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Nellie är 14 när hon blir inlåst på SIS-hem. Kriminalitet och missbruk är en del av vardagen för tjejerna som blir Nellies förebilder. Och det är här hon lär sig knarka.

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Hennes namn var legendariskt, sålde tusentals tidningar och fick massor av unga kvinnor att drömma om att bli undersökande journalister i förklädnad. Nellie Bly var helt enkelt en superstjärna.

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I slutet av 1800-talet var hon en av USA:s i särklass mest kända journalister. Det som gjort Nellie Bly till ett namn på allas läppar var att hon, under förklädnad, lyckats avslöja grava missförhållanden inom mentalsjukvården. Det gjorde hon genom att helt enkelt lyckas bli inlagd som patient på ett ökänt mentalsjukhus. Inom den journalistiska metoden som vi kommit att kalla "wallraff" så räknas Nellie Bly som pionjär.

I en tid då kvinnliga journalister förväntades skriva snällt och menlöst om societeten, dess kläder och livsstil, så hade Nellie Bly långt högre ambitioner och det skulle komma att ta henne jorden runt - på endast 72 dagar dessutom. Hennes förtagande kom att bana väg för långt fler kvinnliga undersökande journalister. Initialt för så kallade "girl stunt reporters", mer om dem i veckans avsnitt.

Där vi även tittar närmare på hur kvinnliga journalister skildrats på film och i tv-serier. För sedan Nellie Blys tid har kvinnliga reportrar återkommande porträtterats, men långt från alltid på smickrande sätt.

Vi frågar oss också vilken betydelse kläderna kan ha för en journalist. För när det kommer till att snabbt lyckas ingjuta förtroende kan rätt plagg och attribut spela en avgörande roll. Dessutom grottar vi ner oss i bylinen, den del av tidningsartikeln som berättar vem som skrivit och eventuellt fotograferat. Bylinen har kommit att ofta inkludera ett foto på skribenten, bilder som på senare år har blivit allt större, och som dessutom skapat en hel del vånda för många journalister.

Veckans gäst är Anja Hirdman, professor i media och kommunikation vid Stockholms Universitet.

Actress, Comedian, Author, Survivor and Hero, Alison Arngrim has lived a remarkable life. Famous for her villainous role as “Nellie Oleson” in the hit TV series, ‘Little House on the Prairie’, Alison continues to make waves. Her memoir, “Confessions of A Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated” is a New York Times best seller. 

Alison shares jaw-dropping stories about growing up as a Hollywood kid, beginning as a resident of Hollywood’s famed Chateau Marmont at the tender age of 4 and accidentally taking a massive hit of LSD at age 8. Later, her day job was TV’s first child villain on America’s most wholesome show, while spending her underage nights in LA punk rock clubs. And through it all, she kept a terrifying, childhood secret about being sexually molested for years. Since adulthood, she’s crusaded for AIDS victims and child rights, changing laws and saving lives. And she’s funny as hell!

The greatest rivalries of the 1980s! This week, we have a commissioned episode from Club Gym Nerd member Kimo, who asked for an episode all about the 1980s rivalries between the Romanians and the Soviets, both team and individually. We are oh so happy to oblige!

Setting the scene

• A history of Soviet dominance
• Romania’s 1976 emergence
• The 1977 Europeans Romanian WALKOUT!
• The first great Romanian/Soviet rivalry—Nadia vs. Nellie and how it may or may not have influenced the future of gymnastics
• Romania wins in 1979, the “Nadia Infected Wrist” worlds
  • The true story of Nadia’s fake injury and government control

The Rivalry

• The 1980 Olympics of crazy judging
  • Nadia vs. Davydova and the case of the 30-minute delay
  • Nadia vs. Nellie and the case of the “computer malfunction”
  • Mukhina’s paralysis and the race for innovative difficulty
• 1981 Worlds
  • The silliest scores of 1981 (oh, it’s 9.800 for this)
  • The case of the Szabo/Agache impersonation of 1981
  • Romania ends up 4th. That’s right 4th.
• 1983 Worlds
  • Innovation from an all-star Soviet team—YURCHENKO vaults, the SHISHOVA
  • Just fangirling about Mostepanova for a while
  • More fun with bonkers scoring
• 1984 boycott gives us an opportunity to talk about China
• 1985 Worlds
  • Soviet Union casually adds Omelianchik and Shushunova to its already stellar 1983 team
  • The Soviets were so deep that Shushunova placed FIFTH on her own team in qualification
  • The evolution of Romanian floor to be less “chicken dance” and whether it contributed to what happened next
• 1987 and THE TIDE TURNS
  • Silivas wins the European AA title in Moscow, and the Soviets (gasp) fall
  • Romania gets its first world team title in 8 years
  • How the addition of Aurelia Dobre changed the game for Romania
  • Pro-Soviet bias in skill naming
  • Dobre vs. Shushunova vs. Silivas vs. Baitova vs. Omelianchik. This was no two-way rivalry
  • The 1988 Olympics and how timing is everything

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• Firsts, Named Skills, and Innovators in Women's Artistic Gymnastics
• Zhaoqing World Challenge Cup
• 2019 JO Nationals
• 2019 Spring/Summer Schedule

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Farah, Juan och Isabelle snackar om otrohet, och vad som får människor att bedra sina partners. Dessutom kommer bloggaren och ryttaren Nellie Berntsson på besök!

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Lithium Jubilee continues to show our love to Ryan Murphy sans rubber suit with our second American Horror Show themed episode. Instead we’ll be discussing another iconic article of clothing: the straitjacket! Erin gives us the lowdown on treatments deemed “therapeutic” in 19th century psychiatric hospitals while Jon reports on the Victorian era’s ultimate undercover journalist, Nellie Bly. You want us to calm down about American Horror Story? You need to CALM UP!

I got a Greetings from Karen Commins postcard in the mail. Here was a new take on postcards: a voiceover artist who uses postcards to market her services. And I was lucky enough to have a conversation about that. But it didn't end there. Karen, first and foremost, is a storyteller. And what great stories. You can hear about how she:

• Named a helicopter her class bought with S&H Green Stamps for the local police department 
• Had her first stint in radio -- in 5th grade -- after writing a winning essay
• Contacted the biggest name in voiceover work when she was getting started...and Frank Muller wrote back with advice
• Used Barry Manilow's birthday as a postcard marketing event
• Recommends using a return address on postcards
• Answers the question if Nellie Bly sent postcards in her race around the world that started in 1889
• Offers a free audio book about Nellie Bly to the first five Postcardist listeners who write here at karen@karencommins.com
• Sent me down a rabbit hole for stereo viewer cards...yikes!

Attack of the Killer Soundtrack - Episode 51

This week we are joined by Jonathon Mitchell from the band Nellie Pearl as we put together our own soundtrack of songs from a multitude of Winona Ryder-related projects. Including many live versions of songs from the recent Winona Ryd or Die event (coordinated by Heather and FEVA) as well as adding our own assortment of musical prerequisites and deep cuts from Winona’s career.

And as we try to figure out where all the stickiness came from, we also mention... they had some grit, you’re not fluent in Portuguese, the tequila was not nearly the most intoxicating thing going on with me that night, In Your Face TV, check out the first two albums, somebody described it as an implosion, unhinged-ness, I lumbered through the crowd to the front door… and just right out into the street in the rain… and I just took off running down the middle of the street, rock star attitude, people that fell in love with her I think it also was because she was such an oddball, from Petula Clark to Ratt, peace love and stickiness, she was weird… and she didn’t fit the normal cookie cutter thing that girls that were getting lead roles at that time were kind of falling into, I think a lot of people were very surprised that I could be an adult, helping people in need, The B-52’s, personal issues, a comeback, I jumped too high… too drunk, latching onto whatever your thing is… even if it’s not of your era, self-murder is not cool, who puts up big bulb glass Christmas lights and we all deserve pizza.

“She was sort of like, not just girl next door type… but like, weird girl that lives down the street. She was just kind of a little odd, but yet still adorable and you had to love her.” 

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Could I pass a week in the insane ward at Blackwell’s Island? I said I could and I would. And I did

Elizabeth Cochran Seaman^[1] (May 5, 1864^[2] – January 27, 1922), better known by her pen name Nellie Bly, was an American journalist who was widely known for her record-breaking trip around the world in 72 days, in emulation of Jules Verne's fictional character Phileas Fogg, and an exposé in which she worked undercover to report on a mental institution from within.^[3] She was a pioneer in her field, and launched a new kind of investigative journalism.^[4] Bly was also a writer, industrialist, inventor, and a charity worker.

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On this date in 1890, journalist Nellie Bly arrived back in New York after a record-breaking 72-day trip around the world.

Here are some things you may not have known about Bly and her journey.

Elizabeth Jane Cochran was born in 1864 near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. At the age of 16, she replied to a misogynistic column in the Pittsburgh Dispatch newspaper. The editor of the paper was so impressed with her ability that he gave her a full-time job. The editor assigned her the pen name “Nellie Bly” after the title character in a popular song by Stephen Foster.

She tried to write stories about working women, but was prevented from doing so by her superiors. She eventually was moved to the women’s pages, where she covered fashion, society and gardening, among other genteel topics. At the age of 21, she left Pittsburgh to work as a foreign correspondent in Mexico. After six months there, her work upset the government, so she returned to the U.S., eventually moving to New York.

In 1887, she managed to talk her way into an assignment from the New York World, in which she would pose as someone with a mental illness to report on conditions at the Women’s Lunatic Asylum in New York City. Her 10-day stay exposed the horrible conditions in the hospital and led to changes in mental-heath procedures and an increase in hospital funding.

In 1888, Bly decided she wanted to attempt to make Jules Verne’s novel “Around the World in 80 Days” into a reality. It took almost two years to convince her editors to allow her to try, but on November 14, 1889, with two days notice, she departed Hoboken, New Jersey, on the steamer Augusta Victoria bound for England.

She carried only the dress she was wearing, an overcoat, a few changes of undergarments, and personal essentials. She carried 200 British pounds and some American currency in a bag tied around her neck.

She traveled from England to France, where she met Jules Verne, before transiting the Suez Canal bound for Ceylon, which is now called Sri Lanka, then on to Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan. From Japan, she traveled on board the RMS Oceanic, arriving in San Francisco two days behind schedule because of bad weather. The publisher of her newspaper, Joseph Pulitzer, chartered a private train to help Bly make up time.

She arrived back in Hoboken at 3:51 p.m. on January 25, 1890, 72 days after leaving.

A few months later, Bly’s record was beaten by George Francis Train, who completed the journey in 67 days. By 1913, the record was down to 36 days.

Nellie Bly died of pneumonia in 1922 at the age of 57.

The current record for suborbital circumnavigation of the globe was set by an Air France flight in 1992, with a time of 32 hours, 39 minutes and 3 seconds.      

Our question: What type of aircraft was used in the 1992 Air France record?

Today is Russian Students Day, National Police Day in Egypt and National Voters’ Day in India.

It’s unofficially Fluoride Day, National Irish Coffee Day, and Macintosh Computer Day.

It’s the birthday of writer Virginia Woolf, who was born in 1882; athlete Steve Prefontaine, who was born in 1951; and musician Alicia Keys, who is 36.

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This week in 1984, the top song in the U.S. was “Owner of a Lonely Heart” by Yes.

The No. 1 movie was “Terms of Endearment,” while the novel “Pet Sematary” by Stephen King topped the New York Times Bestsellers list. 

Weekly question: In the song “American Pie,” who is referred to as “The Jester”?

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On this date in 1925, Nellie Tayloe Ross was sworn in as governor of Wyoming.

Here are some things you may not have known about the first woman to serve as governor in the United States.

Nellie Tayloe was born in St. Joseph, Missouri in 1876. She graduated from high school in Kansas and became a kindergarten teacher for four years. While visiting relatives in Tennessee, Tayloe met William Bradford Ross, a lawyer whom she married in 1902. Soon after, they moved to Cheyenne, Wyoming, where William became a leader in the state’s Democratic Party.

In 1922, William Ross was elected governor, after running as a progressive. He served less than two years before dying of complications from an appendectomy. Nellie Ross was nominated to run to replace her husband in a special election the following month. She won easily, making history as the first female governor in the United States. She, like her husband, was a strong advocate for the prohibition of alcohol.

That support for prohibition, along with her refusal to campaign for herself, resulted in a narrow defeat in her 1926 reelection attempt. Ross remained active in the Democratic Party and received 31 votes for vice president at the party’s 1928 convention. She then served as vice president of the Democratic National Committee.

In 1933, Ross was appointed director of the U.S. Mint. During her time at the Mint, she oversaw the design and release of the Franklin Half Dollar and the public sale of proof coins. She also oversaw the establishment of the U.S. Bullion Depository at Fort Knox, Kentucky.

She served five terms as Mint director and retired in 1953.

In her retirement, Ross wrote for several women’s magazines and traveled the world. When she died in 1977 at the age of 101, she was the oldest ex-governor in U.S. History.

Our question: Who holds the title of longest-lived former U.S. governor?

Today is unofficially National Bird Day and National Whipped Cream Day.

It’s the birthday of actor Robert Duvall, who is 86; actress Diane Keaton, who is 71; and actor Bradley Cooper, who is 42.

Because our topic happened before 1960, we’ll spin the wheel to pick a year at random.

This week in 1962, the top song in the U.S. was “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” by The Tokens.

The No. 1 movie was “El Cid,” while the novel “Franny and Zooey” by J.D. Salinger topped the New York Times Bestsellers list.

Now for our weekly question: What scientist and inventor was Thomas Edison’s main rival in the War of Currents?

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Rosellini

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http://www.bobborst.com/popculture/numberonesongs/

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times_Fiction_Best_Sellers_of_1962

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