Speaker 1: Hey, Elliott, would you like some chips? Oh, marmalade, my
Speaker 1: favorite tortilla chip flavor. Don't mind if I do. Hold on?
Speaker 1: Did you just throw that chip bag on the floor? Sure? Did?
Speaker 1: I want to be like one of today's historical figures,
Speaker 1: Johnny Appleseed. Every time I'm done with candy or chips
Speaker 1: or a pudding cup, I drop it on the ground
Speaker 1: so a beautiful snack tree can grow. Call me be
Speaker 1: snack seed being Johnny Applesea didn't just drop seeds anywhere.
Speaker 1: He planted orchards across multiple states. What you're doing is
Speaker 1: kind of just littering. Well, Elliott, you're reminding me of
Speaker 1: our other historical figure. But I gotta tell you, Mark
Speaker 1: Twain's lectures were a lot more fun than yours. Sorry,
Speaker 1: maybe a little theme music will help. Well, they do
Speaker 1: say music helps plants grow. Come on, pudding tree. Oh goodness, Eric,
Speaker 1: please play the theme song? What do you think you
Speaker 1: know the greatest? The game is on. To get some
Speaker 1: energy and buckle up your brain, because it's time to
Speaker 1: play whose Podcast. Because it's time to play who Live
Speaker 1: from Time the Land or so called SoCal Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: Welcome to Who Was the history quick show that gives
Speaker 1: contestants the chance to win mega prizes and podcast glory.
Speaker 1: I'm b your announcer with the most announcer, and here's
Speaker 1: your host, the man whose letter you never got because
Speaker 1: he actually we're not to stamp it Allia Kalin, Thank
Speaker 1: you be, and welcome everyone to the Who Was Podcast.
Speaker 1: You know this show is like Jeopardy, only with surprise guests,
Speaker 1: silly games, and a wicked cool water slide wi. Our
Speaker 1: contestants were sent who Was books about two great figures
Speaker 1: from history. Now they're here to show off their knowledge
Speaker 1: in hopes of winning fantastic prizes, prizes prizes. Today we're
Speaker 1: discussing two household names who don't use their real names,
Speaker 1: Mark Plaine and Johnny Applesey. But before we get to
Speaker 1: know them, let's get to know our contestants. First up,
Speaker 1: we have August August. Please introduce yourself. Hi, my name
Speaker 1: is August, and yes, many I was born in August,
Speaker 1: but I was named after my great grandfather. Oh wow,
Speaker 1: so you're born in August. I think that makes you
Speaker 1: a vio um. August. You love the spotlight and are
Speaker 1: you sort of bossy? I'm not bossy, but I do
Speaker 1: love the spotlight. Okay, are you a performer? Do you
Speaker 1: do like any um like plays in school or anything
Speaker 1: like that. Well, I did it. I did a few,
Speaker 1: you know, acting things back, but I haven't done it
Speaker 1: since COVID hit though. Oh okay, yeah, I mean I
Speaker 1: feel like we're all kind of you know, feeling that
Speaker 1: in the biz. Um. Great, Well, we're excited to have
Speaker 1: you on the show today, August. Thank you. And up
Speaker 1: next we have Brady. Brady, please introduced yourself. Uh hi,
Speaker 1: my name is Brady. Um a fun fat Probably I
Speaker 1: played travel soccer. Oh wow, okay, what position do you play? Uh?
Speaker 1: Mostly striker, So you're out there scoring goals? Yeah, basically
Speaker 1: I had one today. Actually that's great. I have a question.
Speaker 1: I've never played travel soccer. Is that that you go
Speaker 1: somewhere to play soccer or do you play it while
Speaker 1: you're traveling, like in the aisle of an airplane or
Speaker 1: on a bus. No? No, no, It's like you travel
Speaker 1: and end play. Okay, okay, so the traveling and the
Speaker 1: soccer are separate. It's not like you're on a train
Speaker 1: and one goal is on one end of the train
Speaker 1: and the other goals on the other. End of the train.
Speaker 1: Well maybe try it could be fun. Windows could be broken. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's trupid Elliott. I like the sound of this. It
Speaker 1: could be uh the next big sports crazy. Well, thank
Speaker 1: you both of you for me here, and thank you
Speaker 1: to Eric, our musician, for providing that lovely live Meet
Speaker 1: the Contestants music. So that's who is Brady and August.
Speaker 1: Now let's find out who was Johnny Appleseed with four
Speaker 1: fast facts prospects. Johnny Appleseed was born in seventeen seventy
Speaker 1: four and died in eighteen forty five. Johnny Appleseed traveled
Speaker 1: through Ohio and Pennsylvania, planting apple trees and preaching the
Speaker 1: Christian gospel. In the theories of Swedish philosopher Emmanuel Swedenborg,
Speaker 1: he helped pioneering settlers state claims on new lands by
Speaker 1: showing them how to grow orchards. He was a vegetarian
Speaker 1: and advocated for fair treatment for animals. Fool prospects. All right, now,
Speaker 1: Brady and August, I'm gonna get ahead of this a
Speaker 1: little bit and let you know that um our host
Speaker 1: Elliott doesn't really like fruit? What why why he doesn't
Speaker 1: my fruit? I wish I wish the audience could have
Speaker 1: seen the shock on August's face. In particular, it was
Speaker 1: as if a ghost had jumped out the moment you
Speaker 1: said that. Now, look, I know I'm not I'm not
Speaker 1: a role mottle. Kids should eat fruit. It's very healthy,
Speaker 1: it's good for them. I just happened to not like it.
Speaker 1: What do you not like about it? Sometimes it's really sticky.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I don't like the way it smells. My kids
Speaker 1: love fruit, and they go through so many apples. Specifically,
Speaker 1: we never go to the doctor because we don't have to.
Speaker 1: They just eat so many apples. We're going through bags
Speaker 1: of apples a day. I don't have to call too
Speaker 1: much attention to the fact that I think fruit is
Speaker 1: no good and I don't like to eat it. Brady
Speaker 1: is so now, Brady is the shocked one. August has
Speaker 1: accepted this information and is rolling with it. Brady, Brady,
Speaker 1: you look like you just found out that the earth
Speaker 1: was falling into the sun. Are you gonna be okay?
Speaker 1: I'm not going to be able to cover So, Brady,
Speaker 1: what's your favorite fruit? Apples? Well? All right, ready to
Speaker 1: ready to jump the gun with that? And what's your
Speaker 1: what's your favorite way to have apples is it just
Speaker 1: like just little many slices. Sometimes I have mole, but
Speaker 1: most of the times I just slic Okay, and August,
Speaker 1: what about you, I mean you can say apples don't
Speaker 1: don't feel pressured too. I think mine would probably be
Speaker 1: between peaches and strawberries. Okay, they're both really good. I
Speaker 1: like actually every fruit. All right, Well, so the balance
Speaker 1: of the universe is restored because Brady likes mostly every
Speaker 1: fruit and Elliott does not like mostly everything. So I
Speaker 1: think we're I think we're coming out win win here. Oh,
Speaker 1: as long as long as there's balance. All this talk
Speaker 1: is making me hungry, Johnny Apple, that's me, the o
Speaker 1: G boss of apples, saw coming to you thanks to
Speaker 1: the who was app who you want to be? The
Speaker 1: who was app never fails to connect us with the past.
Speaker 1: Y'all mind if I take the seat. The dogs are barking, well,
Speaker 1: of course, Johnny, feel free to take your shoes off too.
Speaker 1: That's just my feet. I'm not a shoe guy myself.
Speaker 1: I like to feel nature between my toes. You know.
Speaker 1: Oh sorry, I mean gross? Well quite kidding, went well quick, Grady, Well,
Speaker 1: as long as we have you Johnny, would you like
Speaker 1: to help us with our first game? But don't get
Speaker 1: your feet anywhere. Oh, don't worry, my friends, it would
Speaker 1: be an honor. The honor is all ours. Eric. Let's
Speaker 1: have that true or false intro? Please? True? False? Is
Speaker 1: it false? Or is it true? Is the truth that
Speaker 1: it is false? It was true? Or true? True or false? Okay,
Speaker 1: here's how this game works. Johnny Applesey will read a
Speaker 1: statement and you'll tell us whether it's true or false.
Speaker 1: You guessed, yeah, And since it's our first game, each
Speaker 1: question is worth one point. August, you'll be going first.
Speaker 1: True or false. During my travels, settlers would offer me
Speaker 1: a place to stay over, not nash your love, sleeping
Speaker 1: in a nice warm bed. False. That's right, it's false.
Speaker 1: Johnny loved sleeping outside. He'd cover himself with a blanket
Speaker 1: of leaves to stay warm. And if the weather was bad,
Speaker 1: well he construct a small hut or sleep in a
Speaker 1: hollow tree. We call that the raccoon's sweet. Okay. The
Speaker 1: next question is for braining true or false in order
Speaker 1: to get apple seeds for my orchards. I've eat six
Speaker 1: the apples a week. That's eight point five seven apples.
Speaker 1: A day to keep all the doctors awake. False. You
Speaker 1: got him from shire mills. Yeah, I'm gonna tell you
Speaker 1: all about it. You're right, can go okay trying cider
Speaker 1: mills and many towns would match their leftover apples to
Speaker 1: make apple cider and just throw away the apple cores.
Speaker 1: Johnny considered this a waste because cores contains seeds. The
Speaker 1: good news is, since the mills consider them trash, Johnny
Speaker 1: could have the seeds for free, proving once again the
Speaker 1: old saying, multiple cider mills trash is a barefoot man's treasure.
Speaker 1: It's an old saying. Lots of people say it. Right,
Speaker 1: you've heard it before. That's definitely not you've never heard
Speaker 1: that before. No, that's my life. Well you heard it now.
Speaker 1: The next question here is for August, so listen up
Speaker 1: agus true or false. Back in my day, farmers did
Speaker 1: not fertilize their land. By day was a while ago,
Speaker 1: but I assume you kids still love farmer trivia. That's right,
Speaker 1: it's true. After several seasons of crops, soil loses its richness.
Speaker 1: Today we use fertilizer to maintain the soil. But back
Speaker 1: then people would just move on and look for fresh
Speaker 1: land to farm on, leaving that soil behind them. The
Speaker 1: next question is for Brady, true or false. I'd only
Speaker 1: work on my orchards for a month or two, and
Speaker 1: the rest of the year I just put the feet
Speaker 1: up and let the money roll in. False. That's right,
Speaker 1: it's false. Johnny's orchards kept him busy year round. In
Speaker 1: the fall, he'd go to sider mills and collect those
Speaker 1: precious apple seeds we heard about. In the winter, he'd
Speaker 1: fix his orchard fences, and these helped keep animals from
Speaker 1: using his trees as food. In spring and summer, he
Speaker 1: tended the orchards, clearing the land and planting seeds. And
Speaker 1: he was also a traveling salesman, selling apple seeds and
Speaker 1: seedlings to settlers. Selling apple seeds and seedlings to seedlings
Speaker 1: to settlers. Try saying that three times fast. Talk about
Speaker 1: a multitasker. Yeah, no, kidding, Elliott, No typer tunk twisters.
Speaker 1: It's the end of the game. True. You know, people
Speaker 1: used to say it was hard to know what was
Speaker 1: true and what was false about me because there are
Speaker 1: always so many stories going around. I'm really impressed with
Speaker 1: how well you kids did. Absolutely that was a great round. Yeah, well, folks,
Speaker 1: this was real fun. But you know me, I don't
Speaker 1: stay in one place too long, So why opt to
Speaker 1: get Mosey and Johnny? Wait before you go, we'd love
Speaker 1: to know what your favorite Apple product is? Why the
Speaker 1: I pod Nano? Of course, he's fellow travelers j apple
Speaker 1: Seed Oppens. And here I thought we were only having
Speaker 1: one humorist on the show today. Yeah, yeah, everybody is
Speaker 1: a comedian, including me. We're all gut risks today. So
Speaker 1: let's plant ourselves right here because we'll be checking in
Speaker 1: with producer Jane for our scores after this break. Eric,
Speaker 1: please play us some napping in a hollow dream music. Please.
Speaker 1: I'm just a little squirrel. Welcome back to the Who
Speaker 1: Was Podcast? And you learn all about who was Johnny
Speaker 1: Apples and you was Mark Quayne. And now back to
Speaker 1: your host, Ellie Kylin. Thank you be. Now let's hear
Speaker 1: from the apple of everyone's eye producer Jane with the scores.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's so nice of you to say, and
Speaker 1: it's also fun to say that August and Brady folk
Speaker 1: have two points. That's right. So far it's a tie game.
Speaker 1: August and Brady are neck and neck. So let's move
Speaker 1: on and find out who was Mark Twain with four
Speaker 1: fast facts. Mark Twain was born in eight and died
Speaker 1: in n team to end. He is known as the
Speaker 1: father of American literature. Many of his stories, like the
Speaker 1: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,
Speaker 1: came from his own boyhood adventures growing up in Hannibal, Missouri,
Speaker 1: and he has a patent on an unsuccessful history of
Speaker 1: trivia game called Memory Builders. That's right, Mark Twain tried
Speaker 1: to do his own Who was Quiz show and it
Speaker 1: didn't work out. This is the only way in which
Speaker 1: we are way better than Mark Twain. Take that Mark Twain. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was, But to be fair, it was before a
Speaker 1: podcast our adventure. That's true. That's true. It's very hard
Speaker 1: to do a podcast back then. So August Brady, are
Speaker 1: you readers? Do you like reading books? Love reading? Actually? Um,
Speaker 1: I read the Adventure of Tom Sawyer and they ad
Speaker 1: Mention of Huckleberry Finn. Did you really what did you
Speaker 1: think of them? I liked both books, and I think
Speaker 1: as it kind of talked about in the book of
Speaker 1: Mark Twain, he really went in depth with the Adventures
Speaker 1: of Huckleberry fin and dolving topics like race, is hum
Speaker 1: and greed. He was someone who he was a great
Speaker 1: storyteller and he liked to tell jokes too. But yeah,
Speaker 1: he have a lot on his mind about what was
Speaker 1: going on in the America that he was living in
Speaker 1: and what ways it could be better, what and what
Speaker 1: ways people at the time didn't see what was going
Speaker 1: on around them that maybe they could change. And that's
Speaker 1: something that I really admire about him. Also, that he
Speaker 1: wore this totally white suit all the time and it
Speaker 1: never seems to have gotten dirty. Yeah, I have no
Speaker 1: idea how that happened. But yeah, Brady is holding up
Speaker 1: the cover of the Who Was Mark Twain book? He's
Speaker 1: wearing this all white suit and he looks impeccably clean.
Speaker 1: I just I know the minute I put that suit on,
Speaker 1: it would be covered in dust. And of course, I'm
Speaker 1: sure you're both very familiar with one of my favorite books,
Speaker 1: The Powerbroker by Robert Carroll, the story of how Robert
Speaker 1: Moses became one of the most powerful men in the
Speaker 1: world of New York City constructions. In August, Brady, even
Speaker 1: when we're doing a quick show not about authors, Elliott
Speaker 1: will bring up this book, so feel free to tell
Speaker 1: him you haven't read it. Let's just say it's the
Speaker 1: most exciting eleven pages of of serious history writing you'll
Speaker 1: ever ready, Why not, I'll tell you what read page
Speaker 1: a day and it'll only take you about four years
Speaker 1: to get through the book. Easy. Al Right, Well, we
Speaker 1: talked about some great books. Be we should go to
Speaker 1: the library after the show and check them out. What
Speaker 1: do you think? Oh, I think that's a great idea.
Speaker 1: In fact, there's a book back right here that we
Speaker 1: could take with us heavy. You know. Another word for
Speaker 1: book bag is backpack, and I bet my bicycle it's
Speaker 1: so hefty. Because it's time for our next game, Backpack
Speaker 1: from the Past, from the Best Baby, we have a
Speaker 1: backpack contains some of Mark Twain's own personal objects that
Speaker 1: he owned from his own person. We will describe those
Speaker 1: objects for our contestants and the listeners at home. Contestants,
Speaker 1: you will choose which multiple choice answer best describes it
Speaker 1: and it's importance in his life. Since this is our
Speaker 1: second game, each question is worth two points. Brady, this
Speaker 1: first object is for you, all right. I'd like to
Speaker 1: hear that I found the helm were a steering wheel
Speaker 1: of a boat. Why would that be in Mark Twain's backpack?
Speaker 1: Is it because A he was once a pirate name
Speaker 1: captain mustache, or be he was once a steamboat pilot.
Speaker 1: Be he wants a steamboat pilot, and he got into
Speaker 1: an accident with one of his brothers, Henry, and he
Speaker 1: didn't want to do it again, but he kept steamboat sailing.
Speaker 1: That's right. The answer is b. As a young man,
Speaker 1: Mark Twain decided if he wanted to live his childhood
Speaker 1: dream of being a steamboat pilot. As you mentioned, though,
Speaker 1: being a steamboat pilot didn't really work out from Mark Twain,
Speaker 1: but he did love the life on the river so
Speaker 1: much that he changed his name from Samuel Clemens to
Speaker 1: Mark Twain, which means mark two fathoms and the fathom
Speaker 1: is a measurement for depth. Yeah, it's used to signify
Speaker 1: a safe safe depth for steamboats to travel. If it's
Speaker 1: Bible two knocks, that means you're almost in danger but
Speaker 1: not yet. Good. That's good. So anyone listening who wants
Speaker 1: to be a steamboat pilot, this is good information. You
Speaker 1: should be writing this down. Okay. The next object in
Speaker 1: the backpack is for August. WHOA, it's a can of
Speaker 1: blasting powder. Kind of wish we'd known this was in
Speaker 1: here before be dropped the backpack on the table. ASTO
Speaker 1: would have done it. I lived dangerously. That's very true,
Speaker 1: and it scares me. Did Mark Twayne need this because
Speaker 1: A he became a prospector or B he decided to
Speaker 1: build a fireworks factory? A? Right, the answer is a.
Speaker 1: At one point, Mark Twaine lived in Nevada, where one
Speaker 1: of the world's largest silver deposits, called the Comstock Load,
Speaker 1: was found in eighteen fifty nine. Mark hoped to find
Speaker 1: his fortune there, saying that he succumbed and grew as
Speaker 1: frenzied as the craziest. Unfortunately, he would not find his
Speaker 1: silver lining and soon left prospecting behind him. Now let's
Speaker 1: see what this next object has in store for Brady.
Speaker 1: All right, Elliott grabbed the backpack for me, which I mean,
Speaker 1: this thing is stuck here? One, two, three, Gosh, it's
Speaker 1: the parthenon. You really found an Athens today? It was
Speaker 1: tucked to wait in Mark Twain's backpack. Was he going
Speaker 1: to a going to remodel it for an h G
Speaker 1: TV show called Flipping History? Or be working as a
Speaker 1: travel writer. I think I'm gonna use process of elimination here.
Speaker 1: Then I'm gonna go A. I'm so sorry. The answer
Speaker 1: is B. The answer is B. Mark love to write
Speaker 1: and he loved to travel, so I'm sure he was
Speaker 1: a happy camper when three newspapers sponsored his trip to
Speaker 1: Europe and the Middle East, paying him twenty dollars for
Speaker 1: each travel letter he sent them. One of the many
Speaker 1: landmarks he wrote about was the Parthenon from Greece, and
Speaker 1: we should really get a selfie in front of it,
Speaker 1: be before we have to send it back. That's pretty amazing, August.
Speaker 1: This next object is all about you. Okay, it's all
Speaker 1: for you. Hey, check it out. It's a microphone. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna try it out. Thank you, Thank
Speaker 1: you very much. Check one. Check too. On your left,
Speaker 1: you'll see the Statue of Liberty. That's this microphone stuff
Speaker 1: that spends people saying on my acrophones. I'm sure it's
Speaker 1: clear why I would need a microphone, But why would
Speaker 1: Mark Twain? Was it because A he started a band
Speaker 1: called Tom Sawyer and the Fence Painters, or B he
Speaker 1: gave lectures. B. I think that's correct. The answer is
Speaker 1: d So before TV and movies, people went to lectures
Speaker 1: for information and entertainment. Mark friends thought he would be
Speaker 1: a great lecturer and suggested he give it a try.
Speaker 1: He was very nervous, but Mark discovered he was not
Speaker 1: only great at it, but he liked it too. And
Speaker 1: just to be clear, Mark Twain lived in the time
Speaker 1: before microphones were invented, but the backpacks from the past
Speaker 1: sometimes speaks to us through the magic of metaphor. And kids,
Speaker 1: remember a metaphor is one less than a metaphive from
Speaker 1: the past. Baby, Okay, we're gonna take a quick break
Speaker 1: while Jane calculates the scores. Eric, please play us some
Speaker 1: traveling music if you would. Yeah, there's no room in
Speaker 1: the overhead, Sally, who was there? Marie cry You may
Speaker 1: remember me from winning multiple Nobel prizes, or perhaps from
Speaker 1: my episode of The Worst Podcast where I played myself.
Speaker 1: I wanted to take a moment to read one of
Speaker 1: my favorite reviews about the Whos podcast. This is from
Speaker 1: Shaken Bay and it reads loved this Me and my
Speaker 1: little sister love this show more. Please our faith is Rietman.
Speaker 1: If you want to hear your review right on the air.
Speaker 1: Make sure to subscribe, like and review to the worst
Speaker 1: podcast in the I Heart Radio up or wherever you
Speaker 1: get your podcasts revoir or should I stay abbiat? Well,
Speaker 1: go back to the Luma's podcast today, Ruler name, who
Speaker 1: was Johnny Appleseed? Ellie? Who was Mark Wade? And now
Speaker 1: back to your host, Elliott Celin. Thanks be and now
Speaker 1: without further ado, let's go to producer Jane for the
Speaker 1: current scores. Thank you Elliott. It's still very close with
Speaker 1: Brady four points and August six. Boy howdy, both of
Speaker 1: you contestants are really sharp. Oh, they sure are. And
Speaker 1: it reminds me of something my music teacher used to say,
Speaker 1: always be sharp, which also reminds me that I never
Speaker 1: did change my name. In your defense, that's a lot
Speaker 1: of paperwork, you know what. Last name reminds me that
Speaker 1: it's time for our last game, and that game is
Speaker 1: Converge of Greatness. In this multip will choice game, we'll
Speaker 1: explore how Johnny Appleseed and Mark Twain connect, overlap or converge,
Speaker 1: choose the best answer for each question. And because we're
Speaker 1: dealing with double the history, each question will be worth
Speaker 1: triple the points. That's right, three points each. Ready. The
Speaker 1: first question goes to August B. Biro and ready, alright, August,
Speaker 1: Mark Twain and Johnny Appleseed are both pseudonyms or names
Speaker 1: other than their real names. What was Johnny Appleseed's real name?
Speaker 1: Was it a John Chapman b Johnny Storm or see
Speaker 1: Jonnifer J Appleseed the third that's right, The answer is
Speaker 1: a John Chapman. John earned the nickname Johnny Appleseed because
Speaker 1: he planted thousands, that's right, thousands of apple seeds in
Speaker 1: America's Midwest. He'd become a legend in his own lifetime
Speaker 1: due to this accomplishment, and as we all know, legends
Speaker 1: get cool names, just like me, Elliott the Rock Kalin.
Speaker 1: The next question is for you, Rady. Mark and Johnny
Speaker 1: each loved the outdoors. What did Mark call his childhood
Speaker 1: home of Hannibal, Missouri? Was it a a place where
Speaker 1: plans come together? Be a town like any other? Or
Speaker 1: see a Boy's Paradise? She that's right. The answer is
Speaker 1: see a Boy's Paradise. Mark and his friends would fish, swim,
Speaker 1: and pretend to be pirates. Unfortunately, Mark almost drowned in
Speaker 1: the river nine times. Even paradise has its dangers, which
Speaker 1: is kind of the thing he would write about in
Speaker 1: the future. Because he played hooky from school. M he
Speaker 1: was what we would call a bad kid, but he
Speaker 1: became a great writer. Now he wasn't really a bad kid.
Speaker 1: He was a good kid. Yeah, he was good a spelling.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine how important it would be to know
Speaker 1: how to spell in the days before your computer would
Speaker 1: correct your spelling for you? You know how hard that is? Yeah?
Speaker 1: If if you wrote it wrong on a piece of paper,
Speaker 1: the paper wouldn't put a red squiggly line underneath to
Speaker 1: tell you that the word was spelled wrong. You just
Speaker 1: never know anyway, The balls in your court August these
Speaker 1: questions for you. Mark and Johnny were both known as storytellers.
Speaker 1: While Johnny most sleep told stories to the settlers he
Speaker 1: sold apple seeds and seedlings to. Mark was known on
Speaker 1: a larger scale. His first break as a writer was
Speaker 1: working for his brother Orian as a a a plumber
Speaker 1: b writer's assistant on the Amazing World of Gumball or
Speaker 1: see a reporter for the Hannibal Journal. I believe if
Speaker 1: I remember correctly, it's c that's right. The answer is ce.
Speaker 1: Mark Twain wrote humor pieces, poems, and local news stories
Speaker 1: for the journal, and his work helped sell more copies
Speaker 1: of the paper. However, Orion didn't like that Mark stretched
Speaker 1: and sometimes invented the news. Orion felt journalism should be fact,
Speaker 1: not fiction. Perhaps Mark Twain should have worked for j.
Speaker 1: Jonah Jameson instead, Then he could have written about what
Speaker 1: a menace that spider Man is? Okay, Brady, the final question?
Speaker 1: The game is yours? Mark Maid and Johnny apple Seed,
Speaker 1: like a lot of people, didn't find immediate success. Mark
Speaker 1: had many jobs that didn't work out before becoming a
Speaker 1: beloved writer, and Johnny found that the market for apples
Speaker 1: wasn't very it In the first town he settled. What
Speaker 1: was the name of that town? Was it a Orange,
Speaker 1: New Jersey, B Warren, Pennsylvania, or C New York City,
Speaker 1: which has only been known as the Big Apple since
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy four. Are you answering B or are you
Speaker 1: telling B something? B? Wait? Is that you're saying be
Speaker 1: his name or the answer being okay? They answer yes, Well,
Speaker 1: you're right, the answer is B Warren, Pennsylvania. Johnny made
Speaker 1: his later Warren, only to find out that it wasn't
Speaker 1: much of a town. At the time. It turned out
Speaker 1: it was a single log cabin inhabited by a land salesman.
Speaker 1: Within a year, Johnny planted another orchard fifty miles away
Speaker 1: in the town of Franklin. Settlers passed through Franklin all
Speaker 1: the time on their way west, and it was a
Speaker 1: much better market, and Johnny worked there for several years.
Speaker 1: Like the saying goes, it takes a long time to
Speaker 1: become an overnight success planting and selling apples all over America.
Speaker 1: That's the full saying. You can't just make up sayings.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm saying them. It kind of becomes a
Speaker 1: saying if I say it, Well, I've got a couple
Speaker 1: of a Ian Clemens is right here telling me I can't.
Speaker 1: I can't stretch the truth and make up stories. I
Speaker 1: guess I'll go to leave and write some novels. Then
Speaker 1: that's the end of Converge of Greatness. Oh, the end
Speaker 1: of that game, and the end of everyone telling me
Speaker 1: I can't make up sayings means it's just about the
Speaker 1: end of the show. While James Tali is the score,
Speaker 1: I'd love to hear from our contestants. First, Okay, what
Speaker 1: was something that you were surprised to learn about Mark
Speaker 1: Twain and Johnny Appleseed. Was there something kind of special
Speaker 1: or memorable or that really surprised you about either of
Speaker 1: these two figures from history, August, let's start with you. Well,
Speaker 1: it's kind of sad, but something stuck up for me
Speaker 1: that three of his four children and his wife all
Speaker 1: predeceased him. But he still powered through that and was
Speaker 1: able to write numerous very famous, witty novels that were
Speaker 1: very powerful. Yeah, that's this's this is Mark Twain we're
Speaker 1: talking about. Yeah. He he suffered a lot of tragedy
Speaker 1: in his life, and he lost a number of members
Speaker 1: of his family. And in a way, I wonder if
Speaker 1: finding out what he had to say about the world
Speaker 1: and writing it was a way that he could figure
Speaker 1: out his emotions about those things too and kind of
Speaker 1: work his way through them. And we're all better off
Speaker 1: for him being able to push through it, because we
Speaker 1: have this amazing books that we can still read today.
Speaker 1: And there's something exciting about that that he wrote them
Speaker 1: so long ago, but you read them today and you're like,
Speaker 1: this is still an amazing book. This is still really powerful.
Speaker 1: That's great. And Brady, was there something about either march
Speaker 1: Wain or Johnny apple See that really stuck out to you,
Speaker 1: Probably Johnny acts he would stuck out was probably how
Speaker 1: he never had a wife. It can be hard to
Speaker 1: find someone to partner with you when you want to
Speaker 1: live inside of hollowed logs and just travel the country
Speaker 1: planting trees and not wearing shoes. Yeah, that's what happened
Speaker 1: in my last relationship. I'm always about those hollow trees. Yeah.
Speaker 1: B is really dedicated to hashtag Applesea of life, and
Speaker 1: it can be hard to find a partner that that
Speaker 1: feels the same way about it. Like the animal that
Speaker 1: I am named after. I like living in a tree
Speaker 1: swinging off branch, you know, just like in a hive.
Speaker 1: What can you do? Nothing? Nothing? Just makes it hard
Speaker 1: to find somebody who understands that maybe your your husband
Speaker 1: should be Donny, Oh you know what, I like that idea.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'll go, Maybe I'll go call Johnny apple Seed
Speaker 1: and called up who was that? Well. This has been
Speaker 1: a very surprisingly emotional and surprisingly powerful moment of talking
Speaker 1: to our contestants about these two historical figures. Now it's time, though,
Speaker 1: for the big moment. Jane, will you please announce our winner. Oh,
Speaker 1: Elliott and b It was so close for so long.
Speaker 1: But in the end, August at twelve points Brady ten
Speaker 1: August is our winner. It's a close game. You both
Speaker 1: played great. Congratulations August. We found out shortly before the
Speaker 1: game that August and Brady had wagered some sour Patch
Speaker 1: kids on this match. But you know what, you both
Speaker 1: played so well. I think you both deserve to have
Speaker 1: some alright, August, that's our patch kid. I'll send you
Speaker 1: and you'll network after the show. August, you did a
Speaker 1: great job. You have to ten seconds for shoutouts. Go
Speaker 1: for it. Who would you like to thank for your
Speaker 1: victory today? My family, Brady for being a really good
Speaker 1: competitive contestant with me anytime a guy, and my books
Speaker 1: really and my teachers and everyone who's kind of guiding
Speaker 1: me at on this path. That's great. That what a
Speaker 1: sweet way to put it. That's fantastic, and and and
Speaker 1: and now my teachers will get bucks. That's true. That's
Speaker 1: true because our winner in the library of their choice
Speaker 1: receiving a selection of who was books. And I'm going
Speaker 1: to give a shout out to intern Zach Jane, Eric
Speaker 1: Sanjay Row for being our Johnny Appleseed and of course
Speaker 1: to be And a big thank you to both of
Speaker 1: our contestants who played a fantastic game today. And most
Speaker 1: of all, thank you to you at home or wherever
Speaker 1: you are for listening. Next week join us again as
Speaker 1: we found out who Was? Two more amazing figures from history.
Speaker 1: Until then, this is Elliott not actually the rocket. Please
Speaker 1: don't assume you the real Rock Kalin saying we are history.
Speaker 1: Go bye, everybody. Thank you. Got a question for any
Speaker 1: of our famous figures, send us a voice memo at
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Speaker 1: is produced by Radio Point I Heart Media and Penguin
Speaker 1: Workshop and is based on the best selling who h
Speaker 1: Q series published by Penguin, hosted by Elliott Palin, with
Speaker 1: co host Megan O'Neil as b also starring Jane Baker
Speaker 1: as Producer, Jane, Eric Shackney as Eric, and son Jay
Speaker 1: Rao as Johnny Epissy. Executive producers are Richard Corson, Alex Boch,
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