Teddy Roosevelt: The Original Bro

Right Answers Mostly

Claire Donald & Tess Bellomo

Society & Culture, History, Tv & Film

4.6 • 766 Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Before there were finance bros, tech bros, or even frat bros… there was Teddy Roosevelt. This week, we dive into how a sickly rich kid from Manhattan reinvented himself as a rough-and-tumble cowboy, a Rough Rider, and eventually a trust-busting progressive president who helped pull America into the modern age. We break down how Teddy became the blueprint for performative masculinity (with a dash of genuine reform), his wild days wrangling cattle in the Badlands, and why he might just be the most interesting president no one really talks about enough. This is Teddy Roosevelt! Created and produced by Claire Donald and Tess Bellomo *For more on RAM go⁠⁠ here ⁠⁠ *To join our premium channel for 3 bonus eps, go ⁠⁠here Sources: Wikipedia, Theodore Roosevelt , https://millercenter.org/president/roosevelt/life-before-the-presidency Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:48.6	See victory rules.co.uk.uk.com. I'm going to be. You know, Welcome back to write answers mostly, a podcast on what you didn't learn in history class, but you really wanted to.
1:21.8	I'm Claire Donald.
1:23.0	And I'm Tess Belomo.
1:24.7	Tess, do I have an episode for you this week? I know. This one really took me by
1:29.3	surprise, I have to say. Like when you were like, this is what I want to do, I was like, okay.
1:34.1	I know. Okay. So obviously, I wanted to feed the OG history girlies. And someone who's been
1:41.4	on my mind a lot is Eleanor Roosevelt. And I can't. And she seems so ram-coded. But I was like, I'm not ready for her yet. Like I'm scared to touch. Okay. Of course. And so then I was like, but what about the bros? What about the bros, Claire? And we've been saying that. And also, we haven't like covered a bro in a long time. Who was the last bro that we even covered? I know. And because I'm like, in the sense of the word bro, have we even really covered a bro? Silk Road was a bro. Oh, you're right. Of course, of course. Maybe that was, maybe that was the last. I think that was the last was the last so you know it's time to bring
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2:32.8	you know about teddy roosevelt you know slim information
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