Mad houses, Mississippi Goddam and Modernist art
Happy To Be Here
Greta Johnsen
4.6 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2014
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
For America's birthday, a patriotic rejection of the patriarchy. Hosts Tricia and Greta bring you the stories of muckraker Nellie Bly, painter Georgia O'Keeffe and jazz singer Nina Simone. We talk to authors, unearth archives and send contributor Lauren Chooljian on a road trip. Plus, your #nerdconfessions.
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| 0:00.0 | One of them is wearing a Star Trek pen. |
| 0:08.0 | Is today a special Star Trek holiday or something? |
| 0:13.0 | How the hell would I know? |
| 0:19.0 | I'm Tricia Bobita. I'm Greta Johnson. |
| 0:21.9 | And from WBEZ in Chicago, this is Nerdette. |
| 0:24.9 | 11 score 18 years ago. |
| 0:27.7 | Wait, what? Greta? |
| 0:29.3 | Because it was 238 years ago that we became a nation. |
| 0:32.3 | So, you know, if you divide by 20 and take the remainder. |
| 0:35.5 | Yes, Independence Day math. |
| 0:37.1 | Okay, I got you. |
| 0:38.0 | Yes. |
| 0:40.8 | Today on Nerdette, we bring you stories of women too often relegated to the footnotes of American history textbooks. |
| 0:47.3 | Audacious ladies like Nellie Bly who uncovered the awful conditions for the mentally ill in this country by going undercover in an insane asylum. |
| 0:55.1 | Bligh was a reality journalist more than a century before reality, television, or anything like that was ever invented. |
| 1:01.0 | And we'll take a trip to Wisconsin to hear from a member of Georgia O'Keeffe's family about how he remembers the mother of American modernism. |
| 1:07.7 | I knew her more as a person than as an artist. She was a great storyteller, |
| 1:13.2 | and she had a wicked sense of humor. Those stories and more right here on NERDET. I'm Tricia Bobita. |
| 1:28.3 | And I'm Greta Johnson. |
| 1:29.6 | This is Nerdette. |
| 1:31.0 | Thanks for listening to this Fourth of July holiday special. |
| 1:34.1 | You'll hear a lot about founding fathers on the Fourth of July. |
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