Nellie Bly

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🗓️ 11 October 2017

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Elizabeth Cochran Seaman^[1] (May 5, 1864^[2] – January 27, 1922), better known by her pen name Nellie Bly, was an American journalist who was widely known for her record-breaking trip around the world in 72 days, in emulation of Jules Verne's fictional character Phileas Fogg, and an exposé in which she worked undercover to report on a mental institution from within.^[3] She was a pioneer in her field, and launched a new kind of investigative journalism.^[4] Bly was also a writer, industrialist, inventor, and a charity worker.

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0:00.0	Where am I?
0:03.0	Who am I?
0:04.7	What the hell is wrong with Tom?
0:06.2	I don't know, man.
0:07.2	We just, we just found him like this few hours ago, just wandering around muttering.
0:11.0	Uh, okay.
0:12.0	I'll bite.
0:13.0	Sure.
0:14.0	Uh, where are his pants?
0:15.7	Obviously he has no pants on that.
0:17.7	That's, that's, that's not unusual for Tom.
0:19.3	Okay.
0:20.3	That's, that's not unusual for him.
0:21.3	Can't remember my mommy.
0:23.3	I miss pie.
0:24.3	Yeah, there he is.
0:25.3	Hey guys, Eli, do you know what happened to Tom?
0:28.0	Oh, yeah.
0:29.1	Yeah, see, uh, we're going to be talking about a journalist who faked being crazy
0:34.4	and having amnesia to report on abuses in a 19th century madhouse today on the show.
0:40.0	Eli, please tell me you didn't, you didn't just not like where this is.
0:43.6	I saw, so interrupting rude both of you.
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