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The NFL: How small-town teams became America's most valuable sports empire (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 8:25 David Rosenthal Finally, in 19 oh five, there are 19 fatalities in intercollegiate football in the U.S., and a serious injury at Harvard to one Theodore Roosevelt Jr., son of sitting president Theodore Roosevelt.
- ▶ 8:46 David Rosenthal After that happens, Teddy Roosevelt calls the summit of all the major colleges and universities in New York City
- ▶ 9:20 David Rosenthal Is a critical part of this sort of rite of passage and Teddy Roosevelt probably kind of likes it because this is a training ground for future.
- ▶ 9:34 David Rosenthal So I had no idea until doing the research, this summit that Teddy Roosevelt calls, and then he basically tells all the presidents of the universities like, Hey, you guys got to figure this out or I'm going to outlaw this.
Sessions: David Senra (Founders Podcast) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:13:39 David Senra The Teddy Roosevelt idea.
Standard Oil Part II (Extended Cut) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:01:50 David Rosenthal Then Theodore Roosevelt, the new governor of New York.
- ▶ 1:02:07 Ben Gilbert It's like, if, if, if, uh, Rockefeller was bad, there's a chance Theodore Roosevelt was badder.
- ▶ 1:02:27 David Rosenthal Theodore Roosevelt, a little, like all the glee that we had in part one for Rockefeller and Standard Oil and Flagler and like all these, uh, mafia dons and everything that they're doing.
- ▶ 1:02:40 David Rosenthal Roosevelt, you're gonna have just an equal glee on the other side.
- ▶ 1:03:37 David Rosenthal I mean, this is like, oh, Teddy Roosevelt's the best.
- ▶ 1:04:00 David Rosenthal There's like a, uh, you know, uh, this was before, um, Teddy also had, you know, by modern standards, a problematic figure in his, all of his hunting and, you know, all of that.
- ▶ 1:04:27 David Rosenthal So, Standard and the business community and Mark Hanna, they come up with a brilliant, genius solution to their new problems from Roosevelt in the state of New York.
- ▶ 1:04:42 David Rosenthal They get Roosevelt nominated
- ▶ 1:05:27 David Rosenthal Uh, uh, unlike Roosevelt, he does not survive.
- ▶ 1:06:18 David Rosenthal So TR, I mean, I'm sure everybody's upset about the assassination and whatnot, but like, well, once he, you know, gets done with mourning, he's like, oh, you MFers, I've got you right where I want you now.
- ▶ 1:06:34 David Rosenthal Uh, and he's about to get some serious ammo because right at the same time, literally the same month that TR is inaugurated as president, September,
- ▶ 1:08:28 David Rosenthal Teddy Roosevelt himself.
- ▶ 1:18:49 David Rosenthal Then on the Roosevelt pressure front, you know, the first Roosevelt's first term goes by
- ▶ 1:18:57 David Rosenthal And, and miraculously they managed to escape by nothing like major happens in terms of breaking on the antitrust front, even though Roosevelt wants, wants it to.
- ▶ 1:19:24 David Rosenthal Teddy.
- ▶ 1:19:38 David Rosenthal And Roosevelt's campaign managers, they're like, sure, we could use the money.
- ▶ 1:20:47 David Rosenthal Which Roosevelt wins in a landslide, um, because he's got the support of business behind him.
- ▶ 1:25:20 David Rosenthal of 19 oh six roosevelt directly directs the u.s attorney like he calls like at a secret nighttime meeting he calls the the u.s attorney general into his office
- ▶ 1:27:11 David Rosenthal One, Roosevelt bought the son of a bitch, but he didn't stay bought.
- ▶ 1:31:50 David Rosenthal One of the crazy things that happened in the interim between 19 oh six and 1911 was, um, Roosevelt got really pissed about this.
- ▶ 1:43:25 David Rosenthal And Roosevelt was pissed about this, because he wasn't the president anymore by the time this happened.
- ▶ 1:43:30 David Rosenthal Uh, Roosevelt and, like, Tarbell and the muckraking crew and all the, you know, progressives, they really, like, they wanted all the Standard Oil people to go to jail.
- ▶ 1:44:08 Ben Gilbert Roosevelt sort of set the playbook for the modern billionaire.
- ▶ 1:46:15 David Rosenthal Burton of Standard Oil of Indiana, thought that Roosevelt had performed an inestimable service.
Adapting (by Acquired) Episode 1: Canlis · Acquired
- ▶ 2:49 Mark Canlis Um, our great-grandfather cooked for Teddy Roosevelt, um, after his presidency on an African safari.