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Speaker 1: Hey listeners, Niminy here, host of Historical Records get ready

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Speaker 1: to hear about a historical hero through hip hop.

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Speaker 2: Also, parents and teachers.

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Speaker 3: You can download a.

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Speaker 4: Free activity related to today's episode by visiting story pirates

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Speaker 4: dot com, slash Historical Records and now onto the show.

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Speaker 2: After a few words for the grownups Historical.

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Speaker 3: Records, you are now listening to Historical.

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Speaker 5: To make history, you got to have struggle to make history.

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Speaker 6: You got to show poise.

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Speaker 2: Cannot be quiet loud as a riot to make history.

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Speaker 3: You gotta make some noise.

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Speaker 7: Hey listeners, leave from story Pirates and executive producer of

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Speaker 7: Historical Records here. One of my favorite things about hip

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Speaker 7: hop is re listening to songs so that I can

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Speaker 7: analyze and hear all of the lyrics. The words can

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Speaker 7: sometimes come pretty fast and furious, so re listening and

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Speaker 7: close listening is essential to really appreciating these incredible artists

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Speaker 7: and songs that we are so proud of. Today, we

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Speaker 7: have for you our two songs from this season about

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Speaker 7: groundbreaking women in stem STEM that's science, Technology, Engineering and math. Yep,

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Speaker 7: I'm talking about Katie Carco and Mary Golda Ross. Science

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Speaker 7: and math haven't always been fields where women have been welcomed.

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Speaker 7: In fact, for a long time, and sometimes even still today,

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Speaker 7: it's hard for women to find jobs in science and math,

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Speaker 7: even though they're totally qualified and deserving of them. It's

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Speaker 7: not fair and it's not right. But Katie Caraco and

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Speaker 7: Mary golda Ross both did more than their part in

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Speaker 7: opening up science and math to women all over the world.

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Speaker 7: So let's start by talking about song about Katie Carko.

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Speaker 7: I just love the lyrics to this song, specifically the

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Speaker 7: metaphor about wolves and sheep that starts the song. But

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Speaker 7: what exactly is a metaphor. It's actually really simple. A

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Speaker 7: metaphor is just a way of comparing one thing to

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Speaker 7: another thing as a way to explain it or shine

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Speaker 7: a light on that thing. And a good metaphor really

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Speaker 7: tells the story. That's why metaphors are so common in

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Speaker 7: hip hop lyrics, and in this song, the lyrics use

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Speaker 7: an extended metaphor to explain how vaccines work. An extended

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Speaker 7: metaphor is an extended story, an even longer story, and

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Speaker 7: it can be really fun to follow along with it.

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Speaker 7: So here's what I want you to do. Listen to

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Speaker 7: the song and the metaphor about how vaccines work, you know,

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Speaker 7: the part about the wolf and the sheep, And then

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Speaker 7: after you finished listening, see if you can repeat the

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Speaker 7: metaphor to someone else, because that's another cool thing about metaphors.

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Speaker 7: They can make remembering complicated things like how vaccines work

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Speaker 7: much much easier. And if you want to follow along

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Speaker 7: with the lyrics, which I definitely recommend, you can find

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Speaker 7: them at story pirates dot com slash historical records. After

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Speaker 7: this first track, I'll be back to point out a

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Speaker 7: couple of things I love about our song, Mary Golda Ross.

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Speaker 7: Here's Katiecarco enjoy.

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Speaker 3: Hello world. I'm Katiecarico.

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Speaker 5: I help develop the in vitro transcribe messenger RNA for

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Speaker 5: protein therapies, directly leading to the ninety nine percent effective

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Speaker 5: Pfizer BioNTech coronavirus vaccine. But in order to understand what

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Speaker 5: the heck I just said, let me break down some

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Speaker 5: science for you, Starting with how vaccines work. Think of

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Speaker 5: your body as a field full of sheep aka white

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Speaker 5: let's sell soaps so clean and thinks of a disease

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Speaker 5: like a wolf's so mean.

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Speaker 3: The wolf wants to eat all the sheep. Bet the seed.

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Speaker 5: He come mon man in his sheep's clothes and from

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Speaker 5: If the sheep get oop, then they get deeped in

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Speaker 5: the vaccines. Like the first time the wolf gets seen

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Speaker 3: Who has been we can give a hint of the wolf.

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Speaker 5: So the sheep gets this thing an alarm that can

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Speaker 3: So when the whole world entangled in.

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Speaker 5: COVID nineteen, ourselves need vaccines, and they need them with speed,

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Speaker 5: but it takes many.

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Speaker 8: Years just to test.

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Speaker 5: Send for Sita lets a keen scientist as a plant

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Speaker 5: to succeed. That's me Katie Cobraco, a hero trying to

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Speaker 3: But she ain't got a we go.

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Speaker 5: She feels her contributions are ultimately equal to many scientists

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Speaker 8: Here we go, ca.

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Speaker 3: My research. My neck wasn't ammar renee. That's messenger rival

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Speaker 5: The easiest way you can think about that is as

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Speaker 5: Making replications at the drop of a hat, them sending

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Speaker 5: we take that printer and we tweak it, we teach

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Speaker 5: it only to make the proteins that we feed it.

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Speaker 5: Why then we could create growth ages of ensigns, empty

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Speaker 5: bodies made at a rate that was ten times faster

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Speaker 3: I knew that this would change it at all. I

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Speaker 8: The call of me.

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Speaker 5: Hey the corricop and Vito trying to say the hours

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Speaker 3: Kilo, even in the years when she had zero.

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Speaker 8: Where we go.

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Speaker 5: Thirty years later, I had spent the intervening time trying

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Speaker 3: All I got is spad was the emotions and rejection letters.

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Speaker 5: Sadly they thought my research was your far away, but

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Speaker 3: We drew up a nice plan finally from.

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Speaker 5: The work we paid dunes and made moves, had a

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Speaker 5: Ruth Slope. But always new one day soon Team Adrew

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Speaker 3: To come and save you. Twenty twenty. Now the COVID

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Speaker 5: That is that queen in history made dinners with my

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Speaker 5: After this, we hope she'll be no longer in cotrido.

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Speaker 5: Now she'll have a name that we know.

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Speaker 6: So we go.

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Speaker 2: We'll be right back after a few words for the grownups.

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Speaker 7: Hey, Lee, here again, let's listen to Mary Golda Ross.

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Speaker 7: As you probably know, Mary Ross was Native American and

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Speaker 7: the very first Native American woman to work as an

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Speaker 7: aerospace engineer. So it was important to us that the

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Speaker 7: Native or indigenous. The song's vocalist is named Crystal Lightning

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Speaker 7: and Crystal is a First Nations actress, singer and rapper.

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Speaker 7: First Nations means that she's Indigenous or native to Canada.

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Speaker 7: We think she did an incredible job on this track

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Speaker 7: and wanted to shout her out. Remember you can find

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Speaker 7: the lyrics sheet by visiting storypyros dot com slash historical records.

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Speaker 7: Enough for me, enjoy the song Here's Mary Golda Ross

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Speaker 7: featuring Crystal Lightning.

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Speaker 4: I go by the name of Mary Golda Ross, aka

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Speaker 4: the first known Native American female aerospace engineer. I am

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Speaker 4: a mathematician, I am a Cherokee, and I am a trailblazer.

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Speaker 3: Here we go.

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Speaker 4: I was born in Oklahoma nineteen o eight, a small town.

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Speaker 4: Life wasn't so great, but from a very early age

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Speaker 4: and I got math in my mind. But for Native girls,

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Speaker 4: a helldess belief. Those around me, they often agreed spend

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Speaker 4: I worked in education. Maybe my dream was dead and

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Speaker 1: remember me check my legacy, engineer and Cherokee.

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Speaker 4: I did I advise the kids right? But I felt

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Speaker 4: You might not know, but in World War Two men

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Speaker 8: Hurt towards you.

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Speaker 4: A new world soars through and un worlds for you.

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Speaker 8: The men came home.

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Speaker 4: So then I didn't know if they let me do

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Speaker 1: Remember me check my legacy engineer and Cherokee.

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Speaker 2: She screas make him say, take a.

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Speaker 4: Girl multiplier with some passion and ash attract all distraction,

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Speaker 6: Would you get the answer?

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Speaker 3: Risk Mary Ross.

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Speaker 4: And if they would have said you can't do Matthew anymore, I'd.

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Speaker 8: Be very cross.

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Speaker 4: That would be a scary thought, because my mind absorbing

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Speaker 4: all these facts like the water, and my brain is

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Speaker 4: again to be an engineer. Say for twenty plus years,

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Speaker 4: I can mention here. Most of it is classified, but

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Speaker 4: the fighte to say you got Mary Ross to thing

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Speaker 4: for your flight. Today, only woman in the room where

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Speaker 4: the fellas is with the Melandine helping them new tech

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Speaker 4: development and writing manuals for the skunk Works. And after

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Speaker 7: Hey Leah again, thanks for listening. We'll be back soon

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Speaker 7: with more episodes. In the meantime, grown ups, tell a

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Speaker 7: friend about the show. If you or kids you know

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Speaker 7: are enjoying it, it really helps us a lot.

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Speaker 8: Bye.