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Jane Fonda's Workout, Part 2: Hanoi Jane's VHS Revolution

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Jane Fonda's Workout, Part 2: Hanoi Jane's VHS Revolution

FromDecoder Ring


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Jane Fonda's Workout, Part 2: Hanoi Jane's VHS Revolution

FromDecoder Ring

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Length:
51 minutes
Released:
Oct 26, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

How did Hanoi Jane become Exercise Jane?
This is the second part of our two-parter on Jane Fonda's Workout. If you haven't yet, listen to the previous episode "Jane and Leni" first, it will give you the full context for this episode. This time around we explore how an academy award winning actor and controversial political activist managed to transform herself into a category defining fitness icon. It's a story involving a persistent VHS entrepreneur, dozens of bizarre celebrity workout tapes, and Tricky Dick, himself.
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Released:
Oct 26, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

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Decoder Ring is the show about cracking cultural mysteries. In each episode, host Willa Paskin takes a cultural question, object, or habit; examines its history; and tries to figure out what it means and why it matters.