During the December of 2021, students attending [REDACTED] in Mr. [REDECATED]'s class were tasked with interviewing a historical figure that has played a key part in American history with the help of another fellow student. One of these interviews was intended to be with Theodore Roosevelt, the United States' 26th president. Students were instructed to select [a minimum of] three questions from a Google Document made available on the popular online learning environment known as "Schoology". Once both parties have agreed on the selected questions for the interview, they would be required to write a script utilizing these questions.
During the interview, one student will take on the role of their chosen historical figure, while the other student will pose as the interviewer. Clear distinctions should be made in the script in order to separate the interviewer's lines from the historical figure's lines. Students were also permitted to use music and a variety of 3rd-party audios within their final podcast. In the script, students should state when a certain audio should play. Students were required to link their final drafts of the script within their person E-Binder (electronic binder).
Once students have finished their final draft of the interview script, students would began recording audio on the popular and crappy video editing website WeVideo (https://www.wevideo.com/). Many students inserted introduction music into the beginning of their podcast, which ranged from old music to even dubstep in some cases. Despite this project intending to be an interview podcast, students also added visuals, which mostly consisted of still images or slowly paced footage (as the viewer should be focusing on the audio contents rather than visuals). Once students have added their finalized touches on their podcast, they would link their WeVideo upload their E-Binder. Before linking, students were told to change the share settings on their podcast to public, which would allow the teacher access to it.
The Theodore Roosevelt podcast is widely considered to be the most famous and popular podcast at the time. While the podcast itself may potentially be lost forever, the finalized scrip the podcast was recovered on June 10th, 2023 by [REDACTED]. By some time pass the due date for podcast submissions, the teacher had announced that he will be presenting every student's podcast onto the SmartScreen for the class to watch. The teacher told Asher, a student who sat by the classroom doorway, to "Hit the lights," meaning to turn off the light switch of the classroom. Once the lights were turned off, the teacher began presenting each podcast. The Theodore Roosevelt podcast in particular began with Russ Morgan's "Goodnight, My Beautiful" for the introduction, with a visual of a slightly blurred record player onscreen for the entire podcast. After the introduction had completed, an applause could be heard which slightly fades out. The interviewer, who is unknown to this day, put up a slightly fast-paced voice, similar sounding to Alastor's as from the popular work-in-progress web animated series "Hazbin Hotel", which can be found on Youtube. Theodore Roosevelt was portrayed with a weak and slow voice. Despite the project was originally aspired to a podcast by the teacher, the Theodore Roosevelt podcast was radio broadcast and canonically hosted on Channel 17, a fictional radio channel. During the time of recording the podcast itself on WeVideo, several bloopers were created in the process. Since the podcast was recorded out in the hallway, unintentional sounds and audio was inevitable. In one scenario, while the podcast was being recorded, a loud mob of students suddenly materialized right behind us, and the interviewer and Mr. Roosevelt had acted as if a disastrous hurricane was taking place.
After all podcasts have been presented on the classroom's SmartScreen, a discussion page was opened on Schoology where students told to discuss each others' podcasts. Although the page's source code could have been saved, there are currently no archives found of this page of now.
While the complete Theodore Roosvelt podcast may unfortunately be categorized as lost media, there are several remains that have been rediscovered. Two bloopers in the same mp3 were recovered on 6/11/2023 by [REDACTED], and can be viewed below:
(I would just embed the audio here but you have to pay to do this apparently, so you can download and view the audio here.
The complete final draft of the script was also recovered on this day, and may also be viewed below.
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[Host]: Ah hello, it's a pleasure to meet you Mr. Roosevelt.
[TR]: Well thank you very much as it is also a pleasure for me to meet you.
[Host]: Now I'd like to ask you some questions during our interview.
[TR]: Well I'm sure that's the purpose of me being here.
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[Host]: So, flipping paper1 The first question I have on this list of mine is: how would you define a world power? I want you to think about a world power's characteristics for this one.
[TR]: Mmm.. Well I'll have to think deeply about this one.
[Host] Don't worry, we have quite some time.
[TR]: Well in my opinion, a world power can be defined as a country with lots of wealth and power. That country gets involved in affairs that are not related to them in any way. Countries usually fear world powers because of well, how powerful they are. Nobody dares to anger any country if that country is more powerful than themselves. A similar situation is that some countries typically target weaker countries.
[Host]: I suppose that algorithm is quite popular, isn't it?
[TR]: Yes it is, actually, and I can't blame them!
[Host]: awkward laugh Alright, now for my second question I have. Are you ready?
[TR]: Mhm.
[Host]: What social ideas or public opinions affect the United States involvement in international affairs?
[TR]: Well, I wanted to build up America's reputation and the quickest way would be to show the world how powerful we are. So, I started getting involved in conflicts that don't relate to America. I reckon it was worth it, we didn't need any more combatants than we already have.
[Host]: You must have felt lots of pressure haven't you?
[TR]: Why yes, but I was aware of the consequences.
[Host]: Clears throat So last and final question today.
[TR]: Alright I'm ready captain.
[Host]: Describe how your contributions to the Monroe Doctrine affected European involvement in the affairs of Latin American countries?
[TR]: Well the Roosevelt Corollary's purpose was to give off a warning to Europe that America would get involved if Europe gets involved within Latin America.
[Host]: Well aren't you an instigator. Well they outta call ya gator Roosevelt am I right?
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[Host]: I'm afraid we're out of time, the radio channel won't allow us for more questions.
Well thank you ladies and gentlemen for listening! Tune in for our next show "Russ Morgan's early childhood"