Sally Ride & Jules Verne

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, 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 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 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 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

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, 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, 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. 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 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 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 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 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 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, 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

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, 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? 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 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, 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

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. 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? 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 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 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 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 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 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, 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.

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 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 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 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 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 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. 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 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 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. 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 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, or perhaps from my episode of the Worst Podcast where

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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, 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 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

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. 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. 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 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 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, 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 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 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 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? 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,

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

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, 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

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 great figures from history. Until then, this is Elliott Elliot's

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