0:00

I be ready for another exciting, educational,

0:03

entertaining, and elliot tastic episode

0:05

of the Who Was? Podcast? I sure, am

0:07

Elliott. It's our last episode of season

0:09

one, and just to look at the high

0:11

jinks I've gotten myself into today, Hold

0:14

on, are you writing a giraffe

0:16

and wearing a suit of harmor made of chocolate?

0:19

And who's that with you? Comedians?

0:22

Yea, all those things you said are

0:24

true. Well, I definitely want to hear how this

0:26

happens, and I'm sure audience wants to to then

0:29

buckle up your braid because I'm about

0:31

to tell you the most amazing story

0:33

you've ever heard. I can't wait. So

0:36

there, I was watering the flowers

0:38

in my neighbor's garden when

0:41

suddenly, right there, we don't

0:43

have time for whimsical adventures.

0:45

You've got a much more important story to

0:47

tell the story of me, genius

0:50

inventor Thomas Edison.

0:54

Oh right, hi, Mr Edison. Yeah,

0:56

you're one of our two historical figures today,

0:58

alongside another news inventor, Temple

1:01

Granded, but mostly

1:03

me. Okay, but what are you

1:05

doing here? In the opening sketch, this is

1:07

my special time to annoy Elliott

1:09

and do silly things. Not

1:11

after all the work I put into being a subject

1:14

on this podcast. I tell you, getting

1:16

onto the Who Was Podcast was one percent

1:19

inspiration in perspiration,

1:22

right, like you're famous saying about genius

1:24

being one percent inspiration perspiration.

1:28

Yeah, but I just said that. Now start

1:30

the show. My watch says it's Thomas

1:33

time. But I wanted to hear these amazing

1:35

story Yeah, Elliott

1:37

didn't even notice that I'm holding a

1:39

baby alien Goo goot

1:42

gps. It is sixty eight degrees

1:44

with a thirty percent chance of raining.

1:46

About it, Pacho cheese, you

1:49

babies, no time. We have

1:51

to start my episode. Eric, play us

1:54

the theme song. Now, buddy,

2:00

think you know about

2:02

the great story?

2:05

The game is on. To get some energy

2:07

and buckle up your brain because it's

2:10

signed to play whose

2:12

podcast? Because it's sound to

2:14

play who

2:17

Live

2:20

from Top the Land or so called so

2:22

Cattle? Los Angeles, Welcome to Who

2:24

Was? The history quesh show that gives contestants

2:27

the chance to win mega prizes and

2:29

podcast Glorie, I'm your announcer,

2:32

be and my favorite Beatles song

2:34

is let It Me. And

2:37

here's your host, a guy who can tell

2:39

you all the presidents in order whether you

2:41

want him to or not. It's Elliot's

2:44

Galen. Thank you be and welcome

2:46

everyone to the Who Was Podcast. The show

2:48

is like Jeopardy, only with surprise guests,

2:51

silly games, and a pretty melty

2:53

suit of chocolate armor. Yeah.

2:55

It's a lot warmer here than on Fluto, which

2:57

is where I picked up this little guy.

2:59

Go oh, I

3:01

wish I could hear that story, but no time.

3:04

Our contestants were sent who Was books about two

3:06

great figures from history. Now they're here to show

3:08

off their knowledge and the hopes of winning fantastic

3:10

prizes. Prize Words pod. Today

3:14

we're talking about who was Thomas Edison

3:16

and who is Temple Granded, two

3:19

inventors who changed the way people look

3:21

at cows. Edison invented the

3:23

light bulb. Why did that change the way people look at

3:25

cows? Well, now they can look at them

3:27

on the door. Oh boy, okay,

3:29

let's meet our contestants. Hey,

3:32

y'all, my name is Thomas. I'm a

3:34

hundred seventy five years old Aquarius

3:37

and my hobby is being a genius.

3:40

Edison, you're still here. Can't be

3:42

the subject of the show and a contestant,

3:45

you know, that's small minded? Small minded people

3:47

already telling geniuses they can't

3:50

do things the Can you

3:52

introduce our real contestants? Alright,

3:54

first up, we have Natalie Natalie.

3:57

Please introduce yourself. Hello.

3:59

I am Natal Natalie. Do

4:01

you have a fun fact you'd like to share with our

4:03

listening audience. I am on

4:05

an executive board with a couple

4:08

of other students in eighth grade. Oh

4:10

wow? And um, do

4:12

you do official things like you take

4:14

notes at your meetings? Um?

4:18

Stuff like that. Yes, we do generally

4:20

have to take notes, and the executive

4:22

board is usually heads of separate committees

4:25

that we have. And what committee are you the

4:27

head of? I am on the food Drive

4:29

Committee, the Book Drive committee, and a

4:31

be the Good Committee. That's amazing. That

4:33

sounds like such a huge amount of responsibility.

4:36

I'm really impressed. When I was your age, I

4:38

think I was mostly responsible for not losing

4:41

the television remote and not getting

4:43

too much popcorn on the couch

4:45

when I was watching television. That was about

4:47

right, And you failed at both of those things,

4:50

if I if I'm remembering that it was not a responsibility

4:52

that I upheld. Yeah, it was. I was

4:54

found to be wanting in the in maintaining

4:57

that responsibility, but I tried my best. I certainly

5:00

tried. But right, thank you so much

5:02

for joining us badly. And Iva, would

5:04

you please introduce yourself? Um,

5:06

I'm Ava, and uh

5:10

I look fake swim and

5:12

my favorite season is winter? Now

5:15

what is your favorite thing to bake in

5:17

the winter after you've had a

5:19

swim? Any coin? Swimming in the winter?

5:22

But alright, alright, my

5:24

hav thank to fake is cookies?

5:26

Are you a chocolate chip cookie

5:28

person? Or are you like one of these

5:30

oatmeal raisin? Um?

5:32

You know outliers gingerbread, I

5:35

like, I like sugar coak. And let's

5:37

talk shapes. Are you Are there any kinds

5:39

of special shapes, stars, trees,

5:42

dinosaurs, castles, anything

5:45

like that. It's just regular round cookie. Tans

5:47

cookie would be nice, but I usually make just

5:49

round one. Okay, okay. Thanks

5:51

to both of our contestants for being here, and thank

5:53

you to Eric, our musician, for providing that lovely

5:56

meet the contestants music and all the music

5:58

on the show today. So that's who is. Now let's

6:00

find out who was Thomas Edison with

6:03

four fast facts

6:06

cospects. Thomas

6:09

Alva Edison was born in eighteen

6:11

forty seven and died In nineteen

6:13

thirty one, he invented the light bulb,

6:15

the phonograph, and even an electric pen.

6:18

He received one thousand and ninety

6:20

three patents. In three

6:23

he started America's first movie

6:25

studio. He was a successful businessman

6:28

since childhood, when he worked on a train

6:30

selling his own newspaper, Fospects.

6:38

Now, Eva and Natalie were curious, have

6:40

you ever invented anything?

6:43

Um? Eva? What about you? If you invented

6:45

anything ever in your life? No?

6:48

Not really, not really? Okay,

6:50

alright, you're young yet if you there could

6:52

still be an inventor's time now,

6:55

uh that Natalie, You're you've already got

6:57

a lot on your hands being part of the governing

6:59

council of an entire school. But

7:01

have you found the time to create any

7:04

inventions? I don't think so.

7:07

Now, if you were going to invent something, what

7:09

would it be? Probably something that would

7:11

make it so I could read books faster

7:14

but still be able to enjoy them.

7:17

Interesting. Okay, that's good, um

7:19

Elliott. If you could invent something,

7:22

what would it be? I think

7:24

I would invent probably

7:28

like a robot bird. Okay,

7:31

would it be able to fly? No? Pet

7:33

birds are very messy and they're hard to

7:36

contain, so and I don't want to keep it in a

7:38

cage. So I just maybe be like a robot ostrich,

7:40

but they just kind of walk around, maybe sit down,

7:42

you know, be great pet, but easy to take

7:44

care of, easy to take care of, all right, very

7:47

good? And even what about you would you what

7:49

if you could invent something? What would you invent? I already

7:51

said robot bird, So you can't do that, okay,

7:54

Um, I would probably make I'm

7:57

probably invent like a self

8:00

in a car. And like I know there's like kind of self

8:02

driving cars, but a car where you don't

8:04

have to do anything. What if you have invented car you

8:06

don't even have to get into for to drive

8:08

you someplace. You

8:11

just stay at home, you send the car somewhere, suddenly

8:14

you're there. Yeah, there's

8:16

so much time and

8:18

uh and be what would you invent? You know, I was trying

8:21

to think about that. You know what I would actually

8:23

invent. I would invent something where

8:25

every time you um boil

8:27

an egg, like a six minute

8:29

egg, that it

8:31

would get the shell off perfectly

8:33

and you wouldn't end up with like divots and

8:36

um little pieces of shell when you eat

8:38

and egg because I have an egg almost

8:40

every day, and it's

8:43

so it's such a struggle to get the shell off

8:45

without ruining the outside

8:47

of the egg. It's a real struggle for me. So that's

8:50

hard, and it's every day. And you know what invention would really help

8:52

you with that? What a robot bird.

8:55

That's true every time. It's designed.

8:57

The perfect egg every time, the perfect

9:00

robot egg every time. Thank

9:02

you of both. Those were fantastic answers. I

9:04

think you know it's time to move on to our first game.

9:07

It's called Backpack from

9:09

the Past, Back

9:12

from the Best. For

9:16

this game, I found Thomas Edison's original

9:18

backpack. Hey, how

9:20

did you get my backpack? I'll sue you

9:22

for that. Edison. We thought

9:25

you wanted to be on this show.

9:27

I knew I should have invented some kind of backpack

9:30

theft arm. Anyway,

9:34

you will take things out of this backpack and describe

9:36

them to you. Then you'll choose the answer that best

9:38

explains what it had to do with Thomas Edison's

9:40

life. Okay, Natalie, this first item

9:43

is for you. M It's

9:45

a cup of some sort of mashed up gunk.

9:49

These are worms. I know the smell

9:51

of mashed up worms anywhere. Don't

9:53

ask me why anyway. Why

9:55

would Thomas Edison have all this gross

9:57

stuck? Was it because a as

10:00

a boy, he became ill with the mysterious

10:02

sickness that could only be cured by mixing

10:04

worms or be As

10:06

a boy, he once gave a cup of mashed

10:09

worms to a girl in the hope that it

10:11

would make her fly. I'm

10:13

pretty sure it is b You

10:16

are pretty sure, because you're right. The answer is

10:18

the Even as a young child, Thomas

10:20

Edison was curious about the world. After

10:22

watching a bird eat a worm and then fly

10:25

away, he decided to test whether worms

10:27

were the secret to flight. So he mashed

10:29

up some worms and gave them to a neighbor girl

10:31

to drink to see if she would gain the ability to fly

10:33

too. But it only made her sick and

10:36

Edison gotten a lot of trouble. Luckily he didn't

10:38

let that stop his love of science, or we'd be recording

10:40

this show in the dark. The next item

10:43

is for Eva. Oh

10:46

weird. It's like a huge collection of

10:48

stuff, bamboo, spider

10:50

webs, tissue, paper, even

10:52

human hair. There's like

10:54

three thousand of these things. Why

10:57

would Thomas Edison have all this junk

10:59

in his attack. Is it because A He

11:02

and his workers tested over three thousand different

11:04

materials to find the right filament for a lightbulb

11:07

or b. Edison was afraid

11:09

of throwing anything out, even human

11:12

hair, because he might need it later.

11:15

I think that was a You're

11:17

right. The answer is a lightholds

11:19

need of the filament literally the part of the

11:21

bulb, but electricity heats up, causing it to

11:23

glow, and Edison wanted a filament that would

11:25

last a long time. He and his employees tested

11:28

over three thousand types of material until they

11:30

found the right one sewing thread baked

11:32

in carbon. I don't know about you, but

11:34

I probably would have quit after the first two thousand

11:37

materials. That's why I'm Thomas

11:39

Edison and you're just some schmore reading

11:41

questions to children. Hey, not

11:44

fair. He is the schmow reading the questions.

11:47

Yeah, thanks for sticking up for me, Elliott.

11:49

And our next question is for Natalie

11:53

Gross. It's a dirty tissue. This

11:55

is the worst backpack from the past

11:57

we've ever opened. Why did

12:00

Thomas Edison have a boogery tissue

12:02

in his backpack? Was it because

12:05

A one of the early movies he

12:07

produced was called the Sneeze,

12:09

or because B. Edison experimented

12:12

with the superglue made out of

12:14

mucus. The answer

12:17

is A. That's right. The answer

12:19

is A. Shortly after inventing an

12:21

early movie viewing machine called a kinetoscope,

12:23

he decided to open a movie studio so people

12:25

would have something to watch on their kinetoscopes.

12:28

Edison movies were very short, and one of the earliest

12:30

was called The Sneeze because it was just a

12:33

movie of one of his workers sneezing. It doesn't

12:35

sound like much, but it's not like unboxing videos

12:37

are so amazing either. And the last item

12:39

of the round goes to EVA.

12:44

It's a bunch of clock springs. Does

12:47

Thomas Edison have these in his backpack? Because

12:49

A. Edison spent his later years

12:51

trying to invent springy shoes so he

12:54

could finally fly. Or B

12:56

he took the springs out of his factories

12:58

clocks so his work first wouldn't know

13:00

how much time they were working. I'm

13:03

pretty fair. That's that's

13:05

right. The answer is be Edison life working

13:07

long hours without going home for a rest, and he

13:09

expected as workers to do exactly the same,

13:12

so he took the springs out of the factory

13:14

clocks so that the workers couldn't keep track

13:16

of how many hours they've spent testing filaments

13:18

or sneezing or whatever. Not cool Edison.

13:21

Hey Elliott, you don't let me know how

13:23

many hours I've been working either. I tried

13:26

to be. You just can't tell time. Well,

13:28

sure I can, I just don't know what to tell

13:30

it. Give camera adorable

13:32

look. Oh boy, and that's the end of Backpack

13:35

from the Past. From

13:38

the past, by right

13:41

round everybody. You kids certainly

13:44

know a lot about me, which is not a surprise.

13:46

Unfascinating. How

13:49

I sneeze our way over to producer Jane

13:51

for the scores. Oh well,

13:54

he didn't be. Everybody's getting everything

13:56

right. We're all tied up with two points

13:58

each. Yes,

14:01

thank you, Jane. You know I

14:03

could replace Jane with a score keeping

14:06

machine. It would be

14:08

very easy to invent. You

14:10

just have to oil it three times an episode. No,

14:13

let's keep Jane. She really needs oiling

14:15

once an episode. And on that confusing

14:17

note, we're off to a short break. We'll be

14:19

right back with our next game, so don't go anywhere.

14:22

Eric, Please play us some Fashtepans

14:24

music. Please, m.

14:30

Pure. Welcome

14:34

back to the Who Was Podcast. Today we're

14:37

learning all about who was Thomas Edison

14:39

and who is Temple Granded And now

14:41

back to your host, Elliott Klin.

14:44

Thank you be. Our scores are currently Natalie

14:47

with two points and Eva with two points.

14:49

That's right, it's all tied up. These are fused competitors,

14:51

so let's get right to it by finding out more about

14:53

who is Temple Grandin with

14:56

four fast facts.

15:01

Temple Grandon was born in nine and

15:04

is still alive today. Temple Grandon

15:06

was born with autism, making her sensitive to

15:08

loud noises and unfamiliar situations.

15:11

She created a new field of science,

15:14

the study of how farmers affect the feelings

15:16

of farm animals. She invented better

15:18

farm equipment that keeps cow's calmer and

15:21

happier. Fools.

15:25

Now, let's calmly and happily move on to our

15:27

next game. It's something we call true

15:29

or false. True or false?

15:32

Is a true false? Is it false?

15:34

Or is a true? Is a true that it is false?

15:37

It was true or true? True

15:39

or false. In

15:41

this game, be will read a statement about Temple

15:44

Grandon, and you'll tell her whether that statement

15:46

is true or false, not

15:48

true in other words of false. And since

15:51

this is our second game, each question is worth two

15:53

points, even your first true

15:56

or false. Temple Grandon's first

15:59

inventions traps and franks.

16:02

True. Yes, the answer

16:04

is true. As a kid, Temple's first inventions

16:07

were all solid goutchas. She raked up

16:09

a web of strings to drop on anyone who walked into

16:11

a room without her remission. And when she was bullied

16:13

at school, she made it so that when the bully

16:15

opened their desk, the window blinds crashed down

16:17

right next to them. Luckily, she always

16:19

used her trap and prank abilities for good

16:22

and not for evil. And the next question is for

16:24

Natalie. As a child,

16:26

Temple's autism made it difficult for

16:28

her to understand people's facial expression,

16:31

but easier for her to understand the

16:34

emotions of horses. Is that

16:36

true or false? It is

16:38

true. That is also true. Yes.

16:40

Some people with autism life, Temple had

16:42

trouble reading the facial expressions of others.

16:45

Temple was fifty years old, that's right, five

16:47

zero before she learned what it means when someone

16:49

rules their eyes. This made it hard for her

16:51

to make friends. But another aspect of her autism

16:54

is that it helps her notice small details

16:56

of things. She noticed the ways horses

16:58

reacted when they were nervous, and she used

17:00

that to team horses other people had trouble riding,

17:03

and of course, reading the emotional signals

17:05

of cows would become her life's work. Okay,

17:08

Ava, this next statement is for you, tue

17:11

or false. Ava. Temple was inspired

17:14

by a machine for calming down walruses

17:16

to invent a human calming machine

17:18

she called the squish machine.

17:22

That is false, Yes, that is false.

17:24

Temple was inspired by a machine for calming

17:26

cows to invent what she called the

17:29

squeezes machine. When she was

17:31

fifteen, Temple began having panic attacks

17:33

when she noticed how putting cows in the tight space

17:35

calmed them down. So she tried it on herself

17:38

and created a machine that squeezed her gently

17:40

until she stopped feeling overwhelmed. Now

17:42

known as a hug machine, people all over

17:44

the world use it to be a safer and more relaxed

17:47

and Natalie, the final statement of the round goes

17:49

to you true or false.

17:52

When she was asked to find a way to help

17:55

cows who were infested with itchy bugs

17:57

called gabies, she looked

17:59

at the prob lum from the scabies point

18:01

of view, false, Yes,

18:04

you're right, that is bals. She looked at the problem

18:06

from the cow's point of view. It

18:08

turns out the only way to get scabies off of

18:10

cows is to dip the cow's body in

18:12

bug using. Sometimes the cows would

18:14

panic and drown while being dipped. Temple

18:17

observed the situation from the point of view

18:19

of the cows and realized it was scary

18:21

for a cow to walk down a slippery ramp into

18:23

a deep pool of poison. So she redesigned

18:26

the ramps to make him less slippery and hid how

18:28

deep the pool was. The cows felt safer

18:30

and dipping them became much easier. Now

18:33

only Temple would invent something to make it easier to

18:35

give be her scabies medicine. Nope,

18:37

you're just gonna have to keep hiding my pills in

18:40

ice cream. And that's the end

18:42

of the game. True, True,

18:44

True Horror Falls another

18:47

great game. Everybody. Now, let's walk down

18:49

a ramp to producer Jane, who's currently

18:51

in a deep pool of the scores. Jane,

18:54

that's right, O, yet I'm drowning in sixes.

18:57

We have a tie game with six points

18:59

each. Be careful,

19:02

be safe in that pool of six goos. Thank

19:05

you very much, Jane. This tie game continues

19:07

to be exactly that, a tie game. Before

19:10

we go to our next round, I'm very excited to announce

19:12

we have a very special guests with us.

19:15

That's right, we're joined live in the studio

19:17

by Temple Grandin's favorite

19:20

cow, Butter Scotch. Butter Scotch,

19:23

thank you so much for being with us today.

19:26

Wow, your favorite podcast.

19:29

That's an honor coming from such an illustrious

19:32

cow. Okay,

19:34

okay, enough flattery, Butter Scotch. We're not here

19:36

to talk about us. We're here to talk about you and

19:38

you're years of work with Temple grand Tell

19:41

us, how did you first meet Temple

19:45

Uh huh, No, way

19:48

at the same restaurant. That's

19:54

hilarious. I bet that was a lunch

19:56

The President isn't likely to forget. Now

19:58

my next question, stop stops,

20:01

shut it down. You cannot

20:03

be serious. Excuse me, Thomas

20:05

Edison. We were in the middle of interviewing an extremely

20:08

delightful cow. Yeah, what's

20:10

your problem? Alva if that is

20:12

your real middle name, Yes,

20:15

Alva is my real middle name.

20:18

Like if you started saying Alvin and then

20:20

forgot how it ends. And my

20:22

problem is that you have met America's

20:25

greatest event genius on your

20:27

show, and yet you're wasting time

20:29

with a cow. Don't

20:33

worry about the Scotch. Mr Edison does not represent

20:35

the views of the Who Was Podcast, which is very

20:38

pro spending time with cows.

20:41

Come on, you've got the Wizard of

20:43

menlo Park here, the first

20:45

person in history ever to record

20:47

their voice and put it back.

20:50

Wow. Really, what did you say

20:53

in the recording? Mm

20:55

hmm, Mary had a little lamb.

20:57

Its fleece was whitest snow. Oh,

21:00

I get it. So we can't talk about cows,

21:03

but you can flap your gums about lambs

21:05

all day. Look, Mr

21:08

Edison, you're a very important person,

21:10

but this episode isn't just about you. It's

21:12

also about Temple Brandon, and

21:14

it's also about having fun. Boh,

21:17

fun. You don't sell light

21:20

bulbs by having fun. It takes

21:22

work and long hours

21:25

and never seeing your family and

21:27

sleeping on an uncomfortable work

21:30

bench in your clothes.

21:33

I think he's crying. Be oh,

21:38

Mr Edison, seems like you're really stressed

21:40

out. You want to go take a turn in the squeeze machine.

21:43

Well, I have spent the last

21:46

for hours trying to come up with a way to

21:48

make electric socks. Maybe a

21:50

little squeeze would do be good. I

21:52

think so. All right,

21:55

I'll be back to interrupt the show again later.

21:58

Wow, who new famous inventor? This could

22:00

be so emotional, Scott.

22:07

I don't think I could say it any better than that. It's

22:09

time for us to take a break, But we'll be right back

22:11

with the final game of the episode and the crowning

22:14

of today's champion. Eric, Could

22:16

you please play us some squeeze machine music?

22:18

Please exqueez

22:30

me Sally?

22:34

Who was Marie?

22:37

You may remember me from winning multiple

22:39

Nobel Prizes, or perhaps

22:42

from my episode of the Who Was Podcast

22:44

where I played myself. I

22:46

wanted to take a moment to read one of my favorite

22:49

reviews about the Who Was Podcast.

22:52

This is from Shaken Bay and it reads

22:55

loved this Me and my little

22:57

sister love this show more. Please

23:00

ease our faith is Aman.

23:03

If you want to hear your review read on the app,

23:05

make sure to subscribe, like, and

23:08

review to the oas podcasts

23:10

in the I Heart Radio up or wherever

23:12

you get your podcasts. Revoir

23:15

or shoul Let's Day Abio. We're

23:21

back on the Whoas podcast. When we last

23:24

left off, Natalie had six points and

23:26

Eva at six points. It's a tie,

23:29

and now back to your host, Ellie Calin,

23:32

thank you be Before Thomas Edison can

23:34

jump in and yell at us again, let's get to our

23:36

last game, Converge of Greatness.

23:47

In this game, we will ask you multiple choice

23:49

questions about the places where Temple Brandon

23:51

and Thomas Edison connect, overlap,

23:54

or converge metaphorically, they don't

23:56

actually connect in real life physically. And

23:58

because we're in the third round, each question sin is

24:00

worth three points. Ready, the first

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queston goes to Natalie be take

24:04

it away. Temple Grandin

24:07

was expelled from school because her teachers

24:09

didn't know how to recognize her autism

24:11

and just thought she was disruptive. Thomas

24:14

Edison also left school early because a

24:16

teacher didn't understand his needs.

24:18

Was it because A He couldn't

24:21

hear at the teacher because he'd lost some of his hearing

24:23

to scarlet fever. B He never

24:25

bought his textbooks to class because they were on a shelf

24:27

too high for him to reach or

24:30

see. He was allergic to peanuts, and they

24:32

made him sit right next to George

24:34

Washington Carver. A.

24:37

That's right. The answer is a young Thomas

24:39

loved learning. He had trouble paying attention in school

24:42

and it didn't help, and he'd lost someone's hearing to illness.

24:44

When he was eight, his teacher called him quote

24:46

adult, and Thomas's mother was

24:49

so insulted she decided to teach him

24:51

herself. He raced through science textbooks,

24:53

but he didn't stay at home school for long. For the

24:55

time he was twelve, he was already working on the

24:57

railroad all to live long day. And

24:59

the next question is for Avon Thomas

25:02

Edison would stay in his laboratory, working for

25:05

days at a time, sleeping on a bench

25:07

without changing his clothes. Temple

25:09

Grandon also had some questionable

25:11

grooming habits as a young adult.

25:14

Did her boss need to tell her to a

25:17

stop flipping her fingernails during meetings,

25:19

be dust her hair regularly,

25:22

or see start wearing deodorant?

25:26

Uh? See yes, it's

25:28

see. Temple had trouble recognizing how

25:30

her actions effective the people around him. At

25:32

her first job, she impressed people with her amazing

25:34

work, but one day her boss put a can

25:37

of deodorant on her desk. Temple was

25:39

embarrassed, but she got the message never

25:41

forget kids. Sometimes the truth can be

25:43

embarrassing, but it's better not to ignore

25:45

it. And also never forget grown ups are

25:47

stinking. The next question is for Natalie

25:51

Temple. Grandon designed feed lots

25:53

and farm equipment that helped calm cows

25:56

down, something cal ranchers didn't

25:58

even know they needed. How it

26:00

Thomas Edison feel about new ideas

26:02

for inventions. A he

26:04

wanted to create totally new things

26:06

people didn't even know they needed. B

26:10

he only wanted to invent things people

26:12

already wanted. Or see,

26:15

he didn't want to invent things, but had been

26:17

cursed by a witch to be haunted by ideas

26:19

or inventions forever. As

26:23

fun as she sounds, I think it's you

26:26

made the right choice. That's the responsible uh

26:29

student Council's word member decision, and

26:31

I appreciate it. The answer is B. Thomas

26:34

Edison's first invention was an electronic voting

26:36

machine. There was only one problem. Nobody

26:38

wanted to use it, so Edison decided he

26:40

would only make inventions that he was sure people

26:42

already wanted. As a result, a lot of

26:45

his work was in making better versions of things

26:47

that already existed, rather than coming up with

26:49

incredibly original ideas like temples.

26:51

And the last question is for Eva. Thomas

26:55

Edison was a famous public figure who

26:57

often gave interviews about his inventions.

27:00

Temple grand and also became a public speaker.

27:02

But instead of talking about her inventions,

27:05

she talks about a how

27:07

to live more like a cow, be the

27:09

importance of deodorant, or see

27:12

how the world needs many kinds of minds.

27:15

I think that is C. You're

27:18

right, the answer is C. After writing her autobiography,

27:21

Temple became famous. Since then, she's

27:23

given lectures to thousands of people, who speaks

27:25

about the need to recognize all the different ways

27:28

people think and experience the world. She advises

27:30

kids with autism to follow their strengths rather

27:33

than be seen in only for their struggles. Meanwhile,

27:36

most of Thomas Edison's public speaking was about

27:38

how great Thomas Edison is and

27:40

what's wrong with that? I am great?

27:43

What are you still doing here? And

27:45

that's converge of greatness right

27:57

round everybody. It's almost time for

28:00

the big moment. But before we converge

28:02

on the greatness of producer Jane to find out our

28:04

winner. I had a final question for our contest,

28:06

sus this one for no points at all. What

28:09

was something that surprised you to learn about

28:11

either Thomas Edison were temple granted

28:13

Natalie, did anything really surprise you about either one

28:15

of them? Before I read

28:17

the book, I had no idea that

28:19

Thomas Edison was hard of hearing. Yeah,

28:22

a lot of people, um did not know

28:25

that. Uh, it's not something that's so

28:27

widely talked about when people

28:29

discussed Thomas Edison. But yeah, that's true.

28:31

And by the end of his life he could barely hear anything

28:34

at all. I think in the book, don't they talked about him

28:36

having to put his head up next to a piano to hear

28:38

the vibrations of the music, which

28:40

is a real dedication to piano music. Let me

28:42

tell you, when you're willing to just lay your head on top of

28:44

it, well, let's blame Yeah,

28:47

they don't. They don't look kindly on that. For guitar

28:49

though, as I found out, if you try to lay your

28:51

head on the strings, they're like, get out

28:53

of here. Yeah, they threw you right out of that concert, And

28:55

I I feel bad. I feel bad that I was telling

28:57

them throw her out, throw her out. I shouldn't have done that best.

29:00

Yeah, I just love blue grass. What can this thing?

29:03

And Eva? Is there anything that surprised you about

29:05

either of our history figures? Um? Something

29:07

that surprised me about Thomas Edison was

29:10

that he was called the Wizard of

29:12

Menlo Park. That's right. He

29:14

was so famous that he was called that.

29:16

People thought of him as a wizard for the amazing

29:19

scientific inventions he had. And of course he was in Menlo

29:21

Park, New Jersey. Uh. I'm

29:23

always trying to figure out, as someone who grew up in New

29:25

Jersey, were there any other wizards

29:27

in Menlo Park? Because if there were, maybe

29:30

there they can teach me their secret magic.

29:33

Well, isn't m. Bruce Springsteen the

29:35

Wizard of Atlantic City? Is that true?

29:38

I don't think anyone calls him that, But they couldn't

29:41

the Wizard of Asbury Park. They might call him because that's really

29:43

not parks home area. But

29:45

my apologies to the Boston and the people

29:47

of New Jersey the Garden State. What

29:50

is Elliott Klin the wizard of which town is

29:52

Elliot Killen? The Wizard of Ellie Killen is the

29:54

Wizard of Milburn New Jersey. But Anne

29:57

Hathaway was also from Melbourne, New Jersey,

29:59

so she wins and I'm more

30:01

of the I'm the associate wizard. Yeah,

30:05

yeah, there you go. Yeah, I'm the jester in the court

30:07

of Northern New Jersey. Thank you

30:09

so much for those glowing insights, Eva

30:12

and Natalie, and now it's time for that big moment.

30:14

Jane, please announce our winner. Ohio

30:17

didn't be I was a little bit of a wizard

30:19

myself. And although you said not to

30:21

add any points for their question, the

30:24

extra one at the end we had a tie

30:26

which was twelve each, so I did a

30:28

door. I did add points on

30:31

and they both got a hundred. We still have a tie

30:33

hundred and under and grow. What

30:35

an amazing its producer Jane is.

30:38

She's fiddling with the point totals, but it's

30:40

still a tie. It was so close

30:42

she is. She is unethically ethical,

30:45

that producer Jen amazing to

30:47

both of you. We love ties here on the show

30:49

because we love it when people win. You both

30:51

get ten seconds for shoutouts to those who

30:53

want to thank Natalie go for it first. Who would

30:55

you like to thank? I

30:58

would like to thank my family should be awesome.

31:01

Oh that's so sweet. And my mom for

31:03

letting me if you're on the show. Fantastic.

31:05

We would like to thank your mom. Is fine. And

31:08

Eva, who would you like to shout out to? Uman

31:11

to shout out to have my three cats Fern,

31:14

Tulip, and Apple because

31:16

they all obviously wanted to see it on. For

31:18

those at home, a lot of you's had a lot of cats passing

31:21

in front of the camera. Today we're

31:23

just one cat, but that Apple kept going back

31:25

and forth, so I was like, is that one cat? Is that multiple

31:27

cats? There's no way of knowing our winner and their

31:29

library of choice while we receiving a selection of

31:31

Who Was books, And I'm going to give a shout out

31:34

to intern Zack Jane, Eric Devin

31:36

Coleman for being our Thomas Edison and

31:38

being and a big thank you to both of our contestants

31:41

for playing such an amazing game today. This

31:43

is our last episode for season one of Who

31:45

Was Podcast, So I also want to give a big

31:47

thank you to you are fabulous audience

31:49

from everyone here at Who Was for making

31:51

our first season so much fun. Thank

31:54

you from the bottom of our history loving

31:56

hearts. This is Ellie Kalin saying a

32:00

thing saying We're history.

32:02

Goodbye everybody Hey.

32:12

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32:30

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