WEBVTT - EB White & Maurice Sendak 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:04.800 Hi. Be uh. Why is Geraldine looking terrified and crouched 0:00:04.800 --> 0:00:09.280 all the way on top of the bookshelf? Hi, Elliott Well. 0:00:09.400 --> 0:00:12.680 In honor of one of our subjects today, writer E. B. White, 0:00:13.000 --> 0:00:14.640 I thought it would be fun to bring in a 0:00:14.680 --> 0:00:17.880 special guest star to play one of his beloved characters, 0:00:17.920 --> 0:00:22.840 Stewart Little, who you know is a a mouse. I 0:00:22.920 --> 0:00:24.960 thought we learned this lesson after I brought my son's 0:00:24.960 --> 0:00:28.760 class mouse in Elephants are scared of mice? Oh, Elliott, 0:00:28.920 --> 0:00:31.960 I never learned. Well, at least you didn't bring in 0:00:31.960 --> 0:00:34.879 a special guest star from our other subject, author Maury Sendek, 0:00:34.960 --> 0:00:37.840 who famously wrote and illustrated Where the Wild Things Are? 0:00:38.880 --> 0:00:43.720 Right about that? It's a wild thing, Geraldine, make room 0:00:43.720 --> 0:00:49.680 on that bookshelf. Wow, Elliot, great jump. Now let me 0:00:49.760 --> 0:00:52.960 introduce you all to our other guest star, in honor 0:00:52.960 --> 0:00:58.680 of Charlotte's Web, I also brought this spider. Would you 0:00:58.720 --> 0:01:01.440 look at that? I didn't, Oh, mice and wild things 0:01:01.440 --> 0:01:04.959 were afraid of spiders. Wilsa didn't realize that bookshelf could 0:01:05.000 --> 0:01:14.960 fold all that weight. It can't. Eric, here you go, 0:01:15.640 --> 0:01:19.600 What do you think you know about the rates room? 0:01:19.760 --> 0:01:23.679 This story? The game is on. Get some energy and 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:29.240 buckle up your brain because it's signed to play Who Was? Podcast? 0:01:29.440 --> 0:01:35.119 Because it's time to favorites. Who Knows? Live from Tom 0:01:35.200 --> 0:01:38.760 Bland or so called so Well Los Angeles. Welcome to 0:01:38.760 --> 0:01:41.760 Who Was? The history quiz show that gives contestants the 0:01:41.840 --> 0:01:46.600 chance to win mega prizes and podcast. Laurie, I'm your announcer, 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:49.920 Me and I have definitely earned my stripes. That's a 0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:53.360 fee joke. And now here's your host, the man who 0:01:53.360 --> 0:01:57.880 makes as many fashion rules as he breaks. It's Elliott Helen. 0:01:58.480 --> 0:02:01.240 Thank you be you know today is fashion? Don't? Is 0:02:01.280 --> 0:02:05.520 tomorrow's fashion? Do? And welcome everyone clue Who Was? Podcast? 0:02:05.760 --> 0:02:09.600 This show is like Jeopardy, only with secret guests, silly games, 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:13.560 and an unpublished secret menu. Okay, if you know, you know. 0:02:14.440 --> 0:02:17.000 Our two contestants were sent who Was books about two 0:02:17.040 --> 0:02:19.560 great figures from history. Now they're here to show off 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:23.120 their knowledge in the hopes of winning fantastic prizes. Prizes. 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:27.560 Today we're talking about Babe White and Maurice Sendeth to 0:02:27.840 --> 0:02:31.200 popular children's book authors Pool Club to say any characters 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:33.840 just as much as we do. But before we learn 0:02:33.880 --> 0:02:38.720 about them, let's learn about our contestants. First up, we 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:43.280 have Athena. Athena, will you please introduce yourself. I'm Athena 0:02:43.520 --> 0:02:47.880 and I have three cats. Alexander Hamilton's young in hammer 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:51.560 Claw and we will send off. I wrote my four 0:02:52.120 --> 0:02:55.120 Johnny chapter book a year ago, and the pronouncer sheher, 0:02:55.720 --> 0:02:58.880 oh wow, okay, so there was a lot of information 0:02:59.400 --> 0:03:03.040 in that, thank you. Those were all fun and all facts. 0:03:03.680 --> 0:03:06.919 I'm interested in this book that you broke. Um it's 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:12.200 a twenty chapter book. Yeah? What is it about dragons? 0:03:12.840 --> 0:03:14.560 That's the best word you could have said. I know, 0:03:14.639 --> 0:03:16.320 I'm sure what word you were going to say, but 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:18.000 that was the perfect word. I didn't think it was 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:19.400 going to be that, but that's a great word for 0:03:19.440 --> 0:03:21.440 it to be. So what is the title of your book? 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:25.000 I have no idea. I wrote it a your Okay, 0:03:25.040 --> 0:03:27.480 that's in the past. I love. I love this attitude, 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:29.480 which is, hey, I don't talk about my old work. 0:03:29.600 --> 0:03:32.040 That's behind. I'm all about the future. So what are 0:03:32.040 --> 0:03:34.840 you working on now? You're working on another book? Yeah? 0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:39.480 Is it also about dragons? Yeah, it's the same series. Oh, 0:03:39.560 --> 0:03:43.040 it's part of a whole series. Wow, well that is 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:47.320 so exciting. Um, I cannot wait to read this. Um. 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:50.320 Once I find out what the title is, I will 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:53.040 definitely check it out from my local library. Yeah, I 0:03:53.080 --> 0:03:55.280 can't wait when I go into a bookstore and I 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:56.920 say do you have this book and they say what's 0:03:56.920 --> 0:03:58.440 it called? And I say, I don't know, but it's 0:03:58.480 --> 0:04:01.200 about dragons and they say, we know exactly the book 0:04:01.200 --> 0:04:06.480 you're target exactly. Hey, that's just another instance if you know, 0:04:06.800 --> 0:04:09.840 you know, it's the secret venue of books. All right, 0:04:10.120 --> 0:04:12.600 And with a thank you so much for sharing Athena 0:04:13.080 --> 0:04:15.920 and with us. Today we also have Caroline, Caroline, will 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:21.000 you please introduce yourself. Hi on Caroline Branssa share and 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:25.480 I love drafts and you loved giraffe. Wow, that's so 0:04:25.560 --> 0:04:31.080 cool because giraffes are like the dragons of the zoo 0:04:31.360 --> 0:04:34.360 of the jungle, or zoo of the jungle, of these 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:40.279 two jungle zoon russ. Listen, this is not a show 0:04:40.320 --> 0:04:43.400 about facts, except wait a minute, this is exactly a 0:04:43.400 --> 0:04:46.280 show about fact. So hold on. Yeah, well we'll we'll 0:04:46.279 --> 0:04:48.880 love to wait for the who was giraffes? Yeah, this 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:51.120 is a quiz show. Come on, come on, Who's who's 0:04:51.120 --> 0:04:53.359 supposed to be doing the quizzic right here, Carolyn, what 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:57.200 is it about giraffes you like so much? It's good answer, 0:04:57.279 --> 0:04:59.960 not the answer I expected. Again getting a lot of 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:02.880 would unexpected answers from our contestants today. What I like 0:05:02.920 --> 0:05:05.800 about giraffes is those knobs on the top of their heads. 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:08.960 They're already super tall, they already have super long next, 0:05:08.960 --> 0:05:11.840 they're already yellow. They don't need any extras, but they've 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:14.160 got them. Those weird knob horns on the top of 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:16.880 the head. What do they do? Did they serve a purpose? 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:20.360 The knob barns on top of their head? Oh, Producer 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:23.600 Jana saying, that's how you steer a giraffe. That makes sense. Okay, 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:27.400 see there's the steering knobs. Well, uh, please don't try 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:29.880 at home, listeners, don't get on a draft and try 0:05:29.920 --> 0:05:32.279 steering them with that would have a draft at home, 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:34.960 probably in your attic. It would just have to start 0:05:35.000 --> 0:05:36.720 on the body floor and then end up in the 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:38.200 at it. Yeah, maybe it sticks his head up through 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:41.680 the chimney. Also, again, if you have a draft at home, 0:05:41.720 --> 0:05:44.760 don't put its neck gun through the chimney. But it's 0:05:44.839 --> 0:05:46.680 very likely you don't have a grab at home, in 0:05:46.720 --> 0:05:48.599 which case if you'll get one and pick up that 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:51.680 book about dragons. Thank you both Athena and Carolin for 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:54.200 being with us today. I'm very excited about this show today, 0:05:54.240 --> 0:05:56.719 and of course thanks to our musician Eric for providing 0:05:56.760 --> 0:05:59.320 that lovely mut the contestants music and all the music 0:05:59.400 --> 0:06:02.440 on today's show. So that's who is. Now Let's find 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:08.240 out who was Eb White with four fast facts Prospects. 0:06:09.120 --> 0:06:12.719 EB White was born Elwyn Brooks White in eighteen ninety 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:15.800 nine and died in nineteen eighty five. He wrote over 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:18.320 twenty books for adults and kids, but he is best 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:21.120 known for writing the beloved children's books Stewart Little and 0:06:21.200 --> 0:06:24.800 Charlotte's Web. He was also a poet, an essayist, and 0:06:24.960 --> 0:06:28.440 a humorist, and contributed writing and drawings to some of 0:06:28.480 --> 0:06:31.320 the most popular magazines of all time. He is a 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:34.680 winner of many awards, including the Children's Literature Legacy Award 0:06:34.760 --> 0:06:37.719 and an American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal. 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:46.800 Fool Prospects. So, Athena and Caroline were wondering, had you 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:50.760 read any of EB White's books before you read the 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:54.080 book about EB White? Caroline, had you ever read either 0:06:54.320 --> 0:06:57.920 like Stewart Little, or Charlotte's Webb or Trumpeter of the Swan. 0:06:59.160 --> 0:07:01.680 I don't think I've read that, but I definitely have 0:07:01.760 --> 0:07:06.640 watched Charlotte tried it's reading. Okay, cool. What about you, Athena? 0:07:06.680 --> 0:07:10.600 Had you read any of those books? Um? I almost 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:16.720 read The Stewart Little in fourth grade, but um instead 0:07:16.760 --> 0:07:25.160 I read am About Jackets. That's a good guess. That's 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:27.000 a good guess about what the other book was. So 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:28.680 have you seen any of the any of the movies 0:07:28.720 --> 0:07:32.960 like Caroline has Nope, I didn't know they existed. Well, 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:36.720 the books themselves, they're really beautiful books. Their favorites in 0:07:36.760 --> 0:07:41.160 our household. They're very interesting children's books because there's something 0:07:41.480 --> 0:07:43.480 very sweet about them, but there's also something a little 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:45.200 grown up about them. I feel like when I was 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:47.760 a kid, eb Whites books were the most grown up 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:50.200 children's books that I read, and they really made me 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:51.920 feel special that way, because it felt like I was 0:07:51.960 --> 0:07:54.880 getting something more than more than I was used to 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:57.840 from kids books. They're really beautiful and a little sad, 0:07:58.480 --> 0:08:01.720 so be per pair you've been worn. If you're reading 0:08:01.720 --> 0:08:03.520 an ev White book, make sure you've got a box 0:08:03.520 --> 0:08:05.240 of tissues next to you, because you're gonna be a 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:08.520 prion and we need to drive those two ears. Yeah, 0:08:09.000 --> 0:08:11.720 thank you both so much for joining us. And let's 0:08:11.800 --> 0:08:15.240 punctually this delightful conversation with our first game, one that 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:18.680 honors Evie White's poetry as much as his pros. It's 0:08:18.720 --> 0:08:24.720 everyone's favorite rhyme with two lines, it's a couplet. One 0:08:25.000 --> 0:08:31.320 it's a couplet. It's a couplet. In this game, we 0:08:31.400 --> 0:08:34.200 have a rhyming couplet with one word missing. Fill in 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:37.200 the blank with the correct rhyming word. So, for example, 0:08:37.240 --> 0:08:39.920 if I said something like, when I look out the window, 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:42.640 I see a tree and on a branchise by my 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:46.160 co host named the correct answer is b which rhymes 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:48.600 with tree. Also, be get down from there, be get 0:08:48.600 --> 0:08:50.960 back in the Cdo I told you I prefer to 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:55.480 work under dangerous conditions. Fine, and since this is our 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:58.600 first game, each question is worth one point. Take it away, 0:08:58.800 --> 0:09:03.520 be Athena. Here is your couplict E B. White was 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:06.600 certainly no fool, But when he was a kid, he 0:09:06.720 --> 0:09:11.360 did not like going to school. That's right, The answer 0:09:11.440 --> 0:09:14.960 is school. Young Eb disliked school. That Pobe was still 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:17.840 always writing. He kept a journal for his entire life, 0:09:17.840 --> 0:09:20.920 starting at age nine. He also won prizes for his writing. 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:22.480 At the age of nine. He went on to be 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:24.640 the editor of his college newspaper, and he enjoyed a 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:28.520 class about grammar from one of his college professors, William Strunk, Jr. 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:31.600 And he revised Strunk's book The Elements of Style later 0:09:31.640 --> 0:09:34.559 in his life. Okay, the next question is for Carolyn. 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:38.320 For a while, Ebe once worked on a cruise ship, 0:09:38.880 --> 0:09:42.640 but before that went with his pal on a cross 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:47.760 country road trip. That's exactly right. The ANSWER's road trip. 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:50.360 After college, Ebe wasn't sure what he should do next, 0:09:50.600 --> 0:09:52.440 so he and his friend decided to go across the 0:09:52.440 --> 0:09:55.320 country in a Model T car they called Hotspur pretty 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:57.480 coolly in for a car. They drove from New York 0:09:57.480 --> 0:09:59.880 State and ended up in Washington State, where Evie took 0:09:59.880 --> 0:10:02.920 a job writing for the Seattle Times newspaper. Pevie later 0:10:02.960 --> 0:10:06.400 wrote about these adventures as magazine articles. Through his experience, 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:08.600 he learned that he wanted to write about life as 0:10:08.640 --> 0:10:11.400 he saw it. Okay, the next question is for Athena. 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:16.440 Be take it away, Athena, here's your couplet. Before eb 0:10:16.600 --> 0:10:21.440 wrote Charlotte's web featuring a famous porker. He lived in 0:10:21.520 --> 0:10:27.000 New York and wrote humor pieces for a magazine, The 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:30.960 New Yorker. Exactly right. The answer is the New Yorker, 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:34.160 and the New Yorker is a very influential magazine that 0:10:34.240 --> 0:10:37.319 helps start the careers of some of America's most important writers. 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:40.160 But not me. They've rejected several pieces I've submitted. Abe 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:43.880 like the way that they combined news articles, humor pieces, poetry, 0:10:43.920 --> 0:10:46.640 and cartoons. The New Yorker even helped to shape Ebe's 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:49.160 life by introducing him to other writers and to his 0:10:49.240 --> 0:10:52.320 future wife, Katherine Sergeant Angle, who was a writer and 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:54.720 the fiction editor at The New Yorker. Maybe you've never 0:10:54.760 --> 0:10:58.480 heard of Catherine, but she was instrumental in shaping American literature. 0:10:58.880 --> 0:11:02.800 The next question is wor Carolyn for e b The 0:11:02.960 --> 0:11:06.280 character of Stuart Little was a sure bet When he 0:11:06.360 --> 0:11:11.240 was young. He even had a mouse as a pet. 0:11:11.640 --> 0:11:14.200 That's right. The answer is pet Ebe kept a house 0:11:14.240 --> 0:11:16.920 mouse as a pet. The idea for Stuart Little came 0:11:17.000 --> 0:11:19.320 to eb and the dream. He talked about it with 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:22.640 Anne Carol Moore, an important children's librarian. She didn't think 0:11:22.679 --> 0:11:24.079 it was a good idea for a book, so he 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:26.600 put the idea away for years until a different editor 0:11:26.960 --> 0:11:29.760 loved the idea. When he published Swart Little and Carol 0:11:29.800 --> 0:11:31.360 Moore gave it a bad review and he was even 0:11:31.440 --> 0:11:34.120 banned from some libraries. EB thought he had made a 0:11:34.160 --> 0:11:37.280 big mistake until thousands of fan letters from kids poured in. 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:39.800 It remains one of the best selling children's books of 0:11:39.880 --> 0:11:43.080 all time. And that's the end of the game. It's 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:49.160 a couple of that. It's a couple of amazing. Now 0:11:49.240 --> 0:11:53.000 let's scurry over to producer Jane with the spods HELLI 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:54.880 and B. I don't mind telling you we have a 0:11:54.960 --> 0:11:59.160 tied game with two points each. Thank you Jane. And now, 0:11:59.320 --> 0:12:03.080 ladies and genm and mice, spiders and pigs, please welcome 0:12:03.120 --> 0:12:11.200 to the show. EB whites bangs who was wandering in 0:12:11.240 --> 0:12:19.559 the best? Hey, e B? Did anyone ever call you EBB? 0:12:19.880 --> 0:12:25.120 Like ed but with a B? Yeah? Absolutely not cool? 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:30.200 That can be our thing? Then may I refuse? Wait 0:12:30.240 --> 0:12:32.240 a minute here. The lesseners at home can't see this, 0:12:32.360 --> 0:12:34.360 but EB has a soundboard in front of him and 0:12:34.400 --> 0:12:37.120 he's hitting a different key at the end of his sentences, 0:12:37.880 --> 0:12:43.000 and I sure, am there's that point again, what gives Well. 0:12:43.040 --> 0:12:45.680 I'm best known for my work as a children's book author, 0:12:45.720 --> 0:12:49.040 but certainly more influential was my revision of the writing manual, 0:12:49.520 --> 0:12:53.440 The Elements of Style. I thought that was a book 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:56.679 about like how to pull off wearing fancy clothes or 0:12:56.800 --> 0:13:00.480 how to match shoes and all that. Oh, romm it be. 0:13:00.920 --> 0:13:04.160 The Elements of Style is the book on the American 0:13:04.240 --> 0:13:07.840 English writing style and punctuation. It's been named one of 0:13:07.840 --> 0:13:10.440 the best and most influential books of all time by 0:13:10.440 --> 0:13:15.120 critics and authors. Alight, okay, but it's a grammar book. 0:13:16.000 --> 0:13:20.600 But grammar can be fun. I went up this soundboard 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:22.880 here to play a different sound effect to represent different 0:13:22.920 --> 0:13:28.840 punctuation for your listening audience, grammar and funny noises. I 0:13:28.920 --> 0:13:31.360 never thought all my interests with a line so completely. 0:13:31.440 --> 0:13:35.959 This is genious. Ev I took the liberty of adding 0:13:36.000 --> 0:13:40.360 an exclamation point on the end of that sentence for you. Now, 0:13:40.520 --> 0:13:42.640 let me take you through the soundboard. If I were 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:46.600 to say, may I have a glass of milk? You'd 0:13:46.640 --> 0:13:49.760 know it was a question by the violin string sound effect. 0:13:50.000 --> 0:13:52.600 And if I remember my manners and said may I 0:13:52.679 --> 0:13:57.200 have a glass of milk? Please? Then you'd know there 0:13:57.240 --> 0:14:02.760 was a comma before the please, and those wiggly sounds 0:14:02.760 --> 0:14:06.040 mean quotations. The tap is just the plane as you 0:14:06.120 --> 0:14:15.800 please period. Wow? What about apostrophes, ellipses, semi colon? Yeah, 0:14:16.080 --> 0:14:19.120 now you're getting it. Would you like to try it? Sure, 0:14:19.280 --> 0:14:22.000 Scooch should ad b I'm pretty sure he was talking 0:14:22.040 --> 0:14:26.640 to me. I'm the grammar enthusiast here. I turned your 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:29.720 statement into a question. You should have hit the tap sound. 0:14:30.000 --> 0:14:32.240 That wasn't a semi cool and that was a statement. 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:35.800 Oh no, he put your statement in quotations. It's been 0:14:35.840 --> 0:14:41.400 rendered ironic. I'm just having funned with the Butlins boys. 0:14:41.440 --> 0:14:43.800 She just flipped three exclamation points on the end of 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:48.920 that statement. This is chaos. Oh dear, now she found 0:14:48.920 --> 0:14:52.120 the anson. You must be stopped. Would the love of 0:14:52.160 --> 0:14:55.040 grammar do something to just combobulate that? My mind is 0:14:55.120 --> 0:15:01.800 a jungle of quote some samas. Hello, producer Jane, what 0:15:02.400 --> 0:15:07.120 I um plugged it? Producer Jane? My hero? Oh I 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:10.520 shall never forget you. Now I must be off. I'm 0:15:10.560 --> 0:15:14.600 having chicken fingers with Shakespeare. You help me have some 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:17.480 new poems. Thanks again for having me, and thanks again? 0:15:17.600 --> 0:15:24.640 Who was who? Thank you, Jane. Let's take a quick break. 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:27.720 We'll be back with more games, So don't go anywhere. Eric, 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:38.280 play us some elements of style music, please ye before 0:15:38.360 --> 0:15:44.160 you we're back on the Who Was podcast. Today we're 0:15:44.200 --> 0:15:47.360 finding out who was Evie White and who was Maurice 0:15:47.400 --> 0:15:52.600 Sendack And now back to your host, Elliott Palin. Thank you. Be. 0:15:53.000 --> 0:15:55.560 Let's keep the game moving and find out who was 0:15:55.680 --> 0:16:02.720 Marie Sendak with four fast facts or hoss re. Sendak 0:16:02.840 --> 0:16:06.880 was born in nineteen and died in twelve. Marie Sendek 0:16:07.000 --> 0:16:09.520 was the son of Polish Jewish immigrants and grew up 0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:12.680 in Brooklyn, New York. Marie wrote and illustrated many of 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:15.560 the most beloved children's books, including Where the Wild Things 0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:18.120 Are in the Night Kitchen and Chicken Soup with Rice. 0:16:18.360 --> 0:16:22.200 He is a celebrated lgbt q I, a hero, and 0:16:22.400 --> 0:16:31.520 he has two elementary schools named after him. Okay, now 0:16:31.560 --> 0:16:34.040 we're wondering the same thing that we wondered about Ebe 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:37.080 White's books. Had either of you read any of Maurice 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:41.280 sendacs books before you read the Who Was Marie Sendeck book? 0:16:41.800 --> 0:16:46.120 I think in like first grade, our teacher read Where 0:16:46.160 --> 0:16:51.520 the Wild Things Are but like I'm mostly remember the pictures. Yeah, 0:16:51.560 --> 0:16:54.920 the pictures are really he drew those. I think Marie 0:16:54.920 --> 0:16:57.880 Sendeck wouldn't mind that held picture. They're really gorgeous. Marie Sendex. 0:16:58.000 --> 0:17:02.080 Arc is very It's very beautiful, and it's also can 0:17:02.080 --> 0:17:04.560 be very funny, and it can also be very scary, 0:17:04.680 --> 0:17:07.960 and it can also be very moving. Uh, it's really amazing. 0:17:07.960 --> 0:17:10.680 I'm speaking about him a lot because I'm gonna let 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:13.159 the you and the audience speak behind the curtain. My 0:17:13.200 --> 0:17:15.640 wife is a children's life Barry, and we talk about 0:17:15.680 --> 0:17:18.119 children's books a lot in my house, and Recendec is 0:17:18.119 --> 0:17:22.160 a particular favorite of ours, very special in our house. Carolin, 0:17:22.480 --> 0:17:24.679 knowing that, knowing how important re Scendec is to me, 0:17:24.800 --> 0:17:28.960 have you ever read any of his books? I don't 0:17:29.000 --> 0:17:32.119 think the wild? Where the wild? Okay, I'll take that. 0:17:32.200 --> 0:17:34.119 I'll take that. Since we're all familiar with where the 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:36.359 wild things are. Let's let the wild rumps start with 0:17:36.440 --> 0:17:42.720 our next game sound effects Safari sound effects sound fetsioggery 0:17:43.400 --> 0:17:47.159 sound effects faggery Why did they take a baby on 0:17:47.200 --> 0:17:49.480 a Safari? In this game, we will play a sound 0:17:49.480 --> 0:17:53.639 effect inspired by something important from Recendex life our contestants 0:17:53.680 --> 0:17:56.280 will tell us what the sound effect represents. Because this 0:17:56.400 --> 0:17:59.040 is our second game, each question is worth two points. 0:17:59.280 --> 0:18:03.720 Here is our first sound effect for Caroline. That was 0:18:04.080 --> 0:18:08.639 Mickey Mouse's iconic laugh. Why is Mickey Mouse significant for 0:18:08.760 --> 0:18:12.960 Maurice's life? Is it because a Maurice was rejected from 0:18:12.960 --> 0:18:16.879 a job at Disney or be Mickey Mouse was Maurice's 0:18:17.000 --> 0:18:21.240 childhood hero? B That's right, The answer is being Mickey 0:18:21.280 --> 0:18:24.320 Mouse was born the same year as Maurice. Marie said 0:18:24.320 --> 0:18:26.800 he loved Mickey Mouse because he was quote sassy and 0:18:26.880 --> 0:18:29.760 always thinking of ways to outdo people. At least the 0:18:29.800 --> 0:18:32.400 original version of Mickey was that way. Maurice would see 0:18:32.440 --> 0:18:34.439 Mickey Mouse films at the theater, he would leap up 0:18:34.440 --> 0:18:36.920 on his seat and scream. His sister and brother had 0:18:36.920 --> 0:18:39.679 to hold him down. Maurice named Mickey the main character 0:18:39.720 --> 0:18:42.359 of his book In the Night Kitchen after Mickey Mouse. Okay, 0:18:42.400 --> 0:18:49.560 next question is for Athena. Yeah, that sound effect for 0:18:49.640 --> 0:18:54.640 you is kids playing outside? Which answer best describes why 0:18:54.760 --> 0:18:58.560 this is significant to Maurice? Is it a Maurice was 0:18:58.640 --> 0:19:01.320 often sick as a child and watched his neighbor's play 0:19:01.359 --> 0:19:05.879 from inside his house. Or be. Maurice was once commissioned 0:19:05.880 --> 0:19:09.440 by the Borough of Brooklyn to create a Maurice Sendek playground. 0:19:10.520 --> 0:19:14.200 H A, that's right. The answer is A. Maurice often 0:19:14.200 --> 0:19:16.480 watched the kids in his neighborhood from his parents window. 0:19:16.840 --> 0:19:19.720 He said, quote, so many happy memories are being indoors 0:19:19.720 --> 0:19:22.240 and looking out windows. Later in life, I'll staying with 0:19:22.280 --> 0:19:25.080 his parents. Maurice overheard kids in the neighborhood talking to 0:19:25.119 --> 0:19:27.720 each other. One Katie always noticed was a bold girl 0:19:27.800 --> 0:19:30.399 named Rosie. He was so delighted by hearing the stories 0:19:30.480 --> 0:19:32.640 she told other kids. He used her as the inspiration 0:19:32.640 --> 0:19:35.040 for his book The Sign on Rosie's Door, which became 0:19:35.080 --> 0:19:38.840 a musical called Really Rosie, another favorite in the Calin household. 0:19:39.080 --> 0:19:43.800 The next sound effect is for Caroline boy v smra zoltsvaksena. 0:19:45.960 --> 0:19:50.160 Okay Carolin. That was Elliott speaking in Yiddish. Why would 0:19:50.200 --> 0:19:53.720 this be significant to Maurice's life? Is it? A? His 0:19:53.840 --> 0:19:57.399 favorite musical was Fiddler on the Roof or B. As 0:19:57.480 --> 0:20:00.200 the son of Polish immigrants, much of his fami only 0:20:00.359 --> 0:20:04.400 spoke Yiddish. B. That's right. The answer is be. Maurice's 0:20:04.400 --> 0:20:07.399 parents immigrated from Poland. His family was Jewish, so they 0:20:07.440 --> 0:20:10.520 spoke Yiddish at home. Maurice's book Where the Wild Things 0:20:10.520 --> 0:20:13.040 Are was inspired by the phrase of ild Ojaiah, which 0:20:13.080 --> 0:20:14.840 his mother called him when he was a boy. This 0:20:15.000 --> 0:20:18.440 roughly translates to wild animal in English. His Yiddish relatives 0:20:18.520 --> 0:20:20.240 used to say to him, who looks so good? I 0:20:20.240 --> 0:20:22.399 could eat you up, which is very similar to what 0:20:22.520 --> 0:20:24.800 the wild things say to Max, the little boy in 0:20:24.840 --> 0:20:36.920 the book. The final question is for Athena that is 0:20:36.960 --> 0:20:39.680 a snippet from a Mozart song. How does this sound 0:20:39.720 --> 0:20:43.840 effect relate to Maurice senday? Is it a Maurice loved 0:20:43.920 --> 0:20:47.560 and was inspired by Mozart's music? Or b he had 0:20:47.600 --> 0:20:52.600 a beloved pet cat he named mozart A. That's right, 0:20:52.640 --> 0:20:55.080 The answer is a. Maurice once said, I know if 0:20:55.080 --> 0:20:56.919 there's a purpose in life, it was for me to 0:20:56.960 --> 0:21:00.520 hear Mozart. I mean, wow, this guy loved Mozart. Later 0:21:00.560 --> 0:21:03.560 in his career, Maurice designed costumes from Mozart's opera The 0:21:03.600 --> 0:21:05.720 Magic Flute, and he went on to design over a 0:21:05.760 --> 0:21:09.800 dozen more operas, including an operatic adaptation of his book 0:21:09.960 --> 0:21:13.240 Where the Wild Things Are? And That's sound effects Safari 0:21:13.480 --> 0:21:20.919 sound effects Safari Sari sound effects. Amazing game, everybody. You're 0:21:20.960 --> 0:21:23.240 both doing so well. Let's wild rump us over to 0:21:23.280 --> 0:21:25.840 producer Jane to get the scores. Oh, it'd be We 0:21:26.080 --> 0:21:30.200 have a tie still with six points each, and don't 0:21:30.200 --> 0:21:33.000 go anywhere. We'll be back for our final game after this. 0:21:33.200 --> 0:21:36.359 Pick quick, Eric, please play us some guild Ohaia music. 0:21:36.400 --> 0:21:51.080 Please you're giving me Saurus Sally. Who was Marie Curie? 0:21:51.560 --> 0:21:55.399 You may remember me from winning multiple Nobel prizes or 0:21:55.600 --> 0:21:58.600 FAPs from my episode of the Worst Podcast where I 0:21:58.680 --> 0:22:01.960 played myself. I wanted to take a moment to read 0:22:02.000 --> 0:22:06.760 one of my favorite reviews about the Whoas podcast. This 0:22:06.960 --> 0:22:11.000 is from Shaken Bay and it reads loved this Me 0:22:11.160 --> 0:22:14.840 and my little sister love this show more. Please. Our 0:22:15.000 --> 0:22:18.560 faith is Ariet Toman. If you want to hear your 0:22:18.600 --> 0:22:21.639 review right on the app, make sure to subscribe, like, 0:22:21.920 --> 0:22:24.960 and review to the Wah's podcast in the I Heart 0:22:25.080 --> 0:22:29.159 Radio up or wherever you give your podcasts revoir or 0:22:29.200 --> 0:22:38.200 should I stay abiato. We're back on the Whos podcast 0:22:38.400 --> 0:22:41.280 where we're learning all about who was Ebie White and 0:22:41.320 --> 0:22:44.439 who was Maurice Kenda? And now back to your host, 0:22:44.600 --> 0:22:48.680 Elliot Kaitlin, thank you be With not a moment to lose, 0:22:48.680 --> 0:22:51.879 We're heading on to our last game, Converge of Greatness. 0:23:01.080 --> 0:23:03.880 In this multiple choice game, we'll explore how our famous 0:23:03.880 --> 0:23:07.359 people connect, overlap, or converge. Choose the best answer for 0:23:07.400 --> 0:23:10.080 each question, and because this is covering double the topics 0:23:10.119 --> 0:23:12.879 of our last game, it will be worth triple the points. 0:23:13.240 --> 0:23:14.960 I know it sounds mad, but that's how we do 0:23:15.040 --> 0:23:17.399 things on the who Has podcast. The first question is 0:23:17.440 --> 0:23:21.000 for a theme. E. B. White and Marie Sendek worked 0:23:21.040 --> 0:23:25.080 with this editor who helped publish some of America's favorite 0:23:25.160 --> 0:23:30.800 children's books. Was that person a Ursula Nordstrom, b Amelia 0:23:30.840 --> 0:23:37.879 Badelia or see Mr Popper, Penguins Random House. That's right, 0:23:37.960 --> 0:23:40.320 the answer is a Ersla Nordstrom was the editor to 0:23:40.400 --> 0:23:44.119 both Morty Sendek and Evie White. Editors worked with authors 0:23:44.119 --> 0:23:47.000 to help them improve their books. Ursula helped Morris Land 0:23:47.040 --> 0:23:49.800 his first illustrating work, and when Ursla read Stuart Little, 0:23:49.880 --> 0:23:52.840 she knew it was something special. She helped Evie publish it, 0:23:52.920 --> 0:23:55.440 even after others put it down. She worked with Lebe 0:23:55.480 --> 0:23:58.200 on Charlotte's Web and the Trumpet of the Swan. Ursula 0:23:58.480 --> 0:24:03.119 what a visionary. Okay, next question is for Caroline. World 0:24:03.119 --> 0:24:07.680 War two greatly affected Maurice and eb White. Sadly, Maurice 0:24:07.760 --> 0:24:11.280 lost most of his extended family in Poland in the Holocaust. 0:24:11.800 --> 0:24:14.479 He responded to this terrible loss with the art and 0:24:14.560 --> 0:24:18.159 words of his books. Eb White responded to the end 0:24:18.160 --> 0:24:22.640 of the war by writing A Stewart Little Too, Let's 0:24:22.680 --> 0:24:27.439 Get Tiny, be his first and only rock album. Or 0:24:27.880 --> 0:24:34.800 see a book about an ideal government called Wild Flag. Yes, 0:24:34.840 --> 0:24:37.800