Welcome to the Gritty Podcast. I am your host, Brian Call, and I am joined today by my brother, the Gritty Bromine.

How are you, Brent?

Well, thank you.

Today's podcast is about the education of a naturalist. It's about theatre Roosevelt and his childhood.

I am going to go over, right now, you hear a lot about tearing down of statues. There is a lot of civil unrest going on.

There are some talk about Mount Rushmore and theatre Roosevelt is on Mount Rushmore. There are discussions about the men on that mountain there.

There is one faction of the public who really wants to eliminate our history and really paint with a broad brush.

Every person who was instrumental in our nation and its foundation and where it is today, paint them all as, I guess, flawed individuals in positions of power who oppressed a lower class.

That does happen to feel the one of the greatest nations on earth.

And so, I mean, what I am getting at is there is this attitude that people are, that you can just look back and history at an individual and just say, based on what I know now and how I see the world, they're bad.

Without really diving into more about the person. So, I think it's a valuable exercise to look at people in the context of their time and what they stood for and what they were about.

In this book, this podcast, I'm going to go over the theatre's upbringing and his personality and what he was most passionate about as a young boy, give you insights into the things he wrote and the things he did as a young man and the struggles that he went through along with the privileges that he had.

And kind of sort of give you a basic understanding of this man, theatre or Roosevelt.

And in past podcasts, if you haven't watched those, do that because we talk about theatre or Roosevelt or Harvard being a boxing champion.

Despite the fact that he had a horrible asthma, we talked about this strenuous life and how he turned in nature in times of hardship.

We talked about how Roosevelt became president upon McKinley's assassination because he was the VP at the time.

And we've talked about the teddy bear and how that came to be.

So, I think it's important to analyze this person in history, the time that he lived and what he accomplished because he brought forward in this nation an awakening, an awareness of wildlife and nature and conservation that before his time wasn't implanted in the American psyche.

Most of all was not institutionalized in our laws and our lands.

And so, now at this point kind of go into him as a young man and give you a slice of theatre or Roosevelt as a boy.

So, I'm going to dive right in. Before I do that, I want to remind you, if you love the show, if you like what we do, please subscribe to our YouTube channel.

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