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Ridiculous History

The Presidential Dinner That Scandalized America

Ridiculous History

iHeartPodcasts

History, Society & Culture

4.24.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Breaking bread with your fellow humans has long been acknowledged as fantastic, wholesome way to bond with people outside of social conventions, economic status and so on -- but when Teddy Roosevelt invited Booker T. Washington to dinner at the White House, people across the the United States lost their collective minds. The idea that the activist and the president would dine together drove racists mad, and some activists in Booker's community accused him of being a sell-out. Tune in to learn how two guys grabbing some nosh scandalized America at the time -- but eventually pushed the nation in a better direction.

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Picture Miami. Picture its beaches. Picture three radio journalists assassinated in cold blood.

0:09.2

This is silenced, the radio murders.

0:12.4

You left the body there for reason. It was the calling card. It's like the mafia used to do.

0:17.2

The mastermind has never been caught. To find him, we had to go deep into a world of drugs and darkness.

0:24.4

And there were these hints of a much bigger conspiracy.

0:30.0

I was volotion. Listen to silenced, the radio murders.

0:34.4

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0:40.4

Hello, this is Brett Goldstein. I'm a comedian and actor, writer, director,

0:44.0

swimmer and I love films. Come join me on my podcast, Films to Be Barried With.

0:48.0

Where I invite a special guest over, I tell them they've died,

0:50.8

then I get them to discuss their life through the films that meant the most to them.

0:54.0

What films scared them the most? What made them cry the most?

0:57.3

At the end, they pick a film to go in their pocket and take to heaven,

1:00.4

life, death and movies. Listen to Films to Be Barried With.

1:03.6

With Brett Goldstein on Will Farrell's Big Money Players Network on the iHot radio app,

1:07.6

Apple Podcast or wherever you get your podcasts.

1:10.4

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1:14.8

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1:18.8

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1:24.0

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1:29.6

and we teach you how to live with more joy and less anxiety.

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Learn what good mental health can mean for you, especially now during mental health awareness month.

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