Girls in the band, Emily Pilloton's teen toolbox, Mr. Superlative's bath tips and True Detective
Happy To Be Here
Greta Johnsen
4.6 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2014
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
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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| 0:00.0 | This is the cosmos, and it's the greatest story science has ever told. |
| 0:13.3 | Can you see Texas up there on your high horse? |
| 0:19.6 | I'm Greta Johnson. |
| 0:21.8 | I'm Tricia Bobita. |
| 0:23.5 | And this is the Nerdat podcast. |
| 0:28.5 | Those clips are from Cosmos, which is back, and it's Neil DeGrasse Tyson, and it's beautiful. |
| 0:34.2 | And from True Detective, which is over and which I thought was beautiful, but we'll talk about that later. |
| 0:37.4 | Yes, we know many of you are probably not caught up yet on True Detective. The HBO miniseries ended Sunday night. But here's the deal. 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 worst. And we'll also give you very ample warning before we start getting all spoilery. Right. We'll give you this warning sound before we start talking about true detective later. |
| 0:57.4 | All right, all right. |
| 1:00.4 | In the meantime, we're talking this week with Emily Piloton. |
| 1:03.4 | I want to show young girls that there's a whole toolbox of stuff that can give them confidence |
| 1:09.4 | and the ability to bring their ideas to life. |
| 1:12.3 | What's great about this is Emily means a literal toolbox. We'll talk to her about her mission |
| 1:16.6 | to equip girls with power tools. But first, a conversation with Judy Chakin. She's the director |
| 1:21.4 | of a documentary called Girls in the Band, and it's all about women who played instruments |
| 1:25.7 | in the 50s and 60s in big bands and jazz |
| 1:28.8 | bands. It came about because a friend of mine called me up and said that she had met a woman |
| 1:34.0 | who was in her 80s who said that she had been a big band drummer in the 40s. And I said, well, |
| 1:40.6 | yeah, maybe like a high school band or something because there were never any women in any of the big bands. And she said, no, this woman insists she said, well, yeah, maybe like a high school band or something, because there were never any women in any of the big bands. |
| 1:46.4 | And she said, no, this woman insists she had an all-girl big band. |
| 1:50.3 | So we looked her up on the Internet, and sure enough, we found out that there was an all-girl |
| 1:55.3 | band that she had led, and they had been somewhat successful in their day. |
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