"Arctic Explorer, Nazi-Fighter, Iconoclast: ..." Topic

…Peter Freuchen's Case for "Most Interesting Man in the World"

"When Dos Equis beer launched its "Most Interesting Man in the World" advertising campaign in the mid-aughts, actors seeking the role were asked to improvise wild tales of derring-do that somehow ended with the punchline "…and that's how I arm wrestled Fidel Castro." The American actor Jonathan Goldsmith was eventually cast as the debonair, gray-at-the-temples swashbuckler who, in the subsequent commercials, recounts a lifetime of other similarly larger-than-life experiences—all of them fictional. After the campaign became a knockout success, lighting up Super Bowl time slots and spawning a popular internet meme, a few hidden-away corners of the internet began debating who the "real" Most Interesting Man in the World was. With all due respect to Mr. Goldsmith, who legitimately led an intriguing life of his own, people were curious to discover actual historical figures whose lives captured the outrageous sensibility of those beer commercial fantasies—a quixotic mix of random serendipity, luck, and quirkiness…"

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Armand

driving across the U.S. with a criminal on the run, driving across the U.S. in the other direction with a contestant for the Miss Universe pageant,

Now that's a real American road trip!

Ha!….

Armand