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Nerdette Recaps With Peter Sagal

Why You Should Build Literally Anything

Nerdette Recaps With Peter Sagal

WBEZ

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

4.6924 Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

We talk with Emily Pilloton, author of Girls Garage: How to Use Any Tool, Tackle Any Project, and Build the World You Want to See, about representation, being your own repair person and it's important to put power tools in the hands of young girls.

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0:06.1

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0:28.3

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0:31.9

All right, shall we do this?

0:36.7

From WBEZ Chicago, this is Nerdette.

0:47.8

I'm Greta Johnson. It's Tuesday, June 23rd, and I may as well just be living on the floor of this bedroom closet, which means this must be another episode of Nerdette's introverts guide to the good life.

1:03.0

So there's a new book out called Girls Garage, and it seems especially useful these days because it's all about how to be your own repair person, which means, you know, you don't have to invite strangers into your home during a pandemic.

1:12.2

It's a how-to guide for all kinds of good stuff, like how to change a flat tire or fix a running toilet or pick a lock, though the author is very specific that you should only do that for good and not evil.

1:15.7

The book is written by Emily Pilatin, and it's a super cool book, but Girls Garage is also

1:22.4

the name of a physical space in Berkeley, California, that Emily started, and it's all about just having a place

1:29.4

where girls can build cool stuff. We're going to hear from one of the girls who joined

1:34.8

Girls Garage when she was just 10. She just finished high school, and she wants to be a construction

1:40.1

manager when she finishes college. But first, we're going to talk to Emily about how the

1:44.9

garage came to be, who she pictured when she wrote the book, and how she's changing the world by

1:50.6

putting power tools into the hands of girls. Emily, welcome to Nuredette. Hi, Greta. So I'm very

1:57.8

excited to talk to you about the literal girls garage, the amazing, like, builder space that you've got in the Bay Area of California.

2:06.9

But before we get to that, I want to zoom out a little bit and talk about why you chose the word girl, because you're very clear and intentional about what that means in the

2:19.4

introduction of this book. And I feel like it's a very important sort of like level set before we

2:24.1

have this conversation. Yeah. And thanks for bringing that up. I know this has been a really

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