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dream come true. But where's all the Elliot's lines? Oh that's right, I'm going to host our backpack from the past super cut. Well, he's at that calligraphy conference for Elliot's with two t s. There's a shocking number of them. I mean there's more Elliot's into calligraphy than Leslie's into ceramics. And trust me, that's a lot of Leslie's. That would be a good band named Geraldine. Hey, and speaking of music, Eric,

please play that theme song here we go? What do you think you know about the faints from this study? Before the game is on? To get some energy and buckle up in your brain, because it's time to play It's the worst podcast, Because it's time to favorite Fast, Who Live from Tong valand or so called so Cow Los Angeles. It's Who Was? A history quiz show that for today is gonna be back to back to back Backpack from the Past. I'm your announcer, be and for

today I'm also your host. Yes, welcome to the beta version of the show. Today's episode is a collection of one of our favorite games, Backpack from the Past. Backpack from the Past, baby Now. The real for Backpack from the Past are simple. Elliott or I will dig into our backpack from the past, a back filled with personal objects from famous figures throughout history. Will describe those objects for our contestants, who will then tell us what the

object represents. It's kind of like a historical show and tell that's heavy on the tail. Sometimes our famous figures will be the one sharing their own items from the backpack, like this first episode featuring Harriet Tubman. You'll hear her voice along with mine and Elliott's. Yeah, this is one of my favorites to Geraldine. Let's listen in and hear Harriet and THEO and Charlie are contestants for this episode. We're all that game back from the best. All right,

Dear here is the first object. It's a quilt. What is the story behind this quilt? Um? So, Harriet Tubman actually married a man named John and I think they were gonna move. Uh. She showed a quilte that took her a very long time, and that was her most prized possession, and when she was escaping her enslavement, she actually gave that quote to one of the ladies that helped her. Oh my gosh, add ten percent. That is corrat way to go to you that. Thank you. I'm

very impressed to you. You are absolutely right. I made this quilte from my first marriage to John Tubman. After we married, I told John I was escaping from slavery, and he told me he wasn't going to leave with me, even though he was a free man. I left without it and gave this quilte as a gift to a Quaker woman who helped me escape. Charlie Europe, I'm holding here a few plants. They are water lily and craigs bill, Charlie, Why does Harriet have these plants in her backpack? Okay?

So Harriet also became a nurse and a lot of people were feeling sick at the time, and so she used some plants that she had learned from her mother and use them to heal people. That is right. I learned from my mother and my father. They taught me how to use roots and plants to cure diseases. When I was a nurse in the Union Army, I helped cure dysentery using those plants. Oh my, this bag is getting a little heavy heavy. That's weird. It's just a backpack with what is it? What's in that bag? Whoa,

it's a full sized fishing boat. Up rudder. Sorry, that's THEO. Don't worry about how Harriet managed to fit a full sized fishing boat into this very tiny backpack. Just tell us why does Harriet have a full sized fishing boat in her very tiny backpack? Um, I'm not exactly sure, but there's a couple of reasons why she might. But one of the reasons I think why it might be a fishing boat is because she helped her sister's family escape from enslavement and they sailed down the river in

the fishing boat. But there's another part where she used the boat to like attack Confederate basis. Um, during the Civil War, you're pretty much on the right track theo As one of the missions for the Underground Railroad, I helped my sister Mary and her family escaped slavery by boat. Okay, now the next item, Huh, this last subject is really obscure. Why don't what do you mean by obscure? What do you mean by that? It's the North Star? The North

Star in a backpack. Now I've seen everything. Okay, So she's the North Star in her backpack because when she was trying to escape from slavery, runaway slaves would follow the North Star because they knew it leads them north. And in the north northern parts of America, um slavery was banned, so they were safe there. That's right, Charlie. My father taught me how to fine the North Star. He said the star, which was right next to the Big Dipper, was a guiding light for enslaved people to

lead them north to freedom. And you know what, my backpack is empty, so that means the game is over. The baby. What a g eight day for me. I got to meet Harriet Tubman and had like four handfuls of mint and three ginger roots for dinner that night. And it wasn't even my birthday. Next up, we're about to find out what objects were in the backpack for Napoleon and see if contestants Nola and Desmond can tell

us how they relate to his life. Roll that tape, Barrick, all right, I'm going to take out the first item from the backpack. Oh, it's two pieces of bread. One is soft white bread and the other is old, hard brown bread. Does this have something to do with a Napoleon's dream of opening a bakery? Or be the food Napoleon eight when he was young or see I don't know, maybe he was gluten intolerant. B That's right. The answer

is be. Even as a boy, Napoleon wanted to grow up to be a soldier, so he would trade food with a real soldier, exchanging his mother's soft, fresh baked white bread for the soldier's hard, army brown bread. He told his mom, if I'm going to be as soldier, I must get used to eating soldier spread. Oh, great French accent there, thank you in French. Whatever that is. The next item is for Desmond. B what's in that backpack? It's a snowball with a rock in the center of it.

It's amazing that it stayed frozen for two hundred years. But you know that's the who was backpack historical closet is very cold, Desmond. What does this have to do with Napoleon Bonaparte? Was he a involved in a big snowball battle? Be a master snowman builder or see afraid of the cold? That's right. A. When Napoleon was fourteen years old, he led his classmates in a huge snowball war that went on for weeks. It was Napoleon's first

big battle. So it ended in a draw when the teachers made them stop because they were putting rocks in the snowballs. Listeners, don't do that at home. Napoleon is a trained snowball professional, Nola. The next question is for you, Oh wow, it's the crown, and hey it fits me. Be Please don't try on other people's crowns. That's how you get lice. Okay, Nola. What's this crown doing in Napoleon's backpack? Did he a kill a king? B have his birthday party of burger king? Or see have himself

crowned king? That's right. See. In seventeen ninety nine, Napoleon took control of the French government and in eighteen o four he was officially crowned Emperor of France. Pretty impressive for a kid who used to give away good bread and put rocks in his snowballs. Okay, there's just one item left in the backpack, Desmond. This one is for you. It's a postcard. There's a picture of an island and it says, Elba, wish you weren't here. What would that

mean to Napoleon? Was he a vacationing on Elba? Be imprisoned on Elba? Or see bought a time share on Alba, but you know he never got around to using it because he was too busy invading countries. That's right. B In eighteen fourteen, a group of countries teamed up to defeat Napoleon after he tried to conquer Ussia. They sent him away to the island of Elba, where life was

really boring. Ten months later, Napoleon came back took over France again, but then he lost the Battle of Waterloo and Scott sent to an even smaller island, where he spent the last five years of his life gardening. Typical retiree behavior. And now it's time to retire from this game. From the Beast Magnifico. We've got a lot more items in the backpack, so don't go anywhere. We'll be right

back after this short break. Hey, who was Her? Want to make a shout out to your own favorite person history, famous or unfamous? Do you think your sour dough recipe is better than ours? Would you like to tell us your craziest dream? What I'm trying to say is we want to hear from you, so send us an email or voice memo at the Who Was Podcast at gmail dot com. Welcome back to the Who Was Podcast? Backpack

from the past. Super cut addition, and now here's your host, B. Thank you, B. I must say you put on one heck of a show. Who Why? Thank you Be. I guess it's something I picked up from the subject of our next episode, p T. Barnum. Oh wow, B. I can't wait to see what was in his backpack? I know, right be. Our contestants, Declin and Josie did an amazing job. You could even call this episode the greatest show on Earth. Let's hear it. I found a d to some land.

It says this land, known as Ivy Island, now belongs to my grandson Phineas Taylor Barnum. What is this about? Is it a prank pts grandfather played on him? Or be codes for how to get to a secret island on the third level of Super Mario Brothers three D World. What do you think, Josie, it's a that's right. The

answer is a A young PT. Barnham learned a lesson in building up anticipation in a hub for an event when, at an early age, his grandfather got the whole town of Bethel, Connecticut to tell pet that he was going to inherit a beautiful island, but it turned out to be a dry, tiny piece of land. Got your grandson, Okay? The next object is for declan, Oh wow, it's a cool old sign that says this way to the egress. He might find a sign like this in t g I Fridays today. But what did PT use it for?

Was it a a trick he played so customers would buy two tickets to his museum? Or be Egress is the neighborhood he lived in in New York City known as the Eighth Borough. Um, You're right, the answer is a. Egress is just a fancy word for exit, and it sounds like the name of like a cool bird or something. Pet used this to get customers to leave his museum when they didn't realize they were looking for the exit, and then charge them for another ticket to get them

back in. I guess that's how he got his nickname the King of the Humbugs. Pet was not above duping anyone. Now, let's see if this next object will dupe Josie. This object smells pretty terrible and oh my, it's really gnarly looking. It's like the head of a monkey with some kind of fish tail. What is this object? Is it a Pet's favorite lunch, the monk fish, which he first tasted in Europe? Or be the Fiji Mermaid? Um, be the Fiji Mermaid. That's right, the answer is be the fabled

Fiji Mermaid. This was not a real mermaid, but he advertised and ran stories about mermaids to build up excitement so people would buy tickets to see it. Yes, long before bieber fever ever existed, Pet created mermaid fever and made a celebrity out of this. As he put it, dried up old thing. Oh my, apologies, Fiji Mermaid. I didn't realize you were listening or alive okay, decline, This next object is for you. Oh everybody, look out, get out of the way. There's a train barreling straight out

of this back back. Oh why is everyone okay? Josie decline, you're right, Yeah, you're okay, okay, good Oh my goodness. Well this backpack is pretty strong to hold a train. But why is there a train in P. T. Barnum's backpack? Is it a from the traveling he did while campaigning for president or B it's the train he used to move the circus, making transporting the circus easier than the old horse and wagons that used to be used. That's correct. The answer is B. Having circuses travel by train was

just one way PT revolutionized circuses. The other way is by expanding the one ring circus into three rings, which is still in use today. Unless you mean circus, which everyone knows happens in the middle of Celine Dion's biggest shows. We love you, Selene back from the past. Awesome. Now, everyone listening at home, remember do not try to fit a train in your backpack. We cannot be held responsible

for any ruined backpacks or smosh trains. Now, before we make our own egress, We've got one more backpack from the past moment to share. The next game is from our episode featuring who was King Tut and who was Queen Elizabeth are royally awesome? Contestants Gwen and Lindsay tried to decipher the importance behind all the objects we found for King Tut. Let's hear it, Gwen, this first object is for you, all right, Well, I shouldn't be surprised to find this in a backpack. It's paper, but it's

not like regular paper. It was rolled into a scroll and it's tougher than the paper I use for grocery lists and love notes. Glen, what's your guest, what is this paper? Yeah? What do you think this paper in my backpack from the past could be? It's like that wept. Yeah, it's papyrus. Yeah, very very similar, although papa paper sounds delicious, the recursor to a modern paper that Egyptians developed as early as three thousand BC. And now I will pull

from the backpack another object from ancient Egypt. Okay, it's a very long, very thin object with a curved hook on the end. Lindsay, what do you think this thing is and how does it relate to King Tutt when back then, when fair Hose would die, they would take a hook, and the genet think their brain was that important, so they would go up in the nose and take their brain out and then just throw it away. Oh my gosh, right in the nose, I mean, right on

the nose. It is a brain hook. And you're right. Egyptian priest would remove the brains from den people before mommifying because Egyptians didn't really think the brain did so much, so we wouldn't need in the afterlights. All right, my turn to pull from the backpack. And this one is for Gwen. Oh my goodness. It's a big heavy stone with a bunch of hieroglyphics on it, along with Greek and another language. But I can't tell what this other language is, Gwen, what is this big heavy stone? What

is this? I can't remember the name of a Can you tell us? Can you tell us about it? If you can't remember the name. There's three languages that those great on it. There's that high of graphic and there's another one and it's like it took a while for everyone to decipher them. But I can't remember the name of it. I think we should give this a half point partial credit. I think, okay, we're reaching into the

half point bag. This is a special bag. Wee people of half points, and we're gonna give you a half credit for that. The name of the stone is the Rosetta Stone, but you're right, it has three languages on it, and eventually the Frenchman Jean franc Fais Champoon was able to decode hieroglyphics by comparing those languages, but it took thousands of years for people to realize what those languages were together. It took fourteen years of research for Jean

Frances Champolon to be able to do it. Bonus point alert, Gwen, Okay, this for these are for bonus points. For five bonus points, can you tell me what the other language on that stone was. This is a tough one. That's why it's five points. Demotic. You got it, that's what is. It's demotic. That's amazing. That's right. It was demotic. Was this other language that was kind of like Greek, not exactly Greek, and kind of like hieroglyphics, not exactly hiero glyphics. They

figured it out. Okay, for another five bonus points. This is gonna be a double bonus point A lord, lindsay, can you tell me which pharaoh the hieroglyphics on the Rosetta stone were praising? Who are they talking about? Huh? I'm gonna say the first woman pharaoh? Pharaoh if only, if only, if only the Rosetta stone had had was commemorating that landmark. Uh No, it was the pharaoh told me, which is you know, a hard named to remember for

a pharaoh. So that is okay, no problem. That is five points for Gwen for her bonus question, and unfortunately no extra points for Lindsay, but she's doing great already. Anyway. The actually, let's see what the last object is in this backpack. It's not as heavy, okay. Interesting it's a scale and on one side is a feather and on the other side it's a human heart. Lindsay, what is this? Why would it be in King Tut's backpack? When somebody would die, they would they would put like different parts

of their body in a jar. But I don't think this is the answer. But like the end of it, they would take the heart yourself. Okay, yeah, you're very close. It has to You're right that it has to do with when ancient Egyptians would die, when pharaoh's would die. You know what, I'm going to give you partial credit

for that one. I'm gonna give you a half point, because yes, they would remove their heart and they put it in what was called a conoptic jar, a jar that would hold the pharaoh's organs so they could use them again in the afterlife. We were The scale itself is something that would happen in the Egyptian afterlife. They thought that when you died, your heart would be weighed against a feather, and if the feather weighed more than the heart, then you were good and you would cross

over into the afterlife. And if you're heart weight more than the feather, you'd get eaten by a big monster. So we'll give you half credit for that one, because you've got it right. It's about dead Egyptian hearts from the beast. Well, that's been our show for today. It was a whole lot of knowledge packed into a tiny amount of space, much like the backpack from the past itself. Thanks for the support, Geraldine. You're the best cheerleader, elephant

or otherwise that a b could ever wish for. Join us next week. When we'll be back with a regular episode to find out who Was two more amazing figures from history. Until then, I'm beat and we're history. Got a question for any of our famous figures, Send us a voice memo at the whos Podcast at gmail dot com.

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