Speaker 1: Hi, Elliott, if that's your real name, I be what
Speaker 1: are you talking about? What am? I? Okay? You may
Speaker 1: not realize this quote Elliott unquote, but today we're learning
Speaker 1: about Area fifty one, right, the highly classified government based
Speaker 1: for conspiracy theorists think the government is hiding evidence of
Speaker 1: extraterrestrial life. Words exactly? How are you so calm about this? Well,
Speaker 1: we're also learning about artists Georgia O'Keefe today, and I
Speaker 1: find her paintings very calming. She's in on it to
Speaker 1: another name from my big conspiracy board. Maybe you should
Speaker 1: look at more of Georgia O'Keeffe's paintings. B, and calm down.
Speaker 1: I can't calm down. Aren't you at all concerned about
Speaker 1: what they're hiding at Area fifty one? I don't know, B.
Speaker 1: I don't really think Area fifty one has aliens extraterrestrials. No,
Speaker 1: I'm talking about experimental snacks, Elliott. Think of the snacks.
Speaker 1: They probably have flavored wallpaper, everlasting candy that doesn't lose
Speaker 1: its flavor, gum that has all the flavors of a
Speaker 1: three course meal. How far does this confectionery conspiracy go? B?
Speaker 1: I believe you're thinking of Willy Wonka's splendiferous chocolate factory,
Speaker 1: not Area fifty one. I might be Yeah, I thought so. Eric,
Speaker 1: Please play the theme song you Go. What do you
Speaker 1: think you know about the grates from this story? The
Speaker 1: game is on to get some energy and buckle up
Speaker 1: your brain because it's signed to play the worst podcast
Speaker 1: because it's Sounded Flavors Who fl from Top the Land
Speaker 1: or so called so Hell Los Angeles? Welcome to Who Was?
Speaker 1: The History plus show that gives contestants the chance to
Speaker 1: win mega prizes and podcast glory. I'm Beat your announcer
Speaker 1: and author of Chicken Soup for the co host Soul.
Speaker 1: Now here's your home, the man who learned everything he
Speaker 1: knows about basketball from space Jam. It's Ellie Helen, Thank
Speaker 1: you be and I love that sport with its monsters
Speaker 1: and cartoon rabbits. And welcome everyone to the Who Was? Podcast.
Speaker 1: This show is like Jeopardy, only with surprise guests, silly games,
Speaker 1: and our own franchise system. That's right, you two can
Speaker 1: be a regional Elliott and B. Applications are at the door.
Speaker 1: Our contestants were sent Who Was? Works about two great
Speaker 1: figures from history. Now they're here to show off their
Speaker 1: knowledge and the hopes of winning Fantastic Prizes prize. Today,
Speaker 1: we're discussing Area fifty one and Georgia o'keeath to Desert
Speaker 1: Beauties on one stage. But before we get to know them,
Speaker 1: let's get to know our contestants. All right, First up,
Speaker 1: we have Delaney. Delaney, please introduce yourself. D name is
Speaker 1: Delaney and my funk back? Are I sank enter for
Speaker 1: local Theater? Oh my goodness, that is so wonderful to hear.
Speaker 1: So are you in anything currently, Delaney? No, but I
Speaker 1: will be auditioning for high school musical? Okay, what is
Speaker 1: the high school musical? High school music? Which? Which musical
Speaker 1: are you going to be performing into high school? Is
Speaker 1: the musical you're gonna performing in auditioning for a high
Speaker 1: school musical? It's high school the musical like the Muses,
Speaker 1: but you're in middle school. But it's a high school musical.
Speaker 1: So it's a stage musical of the movie high school
Speaker 1: musical and you're a middle schooler. Yeah. And what other
Speaker 1: shows have you been at? Rustical the musical? I've been
Speaker 1: in Cinderella, Lion King, Frozen Jr. That's all I can
Speaker 1: really think this is a lot of credits. We've got
Speaker 1: a lot of credits already. This is a very impressive resume. Wow. Um, well,
Speaker 1: thank you for making the time to be on the show. Um.
Speaker 1: We may ask you to sing your audition song if
Speaker 1: we have time a little bit later, because I'm very
Speaker 1: curious about what one sings to audition to be in
Speaker 1: high school the musical. And also we're kind of a
Speaker 1: lot of people to know this. We're kind of auditioning
Speaker 1: for a new co host. B just hasn't been working out,
Speaker 1: So if you want to audition later for that role,
Speaker 1: all right, Thank you so much, Delaney, And with us
Speaker 1: today we also have Maxwell Maxwell. Please introduce yourself game this, Max,
Speaker 1: and my fact is that I know the name of
Speaker 1: all nice stuff animals, all of your stuffed animals. How
Speaker 1: many stuffed animals do you have? My mom says I
Speaker 1: have hundreds, okay hundreds, and you know all of their names.
Speaker 1: If they don't know their names, then I just make
Speaker 1: up a new one, you know what, Max. That's how
Speaker 1: I handle introductions in real life. So that's a very
Speaker 1: good skill to have. But now the big question is
Speaker 1: do your stuffed animals know your name? I don't allow that.
Speaker 1: You don't love that kind of of casual guy, non
Speaker 1: professional relationship. Yeah, you're not that familiar with them. Oh
Speaker 1: my good? Is there? Now? You don't worry. Your stuffed
Speaker 1: animals are never going to hear this. Do you have
Speaker 1: a favorite? Do you feel comfortable sharing the name of
Speaker 1: your favorite stuffed animal with us? They're free of them.
Speaker 1: They're all like the same that you're They're all the
Speaker 1: different colors. Oh wow, what are what are their names?
Speaker 1: Dinda one? Then or two? Dio? And so are they rabbits?
Speaker 1: You're all right? What can I say? All right? Well,
Speaker 1: thank you both so much for being here today. Yes,
Speaker 1: thank you both, and thank you to Eric, our musician,
Speaker 1: for providing that lovely Meet the contestants music and all
Speaker 1: the music on the show today. So that's who is.
Speaker 1: Now let's find out what is Area fifty one with
Speaker 1: four fast facts prospects areas if you want is built
Speaker 1: on Groom Lake, Nevada. It has been a base for
Speaker 1: the Central Intelligence Agency, and more recently, the United States
Speaker 1: Air Force. Air Force acknowledged that Area fifty one existed,
Speaker 1: even though it had been in use since nineteen Conspiracy
Speaker 1: theorists or people who believe that an event or situation
Speaker 1: is the result of a secret plan made by powerful
Speaker 1: people are often associated with Area fifty one. The CIA
Speaker 1: formally acknowledged the existence of their base at Area fifty
Speaker 1: one and made many documents public in two thousands. All right,
Speaker 1: so now we have to ask both of you, because
Speaker 1: you've read the Area fifty one book and you understand
Speaker 1: a lot of people are like, oh, there are extraterrestrials,
Speaker 1: uh being hidden at Area fifty one. What do you
Speaker 1: to think about extraterrestrials? Do you think there's life on
Speaker 1: other planets? I think they're possibly, could be, I'm not positive. Okay,
Speaker 1: so you haven't met any is what you're saying. Max,
Speaker 1: What about you? Do you think there are aliens out there?
Speaker 1: Or are we alone in the universe? Which would be
Speaker 1: so sad since they're definitely out there, and have you
Speaker 1: met any? Now? Okay, there's nothing I want more in
Speaker 1: my life than for them to discover aliens somewhere and
Speaker 1: for the aliens to be on TV and me to
Speaker 1: get to see what they look like. That's the thing
Speaker 1: I want more than anything else in my life. Really, Yes,
Speaker 1: you want that more than um? Like a really good
Speaker 1: pastrami sandwich. You know what I hadn't thought about that? Okay,
Speaker 1: number two Aliens number one, that pastrami sandwich, because you
Speaker 1: really can't be the good popastrami sandwich. It can't beat
Speaker 1: a good Hops found sandwich. The only thing I can
Speaker 1: think of that's maybe a little bit better than a
Speaker 1: hopis Draamy sandwich. Is our first game. It's called true
Speaker 1: or false? True or false? Is a true and false?
Speaker 1: Is a false? Or is a true? It's a true
Speaker 1: that it is false? Is it false that it was true?
Speaker 1: Or true? True? Horror false? I agree, Elliott, Let's get
Speaker 1: right into it. WHOA James Murray, writer of the Areas
Speaker 1: that You Went in Turns book series. Yes, also one
Speaker 1: of the stars of the hilarious TV show in Practical Jokers.
Speaker 1: That is me. I was reading my favorite trade magazine,
Speaker 1: Sketch Comedy History Quiz podcast based on popular kids book
Speaker 1: series Monthly It's a Mouthful, and I saw that you
Speaker 1: guys are doing an entire episode on Eric fifty one.
Speaker 1: I could not miss that. WHOA? Did you come here
Speaker 1: via the Who? Was it? No? No, no, no, Actually
Speaker 1: I came here through something totally different. Was the who?
Speaker 1: Is app. It's like an app that connects people that
Speaker 1: are still alive. So like a telephone do you even
Speaker 1: know jus just an app. It's got a jingle and everything. Eric,
Speaker 1: wonder it's so in the present edry. Wow, technology is incredible.
Speaker 1: We were just about to do our true or false game?
Speaker 1: How would you like to read the questions? Are you kidnedy?
Speaker 1: I would be honored. Let's do it, Eric, True or false?
Speaker 1: Just a tru false, it's a false? Is a true?
Speaker 1: It's a true? Little as false? Is it false that
Speaker 1: it was true? Or true? True? Horror? Fault? Mirror is
Speaker 1: really a natural at telling Eric to play music? Which
Speaker 1: have you read in front of the kids? Caleb, keep
Speaker 1: it together. Okay, here's how this game works. Being will
Speaker 1: read a statement about Area fifty one, and you'll tell
Speaker 1: us if it's true or full false. And since it's
Speaker 1: our first game, each question is worth one point and
Speaker 1: just a disclaimer. There are a lot of stories about
Speaker 1: Area fifty one that can't be proved true or false.
Speaker 1: For this game, we're sticking to the facts that you
Speaker 1: can be proved true or fault. We'll get to all
Speaker 1: the rumors and speculation about Area fifty one later in
Speaker 1: the show Incredible disclaiming be Delaney. Here is your first question. Okay, guys,
Speaker 1: here we go. True or false. The name Area fifty
Speaker 1: one refers to its location on the map. I believe
Speaker 1: that's true. You're right, the answer is true. Area fifty
Speaker 1: one is located in the southern corner of Nevada in
Speaker 1: the Mojave Deserts of the western United States. The area
Speaker 1: was used by the US r ME for bomb testing,
Speaker 1: as the government felt the wide open and unpopulated spaces
Speaker 1: were safest for these tests and also for the privacy
Speaker 1: necessary for these top secret projects. The number fifty one
Speaker 1: in Area fifty one is believed to refer to the
Speaker 1: parcel of land, as it was named on a surveyors
Speaker 1: map created in the nineteen fifties. Max. This next one
Speaker 1: is for you, so cool. Okay, next question, guys. True
Speaker 1: or false? Area fifty one was originally a lead and
Speaker 1: silver mine. I'm sorry, the answer is true. Originally a
Speaker 1: lead and silver mine. The land that became Area fifty
Speaker 1: one was acquired by the U. S. Air Force from
Speaker 1: the Atomic Energy Commission in nineteen fifty five. Maybe they
Speaker 1: should have called it Area fifty five because it was
Speaker 1: nineteen fifty five. I just throwing the ideas out there.
Speaker 1: The CIA and the Air Force don't have to take them.
Speaker 1: It was going to be used for flight testing, mostly
Speaker 1: by the Central Intelligence Agency commonly known as the c I. A. Delaney,
Speaker 1: Let's go the next ones for you, alright, Delaney? True
Speaker 1: or false? At area fifty one, the CIA worked with
Speaker 1: the Soviet Union because they were all bored with the
Speaker 1: Cold War. Correct, the answer is false. At area fifty one,
Speaker 1: the CIA worked hard to outsmart the Soviet Union, which
Speaker 1: is a group of countries that at the time was
Speaker 1: led by Russia. When people talk about the Cold War,
Speaker 1: they're referring to the tense relationship between the United States
Speaker 1: and the Soviet Union. From the end of World War
Speaker 1: Two and until the fall of the Berlin Wall in nine.
Speaker 1: American leaders were afraid of Russia spreading communism across the world.
Speaker 1: Both governments increased their surveillance, threats, and propaganda against each
Speaker 1: other for years. It was a huge waste of time
Speaker 1: and resources. Lots of better things they could have been
Speaker 1: doing instead of just being mad at each other. Max,
Speaker 1: here's the last true or false. It's for you, okay, Max?
Speaker 1: Read true or false. At first, Area fifty one was
Speaker 1: called Paradise Ranch to attract employees. I'm sorry the answer
Speaker 1: is true and a little bit false, since Paradise Ranch
Speaker 1: was hardly a paradise and definitely not a ranch, but
Speaker 1: they did call it that. Area fifty one developed a
Speaker 1: lot of cutting edge technologies, and the CIA wanted to
Speaker 1: be absolutely certain that everyone working at the site could
Speaker 1: be trusted. They were worried about Russian spies stealing us information,
Speaker 1: so the CIA conducted extensive background checks on anyone wanting
Speaker 1: to work there. I should have done more background checks
Speaker 1: for this show. Maybe then the peanut butter sandwiches I
Speaker 1: bring for lunch wouldn't disappear for free Day. Oh sure,
Speaker 1: a coincidence? Likely story, Geraldine, there's peanut butter all over
Speaker 1: your trunk and that's true or false? True? True? True, true,
Speaker 1: horror fault. That was such a fun round. Thank you
Speaker 1: so much for helping us out. Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1: Is my honor anytime? Guys, These contestants really know their
Speaker 1: Area fifty on trivia. In fact, I would like to
Speaker 1: interview today's winner see if they've got what it takes
Speaker 1: to be an Area fifty one intern Hello, that sounds
Speaker 1: good to me. Wow, this is amazing. I'm going to
Speaker 1: take a moment to process this. It's a good time
Speaker 1: for us to take a break. We'll be right back
Speaker 1: for our second game. Okay, Eric, would you play some
Speaker 1: secret government based music? Please? Old Herd, this joke's classified.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to Who Was podcast? Today we're learning what
Speaker 1: is area fifty one and who was Georgia o'keee. Now
Speaker 1: back to your host Elliott Galen, Thank you. The Let's
Speaker 1: go to our producer producer Jane with the scores be
Speaker 1: and Elliott. I want to tell you that so far
Speaker 1: it's all Delaney with two points and Max zero, and
Speaker 1: that could be a conspiracy. I'm glad that Jane is
Speaker 1: asking the questions that need to be asked. But this
Speaker 1: is just the beginning of the game. It's still very
Speaker 1: close and could be anyone's game. But first, let's find
Speaker 1: out who was Georgia O'Keeffe with four fast facts prospects.
Speaker 1: Georgia O'Keeffe was born in eighteen eighty seven and died
Speaker 1: in ninety six. Georgia O'Keeffe was a pioneering painter who
Speaker 1: incorporated shapes from nature like flowers and cow skulls into
Speaker 1: her work. In ninety six, at age fifty eight, Georgia
Speaker 1: O'Keeffe was the first female artist to have a solo
Speaker 1: exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
Speaker 1: George's influence can be seen not just in what she created,
Speaker 1: but in how she lived. She helped pave the way
Speaker 1: for other female artists to be seen as professionals and
Speaker 1: not amateurs prospects. So we want to ask you, guys, So,
Speaker 1: one of the things that's really um special about Georgia
Speaker 1: O'Keeffe's work is that she found the beauty in everyday
Speaker 1: objects um that maybe other people wouldn't have noticed a scene.
Speaker 1: Do you feel like there's something that you see beauty
Speaker 1: in that maybe other people take for granted? Max, Is
Speaker 1: there anything in your life that you think is that
Speaker 1: you see that you think is particularly beautiful, Something where
Speaker 1: you look at it and you're like that, I like that,
Speaker 1: that's special or that makes me feel good. Google Google
Speaker 1: eyes go, It's it's hard to look at a pair
Speaker 1: of Google eyes and not not smile. That's yeah, there's
Speaker 1: still something not feel something, even if it's just trying
Speaker 1: to figure out who they're looking at and why they
Speaker 1: keep moving around? Uh? And Delaney, would have you got
Speaker 1: about you? What's something that you see in your life
Speaker 1: that we're like this is special animals, any particular kind
Speaker 1: of animals or just any animals. Dog? Do you have
Speaker 1: a dog? I have three dogs? So every night at
Speaker 1: your house is a three dog night. That's a joke
Speaker 1: for old people. And what are the names of your dogs? Maverick,
Speaker 1: Subine and Willow. I am excited about the idea of
Speaker 1: you incorporating those dogs into work of art because you
Speaker 1: find them beautiful. But to be honest, I really can't
Speaker 1: get over the idea that, if actuated some art, he
Speaker 1: puts some googly eyes in it. I think that's fantastic.
Speaker 1: I gotta see I gotta see this art when it's created.
Speaker 1: I feel like we've got to see a dog's tail
Speaker 1: with google eyes on either side of it. Wow. Yeah,
Speaker 1: finally it's time to get the tail's point of view
Speaker 1: on things. We've seen the dogs game of view. Let's
Speaker 1: get the tails point of view. All right? Well, thank
Speaker 1: you both so much for sharing. Yes, those are fantastic answers,
Speaker 1: but now it's time for more answers with our next game,
Speaker 1: Backpack from the Past, from the Baby. We have a
Speaker 1: backpack that contains some of Georgia O'Keeffe's personal objects. We'll
Speaker 1: describe those objects for you are contestants, and also for
Speaker 1: the listeners at home. Contestants, you will choose which multiple
Speaker 1: choice answer best describes it. Listeners you can choose to
Speaker 1: but you're not playing this game, so we won't hear you.
Speaker 1: Since this is our second game, each question is worth
Speaker 1: two points max. This first object is for you. Oh wow,
Speaker 1: it's a jug? Is this in Georgia O'Keefe backpack because
Speaker 1: A her family bought cereal in bulk or be her
Speaker 1: family lived on a dairy farm. That's right, The answer
Speaker 1: is be. The O'Keefe's farm was a dairy farm. They
Speaker 1: had many cows, but also grew corn, oats and hey.
Speaker 1: Georgia was the second of seven children. Her mother knew
Speaker 1: was very important for her daughters to be educated and
Speaker 1: curious about the world, so she enrolled them in art
Speaker 1: classes from a young age. Young Georgia loved to walk
Speaker 1: through her family's land, drawing everything she saw, and enjoyed
Speaker 1: the solitude that came with drawing and painting. From that
Speaker 1: young age, Delaney, This next object is for you. It's
Speaker 1: a simple black wolf coat. It's quite nice. I might
Speaker 1: try it on after the show. Is this in Georgia
Speaker 1: o'keeps backpack because A she liked to wear all black,
Speaker 1: or B she liked to dress as a nineteen forties detective.
Speaker 1: Sometimes the answer is a. Georgia and her husband and
Speaker 1: Alfred became famous round New York City, and whenever they
Speaker 1: went out, they almost always wore all black clothing. Alfred
Speaker 1: liked to wear a dramatic black cape, and Georgia often
Speaker 1: wore us white silk blouse under a black woolf coat
Speaker 1: that she buttoned up to her chin. Alfred liked the
Speaker 1: attention he received from the way he dressed, but Georgia
Speaker 1: wanted her simple black clothes to make her less noticeable,
Speaker 1: and also to let people know that she wanted to
Speaker 1: be taken seriously artists. All right, all right, let's see
Speaker 1: what the backpack has for Max on this next question.
Speaker 1: Let's see here, it's an apple core and an orange rhyme. Oh,
Speaker 1: is this a backpack or a garbage bag? All right? Anyway,
Speaker 1: Is this in Georgia o'keep's backpack because A she would
Speaker 1: eat the fruit from still life paintings in art school.
Speaker 1: Or B she just loved composting. That's right. The answer
Speaker 1: is a. After studying at the Art Constitutor Chicago, George
Speaker 1: and went to study at the Art Students League in
Speaker 1: New York City. She and her classmates would do a
Speaker 1: lot of portraits and still life, which are paintings of
Speaker 1: an object, such as a vase or an apple. Georgia
Speaker 1: was a dedicated student, but she still had a mischievous streak.
Speaker 1: She would often eat the fruit that was used for
Speaker 1: still life compositions. She would also sometimes bring in street
Speaker 1: musicians and get her classmates to dance in the studios. Delaney,
Speaker 1: let's wrap it up with the last object. It's a drawing,
Speaker 1: makes sense, she was an artist. Seems to be an
Speaker 1: advertisement actually for cleaning supplies, Okay, Elliott I swear if
Speaker 1: this is another hint that we should have a studio
Speaker 1: chore wheel, it's not. And I still say that's a
Speaker 1: great idea. We'll talk about it after the show, now, Delane,
Speaker 1: Why would this advertisement be in Georgia O'Keeffe's backpack. Is
Speaker 1: it because a Georgia was a very neat person or be.
Speaker 1: Georgia worked as an illustrator for advertising agencies. The answer
Speaker 1: is b. Georgia lived in Chicago and took a job
Speaker 1: as a commerce shill artists. She worked for advertising agencies
Speaker 1: as a freelance illustrator. Being on tight deadlines means Georgia
Speaker 1: had to learn to work quickly, something she incorporated into
Speaker 1: her work later in life. One of Georgia's pieces, the
Speaker 1: little Dutch girl symbol for old Dutch cleanser, is still
Speaker 1: sometimes used today. And that, my friends, is backpack from
Speaker 1: the past, from the best. And that's the end of
Speaker 1: that exceptionally groovy game. Let's dash on over to Jane
Speaker 1: with the scores. HELLI n b uh Matt has come
Speaker 1: from behind and it is now four to six Delaney
Speaker 1: still in the lead. All right, very exciting, Thank you Jane.
Speaker 1: And now it's time we had a nice long chat
Speaker 1: with Georgia O'Keefe. Whoa Georgia O'Keefe. How did you get
Speaker 1: here by using that impressive app that connects you to
Speaker 1: the past? Who was up? Who was wandered? So more? First,
Speaker 1: I was reading my favorite trade magazine, Sketch Comedy and
Speaker 1: History quiz podcast based on popular kids series monthly, and
Speaker 1: I thought it was such a funny coincidence that you
Speaker 1: were discussing Area fifty one. Well for a niche magazine,
Speaker 1: they sure have a decent circulation. Wait, Georgia, what do
Speaker 1: you mean coincidence? Oh, just that I spent a lot
Speaker 1: of time at Area fifty one. I'm sorry. You've been
Speaker 1: to Area fifty one absolutely hundreds of times. We always
Speaker 1: think of you as an artist. In fact, one of
Speaker 1: my favorite paintings yours, his Tent Door at Night. I
Speaker 1: just find it such a soothing piece of art. Many banks,
Speaker 1: I was lucky enough to study with some amazing teachers.
Speaker 1: That painting is based on a method I learned, where
Speaker 1: you compose a picture with basic forms and shapes. That
Speaker 1: was a revolutionary artistic idea when I was young. You'll
Speaker 1: notice that tent door at Night is almost entirely made
Speaker 1: up of triangles, creating a tent door at night. Yes,
Speaker 1: I'm surprised and experimental artists visited Area fifty one. Did
Speaker 1: you design experimental planes? Nothing like that. It's just you
Speaker 1: don't have a lot of close neighbors in the desert.
Speaker 1: So I traveled over to Area fifty one from my
Speaker 1: place in New Mexico to say hi, and the rest
Speaker 1: is history. The rest is very much not history. We've
Speaker 1: never heard that. I don't think anyone's ever heard that. No,
Speaker 1: a few people have. I'm pretty close with FRIEDA. Carlo,
Speaker 1: and let me tell you she is sick and tired
Speaker 1: of my Area fifty one stories. Well you're not. Feel
Speaker 1: free to bore us with every detail about Area fifty one.
Speaker 1: I hate to disappoint, but it isn't nearly as exciting
Speaker 1: as people think. I mean, when has the government ever
Speaker 1: done anything exciting? So you didn't find any spaceships or
Speaker 1: anything like that, Oh my goodness, No, nothing like that.
Speaker 1: But I did find some fantastic bleached animal bones on
Speaker 1: my truck over there. Those are hard to come by,
Speaker 1: not as hard to come by as a Martian b.
Speaker 1: Georgia is our guest. Okay, since you really want to know,
Speaker 1: there was a security guard at Area fifty one named
Speaker 1: Hank Okay, and he was from Venus. What tell us everything?
Speaker 1: What was he like? He was a pretty nice guy,
Speaker 1: mellow on the quiet side. What how did he get
Speaker 1: to Earth? You know, we never got into that. He
Speaker 1: was more interested in hearing my stories from when I
Speaker 1: lived in New York. You know, he was a Yankees
Speaker 1: fan that tracks. He really loved all the skyscraper paintings
Speaker 1: I did when I was living there, said he could
Speaker 1: experience the energy of the city when he looked at
Speaker 1: the canvas. Oh, I'm here and there he'd read our minds,
Speaker 1: you know, if we got sick of playing cards or whatever. Whatever.
Speaker 1: You knew a telepathic alien and you think that's not interesting.
Speaker 1: It's fine, I guess, but getting to know an extraterrestrial
Speaker 1: isn't as life changing as getting to know a flower.
Speaker 1: Have you ever just sat and looked closely at nature,
Speaker 1: whether it be a plant, a cow skull, or the
Speaker 1: sky reflected in a lake at sunset, discovering the beauty
Speaker 1: and everyday objects. To me, that's out of this world. Wow,
Speaker 1: wise words, Georgia. Yeah, but seriously, how many eyes did
Speaker 1: hate have? Oh? Bee? Trying to reach you was like
Speaker 1: trying to reach a cactus. Now, if you'll excuse me,
Speaker 1: I must be going. My favorite PROGRAMA is on, and
Speaker 1: by program I mean the shifting colors and shapes of
Speaker 1: the setting sun over deserts adds. Thanks a guy and
Speaker 1: Elliott and b and thank you who was out who
Speaker 1: that was truly amazing. B. What are you doing? I'm
Speaker 1: trying to read your mind. I've always suspected I was
Speaker 1: part Venusian and you're thinking we've got to take a break. Wow,
Speaker 1: you're right, but don't go anywhere because we'll be back
Speaker 1: with our final game. Eric plays some dancing in the
Speaker 1: art studio music. Please. I knew you were going to
Speaker 1: say that. Oh, B, I want to dance in the studio. Hey,
Speaker 1: who was? Hers exciting news Who Was has been nominated
Speaker 1: for a Signal Award for Best Kids Podcast. We love
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Speaker 1: Voting is open until December. We thank you and Geraldine
Speaker 1: thanks you to thank them. Geraldine, welcome back to the
Speaker 1: Who Was? Podcast. Today we're learning what is Areas Hope one?
Speaker 1: And who was? Georgia O'Keefe and now back to your host,
Speaker 1: Elliot Kalen. Thanks b and without further ado, let's get
Speaker 1: going with our final game. It's called sound effects Safari
Speaker 1: Sound Safari sound effective in this game We'll play a
Speaker 1: sound effect inspired by something important from Area fifty one
Speaker 1: or the life of Georgia O'Keefe, and our contestants will
Speaker 1: tell us what the sound represents. Since this is the
Speaker 1: third round, each question will be worth three enormous points. Delaney,
Speaker 1: here's the first sound. Wow. Okay, that plane sounded fast.
Speaker 1: But what does it have to do with Area fifty one?
Speaker 1: Is it A it was really a spaceship that's totally
Speaker 1: being hidden in Area fifty one. Or be it was
Speaker 1: one of the spy planes that got tested at Area
Speaker 1: fifty one. B. That's right, The answer is B. In
Speaker 1: the late nineteen fifties and early nineteen sixties, the United
Speaker 1: States government developed the YouTube and the A twelve spy
Speaker 1: planes and tested them in Area fifty one. The YouTube
Speaker 1: could carry up to seven hundred pounds of photographic equipment.
Speaker 1: He was designed to spy on the Soviet Union by
Speaker 1: taking pictures from a very high altitude. The Age twelve
Speaker 1: was a plane that could fly faster than a bullet
Speaker 1: at an altitude of ninety thou feet to avoid being
Speaker 1: spotted from the ground. Max, here's your sound. That is
Speaker 1: the sound of someone writing on paper. What does that
Speaker 1: have to do with Georgia O'Keeffe's life. Is it A
Speaker 1: she invented a new kind of cursive or be she
Speaker 1: was an art and penmanship teacher for a few years. B.
Speaker 1: That's correct. The answer is B. Georgia took a job
Speaker 1: as drawing supervisor for the Amarillo, Texas Public Schools to
Speaker 1: grow her teaching experience. Georgia was responsible for supervising drawing
Speaker 1: in penmanship for hundreds of students. Most importantly, Georgia became
Speaker 1: captivated by the wide open spaces and the size of
Speaker 1: the sky in Texas. She sounds like a way more
Speaker 1: fun penmanship teacher than the one that I had. She
Speaker 1: never let us look at the sky. Delaney, This next
Speaker 1: sound is for you. That is the sound of a
Speaker 1: satellite being rocketed into space. What does that have to
Speaker 1: do with Area fifty one? Is it A? Area fifty
Speaker 1: one is the one place on Earth sky Lab space
Speaker 1: station was instructed not to take photos of or be
Speaker 1: new satellites were developed at Area fifty one. Okay, correct?
Speaker 1: The answer is A. Nineteen seventy four the sky Lab
Speaker 1: as or not to pictures at Area fifty one, even
Speaker 1: though they were given instructions not to do this. When Skylab,
Speaker 1: a laboratory orbiting the Earth, was launched, Area fifty one
Speaker 1: didn't even officially exist. Although it did exist, just not officially.
Speaker 1: Even pilots who had flown there wouldn't refer to it
Speaker 1: by name, instead calling it only the Box. This fueled
Speaker 1: more conspiracy theorists to wonder about what was really going
Speaker 1: on at Area fifty one. Maybe they had those snacks
Speaker 1: that he was talking about earlier. This last sound is
Speaker 1: for you. That is a camera flash. What does that
Speaker 1: have to do with Georgia O'Keeffe's light. Is it a
Speaker 1: she took close up photos of a deconstructed camera? Very meta?
Speaker 1: Or be her husband and artistic partner was also a photographer.
Speaker 1: H that's right. The answer is be Alfred Steedlitz, Georgie's husband,
Speaker 1: was an important figure in American modern art, not only
Speaker 1: because his art galleries supported influential artists like Georgia, but
Speaker 1: also because he was an early photographer who helped photography
Speaker 1: become accepted as an art form. Some of his most
Speaker 1: famous pictures are of Georgia. In addition to being his muse,
Speaker 1: she was also his artistic partner. And that wraps up
Speaker 1: sound effects Safari. I always wonder why we took a
Speaker 1: baby on that Safari. Great job both of you. The
Speaker 1: end of that game means it's just about the end
Speaker 1: of the show, while Jane talies the score. I'd love
Speaker 1: to hear from you, our contestants. What was something you
Speaker 1: were surprised to learn about either Area fifty one or
Speaker 1: Georgia O'Keefe Delaney, What surprised you when you read about
Speaker 1: these two. I was surprised for the Area fifty one,
Speaker 1: where one guy just decided to leak everything about it
Speaker 1: and they came really popular. It shows you how silly
Speaker 1: it is sometimes to try to keep secrets, because it
Speaker 1: does takes one person to tell everything, and then it's like,
Speaker 1: well that used to be a secret, Now it's not
Speaker 1: a secret anymore. It also needs to be wonder like,
Speaker 1: if something is a secret, you just want to know
Speaker 1: what it is, even if it's boring. So if it
Speaker 1: was just all out there, um, you know from the beginning,
Speaker 1: people probably wouldn't be as interested. You know, it's a
Speaker 1: real conundrum, a real Schroedeger's the box. I think you're
Speaker 1: using those words correctly. And Max, what was something that
Speaker 1: surprised you about either Georgia o'key for that Georgi o'key
Speaker 1: had a shed with the bunch of dead animal bone.
Speaker 1: When you say it out of context, it sounds a
Speaker 1: little creepy, um if you didn't know anything about her paintings.
Speaker 1: But um, she was able to like we were saying earlier.
Speaker 1: And I think sort of what you've discovered with Google
Speaker 1: Eyes is take something that other people maybe wouldn't give
Speaker 1: too much attention to and really see the beauty within it. Yeah.
Speaker 1: That's one of the amazing things about art is how
Speaker 1: it transforms something strange or ordinary into something that is
Speaker 1: beautiful and magical. And it also shows you there's kind
Speaker 1: of a thin line between creeping and artistic. If you've
Speaker 1: ever met an artist, you'll know exactly what I'm talking about. Boy,
Speaker 1: I try to walk that line every day and do
Speaker 1: I said, Yeah, it's it's you're very creepy. Thank you
Speaker 1: both though, for those amazing revelations. Now it's time for
Speaker 1: the big moment. Jane, please announced our winner for today. Oh,
Speaker 1: William B. I have to tell you that Max made
Speaker 1: a great comeback with ten points, but Delaney wins the
Speaker 1: game with twelve. What I'm late today amazing. You should
Speaker 1: both be very proud about how you did. Delaney, you
Speaker 1: have ten seconds as our winner to give to your shoutouts.
Speaker 1: You can neither say them or sing them as you prefer.
Speaker 1: Go for it. Who would you like to thank for
Speaker 1: getting you here today? I would like to shout out
Speaker 1: my mom, my dad, my brother, and my three doctor awesome,
Speaker 1: our winner and their library of choice. We're receiving a
Speaker 1: selection of Who Was books and I'm going to give
Speaker 1: a shout out to intern Zach, Jane, Eric, Eric Allies
Speaker 1: for being our George O'Keefe and to be and a
Speaker 1: big thank you to both of our contestants who played
Speaker 1: a fantastic game together. And as our winner today, de
Speaker 1: Lany will be interviewing with me to be an area
Speaker 1: that the one term we'll have that right after this
Speaker 1: short break, so don't go anywhere. Welcome back to the
Speaker 1: HULAS podcast. As the winner of our what is Area
Speaker 1: fifty one and Who Was Georgia O'Keefe episode, de Lady
Speaker 1: is about to interview with James Murray, author of the
Speaker 1: Area fifty one Interns book series, to see if she
Speaker 1: has what it takes to become an Area fifty one
Speaker 1: intern herself. Take it away. Murray. Oo, lady, my name
Speaker 1: is James Murray. Everyone an area if you want, calls
Speaker 1: me Murra. I'm the head of human resources there and
Speaker 1: very exciting. We have a summer internship coming up at
Speaker 1: the base and we think you might have what it
Speaker 1: takes to be an intern at Area fifty one. But
Speaker 1: I have to go through with your questions. If you
Speaker 1: don't mind, please answer honestly with whatever experience you have,
Speaker 1: and hopefully you get the job at the end of
Speaker 1: the this interview. Sound good? Okay, So first question, Delany, Okay,
Speaker 1: how did you hear about the internship program at Area
Speaker 1: fifty one? Was it a recommendation from a friend? Did
Speaker 1: you see him read about us on on the internet?
Speaker 1: Tell us how you heard about Eric fe one internship program.
Speaker 1: I learned about you guys from the who Has podcast. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's an excellent podcast. They promote all our internship all
Speaker 1: the time. We've hired a number of interns from the podcast.
Speaker 1: So very good answer. Okay, Now this is an important one.
Speaker 1: It's not necessary to have this experience, but if you do,
Speaker 1: even better, what is your experience so far in your
Speaker 1: life with extraterrestrials if any, have you seen them, have
Speaker 1: you interacted with them? Just tell us about your et experience.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure my brother might be an extraterrestial. Okay, Okay.
Speaker 1: We have a lot of interns at every one that
Speaker 1: have extra terrestrial siblings, so that puts you in the
Speaker 1: top tier of candidates we're looking for. Okay, Now, let's
Speaker 1: say you do land an internship at areas from two one.
Speaker 1: What do you think is the best lunch you could
Speaker 1: possibly have on your first day of the job. What
Speaker 1: do you have in the in the area? If you
Speaker 1: do one cafeteria, maybe a sandwich, Internet Apple a very
Speaker 1: good choice. That's a good choice. We have a lot
Speaker 1: of weird suggestions. That's exactly what I have every day.
Speaker 1: I do like a Grenny Smith Apple and a nice
Speaker 1: ham and cheese sandwich. And that's pretty much all you
Speaker 1: need at areas you want. So, very good answer. I
Speaker 1: like that one. Okay. Next question, this is a tougher one, Okay,
Speaker 1: but I think you can do it. What would you
Speaker 1: most like to ask an extraterrestrial. Let's say if you've
Speaker 1: got to meet one at the area fIF to one base,
Speaker 1: what is singing like they're like, what songs do they have? Okay,
Speaker 1: So you want to know about pop culture on alien worlds?
Speaker 1: What's who's there? Taylor Swift? Who's there? You? What have you?
Speaker 1: You want to know who's the alien? T Swift? Right? Okay?
Speaker 1: I like that answer. So you want to get to
Speaker 1: know the aliens and their culture. That's an excellent answer,
Speaker 1: Like what you did there? Okay? So, de lady, let's
Speaker 1: say you did land the summer internship at eric Q one.
Speaker 1: What do you think you would wear to the first
Speaker 1: day at the job? Like? What what? What would you do?
Speaker 1: What do you think you'd dress like? I would like
Speaker 1: casual clothes and a lab coat. Very good answer, because
Speaker 1: you know everything and anything can and does happen at
Speaker 1: eric one. You need to be mobile, be able to
Speaker 1: move around, just in case to eight extraterresionals break free
Speaker 1: or the cryptids break free. You never know what's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: So smart answer. Casual for sure, but lab coat because
Speaker 1: you're gonna be doing some top secret scientific work at
Speaker 1: every one. I like your answer so far, you're like
Speaker 1: eight out of eight or seven out of seven. I'm
Speaker 1: unsure how many questions I've asked you at this point,
Speaker 1: but so far you do fantastic. Okay, now this is
Speaker 1: an important one. Let's say you do land the summer
Speaker 1: internship at eric ft one. How would you best describe yourself?
Speaker 1: What's your character like? Are you most like Viv? Viv,
Speaker 1: of course is the leader of our friend group. She's
Speaker 1: awesomeate mass, she's super smart, she's got killer science skills.
Speaker 1: She also also might be a little bit extra tresural herself.
Speaker 1: So there's Viv. Would you be somebody like Charlotte, who's
Speaker 1: from She's from Australia. She's like a super cool musician,
Speaker 1: she's a visionary, she's a little bit like act first,
Speaker 1: I think later. Would you be like Ray, he's our
Speaker 1: comedic side relief. He's a little bit of the goof
Speaker 1: all of the group. Would you be like Elijah, who's
Speaker 1: the natural born leader of the group. He's ambitious, fun,
Speaker 1: outgo and get venturous. Who do you think you are?
Speaker 1: Which character best describes you? I think Charlotte describes Charlotte,
Speaker 1: so the natural leader of the group, she's like super smart.
Speaker 1: I like your answer, and she has part alien DNA.
Speaker 1: And since your brother might be an extra tresural you
Speaker 1: might be as well. Good answer. I like that a lot. Okay, now, Delaney,
Speaker 1: finish this sentence for me. Let's say I find myself.
Speaker 1: You find yourself stuck in a beam of light, being
Speaker 1: pulled up into the air by your ufho. Okay, how
Speaker 1: would you handle that situation? I think I would probably
Speaker 1: play dead. You're smart, so you'd act just like you
Speaker 1: would if like a grizzly bearer coming at you in
Speaker 1: the woods. Right, there's no grizzly bears in the areas
Speaker 1: with you one to basic, you have nothing to worry
Speaker 1: about it. Where Nevada, grizzly bears are much further north. So,
Speaker 1: but you would apply the same skills. You'd play dead,
Speaker 1: hoping that the aliens would say, ah, let's find a
Speaker 1: living one. That's your answer the final question, and I
Speaker 1: think we're ready then to tell you whether you get
Speaker 1: the job or not. The final question is what would
Speaker 1: you say is the reason you'd like to start your
Speaker 1: career at Area fifty one? Is it a to finally
Speaker 1: prove to the world that aliens do in fact exist,
Speaker 1: be to get some quality time in the desert. I mean,
Speaker 1: we're in Nevada, it's very hot. It's an ice dry heat.
Speaker 1: But be careful the vat X. It can get very
Speaker 1: high in the summertime. See would you like to just
Speaker 1: surround yourself with the most brilliant scientific minds on the planet?
Speaker 1: Was your answer, d other, Why do you want your
Speaker 1: summer internship at arahif you want? Hey, you want to
Speaker 1: prove to the whole world that aliens finally exist. That
Speaker 1: is an excellent answer, Delany. I am. I don't normally
Speaker 1: do this during an interview, but I am confident enough
Speaker 1: to tell you that you just successfully landed a summer
Speaker 1: internship at Area fifty one. Well done, murder. I was
Speaker 1: hoping and B was hoping too, that you'd be able
Speaker 1: to stick around and answer some questions for us about
Speaker 1: writing a real book series. Of course, I would love
Speaker 1: to if that would be amazing. We just got to
Speaker 1: note what first interested you about Area fifty one. Oh,
Speaker 1: my gosh, so much. When I was a kid, I
Speaker 1: was obsessed with Area fifty one and all things science
Speaker 1: fiction and technology. When I was a kid, my favorite
Speaker 1: movies were like et to Watch Aliens. I love like
Speaker 1: science fiction movies and TV shows. I used to watch
Speaker 1: The Incredible Hulk. I used to watch Spider Man. I
Speaker 1: love those things. So I've been obsessed with Eric one
Speaker 1: my entire life, and so it was just absolutely natural
Speaker 1: for me to eventually write with my co writer Carson Smith,
Speaker 1: to write an Area fifty one interns book. What do
Speaker 1: you think are like the top two biggest secrets that
Speaker 1: they're hiding in Areas fifty one? The top secrets I
Speaker 1: think there might be at Eric fift you one? First,
Speaker 1: I think there are aliens for sure. I think we
Speaker 1: recovered aliens in the nineties at Roswell in New Mexico,
Speaker 1: and we're actually retro fitting uh and deconstructing alien technology. Second,
Speaker 1: I think we have cracked faster than light travel, right
Speaker 1: do I do? What makes you think that? Because the
Speaker 1: speed of light is a hundred and eighties six thousands
Speaker 1: per second, it's really fast, a lot faster that they
Speaker 1: can drive on the highway. You haven't seen the way
Speaker 1: that my dad drives. Well, yeah, your dad might break
Speaker 1: the speed of light a little bit on the highway.
Speaker 1: We'll see. But I think that it's the number one
Speaker 1: thing scientists are actually secretly working on because it's such
Speaker 1: an arbitrary number. The why is the speed of light
Speaker 1: that exact number. It makes no sense. And when you
Speaker 1: look at the entire universe, there's no real scientific reason
Speaker 1: that that exact number is the speed of light, but
Speaker 1: it is, so if we could figure it away, and
Speaker 1: I think Einstein was about to crack this if he
Speaker 1: was alive today, I think he would have cracked fast
Speaker 1: in the light travel, because there's no reason when you
Speaker 1: look at light. I bet you if you bend space
Speaker 1: time enough, you can get around the speed of light
Speaker 1: mile per hour limit. And I think they've done it
Speaker 1: at a third. I think they're working on time travel
Speaker 1: at Air fifty one. I really do well. I hope
Speaker 1: you're right because I have some things I need to
Speaker 1: go back. I have some haircuts that I regret. The
Speaker 1: only way to solve it is to go back in time.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go into the future and solve Baldin. I
Speaker 1: love it and I have a hair fut I was
Speaker 1: supposed to be at fifteen minutes ago, and it would
Speaker 1: be great if I could use time travel to not
Speaker 1: miss that appointment, because I mean that they're going to
Speaker 1: make me pay for it anyway. So if you can
Speaker 1: get Area fifty one to send me back, that'd be fantastic.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. If they have correct time travel
Speaker 1: at Air fifty one, I would also go back in
Speaker 1: time and not let the guys from Impractical Jokers shave
Speaker 1: off my eyebrows and make me get a new driver's
Speaker 1: license photo with no eye. For the listeners at home,
Speaker 1: Mrs showing us his driver's license photo in which he
Speaker 1: has no hair on his face at all anywhere, not
Speaker 1: even eyebrows, and you look like then the goodness is
Speaker 1: you could use that to sneak into Area fifty one
Speaker 1: because he say, look, I'm an alien, I don't have
Speaker 1: i brows. I would go up to Area Do you
Speaker 1: want to say Hi, I'm Lex Luthor. I'd like to
Speaker 1: enter the base squeeze and they said it's all green lights. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Can you tell us a little bit about what it's
Speaker 1: like to take something based in reality? Because Area fifty one,
Speaker 1: as our listeners now know, is a real place and writing.
Speaker 1: What's it like to take that and write a fiction
Speaker 1: story about it, a not true story about a true place.
Speaker 1: Did you research it or did you decide to secret
Speaker 1: place nobody knows anything about. I'll just make it up.
Speaker 1: How how close is the book to the real Area
Speaker 1: fifty one as much as you can tell us. I
Speaker 1: wish I knew the answer to that. I don't yet,
Speaker 1: but we just talked about this like two weeks ago.
Speaker 1: Like imagine if you will, like tomorrow, you wake up
Speaker 1: and everyone on Earth is gone. It's you're the only
Speaker 1: person left on the planet. But everything is still working.
Speaker 1: Finally my dream comes true. Cars are working, electricity is
Speaker 1: still working, ice cream machines, you can get as many
Speaker 1: chicken nuggets as you want. Everything still works right, but
Speaker 1: you're the only person left on Earth. What would you do?
Speaker 1: And my answer was I would immediately get in the
Speaker 1: car and drive straight to Area from one in Nevada
Speaker 1: and walk in and see what's actually going on now
Speaker 1: that I can get system the base. So I think
Speaker 1: what we did was, yeah, we um. We researched a
Speaker 1: lot about er fic To one, so like the things
Speaker 1: like the silver and gold mine, we knew that kind
Speaker 1: of stuff going into it. And that's part of the
Speaker 1: backstory of eric One. Vivs family has been working at
Speaker 1: eric fic To one in Nevada for generations. Her great
Speaker 1: grandparents were Comba were gold and silver miners in the book.
Speaker 1: So we did our research and that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: That the great thing about some place like eric fic
Speaker 1: to one is anything and everything could and can and
Speaker 1: does and might happen. So we created this whole universe
Speaker 1: that secretly exists under this camouflaged terror dome in the
Speaker 1: middle of the desert, and you can't even see with
Speaker 1: your satellites or by driving up to the edge of
Speaker 1: the fence in the air field of aerone one, you
Speaker 1: can't even see what's actually beyond that what you see
Speaker 1: in the desert. And that's the cool thing about writing
Speaker 1: a book loosely based on a real place is that
Speaker 1: we can do anything and everything our imagination see fit.
Speaker 1: It's so much fun to write. How would it feel
Speaker 1: if everyone disappears and you drive to area fifty one
Speaker 1: and you get there and it's exactly like you wrote
Speaker 1: about in the book. Well, here's here's what I said.
Speaker 1: I'd be like, nailed it. NA, Yeah, I believe the
Speaker 1: kids call that manifesting. That's it. I'm manifesting motor reality.
Speaker 1: This would be become the greatest nonfiction book of all time.
Speaker 1: You'd have to drive to every bookstore and library in
Speaker 1: the world and change where it's sitting on the shelves
Speaker 1: from fiction. That's so first, I got to do one. Second,
Speaker 1: I will go to every bookstore on the planet and
Speaker 1: move it to the nonfiction second, but I'm the only buyer.
Speaker 1: So what words of inspiration do you have for some
Speaker 1: of our listeners that may want to write from a
Speaker 1: history perspective? Oh my gosh, what a cool question. So okay,
Speaker 1: the first book I wrote years ago. It took me
Speaker 1: a year to write it. I did tons of research.
Speaker 1: Is based is like a thriller based on the subways
Speaker 1: of New York City. And I literally interviewed tons of
Speaker 1: like empt A employees in New York City. I got
Speaker 1: their manuals. I did all sorts of research on the
Speaker 1: history of the subways and how they are built, and
Speaker 1: how they are built and how they operate. And it
Speaker 1: took me in a year to write this book. Here's
Speaker 1: my advice. It then took me fifteen years to get
Speaker 1: it published and that and then once I got it published,
Speaker 1: then everything opened up and then I have like everything
Speaker 1: you want. Interns is my seventh, eighth, and ninth books.
Speaker 1: So that the advice is this, do your research, work
Speaker 1: hard at it, never stop, get better and better at
Speaker 1: what you do and know that it takes time to
Speaker 1: achieve success. And if you love something, never stopped doing it,
Speaker 1: and never let other people tell you, know or limit
Speaker 1: or define your success. You define your own life. Wow,
Speaker 1: that's very inspirational. I feel like I needed to hear
Speaker 1: that this morning. No, So, are there any other fun
Speaker 1: facts about Area fifty one that didn't make it into
Speaker 1: the book that you could share with us? I would
Speaker 1: love to tell you the answer that question, but it's
Speaker 1: top secret information. I need you, guys to raise your
Speaker 1: hands and swear to me that you'll never reveal the
Speaker 1: secret I'm about to tell you to anyone ever, never,
Speaker 1: ever ever, no one will ever, no one will ever
Speaker 1: repeat this. Okay, Gay, So here's this top secret info
Speaker 1: about Area FicT to one you've never heard, and I'll
Speaker 1: never if you put it out in public, I'll deny it.
Speaker 1: But Area, if you one, has the best uros on
Speaker 1: the planet. I knew it. That's what I said at
Speaker 1: the very beginning of the show. I said, snacks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: b has been obsessed with the idea that they have
Speaker 1: the best snacks, and they're working on new snacks. They do.
Speaker 1: There's a sure stand and Eric to one that is
Speaker 1: to die for. Literally people have died trying to get one.
Speaker 1: That's how amazing. Men all Oh wow, okay, Elliott, you
Speaker 1: can out your hand down now. I think the I
Speaker 1: think I take it. I take my oaths very seriously.
Speaker 1: I'll keep that. I'm gonna keep it up the rest
Speaker 1: of the day, just in case, just so that the
Speaker 1: world knows that I'm serious about it. Uh, You've been
Speaker 1: so fantastic. We have one more question for you, so
Speaker 1: listeners may remember. At some point, I think I mentioned
Speaker 1: that my favorite person in history is Abraham Lincoln. Who
Speaker 1: is your favorite person from history? Good question, Um, I
Speaker 1: would have to say Albert Einstein. Yeah, you've mentioned him earlier.
Speaker 1: I did, And gosh, he literally changed the universe right
Speaker 1: and still to this day changes science and technology and
Speaker 1: everything we think about the world and the universe we
Speaker 1: live in. Still to this day, we're trying to unravel
Speaker 1: the secrets of the universe that he himself understood and
Speaker 1: unraveled for the first time. And I wish I can
Speaker 1: invent a time machine using his principles, go back in
Speaker 1: time and bring him into modern error right now to
Speaker 1: thousand twenties, and have him solved so many top scientific
Speaker 1: problems we're facing right now. Wouldn't it be great? And
Speaker 1: also I'd love to take him out to lunch. What
Speaker 1: we would do is I know this great churro standard
Speaker 1: that I would love to take Albert I send too,
Speaker 1: And I feel like with that was churros, he could
Speaker 1: solve all the rest of the secrets of the universe. Amazing.
Speaker 1: I love that idea. Um, I love I love anything
Speaker 1: that any sort of lunch that ends in a turo,
Speaker 1: that's that's. Any kind of story that ends in a curo,
Speaker 1: that's a good story for me, especially if it unravels
Speaker 1: the secrets of the universe. Mostly. Yeah, Well, thank you
Speaker 1: so much for being with us today, and thank you
Speaker 1: so much for sharing so much about Area fifty one.
Speaker 1: It's a really wonderful book series and I hope everybody
Speaker 1: checks it out. Thank you guys, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Thanks Murrh good buy. Everybody got a
Speaker 1: question for any of our famous figures? Where do you
Speaker 1: want to be a contestant? Send us a voicemail mo
Speaker 1: at who Was Podcast at gmail dot com it or
Speaker 1: you might just end up on the show. The Who
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Speaker 1: hosted by Elliott Klin with co host Megan O'Neill as
Speaker 1: b It also starred Jane Baker as Jane, Eric Shackney
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Speaker 1: as himself. Our executive producers are Richard Corson, Alex Bach,
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