Speaker 1: Hi, be ready for another edge retaining episode of the
Speaker 1: Who Was? Podcast? That's Emperor B to you, Elliott. I'm
Speaker 1: taking over this show now. I understand why you're pointing
Speaker 1: a sword at me. Yep, I found it in black
Speaker 1: Beard's backpack. Pretty neat, right, and that's also why you're
Speaker 1: wearing that beard. Yes, it was also in the backpack anyway.
Speaker 1: I was inspired by this episode's world conquering subjects Genghis
Speaker 1: Khan and Napoleon Bonaparte to found my own podcasting empire
Speaker 1: nil before your new host. Hold on, let me just
Speaker 1: kneel slowly so I don't wrinkle my corduroys. So what's
Speaker 1: your first decree, oh, Imperial hostness, I, Emperor be, the
Speaker 1: first host of all who Was land here by decree
Speaker 1: that you hold my sword for me. It's getting pretty
Speaker 1: heavy and all this conquering has really tuckered me out,
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna take a nap um. Would you mind
Speaker 1: hosting the show? Wait, your first decree as host is
Speaker 1: to make me the host, so demands Emperor Be. Also,
Speaker 1: can you tell Eric to play the theme song? It
Speaker 1: seems like you should really do that since you're the host.
Speaker 1: Now I can't look nothing, Eric, please play the theme
Speaker 1: song quietly so we don't wake her. You go, what
Speaker 1: do you think you know about the grates room? This story?
Speaker 1: The game is on. To get some energy and buckle
Speaker 1: up your brain because it's time to play the most podcast.
Speaker 1: Because it's stund to play my from Don g Land
Speaker 1: or so called SoC Out Los Angeles. Welcome on the
Speaker 1: history quiz show that gives contestants the chance to win
Speaker 1: mega prizes and podcast glory. I'm your announcer, be the
Speaker 1: co host who puts the B in B and here's
Speaker 1: your hopes a pair of glasses with a person attached.
Speaker 1: It's Elliot Kalin. Thank you be 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 let's face it, a
Speaker 1: much better theme song. Our contestants were sent Who Was
Speaker 1: books about two great figures from history. Now they're here
Speaker 1: to show off their knowledge in the hope sub winning
Speaker 1: fantastic prizes prizes pros. Today we're talking about Ganghis Khan
Speaker 1: and Napoleon Bonaparte to violent conquerors who started out as kids,
Speaker 1: just like our contestants. Let's not encourage our contestants to
Speaker 1: become violent conquerors if we can. And speaking of our contestants,
Speaker 1: let's meet them right now. First up, we have Desmond. Desmond,
Speaker 1: please introduce yourself. O. I am does Limp and elect
Speaker 1: Trens and the Godziola. Whoa trains and Godzilla? Now? Is
Speaker 1: there a movie idea you have that combines trains and Godzilla?
Speaker 1: I feel like that's a good movie that I would watch,
Speaker 1: no ideals. It's an interesting combination of life though, because,
Speaker 1: as people who might know from the first Godzilla movie,
Speaker 1: he doesn't like trains himself. He picks them up and
Speaker 1: puts them in his mouth and then throws them. So
Speaker 1: I'm glad that you can combine those two and let's
Speaker 1: keep the show moving. Um. Next up, we have Nola.
Speaker 1: Nola please introduce yourself. Hi. I'm Nola and I love animals.
Speaker 1: I have two dogs and going to get a third
Speaker 1: one in the summer. Oh my gosh, No, are you
Speaker 1: going to get like a puppy? Yeah? Do you have
Speaker 1: some puppy names picked out? Because the puppy names are
Speaker 1: very important? I mean, you know dog names are important,
Speaker 1: but puppy what do you mind sharing some of these options.
Speaker 1: I was thinking, I like Hayes and oh very nice.
Speaker 1: Are you a big David Bowie fan? Oh, well, Nola,
Speaker 1: that sounds super exciting. And I hope this Bowie puppy
Speaker 1: is just the puppy of your dreams. And when once
Speaker 1: you have three dogs, I assume of all different sizes,
Speaker 1: you can finally stack them. Yes, And was the name Hayes?
Speaker 1: Was that a choice because you're also a fan of
Speaker 1: President Rutherford B. Hayes. I just sort of like it
Speaker 1: fair point not a good president. Well, thank you both,
Speaker 1: Thank you both of our contestants. I'm very excited to
Speaker 1: talk about these fans of David Bowie and Godzilla. And
Speaker 1: thank you to Eric, our musician, for providing that lovely
Speaker 1: live Meet the Contestants music. So that's who is. Now
Speaker 1: Let's find out who was Genghis Khan with four fast
Speaker 1: facts prospects. Genghis Khan lived in Mongolia from eleven seventy
Speaker 1: nine to twelve twenty six. Genghis Khan was the founder
Speaker 1: of the largest land empire the world has ever known.
Speaker 1: Genghis Khan created the written Mongol language, and Genghis Khan
Speaker 1: invented brilliant military strategies to conquer China and the Middle
Speaker 1: East prospects. Nola and Desmond, Um, we're talking about emperors
Speaker 1: and people who oversaw empires. But I'm curious if you
Speaker 1: had power over an empire, what would be what would
Speaker 1: you do if you were like the ultimate leader? Nola,
Speaker 1: do you want to go first? Sure, I would probably
Speaker 1: give all the homeless people's houses. That's very good. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's great, that's great, benevolent emperor, it's such a relief.
Speaker 1: That's so not the ordinary way of doing things historically. Yes.
Speaker 1: And Desmond, how about you? What would you do if
Speaker 1: you were Emperor Desmond the first of Desmond Dania who
Speaker 1: I would make sure everyone is happy? Okay, wow, we
Speaker 1: got very lucky. I mean when we were talking about
Speaker 1: this internally, it was definitely like I would make sure
Speaker 1: that I got all the best desserts from from everybody
Speaker 1: within my empire. And Elliott, what did you say you
Speaker 1: would do? I wanted everyone to wear silver jumpsuits so
Speaker 1: we could pretend like we're in the future. M Yeah,
Speaker 1: so a little sillier, a little danier, and and definitely
Speaker 1: like not helping people at all. No, unless I was
Speaker 1: helping people pretend they were in the future. But that's
Speaker 1: not that's not the thing most people need help with. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like the future in terms of Devo music video, that's
Speaker 1: the future I want to live in. That's right. Thank
Speaker 1: you both for those surprisingly noble answers. I think now
Speaker 1: it's time to move on to our first game. It's
Speaker 1: called true or false false? Is a true? False? Is
Speaker 1: it false? Or is a true? It is a true
Speaker 1: that it is false? Is it false that it was true?
Speaker 1: Or true? True? Horror fault? Thank you Eric. In this game,
Speaker 1: the will read a series of statements. You will tell
Speaker 1: us if the statement is true or false false. As
Speaker 1: you heard in the song, this is our first game,
Speaker 1: so each question is worth one point. Desmond, you are
Speaker 1: up first. When Timidgen, the young man who would someday
Speaker 1: grow up to be Genghis Khan, wanted to build a
Speaker 1: good relationship with Todd Rill, leader of the powerful carry
Speaker 1: A tribe, Genghis actually re gifted a wedding present. Is
Speaker 1: this true or false? This is true? That's right, it's true.
Speaker 1: Timogen gave Todd Roll his black sable coach given to
Speaker 1: him by his father in law as a wedding present.
Speaker 1: Now Timidgin spent his youth foraging for food and making
Speaker 1: clothes out of mouse and dog skins. So giving togg
Speaker 1: Roll this very nice coat made a huge impression and
Speaker 1: they became official allies. And that's why I always give
Speaker 1: personally engraved blenders as wedding gifts. No re gifting unless
Speaker 1: they find somebody with the same exact name. That's Luphole. Okay,
Speaker 1: The next question is for Nola. It was the straw
Speaker 1: that broke the camel's back. Genghis Khan had a falling
Speaker 1: out with his best friend Jamuka over Genghis being made
Speaker 1: to camp with sheep and goats instead of camels and horses.
Speaker 1: The two went from being besties to being arch rivals.
Speaker 1: Is this true or false? True? You're right, that's also true.
Speaker 1: After this incident, Jamuka and Genghis spent the rest of
Speaker 1: their lives battling each other. Ironically, you'd think the sheep
Speaker 1: would be the best animals to camp out next to.
Speaker 1: Just count them and get a great night of sleep,
Speaker 1: Genghis triat Next time, Desmond. This next question is for you.
Speaker 1: After Temujin was named Genghis Khan, ruler of all the
Speaker 1: Mongol people's the Golden Khan, the ruler of China. Propose
Speaker 1: is that the two Khans enter into a peaceful contract,
Speaker 1: because teaming up meant they could keep those pesky vikings
Speaker 1: at bay. Is this true or false? That is false?
Speaker 1: You're right, it's very false. The Golden Khan demanded Genghis
Speaker 1: Khan pledge subservience to him. Genghis Khan said nuts to that.
Speaker 1: He said that in Mange language, that's meaning was the same.
Speaker 1: And he took a sixty five thousand Mongol army with
Speaker 1: him to conquer China, and he did. He won. Now
Speaker 1: that's what I call hashtag Mongols Nola. This next question
Speaker 1: is for you. Genghis pioneered many new fighting techniques in
Speaker 1: his battle against the powerful Mohammad to Sultan of the
Speaker 1: charsi Um Empire. He pioneered the Genghis goat, which is
Speaker 1: a lot like the Trojan horse, only it's a goat.
Speaker 1: Is this true or false? False? You're right, that's also
Speaker 1: very false. He pioneered the lake formation. For this, rows
Speaker 1: of archers worked together like waves on a lake, firing
Speaker 1: one volume of arrows after another. Genghis Han's innovative fighting
Speaker 1: strategies were all named after things in nature, like the
Speaker 1: tumbleweed formation and the lightning advance. My pervert strategy is
Speaker 1: the adorable chinchilla formation. Oh, what's the adorable chinchilla formation?
Speaker 1: You give your enemy an adorable chinchilla and then they're
Speaker 1: all like, oh, he's so adorable, he's so soft, I
Speaker 1: love him. And then and then you started chinchilla club
Speaker 1: and become friends and and that's the end of fighting.
Speaker 1: And it's also the end of the game. True true, fault.
Speaker 1: I like that formation. That's a nice idea. Great round everybody.
Speaker 1: You were slamming those questions away saying true false true false.
Speaker 1: That's amazing. It was a beautiful thing to see. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was remember it for the rest of my life.
Speaker 1: Now be true or false. We're going to go to
Speaker 1: producer Jane now for the scores. Wrong, it's true, Jane,
Speaker 1: what are those scores? How dare you'd be the scores
Speaker 1: are tied up? Doesnt Nola two points? That's amazing. It's
Speaker 1: literally anybody's game, Thank you, Jane. Those stores look they're
Speaker 1: the same, but that might not be the same forever.
Speaker 1: It's still anyone's game. And we'll get right back to
Speaker 1: it after this short break, Eric, can you please play
Speaker 1: us some riding a horse into battle music? It's in
Speaker 1: the mongol. Nice. Welcome back to the Who Was Podcast.
Speaker 1: Today we're learning all about Genghis Khan and Napoleon Bonaparte.
Speaker 1: Our scores Art Desmond has two points and Nola has
Speaker 1: two points. And now factos Elliot Kalin, thank you be.
Speaker 1: These are some very fierce competitors. Genghis Khan would have
Speaker 1: been fround. So let's get right to it by finding
Speaker 1: out more about another fierce competitor, Napoleon Bonaparte with four
Speaker 1: fast facts. Napoleon Bonaparte lived from sight four to eighteen
Speaker 1: twenty one. Napoleon led the French army as one of
Speaker 1: history's most skilled generals. He conquered Chips and a thought
Speaker 1: of Europe, but failed to conquer Russia. And Napoleon introduced
Speaker 1: the Napoleonic Code, a set of laws that ensured freedom
Speaker 1: of religion in France and equality for all French men,
Speaker 1: though not all French women, saying all french men were equals.
Speaker 1: He said all men were equal except for Napoleon, but
Speaker 1: he thought he was the greatest thing since sliced beginning.
Speaker 1: We'll see if that was true or false in our
Speaker 1: next game, Backpack from the Past from the Best Baby.
Speaker 1: I thought I was going to say the game was
Speaker 1: true or false, didn't you? That's what I thought. I
Speaker 1: was really psyched out. I tricked you like Napoleon might have. Anyway,
Speaker 1: For this game, we got Napoleon bonapartes actual backpack from
Speaker 1: the who Was Historical Backpack archive B and I will
Speaker 1: pull items out of the backpack and you'll tell us
Speaker 1: why they're important in the life of Napoleon. Choose the option.
Speaker 1: It's a multiple choice. That is the best answer, and
Speaker 1: since this is our second game, each question is worth
Speaker 1: two points each. Nola Europe. First, all right, I'm going
Speaker 1: to take out the first item from the backpack. Oh,
Speaker 1: it's two pieces of bread. One is soft white bread
Speaker 1: and the other is old hard brown bread. Does this
Speaker 1: have something to do with a Napoleon's dream of opening
Speaker 1: a bakery? Or be the food Napoleon eight when he
Speaker 1: was young or see I don't know, maybe he was
Speaker 1: gluten intolerant. B that's right. The answer is be Even
Speaker 1: as a boy, Napoleon wanted to grow up to be
Speaker 1: a soldier, so he would trade food with a real
Speaker 1: soldier exchanging his mother's soft, fresh baked white bread for
Speaker 1: the soldier's hard, army brown bread. He told his mom,
Speaker 1: if I'm going to be a soldier, I must get
Speaker 1: used to eating soldier's bread. Oh great French accent there,
Speaker 1: Thank you in French. Whatever that is. The next item
Speaker 1: is for Desmond b what's in that backpack? Oh, it's
Speaker 1: a snowball with a rock in the center of it.
Speaker 1: It's amazing that it stayed frozen for two hundred years.
Speaker 1: But you know that's a the who was backpack historical
Speaker 1: closet is very cold, Desmond. What does this have to
Speaker 1: do with Napoleon Bonaparte? Was he a involved in a
Speaker 1: big snowball battle? Be a master snowman builder or see
Speaker 1: afraid of the cold? That's right A. When Napoleon was
Speaker 1: fourteen years old, he led his classmates in a huge
Speaker 1: snowball war that went on for weeks. It was Napoleon's
Speaker 1: first big battle, so it ended in a draw when
Speaker 1: the teachers made them stop because they were putting rocks
Speaker 1: in the snowballs. Listeners, don't do that at home. Napoleon
Speaker 1: is a trained snowball professional, Nola. The next question is
Speaker 1: for you, Oh, Wow, it's a crown, and hey it
Speaker 1: fits me. Be. Please don't try on other people's crowns.
Speaker 1: That's how you get lice. Okay, Nola, what's this crown
Speaker 1: doing in Napoleon's backpack? Did he a kill a king,
Speaker 1: b have his birthday party at burger king, or see
Speaker 1: have himself crowned king? That's right. See. In seventeen nine,
Speaker 1: Napoleon took control of the French government, and an eighteen
Speaker 1: old for he was officially crowned Emperor of France. Pretty
Speaker 1: impressive for a kid who used to give away good
Speaker 1: bread and put rocks in his snowballs. Okay, there's just
Speaker 1: one item left in the backpack, Desmond. This one is
Speaker 1: for you. It's a postcard. There's a picture of an
Speaker 1: island and it says Elba wish you weren't here. What
Speaker 1: would that mean to Napoleon? Was he a vacationing on Elba?
Speaker 1: Be imprisoned on Elba? Or see bought a time share
Speaker 1: on Elba? But you know he never got around to
Speaker 1: using it because he was too busy invading countries. That's right. Be.
Speaker 1: In eighteen fourteen, a group of countries teamed up to
Speaker 1: defeat Napoleon after he tried to conquer Russia, they sent
Speaker 1: him away to the island of Elba, where life was
Speaker 1: really boring. Ten months later, Napoleon came back took over
Speaker 1: France again, but then he lost the Battle of Waterloo
Speaker 1: and Scott sent to an even smaller island, where he
Speaker 1: spent the last five years of his life gardening. Oh,
Speaker 1: typical retiree behavior. And now it's time to retire from
Speaker 1: this game. I could from the Best Baby, another great game. Everybody. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's backpack on over to producer Jane for the newest scores.
Speaker 1: We are all tied up again at six point speech this.
Speaker 1: I can't deal with the suspense of this game. It's
Speaker 1: a tie every time. It's a lot. It's a nail bitter.
Speaker 1: I'm literally biting my nails while I talk. It's disgusting. Oh, Elliott,
Speaker 1: that's a terrible Yeah, that's a terrible habit. You should
Speaker 1: try to break. That's very I'm trying my best of
Speaker 1: the games. It's too suspenseful. Well, thank you very much, Jane.
Speaker 1: There's just one game between us and finding out who
Speaker 1: has totally conquered this episode of the Who Was Podcast,
Speaker 1: so without further ado. Wait, Elliott, there is a little
Speaker 1: further ado to do before we do that. We've got
Speaker 1: a new sponsor for the show today. Um, apparently Napoleon
Speaker 1: Bonaparte has a new business he's trying out. Well, okay,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to be the one who tells Napoleon, No, Napoleon, Eric,
Speaker 1: please play that We've got a new sponsor jingle, You've
Speaker 1: got a new responsive girl Hello, CCS Napoleon Bonaparte, former
Speaker 1: Emperor of France. For centuries, people have been told that
Speaker 1: I am a very short, tiny man. British political cartoons
Speaker 1: made me look like a teaka purdle sized person, when
Speaker 1: in fact I was five ft seven inches tall. I
Speaker 1: was actually more of a standard portal. Okay, yo, Napoleon,
Speaker 1: how's the weather down their shorty, monsieur, I'm five ft
Speaker 1: seven inches rega day. Everyone thinks I am shot, And
Speaker 1: because they think I am shot, they won't let me
Speaker 1: ride holl coasters. That's why I founded the Napoleon Bonaparte
Speaker 1: I Club for Men, the only business that helps men
Speaker 1: whose history has incorrectly remembered as short, but who were
Speaker 1: actually five feet seven inches tall. We do this by
Speaker 1: calling every single person in the world, one by one
Speaker 1: and correcting them. Hello, bonjeou, this is the Napoleon Bonapar
Speaker 1: Height Club for Men. How tall do you think Napoleon was? Oh, well,
Speaker 1: not tall enough to write a roller coaster, probably like
Speaker 1: four ft six No, you are long. It was five
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Speaker 1: you know I am telling you the truth because I'm
Speaker 1: not just the president of the Napoleon Height Club fork Men,
Speaker 1: I am also a client. But you don't have to
Speaker 1: take my word for it. Listen to this satisfied customer. Hello,
Speaker 1: I'm George Washington. I asked the Napoleon High Club for
Speaker 1: Men to help correct the false belief that I chopped
Speaker 1: down a cherry tree, and Napoleon was like, no, I
Speaker 1: don't do that. I only do the hype thing. So
Speaker 1: you know you're welcome. Joe's buzzy best part. The Napoleon
Speaker 1: Night Club falk Men has given me the confidence to
Speaker 1: become a small business own air, by which I mean
Speaker 1: the business is small, not me. I'm five ft seven
Speaker 1: inches tall. Now, if you'll excuse him more, I'm off
Speaker 1: to ride this hold coasters. This is going to give
Speaker 1: way more funds and think Lasha, what a great product
Speaker 1: sort of. You'll be right back with the final game
Speaker 1: of the show after a short break from our real sponsors, Eric,
Speaker 1: could you please play us some French music mus beautifully? Hey,
Speaker 1: who was Ours? I want to share a fun fact
Speaker 1: we missed. Do you have an idea for an episode?
Speaker 1: I want to explain bitcoin to me. What I'm trying
Speaker 1: to say is we want to hear from you, so
Speaker 1: send us an email or voice memo at the Who
Speaker 1: Was Podcast at gmail dot com. Part We're back on
Speaker 1: the Who Was Podcast? When we lets level up Desmond
Speaker 1: at six points and Noah at six points. It's a tie.
Speaker 1: Now back here, Elliot Klein, Thank you, b I can't
Speaker 1: wait for this our last game. It's called Converge of Greatness.
Speaker 1: In this multiple choice game, we'll explore how the lives
Speaker 1: of Genghis Khan and Napoleon Bonaparte, connect, overlap, or invert
Speaker 1: reach and because when the third round, each question is
Speaker 1: worth three points. Is everybody ready? Yes? Yes? Right? The
Speaker 1: first question goes to Desmond b take it away. As
Speaker 1: a young man, Timidgen killed his older brother beg Tar
Speaker 1: after beg Tar stole a fish from him. Napoleon had
Speaker 1: a lot of siblings, but he treated them a little differently.
Speaker 1: Did he a train them as a secret team of spies,
Speaker 1: be crowned them as kings and queens of the nations
Speaker 1: he conquered, or see buy them gift certificates for their
Speaker 1: birthdays because you know he didn't really know what they
Speaker 1: were into. B that's right, it's being Napoleon made his
Speaker 1: brothers the kings of Spain, Holland, and Northern Germany, and
Speaker 1: sent his sisters to rule over parts of Italy. A
Speaker 1: way better present than a gift certificate. Oh, I guess
Speaker 1: maybe it depends on where it's a gift you get to.
Speaker 1: Is it too sharper image, because that is better than
Speaker 1: than Holland. They'll tell you that much. Yeah, sharper image
Speaker 1: you get like a big TV or like a massage chair,
Speaker 1: and Holland, I think has that. It depends on the
Speaker 1: side of the gift certificate. How generous is Napoleon. We'll
Speaker 1: find out at my birthday. No, La, this next question
Speaker 1: is for you. Napoleon Bonaparte set the standard for many
Speaker 1: of the laws in Europe with his Code Seville or
Speaker 1: Napoleonic Code. Genghis Khan also introduced a revolutionary new set
Speaker 1: of laws for his empire, which included freedom of religion,
Speaker 1: a ban on stealing and kidnapping. And which of these
Speaker 1: programs A a Lost and Found program for missing farm animals?
Speaker 1: Be the first lending library or see Taco Tuesdays. Ay,
Speaker 1: you're right, Yes it was a a lost and found
Speaker 1: program for missing farm animals. But of course, as we
Speaker 1: all know, this did not include the cheese, for as
Speaker 1: it was known throughout history, the cheese stands alone high
Speaker 1: the darea. Yeah, it's also not a farm animal, so
Speaker 1: there's that too, Desmond, Europe. Next, Timidgon changed his name
Speaker 1: to Genghis Khan. Napoleon was into changing people's names too.
Speaker 1: When Napoleon met Rose to Bown, he fell madly in
Speaker 1: love with everything about her except her name. Would he hated?
Speaker 1: What did he rename her? Was it a Mirabelle b
Speaker 1: Sally or see Josephine. That's right. See Napoleon decided to
Speaker 1: call her Josephine, and that's the name history has forever
Speaker 1: remembered her by. Napoleon and Rose slash Josephine were married
Speaker 1: for thirteen years until Napoleon divorced her for not giving
Speaker 1: birth to an heir to the French throne. Pretty rude,
Speaker 1: But then again, this is the kind of guy who
Speaker 1: just walks in and steals people's countries. Okay, Nola, this
Speaker 1: last question is yours. Napoleon's Tomb is a famous tour
Speaker 1: spot in Paris, visited by thousands of people every year.
Speaker 1: Genghis Khan's tomb not so much. What happened to the
Speaker 1: people who saw Genghis Khan's burial place A. They were
Speaker 1: killed in order to keep the tomb's location a secret.
Speaker 1: Be they were sent to foreign kings to tell them
Speaker 1: how beautiful the CON's tomb is or see They got
Speaker 1: special T shirts that said I saw Genghis Khan's tomb
Speaker 1: and all I got was this lousy T shirt. You
Speaker 1: got it A. The Mongols kept his tomb a secret
Speaker 1: for centuries. According to legend, the men who buried him
Speaker 1: were killed, and then the men who killed the men
Speaker 1: who buried him were also killed, and everyone who saw
Speaker 1: his funeral procession you guessed it killed. It was a
Speaker 1: great time to be a Mongolian funeral director. Lots are worked.
Speaker 1: An archaeologists weren't allowed into the region where Genghis Khan
Speaker 1: is believed to be buried until ninety nine, many many,
Speaker 1: many many years later, and that means it's the end
Speaker 1: of the game and our show, like all great empires,
Speaker 1: must now crumble into dust becoming knocks Lena memory. But first,
Speaker 1: while producer Jane Tally's our final scores, I'd love to
Speaker 1: hear from the contestants. A contestants, what's something you were
Speaker 1: surprised to learn about Genghis Khan or Napoleon Bonaparts something
Speaker 1: that really stuck out to you? Nola's something that really
Speaker 1: surprised you that Napoleon teaches his wife name to um Josephine. Yeah,
Speaker 1: isn't that a strange thing to do to to to
Speaker 1: change another person's name? Very weird If someone wants to
Speaker 1: change their own name, sure, why not. There's lots of
Speaker 1: names out there. But well, it's just interesting because it's
Speaker 1: not Josephine is not like a nickname, you know, like
Speaker 1: it's a name name. It's a name name. So weird. Well, Desmond,
Speaker 1: is there anything that surprised you about Genghis khnor Napoleon? Well,
Speaker 1: I didn't know that Napoleon conducted like snowball was his
Speaker 1: military school. I didn't know that. Yeah, it's pretty amazing, right.
Speaker 1: They said that the snowball war went on for weeks
Speaker 1: and the kids spent all their time that they were
Speaker 1: in classes doing this, and they built forts and the strategies.
Speaker 1: It just goes to show that when you're playing as
Speaker 1: a kid, you might be setting your destiny for the future,
Speaker 1: or you might just be playing no pressures. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you don't need to set your destiny. Okay, now it's
Speaker 1: time for the big moment. Jane, please announce our winner.
Speaker 1: It's no surprise. Neither one of them could be fooled.
Speaker 1: It's a tie with twelve point teach. Amazing. What it's
Speaker 1: a tie game, but what a well deserved tie, Desmond. Knowla,
Speaker 1: you've both played so fantastically. You've got real history memories,
Speaker 1: amazing memories for history. So you're each going to get
Speaker 1: ten seconds to thank people that got you here. Who
Speaker 1: your shout out for? Nola, who would you like to
Speaker 1: shout out to you? I would like to cut out
Speaker 1: to my family, my teachers, and my acting coach, dancing
Speaker 1: coach and singing coach. Wow, that's what what a team
Speaker 1: you've got behind you. Yeah, it takes a village supports
Speaker 1: and Desmonds. Who would you like to shout out to?
Speaker 1: I would like to shout out to my family and
Speaker 1: well all of my friends because they were all very
Speaker 1: good friends. That's really sweet. I want to take a
Speaker 1: minute and shout out Godzilla and Nola's future puppy, whatever
Speaker 1: your name is, we love You's Bowie, Okay or Hayes,
Speaker 1: We'll see get back to us on okay. Our winner
Speaker 1: and their library of choice will be receiving a selection.
Speaker 1: Should have who was books? Hey be, I say that
Speaker 1: part not any more, you don't. I'm reconquering the show
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