{"id":1636,"date":"2023-08-10T10:38:17","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T10:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nyadfactcheck.com\/annex\/new-lies-old-lies-and-movie-news-from-nyads-how-she-does-it-interview-2\/"},"modified":"2024-03-03T15:09:13","modified_gmt":"2024-03-03T15:09:13","slug":"new-lies-old-lies-and-movie-news-from-nyads-how-she-does-it-interview-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nyadfactcheck.com\/annex\/new-lies-old-lies-and-movie-news-from-nyads-how-she-does-it-interview-2\/","title":{"rendered":"New Lies, Old Lies, And Movie News From Nyad\u2019s \u201cHow She Does It\u201d Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"

Investor Karen Finerman interviewed Diana in June for the How She Does It podcast.<\/a> The episode went up Sunday. Here are the highlights, including some scoops about the movie.
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Nyad\u00a0<\/em>Early Look<\/h2>\n
Jellies Make A Scene<\/h5>\n

Even after those box jellyfish \u2014 and I\u2019m telling you, that was a scene right out of a movie that you\u2019re about to see in the fall. I could have; I should have died that night with what was going on with the triage, with the emergency doctors. (25:26)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Diana doesn\u2019t make much sense there at the end. However, one thing\u2019s certain: We can look forward to many screams from Annette Bening.<\/p>\n

Oh Lord, Won\u2019t You Buy Me The Rights To These Songs<\/h5>\n

I want to tell you something. In the movie, you\u2019re gonna hear Janis Joplin in the movie singing, \u2018Come on, come on.\u2019 I mean and you\u2019re gonna hear Neil Young, he\u2019s in there too. (38:02)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Nooooooooooo \u2014 this can\u2019t be happening! Diana Nyad should not be allowed within 90 nautical miles of those songs, especially after all the lies she\u2019s told about using them.<\/p>\n

Otter.ai<\/a>, the blessed transcription service that allows me to \u201clisten\u201d to Nyad without actually listening to her, transcribed the lyric as \u201cComa, coma,\u201d which feels emotionally if not literally accurate.<\/p>\n

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Origin Stories<\/h2>\n
Marathon Swimming<\/h5>\n

Finerman asks Nyad if she began distance swimming while at college. Nyad answers:<\/p>\n

It really was when I moved to New York City to go to graduate school. I went to NYU\u2026and I was just swimming in the Columbia University pool one day and a graduate student friend of mine said, \u201cNyad, I see that beautiful, powerful stroke of yours\u2026\u201d (4:06)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not a word of that is true. Nyad swam her first open water race in 1970, during her first or second undergrad year at Lake Forest College in Illinois. Nyad graduated in \u201973 and began at NYU that fall. This archived page<\/a> shows Nyad lettering at Lake Forest<\/a> in \u201969-\u201970 and \u201970\u2013\u201971.<\/p>\n

So, it really wasn\u2019t until after college that I started the marathon swimming. (5:00)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Still not true. See this 1970 letter<\/a> from Buck Dawson, founding director of the International Swimming Hall of Fame, to swim promoter Joe Grossman.<\/p>\n

In her first memoir, Other Shores<\/em>, Nyad details a version that\u2019s closer to the truth:<\/p>\n

Midway through that first term at Lake Forest, Buck Dawson, an old friend, called with a tempting prospect of trying the marathon swimming circuit. . . .<\/p>\n

Toward the end of the 1970 school year, I put in some distance in the Lake Forest pool. (p. 20\u201321)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Competitive Swimming<\/span><\/p>\n

And at age nine, I was already a little competitive swimmer. (10:14)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In other interviews and presentations, Nyad gives ages from 7 to 12. She should probably choose one and stick with it.<\/p>\n