Alexander Graham Bell
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Sep 13, 2026
speaker_1HOST
Mr. Watson, come here.
speaker_1HOST
I want to see you, Bell said.
speaker_1HOST
The theme is Sherlock Holmes, who featured in the stories A Study in Scarlet and The Hounds of the Baskervilles and lived in Baker Street with her housekeeper Mrs. Hudson and friend Dr. Watson.
speaker_1HOST
The questions were, Monday, what colour, traditionally worn by a cardinal, is also associated with a childhood disease? Tuesday, grey, blood and basset are words that precede the name of what type of dog? Wednesday, which famous drummer was one of the founder members of the rock group Cream? Thursday, which Canadian business, originally founded in 1670 and noted for its department stores, was finally liquidated in 2025? Friday, when Alexander Graham Bell made the first telephone call, who did he call? Finally, here's the quote of the day from W.H.
speaker_1HOST
Auden.
speaker_1HOST
Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.
Corinne VienHOST
So there you have it.
Corinne VienHOST
Okay, so phone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell, which we all learn way back in the day-
Sabrina Deana-RogaHOST
Mm-hmm
Corinne VienHOST
...
Alan JoslinSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Yeah, yeah.
Alan JoslinSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Hooray for Alexander Graham what's-his-name.
Alan JoslinSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
But what did the guy say? Hmm.
Alan JoslinSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Oh, oh, oh, yes.
J. RandolphNARRATOR
The professor inventor, who had thus rescued the tiny foundling of science, was a young Scottish American.
J. RandolphNARRATOR
His name, now known as widely as the telephone itself, was Alexander Graham Bell.
J. RandolphNARRATOR
He was a teacher of acoustics and a student of electricity, possibly the only man in his generation who was able to focus a knowledge of both subjects upon the problem of the telephone.
J. RandolphNARRATOR
To other men that exceedingly faint sound would have been as inaudible as silence itself.
46 MINS LATER
J. RandolphNARRATOR
There were rain and sleet and snow and every sort of moisture lying in wait to abduct it.
J. RandolphNARRATOR
There were rivers and trees and flecks of dust.
J. RandolphNARRATOR
It seemed as if all the known and unknown agencies of nature were in conspiracy to thwart or annihilate this gentle little messenger who had been conjured into life by the wizardry of Alexander Graham Bell.
J. RandolphNARRATOR
All that these young men had received from Bell and Watson was that part of the telephone that we call the receiver.
Jonathan KirkNARRATOR
I substituted the long horizontal camera and the long focus lens for his vertical bellows and short focus lens, believing that for larger creatures, I get a greater depth of focus and more lifelike appearance.
Jonathan KirkNARRATOR
After my first mild success, that critical period beyond which so many experiments never go, three friends came to the rescue with their enthusiastic approval and encouragement, and I desire that their names be connected with the book which they have helped to make: Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Graham Bell and Mr. Barber Lathrop.
Jonathan KirkNARRATOR
It has always seemed a pity to me that these beautiful forms of life should be so evanescent.
Jonathan KirkNARRATOR
We look at their dried remains in collections and are impressed by their colors and grotesque forms, but we should not forget that after all, these are nothing but their dried-up corpses, and scarcely more to be compared in real beauty with their living bodies than are the Egyptian mummies comparable to the living faces and forms of the great Pharaohs.
Akintola SamuelHOST
What is innovation? Innovation is creating something out of nothing.
Akintola SamuelHOST
where you create something that has never existed before something new something novel alright something that for instance there was a time that a man by the name of Alexander Graham Bell you know Came up with the telephone.
Akintola SamuelHOST
Now history says he was not the first to create it.
Akintola SamuelHOST
But he was the first to patent it.
J. RandolphNARRATOR
The professor inventor, who had thus rescued the tiny foundling of science, was a young Scottish American.
J. RandolphNARRATOR
His name, now known as widely as the telephone itself, was Alexander Graham Bell.
J. RandolphNARRATOR
He was a teacher of acoustics and a student of electricity, possibly the only man in his generation who was able to focus a knowledge of both subjects upon the problem of the telephone.
J. RandolphNARRATOR
To other men, that exceedingly faint sound would have been as inaudible as silence itself.
47 MINS LATER
J. RandolphNARRATOR
There were rain and sleet and snow and every sort of moisture lying in wait to abduct it.
J. RandolphNARRATOR
There were rivers and trees and flecks of dust.
J. RandolphNARRATOR
It seemed as if all the known and unknown agencies of nature were in conspiracy to thwart or annihilate this gentle little messenger who had been conjured into life by the wizardry of Alexander Graham Bell.
J. RandolphNARRATOR
All that these young men had received from Bell and Watson was that part of the telephone that we call the receiver.
Abdul Qayyum RashidHOST
That needs to be highlighted.
Abdul Qayyum RashidHOST
You know, Alexander Graham Bell wasn't the man who invented phone.
Abdul Qayyum RashidHOST
There was somebody before him.
Abdul Qayyum RashidHOST
You know, there's a lot that we can discuss when it comes to Africa and, you know, the heritage.
Zach ParkerGUEST
And there was a moment where I was like, "[beep] it, maybe I'll just stay here," you know?
Dave GuntherHOST
Have you, have you ever gotten an Alexander Graham Bell [beep] job before?
Zach ParkerGUEST
What's that?
Dave GuntherHOST
It's when a girl listens to your ball sack, [laughs] and then she talks into your penis for a second then says, "Hello? Hello? Oh, operator.
Dave GuntherHOST
[laughs] What do you mean, how old am I? That's just a history reference that I've been learning at the community college.
Zach ParkerGUEST
Community college.
Dave GuntherHOST
I learned who Alexander Graham Bell was recently in history class.
Zach ParkerGUEST
We do, we do like, we do like educated fellas.
NatsHOST
They keep you on the right track and all of that, right? So the telescope was actually invented in the 1600s.
NatsHOST
And Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876.
NatsHOST
Wow.
NatsHOST
Yeah,
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