Episode 152: The Absolutely Wild Life of Nellie Bly
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Who are the hosts of History for Weirdos and what is this podcast about?
Hello and welcome to History for Weirdos.
We're your hosts, Andrew and Stephanie, and we're going to take you on a journey into the strange, obscure, and relentlessly entertaining corners of human history.
Now listen up, friends, because it's about to get weird.
Weirdos, welcome back to another episode of History for Weirdos with your hosts, Stephanie and Andrew at West Coast Creative Studio in Hollywood, California.
That's why our background looks so nice and cozy and professional and there's no Pericles chewing toys anywhere.
It's so much better, I swear.
This feels so nice. I'm so glad to be here.
I know. I mean, it's always good to be in studio.
Get out of the apartment.
Yeah, and makes it feel a little bit more professional. Dare say a little bit more weird.
Yeah, in a good way.
In a good way. We're bringing the weird to the weirdos. Okay, well, before we get into your episode this week, which I'm actually really, really, really stoked for.
You should be.
Always, right? It should just be on default. But this week, I wanted to give you a little bit of a recommendation. So before I even give you my recommendation, go buy our merch.
Oh, wow. Yeah. That was a good smooth transition there.
That was so unhinged. Oh, my God.
What book recommendations do the hosts share before the episode?
We do have merch.
We do have merch. It will be in our show notes.
It's really fun. You can get several designs on like a dozen different products on Redbubble, but it's a little tricky to navigate. So do you mind explaining it?
Yes. So the link that I'll give you, it goes, it will show you all the designs. And so based off the designs you like, you can click that and then it'll show you like bucket hats, sweatshirts, just like normal hats, coffee mugs even.
Notebooks.
Notebooks.
Tote bags. Yes.
All of the above.
Mm-hmm.
and you can go ahead and uh you know just buy like whatever strikes your fancy yeah but when you first go in it just looks like there's no merch right it's really just have to click by design yes which is what we wanted to clarify yes thank you thank you yeah and that'll be in the show notes that'll be in the show notes and also recommendations so i'm reading a book for the second time which rarely happens usually you never reread that's right yeah i usually don't but this one is so good i had to and you know me i'm a roman history nerd that's my thing and so i'm actually rereading a book on the early portion of the late roman republic so you're talking about or i'm talking about like 146 bc to around like 70 bc roughly So this is before the rise of Caesar before.
And like at the very end, you have like the rise of like some names you might be familiar with, like Pompey Magnus or Marcus Licinius Crassus.
Yeah, of course.
And then, of course, Sulla, the blonde haired tyrant, the blonde haired tyrant.
What's the book?
Oh, yeah. The book's called The Storm Before the Storm by Mike Duncan, who's also the host of the of the History of Rome podcast, which if you haven't listened to it, that's like that's like an OG history podcast that goes back to like when I was in high school.
Yeah.
So you got to give that a listen.
Who got you to listen to that podcast?
For the second time, it was you. That's true.
For the second time. I don't believe that. I still think it was the first time.
No, no. I listened to it once before, but I didn't finish it, to be fair.
Oh, okay. Yeah. That was the difference.
That was the difference.
This was during the pandemic, right? Yeah.
I started listening to it for the second time right when COVID was hitting or right before.
Andrew was really, really, really into ancient Rome at the time.
Yeah. Even more so than I am now.
And I had reached my max on ancient Rome talks. I was like, you know what you should do? You should listen to this podcast.
And then you just created a monster.
Yeah. I fed the beast. Yeah. But it's it must be a very good book if you're reading it again, because I love to reread. I read books two, three, four times.
Right.
Who is Nellie Bly and why is she a highly requested subject?
I read one book like every couple of years. But for you, that's really rare.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Who are the hosts of History for Weirdos and what is this podcast about?
0:05–1:41
2
What book recommendations do the hosts share before the episode?
1:41–4:18
3
Who is Nellie Bly and why is she a highly requested subject?
4:18–5:24
4
What was Nellie Bly's early life like and what challenges did she face?
5:24–7:33
5
How did Nellie Bly begin her journalism career and what obstacles did she overcome?
7:33–9:33
6
What were Nellie Bly's experiences as a foreign correspondent in Mexico?
9:33–11:19
7
How did Nellie Bly infiltrate the Blackwell Island asylum and what did she discover?
11:19–14:10
8
What legacy did Nellie Bly leave as an investigative reporter and pioneer for women?
14:10–1:00:23
Speakers
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