Dulcé Sloan
Appearances
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
TDS Time Machine | Shafted - Tales of Unsung Women
But one day, Marian looked at her shower curtain and got an idea. I've got an idea. This can keep water from leaking out. Surely it could do the same for shit. So she got to work, designing a new, better diaper cover, which she called The Boater. I did it. I'm gonna liberate women from needless domestic work.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
TDS Time Machine | Shafted - Tales of Unsung Women
Right after I buy a new shower curtain and clean up this mess before my husband leaves me. It was a hit. The diaper covers were flying off the shelves faster than black market birth control pills. And then came Marion's best idea yet, a fully disposable diaper with super absorbent material. Marion pitched her idea for fully disposable diapers to every large manufacturer in the country.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
TDS Time Machine | Shafted - Tales of Unsung Women
But she soon found herself knee deep in something much worse than baby poop, sexism. What do you think? It's unnecessary. There's no market for this, you dumb lady. My wife loves washing diapers.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
TDS Time Machine | Shafted - Tales of Unsung Women
Marian was desperate and at the end of her rope, so she did the unthinkable.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
TDS Time Machine | Shafted - Tales of Unsung Women
Yeah, but it should have.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
TDS Time Machine | Shafted - Tales of Unsung Women
Exactly. Exactly. But while she may have been overlooked in her own time, Marion's contributions live on in homes, in daycares, in Target bathrooms where the diaper changing station is always broken and the baby's screaming and you're like, what do you want from me?
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
TDS Time Machine | Shafted - Tales of Unsung Women
Good evening, I'm Dulcé Sloan. And I'm Desi Lydic. Tonight, the story of Willie Mae Big Mama Thornton, a trailblazer whose trail was left brutally unblazed. What? It's the story of a forgotten woman never given her due. Why didn't you just say that the first time? I don't know. Growing up near Montgomery, Alabama, Willie May always had a passion for singing.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
TDS Time Machine | Shafted - Tales of Unsung Women
At the young age of 15, she won a singing contest and eventually signed a record deal.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
TDS Time Machine | Shafted - Tales of Unsung Women
Willie May's soulful rendition of Hound Dog told the story of a good-for-nothing man who wants to be taken care of. It was like the great grandmother of no scrubs. See, a scrub is a guy who thinks he's fly. If I know, I think everyone knows.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
TDS Time Machine | Shafted - Tales of Unsung Women
Willie May was shafted, but what she didn't know was that there was an even bigger shaft headed her way. And not the good kind.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
TDS Time Machine | Shafted - Tales of Unsung Women
A few years later, her precious, soulful hound dog found a new owner, a rising talent who was introduced to the song by a Vegas lounge act and decided to put his own spin on it.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
TDS Time Machine | Shafted - Tales of Unsung Women
By the way, that really happened.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
TDS Time Machine | Shafted - Tales of Unsung Women
Elvis' version of Hound Dog was a huge smash and completely eclipsed Willie May's version. While Elvis didn't steal the song, he did benefit from a system that ensured his music reached a wider audience. You see, Elvis was a white man. Elvis went on to become one of the greatest icons of all time. But despite it all, Willie May never lost her gift for expressing emotion in song.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
TDS Time Machine | Shafted - Tales of Unsung Women
Willie Mae Thornton was a talented artist who launched an iconic song only to have her legacy washed away. But we remember her. And you can't wash this away. Go ahead, Dulce. Show them yours. Uh, I told you I wasn't doing that.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
TDS Time Machine | Shafted - Tales of Unsung Women
Good evening. I'm Desi Lydic. And I'm Dulce Sloan. This month, we've been uncovering the true stories of women who were shafted. Because throughout history, women have been constrained by things like gender roles, cultural biases, and spanks. So, mm, constricting. Mm-hmm.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
TDS Time Machine | Shafted - Tales of Unsung Women
You're going to give me $5, and then something good will happen to you. Oh, OK. OK. OK. Here you go. She even worked as a doctor, despite having no medical training. And what we want to do is we want to pour the tonic right over the abdomen. That looks like milk. Yes, no, of course it's milk. It'll make his stomach bones stronger.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
TDS Time Machine | Shafted - Tales of Unsung Women
She started The Ladies Deposit, a woman-only investment fund. When Sarah doubled her clients' investments within a year, women started handing over their money like they were at a Ryan Gosling kissing booth.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
TDS Time Machine | Shafted - Tales of Unsung Women
Good evening. I'm Dulcé Sloan. And I'm Desi Lydic. Tonight's episode is a familiar story. Big dreams crushed by the reality of reality.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
TDS Time Machine | Shafted - Tales of Unsung Women
Sarah was running one of the first and most successful investment fraud schemes in history. She was basically Bernie Madoff in a bustle.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
TDS Time Machine | Shafted - Tales of Unsung Women
My money was stolen by a woman? Oh, I'm so proud. But eventually, the ladies' deposit was exposed, and the police deposited Sarah into jail.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
TDS Time Machine | Shafted - Tales of Unsung Women
Because half a century later, her legacy was stolen by a man named Charles Ponzi, who became the namesake of the very scheme Sarah perfected, the Ponzi scheme.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
TDS Time Machine | Shafted - Tales of Unsung Women
Mother . But tonight we salute Sarah Howe, who shattered the glass ceiling of financial crime. Thanks to her, women everywhere can aspire to lie, cheat, and steal. Just like men.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
TDS Time Machine | Shafted - Tales of Unsung Women
Ugh, why is there so much shit everywhere? Why?
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
WWDTM: Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone
in today's installment of, Hey, Get Off My Lawn, The Growing Phenomenon of Urban Wandering. Based on the British tradition of wandering through fields in the countryside called rambling, Americans have started taking back their environment by walking aimlessly through businesses and people's yards.
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
WWDTM: Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone
Rambling in the UK is protected by the right to roam law, allowing enthusiasts to access publicly and privately owned land because of centuries-old footpaths that predate modern property lines. Urban wandering, on the other hand, is a bunch of white people trespassing through a neighborhood they don't live in by jumping fences, walking through rose bushes, and then descending upon a Starbucks.
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
WWDTM: Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone
The leader of the Wandering Society of Eagle, Colorado stated, it's all right to enjoy the world we live in. Property lines are fictional. Nature is real. And so was the trespassing citation her group received after trudging through a gated community.
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
WWDTM: Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone
But they're not handled that often. They're only handled once a year.
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
WWDTM: Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone
Because they're gonna realize I can go outside and get sticks.
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
WWDTM: Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone
Y'all wear it. You mean to tell me that there's people in here that act like that they wouldn't wear a dog hair? Too good for your own dog?
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
WWDTM: Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone
I don't like this man. I don't like this man. I've never liked this man.
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
WWDTM: Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone
Girl, I don't know what a man is going to fall through, a crack in the floor. I'm a whole woman.
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
WWDTM: Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone
I can't wait until that boy hits puberty.
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
WWDTM: Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone
Are these aliens? Do aliens have drones? I thought they had spaceships.
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
WWDTM: Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone
So basically, we're just England in the 1500s. Right.
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
WWDTM: Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone
This is too long for us to not know.
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
WWDTM: Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone
But no, because we should have shot these down by now. I don't, as an American, I know we shoot first, ask questions, never.
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
WWDTM: Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone
Mr. Scrooge is going to wake up on Christmas morning and save TikTok.
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
WWDTM: Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone
Also, it's just, like, Target shouldn't do this.
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
WWDTM: Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone
No, because then you can look at all the times you went to Target and was like, I just need toilet paper, and then you spent $200. Right. Right.
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
WWDTM: Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone
That's why I got rid of date naps, because every time I would open it, I'd be like, man, a whole city doesn't want to sleep with me. Let me put my phone down.
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
WWDTM: Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone
I know I listen to Megan Thee Stallion the whole time. I don't need nobody to tell me that.
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
WWDTM: Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone
Well, most of these comics are heathens.
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
WWDTM: Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone
Let's see. Okay. So you could say that one they're doing is a fruit roll-up rolled in tahini. Then you could do it with chamoy or you could put a little glitter in it.
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
WWDTM: Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone
I love torturing a pickle. Go ahead.