Mostly we talked about Theodore Roosevelt, but we also discussed Nicknames, New York Museum of Natural History, Old Money, Holland, the Dutch, asthma, air quality, child-rearing, bullies, high school football, Microsoft Excel, ball-offs, Long Island, Rough Riders, Teddy Roosevelt, Harvard, boxing, police corruption, dandies, 4 dogs vs. a bear, Duke lacrosse team, prostitutes, 30 Thai midgets vs. a lion, Jack the Ripper, Syracuse, King of Queens, Adam Sandler, Patton Oswald, nepotism, George W. Bush, FEMA, graft, NYPD, the Irish, Catholics, the Pope, pornography, the Vatican, Italians, Protestants, Romans, pagans, Dominicans, Jesuits, University of San Francisco, evolution, lasers, jetpacks, clones, light sabers, Albany NY, typhoid, pegusii, childbirth, the Bully Pulpit, Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt, the Dakota Badlands, single fathers, cowboys, Deadwood, Smith Puget, ne'er-do-wells, War & Peace by Leo Tolstoy, cowboy literature, dimestore novels, poetry, jerky snuff, teetotalers, Willits CA, Mendocino CA, Indian reservations, Chinese immigrants, the closing of the range, barbed wire, Barb Wire, Pamela Anderson, ass-wiping preferences, moth wings, Seward, Alaska, U.S. military forces, the Spanish-American War, U.S.S. Maine, Cuba, Vietnam, Guantanamo, William Randolph Hearst, Spain, Phillipines, Guam, The A-Team, The Dirty Dozen, jujitsu, San Juan Hill, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris, Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris, Iwo Jima, the Great White Fleet, Japan, Republicans, the Civil War, Democrats, Progressives, Tammany Hall, suffrage, Ku Klux Klan, the U.S. Senate, Birth of a Nation, W.D. Griffith, good vs. evil, William McKinley, Leon Czolgosz, anarchy, Haymarket Square, Lee Harvey Oswald, American imperialism, Russo-Japanese War, Buddhism, Sea of Japan, Bering Sea, kamikaze, Pokemon, palindromes, Panama Canal
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Another fine episode, one with a topic that is very dear to my heart. While some of the facts are kinda shakey, y'all did a good job of capturing and explaining why TR is so sweet.
For anybody interested in learning more about this extraordinary person and reading some damn fine books, I suggest:
*The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by by Edmund Morris
*Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris
*The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard
Morris is working a final book in his TR trilogy, but who knows when that will come out. River of Doubt covers a lot of material that Morris' 3rd book will surely cover, so reading the above three books will provide an excellent and in depth account of his life.
For some reason, iTunes only delivered the 1st half unto my iPod.
"Mornings on Horseback," by David McCullough thoroughly covers his young life and rise to greatness.
TR is few hundred years outside my usual area of interest, but I love a good conversation... a reminder of the Vatican's vast archiving and indexing of all things evil is timely... and I'll probably never get "Catholic Porn Dewey Decimal System" out of my head now
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