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Speaker 2: mitsuier Indo, a Japanese American who took her fight against
Speaker 2: racism all the way to the Supreme Court, helping to
Speaker 2: bring about the end of Japanese American interment during World
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Speaker 6: I'm your resident historian, Lee, and normally Niminy would do
Speaker 6: this intro, but well, I came upstairs and found her
Speaker 6: huddled in the corner on the phone, muttering to herself
Speaker 6: and hate. Niminy must stay on the line. Hmm, she
Speaker 6: can't hear me. Today's episode is about the heroic actions
Speaker 6: of Mitsie Endo. But first I need to get Nimini's attention.
Speaker 6: I haven't tried yelling at her yet, so I'll do
Speaker 6: that now.
Speaker 1: Hey, Nmona, I'm on the phone.
Speaker 7: We have a show to do.
Speaker 1: I know, I know, it's just I've been trying to
Speaker 1: reach customer support. We got a notice from the Secret
Speaker 1: Laboratory Owners Association that said we need to prove we
Speaker 1: live here by the end of the day or they'll
Speaker 1: shut off our bug spray woo.
Speaker 6: But the sandflies are getting bold enough as it is.
Speaker 1: That got sandflies.
Speaker 6: They're getting bigger too. Wait, what does proving we live
Speaker 6: here even mean?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm trying to find out, but they
Speaker 1: put me on hold all morning.
Speaker 6: And you're using a landline phone, so it's attached to
Speaker 6: the wall.
Speaker 1: Huh, yeah, I can't move very far.
Speaker 6: It looks like the phone court is stretchy though you
Speaker 6: might not be able to get all the way to
Speaker 6: the library, but they're still another way to connect to
Speaker 6: the history simulator.
Speaker 1: Follow me, all right, I'll stretch the court as much
Speaker 1: as I can. Okay, who's today's.
Speaker 6: Episode about Midsaya Endo. She was one of around one
Speaker 6: hundred and twenty thousand Japanese Americans who were detained in
Speaker 6: the US internment camps.
Speaker 1: Internment camp? What's that? In this case?
Speaker 6: It's a prison camp that holds prisoners of war.
Speaker 1: Well, that doesn't sound like a nice place to be.
Speaker 1: It's not.
Speaker 6: But Mitsia's Supreme Court case paved the way for those
Speaker 6: camps getting shut down.
Speaker 1: Wow. I'm kind of embarrassed to say, but I didn't
Speaker 1: know anything about all that.
Speaker 6: Honestly, Nimini, not a lot of people do. She didn't
Speaker 6: get a ton of attention, and she didn't ask for it.
Speaker 6: Not even her kids knew what she'd done until they
Speaker 6: were adults. Hold on this.
Speaker 1: Way, what is this in office? How did I not
Speaker 1: know about this?
Speaker 6: It's the historical records backstage area. We're not really supposed
Speaker 6: to use it on the show, but it's the only
Speaker 6: way the phone cord will reach.
Speaker 1: Wait, are these exhausted looking people in ill fitting loungewear
Speaker 1: are the writers of this show? They're writing everything we're
Speaker 1: saying right now. I can see it happening as I'm saying, Nimini.
Speaker 6: No, don't get too close to them. They'll just try
Speaker 6: to give you their lunch orders. Last I am starving.
Speaker 1: Run Niminie, run run. The phone cour doesn't have much
Speaker 1: more gives through here. Whoa wee? This room's covered in
Speaker 1: telephone wires and plugs and knots and stuff. What is
Speaker 1: this some sort of old timy nineteen forties switchboard?
Speaker 6: That's exactly what it is. Welcome to the History Simulator switchboard.
Speaker 6: This will let us use the history simulator while staying
Speaker 6: on hold.
Speaker 1: So we just plug this wire into the phone and
Speaker 1: then plug the other end into these they're called phone holes.
Speaker 1: I think I don't spend a lot of time in
Speaker 1: here either way.
Speaker 6: Just plug the phone into one of the phone holes
Speaker 6: and then switch to the other line. Then dial nine,
Speaker 6: and then the year, and then the pound sign, and
Speaker 6: we should be connected to.
Speaker 1: The right time. Probably. I'm starting to see why you
Speaker 1: preferred the goo okay plug switch to nine two dial nine.
Speaker 6: Dial nineteen forty two.
Speaker 1: One nine four two pound the rules changing.
Speaker 6: It just takes a little fine tuning to build the
Speaker 6: simulation this way, but we'll get there.
Speaker 8: Big is an emergency broadcast. Japan has launched an attack
Speaker 8: on Pearl Harbor. This marks the official entry of the
Speaker 8: United States into World War two.
Speaker 9: President Roosevelt has enacted Executive Order nine zero sixty six,
Speaker 9: establishing the West Coast as a military zone and allowing
Speaker 9: the government to relocate anyone deemed necessary.
Speaker 10: Recently established more relocation authority has begun the process of
Speaker 10: relocating the Japanese into internment camps, even those with American citizenship.
Speaker 10: As anti Japanese sentiment has risen sharply, some have questioned
Speaker 10: the legitimacy of these actions as a necessary wartime measure.
Speaker 6: What were all those broadcasts just some radio cross talk.
Speaker 6: We'll probably pick up a lot of that using the
Speaker 6: history simulator this way.
Speaker 1: I guess the extra context doesn't hurt. But are we
Speaker 1: in the right place? This looks like a law office.
Speaker 6: It sure is. Can't beat all that natural musty smell
Speaker 6: that's the smell of justice.
Speaker 1: What are we doing snooping around an empty lawyer's office.
Speaker 1: Isn't this breaking and entering? Of course not. We didn't
Speaker 1: break anything.
Speaker 6: That face was broken when we got here.
Speaker 1: What are we doing here?
Speaker 6: This is James Purcell's office in San Francisco. He wanted
Speaker 6: to challenge the legitimacy of what the US government did
Speaker 6: when they removed Japanese these Americans from their homes and
Speaker 6: placed them in internment camps. So he wanted to find
Speaker 6: the perfect subject to put together a test case.
Speaker 1: And I'm guessing that perfect subject was Mitsuie Indo.
Speaker 6: Bingo, which means he's done a ton of research on
Speaker 6: her already. Look at these notes on his desk. They're
Speaker 6: all about her life.
Speaker 1: It says, nise. What does that mean?
Speaker 6: Well, Ni means too, and say is like life or
Speaker 6: in this case generation, So Nise are second generation immigrants,
Speaker 6: meaning they were born here in the US.
Speaker 1: Oh, okay, that makes sense. It says Mitsuye was born
Speaker 1: and raised in Sacramento, California, twenty two years old. She's
Speaker 1: never been to Japan, doesn't know Japanese, has a brother
Speaker 1: currently serving in the military. Not Buddhist what's that have
Speaker 1: to do with anything, you know.
Speaker 6: How, those broadcasts we heard said that there was a
Speaker 6: lot of suspicion towards Japanese people in general that actually
Speaker 6: started before the attack on Pearl Harbor. They were being
Speaker 6: closely monitored just for participating in local Japanese cultural associations
Speaker 6: or for simply being Buddhist.
Speaker 1: So the attack on Pearl Harbor probably just accelerated that.
Speaker 6: After the attack, Japanese people who had nothing to do
Speaker 6: with it were affected right away. Around three hundred to
Speaker 6: five hundred state employees were harassed at work until they
Speaker 6: were eventually laid off just for having Japanese heritage. That
Speaker 6: included Endo, who worked at the Department of Employment.
Speaker 1: So Mitsuier was an American born Christian who worked for
Speaker 1: the American government with the brother on active duty in
Speaker 1: the American military. On paper, she sounds like the least
Speaker 1: suspicious person in the world.
Speaker 6: That's exactly what James Purcell was banking on. He wanted
Speaker 6: to present someone who even the most suspicious judge couldn't
Speaker 6: possibly describe as disloyal to the United States. By using
Speaker 6: the perfect model of an American citizen, he could show
Speaker 6: that the government had illegally detained people without a shured
Speaker 6: of proof that they were enemies of the US.
Speaker 1: So what happened next? He went to talk to her.
Speaker 6: Funnily enough, they never met in in real life. They
Speaker 6: mostly communicated through official correspondence, which is why it's up
Speaker 6: to the two of us to deliver this letter to her.
Speaker 1: Us. What happened to the mailman?
Speaker 6: The mailman smashed a vase right before we got here
Speaker 6: and went on the run, So it's up to us
Speaker 6: to finish the job.
Speaker 1: Lee, I saw you smash the base. Whose side are
Speaker 1: you on here?
Speaker 6: Just dial the code for two Lee Lake and let's
Speaker 6: deliver this letter.
Speaker 1: Sure, uh so it's.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Dial nine nine and then put in the area code.
Speaker 6: So five zero three five zero three star one nine
Speaker 6: four to two star one nine four two.
Speaker 8: The Touley Lake relocation set her posting over eighteen thousand residents,
Speaker 8: all living in close quarters, complete with eight foot high
Speaker 8: double fences, minos of barbed wire, and thousands of bombed guards.
Speaker 8: You'll feel secure knowing you can't leave.
Speaker 11: Have you filled out your loyalty questionnaire? Simply answer yes
Speaker 11: to thirty quick questions and you'll learn back our trust,
Speaker 11: prove that you're worthy of lee camps by pledging your
Speaker 11: willingness to renounce the Japanese ever and to serve in
Speaker 11: our military Habeas corpus.
Speaker 9: It's a legal document protesting an un lawful attainment.
Speaker 10: By requesting an appearance in front of a court or judge.
Speaker 7: If you've been relocated.
Speaker 8: Against your will, this just might be the right legal
Speaker 8: move for you.
Speaker 1: What was that propaganda ads?
Speaker 6: Yeah, from the sound of it, this internment camp, the
Speaker 6: loyalty questionnaires, they were blatant actions to limit the freedoms
Speaker 6: of Japanese Americans that the government still tried to paint
Speaker 6: the picture that they were doing it for the good
Speaker 6: of the country.
Speaker 1: And that last one about habeas corpus, that's what we're
Speaker 1: here to deliver to Endo, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: The case hinges on the fact that bringing her and
Speaker 6: everyone else to the camps without a trial violated their
Speaker 6: constitutional rights.
Speaker 1: This place really is intimidating. It's entirely fenced in. There's
Speaker 1: barbed wire as far as the eye can see. And
Speaker 1: they weren't kidding about the armed guards. Are you sure
Speaker 1: we can be in here? Look at our outfits.
Speaker 6: We're just as mailmen now and as far as this
Speaker 6: historical simulation goes, mail men are allowed to be anywhere.
Speaker 1: You take a lot of liberties with your stimulations.
Speaker 6: Hey, hey, I don't tell you how to do your job,
Speaker 6: even though I think your songs could stand to use
Speaker 6: a little more tambourine.
Speaker 1: Excuse me? Are you two mail men lost? Are you
Speaker 1: mitsuier endo? I am? What can I do for you?
Speaker 6: Actually, we were sent here to deliver this letter to you. Oh,
Speaker 6: thank you.
Speaker 4: Hmmm, if I'm understanding this correctly, mister Purcell is asking
Speaker 4: for my help to sue the US government.
Speaker 6: We know it's a lot of responsibility, but I'll do it.
Speaker 4: Really, simple as that, simple as that. We were all
Speaker 4: brought here without any sort of trial. But by using
Speaker 4: me we can show them that what they've done to
Speaker 4: us is wrong. If this can help everyone else out,
Speaker 4: then there's no question about it.
Speaker 6: I have to do it. We thought you'd say that.
Speaker 6: We'll let mister Purcell know right away.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 4: I hope it's a quick process.
Speaker 1: Up, Please excuse me, I have to get to the
Speaker 1: mess hall. It was nice to meet you. It was
Speaker 1: nice meeting you too. She knows it won't be a
Speaker 1: quick process, doesn't she.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And not just because she used to be a
Speaker 6: government employee. Her case will be delayed, dismissed, and worked around.
Speaker 1: You mean they're gonna try to get her to drop
Speaker 1: the case.
Speaker 6: Yep, and this place to Lee Lake. It's gonna get worse.
Speaker 6: The conditions are gonna reach the point where Endo wishes
Speaker 6: that she could leave, and the war Relocation Authority starts
Speaker 6: cutting deals that let people in midsea situation relocate outside
Speaker 6: of California. But if she leaves the state, the court
Speaker 6: no longer has jurisdiction over her case and it'll be dropped.
Speaker 1: So she'll refuse the chance to get out of here.
Speaker 6: Because just like she said, she's gonna do the thing
Speaker 6: that helps people, no matter how difficult it gets.
Speaker 1: Let me guess they'll find a way to move her anyway.
Speaker 6: Her case will be dismissed and they'll move her to Utah.
Speaker 1: Oh my head hurts from all the legal system logistics.
Speaker 1: How'd our case ever make it to the Supreme Court?
Speaker 6: You mean because we never went back to relay her
Speaker 6: message to Purcell.
Speaker 1: It's a simulation.
Speaker 6: Any a different mailman went back to tell him, probably
Speaker 6: after he apologized for smashing that priceless face with your fingerprints.
Speaker 1: All over it. My fingerprints.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I planted your fingerprints on it so I wouldn't
Speaker 6: get blamed.
Speaker 1: Is that a crime?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: Not in my simulation, it's not.
Speaker 6: Forget the vase, you're the one fixating on it.
Speaker 1: I meant, how did her case make it to the
Speaker 1: Supreme Court? After all that?
Speaker 6: James Purcell filed an appeal and made sure it got
Speaker 6: elevated all the way there here, let me dial us
Speaker 6: in nine nineteen forty four pound pound star number pad smash.
Speaker 8: In the case of Hirobayashi versus the United States, in
Speaker 8: the case.
Speaker 9: Of Yusui versus the United States, in the case of
Speaker 9: Kormonts versus the United States.
Speaker 1: What were those other cases?
Speaker 6: They were the three other challenges to the internment camps
Speaker 6: that made it to the Supreme Court, but they all failed.
Speaker 1: That doesn't sound good. I'm guessing we're at the Supreme Court.
Speaker 9: Then.
Speaker 1: What gave it away?
Speaker 6: The nine Supreme Court justices glaring at us, Yeah, that
Speaker 6: was it.
Speaker 1: Can we even be in here?
Speaker 7: You too, the mailman, You shouldn't be in here, your honor.
Speaker 6: We were in here to deliver a letter, but we
Speaker 6: accidentally superglued our butts to the seats. Is it okay
Speaker 6: if we just observe the rest of the proceedings while
Speaker 6: we wait for someone to unbolt our seats from the
Speaker 6: ground and carry us home.
Speaker 7: I don't know what to say to that, but we're
Speaker 7: running short on time, so I'll allow it. Let's move
Speaker 7: on to our final decision on mitsuye Endo versus the
Speaker 7: United States. We are of the view that mitsuye Endo
Speaker 7: should be given her liberty, for we conclude that whatever
Speaker 7: power the War Relocation Authority may have to de tell
Speaker 7: other classes of citizens, it has no authority to subject
Speaker 7: citizens who are concededly loyal to its leave procedure.
Speaker 1: Wait. That means she won, right she did.
Speaker 6: Out of the four cases elevated to the Supreme Court
Speaker 6: surrounding the issues of Japanese internment, hers was the only
Speaker 6: case that was ruled in favor of the plaintiff. After this,
Speaker 6: President Roosevelt reversed the executive order and citizens were allowed
Speaker 6: to go home.
Speaker 1: But a court ruling's not like waving a magic wand
Speaker 1: is it. It doesn't just change back everything that went wrong.
Speaker 6: No, And unlike the super glue I put on our pants,
Speaker 6: its effect isn't immediate Endo stayed in the camp for
Speaker 6: another five months to look after her parents, and after that, well,
Speaker 6: it's not like the communities that most of these people
Speaker 6: were kicked out of didn't suddenly stop being suspicious of
Speaker 6: Japanese Americans. A lot of people didn't even have homes
Speaker 6: to return to.
Speaker 1: I can imagine I wouldn't go back to that. It
Speaker 1: couldn't have been easy finding new housing or jobs after
Speaker 1: being ripped away and then kept away for all that time.
Speaker 6: She actually never even went back to California. Eventually she
Speaker 6: made her way to Chicago. She wanted to put this
Speaker 6: whole thing behind her, like I'm sure a lot of
Speaker 6: others did, including the US government itself.
Speaker 1: What do you mean dial nine and then nineteen eighty eight? Wait,
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty eight, as in forty years later? Mm hmmugh, okay,
Speaker 1: huh a conference room, Hanna.
Speaker 6: Is that the president of the Screen Actors Guild Ronald Reagan? Yes,
Speaker 6: but in nineteen eighty eight, Ronald Reagan was also the.
Speaker 1: President of the United States.
Speaker 6: Did you notice that the language in the Supreme Court's
Speaker 6: ruling didn't mention racial discrimination.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, now that I think about it, it just
Speaker 1: said that the government couldn't detain people who were decidedly loyal.
Speaker 1: So was that how Indo could in her case while
Speaker 1: the other cases were all struck down exactly.
Speaker 6: This press conference with former ZAG President Reagan is the
Speaker 6: first time that the US is officially apologizing to the
Speaker 6: one hundred and twenty thousand Japanese Americans who were wrongfully detained.
Speaker 12: Yet we must recognize that the internment of Japanese Americans
Speaker 12: was just that a mistake. For throughout the war, Japanese
Speaker 12: Americans in the tens of thousands remained utterly loyal to
Speaker 12: the United.
Speaker 6: States better late than ever, I guess remember the other
Speaker 6: three cases, Hirabayashi, Yasui, and Korematsu. Losing those cases wasn't
Speaker 6: just a loss for Japanese Americans, but also for those
Speaker 6: three individuals. They were technically considered convicts, which is something
Speaker 6: that makes it pretty hard to find a job. Even
Speaker 6: after this apology, it wouldn't be until twenty eighteen that
Speaker 6: those three cases officially got overturned, clearing their names. Twenty eighteen, Yeah,
Speaker 6: forty more years.
Speaker 1: But for now, let's get back to the lab.
Speaker 6: Switch back to line one.
Speaker 13: Lee.
Speaker 1: I know that technically we saw Indo win her case.
Speaker 6: But I know nineteen forty two all the way to
Speaker 6: twenty eighteen, history is full of regrettable decisions and mistakes
Speaker 6: of things that still need to be acknowledged and corrected.
Speaker 1: But if things move that slowly, how are any of
Speaker 1: us supposed to change anything?
Speaker 6: It does seem daunting and complicated and overwhelming. But the
Speaker 6: things we actually do, our actions, those can be simple.
Speaker 1: How do you mean Midsea.
Speaker 6: Endo didn't set out to change the world. She was
Speaker 6: just offered a chance to do what was right. Someone
Speaker 6: said to her, we need you to play a part.
Speaker 1: Can you do that? And she said yes?
Speaker 6: And she said yes, She took a small quiet action,
Speaker 6: stayed determined, and that set everything else in motion. Winning
Speaker 6: her case effectively led to the end of the internment
Speaker 6: camp and made way for the reversals of the other
Speaker 6: three cases decades later.
Speaker 1: It's like she said, if it helps other people, I'll
Speaker 1: do it. Even if the system itself is imperfect, it's
Speaker 1: people who ultimately make sure it works. And people will
Speaker 1: make mistakes and corrections and try their best to do
Speaker 1: what's right, even if it takes a long time.
Speaker 6: Speaking of taking a long time, you got a song for.
Speaker 1: Us or what you bet I do? All right, everyone,
Speaker 1: it's time to celebrate smid City eight in those heroic
Speaker 1: actions with this brand new trek.
Speaker 14: Well the Empire of the Just on the Red, Light
Speaker 14: and Blue the bat was run by the batty. Outcome
Speaker 14: was that you enjoying World War two and the theater?
Speaker 1: Or are the subjects of Mendia chung.
Speaker 5: But the song will explore, how are you as sure
Speaker 5: something destardbly happened at home? At the time Japanese on
Speaker 5: the West end of America had that loyalties question.
Speaker 1: Franklin Roosebelm did the.
Speaker 5: Worst with his best friend and declared to Congress and
Speaker 5: the world that if you de said did from the
Speaker 5: land of the Yen, you were now an alien. Doesn't
Speaker 5: matter citizen order fors or second gent to the men,
Speaker 5: you're subject to the acts of sedition laws with the
Speaker 5: terrible tradition. So the Usnate trips were on a mission
Speaker 5: to round up the Nisay and he say in prisons
Speaker 5: against the will and without any discernment.
Speaker 1: Thus began the policy that we not all internment.
Speaker 13: They said free, but then they roved humans their humanity.
Speaker 13: So I asked, how can you a fight when you
Speaker 13: lost that wage made internment condenses.
Speaker 5: The camps are intense.
Speaker 8: It's at test to.
Speaker 1: Be ripped from your home.
Speaker 5: Gomard wire offences and armguard defenses who shoot you if
Speaker 5: you try to go. When pressures oppressive, some books get inventive.
Speaker 5: They look for that opposite force.
Speaker 1: No, they won't be pensive. They're on the offensive. And
Speaker 1: they saw recourse in the courts the Japanese.
Speaker 5: American Citizens League, not the American in their citizenry. You
Speaker 5: wanted to challenge Roosevelt politically, and we're certain that a
Speaker 5: journey again judge will agree. So three men, Gordon and
Speaker 5: Rabbay Yashi, Fred Koremats and Minova Yasubi had a law degree.
Speaker 5: They thought possibly that they could stop this central city
Speaker 5: with honesty. But they got popped in the job by hypocrisy,
Speaker 5: lost their steam, dropped to it not for three and
Speaker 5: it backed up where they didn't wanna be, in turn,
Speaker 5: in turn interminably in.
Speaker 1: Free There are some the striving for the y I ask,
Speaker 1: how can you fight when you're down?
Speaker 5: Even so, World War two rages conflict of the ages.
Speaker 5: The people in turn still strive to bring from their
Speaker 5: cages and start on new pages. But that dream is
Speaker 5: barely alive for sell their esquires, getting real tired of
Speaker 5: looking for our cases that can go until he's inspired
Speaker 5: by someone who's fired and her name to an Endo
Speaker 5: Kendo born in Sacramento, was employed by the State Board,
Speaker 5: but then wistftly let go after the harber abtexts, which
Speaker 5: director they counter acts.
Speaker 1: The spirit of most US manifesto. They case the court
Speaker 1: on a Habeus written, but the judge.
Speaker 5: In a thing that her case was legit, but the
Speaker 5: US government knew something else about it, so they overmade
Speaker 5: him just for only her, and she said no way.
Speaker 1: More years locked in the fort.
Speaker 5: Waiting until she reached the Supreme Court, debating, this is
Speaker 5: the price they make you pay for freedom makes a
Speaker 5: taste even swat when you really be one find day free.
Speaker 5: We will when they try to take ar humanity. Remember
Speaker 5: this Humastos fine for etecting all human rights is the
Speaker 5: only thing as well.
Speaker 9: She won.
Speaker 1: Me, She made him, made him.
Speaker 5: One bind day free. We will not one day try
Speaker 5: to take humanity ember.
Speaker 14: This is hi efecting.
Speaker 7: All right, is the only thing.
Speaker 1: We'll be right back after a few words for the
Speaker 1: grown ups. All right, what a great song. It's a
Speaker 1: lot better than the hold music.
Speaker 6: You're still on hold?
Speaker 1: Yes, that's why I've been holding the phone and gets
Speaker 1: my ear the whole time.
Speaker 6: Oh, I thought you just forgot how to put things down.
Speaker 1: That makes more sense, though. I'm okay with this though.
Speaker 1: If I've learned anything from today, it's that even small,
Speaker 1: simple actions can bring about great change. I'm responsible for
Speaker 1: this secret Lab, and if the only thing I need
Speaker 1: to do to prevent it from being swarmed by ever growing,
Speaker 1: probably bloodthirsty sandflies is to stay on the line, then
Speaker 1: I'll just have to stay on the line for as
Speaker 1: long as it it's ringing, it's ringing. Oh, thank goodness,
Speaker 1: I think I'm being connected.
Speaker 7: Message may be recorded for quality assurance purposes.
Speaker 9: Hello, you've reached customer service.
Speaker 1: To whom am I speaking, Niminy.
Speaker 10: Let me just pull up your account.
Speaker 7: Okay, I see you right here.
Speaker 1: How can I help you today, Niminy? I got a
Speaker 1: letter that said I need to prove that I live
Speaker 1: in the Secret Lab, do you yes? Okay, let me
Speaker 1: just update that in the system. Okay, Oh, look at that.
Speaker 14: It was already in there.
Speaker 11: Someone must have forgotten to relink the spreadsheet to the database.
Speaker 7: Guilty.
Speaker 3: I guess you didn't need to call in today after all.
Speaker 1: Great, so you won't shut off our bugspray. Oh you're
Speaker 1: the lab with the sand flies.
Speaker 6: We've actually got a pool going on. How long you
Speaker 6: can hold them off?
Speaker 9: But I can transfer you over to the bugs department
Speaker 9: if you want to.
Speaker 7: Speak to them.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, no no, we're fine. Just keep
Speaker 1: the bug spray off, no problem.
Speaker 7: I'm glad I was.
Speaker 6: Able to help you out today.
Speaker 3: By the way, if you wouldn't mind taking a short
Speaker 3: survey to rate your experience.
Speaker 1: Whew, I'm glad that's finally over with listeners. What you
Speaker 1: just heard was a maleman from the nineteen forties, rush
Speaker 1: in here and smash my phone. He's out there somewhere.
Speaker 1: But the important thing to note is that I neeminy
Speaker 1: am not at fault. Okay, that's it for today's season finale, listeners.
Speaker 1: I can't thank you enough for tuning in to this
Speaker 1: season of historical records. Combining history and hip hop has
Speaker 1: always been my dream, So thank you for being brave
Speaker 1: enough to witness my experiment. I learned about so many
Speaker 1: extraordinary luminaries, and yet it's just the tip of the Iceberg.
Speaker 1: There are so many more. Maybe you can even find
Speaker 1: some of your own and write a song about them.
Speaker 1: Because remember, to make history, you gotta make some noise.
Speaker 1: Niminy Out.
Speaker 10: Historical Records is produced in partnership with Story Pirate Studios,
Speaker 10: Questlove's two one five Entertainment John Glickman and iHeart Podcasts
Speaker 10: Executive produced by Emir Questlove Thompson, John Glickman, Lee Overtree
Speaker 10: and Benjamin Salga. Executive produced for iHeart Podcasts by Noel Brown.
Speaker 10: Producers for Story Pirate Studios are Isabella Riccio, Sam Bear,
Speaker 10: Eric Gerson, Andrew Miller, Lee Overtree, Peter McNerney and niminy Ware.
Speaker 10: Producers for two one five are Sean g Brittany Benjamin
Speaker 10: and Zara Zolman. Hosted by niminy Ware. Our head writer
Speaker 10: is Duke Doyle. Our historians are Gabe Pacheco and Lee Polus.
Speaker 10: Music supervision for two one five by Stroe Elliott. Scoring
Speaker 10: and music supervision for Story Pirate Studios by Eric Gerson.
Speaker 10: Sound design and mixing by Sam Bear at the Relic
Speaker 10: Room in New York City. Additional recording by Brett Tuban.
Speaker 10: Song mastering by Josh Han theme song by Dan Foster
Speaker 10: and Eric Gerson and produced by Eric Erson. Production coordination
Speaker 10: by Isabel Riccio, Production management by Maggie Lee. The line
Speaker 10: producer for Story Pired Studios is Glynnis Brault. Pr for
Speaker 10: Story Pired Studios is provided by Naomi Shaw. Episode artwork
Speaker 10: by Camilla Franklin. This episode was written by Minswe Karami.
Speaker 10: The song mitsuya Endo was written by Dan Foster, produced
Speaker 10: by Micah James and associate produced and vocal directed by
Speaker 10: Eric Gerson. Special guest Anna Suzuki. This episode features performances
Speaker 10: by Chris Ferry, Caroline Lux, Peter McNerney, Lee Overtree, and
Speaker 10: Lee Polas