June 29, 2022 • 25 mins
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Crystal ball, crystal ball, show me the future, show me
it all, crystal ball, crystal ball show me. Heyb Elliott,
you scared me and I dropped my crystal ball. Oh no,
I'm so sorry. Wait a minute, why would you have
a crystal ball? Well, I was hoping to predict the future,
but it wasn't working anyway. Clearly it should have told
(00:24):
me you were going to come in and ruin Maday.
Maybe I forgot to turn it on. But the you
don't need a crystal ball to predict the future. In fact,
it won't work at all. Instead, all you really need
is your imagination, like the two people were talking about today. Yes,
two big names from the past who helped imagine and
shape the future, Jules Verne and Sally Ride. Jules Verne,
(00:45):
who imagined fantastic worlds of technological advancement in his popular novels,
and Sally Ride, who inspired a nation to dream big
with her pioneering work as a real life astronaut and beyond. Yep, Hey, sorry,
I bro your crystal ball. Yeah it's okay, it was
our rental. Okay, Well, then I predict that it's time
for the Who Was Podcast? Eric? Please fulfill my prediction
(01:08):
and play as the themes on what do you think
you know about the greats from this story? The game
is on. To get some energy and buckle up your
brain because it's time to play the last podcast. Because
(01:29):
it's time to play Who Live from tongb Land or
so called so Cow Los Angeles. Welcome to Who Was?
The history quiz show that gives contestants the chance to
win mega prizes and podcast glory. I'm your announcer B
so I'm doing so good today. I'm giving myself a
B plus. And here's your host, the guy wearing Elliott
(01:53):
Caylin's pants. It's Elliott Caitlin. Thank you be. It's such
a relief to know I'm wearing the right pants. And
welcome every one who was podcast this show. It's like Jeopardy,
only with surprise guests, silly games, and weird little songs
when deemed appropriate. Right now, our contestants were sent Who
(02:14):
Was books about too important figures from history. Now they're
here to show off their knowledge in the hopes of
winning fantastic prizes, prizes promos. Today's subjects are science fiction
pioneer Jules Verne and science fact pioneer Sally Ride. Now
let's meet our contestants and up first, we have Henry. Hi,
I'm Henry and I play violin and piano. Now, Henry,
(02:39):
do you play violin and piano at the same time? No? Okay,
all right, well maybe that's something to work towards. Maybe
if you could work play the piano with your toes
and the violin with your hands. Well, thank you, Henry. Uh.
And today on the show, we also have Pressley. Hi.
I'm Pressley and I'm All Star cheerleadre Oh. All right,
(03:03):
that is so exciting, so uh, Pressley, please tell us
what's your favorite thing about cheerleading? Probably tumbling? Tumbling nice.
I think my favorite part of cheer leading would be
the vocal part of it, because I'm not very good
at tumbling. As it turns out, Presley, what is it
about tumbling that you like so much? I just like
learning how to do new skills. Very cool, that's great.
(03:26):
That's the most fun thing when you do an activity
is to learn how to do new things with it,
like tumbling while playing piano while playing violin at the
same time. I'm just thinking the two of you could
team up and really do your activities together. In a
way that challenges the world and changes the way people
think about violins and pianos and cheerleading. Thank you both
of you, and thank you to Eric, our musician, providing
(03:47):
that incredible meet the contestants music as well as all
the music you'll hear on the show today. So that's
who is Henry and Presley. Now let's find out who
was Jules Verne with four fast facts Prospects. Jules Verne
was born in France in eighteen fifty and died in
nineteen oh five. Verne wrote many classic novels beloved to
(04:10):
this day, including Around the World in Eighty Days. Jules
verne stories were among the first to combine real life
science with fantastical stories, in a style of writing we
now call science fiction. Jules was thirty years old before
he started writing the books that would make him world
famous Prospects. In his late nineteenth century stories, Jewels Verned
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predicted technologies like submarines and rockets to space decades before
they became realities. What science or technology do you think
we have today that would really blow Jules Verne's mind?
I think that you'd probably could probably be more puzzled
about about how how our TVs work. I'm from now
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and I get confused about how might TV works A
lot of the time. You're always texting me for your password,
elliott I said, just put it, write it down on
a piece of paper, and that's how. That's how used
alve that problem. Here's the thing. I also get confused
about how pieces of paper work. So it's something that
I just need a lot of help with everything. Uh, Presley,
what do you think? Did you have any predictions about
the future. What kind of machines do you think we
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might have in the future? In a machine that will
solve my mask back? Yeah, that would be helpful for
all of us. I think I wish I had something
like that, and I need a machine that has my
passwords for my TV. Although then I'll need to have
a machine that keeps the password for that machine, and
I'll need a machine that's the password for that machine.
I'm gonna need so many machines, you know what. We Uh,
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we should just keep moving on. But those were great answers. Yes,
as we're very good answers. Are you getting those answers are?
Oh my goodness, it cannot be sure, Fern Jules. But
technology even eyes. The great George barn Put have predicted
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the world changing. Who was app Who was that? You want?
Someone in the past? Wow, Jules Verne, Hey, do you
want to help us with the first round of our game? Well,
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I'm not here to play. How you say hungry hungry hippos? Yeah,
that's how you say it. But here's what we're going
to do. It's a game we call true or false.
Whereas Juels might say ray Ufoe, Hey, Eric, do we
have a special ray Ufoe staying for jewels? Yeah? False?
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As Eric never ceases to amaze us, they have a
jingle for everything. Okay, In this game, Jules Verne is
going to say something about his incredible light, and you'll
have to tell us whether what he's saying is true
or false. And because this is our first game, each
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question is worth one point each. So this first question
is for Henry. You're at first okay, already True or false.
My father was a little bit upset when I began
my writing career because he wanted me to join the
family business, which was running at cheese shop. False. You're right,
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it's false. The burn family business wasn't cheese It was
the slightly less smelly profession of law. Take that lawyer's
lawyer burn. Jules's father, Pierre wanted his son to become
a lawyer just like him, Right, Jules, you can say
that my father Pierre really put a lot of Pierre
pressure on me. You couldn't say that, and you did.
But as Jules's success grew, so did his father's support
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of his career. Now how you say, um hugged it out?
How lovely? Okay, This next question is for you President Waila.
True or false? In eighteen seventy I had to put
my career on hold while France was fighting something called
the Franco Prussian War. That's right, it's true. You're right.
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France was fighting off an attack by the Prussians which
we would now call Germans in the Franco Prussian War,
and Jules lent his services by piloting his boat to
the San Michelle to help search for enemy ships. I
did not find any enemy ships, but I found new
determination to write the greatest books I could. How inspiring.
The next question is for Henry Jules, Okay, true or false?
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Twenty thousand Leagues Onto the Sea was my super smash
heat novel, which followed the Brave Captain Nemo and his
adventures playing faithball on the ocean floor. False. Yes, that's false.
The leagues in twenty Leagues under the Sea were in
baseball leagues. They referred to an old way in which
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we measured underwater distances. Exactly, Elliot, my friend, But I
do get that base part thing a lot. Okay. Resley
is up next. Okay. One of my first books was
about an adventure in a hot air balloon. But it
wasn't a very big seller until one of my friends
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started flying a giant hot air balloon around Perry. True
or false. False, I'm sorry, that's true. Five weeks in
a balloon with the name of the book is not
a big hit at first, but and Jule's friends, the
eccentric photographer and writer named Nedair, captured France's imagination by
demonstrating a giant balloon. The book took off. Oui monsieur
(09:42):
Nedir in crib. He called this giant balloon Gian because
Gian means giant in French. A gentleman and a genius
and a Gian, and my book wrote a wave of
French hot air balloon favor. And now let's ride that
fact to the end of round one and the end
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of true or false true true true true poorful? Ah,
does this mean I must go? I'm afraid so, Mr Verne,
But thank you so much for visiting well where the
pleasure it was all mine. The future is a fantastic world,
beyond even my imagination. Now, could you direct me to
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the nearest rocket to the moon. This is the future.
You have those No, no, we don't have those. But
you can have a phone that fits in your pocket.
I have no idea what any of those words mean. Okay,
Oh my gosh, I guess in Jules Verne day, they
didn't really have pockets. Learn something new every day. Now,
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let's touch base with producer Jane for the scores. We
have a very close game. Presley has one point and
Henry has two points. Thank you, Jane. Those scores are
very close. It's still anyone's game and we'll get right
back to the game after this short break. Eric, please
play us some future music if you would. The song's
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gonna have, the song's gonna add the songs about down,
the songs about and the song is gonna the song ended.
Welcome back to the Hulas podcast. Today we're learning all
about who was Jules Verne and who was Sally Ride?
And now back to your host, Elliott Kaylin, thank you be.
Our current scores are Henry too and Pressley one. These
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are fierce competitors, So let's get right to the next
game by finding out more about Sally Ride with four
fast factors. Sally Ride was born in California in ninety
one and died in Sally Ride became the first American
woman to fly to space in Sally's intense physical training
(11:53):
for her space flight included exercises like being dragged behind
a speedboat while wearing a space suit. Sally will the
first openly l g B t Q person on United
States currency when she appears on a quarter entering circulation
in two that's this year. Wow, what a pioneer. How
about you, Henry? How about you, Besley? Do you think
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you'll ever be able to go up into space? Do
you want to? And if you do, what do you
want to do there? Henry shaking his head, No, you
don't want to go into space? Yeah, tell us more
about that? Why why not? Well? What is that like?
It's not going to take its toll on the body
to I don't have to have to train for a year, right, Yeah,
that does seem like a lot of time just to
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like go somewhere, Like, I don't want to have to
train for a year, you know, to go to San
Francisco or Seattle or Chicago or Akron or Toledo. Well,
now Toledo, i'd train for a year. Okay, we're training
for a year to go to Toledo. Op Pressly, what
about you? Have you ever thought about going into space?
Is that's something you'd like to do. I just want
to go up there, and since i'm waitless, I can
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just do like flips and stuff. Yeah, imagine how much
great cheerleading you could do with no gravity. You could
fly through the air with the greatest of ease. That
would be amazing. Henry, is this making it sound any
more exciting to go into space? No? No, okay, given
a big shake of the head. No, I understand that
that means more astronaut ice cream for us. It's okay, Henry.
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Don't worry. We'll send you a postcard though. Yeah, yeah,
I wish you were here from space. Well, I understand.
Those are great answers. Everyone's got their own opinions about space,
and there's a lot to think about it. There, So
let's move on to our next game. It's all about
Sally Ride, and it's called multiple Space Choice. I like
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that theme song. That's great. It's like multiple choice questions,
but about space. You'll hear a space question and three
space answers, and you'll have to tell us which one
is the space correct one. And since this is the
second round, each question is worth two space points. Are
you ready? B did you just write a multiple choice
game but use the word space for every other word
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hex space? Now? Okay, Presley. Before she became an astronaut,
Sally Ride went to Stanford University to become a scientist
who studies the properties of space. This kind of scientist
is called a a space propertist, be a cosmonaut, or
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see an astrophysicist. That's right at C. An astrophysicist is
what you call someone who studies the properties of space. Oh,
you mean, like it's hugeness or its emptiness. Yeah, we're
it's second home in Taus. That's another property that space has. Okay, Henry,
this next question is for you. After being selected to
be an astronaut, Sally was surprised to find out that
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out of four thousand people working at NASA's Mission Control
in Houston. How many of them were women? A About
two thousand, B about forty or C about four B. No,
I'm sorry the answer is C. When she arrived at
NASA ninety seven, Sally found they were just under a
handful of women working there, But she paved the way
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for thousands of other women who broke through and followed
her lead over the years since then. The next multiple
space choice question is for Presley Pressley. For her first
Space Shuttle mission, Sally Ride helped both design and operate.
What important piece of equipment was it? A A navigation system,
be a giant robotic arm, or C a space heater. D.
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That's right, it's be a robotic arm. The massive robotic
arm that Sally helped design was used to move equipment
and even to launch satellites into space. Plus, I'm assuming
giant robot arms were also used to give giant robot hugs.
And the last question is for Henry all right, Henry.
After her career as an astronaut, Sally started a company
called Sally Ride Science with the help of some colleagues
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and her partner of twenty seven years, Tam O'Shaughnessy. What
did that company do? A. It made robot arms for
American homes. B. It promoted science education, especially for girls.
Or see it sold t shirts that said ride Sally
Ride B. That's right, it's be Sally Ride. Science created
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programs to inspire young people to pursue their love of
science and science careers, especially girls. And it worked. More
and more girls are going into science and that can
only be a good thing. Indeed, and that's it for
multiple space choice, Choice Choice. That was a great space game.
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Now let's go to space Jane with the space scores.
A space eliot. I believe these scores right now? Are
Presley five Henry four? All right, Well, with all that
talk about space, I've realized I need a little space
for myself. Let's take a break, fair enough us, and
we'll be back with the last thrilling game in just
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a bit. After this break, Eric, please play us some
giant robot arms music. Please massive capture Sally. Who was there,
Marie Curie? You may remember me from winning multiple Nobel prizes,
(17:26):
or perhaps from my episode of the Worst Podcast where
I played myself. I wanted to take a moment to
read one of my favorite reviews about the Who Was Podcast.
This is from Shaken Bay and it reads loved this
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Our faith is Rietman. If you want to hear your
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Radio up or wherever you get your podcasts A revoir
Should I stay abio? We're back on the Who Was Podcast.
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When we last left off, Henry had four points and
Presley had five points. And now back to your host,
Elliott Klin, Thank you be, and now it's signed for
our final game, Converge of Greatness. In this multiple choice game,
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we'll explore how the lives of Jules Verne and Sally
Ride connect, overlap, or converge. And because we're in the
third round of the game, each question is worth three points.
Are you ready? Okay? The first question goes to you,
Henry be take it away, okay, Henry. Sally Ride wrote
a book about her real life experience of spaceflight, called
To Space and Back. Jules Verne wrote a space flight
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book too, about and imaginary trip to Space. What was
that book called? Was it a From the Earth to
the Moon, be around the Galaxy in thirty five days,
or see the Intrepid Star Travelers from Beyond Time see
I'm So sorry. The answer was a The book was
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called From the Earth to the Moon. It also had
a sequel called Around the Moon, and it inspired the
first ever science fiction movie, which was called A Trip
to the Moon. Okay, let's move on to the next question,
which is for Pressley. In his Moon books, Jules Verne
predicted that rockets to space would someday take off from Florida, Florida.
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That's so specific, And indeed Sally Ride's space Shuttle flights
took off from what Florida location? Was it a cape?
Jules Verne b Cape Canaveral or see Cape Disney The Yes,
that's right, it's b. It's the Kennedy Space Center at
Cape Canaveral in flori where that fights took off from.
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NASA wanted to do launches near the ocean in case
the astronauts got in trouble and had to splash down
to safety, and amazingly, astronauts splashing down to safety is
another aspect of space flight predicted by Jules Verne. Also, amazingly,
no one at Cape Canaveral actually wears a cape. They
wear spacesuits. Makes sense, right, Well, they don't want to
be too on the nose, you know, it's not cape
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Cano's role, all right. Henry Jules Verne wrote about nineteenth
century technology helping someone get around the world in a
zippy eighty days. In her pioneering space flight, Sally Ride
orbited around the world many times in just six days.
But how many times did Sally Ride travel from Earth
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to space altogether? A once? B twice or see three times?
A space pioneer lady, See, I'm sorry, it's actually be
Sally Ride was the first American woman to go to space,
and also the first American woman to go to space twice,
once in nine eighty three and once in nineteen eighty four,
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not any times after that. But it's still not fair
she went to space twice. I haven't even been up
there once. All right, get in line, buddy, okay. Last
converge of greatness question is for Pressley. Sally Ride inspired
millions of girls with her career in space. But we
also know that Jules verne book Around the World in
eighty Days inspired one particular young woman to try her
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own trip around the world. In eighty nine she succeeded too,
and just in seventy two days. What was her name?
Was it a Julia Verne b Edith Alice Poe or
see Nellie Bly? See that's right, The answer is see
it was Nellie Bly. Newspaper readers in America loved her
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stories from her adventures around the world. Plus during her travels,
Nellie even got to meet Jules Verne himself. Great job everyone,
and that's it for Verge of Greatness. And that was
our final game of the game. But while we wait
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for Jane to telly the final points, I'd like to
hear a little bit more from our contestants. What's something
about either Jules Verne or Sally Ride that really surprised
you or stuck out to you or made a big impression. Yeah?
How should be surprised about? How? Really? About how Jewels
friend his father reacted to him becoming a writer. Yeah?
(22:34):
Did you think he would have been more excited about
him becoming a writer if he was Oh yeah, I
mean if he was alive today, he'd be like, let
me see if you wrote any books that that did well, wow,
they're all still here? Yeah, Okay, go ahead and do it.
I would say, as someone who's a writer, I think
it's great to be a writer. It's pretty bold of
Jewels to say, like, you know what, I gotta do
my own thing. I have to carve my own path,
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and this is what I think. And that he became
so successful. And that's another real similarity between Jewels Run
and Sally Ride. Is there both people who I'm sure
we're told at different parts of their life you can't
do the thing that you want to do. I don't
want you to be a writer, or you can't be
an astronaut. But they pushed through and they did it,
and that's really exciting. If you want to do something,
then do your best to make it happen. And don't
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listen to people who say that you can't. Unless they
say you can't play a violin with your hands while
you play a piano with your feet. That might be,
now that I think about it, that might be a
little too difficult. Trying, Still with trying, producer, Jane, can
you please tell us our winner? All right? Sure, Ken,
Henry and probably were very competitive, but in the end,
Presley is our winner with eleven points. Congratulations Presley, great game. Henner,
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you played a great game two and you should be
really proud. Presley is our winner. You get ten seconds
for shout outs. Who would you like to thank for
your victory today? Who helped you out? Uh? My family
and my friends. That's really nice, that's great. Well, you
were both fantastic contestants. Were really glad we had you here.
Our winner and their library of choice will be receiving
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a selection of Who Was books. And I'm going to
give my own shout outs to intern Zach Jane, Eric
Peter McNerney for being our jewels vern and to be
And a big thank you to both of our contestants
for playing such a great game today. And to you
wherever you are right now listening to these words. Thank
you for listening to these words. Next week come back
to us, we're gonna find out who Was two more
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Crystal ball, crystal ball, show me the future, show me
it all, crystal ball, crystal ball show me. Heyb Elliott,
you scared me and I dropped my crystal ball. Oh no,
I'm so sorry. Wait a minute, why would you have
a crystal ball? Well, I was hoping to predict the future,
but it wasn't working anyway. Clearly it should have told
(00:24):
me you were going to come in and ruin Maday.
Maybe I forgot to turn it on. But the you
don't need a crystal ball to predict the future. In fact,
it won't work at all. Instead, all you really need
is your imagination, like the two people were talking about today. Yes,
two big names from the past who helped imagine and
shape the future, Jules Verne and Sally Ride. Jules Verne,
(00:45):
who imagined fantastic worlds of technological advancement in his popular novels,
and Sally Ride, who inspired a nation to dream big
with her pioneering work as a real life astronaut and beyond. Yep, Hey, sorry,
I bro your crystal ball. Yeah it's okay, it was
our rental. Okay, Well, then I predict that it's time
for the Who Was Podcast? Eric? Please fulfill my prediction
(01:08):
and play as the themes on what do you think
you know about the greats from this story? The game
is on. To get some energy and buckle up your
brain because it's time to play the last podcast. Because
(01:29):
it's time to play Who Live from tongb Land or
so called so Cow Los Angeles. Welcome to Who Was?
The history quiz show that gives contestants the chance to
win mega prizes and podcast glory. I'm your announcer B
so I'm doing so good today. I'm giving myself a
B plus. And here's your host, the guy wearing Elliott
(01:53):
Caylin's pants. It's Elliott Caitlin. Thank you be. It's such
a relief to know I'm wearing the right pants. And
welcome every one who was podcast this show. It's like Jeopardy,
only with surprise guests, silly games, and weird little songs
when deemed appropriate. Right now, our contestants were sent Who
(02:14):
Was books about too important figures from history. Now they're
here to show off their knowledge in the hopes of
winning fantastic prizes, prizes promos. Today's subjects are science fiction
pioneer Jules Verne and science fact pioneer Sally Ride. Now
let's meet our contestants and up first, we have Henry. Hi,
I'm Henry and I play violin and piano. Now, Henry,
(02:39):
do you play violin and piano at the same time? No? Okay,
all right, well maybe that's something to work towards. Maybe
if you could work play the piano with your toes
and the violin with your hands. Well, thank you, Henry. Uh.
And today on the show, we also have Pressley. Hi.
I'm Pressley and I'm All Star cheerleadre Oh. All right,
(03:03):
that is so exciting, so uh, Pressley, please tell us
what's your favorite thing about cheerleading? Probably tumbling? Tumbling nice.
I think my favorite part of cheer leading would be
the vocal part of it, because I'm not very good
at tumbling. As it turns out, Presley, what is it
about tumbling that you like so much? I just like
learning how to do new skills. Very cool, that's great.
(03:26):
That's the most fun thing when you do an activity
is to learn how to do new things with it,
like tumbling while playing piano while playing violin at the
same time. I'm just thinking the two of you could
team up and really do your activities together. In a
way that challenges the world and changes the way people
think about violins and pianos and cheerleading. Thank you both
of you, and thank you to Eric, our musician, providing
(03:47):
that incredible meet the contestants music as well as all
the music you'll hear on the show today. So that's
who is Henry and Presley. Now let's find out who
was Jules Verne with four fast facts Prospects. Jules Verne
was born in France in eighteen fifty and died in
nineteen oh five. Verne wrote many classic novels beloved to
(04:10):
this day, including Around the World in Eighty Days. Jules
verne stories were among the first to combine real life
science with fantastical stories, in a style of writing we
now call science fiction. Jules was thirty years old before
he started writing the books that would make him world
famous Prospects. In his late nineteenth century stories, Jewels Verned
(04:33):
predicted technologies like submarines and rockets to space decades before
they became realities. What science or technology do you think
we have today that would really blow Jules Verne's mind?
I think that you'd probably could probably be more puzzled
about about how how our TVs work. I'm from now
(04:55):
and I get confused about how might TV works A
lot of the time. You're always texting me for your password,
elliott I said, just put it, write it down on
a piece of paper, and that's how. That's how used
alve that problem. Here's the thing. I also get confused
about how pieces of paper work. So it's something that
I just need a lot of help with everything. Uh, Presley,
what do you think? Did you have any predictions about
the future. What kind of machines do you think we
(05:15):
might have in the future? In a machine that will
solve my mask back? Yeah, that would be helpful for
all of us. I think I wish I had something
like that, and I need a machine that has my
passwords for my TV. Although then I'll need to have
a machine that keeps the password for that machine, and
I'll need a machine that's the password for that machine.
I'm gonna need so many machines, you know what. We Uh,
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we should just keep moving on. But those were great answers. Yes,
as we're very good answers. Are you getting those answers are?
Oh my goodness, it cannot be sure, Fern Jules. But
technology even eyes. The great George barn Put have predicted
(06:01):
the world changing. Who was app Who was that? You want?
Someone in the past? Wow, Jules Verne, Hey, do you
want to help us with the first round of our game? Well,
(06:22):
I'm not here to play. How you say hungry hungry hippos? Yeah,
that's how you say it. But here's what we're going
to do. It's a game we call true or false.
Whereas Juels might say ray Ufoe, Hey, Eric, do we
have a special ray Ufoe staying for jewels? Yeah? False?
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As Eric never ceases to amaze us, they have a
jingle for everything. Okay, In this game, Jules Verne is
going to say something about his incredible light, and you'll
have to tell us whether what he's saying is true
or false. And because this is our first game, each
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question is worth one point each. So this first question
is for Henry. You're at first okay, already True or false.
My father was a little bit upset when I began
my writing career because he wanted me to join the
family business, which was running at cheese shop. False. You're right,
(07:29):
it's false. The burn family business wasn't cheese It was
the slightly less smelly profession of law. Take that lawyer's
lawyer burn. Jules's father, Pierre wanted his son to become
a lawyer just like him, Right, Jules, you can say
that my father Pierre really put a lot of Pierre
pressure on me. You couldn't say that, and you did.
But as Jules's success grew, so did his father's support
(07:51):
of his career. Now how you say, um hugged it out?
How lovely? Okay, This next question is for you President Waila.
True or false? In eighteen seventy I had to put
my career on hold while France was fighting something called
the Franco Prussian War. That's right, it's true. You're right.
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France was fighting off an attack by the Prussians which
we would now call Germans in the Franco Prussian War,
and Jules lent his services by piloting his boat to
the San Michelle to help search for enemy ships. I
did not find any enemy ships, but I found new
determination to write the greatest books I could. How inspiring.
The next question is for Henry Jules, Okay, true or false?
(08:37):
Twenty thousand Leagues Onto the Sea was my super smash
heat novel, which followed the Brave Captain Nemo and his
adventures playing faithball on the ocean floor. False. Yes, that's false.
The leagues in twenty Leagues under the Sea were in
baseball leagues. They referred to an old way in which
(08:58):
we measured underwater distances. Exactly, Elliot, my friend, But I
do get that base part thing a lot. Okay. Resley
is up next. Okay. One of my first books was
about an adventure in a hot air balloon. But it
wasn't a very big seller until one of my friends
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started flying a giant hot air balloon around Perry. True
or false. False, I'm sorry, that's true. Five weeks in
a balloon with the name of the book is not
a big hit at first, but and Jule's friends, the
eccentric photographer and writer named Nedair, captured France's imagination by
demonstrating a giant balloon. The book took off. Oui monsieur
(09:42):
Nedir in crib. He called this giant balloon Gian because
Gian means giant in French. A gentleman and a genius
and a Gian, and my book wrote a wave of
French hot air balloon favor. And now let's ride that
fact to the end of round one and the end
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of true or false true true true true poorful? Ah,
does this mean I must go? I'm afraid so, Mr Verne,
But thank you so much for visiting well where the
pleasure it was all mine. The future is a fantastic world,
beyond even my imagination. Now, could you direct me to
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the nearest rocket to the moon. This is the future.
You have those No, no, we don't have those. But
you can have a phone that fits in your pocket.
I have no idea what any of those words mean. Okay,
Oh my gosh, I guess in Jules Verne day, they
didn't really have pockets. Learn something new every day. Now,
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let's touch base with producer Jane for the scores. We
have a very close game. Presley has one point and
Henry has two points. Thank you, Jane. Those scores are
very close. It's still anyone's game and we'll get right
back to the game after this short break. Eric, please
play us some future music if you would. The song's
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gonna have, the song's gonna add the songs about down,
the songs about and the song is gonna the song ended.
Welcome back to the Hulas podcast. Today we're learning all
about who was Jules Verne and who was Sally Ride?
And now back to your host, Elliott Kaylin, thank you be.
Our current scores are Henry too and Pressley one. These
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are fierce competitors, So let's get right to the next
game by finding out more about Sally Ride with four
fast factors. Sally Ride was born in California in ninety
one and died in Sally Ride became the first American
woman to fly to space in Sally's intense physical training
(11:53):
for her space flight included exercises like being dragged behind
a speedboat while wearing a space suit. Sally will the
first openly l g B t Q person on United
States currency when she appears on a quarter entering circulation
in two that's this year. Wow, what a pioneer. How
about you, Henry? How about you, Besley? Do you think
(12:15):
you'll ever be able to go up into space? Do
you want to? And if you do, what do you
want to do there? Henry shaking his head, No, you
don't want to go into space? Yeah, tell us more
about that? Why why not? Well? What is that like?
It's not going to take its toll on the body
to I don't have to have to train for a year, right, Yeah,
that does seem like a lot of time just to
(12:36):
like go somewhere, Like, I don't want to have to
train for a year, you know, to go to San
Francisco or Seattle or Chicago or Akron or Toledo. Well,
now Toledo, i'd train for a year. Okay, we're training
for a year to go to Toledo. Op Pressly, what
about you? Have you ever thought about going into space?
Is that's something you'd like to do. I just want
to go up there, and since i'm waitless, I can
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just do like flips and stuff. Yeah, imagine how much
great cheerleading you could do with no gravity. You could
fly through the air with the greatest of ease. That
would be amazing. Henry, is this making it sound any
more exciting to go into space? No? No, okay, given
a big shake of the head. No, I understand that
that means more astronaut ice cream for us. It's okay, Henry.
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Don't worry. We'll send you a postcard though. Yeah, yeah,
I wish you were here from space. Well, I understand.
Those are great answers. Everyone's got their own opinions about space,
and there's a lot to think about it. There, So
let's move on to our next game. It's all about
Sally Ride, and it's called multiple Space Choice. I like
(13:42):
that theme song. That's great. It's like multiple choice questions,
but about space. You'll hear a space question and three
space answers, and you'll have to tell us which one
is the space correct one. And since this is the
second round, each question is worth two space points. Are
you ready? B did you just write a multiple choice
game but use the word space for every other word
(14:04):
hex space? Now? Okay, Presley. Before she became an astronaut,
Sally Ride went to Stanford University to become a scientist
who studies the properties of space. This kind of scientist
is called a a space propertist, be a cosmonaut, or
(14:24):
see an astrophysicist. That's right at C. An astrophysicist is
what you call someone who studies the properties of space. Oh,
you mean, like it's hugeness or its emptiness. Yeah, we're
it's second home in Taus. That's another property that space has. Okay, Henry,
this next question is for you. After being selected to
be an astronaut, Sally was surprised to find out that
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out of four thousand people working at NASA's Mission Control
in Houston. How many of them were women? A About
two thousand, B about forty or C about four B. No,
I'm sorry the answer is C. When she arrived at
NASA ninety seven, Sally found they were just under a
handful of women working there, But she paved the way
(15:08):
for thousands of other women who broke through and followed
her lead over the years since then. The next multiple
space choice question is for Presley Pressley. For her first
Space Shuttle mission, Sally Ride helped both design and operate.
What important piece of equipment was it? A A navigation system,
be a giant robotic arm, or C a space heater. D.
(15:35):
That's right, it's be a robotic arm. The massive robotic
arm that Sally helped design was used to move equipment
and even to launch satellites into space. Plus, I'm assuming
giant robot arms were also used to give giant robot hugs.
And the last question is for Henry all right, Henry.
After her career as an astronaut, Sally started a company
called Sally Ride Science with the help of some colleagues
(15:57):
and her partner of twenty seven years, Tam O'Shaughnessy. What
did that company do? A. It made robot arms for
American homes. B. It promoted science education, especially for girls.
Or see it sold t shirts that said ride Sally
Ride B. That's right, it's be Sally Ride. Science created
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programs to inspire young people to pursue their love of
science and science careers, especially girls. And it worked. More
and more girls are going into science and that can
only be a good thing. Indeed, and that's it for
multiple space choice, Choice Choice. That was a great space game.
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Now let's go to space Jane with the space scores.
A space eliot. I believe these scores right now? Are
Presley five Henry four? All right, Well, with all that
talk about space, I've realized I need a little space
for myself. Let's take a break, fair enough us, and
we'll be back with the last thrilling game in just
(17:02):
a bit. After this break, Eric, please play us some
giant robot arms music. Please massive capture Sally. Who was there,
Marie Curie? You may remember me from winning multiple Nobel prizes,
(17:26):
or perhaps from my episode of the Worst Podcast where
I played myself. I wanted to take a moment to
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This is from Shaken Bay and it reads loved this
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Our faith is Rietman. If you want to hear your
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Should I stay abio? We're back on the Who Was Podcast.
(18:11):
When we last left off, Henry had four points and
Presley had five points. And now back to your host,
Elliott Klin, Thank you be, and now it's signed for
our final game, Converge of Greatness. In this multiple choice game,
(18:36):
we'll explore how the lives of Jules Verne and Sally
Ride connect, overlap, or converge. And because we're in the
third round of the game, each question is worth three points.
Are you ready? Okay? The first question goes to you,
Henry be take it away, okay, Henry. Sally Ride wrote
a book about her real life experience of spaceflight, called
To Space and Back. Jules Verne wrote a space flight
(18:58):
book too, about and imaginary trip to Space. What was
that book called? Was it a From the Earth to
the Moon, be around the Galaxy in thirty five days,
or see the Intrepid Star Travelers from Beyond Time see
I'm So sorry. The answer was a The book was
(19:19):
called From the Earth to the Moon. It also had
a sequel called Around the Moon, and it inspired the
first ever science fiction movie, which was called A Trip
to the Moon. Okay, let's move on to the next question,
which is for Pressley. In his Moon books, Jules Verne
predicted that rockets to space would someday take off from Florida, Florida.
(19:40):
That's so specific, And indeed Sally Ride's space Shuttle flights
took off from what Florida location? Was it a cape?
Jules Verne b Cape Canaveral or see Cape Disney The Yes,
that's right, it's b. It's the Kennedy Space Center at
Cape Canaveral in flori where that fights took off from.
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NASA wanted to do launches near the ocean in case
the astronauts got in trouble and had to splash down
to safety, and amazingly, astronauts splashing down to safety is
another aspect of space flight predicted by Jules Verne. Also, amazingly,
no one at Cape Canaveral actually wears a cape. They
wear spacesuits. Makes sense, right, Well, they don't want to
be too on the nose, you know, it's not cape
(20:21):
Cano's role, all right. Henry Jules Verne wrote about nineteenth
century technology helping someone get around the world in a
zippy eighty days. In her pioneering space flight, Sally Ride
orbited around the world many times in just six days.
But how many times did Sally Ride travel from Earth
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to space altogether? A once? B twice or see three times?
A space pioneer lady, See, I'm sorry, it's actually be
Sally Ride was the first American woman to go to space,
and also the first American woman to go to space twice,
once in nine eighty three and once in nineteen eighty four,
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not any times after that. But it's still not fair
she went to space twice. I haven't even been up
there once. All right, get in line, buddy, okay. Last
converge of greatness question is for Pressley. Sally Ride inspired
millions of girls with her career in space. But we
also know that Jules verne book Around the World in
eighty Days inspired one particular young woman to try her
(21:28):
own trip around the world. In eighty nine she succeeded too,
and just in seventy two days. What was her name?
Was it a Julia Verne b Edith Alice Poe or
see Nellie Bly? See that's right, The answer is see
it was Nellie Bly. Newspaper readers in America loved her
(21:50):
stories from her adventures around the world. Plus during her travels,
Nellie even got to meet Jules Verne himself. Great job everyone,
and that's it for Verge of Greatness. And that was
our final game of the game. But while we wait
(22:13):
for Jane to telly the final points, I'd like to
hear a little bit more from our contestants. What's something
about either Jules Verne or Sally Ride that really surprised
you or stuck out to you or made a big impression. Yeah?
How should be surprised about? How? Really? About how Jewels
friend his father reacted to him becoming a writer. Yeah?
(22:34):
Did you think he would have been more excited about
him becoming a writer if he was Oh yeah, I
mean if he was alive today, he'd be like, let
me see if you wrote any books that that did well, wow,
they're all still here? Yeah, Okay, go ahead and do it.
I would say, as someone who's a writer, I think
it's great to be a writer. It's pretty bold of
Jewels to say, like, you know what, I gotta do
my own thing. I have to carve my own path,
(22:55):
and this is what I think. And that he became
so successful. And that's another real similarity between Jewels Run
and Sally Ride. Is there both people who I'm sure
we're told at different parts of their life you can't
do the thing that you want to do. I don't
want you to be a writer, or you can't be
an astronaut. But they pushed through and they did it,
and that's really exciting. If you want to do something,
then do your best to make it happen. And don't
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listen to people who say that you can't. Unless they
say you can't play a violin with your hands while
you play a piano with your feet. That might be,
now that I think about it, that might be a
little too difficult. Trying, Still with trying, producer, Jane, can
you please tell us our winner? All right? Sure, Ken,
Henry and probably were very competitive, but in the end,
Presley is our winner with eleven points. Congratulations Presley, great game. Henner,
(23:43):
you played a great game two and you should be
really proud. Presley is our winner. You get ten seconds
for shout outs. Who would you like to thank for
your victory today? Who helped you out? Uh? My family
and my friends. That's really nice, that's great. Well, you
were both fantastic contestants. Were really glad we had you here.
Our winner and their library of choice will be receiving
(24:05):
a selection of Who Was books. And I'm going to
give my own shout outs to intern Zach Jane, Eric
Peter McNerney for being our jewels vern and to be
And a big thank you to both of our contestants
for playing such a great game today. And to you
wherever you are right now listening to these words. Thank
you for listening to these words. Next week come back
to us, we're gonna find out who Was two more
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great figures from history. Until then, this is Elliott Elliot's
pants swearing Klin saying we are history. Goodbye. Everybody got
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