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Nerdette

Hank Green, Cameron Esposito and the history of lady pockets

Nerdette

WBEZ

Tv & Film, Self, Nerd, Books, Technology, Tv, Improvement, Culture, Wbez, Society & Culture, Pop, Nerdette, Nerds

4.71.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2014

⏱️ 31 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

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0:16.0

Is your hot pocket cold in the middle? It's frozen.

0:22.0

But it can be served. Is your hot pocket cold in the middle? It's frozen.

0:23.0

But it can be served boiling lava hot.

0:27.0

I'm Greta Johnson. I'm Tricia Bobita, and from W.Bee, Z in Chicago, this is Nurdette.

0:37.0

Coming up, the gigantic new iPhone has us thinking about the history of women's very ineffective pockets.

0:43.4

They're more decorative than anything, frankly.

0:45.7

And we talk with nerd Emperor Hank Green.

0:48.0

All that plus homework from comedian Cameron Esposito

0:50.8

and your nerd confessions.

0:52.4

Right here on Nurdett.

0:54.0

The iPhone 6 and the iPhone 6 and

1:02.0

especially the iPhone 6 plus and the new giant Samsung phone tablet fabblets thing

1:07.8

have some dudes on the internet lamenting about how they can't fit their

1:11.0

smartphones into their pockets anymore which is pretty funny if you ask me.

1:15.0

Because welcome to our world, fellas. We're not the only ones who noticed this.

1:19.1

Ariana Tobin is a digital producer for Marketplace. She dug into the history of women's pockets to figure out exactly

1:25.4

when did this happen? When did fashion went out over function when it comes to women carrying stuff around? around. So deeply related to every other aspect of economy and culture.

1:43.6

Everything in clothing, everything in design has some

1:47.0

series of thought behind it.

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