Leonardo DaVinci & Teddy Roosevelt

really great. Thank you, honored. Though I can't help but notice you took some artistic license. Of course, I am, after all, an artiste. I put you on this canvas as I see you, I take it. That's why I have a clown nose and an eye patch. It reminds me of how often our other historical figure today, President Theodore Roosevelt, was a frequent subject of political cartoon caricatures. You are one pcent, correct, I charge you for it? But I know great art is priceless. Yeah, well there

is that. Yeah, that's why I'm not offering to buy it. Eric, please play the theme song. What do you think you know about the grates From this the game is on. Get some energy and buckle up your brain because it's time to play podcast. Because it's time to play who Live from Top of the 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 b your announcer and co pilot, and here's your host, the man who puts the stance in Renaissance, Kellie Klin. Thank you be and welcome everyone to the Who Was Podcast. This show it's like Jeopardy, only with surprise guests, silly games, and a sun Day bar with free topics, even gummy bears, especially gummy bears. Be right back. Our contestants were sent Who Was books

about two great figures from history. Now they're here to show off their knowledge and the hope of winning fantastic prizes, prizes, prizes. Oh sorry, ice cream Headache and gummy bear Tommy. Today we're learning about two Renaissance men, Theodore Roosevelt and Leonardo da Vinci. But before we meet them, let's meet our contestants. First up, we've got Baltasar. Baltasar please introduce yourself. Hi, my name's Buffasar, and I got a scene. You've got

a dog this year. That's so exciting. Have you been wanting a dog for a long time? Yeah? I have what kind of john? Is it? Half Candle ri King? Carol's half Pijan Coudo? And so did you take the each of those dogs and you took half of each and then put them together to make one dog? Faltazar shaking his head. Yes, that's definitely how did that? And I've got to note what's so that I can write the dog a letter? What's this dog's name? Names? Charla made namesake? What a namesake to live up to? Now?

Does he do anything like you know, like a like a ruler that's gonna take over a lot of lands? Is he living up to his name like that? No? Okay? Does he do any tricks? No? No? Is that chewing on my finger? Yes, that's a trick. That's a trick. Thanks so much for joining us today. Thank you about Tassar all right, and also with this today we have Mira. Mira. Please introduce yourself. Hi. I have Mira. I love to

travel and I read in the middle. Then I what is your attack on reading in the middle of the night. Do you do a flashlight under the covers? Do you have a booklight that you clipped to the book, do you the headlamp? Or can you see in the dark? See in the dark? Kind of all of I used to have a nightlight and I lost a man and then now I just used my alarm clock nightlay. Okay, what are you currently reading? I like reading graphic novels,

for graphic novels with like cliffhangers. I like adventure books, comedy. I read a lot of books. Thank you to you both just for being here today. We're excited to have you. And thank you to Eric, our musician, for all the music you'll be hearing in this episode today. So that's who is Balthazari Mira. Now let's find out who was Theodore Roosevelt with four fast facts. Theodore Roosevelt was born

in eighteen fifty eight and died in nineteen nineteen. As President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt champions fairness for citizens and fought to break up big railroad monopolies. Theodore Roosevelt wrote over thirty five books, was a champion boxer, expert, taxidermist, a hunter, a naval officer, and a family man. We call him a renaissance man because he's good at a lot of stuff, and the Teddy Bear was named after him.

You know, if I were to have a stuffed animal named after me, I'd wanted to be the Mighty t Rex, so people would call it the b Rex. That and I have very short arms, like disturbingly short parts. Yeah, I've always thought you were kind of like a t rex that way. It's really cool. If I were to have a stuffed animal named after me, I'd wanted to be a wolf, and then you could call it Elliott Wolf.

Sounds pretty cool, right, well, I don't know. It kind of sounds like someone who does your taxes, like a but like a cool guy who does your taxes, right cool? Yeah, like a cool accountant account cool. How about you, Mirra, what kind of stuffed animal would you want named after you? Maybe I would want like a panda or something. Okay, the mirror Panda. I like it because it kind of rhymes a little bit, and that'll start. What about you? What kind of animal would you want named after you?

I want a fly? Ohkay? Interesting? Why a fly? That's an interesting choice. Panda's they're cute. Well that we all understand, they're cute. Everybody loves bamboo. Yeah, and yeah, because bamboo is delicious, delicious. Why a fly? That's an interesting choice because I can kill them. Mhmm, interesting. Interesting. There's a lot going on there psychologically about the sorrow. I don't know if you have the time to dig into it

all the way. But those those stuffed animals are great. Yeah, those are great choices, and I think in the stores soon we're going to see them, the mirror panda and the bolts our fly. But now let's get to our first game. True or false? Truer? False? Is a fuse? Is a false? Or is a true? Is a truth that it is false? That it was true? Or true? True? Poor fault. In this game, be will read a statement about Theodore Roosevelt and you'll tell us if it's true

or false. You guessed it, And since it's our first game, each question is worth one point, Balthazar, your first poter Roosevelt was the first American to win the Nobel Peace Prize. True, that's right, it's true. The Nobel Peace Prize and honors individuals or groups that work hard to promote peace in the world, and in nineteen o six, Roosevelt won the award for helping end the Russo Japanese War, a big war between Russia and Japan. Other US presidents have also

won the Nobel Prize, Woodrow Wilson, Jimmy Carter, and Barack Obama. Okay, Mira, the next question is for you, Mira. True or false. One of Theodore's well known features were his very small teeth. False. That's right, it's false. He actually had huge teeth. He was known for having enormous elephantine and teeth. In fact, it's something that cartoonists latched onto. They draw his teeth even bigger than they were in real life, and in

real life they were already very big. A newspaper once called him teeth a door which doesn't really roll off the tongue. But maybe it's funny in print if you look at it, maybe it's a funny name. Okay, Balthasar, back to you. True or false. As a politician, Theodore believed that he had to fight crookedness, whether it was great or small. False. I'm sorry, that's true. Theodore was known as a reform someone who wants to change government and society to help as many people as possible and

to keep it honest so it's not crooked. One thing he supported was better working conditions. He believed people should be safe at their jobs, which sounds like a good idea. Maybe unless your job is like shark feeder. There's a little bit of danger that goes into that. It's gonna only be so safe, Nera, you get the last question of the round. Because Theodore was a city kid growing up, he signed orders and legislation to make the rest of the US look like his hometown, Manhattan. He poured concrete

and erected skyscrapers all across the US. That's false, you're right, that's false. From his youth, Theodore loved the outdoors. Even though he was a city kid, he often traveled to the vast open spaces of the West. Theodore Roosevelt believed in conservation. That's preserving the country's natural resources. And as president, he will preserve a hundred and fifty national forests. And that's the end of true or false? True, true, true,

true orful. What a great first round, everybody. Now, before we go to a break, we're going to go to producer Jane with our first round scores. Hey, Elliot and Beer, don't mind telling you the Panda has out done the fly this time. Mirror has two points about Bazzar one point. It's very close. It's still anybody's game, Panda or Fly. And we'll be back with our next game after this short break. Eric, please play us some big Teeth music. That's a lot of wisdom. Welcome back to the Who

Was Podcast. Today we're learning who was Leonardo da Vinci and who was D. R. Roosevelt. Now back to your host, Elliot Klin. Thanks be. Before we get to the next game, let's find out a little bit about who this next game is about Leonardo da Vinci with four fast facts prospects. Leonardo da Vinci was born in fourteen fifty two and died in fifteen nineteen at twelve years old. Da Vinci was apprenticed to a famous Italian artist, Andrea del Varoccio.

Experts are certain of only thirteen paintings that Da Vinci painted, and three of them are unfinished. In addition to painting, da Vinci was also an engineer and inventor, an athlete, and a musician. Talk about a Renaissance man only in this case instead of theoter Roosevelt. It was actually during the Renaissance. Alright, Mira and Valsazar. I'm wondering. Da Vinci was such an amazing artist. Do you have any artists that you really love? My friend Aria draws really well,

that's really cool. You know what kind of stuff did she draw? She draws like mythical cats. Oh, mythical cats. I love. What makes them mythical? Because regular cats are already a little magical. What makes these ones? They have like wings and like chomp tails. They have like corns and things, wait, chomp tails, so they have uh, like a chomp like a venus fly trap mouth on their tail kind of. She would drawn like pictures like us one of them. I would have like the bigger one,

and she would have the smaller one. But it's sharper. Oh wow, okay, that's it's like it. Do you want it to be big or is it small and sharp? You know? It's like these available online? She does? She even Etsy? Does she even Etsy shop? Yeah? Where do I buy a T shirt with a with a with a math mythical cat with WANs and a chop tail on it? That'd be an amazing shirt. Yeah, belts are. What about you? My friend Jake makes messy pictures. Messy pictures.

What makes them so messy? He just screwt w zone, stabs his pencil into the paper and then just like he draws a picture. Sounds like an impressionist or an expressionist, some kind of oppressionist. This is something impressionist start very impressing. All right, well, thank you both so much for sharing about your friends who are artists. That's so cool. And you know, Elliott Leonardo da Vinci was really so well rounded, yet most people probably only know him as a painter.

That's true, being I figure it's because he painted the Mona Lisa, the most famous painting in the world. You ever wonder what it was like when he was painting her, because here's how I think it probably went. Coming. Hello, can I help you? Hi? Yeah, I'm looking for someone named Leonardo da Vinci, Davin, that's me. You must have been Elsa Giordini. But call me Mona Lisa. It's a nickname.

I'm hoping it's going to catch on. Trust me. After I paint your portrait, everyone will know the name Mona Lisa. Whoa WHOA? Slow down here? Who do you think you are Michael Angelo. Everybody always brings that guy. Okayna, come in here and have a seat. I want to try a few different things to one up an I just supposed to smile, maybe eventually, but it feels a weird to me to tell the women to smile. Let's try something on the opposite interest. Give me betray look at

your best friend, story your doggie? Why why would do is a Belleluciano take my dog? Because if she was jealous? Now show me that the disbelief a fire in your eyes? Yes, amazing, your expressions are benefico. Now fear tell me Mona Lisa, what are you most scared of? Parrots? Always up to something. You never know what they're gonna say. Yes, now show me your face of a parrot. Fluid it right now?

Perfect though. Now let's move to joy. Maybe you imagine you're at the beautiful peach with the sun on your skin now giving me a laugh like you're frolicking in the waves. Ha ha ha ha, Yes, a perfect, that's the smile I want, And that's the smile I'm going to paint. Don't move a muss for like three days while I get this down. This is the Mona Lisa smile. That's gonna make me famous and be the title of a movie. It's probably Julius Style's best performance on the film.

What are you talking about? It's not to me, it's Be's mind. It's coming up with this ridiculous outtake. Be. I think it's time to go back to the show now. And they lived happily ever after. Wow, great dream sequence, don't you think, Elliott B. I've told you I can't see what you see when you're daydreaming. But let's keep the momentum going with our next game. Hashtag history, hashtag history,

hashtag history, hashtag history, hashtag history. Okay, okay, contestants in this game, B will read away hashtag Leonardo da Vinci might have used on his social media if they had that back then when he was alive, And you will tell us what it's about. And since this is our second game, each question is worth two points. Go for it. Be alright, This first question is for you. The first

hashtag is hashtag brush with Greatness? Would Leonardo use this hashtag because A As a part of his first job, he had to make paint brushes for an artist or be Leonardo loved to brush his hair daily. A. That's right, The answer is A. Leonardo was an artist's apprentice, which is basically a student who learns a trade and does the more basic chores that the artist he studies under doesn't want to do so that they can focus on creating.

There were no art supply stores back then, so apprentices learned how to make both paint brushes and paint and for the brushes they used animal hair, such as those from hogs and squirrels. So to get that hair, I guess Leonardo was also a squirrel barber. What a renaissance man. Leo's next hashtag is for you, Baldassar. The second hashtag

is hashtag supper time. Would Leonardo use this hashtag because A. Leonardo had his own food network show called Diners, Drive Bins and Da Vinci's Or be Leonardo created a famous painting called The Last Supper B That's right, The answer is be. Leonardo painted one of his most famous paintings, one of the most famous paintings in history. The Last Supper is a huge mural of Jesus and his last

dinner with his followers. Leonardo worked very hard on the painting, doing many sketches of it, and once he started painting, he paint from sunrise sunset without even stopping to eat or drink. Kids, don't do that at home. Feel free to stop painting to you need to drink things, you need to do it. Don't be a Leonardo sometimes nero Europe again. The next hashtag is hashtag sketchy with. Leonardo used his hashtag because A he always kept a notebook and was sketching in it or be. One of his

many inventions was Saturday Night Live, the Sketch Show. That's right. The answer is a Mionardo tout many, many notebooks because he couldn't stop killing them A With ideas and drawings. He filled his notebooks for thirty years, to the point that there were about thirteen thousand pages. That's right, thirteen thousand pages. Today, only six thousand pages are known to exist, and they are considered priceless. Okay, Baltasar. This final hashtag

is yours. The final hashtag is hashtag bird brain with. Leonardo used this hashtag because A he studied birds and their ability to fly or be he had a parent who loved making fun of him. Oh, that's right. The answer is a Leonardo was sure that one day people would fly, even designed a flying machine that was kind of like a helicopter. He would buy birds and cages and set them free in an attempt to understand how they flew and how they flapped their wings and they

landed safely. Now, of course we know that he was right, people would fly, but the airplane wouldn't be invented until nineteen oh three hundreds of years later. But the right brothers who are also you know who Was? Podcast? Episode? Maybe go check out that episode after this one. Leonardo was a visionary, and vision areas aren't always appreciated in their time, don't I know it? And that's hashtag history, hashtag history, hashtag great round everybody, This has been so

much fun. We're going to take a short break while Jane talies up the scores. Eric Lease play us some flying machine music. Get to the chapter, Sally, who was there? Marie Curie? You may remember me from winning multiple Nobel Prizes, or perhaps from my episode of the Who Was 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 Me and my little sister love this show more. Please,

our faith is Ariman. If you want to hear your review right on the air, make sure to subscribe, like and review to the UA's podcasts in the I Had to Ride You Up, or wherever you get your podcasts. Revoir, Oh sho, last day, Abio, Welcome back to the Lula's podcast. Today we're learning who was Leonardo da Vinci and who was R. Roosevelt? And now back to your host Elliott Haylin. Thanks be and now without further Ado, let's go take our flying machines that are kind of like helicopters. To

producer Jane for the scores. Oh, Elliott and B. It's still a very close game, but the panda has gone ahead with six points in the fly file mirror six Alfazar, Oh thank you. Wow. What a closely, very close game. That fly is is right behind that panda. And who knows how things will turn out with our last game, because there's one game left to go and it's called Converge of Greatness. In this multiple choice game, B will read questions about where our two historical figures overlap or converge.

And because this is our third game. Each question is worth three points. Picked the best option as your answer at Faltazzar. This first question is for you. Be you know what to do. Both Roosevelt and da Vinci were involved in wars in their lifetimes. But while da Vinci did not believe in war, he did a design propaganda posters for it or be design uniforms for the soldiers or see design weapons for it. See that's right. The

answer is seed. Vince referred to war as a disease. However, the Duke he was working for, cesare Borgia, asked him to design weapons for his troops. Despite his feelings about war, DaVinci did enjoy designing new and better war machinery. One of his designs was a giant crossboat I could shoot several arrows at once and would have taken several soldiers to operate. Because even though Leonardo didn't like war, he

did like teamwork. Mira. This next one's for you. Both da Vinci and Roosevelt were interested in the workings of the human body. Da Vinci spent a lot of time studying the body, while Roosevelt was a huge advocate of physical fitness because a he thought he would grow up to be a doctor. B he was very frail as a child, or see he didn't pass the presidential physical fitness test ironic as a A. The answer is B. Roosevelt was so frail as a child that he had

to stay inside into his very severe asthma. As he got older, he worked hard to develop more strength and become more athletic, leading to Roosevelt becoming the hearty outdoorsman we know him as today. Balthazar, back to you. Both Roosevelt and da Vinci were passionate about nature. As a boy, da Vinci became fascinated with a specific element of nature. Which element was it? Was it a water, be earth

or sea? Air? That's right, The answer is A. When da Vinci was four years old, a hurricane hit the countryside, and when he was ten, the Arno River flooded Florence. Leonardo never forgot the flood, and all his life he drew pictures of moving water. Leonardo was fascinated by water because it was a source of life and a source of destruction. Like me, kind of ignoritor, Mira. Here's the final question. Both da Vinci and Roosevelt were incredibly multitalented.

In fact, they had so many skills, it's easier to list things they didn't do. Which of the following is something Teddy Roosevelt did not do? Was it A learned to speak multiple languages. B became an expert sailor. Or C invented a new pasta shape. Which one did he not do? See, that's right, the answer is C. Sadly, Teddy never made a new pasta shape, but he did sail down Egypt's Nile River, where he discovered his love of hunting. Roosevelt also learned languages on his family's travels

to Europe. He began learning German, and later he learned Latin and Greek and French. Look, I myself have learned Elvish, so I'm no slouch either. If I ever meet an elf, I don't know exactly what to say. And that's the end of Converge of Greatness. And that sound means right at the end of the game. And that's the end of the show. Will we wait for Producer James tell you the points I'd love to hear from the contestants in Europe. What's your favorite thing that you learned about

either Theodore Roosevelt or Leonardo da Vinci. I learned that Leonardo da Vinci didn't only paint the Mona Lisa. He painted um the girl with ermine, and he painted the other one. I thought the only lady he painted was the Mona Lisa. Yeah, he painted a number of portraits of women. It was you know, painters, they like to paint pictures of all sorts of things that they find, and certainly ladies or something that you find when you just go walking around. Ladies are all over the place.

Why not paint pictures of them? Right Leonardo? Okay, Balthazar, what about you? What's something that was your favorite thing that you learned about, either Theodore Roosevelt or Leonardo da Vinci. I like Da Vinci that he tainted so many paintings and was ahead of his time. I saw one take games in Washington, d c. Yeah. His his paintings are so beautiful, aren't they? And do you remember what the painting was that you saw in Washington? I fret it was.

It really amazing to think about, Oh, this person I'm reading about. I saw one of their paintings. Hundreds of years after they painted it. That painting is still there and people can still look at it. And it's almost like they're talking to the artist a little bit by looking at his work. Thank you to both of you for sharing your thoughts on those amazing things about Leonard DaVinci.

And now it's time for the big moment. Jane, please announced our winner, Elliott and b It's incredible, but the fly caught up of the panda and ran ahead with the game. Baltazar one with eleven points Mirror nine. Fantastic. Still such a close game, Mira, you should be so proud we were a fantastic panda player and Baltazar, congratulations on your fly win. Balthazar is our winner today. You have ten seconds for shoutouts. Who would you like to

thank for your victory today? I would like to thank my mom for signing me up for this show and my family for helping me with the nice Oh and we get a cameo from Charlomagne that was yet for those listening at home. Charlemagne just showed up and is just as rebal and also cute as was broughtest earlier. Well. Congratulations,

congratulations Mirror for playing a great game. Our winner and their library of choice were receiving a selection of who was books and I'm going to give my own shout out to intern Zach, Jane, Eric, Adam for text Her for being our Leonardo da Vinci, and Jane Baker for being our Mona Lisa, and to be of course, and a big thank you to both of our contestants who played an amaze in game. And a bigger even thank you to you wherever you are for listening. Until next time.

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