#1377 Naturalist in the Arena
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🗓️ 11 February 2020
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We're joined by Char Miller to discuss a new book, Theodore Roosevelt, Naturalist in the Arena. The book is a collection of noted essays by Roosevelt scholars and was edited by Miller and Clay Jenkinson. Char Miller is W. M. Keck Professor of Environmental Analysis and History at Pomona College.
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| 0:00.0 | Good day citizens and welcome to this week's special edition of the Theodore Roosevelt Hour |
| 0:06.0 | What? I'm joking but it kind of was it was great fun. Well that you know, I perform as both characters. When I finished doing a Roosevelt |
| 0:16.8 | impersonation, I'm sweating and I'm exhausted and I think how did he live this way? |
| 0:22.4 | Hey, how far does this humanity stuff go? I'm exhausted and I think how did he live this way? |
| 0:22.6 | Hey, how far does this humanity stuff go? |
| 0:25.1 | Huh? |
| 0:25.6 | Like say for instance, I went to see a band in concert |
| 0:31.4 | that were imitating a very famous band say like the Beatles. |
| 0:35.9 | I want to hold your hand. |
| 0:37.2 | Would that be humanities? |
| 0:38.5 | No, that's arts. |
| 0:40.3 | Because they were awful. |
| 0:41.5 | Arts. |
| 0:42.1 | Yeah. But then there has to be interpretation. Someone has to break. Because they were awful. Arts. |
| 0:43.0 | But then there has to be interpretation. |
| 0:44.0 | Someone has to break character and say, I'm not really Ringo. |
| 0:47.0 | Well, it's interesting because we all decided it would have been a lot better had they done that. |
| 0:51.0 | Well, that's, I have to say, I don't want to remember it too much. |
| 0:54.8 | There are lots of one man, one woman shows and all that. |
| 0:58.2 | This is what I actually contributed to the Chautauqua movement. |
| 1:01.0 | I was doing this in North Dakota with Evelbers, the great director of the |
| 1:04.1 | North Dakota Humanities Council. We had these people who go out and perform as somebody. And I said, no, no, no. |
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