The Nicholas Effect

This is Love

Vox Media Podcast Network

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.8 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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If you visit Italy, you might come across a street, or a park, or a school, or even a chain of coffee shops named after a 7-year-old American named Nicholas Green. This is the reason why. We're on tour this month! We’re telling brand new stories, live on stage. You can even get meet and greet tickets to come and say hi before the show. Tickets are on sale now at thisiscriminal.com/live. We can’t wait to see you there! Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2BmMZr5 Want to listen to This is Love ad-free? Sign up for Criminal Plus – you’ll get This is Love, Criminal, and Phoebe Reads a Mystery ad-free. Plus, behind-the-scenes bonus episodes of Criminal and other exclusive benefits. Learn more and sign up here. We also make Criminal and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop. Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Support for This is Love comes from into the mix, a Ben and Jerry's podcast about joy and justice, produced with Vox Creative.
0:07.0	In 2016, a man who goes by Flo was arrested and booked in Illinois Cook County Jail.
0:14.9	He expected to spend a night or two while he waited for his bond hearing, but then the judge
0:19.3	said his bail at $7,500.
0:22.1	An amount he could not pay.
0:25.1	Because he couldn't afford bail,
0:26.8	Flo ended up waiting in jail for two months,
0:29.6	all while still legally presumed innocent. That story on into the mix.
0:34.8	Subscribe now. If you want to make a change this year, check out how to be a better
0:40.2	human, a podcast from Ted. I'm Chris Duffy, I'm a comedian and each week on how to be a better human. I sit down to have an honest and hopefully funny and revealing conversation with an expert who can help us to see the world in a new way.
0:53.4	This season, we're diving into everything from how you can love better
0:57.3	to how to create habits that stick,
0:59.6	to how to have hope in a world and at a time
1:02.0	where that feels really challenging. You can find all those
1:04.7	topics and so many more on episodes of how to be a better human, wherever you get your podcasts.
1:17.0	Do you keep track of the number of places that are named after your son in Italy? Yes, there are something like 150 of them.
1:24.0	This is Reg Green.
1:26.0	Many schools, bicycle paths, um, parks, playgrounds, things where kids can be happy.
1:37.0	There's a Nicholas Green kindergarten in Turin,
1:41.0	a Nicholas Green piazza outside of Florence, a Nicholas Green Street in the suburbs of Naples,
1:47.0	and a Nicholas Green Amphitheatre in a town called Amoroni.
1:51.0	There's also a soccer cup named after Nicholas, a writing competition, and a chain of coffee
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