Speaker 1: Whoa bee? What's going on in here? Oh? Hi Elliott.
Speaker 1: Today we're talking about naturalist writer Rachel Carson, and my
Speaker 1: love of the sea was reawakened, so I decided to
Speaker 1: get a pet octopus. Her name is eight Winslet. I
Speaker 1: love a good pun name, but I don't know if
Speaker 1: she really likes you. Eight Winslet never hugs me like that.
Speaker 1: I'm flatter? Could you asgar to stop? Okay? E Elliott
Speaker 1: doesn't like long hugs. It's time to let him go,
Speaker 1: she says, nevermore like the other person we're talking about today,
Speaker 1: blew me poet Eggar Allan Poe. Nothing like a well
Speaker 1: read cephalopod. Eric. Please play the theme song here? What
Speaker 1: do you think you know about the rates from this story?
Speaker 1: The game is on to get some mena Jane buckle
Speaker 1: up your side to play podcast because it's standard Live
Speaker 1: from Tom Bland or so called so Cow, Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: Welcome to who was the history question that gives contestants
Speaker 1: the chance to win mega prizes and podcast glory. I'm
Speaker 1: be the world's best announcer according to this mug. And
Speaker 1: now here's your host, the man who wears a life
Speaker 1: jacket when he watches Titanic. It's Elliott Kalin. Thank you
Speaker 1: be you can't be too careful even when you're watching
Speaker 1: a movie. And welcome everyone to the Who Was Podcast.
Speaker 1: This show it's like Jeopardy, only with surprise guests, silly games,
Speaker 1: and our own Catapult release the melons. Our contestants were
Speaker 1: sent Who Was books about two great figures from history.
Speaker 1: Now they're here to show off their knowledge and the
Speaker 1: hopes of winning fantastic prizes. Prizes. Today we're discussing two
Speaker 1: writers whose hearts told tails, Rachel Carson and Edgar Allan Poe.
Speaker 1: But before we get to know them, let's get to
Speaker 1: know our contestants, all right, First up, we have Gus. Gus,
Speaker 1: will you please introduce yourself? Okay, let's see here. My
Speaker 1: name is Gus, as he just said, and the factor
Speaker 1: around me is that I'm a complete Star Wars nerd.
Speaker 1: I am also a complete Star Wars nerd. I really
Speaker 1: like Star Wars. It's something very special in my life.
Speaker 1: What is your what's your favorite thing about Star Do
Speaker 1: you have a favorite character or a favorite movie in
Speaker 1: the series, or a favorite droid or a favorite spaceship
Speaker 1: or favorite alien. What do you like in Star Wars.
Speaker 1: What's your favorites thing? Okay, well, my favorite character is
Speaker 1: Dark Leader Hu. That's my favorite character too. He's a
Speaker 1: great character. He's like an evil space samurai. This is
Speaker 1: a history podcast, and Star Wars is technically history. It
Speaker 1: happened a long time ago in the galaxy far far away,
Speaker 1: So you know what, Let's not talk about April and
Speaker 1: Poel and Richard Carson. Let's talk about great Star Wars
Speaker 1: characters like Job of the hu Ya. Let's do that. Yes,
Speaker 1: so that right? Okay, all right, I'm I'm taking over
Speaker 1: this podcast. Okay, thank you so much, guys. And up
Speaker 1: next we also have Jeremy with us today. Jeremy, please
Speaker 1: introduce yourself, Yames, Jeremy and I'd like raman sushi in
Speaker 1: May and other Jeff News things and and the listeners
Speaker 1: at home can't see this, but Gus's hands literally just
Speaker 1: went to his face. I think he was gasping because
Speaker 1: he also loves those foods except for except for I
Speaker 1: don't like nime, but I like all those other things. Okay, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: what's your favorite kind of ramen to have? I just
Speaker 1: like the original playing. Yeah, you can't beat it. Thank
Speaker 1: you both for joining us today and for telling us
Speaker 1: about yourselves. And thank you to Eric, our musician providing
Speaker 1: that lovely meet the contestants music as well as all
Speaker 1: the music you'll here on the show today. So that's
Speaker 1: who is. Now let's find out who was Rachel Carson
Speaker 1: with four fast facts. Rachel Carr Sin was born in
Speaker 1: nineteen o seven and died in nineteen sixty four. Rachel
Speaker 1: was a marine biologist, a writer, and a conservationist. Rachel
Speaker 1: received her master's degree from the prestigious John's Hopkins University,
Speaker 1: and she won the National Book Award for Nonfiction for
Speaker 1: The Sea Around Us in nineteen fifty two. Pets, alright,
Speaker 1: very important question for both of you. What is your
Speaker 1: favorite see animal? See cucumbers? See they're not? I think,
Speaker 1: dang it. I think I think you can. But I
Speaker 1: don't think you could just pick them up and take
Speaker 1: a bite out of them like you would out of
Speaker 1: at regular cucumber. I don't think they're crunchy. I don't
Speaker 1: think they'll crunch if you take it by them. I
Speaker 1: think they might be a little mushy, and Google you
Speaker 1: can find out. I swim to the bomb to see
Speaker 1: m if anyone's curious, I'll be back in five minutes timing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you'll find out. Uh gus, what about you which
Speaker 1: also see cucumbers or or a different marine animal? It's
Speaker 1: as easy a shark next. Wow, Okay, well, what is it?
Speaker 1: I guess sharks are kind of the Darth Vader of
Speaker 1: the ocean. But is that why the sharks are scary
Speaker 1: and kind of tough and they have a lot of teeth. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but they're all the Great white sharks natural predator. They
Speaker 1: only has one to kill a row, and that's only
Speaker 1: in a pod. I think sharks are the animal I'm
Speaker 1: most frightened of. I think the animal I'm most frightened
Speaker 1: of is probably like a monkey with a hammer in
Speaker 1: its hands. Yeah, like a regular monkey, not that afraid,
Speaker 1: but a monkey with a hammer, he could break your stuff.
Speaker 1: You don't want that to happen. Who gave that hammer
Speaker 1: to a monkey? Get that hammer out of that monkey's hand.
Speaker 1: That's what I said. I'm not afraid to take a
Speaker 1: stand about it. Okay, we've made some very good points
Speaker 1: here about sharks, monkeys with hammers, and sea cucumbers. Let's
Speaker 1: get right to it with our first game. It's called
Speaker 1: true or false? Is it false? Or is a true?
Speaker 1: It's a true? It is false? It was true? Or true?
Speaker 1: True or false? In this game, be will read a
Speaker 1: statement about Rachel Carson and you'll tell us if it's
Speaker 1: true or faul false. And since it's our first game,
Speaker 1: each question is worth one point. Gus, you're up first.
Speaker 1: True or false. As a child, Rachel got her brother
Speaker 1: to stop hunting the rabbits on the Carson family property
Speaker 1: because they reminded her of the Easter bunny. False. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there you go. False. Rachel did convince her brother Robert
Speaker 1: to stop hunting the rabbits, but it was because they
Speaker 1: reminded her of the characters in the Beatrix Potter books
Speaker 1: that her mother read to her. Rachel loved animals and
Speaker 1: spoke out for them at a very early age. Jeremy,
Speaker 1: this next question is for you. True or false. Rachel
Speaker 1: started college studying English, but decided to change her focus
Speaker 1: to science. True. That's right, it's true. While being someone
Speaker 1: who loved nature, Rachel didn't have much interest in taking
Speaker 1: science classes earlier in college due to feeling that her
Speaker 1: high school science classes were boring. However, like any of us,
Speaker 1: one good teacher turned all that around, and she decided
Speaker 1: to study science as a career. Though, as we know now,
Speaker 1: she eventually combines her love of English and science. I
Speaker 1: call it anscience. The next question goes to Gus. True
Speaker 1: or false. Rachel had no trouble getting a job as
Speaker 1: a biologist. That's true, that it's false. I was about
Speaker 1: to say true, but you were right. That's true, that
Speaker 1: it's false. Rachel's classmates thought she was making a big mistake,
Speaker 1: but she decided to be a scientist. In the nineteen twenties,
Speaker 1: a young woman could find a job as a writer
Speaker 1: much much easier than job as a scientist. In fact,
Speaker 1: when Rachel went to the United States Bureau of Fisheries
Speaker 1: to find out what she should study to get a
Speaker 1: job as a biologist, the acting director told her they
Speaker 1: had never hired a woman science there. Luckily, Rachel did
Speaker 1: not let discrimination stop her from following her dream, and Jeremy,
Speaker 1: you get the final question of the round. True or false.
Speaker 1: Rachel's famous book, Silent Spring is about the time she
Speaker 1: went a whole spring without talking, whistling, or burping. False.
Speaker 1: I think you're saying that that wasn't what it was about. Yes,
Speaker 1: exactly what they said was false. In Silent Spring, Rachel
Speaker 1: explained how the chemical pesticides used to keep bugs and
Speaker 1: rodents away from farms were actually so poisonous they were
Speaker 1: killing birds and making people sick. She imagined a silent
Speaker 1: spring in which no birds could be heard singing because
Speaker 1: they've all been poisoned. Readers were so shocked they demanded
Speaker 1: the government pass laws restricting the use of pesticides, helping
Speaker 1: to start the modern environmental production movement. So think about
Speaker 1: Rachel Carson the next time you breathe clean air, drink
Speaker 1: clean water, or eat a snack that doesn't poison you.
Speaker 1: I could really go for a non poison snack right now,
Speaker 1: Ben good news, because that was the last question in
Speaker 1: true or false true true, true, true or false. Now,
Speaker 1: before we go to a break, let's spring over to
Speaker 1: someone who's never silent producer Jane with our first round scores.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Elliott. Although that was a little rude, I
Speaker 1: want to tell you, but you both have we have
Speaker 1: us in Jeremy, both two boys. Thank you, Jane. A
Speaker 1: tie game. I can't wait to see what happens next.
Speaker 1: We'll be back with our next game after this short break. Eric,
Speaker 1: could you please play us out with some fish hatching music? Hey,
Speaker 1: I found nemo. Welcome back to the Who Was Podcast.
Speaker 1: Today we're learning who was Rachel Carson and who was
Speaker 1: Edgar Allan Poe? And now back to your host, Elliott Galin.
Speaker 1: Thanks be once upon a game show, Dreary. It's time
Speaker 1: to get to know Edgar Allan Poe with four fast facts.
Speaker 1: Ed Gar Allan Poe was born in eighteen o nine
Speaker 1: and died in eighteen forty nine. Poe had to pay
Speaker 1: himself to have his first book of poems, Tamerlane and
Speaker 1: Other Poems published. It was credited to a Bostonian. Poe
Speaker 1: is not only a writer, but also a literary editor
Speaker 1: and critic. He was best known for his spooky Gothic
Speaker 1: writing in stories like The Pit and the Pendulum, The
Speaker 1: Tell Tale Heart, and The Mask of the Red Death.
Speaker 1: Now let's get into our skin game. It's called Elliott.
Speaker 1: I can't believe you have your phone on during the show.
Speaker 1: How unprofessional. That's not my ring tone, b My ring
Speaker 1: tone is that Lizzo song all the kids love, but
Speaker 1: don't ask me to tell you the name of it.
Speaker 1: I heard it in the grocery store He's correct, dea b.
Speaker 1: That was no mere novelty time. It was, in fact
Speaker 1: importance of something most ghastly, namely me in the rutting
Speaker 1: flesh thanks to the who was that? Who was that?
Speaker 1: You wandered me some one in the best? Oh you
Speaker 1: need honestly, Edgar, your skin is actually quite nice. Flaw
Speaker 1: as I'd say, I'm attempting at theta of the mind
Speaker 1: thing here. Oh we're sorry, Sorry, no need for pologies.
Speaker 1: In fact, that's why I'm here to give you notes,
Speaker 1: the thing all comedy writers fear most. All Right, we'll
Speaker 1: make the Elliott character more likable. Okay, maybe we should
Speaker 1: hear him out Elliott, after all, he was a literary
Speaker 1: critics for part of his life. That's right, Okay, what
Speaker 1: notes do you have for the show? A lease? Call
Speaker 1: me Mr Allen Poe. And my biggest note is you're
Speaker 1: creating an audio experience here? Where were all the scary
Speaker 1: sound effects? Hey? Yeah? Where are all the scary sound effects? Elliott?
Speaker 1: When I wrote my poems, I always paid close attention
Speaker 1: to the sounds of the words themselves and the effect
Speaker 1: on the listener. Sure, but I don't know that we
Speaker 1: really need to have have you tried them? Well, no,
Speaker 1: but still then how would we know exactly? Very good
Speaker 1: be Elliott? Would you say something you often say on
Speaker 1: a show? Oh? Sure, okay, let's go to producer Jane
Speaker 1: with the scores. That laugh really makes things, Edgar, doesn't it? Wow?
Speaker 1: It does, believe me, Mr Pope, I love scary sounds,
Speaker 1: but I really feel that isn't the show that we're making.
Speaker 1: You see, the wolf got my attention back? Who's that
Speaker 1: supposed to mean? You can kind of dry sometimes, Elliott?
Speaker 1: B whoa? What was that? Is there a ghost in
Speaker 1: the studio? Now? Wait a minute, Okay, come on, that
Speaker 1: one was just a dolphin. Oh sure, and dolphins aren't scary?
Speaker 1: Just mean? Okay, Well either way, Well I think that's
Speaker 1: a great note, and I'm excited to circle back to
Speaker 1: me bit a minute. That's what I always say about
Speaker 1: your notes. Yes, and you always no, I never owned.
Speaker 1: I knew if you removed your ego from the situation. Yeah, Elliott,
Speaker 1: you'd see how helpful I was being. Well, I must
Speaker 1: be going now I have a spooky lunch with Shakespeare. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'll bite. What are you having for lunch? Chicken fingers?
Speaker 1: What could be more terrifying than consuming the fingers of chickens.
Speaker 1: Let us ride into the darkness. Who was up and
Speaker 1: see what frightful platures await us? But you both jumped.
Speaker 1: I saw it. I'm still the game po out who
Speaker 1: I love someone with a passion for their work, and
Speaker 1: I love Our second game, Backpack from the Past, Back
Speaker 1: from the Best. We have a backpack that contains some
Speaker 1: of Edgar Allan Poe's personal objects. We'll describe those objects
Speaker 1: for our contestants and the listeners at home. Contestants, you
Speaker 1: will choose which multiple choice answer best describes its importance
Speaker 1: to the life of Edgar Allan Poe. Since this is
Speaker 1: our second game, each question is worth two points. Jeremy,
Speaker 1: your first this time around. Let's see here. Oh, it's
Speaker 1: a loaf of bread, specifically a baguette. Wow, a really
Speaker 1: long baguette. I hope our insurance covers bread. Jeremy, Why
Speaker 1: would Edgar Allan pose backpack contain a baguette? Is it
Speaker 1: a because he liked to be able to make big
Speaker 1: sandwiches for anyone at any time? Or be he spoke French?
Speaker 1: He spoke French. That's right. The answer is b. When
Speaker 1: Edgar was just six, his family left the United States
Speaker 1: for England. Young Edgar went to a boarding school outside
Speaker 1: of London and got to study things many of us
Speaker 1: don't until we're much older. Among there were history, literature,
Speaker 1: and of course the French language. Okay, Gus, this next
Speaker 1: object is for you. Let's see what we've got here.
Speaker 1: What have we here? It looks like a bugle. Yep,
Speaker 1: definitely a bugle. So gus, why would Edgar allan pose
Speaker 1: backpack contain a bugle? Is it because A Edgar was
Speaker 1: in the military or b because Edgar was in what
Speaker 1: US old folks call a ska band. Because he was
Speaker 1: in a military That's right, A. He was in the military.
Speaker 1: Edgar needed a way to make ends meet, so he
Speaker 1: enlisted in the army. He rose quickly in the ranks,
Speaker 1: becoming a sergeant major after only nineteen months. He went
Speaker 1: to school to become an officer, but left because writing
Speaker 1: was his true passion. Jeremy, let's see what the backpack
Speaker 1: reveals next for you. Oh it's a cute little raven. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right. I wouldn't want to be cooked up into
Speaker 1: backpack either, but a please would have been nice anyway.
Speaker 1: Jeremy Why in the world would Edgar Allan Poe have
Speaker 1: a Raven in his backpack? Is it because A The
Speaker 1: Raven is his most famous work, or B he needed
Speaker 1: someone to help him eat that big baguette. A. That's right.
Speaker 1: The answer is A. Edgar's Home The Raven was published
Speaker 1: in the New York Evening Mirror in eight Very nice,
Speaker 1: that's what the Ravens says. Edgar was already pretty well known,
Speaker 1: but The Ravens success turned him into a full fledged celebrity.
Speaker 1: He was invited to important parties I want asked to
Speaker 1: give poetry readings and lectures. To this day, The Raven
Speaker 1: is the work Edgar Allan Poe is most associated with,
Speaker 1: and the football team of Edgar's beloved city, Baltimore, is
Speaker 1: named the Ravens the Baltimore Ravens in honor of him.
Speaker 1: So I think he's the only American poet to have
Speaker 1: a football team named in his honor, except I guess
Speaker 1: for the New York Football Leaves of Grass were named
Speaker 1: after Walt Writins workings. They sing the body electric, yes
Speaker 1: they do, and they played the body football like Gus.
Speaker 1: You have the final object. This was pretty far in
Speaker 1: the back backpack let me see a bike and reach
Speaker 1: got it? Oh, it's a magnifying glass. Now tell me, Gus.
Speaker 1: Why would glam Poe have a magnifying glass in his backpack?
Speaker 1: Is it because A he created the detective story or
Speaker 1: b he couldn't afford glasses because he created the detective story. Yes,
Speaker 1: the answer is a. Edgar wrote The Murders in the
Speaker 1: Room Morgue for Graham's magazine in eighty one. The lead
Speaker 1: character is a detective name c Auguste Dufin who uses
Speaker 1: both logic and imagination to solve a series of murders.
Speaker 1: That's pretty common now, but at the time there had
Speaker 1: never been a mystery about a hero's deductive reasoning. Mysteries
Speaker 1: had always been about action. But people loved the story,
Speaker 1: and the detective story was born in fact. Room Morgue
Speaker 1: inspired the creations of famous detective characters like Sherlock Holmes
Speaker 1: and Encyclopedia Brown. And now as the solution to the
Speaker 1: mystery of is this the end of the game. Yes,
Speaker 1: it is the end of the game. From the baby
Speaker 1: wait to use your powers of deductive reasoning. We're going
Speaker 1: to take a quick break now before our final game
Speaker 1: of the show, and let producer Jane calculate the scores. Eric,
Speaker 1: would you play us some detective music please? Hey, I
Speaker 1: figured it out, Sally, Who was there? Marie Curie? You
Speaker 1: may remember me from winning multiple Nobel Prizes, or perhaps
Speaker 1: from my episode of the Who wast Podcast where I
Speaker 1: played myself. I wanted to take a moment to read
Speaker 1: one of my favorite reviews about the Who Was podcast.
Speaker 1: This is from Shake and Bay and it reads loved
Speaker 1: this Me and my little sister love this show more. Please.
Speaker 1: Our faith is Ariet Toman. If you want to hear
Speaker 1: your review right on the air, make sure to subscribe,
Speaker 1: like and review to Who Was Podcasts in the I
Speaker 1: had to ride you up or wherever you get your
Speaker 1: podcasts or should I stay abio? Welcome back to the
Speaker 1: Who Was? Podcast. Today we're learning who was Rachel Carson
Speaker 1: and who was a girl and co? And now back
Speaker 1: to your host, Elliot Kalen. Thanks me and now without
Speaker 1: further ado, let's go to producer Jane for the solution
Speaker 1: of the mystery of what are the school words? Elliott
Speaker 1: and b I don't want to scare you of The
Speaker 1: scores are six for Jeremy, six for Gusts. Oh my, tie. Oh,
Speaker 1: it's a spine tingling tie. So far, Well, we should
Speaker 1: just get to the final game. Converge of greatness. What
Speaker 1: was that? That was the sound of greatness converging? Very inspiring,
Speaker 1: isn't it. Well, I'm sorry to hear that. Because in
Speaker 1: this multiple choice game B, we'll read questions where our
Speaker 1: two historical figures overlap or converge, And because this is
Speaker 1: our third game, each correct answer is worth three points.
Speaker 1: Picked the best option as your answer for gus, the
Speaker 1: first question is for you be Let's roll. Both Rachel
Speaker 1: and Edgar wrote debut books that didn't do very well well.
Speaker 1: Edgar didn't write another novel again. Rachel's second book was
Speaker 1: a bestseller. What was Rachel's second book, called A the
Speaker 1: C and Me be the Despicable Sea, or see the
Speaker 1: Sea around us to see your on us? That's right,
Speaker 1: The answer is C the CEA around Us was published
Speaker 1: in nineteen fifty one, and then it Rachel wrote about
Speaker 1: how the oceans affect all of us. The book was
Speaker 1: so popular that during the holiday season of ninety one,
Speaker 1: wore a thousand copies were sold a day. Stayed on
Speaker 1: the New York Times Best Sellers for eighty six weeks
Speaker 1: and was translated into twenty eight, which is I didn't
Speaker 1: even know there were that many languages, Jeremy. The next
Speaker 1: question is for you. Both Edgar and Rachel excelled at
Speaker 1: the jobs they worked at before they reached fame. Rachel
Speaker 1: impressed everyone with her scripts for the Bureau of Fisheries,
Speaker 1: and Edgar was an editor and literary critic at this magazine.
Speaker 1: Was it a never More Monthly, b sad Hunks Quarterly
Speaker 1: or ce Southern Literary Messenger? See, I think you're right.
Speaker 1: The answer is c. Edgar became editor of a magazine
Speaker 1: called The Southern Literary Messenger. He was there for seventeen
Speaker 1: months as editor and literary critic. While it wasn't Edgar's
Speaker 1: dream job, he was very good at it. The magazine
Speaker 1: subscriptions increased from seven hundred to fifty five hundred during
Speaker 1: Edgar's tenure there. Gus, The next question is for you.
Speaker 1: I didn't even know there were that many people that
Speaker 1: read magazines. Okay, Both Rachel and Edgar were serious about school. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: Edgar had to drop out of the University of Virginia
Speaker 1: when his father wouldn't help cover his financial debts and
Speaker 1: Rachel would not have been able to graduate school at
Speaker 1: Johns Hopkins University without this A A scholarship be a
Speaker 1: blessing for Mr. Johns Hopkins himself. Or see a secret
Speaker 1: password which was just disappointingly password one two five A yes,
Speaker 1: the answer is A. After college, Rachel wanted to continue
Speaker 1: studying science as a graduate student and applied to Johns Hopkins,
Speaker 1: one of the best universities for the scientists. Not only
Speaker 1: was she accepted, but due to her excellent grades, Rachel
Speaker 1: was awarded a scholarship. Her family was not rich, so
Speaker 1: the fact that Rachel wouldn't have to figure out how
Speaker 1: to pay for school was a huge relief and meant
Speaker 1: that she could go Jeremy, here is the last question,
Speaker 1: and it's for you. Both Edgar and Rachel started writing
Speaker 1: early in life. Rachel's first story was published in St.
Speaker 1: Nicholas Magazine when she was just ten years old. Edgar
Speaker 1: wrote his earliest known poem when he was just a
Speaker 1: just a little baby B sixteen years old or see
Speaker 1: in kindergarten see I think in kind I'm so sorry
Speaker 1: The answer is B. When he was sixteen years old.
Speaker 1: Edgar's earliest known poem was titled O Tempora O Morris.
Speaker 1: The title is in Latin and it translates to oh
Speaker 1: the Times, oh the customs. It was about a story
Speaker 1: clerk and it made fun of the business world and
Speaker 1: his foster father, John Allen, who was a businessman who
Speaker 1: owned a store. So I think we can guess where
Speaker 1: Edgar's inspiration came from. But I doubt John was very flattered.
Speaker 1: And that brings us to the end of Converge of Greatness.
Speaker 1: That spooky sound means right at the end of the
Speaker 1: game and the end of the show, while we wait
Speaker 1: for producer James Tally the points I'd love to hear
Speaker 1: from the contestants. What is something that you were so
Speaker 1: prize to learn about? Either Rachel Carson or a Grollan
Speaker 1: pope gus. Well, see, it has a little short story
Speaker 1: to it. Okay, okay, yeah, tell us to us, tell
Speaker 1: it to us. So when I was like little than
Speaker 1: I am right now, I my mom used to be
Speaker 1: with this this book called this picture book called Edgar
Speaker 1: Goes to Bed m HM, and it's about a raven
Speaker 1: and his mom is always telling him go to bed
Speaker 1: and a lot of stuff and he always says, never
Speaker 1: wore and I'm like, what the heck? And and then
Speaker 1: when I when I saw this book, I'm like, wait,
Speaker 1: this is reminding me of something. And then my Mom's
Speaker 1: like it's because of it's that book is based on it,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh, yeah, that's great. So the Who
Speaker 1: Was podcast has helped you to solve a mystery of
Speaker 1: your own life. Ed Grallan Poe would be very happy
Speaker 1: about that. Jeremy, what about you? What what was surprising
Speaker 1: to learn about either Edgar Allan Poe or Rachel Carson.
Speaker 1: I didn't know. There's actually a visa in behind why
Speaker 1: all of the books? Why all of his stories had
Speaker 1: something to do with death. He had a lot of
Speaker 1: tragedy in his life, and a number of members of
Speaker 1: his family died at different points. So yeah, you think
Speaker 1: he was he was haunted by death, and so he
Speaker 1: kind of processed it by writing stories and poems about it.
Speaker 1: I think I think like six people who we really
Speaker 1: loved died at an early age. In the book, they
Speaker 1: said something about him losing with five different women he
Speaker 1: cared about, Yeah, and a lot of it was from tuberculosis.
Speaker 1: It's a great thing that that doesn't really happen anymore. Yes, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's wonderful to know that it's something that we don't
Speaker 1: have to really worry about so much anymore. And it's
Speaker 1: wonderful that Ed Graham Poe was able to take that
Speaker 1: and use it to create literature that we still read
Speaker 1: and enjoy to this day. Those are both great stories.
Speaker 1: Thank you both for sharing them. And now it's time
Speaker 1: for the big moment. Jane Fleets announced our winner, hell
Speaker 1: yott B. I find counting numbers to be a natural mystery,
Speaker 1: but I was great that Jeremy had come points and
Speaker 1: the Gusts ran ahead with twelve. He is our an
Speaker 1: amazing win, very close until the very end. Jeremy, you
Speaker 1: played a great game, and Gus, congratulations you played a
Speaker 1: great game too. As our winner of Gusts. You have
Speaker 1: ten seconds for shoutouts. Who would you like to thank
Speaker 1: for taking you all the way to the top today? Okay,
Speaker 1: let's just say my my family, and I hope that
Speaker 1: my friends will listen to this US too. I'll make
Speaker 1: sure your friends listen to it. Just have your friends
Speaker 1: call me and I'll say, hey, listen to the show.
Speaker 1: It'll be really good. Our winner and their Library of choice,
Speaker 1: where we receiving a selection of Who Was books, and
Speaker 1: I'm going to give a shout out in turns act Jane, Eric,
Speaker 1: Bryan Darbon for being our ed Grillan Poe and to be,
Speaker 1: and a big thank you to both of our contestants,
Speaker 1: Jeremy and Gus for playing an amazing game. And especially
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Speaker 1: is Jane Baker. Our theme song and music are composed
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