{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Your Dark Companion Podcast","title":"Riding to the Badlands with Teddy Roosevelt | Ed O'Keefe","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3296,"description":"Mike and Grubes kick off December with a lightning strike, a World Series flashback, and the age-old question: are we even gonna make it to (and through) Christmas? Then they welcome a very different kind of guest into the YDC mothership: Ed O’Keefe, CEO of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Foundation.\nEd takes the guys from Grand Forks to the Badlands, explaining why Teddy Roosevelt’s story is so insane it would get rejected as fiction: a sickly bookworm who becomes a cowboy, Rough Rider, president, and the original “media-savvy” politician. They dig into the brutal day his wife and mother died in the same house, how the North Dakota Badlands literally saved his life, and why his ranch became the “cradle of conservation.”\nAlong the way, Ed talks about inventing modern social video at NowThis, working with Anthony Bourdain, and how TR used newspapers the way modern politicians use social media. They get into Rough Riders lore, Teddy’s ties to Texas, trust-busting showdowns with J.P. Morgan, cocaine as a legit medical treatment back then (to the delight of Grubes), and why the new presidential library will feature an AI Teddy, a horse hitch, a living roof, and virtual campfires in the Badlands.\nIf you like presidents with actual side quests, history that weirdly mirrors right now, or the idea of riding a horse to a presidential library, this one’s your episode.\nChapters\n00:00 - Lightning Strike & Cold Open Chaos01:08 - Will We Even Make (and Clear) Christmas?01:38 - Meet Ed O’Keefe & the TR Library03:01 - Fast Eddie, Ed, or Edward?03:53 - Growing Up in North Dakota (a.k.a. Almost Canada)06:13 - Fargo, the Movie Curse & The Accent Question07:13 - What Even Is a Presidential Library?08:20 - Turning a Library into an Experience (Horses Welcome)09:11 - From ABC News to NowThis to CNN11:26 - Working with Anthony Bourdain14:05 - Why Teddy Roosevelt’s Life Sounds Made Up17:15 - The Day His Wife and Mother Died18:37 - “The Light Has Gone Out of My Life”21:43 -...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/MY5pcsVq0QCXSElEJXNsUEiC8gyrgEoWfpnhiVr9GdU/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9hZTA1/ZjBmZGFkOTk5ZDdi/YWRmMDQ3NGZjY2Ex/ZjgxYS5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}