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Empower U - Dan Regenold - Teddy Roosevelt · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Dan Regnold, the man responsible for empower You America dot
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  Speaker 1: Empower Youoamerica dot Org. Teddy Roosevelt. Welcome back, Dan Reganold.
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  Speaker 1: It's great to have you on this morning.
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  Speaker 2: It's good to be here. So much jeez, so much
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  Speaker 2: news going on. Oh uh yeah, and I agree with
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  Speaker 2: your comments Brian about that genie being kind of out
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  Speaker 2: of the bottle now. But hey, if people want to
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  Speaker 2: get away from all the news of the last weekend
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  Speaker 2: and stuff, I'm just inviting everyone. Tomorrow night, I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to be doing a class as part of our America
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  Speaker 2: two fifty series on Teddy Roosevelt, our twenty sixth president.
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  Speaker 1: What would what would Teddy do? Dan Reagan, real quick
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  Speaker 1: here on the you mentioned the genie being out of
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  Speaker 1: the bottle, and I just got a response from a
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  Speaker 1: good friend and of the greater since I you're Rob
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  Speaker 1: Ryder mentioning, Yeah, that's an interesting point about the genie
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  Speaker 1: being out of the bottle, and my followed up with it. Dan,
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was rather interesting, and it's sure not
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  Speaker 1: what Iran expected. But they started launching missiles at all
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  Speaker 1: the surrounding Arab countries. Well, of course, I guess they
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  Speaker 1: thought that that might get the Arab countries to collectively
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  Speaker 1: condemn the United States for causing the chaos that ensued
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  Speaker 1: with Iran. Willy nearly just launching missiles and apparently don't
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  Speaker 1: hit what they're looking or what they're aimed for. They're
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  Speaker 1: hitting civilian targets. Well, all the Arab nations that have
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  Speaker 1: been impacted have stood up and said and they're condemning Iran.
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  Speaker 1: I think the Middle East is sick of Iran with
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  Speaker 1: that response. I think they're like, you know what, this
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  Speaker 1: is the beginning of the end of a ron. Let
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  Speaker 1: them get the job done. Did They've done nothing but
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  Speaker 1: so chaos and and and just and in violence and
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  Speaker 1: death in this region. So let's start over. Do you
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  Speaker 1: think we're near that point?
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  Speaker 2: Dan, Those those other countries just want this, just want
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  Speaker 2: them to go away. They're they're just tired of all
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  Speaker 2: the all the drama that's going on. And uh, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I think I think you're exactly right on that.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm sorry we're talking about Teddy Roosevelt.
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  Speaker 2: Would but but uh, you know, you you ask what
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  Speaker 2: would Teddy do? Well, he would he would speak softly
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  Speaker 2: and carry his big stick. This is a bigger than
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  Speaker 2: life personality. And the reason I wanted to look at
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  Speaker 2: Teddy Roosevelt's life, Brian, was, you know, I don't know
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  Speaker 2: when it was, but I saw a picture on Mount
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  Speaker 2: Rushmore of the four presidents. You've got Washington, You've got Jefferson,
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  Speaker 2: You've got Teddy Roosevelt, and then you've got Lincoln. And
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  Speaker 2: Teddy was the one that knew the least about And
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  Speaker 2: I had to ask myself, why was he so important
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  Speaker 2: to be up on that mountain? Yeah, and he was
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  Speaker 2: just but as I started to learn about him, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: he just was a bigger than life personality. People the people,
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  Speaker 2: the people just loved him. He went and he was
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  Speaker 2: elected early at the age of twenty two to the
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  Speaker 2: New York Assembly. He was at he was at work,
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  Speaker 2: his first child was born. He went home to his family.
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  Speaker 2: He suffered the amazing tragedy of what of finding his
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  Speaker 2: mother and his wife dying in the same twenty four
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  Speaker 2: hour period, and he just he just kind of he
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  Speaker 2: just went from that to be to to to a
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  Speaker 2: life where where he embraced the people of the country
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  Speaker 2: and and and fought for them. His big, his big thing,
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  Speaker 2: his big overwhelming thing, which I know you'll like and
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  Speaker 2: I sure like, was just fighting corruption and some of
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  Speaker 2: his earliest positions. He was appointed to the Postal commission
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  Speaker 2: and he replaced thirty thousand postal commissionersagine doing that in
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  Speaker 2: the nineteen hundred sprime wow Like. He went on to
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  Speaker 2: the police, who became Police Commissioner of New York. He
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  Speaker 2: roamed the streets. The newspapers wrote about him and talked
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  Speaker 2: about him personally arresting people, throwing him in jail. He
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  Speaker 2: runs for runs, for mayor of New York and loses
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  Speaker 2: and says, well, I'm going to go out west. He
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  Speaker 2: becomes a cowboy. He's got this I don't know if
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  Speaker 2: you've ever seen a picture of his pearl handled revolver
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  Speaker 2: he would carry around. And the people in South Dakota
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  Speaker 2: and North Dakota, where he had two ranches, loved him
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  Speaker 2: and he just loved it. And that's where he had
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  Speaker 2: this love of the West. He really was the first
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  Speaker 2: president who created a lot of the national parks and
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  Speaker 2: really was almost a father in the National parks. And
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  Speaker 2: he had like, at one point fifty thousand cattle, and
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  Speaker 2: then one year there was this disease that killed almost
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  Speaker 2: all of them. And he was never good with money,
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  Speaker 2: and he almost lost everything. Moved back to New York,
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  Speaker 2: became governor there, and he fights with all like this
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  Speaker 2: too bright. He fights with all the Republican Republican higher ups,
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  Speaker 2: and they say, let's get rid of this Roosevelt guy.
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  Speaker 2: Let's make him vice president. He was almost like he
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  Speaker 2: was almost like the Kamala Harris at his time. And
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  Speaker 2: he becomes vice president for William McKinley, a great president,
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  Speaker 2: somebody who Trump likes a lot and McKinley's second term.
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  Speaker 2: McKinley's assassinated the first month, and Teddy Roosevelt, at forty three,
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  Speaker 2: becomes the youngest president ever. And he's just faced with
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  Speaker 2: all these problems as a coal strike that shuts down
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  Speaker 2: the entire country. People are out walking the streets, no heat,
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  Speaker 2: no power. He gets in the negotiation, directly solves the
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  Speaker 2: coal strike, becomes a hero, is loved, goes on a
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  Speaker 2: hunting trip and doesn't like the way hunters are killing bears,
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  Speaker 2: And all of a sudden, people create the Teddy Bear,
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  Speaker 2: and the Teddy Bear is formed, and and people are
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  Speaker 2: selling them all over the you know, all over the world.
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  Speaker 1: That's where that came from.
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  Speaker 2: That's where it came from. He has he has huge
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  Speaker 2: foreign policy wins, comes up with the big idea, we
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  Speaker 2: need a canal in Panama. Uh creates the Panama Canal
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  Speaker 2: is down, driving a tractor on the Panama Panama crele
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  Speaker 2: building it. And he's just this guy is just a
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  Speaker 2: larger than life hero. He he he creates the Rough Riders.
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  Speaker 2: When when our battleship in Cuba, the battleship Maine is
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  Speaker 2: is is bombed and two hundred and sixty Americans die,
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  Speaker 2: and Teddy takes a troop of a troop of rough
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  Speaker 2: shot just just every type of person possible down to
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  Speaker 2: down to Cuba and with his rough riders, and he
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  Speaker 2: takes them all in the bar and says, hey, everybody
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  Speaker 2: beers on me. I mean, this is you know, this
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  Speaker 2: is our kind of guy. Man.
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  Speaker 1: I had to look up because I kept here, you know,
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  Speaker 1: storming sandwan Hill. He was a rough rider the very
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  Speaker 1: first US Volunteer Cavalry regiment.
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  Speaker 2: It was amazing when you see the picture of him.
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  Speaker 2: And he loved the military. He loved everything everything about it.
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  Speaker 2: And he he he he. You know. So he becomes
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  Speaker 2: president at the age of forty three, solves a coal strike,
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  Speaker 2: and then immediately the Panic of nineteen o seven happens,
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  Speaker 2: where there was a series of bank runs. He didn't
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  Speaker 2: really understand finance, but he was able to get it
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  Speaker 2: solved and solve another really incredible, incredible crisis that happened.
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  Speaker 2: You know, this is during the time Brian where nine
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  Speaker 2: million immigrants are are entering America through Ellis Island, and
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  Speaker 2: I kind of clipped, it's amazing about this is a
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  Speaker 2: principal guy. He is so clear on his thoughts about immigration.
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  Speaker 2: If we could, if where what happened in the last
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  Speaker 2: hundred years, I don't know, but he says, he says,
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  Speaker 2: any immigrant who assimilates will be treated equally, irregardless of
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  Speaker 2: their racer nationality. But they must they must assimilate. They
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  Speaker 2: must have one country. It's got to be this country.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to have one language, one flag. How do
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  Speaker 2: we get so far away from that?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my word, that was exactly what I was thinking
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  Speaker 1: when you were saying that.
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  Speaker 2: Boy he will He kind of grooms William Howard Taft
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  Speaker 2: to be the next president, and he tries to help Taft,
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  Speaker 2: but he's such a strong leader he can't watch other
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  Speaker 2: people lead, and he kind of breaks up that relationship
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  Speaker 2: and starts kind of running on the Progressive Party and
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  Speaker 2: tries to run against Taft but really really can't beat
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  Speaker 2: the machine. But this is when he has this incredibly
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  Speaker 2: famous speech. He goes out and gives This is around
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  Speaker 2: the time when he created the Square Deal. He goes
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  Speaker 2: out and gives a speech and on a sad out
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  Speaker 2: and the audience shoots him. This is in nineteen thirteen.
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  Speaker 2: The bullet God saving moment. The bullet hits a glass
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  Speaker 2: case that's in the pocket of his suit, and Roosevelt
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  Speaker 2: starts bleeding from his chest. And Roosevelt says, you may
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  Speaker 2: notice I'm bleeding, but it hasn't hit my lung. And
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  Speaker 2: it will take more than a bullet to kill a
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  Speaker 2: bull moose. And he keeps talking for an hour.
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  Speaker 1: Bad assery.
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  Speaker 2: He is a bad ass ory. And then he's got
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  Speaker 2: this amazing trip. Some people know about this, some people don't,
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  Speaker 2: where he goes out on the Amazon River and he
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  Speaker 2: takes a trip overseas where he meets with every foreign dignitary.
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  Speaker 2: He's lauded by everyone. But he takes this trip on
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  Speaker 2: what's been now called on the Amazon, called the River
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  Speaker 2: of Doubt, where he almost dies. His son's with him.
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  Speaker 2: He loses twenty five percent of his entire body weight.
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  Speaker 2: There's fever everywhere, and he barely makes it back, but
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  Speaker 2: he does come back, he survives. He's just champion. He's
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  Speaker 2: a champion of the people, because that's what he was.
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  Speaker 2: He was the guy when people were when he was
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  Speaker 2: fighting corruption, that said, we've got to treat the workers fairly.
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  Speaker 2: He developed the workman's compensation system really nationwide, and people
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  Speaker 2: just loved him. For what he did, and that's the
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  Speaker 2: class we're going to talk about tomorrow night. He's just
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  Speaker 2: an incredible larger than life.
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  Speaker 1: Character, clearly, and I thank you so much for doing
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  Speaker 1: all the research on that. Honestly, I'm in your position,
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  Speaker 1: you know. I think about Teddy Roosevelt and I at
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  Speaker 1: least the ones on the Mount Rush where I know
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  Speaker 1: him least, and going to solve that problem. Tomorrow night.
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  Speaker 1: They're gonna get seven pm. It's a virtual class, as
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna I know you always do a fantastic job.
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  Speaker 1: So thanks for doing the laboring or on Teddy Roosevelt.
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  Speaker 1: For everybody to night seven pm. We're all going to
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  Speaker 1: be tuned in. Dan, thank you so much.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for having me, Brian, and good morning to everyone.
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  Speaker 2: And tell my friend Christopher I said, hello, Okay, he's
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  Speaker 2: weak