Hank Green, Cameron Esposito and the history of lady pockets
Happy To Be Here
Greta Johnsen
4.6 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2014
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Super nerd Hank Green on the evolution of YouTube. Comedian Cameron Esposito gives homework. And Ariana Tobin of Marketplace on the disappearing act of pockets in women's fashion. Plus your nerd confessions.
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| 0:00.0 | Is your hot pocket cold in the middle? It's frozen. |
| 0:08.5 | But it can be served boiling lava hot. |
| 0:16.7 | I'm Greta Johnson. I'm Tricia Bobita. |
| 0:19.2 | And from WBeeZ in Chicago, this is Nerdette. |
| 0:22.3 | Coming up, the gigantic new iPhone has us thinking about the history of women's very ineffective pockets. |
| 0:28.3 | They're more decorative than anything, frankly. |
| 0:30.6 | And we talk with nerd emperor Hank Green. |
| 0:32.9 | All that plus homework from comedian Cameron Esposito and your nerd confessions. |
| 0:37.4 | Right here on Nerdette. |
| 0:45.8 | The iPhone 6 and especially the iPhone 6 plus and the new giant Samsung phone tablet fabblets thing |
| 0:52.9 | have some dudes on the internet lamenting about how they can't fit their smartphones into their pockets anymore, which is pretty funny, if you ask me. |
| 1:00.1 | Because welcome to our world, fellas. We're not the only ones who notice this. Ariana Tobin is a digital producer for Marketplace. |
| 1:07.2 | She dug into the history of women's pockets to figure out exactly when did this happen, |
| 1:11.3 | when did fashion win out over function when it comes to women carrying stuff around. |
| 1:20.3 | Women's pockets are small. It's not an accident of history that this happened. It's like |
| 1:24.8 | so deeply related to every other aspect of economy and culture. |
| 1:29.0 | Everything in clothing, everything in design has some series of thought behind it. And in this |
| 1:34.6 | case, women's fashion, there are countless academics who have studied the thought and design |
| 1:39.8 | behind what we wear. I'm looking at what I'm wearing today. I don't think I have a single |
| 1:43.6 | pocket on me. Yeah, I have none. I'm wearing no pockets right now wearing today. I don't think I have a single pocket on me. |
| 1:44.6 | Yeah, I have none. I'm wearing no pockets right now. I have saggy pockets. They're not functional. |
| 1:48.3 | They're decorative pockets. All right. So now that we've gotten the lay of the land of everyone's |
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