Speaker 1: Elliott, come here, I want to see you. What's wrong? Okay?
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I'm great because on today's episode, we're featuring
Speaker 1: the inventor Alexander Graham Bell and physicist Isaac Newton. Is
Speaker 1: that cool? The inventor of the telephone and the inventor
Speaker 1: of the apple. You couldn't have texted me. Also, Newton
Speaker 1: didn't invent the apple. Yeah, yeah, he just improved upon it.
Speaker 1: I got you. No, not that either, Sorry, so cashing
Speaker 1: aggress I guess hard? Going to the gym again? Yeah, man,
Speaker 1: weren't you just like in the next room over? Yeah.
Speaker 1: Newton's discovery gravity as a horse of nature was helped
Speaker 1: by his observation of an apple falling from a tree.
Speaker 1: Well it's pretty cool too. But Alexander Graham Bell did
Speaker 1: invent the telephone? Right? Sure? Did? Oh good? And it
Speaker 1: makes sense too. His name was Belle and phones ring? Elliott?
Speaker 1: Did Isaac Newton invent? Fake? Newton's Eric? Please play us
Speaker 1: on with the theme song? Well I ever knew my
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Speaker 1: do you think you know about the grains from this study?
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Speaker 1: top Land or so called so Cow Los Angeles. Welcome
Speaker 1: to Who Was, the history cuich show that gives intstance
Speaker 1: the chance to win mega prizes and podcast glory. I'm
Speaker 1: your announcer and master a funny, outgoing voicemail. Now here's
Speaker 1: your host, the man who only answers in the form
Speaker 1: of a question. It's Elliott kayln or do I thank
Speaker 1: you be? And welcome everyone to the Who Was Podcast.
Speaker 1: This show it's like Jeffrey, only with surprise guests, silly games,
Speaker 1: and our own subscription box heartbroiled eggs and jelly beans
Speaker 1: delivered straight to your door every month. That reminds me
Speaker 1: my mom wants to cancel ours. Our contestants were sent
Speaker 1: Who Was books about two great figures from the street.
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: fellas who had no apprehensions about inventions, Alexander Graham Bell
Speaker 1: and Isaac Do. But before we get to know them,
Speaker 1: let's get to know our contestants. All right. First up,
Speaker 1: we have Hollis Hollis, please introduce yourself. Hi. I am
Speaker 1: Hollis and I really like hedgehogs. You really like hedgehogs.
Speaker 1: Do you have a pet hedgehowk by chance? No? My
Speaker 1: mom's will not let me get one. I understand they're
Speaker 1: very point They're very pointy animals. Yeah. What is it
Speaker 1: about hedgehogs like so much? I don't know, They're just
Speaker 1: they're like cute, They're a great game and they made
Speaker 1: great dinner guests. F y. I they always offered to
Speaker 1: clean up the dishes when I have them over for dinner.
Speaker 1: So I think maybe you could tell your mom's about that.
Speaker 1: The net might change their thinking about hedgehogs if they
Speaker 1: know that this hedgehog can new the dishes. Yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: thank you Hollis. And with us today we also have
Speaker 1: Imagen imagin Please introduce yourself. I'm imagin Um and I
Speaker 1: love to dance. Yes, you love to dance. That's awesome.
Speaker 1: What kind of dancing do you love the most? Uh?
Speaker 1: Modern and very cool? Okay Um. I mostly love on
Speaker 1: the line. Uh and I like to be about seventh
Speaker 1: from the start of a congo line. Elliott do you
Speaker 1: have a type of dance that you prefer. There's so
Speaker 1: many types of dance that I like to watch, but
Speaker 1: I'm not good at dancing, and I wish I was
Speaker 1: something I always admire about other people. I feel like
Speaker 1: I would give up almost anything to be able to dance.
Speaker 1: If I could Fleamento dance, I think I would probably
Speaker 1: give up almost anything else in my life. But I've
Speaker 1: just always loved flementco. Like the Spanish dancing gets full
Speaker 1: of power, full of passion, and you get to stomp
Speaker 1: a lot, and it's very loud. All right, thank you
Speaker 1: so much for being here today. To the both of you,
Speaker 1: We're super excited to have you here. Thank you, and
Speaker 1: thank you to Eric, our musician providing that lovely met
Speaker 1: the contestants music. So that's who it is. Now let's
Speaker 1: find out who was Alexander Graham Bell with four fast facts.
Speaker 1: Alexander Graham Bell was born in Scotland in eighteen forty
Speaker 1: seven and died in nineteen twenty two. Alexander Graham Bell
Speaker 1: and vented many things, but he is best known for
Speaker 1: inventing the telephone. In eight Bell formed the Bell Telephone Company.
Speaker 1: Bell worked with the deaf community, but he discouraged people
Speaker 1: who are deaf froms in sign language. His approach made
Speaker 1: him a very polarizing figures. Nice call us an imagine
Speaker 1: do you leave voicemails for people? Like, if you call
Speaker 1: them they're not there, will you leave a voice message
Speaker 1: for them? I mean sometimes if it's like urgent, that's
Speaker 1: mostly I just wait a couple a couple like maybe
Speaker 1: an hour and then call them back because they might
Speaker 1: have been like out doing something. Okay, imagine what about you,
Speaker 1: I just like call them five times, and if they
Speaker 1: don't answer in those five times, also number video or
Speaker 1: voice mess Okay, okay, Yeah, I was just curious because
Speaker 1: I know so many people that are younger than me
Speaker 1: that do not leave voicemails, and I love leaving voicemails.
Speaker 1: So I just have to ask find out what the
Speaker 1: kids are doing. And of course there's my favorite kind
Speaker 1: of voicemail where you can yell into an envelope and
Speaker 1: then you send it to somebody. It's pretty fun. I
Speaker 1: think that's the message. Pretty solid strategy. Thank you, I
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Thank you all. Please do encouragement and now
Speaker 1: let's get right into our first game. It's called true
Speaker 1: or false? False? False? Is a true? Is true? That
Speaker 1: it is false? It was true? Or true? True or false? Okay,
Speaker 1: here's how this game works. Will be to stake about
Speaker 1: Alexander Graham Bell, and you'll tell us if it's true
Speaker 1: or allous? What do you think the word I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say is false? You're right? You don't get points for that,
Speaker 1: are You're right? And since it's our first game, each
Speaker 1: question is worth one point. Alice, you'll be going first.
Speaker 1: Alexander Graham Bell almost missed out on the patent for
Speaker 1: the telephone. True, that's right, The answer is true. A
Speaker 1: patent is fruit. A particular inventor came up with an
Speaker 1: idea first, and then it belongs to them. Bell wanted
Speaker 1: to wait to apply for the patent until the telephone
Speaker 1: worked man, but his business partners were nervous. They decided
Speaker 1: to file the paperwork without telling Bill. The partner's decision
Speaker 1: turned out to be a good move, as just two
Speaker 1: hours later, a different inventor named Elijah Gray tried to
Speaker 1: claim the patent for the telephone. And that's why this
Speaker 1: episode isn't called Who was Elijah Gray? Imaging? Rupeex true
Speaker 1: or false? Alexander Graham Bell was not only an inventor
Speaker 1: but also a coal miner. Think you think right, the
Speaker 1: answer is false. He wasn't a minor. He was a teacher,
Speaker 1: specifically the teacher of the death. He wrote, quote, recognition
Speaker 1: of my work for and in the education of the
Speaker 1: death has always been more pleasing to me than even
Speaker 1: the recognition of my work with the telephone. But Bill's
Speaker 1: way of teaching was called oralism, or teaching people who
Speaker 1: are deaf to read lips. He wanted to assimilate death
Speaker 1: folks into the hearing world instead of teaching a sign
Speaker 1: language and recognizing death culture. Even at the time, his
Speaker 1: approach troubled many of the death from and he who
Speaker 1: came out against this, thinking, Alice, and that's one it
Speaker 1: is for you. Alexander Graham Bell did not have a
Speaker 1: middle name until he gave himself one. Is that true
Speaker 1: or false? True? Correct? That's true. Even as a boy,
Speaker 1: Bill was his own person. In fact, it was so
Speaker 1: independent that when he was ten he chose a middle
Speaker 1: name for himself. A family friend named Alexander Graham came
Speaker 1: to visit. Bill liked the sound of his name so
Speaker 1: much that he decided that he would be called Alexander
Speaker 1: Graham Bell. Hey, Elliott, that's kind of like when you
Speaker 1: decided that your middle name would be Marie after our
Speaker 1: episode on Marie Curie. Wy if Alexander Graham Bell had
Speaker 1: run his decision by two ten year olds he just
Speaker 1: met who showed Murray, imagine this last question is for
Speaker 1: you true or false? Alexander Graham Bell really just wanted
Speaker 1: to invent a new version of the telegraph. That's right.
Speaker 1: The answer his false. Bill's partners, who were also his
Speaker 1: financial investors, wanted him to come up with a new telegraph.
Speaker 1: The telegraphs and tacked out messages through a wire, and
Speaker 1: there's the main way that people communicated over long distances
Speaker 1: back in the day. And this is back in the
Speaker 1: life a hundred some five years. At their day, Western
Speaker 1: Union it was the only telegraph company, and without competition,
Speaker 1: they could just set whatever prices they wanted for sending
Speaker 1: a telegraph wherever however they wanted. Alexander Graham Bell's partners Mr.
Speaker 1: Hubbard and Mr Sanders felt that if there was a
Speaker 1: new telegraph and a new telegraph company, prices would have
Speaker 1: to come down. Bell's curiosity, however, was not stirred by
Speaker 1: a new version of the telegraph. Instead, he wanted to
Speaker 1: find a way to send his voice across a wire,
Speaker 1: and he did. And that's true or false? True? True? True?
Speaker 1: True or false? That was spectacular around. It's true. It
Speaker 1: was wow, you know, Elliott, I wish we could know
Speaker 1: what Alexander Graham Bell would think of today's cell phone.
Speaker 1: No time in telling you, Alexander Graham Bell us have
Speaker 1: a certain ring to it, doesn't it? Okay? When I tried,
Speaker 1: I thought it would land, but it didn't. Mr Bell,
Speaker 1: We are honored to have you here. Please call me
Speaker 1: Mr Graham Bell. You can thank the who was app
Speaker 1: for that. Who you want to read someone in the
Speaker 1: first Now do you answer your question? I'm not sure
Speaker 1: what to think of what's become of my beloved telephone,
Speaker 1: but you must be happy about the fact that everyone
Speaker 1: has one in their pockets, even we Well, yes, of course,
Speaker 1: seeing my invention become omnipresent is very gratifying. However, there
Speaker 1: are so many using these miniature phones as telegraphs. Tell
Speaker 1: are you talking about texting? No? Call it what you will,
Speaker 1: but it's still person sending each other messages over the
Speaker 1: wise sort of. There's satellites involved now satellite. I can
Speaker 1: only imagine that's some manner of elaborate light bulb and
Speaker 1: the Dave Matthews fan song. Let's table that for now.
Speaker 1: Surely there's something you like about modern phones, Mr Bell, Well,
Speaker 1: the emojis are quite amusing. Oh they're fun right quite
Speaker 1: I do think emojis are in the same spirit is
Speaker 1: what inspired you to invent the telephone? Mr Graham Bell?
Speaker 1: Making communication easier and better for all? Yes, you make
Speaker 1: a very good point, though some of it fixes me,
Speaker 1: like why are there's so many dismembered hands and faces?
Speaker 1: Surely not everyone is trying to scare each other every day. Uh.
Speaker 1: Those are more for saying like, hey, what's up? Don't
Speaker 1: be ridiculous. Everyone knows that you convey that you send
Speaker 1: bail of hay emoji than water emoji, than an error
Speaker 1: pointing up emoji that's hey what? Uh? But I find
Speaker 1: people get the message fascinating, Mr Graham Bell. What are
Speaker 1: some other emojis you use? I'm so glad you asked
Speaker 1: to be when I'm sleepy. I used the slay emoji,
Speaker 1: and then one of the little plants that most looks
Speaker 1: like a pea pod slay py yes, good show. When
Speaker 1: I'm saying I'm hungry, I use the honey pot and
Speaker 1: then the gray square and then the French flag emoji
Speaker 1: after it, because of course gray is green in French
Speaker 1: honey green, say you got it? And then of course
Speaker 1: when I want to say I miss you, let me guess,
Speaker 1: and I then a young woman emoji and then a
Speaker 1: sheep emoji like a you good Heavens, no, I just
Speaker 1: write it out and send it with lots of hearts
Speaker 1: if it's too short to be a hit when it
Speaker 1: comes to your emotions, illiot. Now that text notification is
Speaker 1: telling me that I should get going. I'm supposed to
Speaker 1: be having chicken fingers with Thomas Edison right now. I'm
Speaker 1: going to let him know I'm on my way by
Speaker 1: sending him an emoji of a scale. Get it away.
Speaker 1: Please leave, Mr Graham Bell. I find you very confusing,
Speaker 1: so goodbye. Friends. Hey text me, We're going to take
Speaker 1: a quick break, but we'll be right back with more games. Eric,
Speaker 1: would you please play us some confusing emoji music? Thumbs up?
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Who Was? Podcast. Today we're learning
Speaker 1: who was Alexander Graham Bell and who is Isaac Newton?
Speaker 1: Now back to your host, Elliot Kalin, thank you'll be
Speaker 1: and now let's go across a wire through modern technology
Speaker 1: to producer Jane with the scorns Helliam score is too too.
Speaker 1: It's all tied up nice a tie game if anybody
Speaker 1: could win, and we'll find out who's gonna win at
Speaker 1: the end of the game. But first, at this part
Speaker 1: of the game, we're gonna find out who was Isaac
Speaker 1: Newton with the work fast facts. Isaac Newton was born
Speaker 1: in sixteen forty two and died in seventeen twenty seven.
Speaker 1: Isaac Newton invented the math called calculus. Isaac Newton discovered
Speaker 1: gravity and the laws of motion. Isaac Newton also studied alchemy,
Speaker 1: a field of science considered to be part magic, part religion,
Speaker 1: and part sciences and part delicious very true, very true.
Speaker 1: For this round, our second round of the game, we're
Speaker 1: playing a game called sound Effects. Safari sound Effects said
Speaker 1: sound effects. In this game, we'll play a sound effect
Speaker 1: inspired by something important from Newton's lives, and arc testines
Speaker 1: will tell us what the sound represents. Since this is
Speaker 1: the second round, each question will be worth two points.
Speaker 1: Imagin here is your first sound, so imagin that sounds
Speaker 1: like something is boiling. How mysterious. Why is that significant
Speaker 1: to Isaac Newton's life? Is it because A Newton began
Speaker 1: learning about chemistry as a boy, or be Newton invented
Speaker 1: the first hot tub? A, that's right, The answer is a.
Speaker 1: ASA He lived with a man named Clark and his
Speaker 1: family while attending school as a boy, Mr Clark was
Speaker 1: an apothecary, which is someone who makes medicine, herbs and chemicals.
Speaker 1: By watching and perhaps even helping Clark, young Isaac began
Speaker 1: learning basic chemistry. He even created his own potions. Hey,
Speaker 1: I make my own potions too. I mix all of
Speaker 1: the sodas that the soda fountain together and call it
Speaker 1: soda potion. Alright, hollas, here is your sound. Okay, that's
Speaker 1: definitely the ticking of a clock. What's the significance of
Speaker 1: that for Isaac Newton? Is it A Newton was fascinated
Speaker 1: by ways to keep track of time? Or B Newton
Speaker 1: secretly wanted to be a clock salesman. I am pretty
Speaker 1: sure it's A because he doesn't seem so accurate. You're
Speaker 1: exactly right. B is not accurate at all. The answer
Speaker 1: is A. As a teenager, although maybe he did secretly
Speaker 1: want it. He has never told anybody if it was
Speaker 1: a secret. But the answer is day. As a teenager,
Speaker 1: Newton set out to build a better clock, as clocks
Speaker 1: in his day weren't very accurate and he felt he
Speaker 1: could do a better job, and he did. He charted
Speaker 1: the movement of shadows from sunrise to sunset. Then he
Speaker 1: hammered pegs into a wall to create a sun dial.
Speaker 1: When people wanted to know the real time, they check
Speaker 1: Isaac's dial Imogen Europe. Next with the next sound, let's
Speaker 1: hear it? Oh wow? Okay, that's a sheep. How are
Speaker 1: sheep related to Isaac Newton's life? Ay, he'd count them
Speaker 1: if he couldn't sleep or be His mother wanted him
Speaker 1: to be a farmer. That's right, The answer is being
Speaker 1: Isaac Newton's mom, Hannah saw education mainly as a way
Speaker 1: for her son to become a good farmer. She eventually
Speaker 1: took him out of school completely so we could practice
Speaker 1: running a farm. However, the idea of growing crops intending
Speaker 1: to animals board Isaac, so he did a bad job
Speaker 1: on purpose. Once, when Isaac was supposed to be watching
Speaker 1: the sheep, he let them run into a neighbor's field
Speaker 1: and eat their crops, and so his mother had to
Speaker 1: pay a fine. Open communication is always cheaper. That's the
Speaker 1: lesson here. And the last sound of the round is
Speaker 1: for hollis m alright? That sounds like coins being poured out.
Speaker 1: Why is that relevant to Isaac Newton's life? Is it
Speaker 1: a Newton love to go to the arcade? Or be
Speaker 1: Newton helped run the Royal Mint um b that's right.
Speaker 1: The answer is be. The mint was where all of
Speaker 1: England's coins were created. It's not the mint, the food. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: counterfeiters creating fake money. We're a huge problem for the
Speaker 1: Royal Mint. So the government decided on what was called
Speaker 1: the Great Recoinage of six. This was an event where
Speaker 1: the Mint created new coins with hard edges, making them
Speaker 1: harder to fake. Newton oversaw the Great Recoinage and he
Speaker 1: did such a good job he was promoted to Master
Speaker 1: of the Mint again disappointedly, not like mint ice cream,
Speaker 1: just money. And that's sound effects, Safari un problem. Oh
Speaker 1: Gerald Deane says that was one of her favorite sound
Speaker 1: effects Safari's yet and she also says, let's go to
Speaker 1: producer Jane with the scores. Great idea, Geraldine, whoa boy?
Speaker 1: Do we have a contest? It is all tied up
Speaker 1: six points each. Nobody has miss question amazing. We might
Speaker 1: have well, I don't want to put too much pressure
Speaker 1: on any contests. We might have two perfect games today.
Speaker 1: We'll see We've still got one more round still anyone's game.
Speaker 1: Stay tuned for the inventive conclusion right after this break. Eric,
Speaker 1: please play us some new coin music. Please. This coin
Speaker 1: is knew I coined it, Sally. Who was there? Marie Curie?
Speaker 1: You may remember me from winning multiple Nobel prizes, or
Speaker 1: perhaps from my episode of the who wast podcast where
Speaker 1: I played myself. I wanted to take a moment to
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Speaker 1: oh sir, let's day, Abido. Welcome back to the Hills podcast.
Speaker 1: Today we're learning about the fathers of Invention, Alexander Graham
Speaker 1: Bell and Isaac Newton. Now back to your host, Ellien Kalen.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Be. We've got a real barn burner of
Speaker 1: a game going, so let's keep it going. But let's
Speaker 1: put the barn fire out. This is our final game
Speaker 1: and it's called Converge of Greatness. In this multiple choice game,
Speaker 1: be will read questions where are two historical figures overlap
Speaker 1: or converge? And because recovering two times the history, this
Speaker 1: game is worth three points for each question, So pick
Speaker 1: the best option as your answer, Polis. The first question
Speaker 1: is for you take it away, B. Both Isaac Newton
Speaker 1: and Alexander Graham Bell thought it was much more important
Speaker 1: to perfect their inventions than it was to present them.
Speaker 1: Newton believed that to the point that he A Often
Speaker 1: refused to show people his inventions. B would get stage
Speaker 1: fright when showing his inventions. Or see hired an actor
Speaker 1: to pretend to be him and have them show people
Speaker 1: his inventions. Um A, that's right, the answer is A.
Speaker 1: Newton preferred working alone entirely for his own satisfaction. He
Speaker 1: was invited to join the Royal Society, a group of
Speaker 1: scholars who met every week to watch experiments and discuss science.
Speaker 1: But Newton's personality did not fit well with the royal society.
Speaker 1: He didn't want the advice of other people. If they
Speaker 1: questioned him or worst thought he was wrong, Newton would
Speaker 1: lose his temper. I guess that's the first law of
Speaker 1: Isaac Newton. Don't make Newton mad image in Europe. Next.
Speaker 1: Alexander Graham Bell and Isaac Newton were both close with
Speaker 1: their mother's. Bell's mother inadvertently helped him begin to understand
Speaker 1: a the piano B, how sounds travel and are heard?
Speaker 1: Or see why he should make his bed every morning.
Speaker 1: That's right, The answer is B. Alexander Graham. Belle's mother, Eliza,
Speaker 1: was nearly deaf, and she used an ear tube which
Speaker 1: looked a bit like a big horn to hear better.
Speaker 1: People would often shout into her ear tube, but Bell
Speaker 1: liked to put his mouth on her forehead and speak softly.
Speaker 1: Eliza could hear her son because she picked up the
Speaker 1: vibrations his words made when he put his mouth to
Speaker 1: her head. Talking to his mother this way, Alexander Graham
Speaker 1: Bell started understanding how sounds traveled. Hollis, The next question
Speaker 1: is for you Neither Isaac Newton or Alexander Graham Bell
Speaker 1: were good students, as school didn't interest them much. Newton
Speaker 1: became a better student because he wanted to a get
Speaker 1: a free personal pan pizza, B show a schoolyard rival
Speaker 1: that he was smarter, or see get the teacher off
Speaker 1: his back. B. I don't think pan pizza's existed back then. Well,
Speaker 1: I guess Newton had not invented them yet. That was
Speaker 1: a great day when Isaac Newton invented the personal pan pizza.
Speaker 1: He didn't really the answer is be your right, Hollisol
Speaker 1: board Isaac so much that he didn't study. It was
Speaker 1: at the bottom of his class. One day, a boy
Speaker 1: who was a good student picked a fight with Isaac
Speaker 1: and Isaac one but winning a physical fight wasn't enough
Speaker 1: for Isaac Newton. He began to study and rose to
Speaker 1: the top of the class. Sounds like he was holding
Speaker 1: a grudge at a high school level. And here's the
Speaker 1: last question of the game for Imagen. Both Alexander Graham
Speaker 1: Bell and Isaac Newton were sent to live away from
Speaker 1: home as young men. Newton was sent to live with
Speaker 1: the family known as the Clarks to be closer to
Speaker 1: his school, Bell was sent to live with his grandfather
Speaker 1: in London because hey, he wanted to meet Peppa Pig
Speaker 1: b his grandfather needed help cleaning out the garage or see.
Speaker 1: His father thought it would help with Alexander's lack of focus.
Speaker 1: That's right, The answer is see. Belle's grandfather was also
Speaker 1: a teacher, and Bell was expected to study six days
Speaker 1: a week. He was still bored by most typical school
Speaker 1: subjects like history and Latin, but enjoyed watching his grandfather
Speaker 1: gives speech lessons to students. London was much larger than
Speaker 1: Bell's home of Edinburgh, and living with his grandfather came
Speaker 1: with many rules. Bell had to wear a full suit
Speaker 1: along with a top hat and carry a cane whenever
Speaker 1: he left the house because one of his grandfather's rules
Speaker 1: was he had to dress like a little gentleman. And
Speaker 1: that's converge of greatness. I just realized it makes sense
Speaker 1: that Alexander Graham Bell wouldn't bet the telephone, because then
Speaker 1: his grandfather couldn't see if he was wearing that hat
Speaker 1: and holding the cane. He could just talk to most
Speaker 1: of the phone and say, oh, yeah, I'm wearing it, Grandpa,
Speaker 1: don't worry I'm wearing it. Yeah, I got the cane
Speaker 1: right here in man. But why would you ever lie
Speaker 1: about wearing a top hat? I mean, doesn't everybody just
Speaker 1: look for any excuse they can find to wear a
Speaker 1: top hat? I know I do. That's why I'm wearing
Speaker 1: one right now to to celebrate that this is the
Speaker 1: end of the game, which means it's also the end
Speaker 1: of the show. While Jane talies the scores, I'd love
Speaker 1: to hear from our contestants. What was something you were
Speaker 1: surprised to learn about either Alexander Graham Bell or Isaac
Speaker 1: Newton Hollis What surprised you? I was surprised to learn
Speaker 1: that Alexander Graham Bell invented them hearing test because I
Speaker 1: actually have a hearing loss myself, and the newborn hearing
Speaker 1: streaming test was saying that UM told my parents and
Speaker 1: I had to hear in loss when I was a baby.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, So you have a personal connection to the
Speaker 1: work of Alexander Graham Bell, which is really amazing. That's
Speaker 1: something that's so cool, isn't it that something that was
Speaker 1: invented such a long time ago, it's still something that
Speaker 1: made an impact on your life. Isn't that kind of
Speaker 1: a neat thing. That's a great story. Thank you, Ellis Imagen.
Speaker 1: What surprised you about either of our two instrumental figures.
Speaker 1: But like all a really good scientists were really bad
Speaker 1: in school. You would love were things that you're like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: like you ort to be like guys, you have to
Speaker 1: pass all your tests. But he was really bad and
Speaker 1: so yeah, next time, my teacher says, if you get
Speaker 1: a bad grade, it'll be on your report card. I say,
Speaker 1: Isaac Newton and Alexander Graham Bell's report cards didn't look
Speaker 1: so great either, So maybe I will be a great inventor.
Speaker 1: It goes to show that one there's more to school
Speaker 1: than just brains. You've got to work hard to get grades,
Speaker 1: and you gotta pay attention. But too sometimes even really
Speaker 1: smart people have trouble paying attention, and they've got to
Speaker 1: figure out what interests them about the things they the
Speaker 1: jobs they need to do, like school that they don't
Speaker 1: really want to do. So yeah, there are a lot
Speaker 1: of different ways to be smart. School is just one
Speaker 1: of them, and it doesn't always work for everybody. M
Speaker 1: exactly right, So thank you both for that. Those are
Speaker 1: just fantastic thoughts. I really was happy with all of them.
Speaker 1: But it's time for the big moment. Jane, please announce
Speaker 1: our inventive winner. Olly, I'd like to introduce something I
Speaker 1: just invented. It's called a tie between all of GM.
Speaker 1: We have two winners, but it's a double Winter Day,
Speaker 1: Double Winter Day, saying hey, Elliot, does that mean we
Speaker 1: get to wear two top hats each. I'm already putting
Speaker 1: one on top of my other top hat. Double top
Speaker 1: Hat Day, double winnops the top hat, double top hats.
Speaker 1: It's a tie game that means to bow ties. Well,
Speaker 1: this is fantastic. You're Since you're both winners, you both
Speaker 1: get ten seconds for shoutouts. Hollis, if you want to
Speaker 1: go first, who would you like to thank for getting
Speaker 1: you to be this winner today? Um? I would like
Speaker 1: to thank my mom's who will not let me get
Speaker 1: a hedgehog. Well, maybe they'll think differently after after hearing
Speaker 1: about how you did on the game, but they also
Speaker 1: might still not want to give you a hedgehog. If
Speaker 1: you're talking back to your teacher about Isaac Newton's report
Speaker 1: card and imagen, who would you like to thank for
Speaker 1: your win today? The final. My friends regitioned for this
Speaker 1: o got it, didn't like, Well, that's really nice to
Speaker 1: you to thank them. Maybe they better luck next time. Look,
Speaker 1: Isaac Newton didn't get in his first time around. That's
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Speaker 1: to give my own shout outs to interns, act, to Jane,
Speaker 1: to Eric to be a big thank you to both
Speaker 1: of our great contestants for playing just a fabulous game today,
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Speaker 1: the listener who, by listening to the show has invented
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Speaker 1: we find out who Was? Two more amazing figures from history.
Speaker 1: Until then, this is Elliott, master of the mint Calin
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Speaker 1: also starred Jane Baker as Jane, Eric Shackney as Eric,
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