Speaker 1: Hi, Elliott, I be Do you want to tell them
Speaker 1: who was just about today's episode? Or shall I? Oh?
Speaker 1: I have an idea. How about we flipped for it?
Speaker 1: Sounds good? I call heads, okay, and we'll have Geraldine
Speaker 1: toss the coin hot shirt on the count of three, one,
Speaker 1: two three. Whoa, Elliott, you just did a flip? So
Speaker 1: did you? Yeah? But I'm delightfully whack and listeners have
Speaker 1: come to expect the sort of thing for me? Who
Speaker 1: knew you could flip? I was a child diver beat
Speaker 1: some things who can't unlearn? Oh, tails, I guess you win.
Speaker 1: I'm still too shocked. You go ahead, go ahead and
Speaker 1: tell the children, all right? Who was here? In place
Speaker 1: of our regular episode where we quiz kids about their
Speaker 1: knowledge of two specific people from history, we fired up
Speaker 1: that walkie talkie to the past, the who was that?
Speaker 1: That's the one to get in touch with some of
Speaker 1: our best guest stars from this season. These big names
Speaker 1: are such huge fans of the podcast that they had
Speaker 1: their people call our people who to be clear as
Speaker 1: an elephant to jump back on the show to spend
Speaker 1: some more time with us. All right, Eric, please plancing
Speaker 1: here we go? What do you think you know about
Speaker 1: the greats from this story before the game is on.
Speaker 1: To get some energy and buckle up your brain, because
Speaker 1: it's signed to play the podcast. Because it's time to
Speaker 1: play with days who live from tong Land or so
Speaker 1: called Sokow Los Angeles. It's who was the podcast? Where?
Speaker 1: Or Today? We're given the quizzing arrest and just kind
Speaker 1: of you know, viby with some very cool folks from history.
Speaker 1: I'm your announcer, Met and I would describe my personality
Speaker 1: as swarm. Now here's your host, the man who doesn't
Speaker 1: believe inside parts. Thank you be Both have of my
Speaker 1: head are so nice I can't choose, so I just
Speaker 1: go right down the middle and welcome everyone who was podcast.
Speaker 1: Let's waste no time in meeting our guests. One of
Speaker 1: the most influential singer songwriter actors of all time, the
Speaker 1: history making rock musician David Bowie. Yes, it's me David Bowie.
Speaker 1: It's great to see you again, David. Well, what are
Speaker 1: you doing here? Well, as I recall, you're both a
Speaker 1: couple of gene genie, smart, smarty, so I wanted to
Speaker 1: run you by a couple of new personas I'm working
Speaker 1: on Oh right, You've had a lot of different personas
Speaker 1: or characters you would perform as. Even the name David
Speaker 1: Bowie wasn't the name you were born with. You performed
Speaker 1: as a Laddin Sane, Arnold Horn's the White dou and
Speaker 1: Major time. That's right, and I realized I had a
Speaker 1: wonderful opportunity I could be the first rock star to
Speaker 1: continue their career from the great beyond David Bowie breaking
Speaker 1: boundaries once again, that sounds as spooky as it does cool.
Speaker 1: Go right ahead, Well, I reckon you recall one of
Speaker 1: my most famous personas Ziggy Stardust. Oh, of course, the
Speaker 1: alien rock star, the Martian Messiah. That's the one, all right,
Speaker 1: And I'm working on a character in the same vein.
Speaker 1: He's called Fred the garbage Man. Okay, I guess I
Speaker 1: don't immediately see the connection. Well, perhaps a bit of
Speaker 1: the song will up your memories to the tune sounds
Speaker 1: great as usual. I'm just not sure what the connection
Speaker 1: is between an alien and the garbage man. Well, they're
Speaker 1: both here to save the world, aren't they. Imagine you're
Speaker 1: without sanitation workers made. It's a good point, thank you.
Speaker 1: Be Here's another one. It's called Tim the postal tell
Speaker 1: you the whole smart Rien car legation. Awesome, very email.
Speaker 1: I assume it just really seems like your personas don't
Speaker 1: have the same flare, David. I mean they're great so far.
Speaker 1: They just don't say David Bowie to me, Elliott. If
Speaker 1: they said David Bowie to you, would they really be personas?
Speaker 1: Gold starts to you, my dear, truly a smart, smarty,
Speaker 1: extraordinary Thank you, David. Did you hear that? Elliott? Extraordinaire?
Speaker 1: He said, Wait, David, you have any others? I'll get
Speaker 1: at this time. I swear I want to be extraordinaire too.
Speaker 1: Everyone deserves another chance. Here's what I've been tinkering with.
Speaker 1: More of a rocker, less of a balladia. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: am more of a stone cold rocker than a valid guy.
Speaker 1: It's true. I'm something of a MSIL guy. So I
Speaker 1: entertain the eye. I do it all just about the liquor. Really,
Speaker 1: I'm tit. Laurie and but no perfection. The miss the
Speaker 1: sibly hid the film projectionist. Okay, hold on, you already
Speaker 1: used to Well it's a bit of a placeholder name.
Speaker 1: I admit more wanted your opinion on the contents. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: here's a lightning round. We'll just go through my notebook.
Speaker 1: How about Melissa Sissler, the substitute art teacher? Hold off
Speaker 1: on your projects may play. We're watching a video today.
Speaker 1: I can visualize Richard the sushi you'ret go with a
Speaker 1: missing glass. I'm in charge of the Hollan based waiting
Speaker 1: that's got glass of perfect and the retiree Wait wait, okay,
Speaker 1: did he retire from an alternate universe to hours or
Speaker 1: I don't know? Is he immortal and retired after a
Speaker 1: thousand years? Just a normal bloke if you consider taking
Speaker 1: care of your family, putting two girls through college, and
Speaker 1: working for the same company for thirty seven years quote
Speaker 1: unquote normal, I absolutely do not. That's fine, love, let
Speaker 1: me try a nothing. Well. I'm the host of Who Was?
Speaker 1: And I criticized just because I'm jealous. I'm quite jealous.
Speaker 1: I'm an eds of podcast host, and I'm negative more
Speaker 1: than most. I'm just jealous. I can't enough. I'm jealous.
Speaker 1: And wow, I'm speechless. Elliott, are you all right? I
Speaker 1: I oh, craigy, I forgot my number one rule. Don't
Speaker 1: use music to Neggie. I love it. He's like a
Speaker 1: man of the future, but he's divided inside. Wow, David Bowie.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to hear the next big concept album
Speaker 1: about Elliott, the podcast host. I assume this Elliott spells
Speaker 1: her name with one t Oh. Yeah, that's what. I's
Speaker 1: so outlandish. It's unbelievable yet totally relatable. Unbelievable but relatable.
Speaker 1: That's me, David Bowie. Well, I must be going now.
Speaker 1: I've got to lunch with Shakespeare. See you later, Jean Genie,
Speaker 1: Smart smarty Elliott the podcast host more negative than most. Wow.
Speaker 1: So cool to Sally, who was asked Imoir, Marie Curie.
Speaker 1: You may remember me from winning multiple Nobel Prizes, or
Speaker 1: perhaps from my episode of The Worst Podcast where I
Speaker 1: played myself. I wanted to take a moment to read
Speaker 1: one of my favorite reviews about the who Wast podcast.
Speaker 1: This is from Shake and Bay and it reads loved
Speaker 1: this Me and my little sister love this show more. Please.
Speaker 1: Our faith is Arie Toman. If you want to hear
Speaker 1: your review right on the air, make sure to subscribe, like,
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Speaker 1: Radio up or wherever you give your podcasts. Revoir or
Speaker 1: should I stay abiat to live from h Milton Hershey's
Speaker 1: Chocolate Factory. It's the one the podcast where for today
Speaker 1: we're giving the quizzing arrest and kind of just you know,
Speaker 1: vibing with some very cool folks from history. I'm your announcer,
Speaker 1: and I never mind my own bees wax. Now here's
Speaker 1: your books. The man whose aura is hacky, it's Elliot Kalen.
Speaker 1: Thank you be. It's a very versatile aura. I can
Speaker 1: wear it to work. We're to a nice party and
Speaker 1: welcome everyone to the who Was Podcast and like be set.
Speaker 1: Today's very special episode finds us out of the studio
Speaker 1: and on the assembly line. I can't believe film Hershey
Speaker 1: invited us to be the first visitors ever to see
Speaker 1: inside his legendary Hershey Chocolate Factory. I know, Elliott, I
Speaker 1: bet it's a whimsical world of sany magic. Interesting. I
Speaker 1: always assumed it was a zany world of whimsical magic. No,
Speaker 1: it's the other way around. Look the gates are opening.
Speaker 1: It's Milton Hershey. Welcome podcast hosts to my world of chocolate.
Speaker 1: Come with me and you'll see a world of hardware.
Speaker 1: Conndicated research for chucolate is made through repeating increments, acting
Speaker 1: time intervals. Wait, wait what, I don't even understand what
Speaker 1: you're saying. I'm saying I took the assembly line production
Speaker 1: methods used in making cars and applied it to chocolate.
Speaker 1: It doesn't sound very whimsical or playful. Oh it's not.
Speaker 1: It's extremely boring. Luckily, my factory workers don't mind, because
Speaker 1: their magical gnomes who sing and do KRT wheels. See
Speaker 1: for yourself, raspberries. There aren't magical gnomes, w just regular
Speaker 1: people working. Yeah. When you said see for yourself, I
Speaker 1: assumed you meant we would see for ourselves that they
Speaker 1: were magical gnomes. They do sing making chocolates, not all
Speaker 1: that we do with the We also enjoy the time
Speaker 1: our days. All right, boys, close that don't so we
Speaker 1: can focus on doing our Boy now, aren't happy, healthy
Speaker 1: workers making good wages better than magical gnomes? I guess.
Speaker 1: So don't let him bully you, Elliott, we wanted a zany,
Speaker 1: colorful world of magic. This is just a factory. You
Speaker 1: try to build a successful company that treats people fairly
Speaker 1: in azaney way. I dare you can't be done. Okay, okay, sorry,
Speaker 1: I suppose you don't want to see my experimental laboratory
Speaker 1: where I'm constantly working to invent you kinds of sweet treats. WHOA,
Speaker 1: of course we want to see that. That sounds super zaney.
Speaker 1: You can make ice cream out to things you don't
Speaker 1: normally make ice cream out, like hamburgers and rainbow and
Speaker 1: rolling our coasters, tinking like that. We make ice cream
Speaker 1: from celibri in turn ups and beats grows. It's like
Speaker 1: the worst part of Thanks GIVEL. Now that's quite enough.
Speaker 1: The whole point is to find inexpensive ways to make
Speaker 1: chocolates so that it can be available for everybody. I
Speaker 1: grew up with very little money, which meant I had
Speaker 1: to work as a child and never got to finish school.
Speaker 1: A taste of candy would have surely sweetened my bitter existence,
Speaker 1: and yet at the time, only expensive caramel was available.
Speaker 1: I couldn't afford it. I always thought that was weird.
Speaker 1: Chocolate tastes better than caramels, so why does it cost
Speaker 1: less because of the hard work of chocolate scientists like me.
Speaker 1: Chocolate scientists. Please don't be distracted by the idea of
Speaker 1: chocolate scientists. They're not scientists made out of chocolate. Everyone
Speaker 1: deserves to have good tasting things, which means finding less
Speaker 1: expensive sources of sweets like celery and turnips and beats.
Speaker 1: And I know that rhymes, but I'm not about to
Speaker 1: start singing a whimsical song. We understand. I guess rain
Speaker 1: bows and roller coasters are kind of expensive. And think
Speaker 1: about how impractical the favorite you're describing with the ice
Speaker 1: cream that tastes like rainbows and roller coasters. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: even know where to begin making that. We just thought,
Speaker 1: since candy is so fun, making candy would be even
Speaker 1: more fun. Even making fun things takes work. We do
Speaker 1: the boarding part so you can have the fun when
Speaker 1: you eat it. Now go wait, is this a test
Speaker 1: to see if we have the right combination of honesty
Speaker 1: and imagination to take over your factory someday? Why would
Speaker 1: I do that? Actually leave the factory to a charity
Speaker 1: that builds schools and hospitals, because seeny, here are your
Speaker 1: complementary hershey barbs, and there's the door. Well that was
Speaker 1: a lot less fun than I thought it would be.
Speaker 1: I guess it was a little foolish to think an
Speaker 1: industrial factory would be a whimsical wonderland of fun. Yo
Speaker 1: did someone called for a whimsical wonderland fun? How would
Speaker 1: you like to go to a laboratory where movies are made?
Speaker 1: Lightning boats are thrown around the crash and it's all
Speaker 1: oversee by a wizard. Wow, that sounds like the most
Speaker 1: fabulous and glorious labriold. On a second, we've already been
Speaker 1: disappointed once today. Who's this wizard? Anyway? Me to Tomas Edison,
Speaker 1: the wizard of man Low Pard, whose magical little elves
Speaker 1: are working night and day to perfect my inventions. He's
Speaker 1: got elves, Elliott, what more do you need to know?
Speaker 1: There's no way he has elms me. Aren't you the
Speaker 1: same Thomas Edison who cheated Nicole A Tesla out of
Speaker 1: money you promised him? As mentioned? It are Nicola Tesla
Speaker 1: George Washington Carver episode available wherever you get your podcasts. Listen, Bud.
Speaker 1: I admit that's one way to look at the story.
Speaker 1: But if you hear my side of it, you'll see
Speaker 1: I had a good reason to cheat him out of
Speaker 1: that money, namely, your boy wanted it lights out, Edison.
Speaker 1: I think we're done with factories for today. We're going
Speaker 1: to a real zany world of whimsical magic. You mean
Speaker 1: that's right, the library. I thought you were gonna say Narnia. No,
Speaker 1: the library. Let's go be okay, but Narnia is at
Speaker 1: the library. In the words of C. S. Lewis, you're
Speaker 1: putting a hat on a hat. The library is already created,
Speaker 1: doesn't need talking animals. I know you two can't hear
Speaker 1: me but from up on your high horse. But you
Speaker 1: haven't heard the last of me Elliott and b. I
Speaker 1: ain't been at the light bulb for crying out a lot,
Speaker 1: and I Thomas Edison vowed to use all my powers
Speaker 1: of invention and capitalism to be chosen as a subject
Speaker 1: for the Who Was Podcast wherever podcasts are available, And
Speaker 1: that's our show for today. I'm gonna give a shout
Speaker 1: out to in Earned, Zack, Jane, Eric b and are
Speaker 1: amazing cast, which includes Devin Cole, Megan O'Neill, Adam Protector,
Speaker 1: Sandia Route, Eric Shack, Zach Timpson, and a big thank
Speaker 1: you to you for listening. Next week we'll find out
Speaker 1: about two more amazing people from the past. Until then,
Speaker 1: this is Elliott Airport pick up Calin saying we are history.
Speaker 1: Goodbye Everybody podcast because it's time to fly bo