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Speaker 3: March is officially Women's History months, when we honor women
Speaker 3: by remembering their accomplishments and misattributing quotes to them on Instagram.
Speaker 3: Some of the most fascinating stories in women's history aren't
Speaker 3: that well known, so this month, Daisi Lightek and Dulce
Speaker 3: Sloan are taking a look at the lives of real
Speaker 3: women who left their mark. In our new Daily Show
Speaker 3: segment shafted.
Speaker 1: Good Evening, I'm Dulce Sloane and I'm Daisi Lightek.
Speaker 4: Tonight's episode is a familiar story, big dreams crushed by
Speaker 4: the reality of reality.
Speaker 5: The victim Mary and Donovan, the crime being a woman.
Speaker 5: In nineteen forty six, Marion was a housewife in the
Speaker 5: small town of Westport, Connecticut.
Speaker 1: Being home and.
Speaker 5: Raising children, Marian got fed up with all the shit
Speaker 5: in her life.
Speaker 2: Ugh, why is there so much shit everywhere?
Speaker 1: Why?
Speaker 5: At the time, people were using cloth diapers and the
Speaker 5: only solution for leaks were uncomfortable rubber pants. They gave
Speaker 5: babies diper wresh, so no one wanted to wear rubbers,
Speaker 5: even though they were the most effective method.
Speaker 1: Babies were like, do I have to? It feels so
Speaker 1: much better pooping against bare skin.
Speaker 4: But one day Marian looked at her shower curtain and
Speaker 4: got an idea.
Speaker 2: I've got an idea. This can keep water from leaking out.
Speaker 2: Surely it could do the same for shit.
Speaker 4: So she got to work designing a new, better diaper cover,
Speaker 4: which she called the Boater.
Speaker 2: I did it.
Speaker 4: I'm going to liberate women from needless domestic work right
Speaker 4: after I buy a new shower curtain and clean up
Speaker 4: this mess before my husband leaves me.
Speaker 1: It was a hit.
Speaker 5: The diaper covers were flying off the shelves faster than
Speaker 5: black market birth control pills.
Speaker 4: And then came Marian's best idea yet, a fully disposable
Speaker 4: diaper with super absorbent material. Marian pitched her idea for
Speaker 4: fully disposable diapers to every large manufacturer in the country,
Speaker 4: but she soon found herself knee deep in something much
Speaker 4: worse than baby poop sexism.
Speaker 1: What do you think it's unnecessary?
Speaker 2: There's no market for this, you dumb lady.
Speaker 1: My wife loves washing diapers, okay. Face with rejection.
Speaker 5: Marian went on inventing various dohikis and what you call it.
Speaker 5: But a decade later, she had the shock of her
Speaker 5: life when Pampers launched a line of fully disposable diapers.
Speaker 1: Mother, that's right, a man had.
Speaker 5: Been rewarded for coming up with the same thing she
Speaker 5: was rejected for.
Speaker 2: And when you're done, you just throw it away.
Speaker 1: This genius. Why has no one thought of this before?
Speaker 1: Good job, mail inventory, who welcome mail executives?
Speaker 5: Amen, men are great.
Speaker 4: Marian was desperate and at the end of her rope,
Speaker 4: so she did the unthinkable.
Speaker 1: Actually that part didn't really happen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it should have.
Speaker 1: Disposable diapers in our six billion dollar industry.
Speaker 5: Marian should have been the Beyonce of baby care, but
Speaker 5: fate made her the fair of Franklin.
Speaker 2: The who exactly exactly.
Speaker 4: But while she may have been overlooked in her own time,
Speaker 4: Marian's contributions live on in homes, in daycares, in target
Speaker 4: bathrooms where the diaper changing station is always broken and
Speaker 4: the baby's screening and you're like, what do you want
Speaker 4: from me?
Speaker 1: Marian was shafted, but not defeated. That's all for this week.
Speaker 5: Tune in next time for the story of another woman
Speaker 5: so powerful, so determined, her Vagina Almost didn't get in the.
Speaker 2: Way, Almost.
Speaker 1: Good evening. I'm Dulce Sloane and.
Speaker 2: I'm dasi lydek Tonight.
Speaker 4: The story of Willie May Big Mama Thornton, a trailblazer
Speaker 4: whose trail was left brutally unblazed. What it's the story
Speaker 4: of a forgotten woman, never given her due?
Speaker 1: Why didn't you just say that the first time?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: Growing up near Montgomery, Alabama, Willie May always had a
Speaker 4: passion for singing.
Speaker 1: Allah to say, Ala to say.
Speaker 4: At the young age of fifteen, she won a singing
Speaker 4: contest and eventually signed a record deal.
Speaker 5: But one day her life changed forever when she was
Speaker 5: approached by the writers.
Speaker 1: What the little song you may know call hound Dog?
Speaker 6: I need for it to be raunchier, you know, like
Speaker 6: something in that if you could chimmy your breast, maybe
Speaker 6: one or the other, preferably both at the same time.
Speaker 1: But she had her own style in mind. Or what
Speaker 1: if I did it this way?
Speaker 2: Just you ain't nothing matter, hound off? Just no barahma
Speaker 2: do goddamn that so beautiful?
Speaker 1: Thank you, white Man, Thank you.
Speaker 2: Willie May's soulful rendition of hound.
Speaker 4: Dog told the story of a good for nothing man
Speaker 4: who wants to be taken care of.
Speaker 2: It was like the great grandmother of no scrubs.
Speaker 1: See, a scrub is a guy who thinks he's fly.
Speaker 2: If I know, I think everyone knows.
Speaker 5: In nineteen fifty three, Big Mama Thornton's Houndog reached number
Speaker 5: one in the arm Beach chart, but it never crossed
Speaker 5: over to the pop chart because it was seen as
Speaker 5: a race record, which is a nuts so not racist
Speaker 5: way of saying black music.
Speaker 4: Willie May was shafted, but what she didn't know was
Speaker 4: that there was an even bigger shaft headed her way, and.
Speaker 1: Not the good time.
Speaker 5: See. Even though mainstream society wasn't quite ready to embrace
Speaker 5: this sound in this package, A.
Speaker 4: Few years later, her precious soulful hound Dog found a
Speaker 4: new owner, a rising talent who was introduced to the
Speaker 4: song by a Vegas loungejack and decided to put his
Speaker 4: own spin on it.
Speaker 3: You know, the house crime and all the time, What
Speaker 3: a cool song about dogs?
Speaker 2: Huh, By the way, that really happened.
Speaker 5: Look at that dog, He's like, man, why'd you bring
Speaker 5: me into this shit?
Speaker 4: Elvis's version of hound Dog was a huge smash and
Speaker 4: completely eclipsed Willie May's version.
Speaker 2: While Elvis didn't steal the.
Speaker 4: Song, he did benefit from a system that ensured his
Speaker 4: music reached a wider audience.
Speaker 1: You see, Elvis was a white man.
Speaker 4: Elvis went on to become one of the greatst icons
Speaker 4: of all time.
Speaker 2: But despite it all, Willie.
Speaker 4: May never lost her gifts for expressing emotion and song.
Speaker 5: This is some bullshit, some real, real bullshit. Y'all want
Speaker 5: him to sing that to a job due Oh John
Speaker 5: sup Wear and Hips of the Mother.
Speaker 4: Willie May Thornton was a talented artist who launched an
Speaker 4: iconic song, only to have her legacy washed away. But
Speaker 4: we remember her and you can't wash this away. Go ahead, Dulce,
Speaker 4: show him yours.
Speaker 1: I told you I wasn't doing that. You know, she
Speaker 1: had too many names. That's all for this week.
Speaker 5: Tune in next time so hear about a woman so talented,
Speaker 5: so promising, her vagina almost didn't give in the way.
Speaker 4: Almost Good evening. I'm Daisy Lightik and I'm.
Speaker 1: Bull Say Sloan.
Speaker 5: This month, we've been uncovering the true stories of women
Speaker 5: who were shafted.
Speaker 4: Because throughout history, women have been constrained by things like
Speaker 4: gender roles, cultural biases, and spanks.
Speaker 1: So M constricting, m M.
Speaker 5: But tonight we tell a different story. Sarah Howe was
Speaker 5: a nineteenth century entrepreneur who did reach her full potential
Speaker 5: through ingenuity and perseverance. Warning the following content might.
Speaker 1: Inspire you.
Speaker 2: One.
Speaker 1: In the early eighteen.
Speaker 5: Hundreds, Sarah grew up hustling as a fortune teller and
Speaker 5: horoscope reader.
Speaker 1: What is it? What is it?
Speaker 4: You were going to give me five dollars and then
Speaker 4: something good will happen to you?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 4: Here She even worked as a doctor despite having no
Speaker 4: medical training. And what we want to do is we
Speaker 4: want to pour the tonic right over.
Speaker 1: The abdomen and it looks like milk.
Speaker 2: Yes, no, of course it's milk.
Speaker 4: It'll make a stomach bone stronger.
Speaker 1: She was shadier than R.
Speaker 5: Kelly running a girl scout troop, But in eighteen seventy nine,
Speaker 5: Sarah left all that petty swindling behind.
Speaker 1: And turned to her true calling.
Speaker 5: Stacking that shudder, she started The Lady's Deposit, a woman
Speaker 5: only investments book.
Speaker 4: When Sarah doubled her client's investments within a year, women
Speaker 4: started handing over their money like they were at a
Speaker 4: Ryan Gosslin kissing booth.
Speaker 1: This sounds great.
Speaker 2: Here's all my bunny.
Speaker 5: You do know what they say, Cash rules everything around.
Speaker 2: Us, doesn't it? It does, doesn't it? Okay, give it up?
Speaker 1: And the most amazing part was it.
Speaker 7: Was all bullshit.
Speaker 4: Well bad. You deserve every single dollar and your assets
Speaker 4: make me want to come and do the honest foot.
Speaker 5: Cast says you want to have some money raining on
Speaker 5: you with a chance it's gonna last.
Speaker 7: On a wait.
Speaker 4: Since Damrow, Sarah was running one of the first and
Speaker 4: most successful investment fraud schemes in history.
Speaker 2: She was basically Bernie made off in a bustle.
Speaker 5: Sarah made over half a million dollars, which would equal
Speaker 5: around eleven million today, and she prayed on over twelve
Speaker 5: hundred women, which today is still equals a lot of bitches.
Speaker 4: Madam, I'm sorry to tell you, but Sarah Howe has
Speaker 4: stolen all of your money.
Speaker 2: My money was stolen by a woman.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm so prone.
Speaker 4: But eventually the lady's deposit was exposed and the police
Speaker 4: deposited Sarah into jail.
Speaker 5: Sarah spent three years in jail for her crimes, but
Speaker 5: the true prison was her gender because.
Speaker 4: Half a century later, her legacy was stolen by a
Speaker 4: man named Charles Ponzi, who became the namesake of the
Speaker 4: very scheme. Sarah perfected the Ponzi scheme, and she.
Speaker 5: Was dead by then, looking down from having watching ponds
Speaker 5: to get all the glory.
Speaker 1: Well, she was probably looking up for hell. But I'm
Speaker 1: still messed up, mother.
Speaker 4: But tonight we salute Sarah Howe, who shattered the glass
Speaker 4: ceiling of financial crime. Thanks to her, women everywhere can
Speaker 4: aspire to lie, cheat and steal just like men.
Speaker 5: That's off of Shafting. Tune in next time to hear
Speaker 5: about a woman so brilliant so I'm relenting Her vagina
Speaker 5: almost didn't get in the way.
Speaker 2: Almost.
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