Speaker 1: Hey there, welcome to Growing Up with Emily, a Lingo
Speaker 1: kids podcast. It helps kids discover how to be whatever
Speaker 1: they want to be growing up Well fo side, bowing
Speaker 1: up side. Hey Winson. Do you know what it means
Speaker 1: to go undercover?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I don't know, Emily, to hide underneath the comforter.
Speaker 1: Not quite, but we'll find out today as we explore
Speaker 1: the world of detectives.
Speaker 2: Where is it? I can't find it anywhere. Maybe someone
Speaker 2: moves it down here on the floor.
Speaker 1: Hey Winston, Oh uh.
Speaker 2: Hi Emily, and a happy birthday.
Speaker 1: Thanks Winston. You remembered, But why did you say it
Speaker 1: like that? And why are you down under the table
Speaker 1: with a magnifying glass? Well, oh, come on, Winston, what
Speaker 1: is it?
Speaker 2: Well? I made you a birthday cake?
Speaker 1: Emily Winston, you made me a cake. Oh that's so sweet.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's gone. I put it right here on
Speaker 2: your desk and now it's nowhere to be found. Did
Speaker 2: you move it? No?
Speaker 1: I haven't seen it. Do you think someone else took it?
Speaker 2: I don't know, but that's why I'm looking for clues.
Speaker 2: I'm a detective.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, let me help you. Can you describe the cake?
Speaker 2: Well, It's big and covered in chocolate frosting and rainbow sprinkles.
Speaker 2: I spent all morning putting it together for you too.
Speaker 2: It was gonna be a surprise.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but you know it's the thought that counts.
Speaker 1: And don't worry, it'll show up. We'll just do some
Speaker 1: detective work.
Speaker 2: Like you said, Oh, maybe we should put on those
Speaker 2: cool detective hats like Sherlock Holmes.
Speaker 1: Well, we sometimes think of detectives wearing hats and carrying
Speaker 1: magnifying glasses. It's true, but those things are more like
Speaker 1: symbols for the work that detectives.
Speaker 2: Do you mean they don't use magnifying glasses in real life.
Speaker 1: They use them in the past, yes, but today detectives
Speaker 1: rely on technology to help them with visual clues like
Speaker 1: CCTV cameras, and they may have to go undercover too.
Speaker 2: Wait, detectives have to go underneath the covers like to hide.
Speaker 2: I don't get it.
Speaker 1: What I said was actually undercover like the detective Sherlock Holmes.
Speaker 1: He's not a real person, by the way, but when
Speaker 1: he wanted information from someone, he'd go to all the lengths,
Speaker 1: like noting on people's doors dressed as a plumber, Oh.
Speaker 2: That's clever. But what about real life detectives? Do they
Speaker 2: wear disguise as to Emily.
Speaker 1: They most certainly do whencon But these days, detectives use
Speaker 1: a lot of different techniques to find clues and solve crimes.
Speaker 2: Do you think there's a detective technique that could help
Speaker 2: me find your birthday cake?
Speaker 1: It's possible. There are many tools detectives used to collect
Speaker 1: evidence or clues. One of those ways is called forensics
Speaker 1: for and what now forensics Whinson. That's information detectives find
Speaker 1: at crime scenes, like footprints, fingerprints, or tiny fibers from
Speaker 1: someone's clothing. This kind of evidence can be inspected in
Speaker 1: a lab. It gives information about who committed a crime.
Speaker 2: We have a lab, Do you think we could gather
Speaker 2: some evidence? Maybe someone came in and took the cake
Speaker 2: when we were looking dot don who huh wait? Check
Speaker 2: this out?
Speaker 1: What is it? Winston?
Speaker 2: Rainbow sprinkles from the cake and there's a whole rainbow trail.
Speaker 1: Seems like a sure clue to me. Let's follow them.
Speaker 1: Maybe they'll lead us to the cake or whoever took it,
Speaker 1: the suspect.
Speaker 2: The sprinkles go all the way to the doggy door.
Speaker 2: Emily and outside, and is this what I think it is?
Speaker 1: Emily, tiny chocolate handprints.
Speaker 2: Wait, do you think a dog got in through the
Speaker 2: little door and took the cake? Well?
Speaker 1: I don't think so, Winston. They don't look like dog
Speaker 1: paws at all. These little prince have five fingers.
Speaker 2: But they're so teeny tiny. There's no way these are
Speaker 2: human hand prince. Emily, They're a bit like claus Hmmm,
Speaker 2: very curious.
Speaker 1: Indeed, let's keep looking for more evidence.
Speaker 2: Yiesh I wish I had more detective experience. How do
Speaker 2: detectives learn how to solve mysteries? So?
Speaker 1: Well? Anyway, Emily, Well, most detectives go to college to
Speaker 1: study criminal justice, where they learn about laws, crime, the
Speaker 1: court system, and psychology. These classes help them puzzle clues
Speaker 1: together and make sense of them.
Speaker 2: I wonder if some of the earliest detectives had to
Speaker 2: learn all these things on their own, Emily, I mean
Speaker 2: before there were colleges that taught that sort of thing.
Speaker 1: Nactually, one of the first detectives was the famous Kate Warren.
Speaker 1: She was also the first known female detective in the USA.
Speaker 1: She used to change her name, wear wigs, and dress
Speaker 1: up as different characters. And then she would snoop around
Speaker 1: trying to get important information from people. What do you
Speaker 1: think should we go back in time and watch Kate
Speaker 1: on the job.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's do some of our own undercover snooping.
Speaker 1: Okay, we're gonna travel all the way back to Actually,
Speaker 1: I'm going to let you do a bit of detective
Speaker 1: work yourself to try and figure out where and when
Speaker 1: we are.
Speaker 2: Ooh, a detective challenge. I like it.
Speaker 1: Okay, but first, let's put on some disguises. I'll put
Speaker 1: on this big silk evening gown It's what women would
Speaker 1: wear back then.
Speaker 2: And I'll wear this black chimney sweep outfit. It's all
Speaker 2: dirty and covered in soot and ashes.
Speaker 1: You'll fit right in Winston. Chimney sweep was a common
Speaker 1: job back then. We should also bring some tools with
Speaker 1: us that detectives would have used at the time.
Speaker 2: Huh, magnifying glass, Sure.
Speaker 1: Let's take one. Yes, We'll also bring some measuring tape
Speaker 1: in case we have to measure footprints. Oh, and bring
Speaker 1: a pencil and a pad of paper so we can
Speaker 1: take notes and make sketches that could help us out.
Speaker 2: All right, here we go, I've got it all perfect.
Speaker 1: Let's get to it then.
Speaker 2: Well, look at the horses and the carts with the
Speaker 2: huge wheels.
Speaker 1: Those are carriages. They don't have cars here because they
Speaker 1: haven't been invented yet.
Speaker 2: That gives me a clue about the time period we
Speaker 2: traveled back to Emily, but I don't want to make
Speaker 2: a guess just yet. Definitely more than one hundred years
Speaker 2: I've had.
Speaker 1: What jol said, Oh my goodness, that was close. And yes,
Speaker 1: you're spot on. It is more than one hundred years ago.
Speaker 2: How do you know that, Well, because I know the
Speaker 2: cars with motors were used a lot in the early
Speaker 2: nineteen hundreds, and everyone here is still using horse carriages.
Speaker 1: Very good, mister detective. Let's go find the house I
Speaker 1: wanted to take you too.
Speaker 2: Whoa, these streets make me walk all wildly. The road
Speaker 2: feels like it's made of big round stones.
Speaker 1: That's because the roads are made of cobblestones. They're quite
Speaker 1: different to the smooth streets we're used to back cult Well.
Speaker 2: It would take forever to get places if you had
Speaker 2: to walk on cobblestones all day ow.
Speaker 1: Well, another important scale a detective has is patients. Sometimes
Speaker 1: they have to wait for hours and hours before these
Speaker 1: spots someone they're looking for, right patients?
Speaker 2: How long will that take? I mean, I guess you're right, Emily,
Speaker 2: I do need to be more patient.
Speaker 1: We're almost there, So any ideas about what year we're in?
Speaker 2: Well, I noticed the guy down the street is lighting
Speaker 2: oil lanterns, right, and that newspaper in the gutter said
Speaker 2: something about going to war with the South.
Speaker 1: Oh that's a big hint.
Speaker 2: So it's gotta be around the Civil War.
Speaker 1: Yep, you've got some real detective skills, Whinstin. This is
Speaker 1: Baltimore in the year eighteen sixty one, right at the
Speaker 1: start of the Civil War. Here we are. Come with
Speaker 1: me over to this big red brick house, the one
Speaker 1: with the candles in the windows. Let's peek in, but
Speaker 1: try to be sneaky about it so that no one
Speaker 1: inside sees us.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, Emily, why are those ladies in this house
Speaker 2: making so much noise? It sounds like they're having a party.
Speaker 1: It's kind of a party. Yeah, But what else do
Speaker 1: you notice about them? Whinston, Take a look at their
Speaker 1: body language and their faces.
Speaker 2: Well, they don't look very happy, and if this is
Speaker 2: a party, most of them are kind of frowning. And
Speaker 2: that lady by the fireplace is bawling up her fists
Speaker 2: really to like she's angry.
Speaker 1: Good observation, Winston. Actually, most of the women here really
Speaker 1: dislike Abraham Lincoln. He was the president at the time,
Speaker 1: from eighteen sixty one to eighteen sixty five.
Speaker 2: Whoa why did they hate the president?
Speaker 1: Well, they don't like how he's running the country, so
Speaker 1: they're protesting. They want to get him kicked out of
Speaker 1: the White House.
Speaker 2: Oh what about her, the one standing in the corner
Speaker 2: with the gloves on. She doesn't look very upset. In fact,
Speaker 2: she's kind of looking around the room like we are,
Speaker 2: Like she's trying to figure out how everybody else feels. Wow,
Speaker 2: you are good.
Speaker 1: That's Detective Kate Warren Winston, and she's here working undercover.
Speaker 2: Oh well, what's she doing, Emily? Is she spying?
Speaker 1: Yes, these protesters are hatching a plan to get rid
Speaker 1: of President Lincoln, so Kate's pretending to join in that way,
Speaker 1: she can learn all about their plans and try to
Speaker 1: stop them.
Speaker 2: Pretty smart, Emily, Pretty smart, yep.
Speaker 1: And she's doing it all without the help of telephones, computers,
Speaker 1: or the internet. She's got to remember everything she sees
Speaker 1: and hears and write it down as clues for leader.
Speaker 2: Oh and now Kate suddenly smiling and laughing with that
Speaker 2: lady who was just upset by the fireplace.
Speaker 1: She sure is. She's trying to get that lady to
Speaker 1: trust her so that she can get information out of her.
Speaker 2: Oh how did detectives get people to trust them, Emily.
Speaker 1: Well, just like Kate, they try to get to know
Speaker 1: people by watching them, chatting with them, learning about what
Speaker 1: interests them, and taking note of everything like what their
Speaker 1: daily schedule is, where they go and what they do,
Speaker 1: and what their body language is. Like.
Speaker 2: Well, that's kind of intense. So like if I was
Speaker 2: a detective and I found out you liked football, I
Speaker 2: would learn every there is to know about football.
Speaker 1: Yes, exactly. Kate had to learn all about politics at
Speaker 1: the time. She had to earn people's trust so that
Speaker 1: they tell her valuable information. She had to be friendly,
Speaker 1: good at asking the right questions and listening. Can you
Speaker 1: guess how she began her career as a detective.
Speaker 2: Well, if she's good at being sneaky and pretending to
Speaker 2: be other people, maybe she was an actress or something.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's a good guess, Vincent. But actually, when
Speaker 1: she was only twenty three years old, she walked right
Speaker 1: into the Pinkerton Agency and asked for a job as
Speaker 1: a detective. She was very direct.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, and what did the boss say?
Speaker 1: He hired her on the spot, and he was happy
Speaker 1: he did because she actually ended up saving President Lincoln's life.
Speaker 2: Really, well, how'd she do that? Oh, it looks like we're.
Speaker 1: About to find out. Kate's on the move. Let's follow her.
Speaker 2: Oh, I bet she's on her way to one President Link.
Speaker 2: Now she's knocking on the door across the street. I
Speaker 2: bet I can guess who lives there. It's President Abraham Lincoln.
Speaker 1: Yep. Kate is telling Lincoln his life is in danger.
Speaker 1: And now they're escaping in disguise.
Speaker 2: Wait, who are they dressed up as Emily?
Speaker 1: Well, Kate and Lincoln are pretending to be brother and sister.
Speaker 1: Lincoln's acting like he's sick and she's caring for him.
Speaker 2: It's like a scene from a movie. They're so convincing. Wow.
Speaker 2: Being a detective can kind of be stressful, but it's
Speaker 2: also a lot of fun to look for clues and
Speaker 2: to go under cover.
Speaker 1: Hey, speaking of, we got to get back and find
Speaker 1: more clues about where my cake went.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, well let's do it. Emily, back in the
Speaker 2: lab again and back on the case.
Speaker 1: And it's time to use our detective skills to locate
Speaker 1: that birthday cake.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So far, we know there's a trail of rainbow
Speaker 2: sprinkles coming from.
Speaker 1: The kitchen, and we also found those tiny chocolatey handprints
Speaker 1: with five little fingers.
Speaker 2: Hmmm, well we should go next door and ask your neighbor,
Speaker 2: miss Pierce some questions. Maybe she saw someone take the cake.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, good idea, Winston. I think she's gardening in
Speaker 1: her backyard right.
Speaker 2: Now, Emily, there's cake crumbs all around the rose bush.
Speaker 1: And the crumbs lead to the hole in that tree.
Speaker 2: Well, should we take a look?
Speaker 1: Absolutely? Can you see inside the tree? Winston.
Speaker 2: I'm trying, Emily, I'm trying, Emily. Oh my gosh, you're
Speaker 2: never gonna believe this.
Speaker 1: Wait what is it? Oh? Wow? Oh adorable.
Speaker 2: It's a raccoon and a whole little litter up baby raccoons.
Speaker 2: How cute they are?
Speaker 1: O and satisfied by the looks of them. They've got
Speaker 1: chocolate all over their little hands and faces.
Speaker 2: I bet the mama raccoons smelled my cake came in
Speaker 2: through the doggie door and brought it out to share
Speaker 2: it and feed it with her babies.
Speaker 1: I should have known, Winston. Raccoons are known to be
Speaker 1: pretty mischievous creatures.
Speaker 2: Oh he's too cute. Did you do and if we
Speaker 2: weren't the ones to eat your birthday cake? I'm glad
Speaker 2: it was that, Emily, me too.
Speaker 1: And then it went to a good cause. And now
Speaker 1: we've solved our first case. Maybe we should start a
Speaker 1: detective agency. It's so much fun finding evidence with you.
Speaker 2: Hey, that sounds like a plan to me. Emily, And
Speaker 2: after all that hunting, I think we both deserve a
Speaker 2: big slice of birthday cake. What do you say?
Speaker 1: Ooh yes, please, Winston. But maybe we should make a
Speaker 1: new one. It looks like yours is almost gone.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, a good idea. I'll get the ingredients and
Speaker 2: meet you in the lab, I mean the kitchen.
Speaker 1: That's all the time we have for today. Thanks so
Speaker 1: much for joining us as detectives. If you pay close
Speaker 1: attention to the details and ask lots of questions, you'll
Speaker 1: be able to solve mysteries and puzzles too. Until next time,
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