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  • - (beep) This shit. I have enough in my journal.

  • I'm gonna publish this shit.

  • I'm out.

  • (epic music)

  • - Hello.

  • My name is Matt Gourley.

  • And tonight we're gonna talk about Watergate.

  • Let's begin.

  • Washington D.C., 19 seven, 1972,

  • five Watergate burglars are arrested

  • in the Democratic National Committee headquarters.

  • What are they doing there?

  • Why are they breaking in?

  • A young, upstart reporter,

  • Robert Woodward, goes to the hearing.

  • One of them, when the judge is asking these five burglars,

  • "Who do you work for?"

  • "The CIA."

  • "Excuse me, could you say a it a little bit louder?"

  • "The CIA."

  • Robert Woodward is onto something.

  • Oh, look at this sweet little fat guy.

  • Where do you gotta be right now?

  • Okay, let's go back in time.

  • The year is 1970.

  • A young Robert Woodward, a lieutenant in the Navy.

  • He's sitting next to this older distinguished man,

  • saying "I'm soon to be out of the Navy.

  • What am I gonna do with my life?

  • Am I going to become a lawyer like my father wants?"

  • And this older man presents himself as a mentor saying,

  • "So listen to me, you're working for truth.

  • Stay with it."

  • And young Robert Woodward takes away from this thing,

  • "I can depend on this man.

  • I can call on this man at some point

  • to give me information."

  • That man is Mark Felt, Deputy Director of the FBI.

  • Let's flash forward a little bit.

  • Robert Woodward and his partner,

  • Carl Bernstein, decide to call in his old buddy,

  • Mark Felt, for information about Watergate.

  • Felt says, "I can't talk to you on the phone about this.

  • I'm Mark Felt and I did spy times in World War Two

  • and I know how this works.

  • You get the New York Times every day at your door.

  • At page 20, I will draw a little clock that says

  • what hour I wanna meet you.

  • And here's the thing, anytime you wanna meet me,"

  • Mark Felt says, "I need something that I can visually

  • acknowledge."

  • Woodward says, "I do have this potted plant

  • that I keep out on my balcony.

  • I could move that."

  • And Mark Felt is like,

  • "Here's the thing I wanna meet you

  • at this underground parking garage in Virginia.

  • But anytime you wanna meet, leave out the back stairs,

  • walk a couple of blocks, get in the cab, take that cab,

  • get out of the cab, walk a couple blocks,

  • get in another cab.

  • Get in that cab, get out of that cab,

  • walk a couple blocks to the Virginia parking garage

  • that I previously talked about."

  • Woodward meets Felt and he says...

  • Hold on.

  • I think I'm gonna vomit.

  • (Matt vomits)

  • Sorry, pal.

  • I'm ready to tell the story.

  • Woodward meets with Mark Felt and he says,

  • "Could you tell me a little bit

  • about why these guys might be connected?"

  • And he says, "Put the pieces together, ya dumb ass.

  • It's all in front of you, do the work.

  • Just be careful.

  • Watergate is the tip of the iceberg."

  • And when Robert Woodward took his secret source

  • to the Washington Post, he said,

  • "My source is deep background,

  • that means he cannot be identified."

  • Their editor at the Washington Post said,

  • "Yeah, you keep calling 'em deep background,

  • but I'm going to call 'em Deep Throat

  • based on the pornography film that was very popular,

  • which dealt with natural ladies, you know?"

  • And so Woodward and Bernstein figure out

  • that this money connected to these burglars

  • go all the way to the Watergate administration,

  • to the Nixon administration, Richard Nixon.

  • Let's talk about Richard Nixon.

  • Do you wanna talk about Richard Nixon?

  • - [Derek] I would love, yes please.

  • - Yeah, I thought you might.

  • Mark Felt says to Nixon,

  • "I'm the deputy director of the FBI.

  • I'm gonna look into this rascal Deep Throat

  • and further, I'm going to set myself up

  • as head of the investigation."

  • So Nixon's top aide, Haldeman, says,

  • "I think Mark Felt is Deep Throat."

  • And Nixon says, "Now why would he do that?"

  • And when the Watergate hearings gets to a boiling point,

  • Nixon is like,

  • "I never knew of this Watergate break in

  • to discover information about the Democrats."

  • And after that, he says,

  • "I am not a crook."

  • Nixon, knows he's (beep).

  • And he says, "There's nothing I can do about it.

  • Nobody's gonna trust me at this point.

  • I gotta step down. Hand me some cookies." (laughs)

  • All I know is, I'm eating cookies and none of you are.

  • Do you guys want some cookies?

  • - [Derek] Oh, no, we'd like--

  • - You have no ambition.

  • The interesting thing about this take

  • we're taking on it is all the stories we know

  • of Watergate is who's Deep Throat?

  • But now we can tell the story knowing who Deep Throat is.

  • And in the end, you can toss aside Richard Nixon

  • for all his cynicism, you can toss aside Deep Throat

  • for all his cynicism, but you can't toss aside

  • Robert Woodward and to a lesser extent, Carl Bernstein,

  • for the truth that they exposed for America.

  • Well, we told the story of Watergate.

  • There's no way it could possibly misconstrued

  • as not the greatest journalistic endeavor ever told.

  • Robert Woodward would be proud.

  • - Hello, I'm Katie Nolan and today we're gonna talk

  • about Gloria Steinem.

  • Our story begins in the year 1963.

  • Gloria Steinem was a graduate of Smith College.

  • Very smart.

  • She's 28 years old and she's a journalist

  • and Show magazine was like,

  • "Hey Gloria, we have a story for you.

  • We want you to go undercover

  • at one of Hugh Hefner's Playboy clubs."

  • And Playboy clubs were advertising themselves,

  • at the time, as being in a real life version of Playboy.

  • So you would have beautiful women everywhere

  • and drinks and food and dude stuff.

  • - Yeah! - Boobies and vaginas!

  • (laughs)

  • And Gloria was like, "I don't think this is what I want.

  • I want people to take me seriously."

  • And her editor was like,

  • "I think this could be your chance

  • to call Hugh Hefner out on his goddamn bullshit."

  • And she was like, "You're right, I'm in,

  • let's (beep) do it."

  • Uh, what was I talking about?

  • So she says yes to the thing, to the assignment.

  • And so she goes to the audition,

  • which is at a Playboy club.

  • So she's this alias she's created for herself,

  • which is Marie Catherine Ochs.

  • And the woman that she goes up to says,

  • "Take off your coat, let me see your body."

  • Gloria was like, "Um, okay,"

  • and took her coat off.

  • The woman was like, "You look a little old for 24,

  • but your body's great.

  • Come back on Saturday for a fitting."

  • And so Gloria comes back a couple days later,

  • she sees this woman named Sheralee.

  • She's like, "I'm the bunny mother."

  • So she goes and she gets sized.

  • She puts on this leotard and she's like, "This fits."

  • And they're like, "No, it doesn't."

  • And they keep going in, and in and Gloria's like,

  • "I think that's tight enough, I can hardly breathe."

  • (Derek laughs)

  • I just had an ice cube-- - You okay?

  • - An ice just assaulted me.

  • - You got ISIS-ed.

  • (both laugh)

  • - [Katie] So the bunny mother, Sheralee,

  • is explaining to the bunnies.

  • There's all these things

  • that they can take your money away for.

  • Like, if your ears are on crooked, that's a demerit.

  • If your bunny tail's dirty, that's demerits.

  • If you're not smiling enough, that's a bunch of demerits.

  • They also give her this bunny manual,

  • which is a list of all the rules that you have to follow.

  • In the bunny manual, it says you're not allowed

  • to date any customers.

  • But then they were told unless they hold the special key.

  • These special key members were allowed

  • to do whatever they want.

  • Ew, that's (beep) up.

  • Anyway, so, they're like, "Great,

  • you're all set, you're gonna start work soon.

  • We just need you to complete your physical."

  • And Gloria is like, "What do you mean?

  • I'm gonna be a waitress."

  • "Oh, well we just need you to complete a physical

  • with this doctor and then you'll be fine to start."

  • That's gross.

  • - [Derek] Yeah.

  • - That's just gross.

  • So she goes to the doctor,

  • she sits on the table and she sees there's stirrups.

  • And the doctor walks in.

  • And the first thing he says to her is,

  • "So you wanna be a bunny," which is alarming as a doctor.

  • He exams her, which to a woman means, you know.

  • - Pap smear?

  • - Did you say patch smear?

  • - [Derek] I've never had one.

  • - It's not a bagel, Derek.

  • It's a, it's a-- - Hmm, I'm from New York!

  • I came to get a little-- - I'm-a give you a pap shmear!

  • So she finishes the exam

  • and she goes the next day to train for this job.

  • That's a fancy word for you're gonna work

  • and not get paid any money.

  • She's training as a table bunny

  • and they teach her that she just has

  • to follow the other bunny servers around.

  • And so she's going around asking these people like,

  • "Hello, I'm Bunny Marie, what can I get for you?"

  • And they would say things like,

  • "Yeah, girl, let me see your titties.

  • Open it up."

  • Which is bullshit!

  • How many times are you allowed to say bullshit

  • on Comedy Central?

  • I've said it a whole bunch.

  • - Whenever you want.

  • - Okay. It's some bullshit.

  • She's working all these shifts and she's, in her journal,

  • she's writing all these injustices.

  • They're working these long hours,

  • they're not making any money.

  • On top of that, it's basically a prostitution ring.

  • And after working in the Playboy clubs for four weeks,

  • Gloria was like, "(beep) this shit,

  • I have enough in my journal.

  • I'm gonna publish this shit, I'm out."

  • It's just all the stupid, sexist, dumb ass bullshit.

  • She just wanted to get the (beep) out.

  • And so she quit.

  • And so Gloria writes an expose on these Playboy clubs.

  • She's like, "These women were not making as much money

  • as they were told they were gonna make,

  • it's insane hours, they're being grabbed all the time,

  • they're treated like prostitutes,

  • they're basically being used as a tool

  • for the male sexual revolution.

  • But the women themselves don't get to own their sexuality

  • and that's shitty."

  • So they publishes, they publishes, they puble,

  • they pub-i-lish, they publish the story in the magazine.

  • So the world reads this article and,

  • to his very tiny credit,

  • Hugh Hefner says, "Wow, yeah, maybe they won't

  • have to go to these physical exams anymore.

  • And you know what?

  • I'm gonna stop making them have to give so much

  • of their money to us if they make a mistake,"

  • Which is a really cool thing that Hugh Hefner did,

  • but also not as cool as just

  • always treating them that way.

  • This article made Gloria Steinem a household name.

  • And she went on to be this huge feminist icon.

  • It's tough, but I swear to God,

  • if it weren't for Gloria Steinem,

  • I wouldn't be able to be on TV.

  • It's very hard to be a woman that's like, "I love sports."

  • - And you have stuck to your guns ever since you've started.

  • And that is what...

  • - You cried!

  • - I'm sorry.

  • - Can I get somebody else to do, do this?

  • (both laugh)

  • - Hello, I'm gonna tell you about Nellie Bly,

  • a very good journalist from that 1880s

  • who did an expose on the world of mental illness.

  • Nellie Bly was a very strong-minded woman.

  • She gets a load of a column

  • from a local Pittsburgh paper and it's super sexist.

  • The article was like,

  • "Chicks gotta stay in the kitchen.

  • Girls gotta, why even bother being educated

  • when you just gotta get married and have babies?"

  • And she was like, "(beep) this guy.

  • Girls are better than being in the kitchen,

  • being wives, and sewing.

  • (beep) I'm super smart and I'm gonna show you

  • I'm super smart just to prove that women are awesome."

  • So Nellie (laughs) so Nellie Bly went to New York City

  • and she knocked on every newspaper door in the city.

  • And who answered the door but Joseph Pulitzer himself.

  • And he's like, "Listen, I don't take you seriously,

  • but I have an assignment.

  • I want you to pretend to be crazy

  • and get committed to the insane asylum in New York City,

  • Blackwell's Island." (thunder rumbles)

  • And Nellie Bly said, "Okay, I'll do it."

  • And he was like, "What?"

  • And she was like,

  • "I will go into the insane asylum

  • and give you a really good report."

  • (dog barks)

  • Right? Right, right?

  • (beep) that dog.

  • (both laugh)

  • God, some people have (beep) labs and they're great.

  • This thing's a piece of (beep).

  • All right, so, Nellie Bly.

  • She never saw a crazy person before.

  • So she went in front of a mirror and made funny faces like.

  • (groans)

  • See this face? This face?

  • (blows raspberry)

  • She had no idea what crazy people to say.

  • She was like, "Okay, this is how I'm gonna be crazy."

  • (groans)

  • She goes to this boarding house,

  • "Listen every, but every, listen every, every lady

  • at this boarding house with me.

  • I am crazy, okay?"

  • (dog barks)

  • What?

  • What?

  • Oh, you're crazy.

  • Nellie, you're crazy.

  • You're crazy.

  • Yes, you're crazy.

  • The headmistress was like, "Send her to the insane asylum,"

  • and Nellie Bly was like, "Yes, this is working.

  • This is super working for me.

  • I'm super happy."

  • Then she finds herself on Blackwell's Island.

  • (epic music)

  • (blows raspberry)

  • I'm drunk as (beep).

  • Woo.

  • So she was examined by a doctor, "How tall is she?"

  • And the nurse would be like,

  • "Come and look at how tall this Nellie is."

  • And doctor would say like,

  • "What are you doing after we measured Nellie Bly?"

  • After the nurse and doctor flirted for a half hour,

  • the doctor's like, "Oh my God, this Nellie Bly,

  • she is a crazy, crazy person that needs to be here forever."

  • And Nellie Bly was like, "Yes, I'm so happy.

  • I'm such a good journalist."

  • She started to see how (beep) the conditions were.

  • The nurses would just beat the (beep) out of people.

  • Knock them in their ears. (blows raspberry)

  • Hitting 'em like crazy.

  • Like "You, women are all crazy and you suck."

  • And Nellie Bly was like, "Aw, (beep), that ain't cool.

  • I'm gonna write that down,

  • these ladies are gonna get a word from me."

  • She sees perfectly sane women who just don't speak English.

  • The doctors are like, "We don't speak German.

  • You're crazy, (blows raspberry),

  • you go to the asylum for life.

  • And there was a woman, she was like,

  • "I just got a little overwhelmed. I'm not crazy."

  • And they were like, "This woman is in, so insane.

  • There's nothing we can do but keep her locked up

  • at this asylum forever."

  • 'Cause the insane asylum was horrible.

  • And then there's the baths.

  • The nurse would just scrub the (beep) out of 'em.

  • And Nellie Bly would be like,

  • "This kinda hurts a little bit."

  • She was like, "You be quiet or I will, I will,

  • I will make you wish you never said anything to me.

  • I'll scrub you so hard."

  • - [Derek] Wow.

  • - I got at least two bathing suits,

  • should we put them on and get in the tub?

  • - [Derek] Really?

  • - You don't have the balls to get in the tub with me

  • with a bathing suit, do you?

  • (laughs)

  • Look to the ceiling, Derek.

  • Oh, you're so much more pleasant with water

  • over your head than my son.

  • He makes such a fuss. This is such a delight.

  • Nellie Bly had to take baths

  • with the dirt of 45 other girls on her.

  • And it was freezing cold.

  • She had this horrible 10 days in a insane asylum.

  • And then Joseph Pulitzer's like,

  • "Hey, guess what, dummies!

  • This crazy way of girl was my sweet reporter.

  • And she,

  • and she...

  • She wasn't insane."

  • Then they were like, "Oh no, we're exposed!"

  • And she wrote an article that exposed everybody.

  • All of a sudden, money was flowing like crazy

  • to mental health institutions.

  • She changed the world of mental health.

  • Nellie Bly was one of the first great American feminists

  • that said, listen, stupid 1880s guys

  • with giant mustaches connected to their stupid side burns.

  • Women, we're really cool.

  • That was basically how it went, except less kissing.

  • (Derek laughs)

  • - [Derek] No, no, stop!

- (beep) This shit. I have enough in my journal.

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