WEBVTT - Louis Armstrong & William Shakespeare 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:02.240 Hey, bet, why are you staring at that book and 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:05.680 clapping while you read? Hey, Elliott, I'm reading the place 0:00:05.760 --> 0:00:08.920 by one of our famous figures today, William Shakespeare, and 0:00:09.039 --> 0:00:12.520 clapping out the beats of the rhythm in iambic pantameter, 0:00:13.039 --> 0:00:15.800 which is the style that he and most playwrights and 0:00:15.840 --> 0:00:18.279 poets of his day wrote in. Yeah, but none of 0:00:18.360 --> 0:00:23.960 you're here? Would you mind taking over? Uh? Sure, okay, 0:00:24.239 --> 0:00:26.159 Now keep that beat, I'm going to use it to 0:00:26.160 --> 0:00:28.920 play a song, just like our other famous figure, jazz 0:00:29.000 --> 0:00:38.159 legend Louis Armstrong two when at twelve and hey, why 0:00:38.200 --> 0:00:40.800 did you stop clapping? I was just getting started. I 0:00:40.840 --> 0:00:43.960 was calling that one King Lear, after one of Shakespeare's 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:47.080 most famous plates. Well be it definitely sounded like a 0:00:47.159 --> 0:00:50.320 tragedy to me. Come on, I just need a little 0:00:50.360 --> 0:00:53.080 more practice. Now hit me with that measure for measure 0:00:53.080 --> 0:00:55.800 and put a little English on it. Oh boy, Eric, 0:00:55.880 --> 0:01:03.000 please play the theme song you go bloody? Think you 0:01:03.040 --> 0:01:08.520 know about the Gates Room? The game is on. Get 0:01:08.600 --> 0:01:12.040 somenag and buckle up in your brain, because it's time 0:01:12.240 --> 0:01:18.479 to play the Whos podcast. Because it's time to play 0:01:16.800 --> 0:01:23.440 books who live from Time to Land or so called 0:01:23.480 --> 0:01:26.760 so cow Los Angeles. Welcome to Who Was, the history 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:29.320 quish show that gives contestants the chance to win mega 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:33.880 prizes and podcast glory. I'm Beat, your announcer for whom 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:37.160 all gifts are to be or not to be. And 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:39.800 here's your host, the man who always carries a skull 0:01:39.880 --> 0:01:43.680 with him just in case. It's Elliott Galen, Thank you be, 0:01:44.040 --> 0:01:47.920 and big twist, it's my skull. Welcome everyone to the 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:50.680 Who Was? Podcast. This show is like Jeopardy, only with 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:54.320 surprise guests, silly games, and pizza roles that we actually 0:01:54.400 --> 0:01:57.920 let cool first before we eat. M These are good, 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:01.200 and so is the roof of my map. Great work be. 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:04.160 Our contestants were sent Who Was books about two great 0:02:04.240 --> 0:02:06.440 figures from history. Now they're here to show off their 0:02:06.480 --> 0:02:10.840 knowledge and the hopes of winning fantastic prizes, prizes prizes. 0:02:11.000 --> 0:02:14.079 Today we're talking about two people who love play dates, 0:02:14.200 --> 0:02:18.160 Louis Armstrong and William Shakespeare. But before we learn about them, 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:23.560 let's learn about our contestants. Okay, First up, we've got Gia. Gia, 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:28.840 please introduce yourself. Hi, I'm Jia. I'm a lovely pan 0:02:28.919 --> 0:02:33.720 tegennist turning into a nineties summer t and tegennist trampoline 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:38.600 and tumbling. How many levels are there in in TNT gymnastics. Um, 0:02:38.680 --> 0:02:40.680 so once you go to the ten, you go to 0:02:41.000 --> 0:02:45.720 elite and then sorry it's junior ely then elite basically 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:49.560 will So how long have you been tumbling and trampolining? Uh? 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:52.480 Six years? Wow? I have one more question for you 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:57.600 to which do you prefer the trampolining or the tumbling? Tumbling? 0:02:57.600 --> 0:03:00.160 Because that's my need advent and that sounds really cool. Mean, 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:02.200 I tumble a lot. I fall down quite a bit 0:03:02.240 --> 0:03:03.920 because my balance is not so good. Do you think 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:06.480 I should get into jim Naso stumbling? You know what 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:10.320 I've been stumbling yet? Yeah? That that's like jazz tumbling 0:03:10.400 --> 0:03:15.160 is stumbling. Yes, the flips that you don't do, Yeah, exactly. 0:03:15.240 --> 0:03:18.519 Well that's very impressive. Yeah, that's fantastic. And our other 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:21.399 contestant port to day is Hazel. Hazel, would you please 0:03:21.400 --> 0:03:24.880 introduce yourself. Hey, I'm Hazel. I used state pronouns. I'm 0:03:24.919 --> 0:03:28.560 currently second for public form debate and yeah, tell us 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:31.560 more about this debate. I'm I'm curious about it. You 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:34.440 usually get a resolution each year, and for the resolution 0:03:34.920 --> 0:03:37.320 last year was to the benefits of space travel out 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:39.880 with harms, and I was on the negative side, which 0:03:39.880 --> 0:03:42.680 means I got to talk about environment and pollution and 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:45.240 I got to say how space travel was back and 0:03:45.360 --> 0:03:48.760 me and my partner we went to a state competition 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:52.880 and now we're second in state. Oh my gosh, well congratulations. 0:03:52.960 --> 0:03:55.160 I love that second place. It means that you're hungry 0:03:55.200 --> 0:03:58.760 for the first place, right, Yeah, that competition. That firing you. 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:01.240 And similar to what I was saying to Gee, I 0:04:01.280 --> 0:04:02.960 wonder if I should take debate because we have a 0:04:03.000 --> 0:04:04.920 lot of debates around my house. But it's more like 0:04:05.400 --> 0:04:07.520 it's more like we're having spaghetti for dinner and my 0:04:07.600 --> 0:04:10.000 kids go, no, we're not. In my family. It's like 0:04:10.120 --> 0:04:14.120 we should have tacos. We should have tacos, like we 0:04:14.200 --> 0:04:16.680 debate over like the example, we're on the same page 0:04:16.680 --> 0:04:18.640 but still want to fight about it. That's the best 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:22.000 kind of debate where everybody everyone agrees but no, this 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:25.800 stuff exactly. And it's also the best kind of debate 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:29.919 because you get tacos. That dan sound. Yeah, every tacobates 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:32.760 all end in tacos. Well, thank you so much both 0:04:32.760 --> 0:04:34.760 of you for joining us today. We're very excited to 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:36.400 have you on the show. And also thank you to Eric, 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:39.440 our musician providing our mythic contestants music and all the 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:42.080 music you're here today. So that's who is. Now let's 0:04:42.080 --> 0:04:48.600 find out who was Louis Armstrong with four fast facts. 0:04:50.040 --> 0:04:52.600 Louis Armstrong was born in nineteen o one and died 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:55.960 in nineteen seventy one. Louis started playing the cornet, a 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:58.520 brass instrument similar to a trumpet, when he was seven. 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:02.560 Louis became one of the most famous and influential voices 0:05:02.640 --> 0:05:06.080 in jazz. Speaking of voices, Louis was also known for 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:17.080 his distinctive, gravelly voice. Fools, those facts were crazy interesting 0:05:17.400 --> 0:05:21.320 you said it'd be. Louis Armstrong lived a very interesting life. Now, 0:05:21.440 --> 0:05:24.720 I don't like to toot my own horn, but I'm 0:05:24.720 --> 0:05:28.839 happy to let you folks continue. Louis Armstrong. A shout 0:05:28.880 --> 0:05:30.800 out to the who was app for helping you get 0:05:30.839 --> 0:05:42.600 here today? Who was wandering in the past? Oh, I 0:05:42.640 --> 0:05:45.360 came here out of curiosity. I was just wondering if 0:05:45.400 --> 0:05:48.960 either view fine contestants play an instrument or no anyone 0:05:49.040 --> 0:05:51.880 who does. That's a great question. How about it? Do 0:05:51.880 --> 0:05:53.560 you have time to play an instrument when you're not 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:58.320 tumbling your trampoline. Yes, I planned to be. That's great. 0:05:58.400 --> 0:06:01.039 And Hazel, what about you do playing in I also 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:04.159 play viola and I also play piano to start viola, 0:06:05.000 --> 0:06:07.159 So today I'm going to ignore the piano. I'm saying 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:10.000 it's viola versus viola. We've got a real viol off 0:06:10.360 --> 0:06:13.880 as it's the It's w w V World War Viola 0:06:14.000 --> 0:06:18.200 today on the Hula's podcast. Very exciting and very cool. Okay, Louis, 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:20.120 you came all this way. I would hate for you 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:22.440 to just leave after asking one question? Would you like 0:06:22.560 --> 0:06:27.120 to post our first game? It's called true or false? False? 0:06:27.680 --> 0:06:30.000 Is a true or false? Is it false? Or is 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:32.160 the true? Is the truth that it is false? Is 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:35.760 it false that it was true? Or true? True or fault? 0:06:37.040 --> 0:06:39.320 In this game, Louis will ask our contestants a question 0:06:39.360 --> 0:06:40.880 and they will let us know if it is true 0:06:41.120 --> 0:06:44.320 or false. It's right there in the title. It's our 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:46.720 first game of the game, so each question is worth 0:06:46.800 --> 0:06:50.000 one point. First question goes to Gia Ready when you 0:06:50.040 --> 0:06:53.120 are Louis. When I was a little boy and the 0:06:53.160 --> 0:06:56.120 other kids called me did Berth because I was a 0:06:56.200 --> 0:07:01.400 huge gravity false fan false. That's right, it's false. They 0:07:01.400 --> 0:07:03.560 didn't have gravity falls back then. Back when Louie was 0:07:03.560 --> 0:07:05.920 a kid drinking water, it was kept in buckets. A 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:08.440 ladle called a dipper was used to pour water into 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:10.600 a cup. But all the kids like to drink straight 0:07:10.640 --> 0:07:12.960 from the dipper the same way. My son's only want 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:14.840 to drink right out of the faucet, and Louie he 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:17.800 could drink an entire mouthful in one gulf, so the 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:20.600 kids called him Dipper. Now as a grown up, he 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:24.040 was known by the nickname Sachmo. Mr Armstrong. Why did 0:07:24.040 --> 0:07:26.880 they call you Satchmo? That's a good question. That was 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:30.640 short for satchel mouth. People just couldn't stop talking about 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:33.320 my mouth. Well, it is a great mouth. Okay. The 0:07:33.400 --> 0:07:36.440 next question goes to Hazel. When I first started playing 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:40.600 music professionally, I played clubs at night. It slept all day, 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:44.559 like some kind of jazz dracula. I think it's half true, 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:47.080 half false, because I remember in the book it said 0:07:47.080 --> 0:07:49.040 that you only slept for a few hours before going 0:07:49.080 --> 0:07:52.960 back to work. Yep, we'll take it. We're gonna say false. 0:07:53.000 --> 0:07:55.880 But you provided exactly the reason why Louie's early music 0:07:55.920 --> 0:07:59.120 careers started out in nightclubs called honky tonks. Honky talks 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:01.480 paid musicians very low wages, so LOUI had to have 0:08:01.520 --> 0:08:03.760 a day job. He'd played long into the night to 0:08:03.800 --> 0:08:05.640 sleep for a couple of hours and then go back 0:08:05.680 --> 0:08:09.040 to work. Sounds more like a jazz batman to me. Okay, 0:08:09.080 --> 0:08:11.960 the next question goes to you, Gia. I didn't learn 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:17.040 to read music until after I was already a professional musician. True, 0:08:17.640 --> 0:08:19.880 that's right, it's true. Louis didn't learn to treat music 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:23.000 until he was nineteen years old, already a professional. He 0:08:23.080 --> 0:08:25.480 was playing on a steamboat called the Dixie Bell. This 0:08:25.560 --> 0:08:28.200 steamer took long trips down the Mississippi River, so he 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:30.520 used the spare time to learn to read music. Up 0:08:30.560 --> 0:08:33.000 until then, his natural talent let him learn songs and 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:36.760 tunes just by hearing them. Okay, Hazel, here comes the 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:40.240 final question of the round. Wow. Recording a song of 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:44.600 mine called he Beat Gebs, I dropped the sheet music 0:08:44.920 --> 0:08:48.160 and without the music, I just started singing silly nurses 0:08:48.280 --> 0:08:57.199 like scooba to bob Bob do bo bamboo. True. That's right, 0:08:57.240 --> 0:08:59.959 it's true. Back then, musicians had to record a song 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:02.080 all the way right through in one take, so if 0:09:02.080 --> 0:09:05.360 you made a mistake, you couldn't stop. Lewis's scadding was 0:09:05.440 --> 0:09:09.040 essentially a mistake, but people liked the sound. In fact, 0:09:09.200 --> 0:09:14.439 some musicians say he invented scat singing. Okay, Elliott, I 0:09:14.440 --> 0:09:20.080 don't know about invented. Now made better by Bop. I'm 0:09:20.120 --> 0:09:23.400 here to talk to you about your car insurance. By 0:09:23.920 --> 0:09:27.600 you know you can bumble and stay with Geico. The 0:09:27.679 --> 0:09:30.560 best scatting always involves car insurance. And let the Armstrong 0:09:30.640 --> 0:09:35.280 taught us that true and true, true, true hororful. Great 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:37.920 job both you, Ge and Hazel. A round of applause 0:09:38.120 --> 0:09:42.480 to you both, the applause of an adoring audience south 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:47.840 to an artist's ears here. Yeah, we came here together. 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:50.960 But he said he wanted to make a fashionably late entrance. 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:53.760 We'll look at that Elizabethian rock and I'd say it's 0:09:53.800 --> 0:09:57.079 just a late entrance. Seems that we've gotten appearance by 0:09:57.080 --> 0:10:00.360 the green Heart monster. That phrase is one that I wrote, 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:03.520 but feel free to use it. Yes it is, I 0:10:03.640 --> 0:10:09.720 poets playwright, the Bard of Avon. But please call me will. 0:10:13.000 --> 0:10:15.360 I'm willing. Where there's a will, there's a way. The 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:17.920 O g MC and yeah, I wrote a few plays. 0:10:17.960 --> 0:10:20.600 I came up for several phrases that you still use today. 0:10:20.640 --> 0:10:22.400 So let me lead you on to hear this one 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:25.240 wild Google. She let me break the ice because there's 0:10:25.240 --> 0:10:28.320 a method to my madness, ask Camlet. I can be funny, 0:10:28.480 --> 0:10:32.160 I'll be tragic. I love words like Juliet loves Romeo, 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:34.960 like Antonio said the Sebastian. I'll teach you how to fly. 0:10:35.120 --> 0:10:37.680 I am the concentrata. Yeah, I set the program that's 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:39.960 for stories that will be told three hundred years later 0:10:40.040 --> 0:10:42.280 on cameras. But isn't it the worst. Let's be a 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:44.800 riddle universe, and it's so hidden in the words they 0:10:44.800 --> 0:10:47.560 get a little bit discursed. So forget if you heard this. 0:10:47.600 --> 0:10:50.040 Bart was only for the birds, right, for everyone, from 0:10:50.080 --> 0:10:53.480 peasants to Elizabeth the First. I am literally literature. You 0:10:53.520 --> 0:10:55.079 know how they came up with the Lion King and 0:10:55.160 --> 0:10:57.840 west Side story. I won't make you guess my stories, 0:10:58.040 --> 0:10:59.920 so as you like it. I wrote sword fights and 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:03.360 in Sinkings, also true Love Blooming in midday strings. I 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:05.720 was so busy writing I have not slept one wig. 0:11:05.800 --> 0:11:07.840 So I'll endo my intro here unless we have too 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:12.640 much of a good thing. Wow, that slaps yes, a 0:11:12.800 --> 0:11:16.640 true boy, Thank you, thank you. It was totally off 0:11:16.640 --> 0:11:19.040 the cuff part. And I know we're from different times. 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:22.720 Did off the cuff mean practice all the way here 0:11:22.760 --> 0:11:26.360 in your era? Louis? I love your honest nature and 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:30.360 your wonderful horn. Speaking of which, didn't you mention jamming 0:11:30.400 --> 0:11:37.200 out with Jimmy Hendricks later? Surely it's become later, Okay, okay, 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:41.920 oh raspberries right. I've had a lot of fun with 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:46.360 you folks today, especially these contestants, even even if they 0:11:46.360 --> 0:11:53.720 are players. About his cabattle farewell, the sachement made the 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:57.199 delicate hand of fake guide your every step. Yeah, sure whatever, cool? Good, 0:11:57.240 --> 0:11:59.599 mean you too, man? And thanks again? Who was that? 0:12:04.280 --> 0:12:07.120 We should also get going to a short break, that is, 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:09.640 we'll check in with producer Jane with the scores right 0:12:09.679 --> 0:12:13.559 after this. Eric play us some jazz draccula music. Please, 0:12:15.880 --> 0:12:18.200 it's the blood you don't drink that matters, you know. 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:23.839 Welcome back to the Who Was? Podcast? Today we're learning 0:12:23.840 --> 0:12:27.640 all about who was Louis Armstrong and who was William Shakespeare? 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:30.880 And now back to your host, Elliot Kalin. Thanks be 0:12:31.280 --> 0:12:34.040 let's scat on over to producer Jane with our scores 0:12:34.080 --> 0:12:41.160 so far Elliott, be uh Scooby, pop pop up Up, Dewey, 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:46.720 Hazel and Gia are tied at two. Oh nice one, Jane, 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:50.040 you love that scatting and rhyming with the scatting. A 0:12:50.240 --> 0:12:53.360 very talented producer, thanks me. It's as close as a 0:12:53.360 --> 0:12:56.280 game can get all tied up. So let's go on 0:12:56.400 --> 0:12:59.120 to the next game, because here's the thing. The plays 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:02.199 the thing. So let's find out who was William Shakespeare 0:13:02.240 --> 0:13:08.200 with four fast facts paspacts. William Shakespeare was born in 0:13:08.240 --> 0:13:12.320 fifteen sixty four and died in sixteen sixteen. To this day, 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:16.280 he is considered the world's greatest playwright. Take that, Tom Stoppard. 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:19.520 He coined hundreds of words and phrases that are still 0:13:19.520 --> 0:13:23.319 in use today. Some of Shakespeare's plays include Hamlet, Romeo 0:13:23.360 --> 0:13:30.160 and Juliet, King Lear and Othello fo faspacts. Did anyone 0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:32.800 know that in the corridor there's a machine field with 0:13:32.960 --> 0:13:37.000 chips made of potato and something encased in chocolate called newgat. 0:13:37.720 --> 0:13:41.920 It's a remarkable time, oh William Shakespeare. I'm glad you're 0:13:42.000 --> 0:13:44.280 still here. We're actually about to start a game called 0:13:44.360 --> 0:13:47.400 by any other Name, And it seems appropriate that maybe 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:49.240 you could host it, seeing as how you wrote the 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:52.000 famous line a rose by any other name would smell 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:54.680 as sweet in the play Romeo and Juliet. If you'd 0:13:54.679 --> 0:13:58.199 like to host the game, of course, the games the foot. 0:14:04.080 --> 0:14:07.200 In this game, William Shakespeare will describe some aspect of 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:10.400 his life, but use an odd rhyming word or phrase 0:14:10.440 --> 0:14:13.160 instead of the exact word that we're looking for. So 0:14:13.200 --> 0:14:15.360 you must decipher what he's saying and tell us the 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:18.560 real word that rhymes with the nonsense word so okay. 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:21.680 For example, if the answer is big deal, Will would 0:14:21.720 --> 0:14:24.640 say something funny that rhymes with it, like pig reel, 0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:26.960 which is what I call the outtakes from Baby Pig 0:14:26.960 --> 0:14:28.800 in the City. It's a movie starting a pig. And 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:31.400 because this is our second game, each question is worth 0:14:31.640 --> 0:14:34.880 two points. Hazel, you're a first will break a leg. 0:14:35.400 --> 0:14:38.680 I maybe considered the world's greatest play right now, but 0:14:38.800 --> 0:14:41.440 I shall always proudly be the son of a humble 0:14:41.760 --> 0:14:49.840 above faker. Uh, leather maker or glovemaker. That's right, The 0:14:49.840 --> 0:14:53.920 answer is glovemaker. Remember the answer needs to rhyme. Glovemaker. 0:14:54.160 --> 0:14:58.440 Will's father made gloves, belts, purses, and aprons, all leather products. 0:14:58.440 --> 0:15:01.360 Will's family was firmly middle class, which means while they 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:05.400 weren't poor, they weren't rich or the nobility either. Okay, Gia, 0:15:05.800 --> 0:15:09.000 you have the next question. When I first moved to London, 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:11.560 I was not put you a call well off. But 0:15:11.640 --> 0:15:14.040 I still love to stand and watch plays with the 0:15:14.080 --> 0:15:19.240 other bound things. I don't know, that's all right. The 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:22.560 answer is the ground lanes. In Will's time, tickets to 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:26.200 a theater performance were sixpence or sixpennies for the best seats. 0:15:26.400 --> 0:15:29.240 That bought you a seat with a cushion. Must be nice. 0:15:29.440 --> 0:15:31.800 The cheapest tickets were a penny allowed you to stand 0:15:31.880 --> 0:15:34.480 close to the stage with the other cheap ticket holders 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:36.800 that were known as groundlings because they were standing on 0:15:36.840 --> 0:15:39.880 the ground. Okay, Hazel, this next one is for you. 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:43.400 I use Iambic pentameter to write in what was a 0:15:43.440 --> 0:15:48.800 wonderfully lyrical style called drank first. In fact, some say 0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:51.240 I became a master of that style, and I'm not 0:15:51.320 --> 0:15:56.640 particularly prone to disagreement. I don't know. This is a 0:15:56.680 --> 0:15:59.960 tough one. The answer is blank verse. Blank verse doesn't rhyme, 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:02.640 but it does have rhythm. I ambic contamperater is the 0:16:02.640 --> 0:16:05.320 fancy name of this rhythm or pattern. And if you 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:07.960 clap to this rhythm, every other beat is loud. So 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:10.880 here's an example. Be could you do the example? Yes, 0:16:14.200 --> 0:16:17.880 there you go, riveting. Yeah, that pattern repeats five times 0:16:17.880 --> 0:16:20.720 in each line of blank verse. Thank you Be and Jia. 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:26.040 Here's the final question for you. During the horrible, difficult 0:16:26.080 --> 0:16:28.960 time of the bubonic plague, it was not possible to 0:16:29.000 --> 0:16:33.080 perform on stage, so I became a poet and started 0:16:33.120 --> 0:16:38.200 writing bonnets. That's right. The answer is sonnets. Sonnets are 0:16:38.240 --> 0:16:41.360 fourteen line poems with a very complicated rhyme pattern. Will 0:16:41.400 --> 0:16:43.960 wrote a hundred and fifty four sonnets over the years, 0:16:44.000 --> 0:16:46.720 and books of his sonnets are still in print today. 0:16:47.000 --> 0:16:53.600 And that, Folks, is the end of by any other name, 0:16:55.440 --> 0:16:57.360 great work, both of you. That's a tough game, and 0:16:57.400 --> 0:17:01.760 you both did really And now exit to Jane. Pursued 0:17:01.800 --> 0:17:04.800 by the scores. It's a fancy, fancy way of asking 0:17:04.800 --> 0:17:07.760 for the scores exactly, and that's that's the what I'll 0:17:07.800 --> 0:17:12.280 do is tell you, uh, and so Hazel and Gia, 0:17:12.760 --> 0:17:16.960 I must implore you know that you both scored four 0:17:18.040 --> 0:17:23.680 oh so I am a contamina. Thank you. Beautifully done, 0:17:23.720 --> 0:17:26.600 beautifully done. I think we've got a modern day Shakespeare 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:31.880 right here. Sorry, sorry, I mean I mean, I mean Shakespeare. 0:17:31.880 --> 0:17:35.480 You're great too, You're great too. Okay, close game, very close, 0:17:35.600 --> 0:17:39.200 just like Jane's abilities are very close to Shakespeare's. And again, Shakespeare, 0:17:39.240 --> 0:17:41.840 thank you so much for joining us today. It was 0:17:41.920 --> 0:17:45.480 truly a delight. But now, dear friends, I must away 0:17:45.520 --> 0:17:49.040 to go eat chicken fingers, poultry, not poultry with my 0:17:49.119 --> 0:17:53.159 great colorades, and I'm carried gracefully on the wings of 0:17:53.160 --> 0:17:59.600 the Who Was? App Who Was More? Cool? Good meeting 0:17:59.640 --> 0:18:03.000 YouTube man. We'll be back with our final game after 0:18:03.040 --> 0:18:05.399 this break. Eric, would you happen to have some glove 0:18:05.480 --> 0:18:07.800 and purse making music you could play for us? Please? 0:18:14.240 --> 0:18:22.159 Driving Moves, Daisy Sally? Who was there? Marie Curie? You 0:18:22.200 --> 0:18:26.439 may remember me from winning multiple Nobel Prizes, or perhaps 0:18:26.520 --> 0:18:29.080 from my episode of the Who Worst Podcast where I 0:18:29.160 --> 0:18:32.440 played myself. I wanted to take a moment to read 0:18:32.480 --> 0:18:35.639 one of my favorite reviews about the Who Was podcast. 0:18:37.080 --> 0:18:40.560 This is from Shaken Bay and it reads loved this 0:18:41.400 --> 0:18:44.639 Me and my little sister love this show more. Please, 0:18:45.080 --> 0:18:48.760 our faith is Ariet Toman. If you want to hear 0:18:48.840 --> 0:18:51.680 your review right on the air, make sure to subscribe, 0:18:52.000 --> 0:18:55.040 like and review to the worst podcasts in the I 0:18:55.200 --> 0:18:59.200 Heart Radio up or wherever you give your podcasts revoir 0:18:59.600 --> 0:19:07.639 or should say abio. Welcome back to the Who Was Plodcast? 0:19:07.720 --> 0:19:10.760 Today we're learning about old school players Louis Armstrong and 0:19:10.840 --> 0:19:14.560 William Shakespeare. Before the break, Gia had four points and 0:19:14.760 --> 0:19:18.280 Hazel had four points. Lots of tip. Now back to 0:19:18.320 --> 0:19:21.800 our host, Elliot Kalin. Thanks me. You know, I was 0:19:21.880 --> 0:19:24.960 just thinking about how film is the modern day equivalent 0:19:25.080 --> 0:19:27.560 to what plays were in Shakespeare's day in terms of 0:19:27.560 --> 0:19:29.960 popularity and you know, in words for people. I thought 0:19:30.000 --> 0:19:33.160 it'd be fun to ask our contestants what's their favorite movie? Jia, 0:19:33.240 --> 0:19:34.800 do you have a favorite movie? What is it? If 0:19:34.840 --> 0:19:39.440 you do, um, it's actually an old movie. It's Baseball. 0:19:40.440 --> 0:19:43.960 Oh what a great movie. Good answer. That is a 0:19:43.960 --> 0:19:46.760 really funny movie. Hazel, what about you? What's your favorite movie? 0:19:47.200 --> 0:19:50.040 I also actually prefer old movies. My favorite movie right 0:19:50.040 --> 0:19:54.359 now is Bend It Like Beckham, how sad for me 0:19:54.440 --> 0:19:57.720 that that is considered an old movie now? I also 0:19:57.800 --> 0:20:00.560 feel similarly as those are movies that came out when 0:20:00.560 --> 0:20:03.000 I was a kid. That's all right, it came up 0:20:03.000 --> 0:20:07.320 when I was an adult. Well, those are both great movies. 0:20:07.600 --> 0:20:09.720 I will say. I also love old movies, but like 0:20:09.800 --> 0:20:11.600 really old movies, and I think my favorite movie is 0:20:11.640 --> 0:20:14.080 probably The Wizard of Oz. I find it very magical 0:20:14.280 --> 0:20:15.760 and I always kind of cry a little bit at 0:20:15.760 --> 0:20:18.679 the end. Be what's your favorite movie? Well, my favorite 0:20:18.680 --> 0:20:21.920 movie is B Movie, of course. Yeah. Sure, B Movie 0:20:21.960 --> 0:20:24.880 is a fun movie. No, it hasn't been made yet. 0:20:24.920 --> 0:20:28.359 It's the screenplay for my bio pick. I hate to 0:20:28.400 --> 0:20:30.840 break it to be, but there's already a B movie 0:20:30.880 --> 0:20:33.480 like the kind of bee that flies around? I fly 0:20:33.560 --> 0:20:35.840 around in my movie. I have this great idea that 0:20:35.960 --> 0:20:38.440 Jerry Seinfeld is going to do my voice. Okay, no, 0:20:38.840 --> 0:20:41.000 be Well, we'll talk about this after the game. After 0:20:41.040 --> 0:20:43.720 our final game, which is coming up right now, Converge 0:20:43.760 --> 0:20:56.920 of Greatness. In this multiple choice game B, we'll read 0:20:57.000 --> 0:21:00.359 questions where our two strocal figures overlap or con urge. 0:21:00.520 --> 0:21:03.159 And because recovering two times the history, this game is 0:21:03.160 --> 0:21:06.440 worth three points for each question. It's not a math podcast. 0:21:06.640 --> 0:21:09.359 Picked the best option as your answer, Jia. This first 0:21:09.440 --> 0:21:12.880 question is for you take it away be. Both Armstrong 0:21:12.920 --> 0:21:15.399 and Shakespeare did not mince words when it came to 0:21:15.480 --> 0:21:18.760 talking about those in power. But while Shakespeare and other 0:21:18.800 --> 0:21:22.000 poets of his day often flattered the monarchs with their work, 0:21:22.440 --> 0:21:28.400 Armstrong was more outspoken. Who did Louis call an uneducated plowboy? 0:21:28.600 --> 0:21:32.520 Was it a President Jimmy Carter be Governor of Arkansas? 0:21:32.680 --> 0:21:37.840 Or ol Fabis or see the King Elvis Presley B. 0:21:39.240 --> 0:21:41.639 That's right. The answer is be. During the Little Rock 0:21:41.800 --> 0:21:44.320 nine incident, when the governor of Arkansas was refusing to 0:21:44.440 --> 0:21:47.359 end segregation in the state schools, Louis Armstrong was so 0:21:47.480 --> 0:21:49.800 outraged at what he saw he called the governor an 0:21:49.840 --> 0:21:53.280 uneducated plowboy. Lou was a very popular black musician at 0:21:53.280 --> 0:21:55.080 the time, and he risked a lot when he was 0:21:55.080 --> 0:21:57.280 speaking truth to power and giving his support to the 0:21:57.280 --> 0:22:00.600 civil rights movement in the nineteen sixties. Hazel you right next. 0:22:02.040 --> 0:22:05.920 Both Louis Armstrong and William Shakespeare worked in team based professions. 0:22:06.400 --> 0:22:08.960 Louis was in many bands in his career before leading 0:22:09.000 --> 0:22:12.120 his own. When William moved to London, he joined an 0:22:12.160 --> 0:22:17.680 acting troop called a Lord Chamberlain's Men b Mystery Men 0:22:18.080 --> 0:22:22.760 or see the fun time play guys. A, that's right, 0:22:22.800 --> 0:22:25.240 The answer is A. Shakespeare not only joined the troop, 0:22:25.320 --> 0:22:27.080 but thanks to the money from his poetry, he was 0:22:27.119 --> 0:22:29.760 able to become part owner of the company. In fact, 0:22:29.800 --> 0:22:32.439 he'd stay with this troop for the rest of his career, 0:22:32.760 --> 0:22:34.960 which is how you know it's not an improv troop. Boom, 0:22:35.040 --> 0:22:37.920 take that improv Gia. Back to you for the next question. 0:22:38.160 --> 0:22:42.000 Louis Armstrong and William Shakespeare were both writers. Most people 0:22:42.040 --> 0:22:45.520 know Louis Armstrong wrote music, but he also wrote books. 0:22:45.560 --> 0:22:49.480 His first book was called A Swing That Music. B. 0:22:50.119 --> 0:22:55.200 Please stop talking about my mouth or see the Hunger Games. A. 0:22:56.080 --> 0:22:58.480 That's right, The answer is A Swing That Music was 0:22:58.520 --> 0:23:01.399 published in nineteen thirties six. Not only was it louise 0:23:01.480 --> 0:23:04.440 first book, who was also the very first autobiography by 0:23:04.560 --> 0:23:07.800 a jazz musician. Over the years, he wrote two autobiographies, 0:23:07.920 --> 0:23:11.040 over ten magazine articles, hundreds of pages of memoirs, and 0:23:11.119 --> 0:23:13.720 hundreds of letters. And that's aside from the dozens of 0:23:13.760 --> 0:23:17.560 songs he wrote that are considered jazz classics today. Oh, 0:23:17.600 --> 0:23:19.320 I suddenly feel like I should dust off my to 0:23:19.359 --> 0:23:22.280 do list, Hazel. The next and final question of the 0:23:22.320 --> 0:23:26.760 game is yours. Both Louis and Shakespeare got creative with words. 0:23:27.240 --> 0:23:30.160 Jazz musicians had their own way of talking. Cat meant 0:23:30.280 --> 0:23:33.480 musician and gig meant job, and he was great at 0:23:33.480 --> 0:23:36.919 improvising words when he would scat in a song. Shakespeare 0:23:36.960 --> 0:23:40.080 is credited with introducing many words and phrases we still 0:23:40.160 --> 0:23:45.080 use today. Which of the following is not one? Shakespeare 0:23:45.080 --> 0:23:51.280 supposedly created a cold blooded be puppy dog or see 0:23:51.400 --> 0:23:56.400