Speaker 1: Whoa b Why are you shouting? I'm sorry? I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. What gives me? Well? I was reading about
Speaker 1: our two famous figures for today, Aretha Franklin, one of
Speaker 1: the greatest singers of all time, and Marvel Comics co
Speaker 1: creator Stanley and I must have gotten carried away between
Speaker 1: reading comic book sound effects like pow and some of
Speaker 1: Aretha's number one hits like respect and think. That's the
Speaker 1: song where the choruses like freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom,
Speaker 1: yeah freedom, Well film snap boom, Let's start the show.
Speaker 1: What do you think you know about the greatest The
Speaker 1: game is on. To get some energy and buckle up
Speaker 1: your brain because it's time to play the bost podcast.
Speaker 1: Because it's time to flavoos who live from Tom galand
Speaker 1: or so called SoCal Los Angeles. Welcome to Who Was?
Speaker 1: The History quiz show that gives contestants the chance to
Speaker 1: win mega prizes and podcast glory. I'm your announcer, be
Speaker 1: the tool Man Taylor, and here's your host. He came
Speaker 1: in fifth and an Elliott Calin lookalike contests. It's Elliot Kalin.
Speaker 1: Thank you be. I'm gonna try again next year and
Speaker 1: see if I can get higher up in the rankings
Speaker 1: of Looking like Myself and welcome everyone to the Who
Speaker 1: Was Podcast. This show is a lot like Jeopardy, only
Speaker 1: with surprise guests, silly games, and more ghosts in the studio.
Speaker 1: Thank you that was one of the ghosts. Our contestants
Speaker 1: were sent who Was books about two great figures from history.
Speaker 1: Now they're here to show off their knowledge in the
Speaker 1: hopes of winning fantastic prizes R. S B E. C. T.
Speaker 1: Today's subjects are a Wreatha, Franklin, and stan Lee. But
Speaker 1: before we get to know them, let's get to know
Speaker 1: our contestants. First up, we have Molly. Molly, go ahead
Speaker 1: and introduce yourself. Hello, I'm Molly. I do gymnastics. I
Speaker 1: started when I was four, and I have two scars.
Speaker 1: Are the scars from gymnastics? Where were you like wrestling
Speaker 1: dinosaurs and things like that. No, I got like one
Speaker 1: on my right here when I was one, and then
Speaker 1: I got one right year when I was four and
Speaker 1: I was trying to help me the teacher, and I felt,
Speaker 1: oh wow, look, no good deed goes unpunished. Truly, That's
Speaker 1: that's what we've learned. Well, thank you so much for
Speaker 1: joining us. Uh, well, try not to give you any
Speaker 1: more scars during the game. Yeah, emotionally or physically, right,
Speaker 1: but I can't promise you. It's it's an exciting game.
Speaker 1: Who knows what's gonna happen. Thanks Molly. And then up
Speaker 1: next we have Mattie. Mattie, please tell us more about yourself.
Speaker 1: So whoa I am, Maddie. I'm eleven and a half ish,
Speaker 1: I really white. Kiss me. I know. I mean even
Speaker 1: my mom says I know more than most adults too,
Speaker 1: So um yeah, that's pretty much how I am. And
Speaker 1: I have deep dark shower thoughts. So if you want
Speaker 1: to know some, contact me and I'll give you some.
Speaker 1: It's good that you know a lot about history because
Speaker 1: that's the subject of our show today. History. Did you
Speaker 1: know that we're gonna talk about history today? Oh my god,
Speaker 1: I didn't know that. Alright, I get the sarcasm. Okay,
Speaker 1: thanks Maddie, I get it. Okay. Now I know that
Speaker 1: these are some tough customers that we're gonna be dealing
Speaker 1: with today. We've got scars and dark showered thoughts. Were ready.
Speaker 1: Scars and sarcasm, that's what that's what we've got coming
Speaker 1: at us today. Alright, so okay, that's our band. It's
Speaker 1: called Scar Scasm and U We're probably a metal band.
Speaker 1: We'll figure it out later. Thank you both of you
Speaker 1: for being on the show, and thank you to Eric
Speaker 1: a musician, for providing that lovely Meet the Contestants music
Speaker 1: as well as all the music here. On today's show,
Speaker 1: we learned who is? Now let's find out who was?
Speaker 1: Aretha Franklin with four fast f Aretha Franklin was known
Speaker 1: as the Queen of Soul. She is the winner of
Speaker 1: eighteen Grammys. She was the first woman inducted into the
Speaker 1: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. She pioneered mixing gospel
Speaker 1: and pop music for the civil and women's rights movements.
Speaker 1: And that's for fast facts. Those facts were fast, and
Speaker 1: there was four of them. Aretha also has an asteroid
Speaker 1: named after her. Two five one s Aretha move over
Speaker 1: eight six seven, five three oh nine. Jenny, thank you
Speaker 1: be for that reference to Tommy two tones, one hit
Speaker 1: wonder song. Kind of strange he had two tones but
Speaker 1: only one hit. Aretha Franklinton, Hello, everyone, it's Nate A Fregnan.
Speaker 1: I came hear five way of the Who was Eric?
Speaker 1: In the key of d please h well, Aretha Queen,
Speaker 1: the song is in the key you get Eric, I
Speaker 1: haven't asked named after me? Plenty okay, twelve four six?
Speaker 1: Who was you want? Who was? Who was that? Wow?
Speaker 1: That was amazing. I never knew there was so much
Speaker 1: emotion in the who was app jingle? Yes, So, Aretha,
Speaker 1: I understand that legally you can't sing any of your
Speaker 1: previously recorded songs for us today on the show. That's right,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of legal red tape there. But I
Speaker 1: thought you could help us out by singing some questions
Speaker 1: in our next game. What do you say? Will you?
Speaker 1: My handbag is on the table. That means let's do
Speaker 1: this and let's move on to our first game. It's
Speaker 1: called B sides size. So, speaking of history, back before
Speaker 1: we were all streaming music on our phones and computers
Speaker 1: and stuff, people listen to music on records which had
Speaker 1: two sides. The A side usually had the hit song
Speaker 1: on it, and the B side was another song that
Speaker 1: was less well known. But the record had two sides.
Speaker 1: You gotta put a song on there. We found some
Speaker 1: of Aretha's unrecorded lyrics, two songs she was writing. In
Speaker 1: this game. You need to listen to the lyrics and
Speaker 1: tell us who from her life Aretha is singing about.
Speaker 1: All right, you guys both got it? Yeah, okay, good
Speaker 1: because Molly you are up first. It's just sangs and
Speaker 1: a beautiful just a hat on the grounds, and said
Speaker 1: she threw her church at on the ground. Was Aretha
Speaker 1: talking about a Clara Ward? Be Carmen san Diego or
Speaker 1: see Billie Holiday. See that's close. It's another famous singer.
Speaker 1: But unfortunately the answer is a Clara Ward. She was
Speaker 1: a gospel sing or that Aretha got to know through
Speaker 1: her church, and she was an early inspiration for Aretha
Speaker 1: as a young singer. But nice, try, Maddie, you're up next.
Speaker 1: Let's hear another song. If my father needs my hip,
Speaker 1: I will longways go to sing for civil right. It's
Speaker 1: an honor if my father needs my help. As a
Speaker 1: key phrase there with the lyrics in this B side
Speaker 1: about a Ted White, B C. L. Franklin or ce
Speaker 1: Smokey Robinson. Cel Franklin, you're right, it's C. L. Franklin.
Speaker 1: Now's Aretha's father. He was known for his million dollar voice.
Speaker 1: He was a minister of the New Bethel Baptist Church
Speaker 1: in Detroit. Michigan was very active in the civil rights movement. Okay,
Speaker 1: the next question is for Molly. Molly, let's listen carefully.
Speaker 1: He said that girl don't stole my song. He was right.
Speaker 1: Oh the Lord, beautiful, beautiful? Who is Aretha quoting? There?
Speaker 1: Who said that Aretha stole his song? Was it a
Speaker 1: Otis Redding? B Marvin Gaye or see Clive Davis? A
Speaker 1: that's wrong? You got it, Molly, you got it? Yeah,
Speaker 1: The answers A Otis Redding. He wrote and was the
Speaker 1: first person to record the song. Respect that Aretha's version
Speaker 1: became a civil rights and women's liberation anthem. It won
Speaker 1: two Grammys. The Library of Congress added it to the
Speaker 1: National Recording Registry. She made that song her own. Sorry, Otis,
Speaker 1: it is not your song anymore. It's Aretha's. Now, I
Speaker 1: stole it from Otis. Thank you, miss Molly. You got
Speaker 1: a correct girl. Good job. And the final question in
Speaker 1: the round is for Maddie. Let's hear one more beautiful
Speaker 1: song from the Queen of Soul. I said, what time
Speaker 1: s on a specially bimious man? So stirring makes me,
Speaker 1: it makes me want to salute the flag. Who was
Speaker 1: she singing about in this song, Who's inauguration? Did Aretha
Speaker 1: sing it? Was it a George Bush, be Bill Clinton?
Speaker 1: Or c Barack Obama? Um, I'm gonna say Clinton. Yep,
Speaker 1: she did. That's right, and you know what, it was
Speaker 1: kind of a trick question. She also sang it Barack
Speaker 1: Obama is also, but she's sang it Clinton's first, and
Speaker 1: she's sang it Jimmy Carter's inauguration. She's one of those
Speaker 1: rare performers who has performed at multiple presidential inaugurations? B
Speaker 1: how many presidential inaugurations have you? Have you sung at?
Speaker 1: Have I sung at? Officially? Zero? Unofficially twelve? Don't worry
Speaker 1: about how old I am and how that math of
Speaker 1: you know, but you like to just show up in
Speaker 1: the crowd and sing at things. Alright, The needle has
Speaker 1: left the record. Thus ends B sides. That was a
Speaker 1: great round everybody, and we got to hear such amazing music.
Speaker 1: Nice work, and producer Jane will tell you the scores
Speaker 1: right after this short break. Welcome back to the who
Speaker 1: Is podcast. Gene, will you please give us those scores?
Speaker 1: Maddie is ahead by double the points that Molly has.
Speaker 1: That sounds bad. But it's not. Maddie has two points,
Speaker 1: Molly has one. This is anybody's game. Jane. You put
Speaker 1: me in such amazing suspense with the way you just
Speaker 1: described that score. That was astounding. Thank you, Elliott. I
Speaker 1: have an idea. Please go ahead and read with any
Speaker 1: idea you have. I want to hear me too. I
Speaker 1: sang about respect R E S P E c T
Speaker 1: because it was something very important to me. I always
Speaker 1: tried to live by that word. I'm wondering if the
Speaker 1: contestants can share a word that means a lot to them,
Speaker 1: and maybe we can improvise a song with Eric. Oh guys,
Speaker 1: what do you think? Contestants? Would you mind sharing something
Speaker 1: that's important to you so you can hear the Aretha
Speaker 1: Franklin sing about it sounds good, Maddie, what's like a
Speaker 1: word that means a lot to you? That maybe Aretha
Speaker 1: and Eric can build a song around history? History. If
Speaker 1: you don't know where you've been, how you're gonna know
Speaker 1: where you're going? It's all the Batchel history and you
Speaker 1: better be no wh I know, Maddie said. Maddon knows
Speaker 1: a lot about history, says that he knows moth you
Speaker 1: with me and that's okay. I guess I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: pray and go and read a book about some historian
Speaker 1: you may. Oh my god, oh my goodness, Wow, you
Speaker 1: gotta be amazing. Oh wow. You know, physics used to
Speaker 1: be my favorite subject in school, but now I think
Speaker 1: it's history. Molly, what about you? Do you have a
Speaker 1: word or phrase that means a lot to you that
Speaker 1: maybe we could have Eric and Aretha improvise a song
Speaker 1: about family. Family fantastic. I love my family, I love
Speaker 1: my family, I love my mama, if I love my daddy,
Speaker 1: I love all my cousins and my aunties because they're
Speaker 1: bottom family. Yeah. If you need a kidney, yeah, when
Speaker 1: you can't always appear on family Megan, Oh gosh, thank
Speaker 1: you areta amazing, amazing, amazing, astounding. I do need a kidney,
Speaker 1: so I will be hitting your family up. Call call us.
Speaker 1: We are all universal, So come off, come to Detroit.
Speaker 1: We got the Franklins are very generous with their organs.
Speaker 1: That way. Those were such beautiful songs and such great
Speaker 1: words that you suggested. If I was asked that question
Speaker 1: and someone said, what's a special word for you? I
Speaker 1: would have been like, uh, soup, I don't know. And
Speaker 1: then soup, soup, soup, We love soup, soup. We can
Speaker 1: think about anything. I'll be here nowhere about it. You
Speaker 1: would love soup. Put in a boat, give me a spot.
Speaker 1: Soup love soup, We love soup. Up in him. And
Speaker 1: I'm gonna thank Molly and Maddie for giving me such
Speaker 1: great words, and I can make songs about Thank you
Speaker 1: all so much. Y'all are amazing, beautiful children. Aretha loves
Speaker 1: the children. Aretha, thank you so much because it's been
Speaker 1: so inspiring. I'm now hungry for zou. I love history,
Speaker 1: and I appreciate my family. Oh well, good than you
Speaker 1: are for having me. And thank you again. Who love Flicky? Amazing?
Speaker 1: Oh wow, that was astounding. That app is fantastic, isn't it?
Speaker 1: It truly truly is wow. Okay, well, uh, Maddie is
Speaker 1: in the lead at the moment, but it's still anyone's game.
Speaker 1: And now let's look at our other great figure from
Speaker 1: the past. That's right, Stanley. Here's four fast facts. Stanley
Speaker 1: was the head of Marvel Comics. He's in the Will
Speaker 1: Eisner Hall of Fame for Comic book Writers. He co
Speaker 1: created many characters, including Spiderman, Black Panther, and Iron Man.
Speaker 1: And he was instrumental in bringing comic books to the
Speaker 1: big screens. And that's four fast facts. Okay, contestants, You
Speaker 1: know how superheroes always have a catchphrase, like Spider Man's
Speaker 1: like it's your friendly neighborhood Spiderman, and the Hulk is
Speaker 1: like Hulk smash, and Captain America doesn't really have one.
Speaker 1: I guess, he says Avengers Assembled sometimes be of what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, I'm wondering, if you were superhero, what would
Speaker 1: your catchphrase be? Uh? Maybe it could incorporate the word
Speaker 1: you just talked about with Aretha, but it it doesn't
Speaker 1: have to. Uh, Molly, what would your catch phrase be
Speaker 1: as a superhero? If I had to choose one, that
Speaker 1: will be like never give up? Like if I was
Speaker 1: saving the world or something that's great, that's fantastic, so
Speaker 1: you would you would leap in gymnastically and say never
Speaker 1: give up. And Maddie, what about you? If you were
Speaker 1: a superhero, what would your catchphrase be? What would you
Speaker 1: shout as you leapt into the phray? Um, I would
Speaker 1: say nothing personal, kiddo, nothing personal, kiddo. Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: I like that you're keeping it professional. Is a superhero.
Speaker 1: You don't want anyone's feelings to be hurt. This is
Speaker 1: just the way the game is played. Here's another question. So,
Speaker 1: Spider Man, one of Stanley's greatest co creations, was bitten
Speaker 1: by a radio active spider. That's how he got his powers.
Speaker 1: If you were bitten by a radioactive animal, what would
Speaker 1: it be? What kind of radio active animal would you
Speaker 1: want to be bitten by and it would give you
Speaker 1: their powers? Um? I would say probably like a monkey,
Speaker 1: so like I could gain the knowledge vactuae enjoying bananas. Okay,
Speaker 1: you don't like bananas? Now you would like to enjoy them,
Speaker 1: and that radioactive monkey would give you the power to
Speaker 1: enjoy bananas. Yes, Molly, if you were bitten by radioactive animal,
Speaker 1: what would you want it to be? Well, what came
Speaker 1: in my mind when you asked the question was a
Speaker 1: chip monk? Okay? And then maybe because like then I
Speaker 1: can run fast because I always see them like running
Speaker 1: up trees and stuff. I like that they're very fast. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you have the the amazing proportional speed of a human
Speaker 1: sized chipmunk. I would say a ladybug. Okay? And why
Speaker 1: is that they seem super chill and um, you know,
Speaker 1: I I'm just always I'm I'm a lot of energy.
Speaker 1: So I would like to chill out a little bit
Speaker 1: and understand how to just you know, pass some time
Speaker 1: in the garden. Yeah, what about you, Elliott? I think
Speaker 1: I would like to be bitten by a radioactive squid
Speaker 1: so that if anyone's bothering me, I can just throw
Speaker 1: ink in their face and run away. That's great. I
Speaker 1: guess I could do that now now that I think
Speaker 1: about it. I was just I was like, whenever I
Speaker 1: see you're never without your ink, well for exactly that reason.
Speaker 1: So now I know, Elliott, this is especially exciting for
Speaker 1: you because you have actually written comic books. That's true.
Speaker 1: I have written books and stories for the Black Panther,
Speaker 1: for Spider Man, for Wolverine. You know, I think it's
Speaker 1: great that you're talented enough to write comic books and
Speaker 1: come and co host my show. The I'm the host
Speaker 1: of the show, says, who says you when you announced
Speaker 1: me as the host at the top of every episode. Okay,
Speaker 1: we'll see about that. We'll see what my agent has
Speaker 1: to say about that. Morty, if you're listening, give me
Speaker 1: a call. I still got the landline. Now can we
Speaker 1: get onto the next game? Please? Yes, please? Okay. This
Speaker 1: game is called True Believer, True Face Front True Believer
Speaker 1: for low another awe inspiring game. Come with your way.
Speaker 1: This is it, folks, the one you've been waiting for.
Speaker 1: Um what the Stanley was known for his dramatic, bombastic
Speaker 1: writing style. Everything was amazing, incredible, uncanny and absolutely alliterative
Speaker 1: in the mighty marvel manner. So in our next segment,
Speaker 1: True Believer, I will describe his life in the same
Speaker 1: senses shattering style, and our contestants will tell us if
Speaker 1: what we're saying is terrifically true or feloniously false. Okay,
Speaker 1: to clarify this is true or false with some really
Speaker 1: fun flourishy words. You can always ask for clarification because honestly,
Speaker 1: it would help me out. Elliott, take it away, Maddie.
Speaker 1: Stanley made his epic entrance into the world with the
Speaker 1: majestic moniker stan Worth Marvelton Lee for the third eldest
Speaker 1: son to a billionaire inventor true or false false? You
Speaker 1: are correct, that is all. So. Stan was born Stanley
Speaker 1: Martin Lieber to poor Romainian immigrants, Jack and Celia Lieber.
Speaker 1: Next question is for Molly Molly. Young Stanley commenced his
Speaker 1: iconic career in the comics cosmos as the electrifying errand
Speaker 1: boy for a good man, the uncle with the power
Speaker 1: to publish pulse pounding periodicals. True or false False, So
Speaker 1: that was actually true. He was only sixteen when he
Speaker 1: began working for his uncle at the company that he
Speaker 1: would someday run as Marvel Comics. Next question is for
Speaker 1: Maddie Maddie and Low. There came a cataclysmic clash of
Speaker 1: countries World War Two in which Soldier Stand was one
Speaker 1: of an elite team of wild and wooly Wordsmith's deeded
Speaker 1: the dynamic designation playwright. True or false True That is
Speaker 1: correct true. Stan was one of only eight people to
Speaker 1: be an official U. S. Army playwright. Another one was
Speaker 1: Dr Seuss. Next question Molly Molly. In his bibliophilic boyhood
Speaker 1: that means he likes books, smiling, Stand learned that the
Speaker 1: stories with the most powerful prose, delicious drama, and memorable
Speaker 1: morals were those told with complete super seriousness and no
Speaker 1: humor at all. True or false? I no, no, okay,
Speaker 1: So basically this question is asking, did Stanley right only
Speaker 1: very serious comics? Oh? False? That is correct. So he
Speaker 1: learned stories he loved most had jokes in them, and
Speaker 1: as an adult, the humor and his work would help
Speaker 1: set his stories apart as something special true And that
Speaker 1: my engaging, elegant, excitable, educated, erudite adversaries is the end
Speaker 1: of that game. There are a lot of words in
Speaker 1: that game, were there? Let's get some numbers instead, Jane,
Speaker 1: what are the scores? Well, nothing personal, kiddo, But Maddy
Speaker 1: has four points and Molly has two for the game?
Speaker 1: Is still anyone to win? Amazing? I can't wait to
Speaker 1: find out more about Stanley and Aretha Frank Lynn and
Speaker 1: what they have in common. Well, you're in luck because
Speaker 1: that's up after the break. M Hey, who was Ours?
Speaker 1: Want to make a shout out to your own favorite
Speaker 1: person history, famous or unfamous? Do you think your sour
Speaker 1: dough recipe is better than ours? Would you like to
Speaker 1: tell us your craziest dream? What I'm trying to say
Speaker 1: is we want to hear from you, so send us
Speaker 1: an email or voice memo at the Who Was Podcast
Speaker 1: at gmail dot com. Our farmers Arter, Welcome back to
Speaker 1: the Who Was? Podcast? Today's episode is all about the
Speaker 1: Queen of Soul, or Aretha Franklin, and Marvel Comics founder
Speaker 1: Stand the Man Leave. Before the break, Molly had two
Speaker 1: points and Maddie had four points. Back to you, Elliott,
Speaker 1: thank you be, and many thanks to our special guest
Speaker 1: Aretha Franklin. If you didn't hear it earlier, you simply
Speaker 1: must go back and listen. It was life changing. The
Speaker 1: acoustics from the Afterlife are surprisingly astounding beautiful, Molly, Maddie,
Speaker 1: before we get to our final game, how would you
Speaker 1: describe Aretha's singing earlier? It was good. It was like
Speaker 1: he held the notes long. I know, it was amazing.
Speaker 1: And Maddie, what about you? Even though not my type
Speaker 1: of music, actually I actually liked it. It's pretty good.
Speaker 1: What is your type of music? You'd be surprised. I
Speaker 1: really like military emotion music like a John Philip Sousa fan,
Speaker 1: Susan Stan. I don't know that one. Well, I'll sing
Speaker 1: you some John Phillip Susan use. I think I remember
Speaker 1: the lyrics and but up up up up, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean I don't remember all the words, but that's uh.
Speaker 1: I think you'd like it. Now it's time for our
Speaker 1: final game, everybody where we see how Aretha Franklin and
Speaker 1: Stanley these two talented titans tied together. Awesome elateration, Elliott,
Speaker 1: thank you. I think it's time for converge of the greatness.
Speaker 1: In this multiple choice game, B, we'll read questions where
Speaker 1: are two historical figures overlap? Pick the best multiple choice
Speaker 1: option as your answer. Take it away, be Molly. The
Speaker 1: name Muscle Shoals refers to a character Stanley created whose
Speaker 1: superpower was turning into a large school of strong fish.
Speaker 1: B Aretha's favorite dish that was required to be in
Speaker 1: her dressing room after every show. Or see the town
Speaker 1: known for its distinctive sound where Areata recorded the song
Speaker 1: I Never Loved a Man. I know this is wrong,
Speaker 1: but I'm just going with see. Uh, incorrect is not wrong,
Speaker 1: It is right. The answer is c't right if you
Speaker 1: were right with the answer and wrong about being wrong
Speaker 1: about the answer. Muscle Shoals is a town in Alabama
Speaker 1: where Aretha took a big risk and changing her sound
Speaker 1: that it paid off with one of her biggest singles ever. Although,
Speaker 1: to be honest, Muscle Shoals also sounds like a great
Speaker 1: seafood dish. I would eat thought about. Next question be Maddie.
Speaker 1: Both Aretha and Stanley had very early starts to their careers.
Speaker 1: Aretha was singing for her church as early as ten
Speaker 1: years old. But how old was stan Lee when he
Speaker 1: became an editor at timely Comics? Is it a twelve
Speaker 1: years old? Be twenty years old, or see eighteen years old.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to go with a I'm so sorry
Speaker 1: the answers actually see, Stanley was just eighteen years old
Speaker 1: when two of his co workers quit and he was
Speaker 1: promoted to editor while still having to perform his gopher
Speaker 1: duties around the office. He went from delivering sandwiches to
Speaker 1: editing books and delivering sandwiches, next question being Molly. Stanley's
Speaker 1: stories took on real world issues like racism and pollution,
Speaker 1: usually by having heroes punch bad guys. Aretha also took
Speaker 1: on real life issues in the lyrics of her songs
Speaker 1: you know, but with more subtlety. Her song respect is
Speaker 1: about a woman singing to her partner, but it could
Speaker 1: also be about a women everywhere wanting equal rights. Be
Speaker 1: black people demanding equal respect in society, or see using
Speaker 1: a coaster during meals to show respect for the furniture
Speaker 1: thinking be you're right, we would have actually accepted either
Speaker 1: A or B. They're both readings of respect that are
Speaker 1: totally valid, though I guess in some houses C would
Speaker 1: also be appropriate. People get very fanicky about their furniture.
Speaker 1: Next question, be Maddie. Aretha and Stanley both had cameos
Speaker 1: or small roles in hit movies which one of the
Speaker 1: fall owen was not a role. Either of them played
Speaker 1: a soul food cafe owner in The Blues Brothers, be
Speaker 1: a maleman in Fantastic Four, or see the voice of
Speaker 1: Group in Guardians of the Galaxy. I'm going to say
Speaker 1: the voice of group, You're right. The answers see Group
Speaker 1: was of course voiced by the famous actor Vincenzo Dizarelli.
Speaker 1: Aretha played the cafe owner in Blues Brothers, and Stanley
Speaker 1: had many, many, many roles in Marvel movies. Oh wow,
Speaker 1: I wonder what his audition process was like. I don't
Speaker 1: think he had to audition for small roles in movies
Speaker 1: made by his own movie studio. All right, well, don't
Speaker 1: count on it, Okay. Hollywood is an unforgiving business, Babe.
Speaker 1: They always keep saying to me, don't take it personal, kiddo. Yes,
Speaker 1: but sometimes you gotta take it personal, kiddo. Sometimes that's
Speaker 1: what it is. Well, we wait for Jane to tell
Speaker 1: you the points I'd love to hear from our contestants. Now, contestants,
Speaker 1: was there anything that you were surprised to learn about
Speaker 1: areto stand or that particularly stuck with you that you
Speaker 1: thought was particularly cool or amazing? Molly, why don't we
Speaker 1: start with you? It was really cool when like she
Speaker 1: was really young and her dad was like really popular,
Speaker 1: and I like remember reading all of the famous people
Speaker 1: like Duke Ellington could have been in her living room
Speaker 1: because her dad like sometimes have after our parties. It's
Speaker 1: very true. Yeah, her dad would would have parties in
Speaker 1: this house where visiting musicians and some of the most
Speaker 1: famous names in music at the time would come and
Speaker 1: spend time there. And it really inspired Aretha to make
Speaker 1: a career in a life in music. And she was
Speaker 1: so talented from such a young age, isn't it amazing?
Speaker 1: Well that's great, Maddie. Is there something about either Aretha
Speaker 1: or Stanley that that struck you the same way where
Speaker 1: you were like surprised or amazed or terrified. We'll not terrified,
Speaker 1: but we thought it was neat Um, I'm as about
Speaker 1: Franklin and you think I didn't even know she existed
Speaker 1: before that book. I'm not even joking really, Yea. Had
Speaker 1: you ever heard her music before though, and then been like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's who that was? Nope? Well, I've got to tell
Speaker 1: you I love military marching music, but you've got a
Speaker 1: lot of really cool music to listen to. I'm so
Speaker 1: glad that you were able to learn about her through
Speaker 1: researching for the show. Jane, it's time for the big moment.
Speaker 1: Could you please announce our winner? I sure, Ken Elliott
Speaker 1: and you may think this is bananas, but I'm going
Speaker 1: to tell you that Molly and Maddie were tied at
Speaker 1: four until Maddie went ahead and one with five points,
Speaker 1: So the final score is Maddie five Molly four. Correct. Wow,
Speaker 1: great game from both of you should both be super proud. Maddie,
Speaker 1: congratulations on your win. You have ten seconds for shoutouts. Thanks.
Speaker 1: Who would you like to thank for this victory? Go
Speaker 1: for it. I want to think my liveloan was because
Speaker 1: she recommended me to podcasts, and I wanna, um thank
Speaker 1: my brain who coming up with being infected by a
Speaker 1: radioactive monkey, so I could literally the powers of like
Speaker 1: and bananas. Those are both great. Thanks. You clearly have
Speaker 1: a very wonderful and talented librarian and a very wonderful
Speaker 1: and talented brain when it comes to radioactive animals. Our winner,
Speaker 1: of course, and their library of choice will be receiving
Speaker 1: a set of Who Was books. And I'm going to
Speaker 1: give a shout out right now to our intern Zac,
Speaker 1: to Jane, to Eric, to Lekendra Tooks for being our
Speaker 1: Aretha and of course to be and a big thank
Speaker 1: you to both of our contestants who played a fantastic
Speaker 1: game today, and of course thanks above all to you
Speaker 1: at home for listening to this. Join us next week
Speaker 1: We're going to find out who the next two exciting
Speaker 1: historical figures are in the Who Was Podcast. Until then,
Speaker 1: this is Elliott Muscle shoals Kalin saying where history got
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