Dulcé Sloan

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The Daily Show: Ears Edition · TDS Time Machine | Shafted - Tales of Unsung Women · 15 Mar 2025 podcast

But one day, Marian looked at her shower curtain and got an idea. I've got an idea. This can keep water from leaking out. Surely it could do the same for shit. So she got to work, designing a new, better diaper cover, which she called The Boater. I did it. I'm gonna liberate women from needless domestic work.

Right after I buy a new shower curtain and clean up this mess before my husband leaves me. It was a hit. The diaper covers were flying off the shelves faster than black market birth control pills. And then came Marion's best idea yet, a fully disposable diaper with super absorbent material. Marion pitched her idea for fully disposable diapers to every large manufacturer in the country.

But she soon found herself knee deep in something much worse than baby poop, sexism. What do you think? It's unnecessary. There's no market for this, you dumb lady. My wife loves washing diapers.

Marian was desperate and at the end of her rope, so she did the unthinkable.

Yeah, but it should have.

Exactly. Exactly. But while she may have been overlooked in her own time, Marion's contributions live on in homes, in daycares, in Target bathrooms where the diaper changing station is always broken and the baby's screaming and you're like, what do you want from me?

Good evening, I'm Dulcé Sloan. And I'm Desi Lydic. Tonight, the story of Willie Mae Big Mama Thornton, a trailblazer whose trail was left brutally unblazed. What? It's the story of a forgotten woman never given her due. Why didn't you just say that the first time? I don't know. Growing up near Montgomery, Alabama, Willie May always had a passion for singing.

At the young age of 15, she won a singing contest and eventually signed a record deal.

Willie May's soulful rendition of Hound Dog told the story of a good-for-nothing man who wants to be taken care of. It was like the great grandmother of no scrubs. See, a scrub is a guy who thinks he's fly. If I know, I think everyone knows.

Willie May was shafted, but what she didn't know was that there was an even bigger shaft headed her way. And not the good kind.

A few years later, her precious, soulful hound dog found a new owner, a rising talent who was introduced to the song by a Vegas lounge act and decided to put his own spin on it.

By the way, that really happened.

Elvis' version of Hound Dog was a huge smash and completely eclipsed Willie May's version. While Elvis didn't steal the song, he did benefit from a system that ensured his music reached a wider audience. You see, Elvis was a white man. Elvis went on to become one of the greatest icons of all time. But despite it all, Willie May never lost her gift for expressing emotion in song.

Willie Mae Thornton was a talented artist who launched an iconic song only to have her legacy washed away. But we remember her. And you can't wash this away. Go ahead, Dulce. Show them yours. Uh, I told you I wasn't doing that.

Good evening. I'm Desi Lydic. And I'm Dulce Sloan. This month, we've been uncovering the true stories of women who were shafted. Because throughout history, women have been constrained by things like gender roles, cultural biases, and spanks. So, mm, constricting. Mm-hmm.

You're going to give me $5, and then something good will happen to you. Oh, OK. OK. OK. Here you go. She even worked as a doctor, despite having no medical training. And what we want to do is we want to pour the tonic right over the abdomen. That looks like milk. Yes, no, of course it's milk. It'll make his stomach bones stronger.

She started The Ladies Deposit, a woman-only investment fund. When Sarah doubled her clients' investments within a year, women started handing over their money like they were at a Ryan Gosling kissing booth.

Sarah was running one of the first and most successful investment fraud schemes in history. She was basically Bernie Madoff in a bustle.

My money was stolen by a woman? Oh, I'm so proud. But eventually, the ladies' deposit was exposed, and the police deposited Sarah into jail.

Because half a century later, her legacy was stolen by a man named Charles Ponzi, who became the namesake of the very scheme Sarah perfected, the Ponzi scheme.

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