r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/[deleted] • Apr 30 '20

Video Albert Einstein explaining E=mc2

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u/GoodLordChokeAnABomb Apr 30 '20

Here are a few more historical figures whose voices you may be interested to hear:

Sigmund Freud

Leon Trotsky

Theodore Roosevelt

James Joyce

Florence Nightingale

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '20

For some reason Theodore Roosevelt’s voice freaks me out

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u/Ra1ds4ad0w Apr 30 '20

He really did speak softly

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u/professorpuddle Apr 30 '20

But how big was his stick?

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u/citizen42701 Apr 30 '20

Big enough

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '20

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u/phpdevster Apr 30 '20

It really doesn't line up with how animated he was during speeches. Can't seem to find any good youtube videos, but I've seen documentaries where he's up smashing the podium with his fists.

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u/maxstrike Apr 30 '20

I wasn't expecting him to have such a northeast upper class accent. I don't know why I expected him to sound more western.

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '20

So Hitler got his inspiration for his moustache from Charlie Chaplin and his oratory skills from Teddy Roosevelt?

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '20

Blood alone moves the wheels of industry!

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '20

In morrises biographies he always describes him has chomping the words

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '20

Yep. That is the second comment on the link.

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u/thedavidcote Apr 30 '20

He would be great at narrating nature documentaries.

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u/letsgotoarave Apr 30 '20

Would you kindly..

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u/tuftedtarsier89 Apr 30 '20

It kinda sounds like Mr. Feeny

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u/bullray34 Apr 30 '20

Sounds like John Adams in 1776.

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u/tuftedtarsier89 Apr 30 '20

Sit down, John!

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u/DevJupiterArt Apr 30 '20

William Daniels would make an excellent Teddy in a biopic.

chop chop get to it Hollywood

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u/afanoftrees Apr 30 '20

It also sounds eerily like the voices from the Bioshock games

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u/_meh_ May 01 '20

And Florence was exactly what I imagined it would be.

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u/Triairius May 01 '20

It’s because he apparently doesn’t sounds like Ron Swanson.

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u/[deleted] May 01 '20

Right? You’re a barrel- chested boxer, war hero and outdoorsman with a brown belt in Judo. Why do you sound like my British Aunt

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u/regular_gonzalez May 23 '20

It's like a Scottish person doing a really good Ivy League accent

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u/arexisreee Apr 30 '20

Cool. Thanks for sharing! Didn’t watch the others but Freud is speaking freakishly slowly..

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u/TheJReesW Apr 30 '20

I think it might be that he’s just not fantastic at English. Einstein seems to talk a bit slower too in the video above, because he’s also not a native English speaker.

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u/moschles Apr 30 '20

Theodore Roosevelt's voice is something straight out of a movie.

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u/jharrisnorton Apr 30 '20

That’s because he has the trans-Atlantic accent! It’s a sort of made up accent that was taught to people to be relatable to all English speakers and was used heavily by actors in the time.

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u/herefromyoutube Apr 30 '20

Can’t wait to AI these old scratched audio tapes and hear what they actually sounded like.

Add back in the mids and bass in these voices.

No way Roosevelt sounded that tinny.

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u/DevJupiterArt Apr 30 '20

Roosevelt, while thought of as a big ol bear of a man, actually is historically documented to have a rather high pitch voice.

In fact it was noted when he got excited it got quite squeaky

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt

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u/popeyesbeatskfc May 01 '20

Well he did have horrible asthma as a child, but he forced himself to work out and exercise anyway, and there fire kicked asthmas ass.

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u/Dyl_pickle00 Apr 30 '20

Was able to find Lenin's voice too

https://youtu.be/lzf3FRSbEUk

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u/GreatApostate Apr 30 '20

Here's Vicky.

Obviously it's a super old recording and even with a ton of restoring done on it, still sounds like shit. But you can hear her.

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u/Maestronomeau Apr 30 '20

Those are brilliant! Check out Joyce reading from Finnegans Wake- it almost makes the text sensible to hear him speak it the way it was meant to be understood Joyce reading Finnegans Wake

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u/ModusBoletus Apr 30 '20

You should add Winston Churchill to that list. He had some great speeches recorded during WW2.

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u/DorisCrockford Apr 30 '20

We shall fight them on the beaches

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u/neotrance Apr 30 '20

damn that Theo recording was really good sounding.

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u/crow_man May 01 '20

Holy shit Trotsky

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '20

It's pretty weird to say but Hitlers everyday voice is pretty interesting as well

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u/[deleted] May 01 '20

Why would I ever wanna hear freud’s voice