Likes The River of Doubt.

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…Okay, let's go. What are two or three books that you've recommended... that you find yourself recommending most to other people? My favorite book is The River of Doubt, in which Theodore Roosevelt, after losing, I believe, the 1912 campaign, goes to Southern America and traverses a never before traversed river, and along the way gets all of these horrible infections, almost dies. They run out of food. They have to kill their cattle. I think half or more than half of their party died along the way. And it ended up just being this insane journey that really spoke to his mental fortitude. And one of my favorite anecdotes in that book was that he would do these point-to-point walks with people, where he'd look at a map and just kind of put two dots on the map and be like, "Okay, we're here. We're going to walk in a straight line to this other place." And straight line really meant straight line. I'm talking like climbing trees, bouldering, wading through rivers, apparently naked with foreign ambassadors. I feel like politics would be a lot better if our president would do that. It's only stories like those that are just core America to me. And I am actually entirely into bushwhacking and foraging. And if you had a plants podcast, that would be an episode. But I love that story. I love that book. It was entirely fascinating to me. Wow. That makes me think about 1883. Have you seen that show?…

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