Katie Hood
speaker
592 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 9 Sep
Katie Hood’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Planet Money · Dolly Parton’s “9 to 5,” the true story behind the anthem (bonus) · 30 Aug 2026
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Karen thinks the best angle to pitch is just the sheer number of clerical workers.
She writes, office workers haven't seen themselves represented in pop culture almost ever.
And they're almost 20 million of us.
You'd have a built-in audience, film executives, a built-in audience of almost 20 million people.
The movie studio Twentieth Century Fox approves the idea.
Jane's meeting with about forty workers in Cleveland hearing all their complaints.
At this point, Jane decides this is a movie about getting back at the man.
Patricia spent weeks hanging out with the secretaries, taking them to lunch, listening to their stories, and slowly the characters for the movie begin to emerge.
This real life worker inspired the character played by Dolly Parton.
Patricia subtly inserted huge workplace reforms into the script.
Like at the very end of the movie, after the women have instituted all these new workplace programs, the boss's boss, the big boss, he shows up like, Wow, you've been so productive, Frank.
After the break, we see just how far the influence of Hollywood goes in the real world.
It's not it's not much.
It's not great.
On December 19th, 1980, Karen Nessbaum, who started Nine to Five The Organization, goes to a dark theater to watch Nine to Five the Movie on the big screen.
The opening credits start, the song comes in, you know the song.
Karen wasn't sure people would like the movie, but then there was this scene.
The copy machine is shooting papers everywhere.
Jane Fonda's character doesn't know how to stop it.
Nine to five is the second biggest box office hit that year, right after Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back.
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