her mission to equip girls with power tools. |
1:33.5 | But first a conversation with Judy Chakin. |
1:35.5 | She's the director of a documentary called Girls in the Band, |
1:38.5 | and it's all about women who played instruments in the 50s and 60s in big bands and jazz bands. |
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