Jeff Roche
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 20 Dec
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Um, on another, I would like to people like to, to think that they would remember that it was a fun book to read.
It's like, Oh yeah, this, I like reading this book.
This is kind of cool.
Sure, sure.
I'm one of these people who can only have one other pot.
I literally cannot work on more than one thing at a time.
And when I do work on something, I'm all in.
So I'm on a sabbatical this year.
And in the time when I'm sort of not promoting the conservative frontier, I am working on a cultural biography of C.W.
Post.
who makes an appearance in this book.
And learning about him as I was writing the book about Texas, I grew really intrigued by this figure who, between, say, 1896 and his death in 1914, was a huge figure in American public life.
in just a fascinating array of ways.
In the Texas book, it's a chapter about he tried to find, he did find, he founded the only capitalist utopia ever.
And that was right there in Garza County.
But he spent time as a real estate developer.
He has several patents to his name for agricultural implements.
He was one of these people who believed he could shoot dynamite up into the sky and make it rain.
His father was part of Lincoln's funeral guard, and his daughter is the person who built Mar-a-Lago.
At the time, the second largest private residence in the United States.
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