Welcome to the Gritty Podcast. I am your host Brian Call and today I'm joined by my brother the Gritty Bromine. How are you Brent?

I'm well

Thank you. Yeah, so today we're gonna get into part three of the River of Doubt and

We're gonna talk about the next leg of the trip so far they haven't gone on any excursions

In fact, what we learned from the last one if you haven't listened to the other two

I'll put it in a quick nutshell for you

It goes like this the Adoro Roosevelt didn't win the

Presidential election for a third term he was able to run for a third term because he technically wasn't elected

For the first term he actually got it because president McKinley was assassinating and he was also there was a

Sassation attempted on Teddy

Yep, we covered that but didn't kill him and then he gave his speech with the bullet still in him bleeding everywhere

We learned that he is an avid naturalist and outdoorsman even throughout his whole life

But he's going through some hard times and now he is

wants to go out like he is prone to do and have an adventure go through some grueling challenges

Try to basically unplug by turning to nature in the wilds

Well somehow through a series of fortuitous events he ends up

Being invited to go to South Africa to the Amazon basically Brazil

Argentina to go and do some lectures for a like a TED Talk sort of circuit for him

He's gonna get paid well

But one thing leads to another and he talks to the natural history museum and he ends up

becoming what a

Basically he's he's grabbed specimens for them in the past to bring back to the museum

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