• @PugJesusOPM
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    524 days ago

    Explanation: Theodore Roosevelt, when running for the presidency under the Progressive Party in 1912, was shot in the chest by a would-be assassin. Instead of going to get medical attention immediately, he stuck around and gave an hour-long speech before heading to the hospital to get the wound checked. Not QUITE as crazy as it seems - Roosevelt was well-educated and an avid hunter, who was reasonably certain that the wound was not in a particularly bad position. Even so, a stinging bullet in my chest would get me to call off any speech, much less an hour-long one!

  • IninewCrow
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    174 days ago

    Never thought of it before but Zach Galifianakis would play a great Teddy Roosevelt

    • @chemical_cutthroat
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      134 days ago

      Offerman is too typecast, but I think he’s a better fit.

  • @sicarius
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    164 days ago

    I feel like Nick Offerman would be a good choice to play him in a movie.

    • @[email protected]
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      104 days ago

      There are very few existing audio recordings of Teddy Roosevelt speaking. His voice had a much higher timbre than I would have expected. Way above Nick Offerman’s. He would be a good choice otherwise.

      • The Assman
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        34 days ago

        You know I just looked it up and he sounds exactly how I expected him to.

    • @uid0gid0
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      4 days ago

      A bullet can’t stop the bull moose!