Speaker 1: Hi, Elliott, here take a campaign button. Oh hi, be,
Speaker 1: let's see here be for president. Yeah. We're learning about
Speaker 1: Abraham Lincoln today on the show, and I was inspired.
Speaker 1: He is a pretty inspirational figure. Okay, tell me about
Speaker 1: your platform. Oh wow, this is the first time anyone's asked. Um,
Speaker 1: my platform is six ft tall, as I don't want
Speaker 1: my constituents to think I'm far above them and about
Speaker 1: eight feet wide because I like to walk around when
Speaker 1: i'm speaking. You know who wants to stand behind a
Speaker 1: podium the whole time? Uh? Sorry, I'll be clear. I meant,
Speaker 1: what are you running on? Mostly liquorician cappuccito? It takes
Speaker 1: a lot of energy to run for office. Well, be,
Speaker 1: I always admire your ambition, but I think there's a
Speaker 1: few more things to sort out before you run for
Speaker 1: president of the United States. What no, no, no, I'm
Speaker 1: campaigning to be president of the Dolly Parton Fan Club.
Speaker 1: Who wants to live in Washington, d C. When you
Speaker 1: could live in Dollywood Dot that's Dolly Parton's amusement park,
Speaker 1: which is I assume the president of the Dolly Parton
Speaker 1: Fan Club residences. Well, I'm happy to report that we're
Speaker 1: also learning about Dolly Parton today, so maybe we'll find out.
Speaker 1: I also assume the president of Dolly's fan club only
Speaker 1: works nine to five. What a way to make a living? Eric,
Speaker 1: Please play the theme song here? What do you think
Speaker 1: you know about the grains from this store? The game
Speaker 1: is on to get some energy and buckle up your brain.
Speaker 1: Cousin's signed to play the Whos podcast because it's time
Speaker 1: to play Who Live from top Land or so called
Speaker 1: so Cow Los Angeles. Welcome to Who Was? The history
Speaker 1: push show that gives contestants the chance to win mega
Speaker 1: prizes and podcast Glorie, I'm being your favorite person who
Speaker 1: says her name before she says Elliott's name. And here's
Speaker 1: your host, the man who pops Wheelie's on his station
Speaker 1: every bike. It's Elliot Kalin. Thank You'll be very difficult
Speaker 1: takes a lot of core strength and welcome everyone to
Speaker 1: the Who Was Podcast. This show it's like Jeopardy, only
Speaker 1: with surprise guests, silly games, and a haunted player piano.
Speaker 1: Our contestants were sent who Was books about two great
Speaker 1: figures from history. Now they're here to show off their
Speaker 1: knowledge in the hopes of winning fantastic prizes. Prizes. Today,
Speaker 1: we're discussing a couple of log cabin kids, Abraham Lincoln
Speaker 1: and Dumley Barton. But before we get to know them,
Speaker 1: let's get to know our contestants. First. Up, we have
Speaker 1: Katie Hatie. Would you please introduce yourself. Hi, I'm Katie.
Speaker 1: I love singing and dancing and musical theater. Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1: All right, well, what is one of your favorite musicals?
Speaker 1: I love Hamilton's Okay, I thought maybe you would say
Speaker 1: that scene is on your You're on a history push
Speaker 1: show and you love musicals. Are there any musicals that
Speaker 1: you have been in. I've been in Matilda, so that's
Speaker 1: one of my favorite books and one of my favorite musicals.
Speaker 1: I was a Manda trip when I got trimmed by
Speaker 1: my painktails. Oh my gosh, that's amazing, Katie. We're so
Speaker 1: excited to have you on the show today. Thank you
Speaker 1: for being here. And how um apropos that that you're
Speaker 1: on a show with Dolly Parton because was an awesome
Speaker 1: musical too. All right, up, next, we have Ranger. Ranger,
Speaker 1: please introduce yourself. Hi, my name's Ranger. I love cats
Speaker 1: and I have growing risk cats at my house. Oh Wow. Okay,
Speaker 1: because when you first said I love cats again, I
Speaker 1: thought you were talking about cats the musical and I
Speaker 1: thought we had I thought we had a couple of
Speaker 1: musical theater folks on our hands. But the fact that
Speaker 1: you also just love cats the animal is also very
Speaker 1: exciting to me. So what are the what are your
Speaker 1: cat's names? I have a kitten that's name to Apple,
Speaker 1: and I have two cats that in two is named
Speaker 1: to Burn and one's name. Two of those are lovely names,
Speaker 1: all things that can be found in nature. And also
Speaker 1: I assume you named Apple after Gwenna Paltrow's daughter. Actually
Speaker 1: don't know what Acco's name was after. I would just
Speaker 1: say it's such a sweet name for a cat. But
Speaker 1: you just have to be careful because if someone says
Speaker 1: I'm hungry, I want to eat an apple, you don't
Speaker 1: want to accidentally give them your cat's. Yeah, don't make
Speaker 1: that mistake. Thank you so much both of you for
Speaker 1: being here, Thank you so much for joining us, and
Speaker 1: thank you to Erk, our musician, providing that lovely Meet
Speaker 1: the contestants music. So that's who is Now let's find
Speaker 1: out who was Abraham Lincoln with four fast facts facts.
Speaker 1: Abraham Lincoln was born in eighteen o nine and died
Speaker 1: in eighteen sixty five. Abraham Lincoln is considered by many,
Speaker 1: including me, to be America's greatest president. In eighteen sixty three,
Speaker 1: President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation that declared forever
Speaker 1: free those people enslaved within the Confederacy. Lincoln strongly adership
Speaker 1: during the American Civil War kept America from splitting into
Speaker 1: two different countries. And now let's keep right zooming. Just
Speaker 1: like that, four fast facts sound into our first game.
Speaker 1: It's one honest, abe, who would have loved? True or false? True? False?
Speaker 1: Is a true? Fause? Is it false? Or is a true?
Speaker 1: It is a truth that it has false? Is it
Speaker 1: false that it was true? Or true? True or false.
Speaker 1: Here's how this game works. The will read a statement
Speaker 1: and you'll tell us if it's true or false. You
Speaker 1: guessed it false. And since it's our first game of
Speaker 1: the show, each question is worth one point, Katie, You'll
Speaker 1: be going first. True or false. Lincoln's famous speech, the
Speaker 1: Gettysburg Address, was only about two minutes long. True. That's right,
Speaker 1: It's true. People were becoming more and war disillusioned with
Speaker 1: the Civil War, especially when Abraham Lincoln enacted a draft,
Speaker 1: the first time in American history when men were forced
Speaker 1: to enlist in the armed forces during the war. At
Speaker 1: the dedicate of Gettysburg National Cemetery, Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address,
Speaker 1: and in just two minutes, he reminded his audience that
Speaker 1: the United States was the first country founded on the
Speaker 1: idea of equality, that it was up to them to
Speaker 1: keep it alive. Ranger Europe next, True or Fox. When
Speaker 1: Lincoln was seven, his family moved from Kentucky to Indiana,
Speaker 1: one of the reasons being that Kentucky was a slave
Speaker 1: state while Indiana was a free state. True. That's right,
Speaker 1: that's true. The Lincoln family aided slavery. Abraham Lincoln said
Speaker 1: he was quote naturally anti slavery for as far back
Speaker 1: as he could remember. That may seem like an obvious
Speaker 1: thing to say now, because yes, slavery is terrible, but
Speaker 1: in Lincoln's time, slavery was considered by many people to
Speaker 1: be not only normal but natural. It also points to
Speaker 1: why Lincoln was determined to end slavery as President. Katie,
Speaker 1: back to you for the next question. True Fox. As
Speaker 1: a boy, Abraham Lincoln would write on wood instead of paper. True.
Speaker 1: He didn't have any paper because it was expensive. Very true.
Speaker 1: Lincoln's family was poor and paper was expensive and hard
Speaker 1: to get your exactly right. After he learned how to read,
Speaker 1: Abraham would read books very carefully to make sure he
Speaker 1: really understood them. And when he wanted to write down
Speaker 1: a passage from a book, he'd write it on a
Speaker 1: piece of wood, and then when the wood got so
Speaker 1: black and written over that he couldn't read it anymore,
Speaker 1: he'd shaved the wood and start again. So, kids, when
Speaker 1: you're reading your kindle, just think of America's sixteenth president
Speaker 1: reading his kindle lying thank you. It's a little you know,
Speaker 1: tinder humor. Yeah, very nice. The time ranger, this final
Speaker 1: question is for you. Abraham Lincoln was very strict when
Speaker 1: it came to his sons while living in the White House. False. False,
Speaker 1: that's right. President Lincoln and his wife Mary never scolded
Speaker 1: their boys or tried to make them behave Lincoln sometimes
Speaker 1: talked to his generals during the Civil War with one
Speaker 1: of his sons climbing up his chair and onto his shoulders.
Speaker 1: At the time, it was actually pretty unusual for children
Speaker 1: to live in the White House, but Lincoln didn't mind
Speaker 1: his boy's interruptions. In fact, with all his responsibilities, including
Speaker 1: being in the middle of a civil war. Like we said,
Speaker 1: his younger son's Ted and Willie could really make him smile.
Speaker 1: And that's the end of true or false, true, true,
Speaker 1: true orful. That was a great round. And now it's
Speaker 1: time to go to producer Jane, who never scolds me
Speaker 1: no matter how many times I climb on her shoulders
Speaker 1: for the scores. Jane, who's in the league? Oh, Elliot, hey,
Speaker 1: you're heavy and being arranger and Katie are chew each
Speaker 1: it's a chime. Sounds like it's anybody's game going into
Speaker 1: the second round. That's right, b But first we're going
Speaker 1: to take ourselves upbreak Eric, please play us some Kids
Speaker 1: in the White House music, No running. Welcome back to
Speaker 1: the Who Last podcast. Today we're learning who was Abraham Lincoln?
Speaker 1: And who is Dolly Parton? And now back to your host,
Speaker 1: Elliott Caitlin. Thank you being Now let's find out who
Speaker 1: is Dolly Partner with four fast facts cospects. Dolly Parton
Speaker 1: was born in ninety six in seven Year County, Tennessee,
Speaker 1: and she continues to make incredible music and do incredible
Speaker 1: things for this world. After making her first radio appearance
Speaker 1: at age ten, she became one of the queens of
Speaker 1: country music. Dolly has her own amusement park called Dollywood.
Speaker 1: Dolly has eleven Grammys, thirteen Academy of Country Music Awards, Oscar,
Speaker 1: Emmy and Tony nominations, and she has an honorary doctorate
Speaker 1: from the University of Tennessee. Hospects Dolly Parton is so cool.
Speaker 1: I know. Can you imagine having your own amusement park? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think about it every day, not et. I've the kids,
Speaker 1: the contestants, contestants, if you had your own amusement park,
Speaker 1: what ride would you most want to have their, Katie,
Speaker 1: What would your amusement park have in it? It would
Speaker 1: have one roller coaster that goes around to the entire park,
Speaker 1: with two different versions of it, one slow so you
Speaker 1: can look at the park, and a fast ones for
Speaker 1: the trial seekers who want to go on something that
Speaker 1: does their taps. Oh wow. I love that something for
Speaker 1: everyone and you get to see the park. And I
Speaker 1: meant because there's gonna be a lot of amazing things
Speaker 1: to see him at park. I'm imagining because it's gonna
Speaker 1: be like a lot of musical theater in that park.
Speaker 1: I'm guessing a lot of a lot of musical theater
Speaker 1: based rides. Hamilton's the ride, maybe fil on the Roof
Speaker 1: where you're like after you're falling off a roof or something,
Speaker 1: and maybe there's like guys and dolls where let's just
Speaker 1: say that's a ferris wheel. Okay, Ranger, your amusement park,
Speaker 1: what would you have in it? Probably a really tall
Speaker 1: rock climbing place climate for a prize? What kind of
Speaker 1: prizes would you give? What kind of price would you
Speaker 1: get for climbing the wall? Like probably big ted bears. Oh,
Speaker 1: I love it, contestants, those are great answers, great parks
Speaker 1: if any uh the musical park. The builders are listening
Speaker 1: right now. Get in touch with Katie and Ranger. We've
Speaker 1: got to build those parks. But first, it's signed rust
Speaker 1: to go on a ride of our own, a musical
Speaker 1: journey in fact, with our second game, and each question
Speaker 1: is worth two points. That's right. This game is B
Speaker 1: sides side. Now, let me explain that title for the
Speaker 1: younger people in the audience and also on the show.
Speaker 1: Before we were all streaming music on demand left and
Speaker 1: right from the internet. We had record albums which have
Speaker 1: two sides on them. The A side usually had the
Speaker 1: hit song on it, and the B side was another
Speaker 1: song that was less well known. So we found some
Speaker 1: of Dolly Parton's unreleased lyrics, and if you elect me
Speaker 1: president of Dolly's fan club, I will release all of
Speaker 1: Dolly's unreleased music. You know, if it's okay with her. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you should probably make sure it's okay with Dolly
Speaker 1: Parton before you start releasing all of her lyrics. But
Speaker 1: in this game, you'll listen to the lyrics and tell
Speaker 1: us what she was writing about for two points each Ranger,
Speaker 1: this first song is for you. Elvis wanted to buy
Speaker 1: my song? I turned down at King's ransom. Some thought
Speaker 1: I was wrong, but the rewards have been handsome. Okay, Ranger,
Speaker 1: What song did Elvis want to buy from Dolly? Was
Speaker 1: it a up town funk b Jolene or see I
Speaker 1: Will Always Love You be I'm so sorry. The answer
Speaker 1: is seeing. Elvis wanted to buy Dolly's song I Will
Speaker 1: Always Love You, which means he would have owned it.
Speaker 1: Dolly said no. Since then, many singers have performed the song,
Speaker 1: of the most famous version being Whitney Houston's from the
Speaker 1: Bodyguards soundtrack. Dolly has said she's made so much from
Speaker 1: that one song that she could have bought Elvis's Home
Speaker 1: Grace Land. Okay, Katie, it's your turn. Next, here we
Speaker 1: go be take it away. Kids can't read if they
Speaker 1: lack the literary So I decided to start my very
Speaker 1: own library. What library is Dolly Parton talking about starting
Speaker 1: a the Library of Congress, be the Imagination Library or
Speaker 1: see the New York Public Library. B that's right. The
Speaker 1: answer is be. Dolly started Dolly Parton's Imagination Library, which
Speaker 1: gave one book a month to every child in her
Speaker 1: childhood hometown, Sevier County. Since then, more than a hundred
Speaker 1: and eighty four million books have been handed out in
Speaker 1: the United States, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom. Kids
Speaker 1: called Dolly the book Lady, a name she wears proudly. Okay, Ranger,
Speaker 1: this next one is for you. They put me in
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame. It was such an honor for
Speaker 1: this grand dame. What hall of fame is Dolly Parton
Speaker 1: talking about being inducted into here is that the A
Speaker 1: W W. E. Hall of Fame? Be the Rock and
Speaker 1: Roll Hall of Fame or see the Country Music Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame. See that's right. The answer is c in.
Speaker 1: Dolly was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Typically,
Speaker 1: this is an honor given to people at the end
Speaker 1: of their careers, but not Dolly. She got that award
Speaker 1: over twenty years ago, and even today she's nowhere close
Speaker 1: to the end of making incredible new music. Okay, Katie,
Speaker 1: you get the final set of lyrics. I had big dreams,
Speaker 1: no one could stop me. That's how I got to
Speaker 1: the Grand Old Opery. So how old was Dolly when
Speaker 1: she first performed at the legendary Grand Ole Opry A thirteen,
Speaker 1: B thirty one or C three A that's right. A.
Speaker 1: When she was thirteen, Dolly's uncle Bill drove her to
Speaker 1: Nashville to try and get her on the opery. It
Speaker 1: was almost impossible due to her age. It would have
Speaker 1: been even more impossible if she was three. But after
Speaker 1: Bill begged the performers to let Dolly go on, one
Speaker 1: of them let her take their place. That was so
Speaker 1: nice of them. Johnny Cash, a famous country music singer,
Speaker 1: even introduced her to the audience. Four thousand people were
Speaker 1: there that night, and Dolly had three encores, and that's
Speaker 1: B sides. So in a moment, we'll go to our
Speaker 1: own member of the score keeping Hall of Fame producer
Speaker 1: Jane First B And I you mean Dolly Parton fan club,
Speaker 1: President B. I've got this election in the bag. Nobody
Speaker 1: has my deep dive DOLLI knowledge or my mad political skills.
Speaker 1: Not so fast, you'll find I can best you in
Speaker 1: both of those arenas. Abraham Lincoln, the same I came
Speaker 1: here through the who was app who was? You want
Speaker 1: to be somewhere in the best, And I came here
Speaker 1: to challenge be for the office of president. And I
Speaker 1: shall defeat her the same way I defeated Stephen Douglas
Speaker 1: in the presidential election of eighteen sixty in arousing one
Speaker 1: on one debate, old on, Mr Lincoln. Didn't you debate
Speaker 1: Stephen Douglas during the campaign to be Senator from Illinois
Speaker 1: in eighteen fifty eight and you actually lost that election?
Speaker 1: Oh fine, that is technically correct, though, But I did
Speaker 1: defeat him in the presidential election of a sixty. You
Speaker 1: could be the judge of the debate, nerd. Yes, finally
Speaker 1: a chance to be a part of history. Okay, President Lincoln,
Speaker 1: I was going to decide who would get the first
Speaker 1: opening statement with a coin toss, But your faces on
Speaker 1: the coin, so I figure you in the toss. So
Speaker 1: tell us why would you be the best president of
Speaker 1: the Dolly Parton Fan Club. Three score and sixteen years ago.
Speaker 1: That's ago Dolly Pond's parents brought into this world a
Speaker 1: new country superstar. She was born in Tennessee, and I
Speaker 1: was born, as Dolly might say, two doors down in Kentucky.
Speaker 1: But both of us had humble beginnings and log cabins.
Speaker 1: I promised to keep Dolly's fans united, just as I
Speaker 1: kept this nation united during the Civil War. As the
Speaker 1: president of the Dolly Pont Fan Club, I'd worked nine
Speaker 1: to five to make sure that you Dolly fans can
Speaker 1: always Joe lean on me to get the job done. Anyway,
Speaker 1: seemed like a pretty open and chuck case to me.
Speaker 1: So Lincoln powerful arguments, very powerful. Okay, b are you
Speaker 1: ready for your rebuttal okay, sure, Mr Lincoln seems like
Speaker 1: a great guy, what with winning the Civil War and
Speaker 1: the Emancipation Proclamation ending the scourge of slavery in America?
Speaker 1: And who could forget all those great speeches he wrote
Speaker 1: be you're kind of arguing Lincoln's case forever. All right,
Speaker 1: let me finish. Sure he did all that stuff, but
Speaker 1: does he know what it's like to be just like
Speaker 1: Dolly and write over three thousand songs, or to release
Speaker 1: five hit albums in one year, or learn how to
Speaker 1: play the guitar, the piano, trump, saxophone, and something I
Speaker 1: don't really know what it is called the dulcimer. Has
Speaker 1: he ever had to find the courage to record a
Speaker 1: song unruffled moments after his car crashed into the wall
Speaker 1: of the recording studio like Dolly once had to do? Wow?
Speaker 1: Mr Lincoln? Your response, I'll admit I've um never don
Speaker 1: any of those things. But has b I have? Mr
Speaker 1: Lincoln as recently as this afternoon, need proof? Just look
Speaker 1: out of the window of this studio. Is that? Yes?
Speaker 1: My far crashed into the wall because I thought I
Speaker 1: saw a funny cloud. Why should I be the president
Speaker 1: of the Dolly Parton Fan Club because I am just
Speaker 1: like Dolly Parton aside from the hit albums and playing
Speaker 1: instruments and all that charitable stuff she does. And under
Speaker 1: my leadership, fandom of the Dolly by the Dolly and
Speaker 1: for the Dolly shall not perish from this earth. B.
Speaker 1: That was beautiful. Um, excuse me, she just stole the
Speaker 1: end of my Gettisburg address speech. You know, of the people,
Speaker 1: by the people, for the people. Don't be a sore loser, Abe,
Speaker 1: because B is the winner, hailed the new chief of
Speaker 1: the Dolly Parton fan Club. No hard feeling saved. In
Speaker 1: a democracy, it is the responsibility of the defeated candidate
Speaker 1: to peacefully concede to the winner. Congratulations President B. And
Speaker 1: now I excuse me, full score and seven minutes ago,
Speaker 1: I was late for having chicken fingers with Shakespeare. Fairly well,
Speaker 1: who was Hey, Elliott, how'd you like to be my
Speaker 1: ice president? You mean vice president? So if anything happened
Speaker 1: to you, I'd take over the fan club. No, I
Speaker 1: mean ice president, the person who freshens up my ice tea. Yes,
Speaker 1: madam President. And while I do that, let's take a
Speaker 1: short break, Eric, would you please play us some book
Speaker 1: Lady music librarian Sally who was asked Marie Curie. You
Speaker 1: may remember me from winning multiple Nobel Prizes or fats
Speaker 1: from my episode out of the Who Worst Podcast where
Speaker 1: I played myself. I wanted to take a moment to
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Speaker 1: This is from Shake and Bay and it reads loved
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Speaker 1: Radio up or wherever you get your podcasts. A revoir
Speaker 1: or should I stay Abbia do? Welcome back to the
Speaker 1: Whoas Podcast. Today we're learning who was Abraham Lincoln and
Speaker 1: who is Dolly Parton? And now back to your host,
Speaker 1: Elliott Calin. Thanks Be, and without further ado, let's go
Speaker 1: to producer Jane for the scores. Elliott and Be. It's
Speaker 1: a very close game. Katie has six and rangers right
Speaker 1: behind with four. Thanks Jane. It's incredibly close. Still anybody's game.
Speaker 1: It's so exciting and now we've reached the peak of
Speaker 1: the game. Converge of greatness so inspiring. In this multiple
Speaker 1: choice game, we'll explore how Dolly Parton and Abraham Lincoln connect,
Speaker 1: overlap or converge. Choose the best answer for each question,
Speaker 1: and because we're dealing with double the history, each question
Speaker 1: will be worth triple the points three points. That's three
Speaker 1: points for a question. Ready. The first question goes to
Speaker 1: Katie B Take it away. Both Abraham Lincoln and Dolly
Speaker 1: Parton came from backgrounds of poverty. In fact, the walls
Speaker 1: of Dolly's childhood at home were covered in a newspaper
Speaker 1: b anchovies or see photographs of the family a newspaper.
Speaker 1: That's right. The answer is a Dolly grew up in
Speaker 1: a log cabin and the walls were covered in newspaper
Speaker 1: because they didn't have wallpaper. Ali said that they had
Speaker 1: two rooms and a path and running water if you
Speaker 1: were willing to run and get it. She meant that
Speaker 1: kids had to run and fetch water from outside. They
Speaker 1: couldn't just go to a sink and turn on the faucet. Ranger.
Speaker 1: The next question is for you. Dolly Partner and Abraham
Speaker 1: Lincoln both have signature looks. Dolly has her big, beautiful
Speaker 1: blonde hair and Lincoln has his a mohawk b spinning
Speaker 1: bow tie or see tall hat and beard. See that's right.
Speaker 1: The answer is c although that spinning bow tie would
Speaker 1: be hilarious. Abraham Lincoln were a very tall hat called
Speaker 1: a stove pipe hat due to its resemblance to the
Speaker 1: pipe that releases the smoke from a soap. We remember
Speaker 1: Lincoln as having his trademark chin beard, but he didn't
Speaker 1: always have one. During his presidential campaign, Lincoln received a
Speaker 1: letter from the eleven year old girl named Grace Spidel,
Speaker 1: and she said he looked more like a president if
Speaker 1: he had a beard, so he grew one. Thanks Grace,
Speaker 1: you're one of the great beard inspirers. Katie, you've got
Speaker 1: the next question. Both Abraham Lincoln and Dolly Partner had
Speaker 1: success because of their talents, but also because they're both smart,
Speaker 1: warm people that others like to be around. Dolly's good
Speaker 1: nature and charm led to an opportunity she hadn't previously
Speaker 1: considered for herself. Was it A being a movie star,
Speaker 1: B being a ninja or see being a professional skateboarder
Speaker 1: being a movie star? I forgot which letter that was.
Speaker 1: That is okay, The most important part is the words.
Speaker 1: Unless the letter of the answer was A a movie star,
Speaker 1: we'll give it to you because the movie star is
Speaker 1: the important part. Jane Fonda sent Dolly a script for
Speaker 1: a movie called nine to five, and the role was
Speaker 1: an offered Dolly couldn't refuse. It's a comedy about three
Speaker 1: women who decided to get even with their terrible boss.
Speaker 1: Dolly wrote the movie's theme song, also called nine to five.
Speaker 1: Both the movie and the song were big hits. Dolly's
Speaker 1: character in the movie even becomes a country singer at
Speaker 1: the end. Uh spoiler alert for nine to five. Sorry,
Speaker 1: but talk about the part she was born to play. Okay, ranger.
Speaker 1: Let's bring it home with the final question. Both Dolly
Speaker 1: Purton and Abraham Lincoln have toured for work. Dolly, of
Speaker 1: course as a musician, and Abraham when he was a
Speaker 1: a a traveling salesman, be a traveling electrician or see
Speaker 1: a traveling lawyer. See that's right. The answer is see.
Speaker 1: There wasn't enough business in Springfield, Illinois, where Lincoln lived
Speaker 1: for a lawyer to live on, so like most Western lawyers,
Speaker 1: Lincoln had to travel to towns all around the state.
Speaker 1: Twice a year, a judge would visit all the towns
Speaker 1: too small to have their own courts. Lincoln became part
Speaker 1: of the group of lawyers who followed the judge's route,
Speaker 1: kind of like the band fish, but for jurisprudence. And
Speaker 1: that's converge of greatness. And the end of that game
Speaker 1: means it's just about the end of the show, while
Speaker 1: Jane Tally's the final score. I would love to hear
Speaker 1: from the contestants. Contestants, what was something you were surprised
Speaker 1: to learn about Dolly Parton and Abraham Lincoln? Katie, what
Speaker 1: surprised you? I was surprised that inside the Dolly Parton
Speaker 1: book it says that she was a tomboy when she
Speaker 1: was younger, and once she jumped over a fence and
Speaker 1: cut her fingers so badly that her mom had to
Speaker 1: sew them back on. Like, oh my gosh. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: that sounds like a very scary thing to do. But yeah,
Speaker 1: Dolly's had a thousand lives. She's really great. Yeah, like
Speaker 1: a cat, like a cat. Yeah, Okay, Ranger, what surprised
Speaker 1: you about Dolly Parton or Abraham Lincoln? I'm surprised that
Speaker 1: Dolly gave way five dollars two people that finished college. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she's a very generous person. Right. One of the things
Speaker 1: that so inspiring about Dolly Parton is her dedication to
Speaker 1: helping other people get the kind of step up in
Speaker 1: life that she didn't get to have, and so she
Speaker 1: wants people to finish their education, and she didn't get
Speaker 1: a full official education herself, but she wants other people
Speaker 1: to have that head certain life. So it's just really nice.
Speaker 1: She does so much nice stuff and again, very good
Speaker 1: at playing guitar. I don't know, it's almost unfair that
Speaker 1: she's such a nice person and it is also very
Speaker 1: talented at things. I know what it's like to be
Speaker 1: a super kind person who's also very talented. Let me
Speaker 1: tell you, it's a burden, but somehow I managed to
Speaker 1: do it. Such an inspiration to all of us. Be
Speaker 1: we really appreciate it. Thank you both. And now for
Speaker 1: the big moment, the real inspirational moment when Dolly Parton
Speaker 1: will be envious of one of our contestants. Jane, please
Speaker 1: announce our winner. It was such a close game. Ranger
Speaker 1: had ten points, but our winner, Katie sprang ahead with twelve.
Speaker 1: Oh so close. Congratulations Katie Ranger, you played a great
Speaker 1: game and great very proud of it. Katie. As our winner,
Speaker 1: you have ten seconds for shoutouts. Gil Court, who would
Speaker 1: you like to thank for your win today? I want
Speaker 1: to thank my mom, my dad, my brother, my family,
Speaker 1: my friends, and anyone else who has helped me a
Speaker 1: long way beautiful. Wow, I I see in you um
Speaker 1: a future Tony winning speech. So it was nice to
Speaker 1: see the younger version that way to go. Yeah you
Speaker 1: can you you can use that same speech again when
Speaker 1: we win that Tony. It's gonna be fantastic our winner
Speaker 1: and their library of choice receiving a selection of Who
Speaker 1: Was books and maybe someday at Tony Who Knows? And
Speaker 1: I'm going to give a shout out to intern Zach
Speaker 1: Jane Eric and Jonah Ray for being our Abraham Lincoln.
Speaker 1: And of course thanks to be and a big thank
Speaker 1: you to both of our contestants who played an amazing
Speaker 1: game today should both be very proud and the most
Speaker 1: thanks of all to you wherever you are for listening.
Speaker 1: Next week join us again as we find out Who
Speaker 1: Was two more amazing figures in history. Until then, this
Speaker 1: is Elliott Talhattan Beard Calin saying we are history. Goodbye.
Speaker 1: Everybody got a question for any of our famous figures,
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Speaker 1: Who Was Podcast is produced by Radio Point, I Heart
Speaker 1: Media and Penguin Workshop and is based on the best
Speaker 1: selling Who h Q series published by Penguin. This show
Speaker 1: was hosted by Elliott Calin with co host Megan 'neil
Speaker 1: as b Also starring Jane Baker as Producer Jane, Eric
Speaker 1: Shackney as Eric, and Jonah Ray as Abraham Lincoln. Executive
Speaker 1: producers are Richard Corson, Alex Bach, Elliot Klin, Megan O'Neill,
Speaker 1: Daniel Powell, and Houston Snyder. Executive producer for Penguin Workshop
Speaker 1: is Francesco Sedita. Executive producer Bria Hart. Media is Lindsay Hoffman.
Speaker 1: This episode was written by Devin Coleman, Elliott Kaylin, and
Speaker 1: Megan O'Neill, produced by Bernie Kaminsky and Taylor Kawalski. Our
Speaker 1: talent producer is Jane Baker. Our theme song and music
Speaker 1: were composed and performed by Eric Shackney. This show was
Speaker 1: edited and mixed by Kate Moldenhower and recorded by Alison Worth.
Speaker 1: Special thanks to Zach Timpson, Charlotte Dianda, and Michael Lewis Howard.
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