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Nerdette

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4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2014

⏱️ 27 minutes

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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	This fall, W bez invites you to our upcoming live events.
0:05.0	Join us in person for smart discussions, heartfelt storytelling, and more.
0:09.0	Check out the full calendar now at W be easy.org
0:12.6	slash events. is wearing a Star Trek pen?
0:26.2	Is today a special Star Trek holiday or something?
0:28.4	How the hell would I know?
0:29.6	I'm Tricia Bobita. I'm Greta Johnson and from W bez in Chicago this is
0:39.2	Nurdette 11 score 18 years ago.
0:42.8	Wait, what, Greta?
0:44.4	Because it was 238 years ago
0:46.3	that we became a nation.
0:47.3	So, you know, if you divide by 20 and take the remainder.
0:50.6	Yes, Independence Day math.
0:52.1	Okay, I got you. Yes. American. Yes, notes of American history textbooks. Audacious ladies like Nellie Bly, who uncovered the awful conditions for the mentally ill in this country by going
1:07.8	undercover in an insane asylum.
1:09.8	Bly was a reality journalist more than a century before reality television or anything like that was ever invented?
1:16.0	And we'll take a trip to Wisconsin to hear from a member of George O'Keefe's family about how he remembers the mother of American Modernism.
1:22.0	I know her more as a person than as an
1:25.8	artist. She was a great storyteller and she had a wicked sense of humor.
1:30.8	Those stories and more right here on Nurdett.
1:34.0	This fall, W bezee invites you to our upcoming live events.
1:45.0	Join us in person for smart discussions, heartfelt storytelling, and more.
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