Speaker 1: I be ready for another exciting, educational, entertaining, and elliot
Speaker 1: tastic episode of the Who Was? Podcast? I sure, am Elliott.
Speaker 1: It's our last episode of season one, and just to
Speaker 1: look at the high jinks I've gotten myself into today,
Speaker 1: Hold on, are you writing a giraffe and wearing a
Speaker 1: suit of harmor made of chocolate? And who's that with you? Comedians? Yea,
Speaker 1: all those things you said are true. Well, I definitely
Speaker 1: want to hear how this happens, and I'm sure audience
Speaker 1: wants to to then buckle up your braid because I'm
Speaker 1: about to tell you the most amazing story you've ever heard.
Speaker 1: I can't wait. So there, I was watering the flowers
Speaker 1: in my neighbor's garden when suddenly, right there, we don't
Speaker 1: have time for whimsical adventures. You've got a much more
Speaker 1: important story to tell the story of me, genius inventor
Speaker 1: Thomas Edison. Oh right, hi, Mr Edison. Yeah, you're one
Speaker 1: of our two historical figures today, alongside another news inventor,
Speaker 1: Temple Granded, but mostly me. Okay, but what are you
Speaker 1: doing here? In the opening sketch, this is my special
Speaker 1: time to annoy Elliott and do silly things. Not after
Speaker 1: all the work I put into being a subject on
Speaker 1: this podcast. I tell you, getting onto the Who Was
Speaker 1: Podcast was one percent inspiration in perspiration, right, like you're
Speaker 1: famous saying about genius being one percent inspiration perspiration. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I just said that. Now start the show. My
Speaker 1: watch says it's Thomas time. But I wanted to hear
Speaker 1: these amazing story Yeah, Elliott didn't even notice that I'm
Speaker 1: holding a baby alien Goo goot gps. It is sixty
Speaker 1: eight degrees with a thirty percent chance of raining. About it,
Speaker 1: Pacho cheese, you babies, no time. We have to start
Speaker 1: my episode. Eric, play us the theme song. Now, buddy,
Speaker 1: think you know about the great story? The game is on.
Speaker 1: To get some energy and buckle up your brain because
Speaker 1: it's signed to play whose podcast? Because it's sound to
Speaker 1: play who Live from Top the Land or so called
Speaker 1: so Cattle? Los Angeles, Welcome to Who Was? The history
Speaker 1: quesh show that gives contestants the chance to win mega
Speaker 1: prizes and podcast Glorie, I'm your announcer, be and my
Speaker 1: favorite Beatles song is let It Me. And here's your host,
Speaker 1: a guy who can tell you all the presidents in
Speaker 1: order whether you want him to or not. It's Elliot's Galen.
Speaker 1: Thank you be and welcome everyone to the Who Was Podcast.
Speaker 1: The show is like Jeopardy, only with surprise guests, silly games,
Speaker 1: and a pretty melty suit of chocolate armor. Yeah. It's
Speaker 1: a lot warmer here than on Fluto, which is where
Speaker 1: I picked up this little guy. Go oh, I wish
Speaker 1: I could hear that story, but no time. Our contestants
Speaker 1: were sent who Was books about two great figures from history.
Speaker 1: Now they're here to show off their knowledge and the
Speaker 1: hopes of winning fantastic prizes. Prize Words pod. Today we're
Speaker 1: talking about who was Thomas Edison and who is Temple Granded,
Speaker 1: two inventors who changed the way people look at cows.
Speaker 1: Edison invented the light bulb. Why did that change the
Speaker 1: way people look at cows? Well, now they can look
Speaker 1: at them on the door. Oh boy, okay, let's meet
Speaker 1: our contestants. Hey, y'all, my name is Thomas. I'm a
Speaker 1: hundred seventy five years old Aquarius and my hobby is
Speaker 1: being a genius. Edison, you're still here. Can't be the
Speaker 1: subject of the show and a contestant, you know, that's
Speaker 1: small minded? Small minded people already telling geniuses they can't
Speaker 1: do things the Can you introduce our real contestants? Alright,
Speaker 1: first up, we have Natalie Natalie. Please introduce yourself. Hello.
Speaker 1: I am Natal Natalie. Do you have a fun fact
Speaker 1: you'd like to share with our listening audience. I am
Speaker 1: on an executive board with a couple of other students
Speaker 1: in eighth grade. Oh wow? And um, do you do
Speaker 1: official things like you take notes at your meetings? Um?
Speaker 1: Stuff like that. Yes, we do generally have to take notes,
Speaker 1: and the executive board is usually heads of separate committees
Speaker 1: that we have. And what committee are you the head of?
Speaker 1: I am on the food Drive Committee, the Book Drive committee,
Speaker 1: and a be the Good Committee. That's amazing. That sounds
Speaker 1: like such a huge amount of responsibility. I'm really impressed.
Speaker 1: When I was your age, I think I was mostly
Speaker 1: responsible for not losing the television remote and not getting
Speaker 1: too much popcorn on the couch when I was watching television.
Speaker 1: That was about right, And you failed at both of
Speaker 1: those things, if I if I'm remembering that it was
Speaker 1: not a responsibility that I upheld. Yeah, it was. I
Speaker 1: was found to be wanting in the in maintaining that responsibility,
Speaker 1: but I tried my best. I certainly tried. But right,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining us badly. And Iva,
Speaker 1: would you please introduce yourself? Um, I'm Ava, and uh
Speaker 1: I look fake swim and my favorite season is winter?
Speaker 1: Now what is your favorite thing to bake in the
Speaker 1: winter after you've had a swim? Any coin? Swimming in
Speaker 1: the winter? But alright, alright, my hav thank to fake
Speaker 1: is cookies? Are you a chocolate chip cookie person? Or
Speaker 1: are you like one of these oatmeal raisin? Um? You
Speaker 1: know outliers gingerbread, I like, I like sugar coak. And
Speaker 1: let's talk shapes. Are you Are there any kinds of
Speaker 1: special shapes, stars, trees, dinosaurs, castles, anything like that. It's
Speaker 1: just regular round cookie. Tans cookie would be nice, but
Speaker 1: I usually make just round one. Okay, okay. Thanks to
Speaker 1: both of our contestants for being here, and thank you
Speaker 1: to Eric, our musician, for providing that lovely meet the
Speaker 1: contestants music and all the music on the show today.
Speaker 1: So that's who is. Now let's find out who was
Speaker 1: Thomas Edison with four fast facts cospects. Thomas Alva Edison
Speaker 1: was born in eighteen forty seven and died In nineteen
Speaker 1: thirty one, he invented the light bulb, the phonograph, and
Speaker 1: even an electric pen. He received one thousand and ninety
Speaker 1: three patents. In three he started America's first movie studio.
Speaker 1: He was a successful businessman since childhood, when he worked
Speaker 1: on a train selling his own newspaper, Fospects. Now, Eva
Speaker 1: and Natalie were curious, have you ever invented anything? Um? Eva?
Speaker 1: What about you? If you invented anything ever in your life? No?
Speaker 1: Not really, not really? Okay, alright, you're young yet if
Speaker 1: you there could still be an inventor's time now, uh
Speaker 1: that Natalie, You're you've already got a lot on your
Speaker 1: hands being part of the governing council of an entire school.
Speaker 1: But have you found the time to create any inventions?
Speaker 1: I don't think so. Now, if you were going to
Speaker 1: invent something, what would it be? Probably something that would
Speaker 1: make it so I could read books faster but still
Speaker 1: be able to enjoy them. Interesting. Okay, that's good, um Elliott.
Speaker 1: If you could invent something, what would it be? I
Speaker 1: think I would invent probably like a robot bird. Okay,
Speaker 1: would it be able to fly? No? Pet birds are
Speaker 1: very messy and they're hard to contain, so and I
Speaker 1: don't want to keep it in a cage. So I
Speaker 1: just maybe be like a robot ostrich, but they just
Speaker 1: kind of walk around, maybe sit down, you know, be
Speaker 1: great pet, but easy to take care of, easy to
Speaker 1: take care of, all right, very good? And even what
Speaker 1: about you would you what if you could invent something?
Speaker 1: What would you invent? I already said robot bird, So
Speaker 1: you can't do that, okay, Um, I would probably make
Speaker 1: I'm probably invent like a self in a car. And
Speaker 1: like I know there's like kind of self driving cars,
Speaker 1: but a car where you don't have to do anything.
Speaker 1: What if you have invented car you don't even have
Speaker 1: to get into for to drive you someplace. You just
Speaker 1: stay at home, you send the car somewhere, suddenly you're there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's so much time and uh and be what would
Speaker 1: you invent? You know, I was trying to think about that.
Speaker 1: You know what I would actually invent. I would invent
Speaker 1: something where every time you um boil an egg, like
Speaker 1: a six minute egg, that it would get the shell
Speaker 1: off perfectly and you wouldn't end up with like divots
Speaker 1: and um little pieces of shell when you eat and
Speaker 1: egg because I have an egg almost every day, and
Speaker 1: it's so it's such a struggle to get the shell
Speaker 1: off without ruining the outside of the egg. It's a
Speaker 1: real struggle for me. So that's hard, and it's every day.
Speaker 1: And you know what invention would really help you with that?
Speaker 1: What a robot bird. That's true every time. It's designed.
Speaker 1: The perfect egg every time, the perfect robot egg every time.
Speaker 1: Thank you of both. Those were fantastic answers. I think
Speaker 1: you know it's time to move on to our first game.
Speaker 1: It's called Backpack from the Past, Back from the Best.
Speaker 1: For this game, I found Thomas Edison's original backpack. Hey,
Speaker 1: how did you get my backpack? I'll sue you for that. Edison.
Speaker 1: We thought you wanted to be on this show. I
Speaker 1: knew I should have invented some kind of backpack theft arm. Anyway,
Speaker 1: you will take things out of this backpack and describe
Speaker 1: them to you. Then you'll choose the answer that best
Speaker 1: explains what it had to do with Thomas Edison's life. Okay, Natalie,
Speaker 1: this first item is for you. M It's a cup
Speaker 1: of some sort of mashed up gunk. These are worms.
Speaker 1: I know the smell of mashed up worms anywhere. Don't
Speaker 1: ask me why anyway. Why would Thomas Edison have all
Speaker 1: this gross stuck? Was it because a as a boy,
Speaker 1: he became ill with the mysterious sickness that could only
Speaker 1: be cured by mixing worms or be As a boy,
Speaker 1: he once gave a cup of mashed worms to a
Speaker 1: girl in the hope that it would make her fly.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure it is b You are pretty sure,
Speaker 1: because you're right. The answer is the Even as a
Speaker 1: young child, Thomas Edison was curious about the world. After
Speaker 1: watching a bird eat a worm and then fly away,
Speaker 1: he decided to test whether worms were the secret to flight.
Speaker 1: So he mashed up some worms and gave them to
Speaker 1: a neighbor girl to drink to see if she would
Speaker 1: gain the ability to fly too. But it only made
Speaker 1: her sick and Edison gotten a lot of trouble. Luckily
Speaker 1: he didn't let that stop his love of science, or
Speaker 1: we'd be recording this show in the dark. The next
Speaker 1: item is for Eva. Oh weird. It's like a huge
Speaker 1: collection of stuff, bamboo, spider webs, tissue, paper, even human hair.
Speaker 1: There's like three thousand of these things. Why would Thomas
Speaker 1: Edison have all this junk in his attack. Is it
Speaker 1: because A He and his workers tested over three thousand
Speaker 1: different materials to find the right filament for a lightbulb
Speaker 1: or b. Edison was afraid of throwing anything out, even
Speaker 1: human hair, because he might need it later. I think
Speaker 1: that was a You're right. The answer is a lightholds
Speaker 1: need of the filament literally the part of the bulb,
Speaker 1: but electricity heats up, causing it to glow, and Edison
Speaker 1: wanted a filament that would last a long time. He
Speaker 1: and his employees tested over three thousand types of material
Speaker 1: until they found the right one sewing thread baked in carbon.
Speaker 1: I don't know about you, but I probably would have
Speaker 1: quit after the first two thousand materials. That's why I'm
Speaker 1: Thomas Edison and you're just some schmore reading questions to children. Hey,
Speaker 1: not fair. He is the schmow reading the questions. Yeah,
Speaker 1: thanks for sticking up for me, Elliott. And our next
Speaker 1: question is for Natalie Gross. It's a dirty tissue. This
Speaker 1: is the worst backpack from the past we've ever opened.
Speaker 1: Why did Thomas Edison have a boogery tissue in his backpack?
Speaker 1: Was it because A one of the early movies he
Speaker 1: produced was called the Sneeze, or because B. Edison experimented
Speaker 1: with the superglue made out of mucus. The answer is A.
Speaker 1: That's right. The answer is A. Shortly after inventing an
Speaker 1: early movie viewing machine called a kinetoscope, he decided to
Speaker 1: open a movie studio so people would have something to
Speaker 1: watch on their kinetoscopes. Edison movies were very short, and
Speaker 1: one of the earliest was called The Sneeze because it
Speaker 1: was just a movie of one of his workers sneezing.
Speaker 1: It doesn't sound like much, but it's not like unboxing
Speaker 1: videos are so amazing either. And the last item of
Speaker 1: the round goes to EVA. It's a bunch of clock springs.
Speaker 1: Does Thomas Edison have these in his backpack? Because A.
Speaker 1: Edison spent his later years trying to invent springy shoes
Speaker 1: so he could finally fly. Or B he took the
Speaker 1: springs out of his factories clocks so his work first
Speaker 1: wouldn't know how much time they were working. I'm pretty fair.
Speaker 1: That's that's right. The answer is be Edison life working
Speaker 1: long hours without going home for a rest, and he
Speaker 1: expected as workers to do exactly the same, so he
Speaker 1: took the springs out of the factory clocks so that
Speaker 1: the workers couldn't keep track of how many hours they've
Speaker 1: spent testing filaments or sneezing or whatever. Not cool Edison.
Speaker 1: Hey Elliott, you don't let me know how many hours
Speaker 1: I've been working either. I tried to be. You just
Speaker 1: can't tell time. Well, sure I can, I just don't
Speaker 1: know what to tell it. Give camera adorable look. Oh boy,
Speaker 1: and that's the end of Backpack from the Past. From
Speaker 1: the past, by right round everybody. You kids certainly know
Speaker 1: a lot about me, which is not a surprise. Unfascinating.
Speaker 1: How I sneeze our way over to producer Jane for
Speaker 1: the scores. Oh well, he didn't be. Everybody's getting everything right.
Speaker 1: We're all tied up with two points each. Yes, thank you, Jane.
Speaker 1: You know I could replace Jane with a score keeping machine.
Speaker 1: It would be very easy to invent. You just have
Speaker 1: to oil it three times an episode. No, let's keep Jane.
Speaker 1: She really needs oiling once an episode. And on that
Speaker 1: confusing note, we're off to a short break. We'll be
Speaker 1: right back with our next game, so don't go anywhere. Eric,
Speaker 1: Please play us some Fashtepans music. Please, m. Pure. Welcome
Speaker 1: back to the Who Was Podcast. Today we're learning all
Speaker 1: about who was Thomas Edison and who is Temple Granded
Speaker 1: And now back to your host, Elliott Klin. Thank you be.
Speaker 1: Our scores are currently Natalie with two points and Eva
Speaker 1: with two points. That's right, it's all tied up. These
Speaker 1: are fused competitors, so let's get right to it by
Speaker 1: finding out more about who is Temple Grandin with four
Speaker 1: fast facts. Temple Grandon was born in nine and is
Speaker 1: still alive today. Temple Grandon was born with autism, making
Speaker 1: her sensitive to loud noises and unfamiliar situations. She created
Speaker 1: a new field of science, the study of how farmers
Speaker 1: affect the feelings of farm animals. She invented better farm
Speaker 1: equipment that keeps cow's calmer and happier. Fools. Now, let's
Speaker 1: calmly and happily move on to our next game. It's
Speaker 1: something we call true or false. True or false? Is
Speaker 1: a true false? Is it false? Or is a true?
Speaker 1: Is a true that it is false? It was true
Speaker 1: or true? True or false. In this game, be will
Speaker 1: read a statement about Temple Grandon, and you'll tell her
Speaker 1: whether that statement is true or false, not true in
Speaker 1: other words of false. And since this is our second game,
Speaker 1: each question is worth two points, even your first true
Speaker 1: or false. Temple Grandon's first inventions traps and franks. True. Yes,
Speaker 1: the answer is true. As a kid, Temple's first inventions
Speaker 1: were all solid goutchas. She raked up a web of
Speaker 1: strings to drop on anyone who walked into a room
Speaker 1: without her remission. And when she was bullied at school,
Speaker 1: she made it so that when the bully opened their desk,
Speaker 1: the window blinds crashed down right next to them. Luckily,
Speaker 1: she always used her trap and prank abilities for good
Speaker 1: and not for evil. And the next question is for Natalie.
Speaker 1: As a child, Temple's autism made it difficult for her
Speaker 1: to understand people's facial expression, but easier for her to
Speaker 1: understand the emotions of horses. Is that true or false?
Speaker 1: It is true. That is also true. Yes. Some people
Speaker 1: with autism life, Temple had trouble reading the facial expressions
Speaker 1: of others. Temple was fifty years old, that's right, five
Speaker 1: zero before she learned what it means when someone rules
Speaker 1: their eyes. This made it hard for her to make friends.
Speaker 1: But another aspect of her autism is that it helps
Speaker 1: her notice small details of things. She noticed the ways
Speaker 1: horses reacted when they were nervous, and she used that
Speaker 1: to team horses other people had trouble riding, and of course,
Speaker 1: reading the emotional signals of cows would become her life's work. Okay, Ava,
Speaker 1: this next statement is for you, tue or false. Ava.
Speaker 1: Temple was inspired by a machine for calming down walruses
Speaker 1: to invent a human calming machine she called the squish machine.
Speaker 1: That is false, Yes, that is false. Temple was inspired
Speaker 1: by a machine for calming cows to invent what she
Speaker 1: called the squeezes machine. When she was fifteen, Temple began
Speaker 1: having panic attacks when she noticed how putting cows in
Speaker 1: the tight space calmed them down. So she tried it
Speaker 1: on herself and created a machine that squeezed her gently
Speaker 1: until she stopped feeling overwhelmed. Now known as a hug machine,
Speaker 1: people all over the world use it to be a
Speaker 1: safer and more relaxed and Natalie, the final statement of
Speaker 1: the round goes to you true or false. When she
Speaker 1: was asked to find a way to help cows who
Speaker 1: were infested with itchy bugs called gabies, she looked at
Speaker 1: the prob lum from the scabies point of view, false, Yes,
Speaker 1: you're right, that is bals. She looked at the problem
Speaker 1: from the cow's point of view. It turns out the
Speaker 1: only way to get scabies off of cows is to
Speaker 1: dip the cow's body in bug using. Sometimes the cows
Speaker 1: would panic and drown while being dipped. Temple observed the
Speaker 1: situation from the point of view of the cows and
Speaker 1: realized it was scary for a cow to walk down
Speaker 1: a slippery ramp into a deep pool of poison. So
Speaker 1: she redesigned the ramps to make him less slippery and
Speaker 1: hid how deep the pool was. The cows felt safer
Speaker 1: and dipping them became much easier. Now only Temple would
Speaker 1: invent something to make it easier to give be her
Speaker 1: scabies medicine. Nope, you're just gonna have to keep hiding
Speaker 1: my pills in ice cream. And that's the end of
Speaker 1: the game. True, True, True Horror Falls another great game. Everybody. Now,
Speaker 1: let's walk down a ramp to producer Jane, who's currently
Speaker 1: in a deep pool of the scores. Jane, that's right, O,
Speaker 1: yet I'm drowning in sixes. We have a tie game
Speaker 1: with six points each. Be careful, be safe in that
Speaker 1: pool of six goos. Thank you very much, Jane. This
Speaker 1: tie game continues to be exactly that, a tie game.
Speaker 1: Before we go to our next round, I'm very excited
Speaker 1: to announce we have a very special guests with us.
Speaker 1: That's right, we're joined live in the studio by Temple
Speaker 1: Grandin's favorite cow, Butter Scotch. Butter Scotch, thank you so
Speaker 1: much for being with us today. Wow, your favorite podcast.
Speaker 1: That's an honor coming from such an illustrious cow. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: enough flattery, Butter Scotch. We're not here to talk about us.
Speaker 1: We're here to talk about you and you're years of
Speaker 1: work with Temple grand Tell us, how did you first
Speaker 1: meet Temple Uh huh, No, way at the same restaurant.
Speaker 1: That's hilarious. I bet that was a lunch The President
Speaker 1: isn't likely to forget. Now my next question, stop stops,
Speaker 1: shut it down. You cannot be serious. Excuse me, Thomas Edison.
Speaker 1: We were in the middle of interviewing an extremely delightful cow. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what's your problem? Alva if that is your real middle name, Yes,
Speaker 1: Alva is my real middle name. Like if you started
Speaker 1: saying Alvin and then forgot how it ends. And my
Speaker 1: problem is that you have met America's greatest event genius
Speaker 1: on your show, and yet you're wasting time with a cow.
Speaker 1: Don't worry about the Scotch. Mr Edison does not represent
Speaker 1: the views of the Who Was Podcast, which is very
Speaker 1: pro spending time with cows. Come on, you've got the
Speaker 1: Wizard of menlo Park here, the first person in history
Speaker 1: ever to record their voice and put it back. Wow. Really,
Speaker 1: what did you say in the recording? Mm hmm, Mary
Speaker 1: had a little lamb. Its fleece was whitest snow. Oh,
Speaker 1: I get it. So we can't talk about cows, but
Speaker 1: you can flap your gums about lambs all day. Look,
Speaker 1: Mr Edison, you're a very important person, but this episode
Speaker 1: isn't just about you. It's also about Temple Brandon, and
Speaker 1: it's also about having fun. Boh, fun. You don't sell
Speaker 1: light bulbs by having fun. It takes work and long
Speaker 1: hours and never seeing your family and sleeping on an
Speaker 1: uncomfortable work bench in your clothes. I think he's crying.
Speaker 1: Be oh, Mr Edison, seems like you're really stressed out.
Speaker 1: You want to go take a turn in the squeeze machine. Well,
Speaker 1: I have spent the last for hours trying to come
Speaker 1: up with a way to make electric socks. Maybe a
Speaker 1: little squeeze would do be good. I think so. All right,
Speaker 1: I'll be back to interrupt the show again later. Wow,
Speaker 1: who new famous inventor? This could be so emotional, Scott.
Speaker 1: I don't think I could say it any better than that.
Speaker 1: It's time for us to take a break, But we'll
Speaker 1: be right back with the final game of the episode
Speaker 1: and the crowning of today's champion. Eric, Could you please
Speaker 1: play us some squeeze machine music? Please exqueez me Sally?
Speaker 1: Who was Marie? You may remember me from winning multiple
Speaker 1: Nobel Prizes, or perhaps from my episode of the Who
Speaker 1: Was Podcast where I played myself. I wanted to take
Speaker 1: a moment to read one of my favorite reviews about
Speaker 1: the Who Was Podcast. This is from Shaken Bay and
Speaker 1: it reads loved this Me and my little sister love
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Speaker 1: make sure to subscribe, like, and review to the oas
Speaker 1: podcasts in the I Heart Radio up or wherever you
Speaker 1: get your podcasts. Revoir or shoul Let's Day Abio. We're
Speaker 1: back on the Whoas podcast. When we last left off,
Speaker 1: Natalie had six points and Eva at six points. It's
Speaker 1: a tie, and now back to your host, Ellie Calin,
Speaker 1: thank you be Before Thomas Edison can jump in and
Speaker 1: yell at us again, let's get to our last game,
Speaker 1: Converge of Greatness. In this game, we will ask you
Speaker 1: multiple choice questions about the places where Temple Brandon and
Speaker 1: Thomas Edison connect, overlap, or converge metaphorically, they don't actually
Speaker 1: connect in real life physically. And because we're in the
Speaker 1: third round, each question sin is worth three points. Ready,
Speaker 1: the first queston goes to Natalie be take it away.
Speaker 1: Temple Grandin was expelled from school because her teachers didn't
Speaker 1: know how to recognize her autism and just thought she
Speaker 1: was disruptive. Thomas Edison also left school early because a
Speaker 1: teacher didn't understand his needs. Was it because A He
Speaker 1: couldn't hear at the teacher because he'd lost some of
Speaker 1: his hearing to scarlet fever. B He never bought his
Speaker 1: textbooks to class because they were on a shelf too
Speaker 1: high for him to reach or see. He was allergic
Speaker 1: to peanuts, and they made him sit right next to
Speaker 1: George Washington Carver. A. That's right. The answer is a
Speaker 1: young Thomas loved learning. He had trouble paying attention in
Speaker 1: school and it didn't help, and he'd lost someone's hearing
Speaker 1: to illness. When he was eight, his teacher called him
Speaker 1: quote adult, and Thomas's mother was so insulted she decided
Speaker 1: to teach him herself. He raced through science textbooks, but
Speaker 1: he didn't stay at home school for long. For the
Speaker 1: time he was twelve, he was already working on the
Speaker 1: railroad all to live long day. And the next question
Speaker 1: is for Avon Thomas Edison would stay in his laboratory,
Speaker 1: working for days at a time, sleeping on a bench
Speaker 1: without changing his clothes. Temple Grandon also had some questionable
Speaker 1: grooming habits as a young adult. Did her boss need
Speaker 1: to tell her to a stop flipping her fingernails during meetings,
Speaker 1: be dust her hair regularly, or see start wearing deodorant? Uh?
Speaker 1: See yes, it's see. Temple had trouble recognizing how her
Speaker 1: actions effective the people around him. At her first job,
Speaker 1: she impressed people with her amazing work, but one day
Speaker 1: her boss put a can of deodorant on her desk.
Speaker 1: Temple was embarrassed, but she got the message never forget kids.
Speaker 1: Sometimes the truth can be embarrassing, but it's better not
Speaker 1: to ignore it. And also never forget grown ups are stinking.
Speaker 1: The next question is for Natalie Temple. Grandon designed feed
Speaker 1: lots and farm equipment that helped calm cows down, something
Speaker 1: cal ranchers didn't even know they needed. How it Thomas
Speaker 1: Edison feel about new ideas for inventions. A he wanted
Speaker 1: to create totally new things people didn't even know they needed.
Speaker 1: B he only wanted to invent things people already wanted.
Speaker 1: Or see, he didn't want to invent things, but had
Speaker 1: been cursed by a witch to be haunted by ideas
Speaker 1: or inventions forever. As fun as she sounds, I think
Speaker 1: it's you made the right choice. That's the responsible uh
Speaker 1: student Council's word member decision, and I appreciate it. The
Speaker 1: answer is B. Thomas Edison's first invention was an electronic
Speaker 1: voting machine. There was only one problem. Nobody wanted to
Speaker 1: use it, so Edison decided he would only make inventions
Speaker 1: that he was sure people already wanted. As a result,
Speaker 1: a lot of his work was in making better versions
Speaker 1: of things that already existed, rather than coming up with
Speaker 1: incredibly original ideas like temples. And the last question is
Speaker 1: for Eva. Thomas Edison was a famous public figure who
Speaker 1: often gave interviews about his inventions. Temple grand and also
Speaker 1: became a public speaker. But instead of talking about her inventions,
Speaker 1: she talks about a how to live more like a cow,
Speaker 1: be the importance of deodorant, or see how the world
Speaker 1: needs many kinds of minds. I think that is C.
Speaker 1: You're right, the answer is C. After writing her autobiography,
Speaker 1: Temple became famous. Since then, she's given lectures to thousands
Speaker 1: of people, who speaks about the need to recognize all
Speaker 1: the different ways people think and experience the world. She
Speaker 1: advises kids with autism to follow their strengths rather than
Speaker 1: be seen in only for their struggles. Meanwhile, most of
Speaker 1: Thomas Edison's public speaking was about how great Thomas Edison
Speaker 1: is and what's wrong with that? I am great? What
Speaker 1: are you still doing here? And that's converge of greatness
Speaker 1: right round everybody. It's almost time for the big moment.
Speaker 1: But before we converge on the greatness of producer Jane
Speaker 1: to find out our winner. I had a final question
Speaker 1: for our contest, sus this one for no points at all.
Speaker 1: What was something that surprised you to learn about either
Speaker 1: Thomas Edison were temple granted Natalie, did anything really surprise
Speaker 1: you about either one of them? Before I read the book,
Speaker 1: I had no idea that Thomas Edison was hard of hearing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a lot of people, um did not know that. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's not something that's so widely talked about when people
Speaker 1: discussed Thomas Edison. But yeah, that's true. And by the
Speaker 1: end of his life he could barely hear anything at all.
Speaker 1: I think in the book, don't they talked about him
Speaker 1: having to put his head up next to a piano
Speaker 1: to hear the vibrations of the music, which is a
Speaker 1: real dedication to piano music. Let me tell you, when
Speaker 1: you're willing to just lay your head on top of it, well,
Speaker 1: let's blame Yeah, they don't. They don't look kindly on that.
Speaker 1: For guitar though, as I found out, if you try
Speaker 1: to lay your head on the strings, they're like, get
Speaker 1: out of here. Yeah, they threw you right out of
Speaker 1: that concert, And I I feel bad. I feel bad
Speaker 1: that I was telling them throw her out, throw her out.
Speaker 1: I shouldn't have done that best. Yeah, I just love
Speaker 1: blue grass. What can this thing? And Eva? Is there
Speaker 1: anything that surprised you about either of our history figures? Um?
Speaker 1: Something that surprised me about Thomas Edison was that he
Speaker 1: was called the Wizard of Menlo Park. That's right. He
Speaker 1: was so famous that he was called that. People thought
Speaker 1: of him as a wizard for the amazing scientific inventions
Speaker 1: he had. And of course he was in Menlo Park,
Speaker 1: New Jersey. Uh. I'm always trying to figure out, as
Speaker 1: someone who grew up in New Jersey, were there any
Speaker 1: other wizards in Menlo Park? Because if there were, maybe
Speaker 1: there they can teach me their secret magic. Well, isn't m.
Speaker 1: Bruce Springsteen the Wizard of Atlantic City? Is that true?
Speaker 1: I don't think anyone calls him that, But they couldn't
Speaker 1: the Wizard of Asbury Park. They might call him because
Speaker 1: that's really not parks home area. But my apologies to
Speaker 1: the Boston and the people of New Jersey the Garden State.
Speaker 1: What is Elliott Klin the wizard of which town is
Speaker 1: Elliot Killen? The Wizard of Ellie Killen is the Wizard
Speaker 1: of Milburn New Jersey. But Anne Hathaway was also from Melbourne,
Speaker 1: New Jersey, so she wins and I'm more of the
Speaker 1: I'm the associate wizard. Yeah, yeah, there you go. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm the jester in the court of Northern New Jersey.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for those glowing insights, Eva and Natalie,
Speaker 1: and now it's time for that big moment. Jane, please
Speaker 1: announce our winner. Ohio didn't be I was a little
Speaker 1: bit of a wizard myself. And although you said not
Speaker 1: to add any points for their question, the extra one
Speaker 1: at the end we had a tie which was twelve each,
Speaker 1: so I did a door. I did add points on
Speaker 1: and they both got a hundred. We still have a
Speaker 1: tie hundred and under and grow. What an amazing its
Speaker 1: producer Jane is. She's fiddling with the point totals, but
Speaker 1: it's still a tie. It was so close she is.
Speaker 1: She is unethically ethical, that producer Jen amazing to both
Speaker 1: of you. We love ties here on the show because
Speaker 1: we love it when people win. You both get ten
Speaker 1: seconds for shoutouts to those who want to thank Natalie
Speaker 1: go for it first. Who would you like to thank?
Speaker 1: I would like to thank my family should be awesome.
Speaker 1: Oh that's so sweet. And my mom for letting me
Speaker 1: if you're on the show. Fantastic. We would like to
Speaker 1: thank your mom. Is fine. And Eva, who would you
Speaker 1: like to shout out to? Uman to shout out to
Speaker 1: have my three cats Fern, Tulip, and Apple because they
Speaker 1: all obviously wanted to see it on. For those at home,
Speaker 1: a lot of you's had a lot of cats passing
Speaker 1: in front of the camera. Today we're just one cat,
Speaker 1: but that Apple kept going back and forth, so I
Speaker 1: was like, is that one cat? Is that multiple cats?
Speaker 1: There's no way of knowing our winner and their library
Speaker 1: of choice while we receiving a selection of Who Was books,
Speaker 1: And I'm going to give a shout out to intern
Speaker 1: Zack Jane, Eric Devin Coleman for being our Thomas Edison
Speaker 1: and being and a big thank you to both of
Speaker 1: our contestants for playing such an amazing game today. This
Speaker 1: is our last episode for season one of Who Was Podcast,
Speaker 1: So I also want to give a big thank you
Speaker 1: to you are fabulous audience from everyone here at Who
Speaker 1: Was for making our first season so much fun. Thank
Speaker 1: you from the bottom of our history loving hearts. This
Speaker 1: is Ellie Kalin saying a thing saying We're history. Goodbye
Speaker 1: everybody Hey. The Who Was Podcast is produced by Radio Point,
Speaker 1: I Heart Media and Anguin Workshop and is based on
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Speaker 1: This show was hosted by Elliott Calin with co host
Speaker 1: Megan O'Neill as Be. It also starred Jane Baker as Jane,
Speaker 1: Eric Shackney as Eric, and Devin Coleman as Thomas Edison.
Speaker 1: Executive producers are Richard Corson, Alex Bach, Elliott Calin, Megan O'Neil,
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Speaker 1: is Francesco Sadita, and the executive producer for I Heart
Speaker 1: Media is Lindsay Hoffman. This episode was written by Megan O'Neil,
Speaker 1: Elliott Calin and Devin Coleman, who was produced by Bernie
Speaker 1: Kaminsky and Taylor Kowalski. Our talent producer is Jane Baker.
Speaker 1: Our theme song and all of our music was composed
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