
Erin McCarthy
Vice President and Editor-in-Chief at Mental Floss
editor-in-chief, @mental_floss. she/her
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4 days ago |
mentalfloss.com | Erin McCarthy |Erin Mccarthy
Mental Floss has a new podcast with iHeartRadio called History Vs., about how your favorite historical figures faced off against their greatest foes. Our first season is all about President Theodore Roosevelt. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts here, and for more TR content, visit the History Vs. site. It’s 6:45 a.m. on Christmas morning, 1902, and Theodore Roosevelt’s children—Alice, Ted, Kermit, Ethel, Archie, and Quentin—are pounding at the president’s bedroom door.
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4 days ago |
mentalfloss.com | Erin McCarthy |Erin Mccarthy
Erin McCarthy: Hello and welcome to a very special bonus episode of History Vs., a podcast from Mental Floss and iHeartRadio about how your favorite historical figures faced off against their greatest foes. I’m your host, Erin McCarthy, and today, we’re going to be exploring a tale Theodore Roosevelt wrote about in his book The Wilderness Hunter, a memoir of his time on the frontier, which was published in 1893.
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4 days ago |
mentalfloss.com | Erin McCarthy |Erin Mccarthy
One thing that happens when you make a Theodore Roosevelt-themed podcast is that whenever there’s TR-related news, you get a ton of messages about it. Which is exactly what happened to me when news broke that the American Museum of Natural History had asked for the equestrian statue of TR that stands outside its Central Park West entrance to be removed. The request comes at a time when hundreds of thousands of people are taking to the streets to protest police brutality and systemic racism.
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4 days ago |
mentalfloss.com | Erin Mccarthy |Erin McCarthy |Erin Mccarthy
Have you ever looked at a word—like although, for example—and thought: There are just too many letters in this word? If so, congratulations: You have a little something in common with Theodore Roosevelt, author of more than 30 books and 150,000 letters. You know who else thought there were just too many letters in English words? Philanthropist and steel magnate Andrew Carnegie. In 1906, Carnegie created, and financially supported, the Simplified Spelling Board.
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1 month ago |
mentalfloss.com | Erin McCarthy |Erin Mccarthy
The actor just wrapped up a podcast called ‘Greatest Escapes’—and now he’s dropping amazing facts about those escapes and more on the latest episode of Amazing Facts with Mental Floss. Arturo Castro has some questions for Violet Jessop. The actor—who you might know from Broad City, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, The Menu, or “that time I played a tastebud in [that] one commercial about toffee”—featured the nurse and stewardess on his podcast, Greatest Escapes.
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