Podcast
The Herd with Colin Cowherd
The podcast covered Benjamin Franklin's story, highlighting his success as a self-made business person through his media empire and noting that he was a serious contender to be the first president before deferring to Washington due to age.
We think of Franklin as the doddering dude flying a kite in the rain but those experiments are the most important scientific discoveries of the time.
— Episode: Hour 2 - Colin's new top 10 for the week
Episode: Hour 2 - Colin's new top 10 for the week
The podcast covered Benjamin Franklin's story, highlighting his success as a self-made business person through his media empire and noting that he was a serious contender to be the first president before deferring to Washington due to age.
We think of Franklin as the doddering dude flying a kite in the rain but those experiments are the most important scientific discoveries of the time.
His media empire makes him the most successful self-made business person in America.
The only other person who could have possibly been the first president would have been Benjamin Franklin.