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Speaker 1: Internet. Shit. I'm Robert Evans again, still badly introducing my

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Speaker 1: podcast Behind the Bastards about bad people, terrible ones. Miles

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Speaker 1: still my guest. Yes, still ashamed to be here after

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Speaker 1: that introduction? How are you doing? Oh? Not than that

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Speaker 1: intro gave me life quite the opposite. Oh yeah that

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Speaker 1: it didn't look like it. It looked like you died

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Speaker 1: an email, say, oh saying I owe money for car

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Speaker 1: insurance or something. Oh man, I have some good news

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Speaker 1: about Geico, but I forget what it is. Can you

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Speaker 1: save me fifteen percent or more? I don't know. Okay,

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Speaker 1: well i'll test that theory. I'm going to go to

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Speaker 1: the insurance provider and I'm going to enter code bastards

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Speaker 1: and see what I get. Yeah. You just you find

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Speaker 1: someone who sells insurance and you you paint or carve

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Speaker 1: that into them, and you'll get a discount on your insurance.

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Speaker 1: That's the way it works. Fantastic. Yeah, you know, I'm sorry.

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Speaker 1: I'm a little bit distracted right now. My friend Michael

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Speaker 1: had a really rough night and I've just kind of

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Speaker 1: been trying to text him through it. Ohe Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 1: You know, he's a nice guy. Every now and then

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Speaker 1: he just kind of you know, we all make bad choices. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's trying to buy an election. I think there are

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Speaker 1: just some women who maybe didn't like maybe a couple

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Speaker 1: jokes I made. It was my favorite line. Yeah, this

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Speaker 1: is the night after the the the debate. We'll try

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Speaker 1: not to talk about it too much because we have

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Speaker 1: an even more problematic man than Michael Bloomberg to discuss.

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Speaker 1: I want to talk about old Willie Walker here. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: Bill Walker, will Helm Walker. So when we left off

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Speaker 1: with our story, William Walker had just captured a new

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Speaker 1: country by stealing a town from Mexico and then murdering

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Speaker 1: several of its people when they dared to say, hey,

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Speaker 1: we're maybe not okay with us, right, Yeah, And I

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Speaker 1: got like, you gotta have an element Maybe respects the

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Speaker 1: wrong word, but something for a guy who like captures

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Speaker 1: country now, I have I have respect in the way

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Speaker 1: the pure comedy, I would have respect for that character. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm like, this is great for the plot. Yeah, there's

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Speaker 1: like a fun Will Ferrell movie. And in aspects of this,

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Speaker 1: if you trim out the racism and slavery and murder,

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Speaker 1: yeah yeah, Will Ferrell would be the right guy to

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Speaker 1: play this dude. Yeah yeah. Oh he's big, yeah, big guy.

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Speaker 1: I could see like Sam Rockwell too. Oh, Sam Rockwell

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Speaker 1: would be fun. He's like that might be better. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Will Ferrell like there's a there's like a silent confidence

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Speaker 1: to him. Sam Rockwell has the range to like tap

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Speaker 1: like hero Grandpa wrong. Yeah, He's got that like nervous

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Speaker 1: I'd like to open part two this episode with a

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Speaker 1: paragraph from the book Filibusters and Financiers, which is again

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Speaker 1: a nineteen sixteen book that is kind of like bemusicly

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Speaker 1: positive towards William Walker and the ideas of manifest Destiny.

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Speaker 1: It includes a paragraph describing the general character of the

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Speaker 1: American man during this period of time, and I find

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Speaker 1: head of like what a lot of people, like the

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Speaker 1: in their brains? I think this is an interesting paragraph. Oy,

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Speaker 1: So again, this is writing about the American man in general.

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Speaker 1: In the eighteen fifties quote he was always sure that

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Speaker 1: Every vigorous boy passes through such a stage as he

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Speaker 1: and the estimate was not entirely unjust. It is consoling, however,

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Speaker 1: I guess less Fox News, more CNN. Yeah, yeah, HE'SNBC

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Speaker 1: whatever it is. Yeah, I take him away, really, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: grabbing wolves? Yeah, Andrew, Andrew, why are we grabbing wolves?

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Speaker 1: Wasn't that Andrew Jackson who said that? I think? I

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Speaker 1: right now. Scott Martel, Williams's best biographer and the author

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Speaker 1: William Walker's Wars, It makes a point of noting that

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Speaker 1: a true filibustering or robbing speculation. The good of the

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Speaker 1: So how's that looking for you right now? Yeah? So

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Speaker 1: he assaults Walker and his soldiers in in Sonata the

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00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:30,520
Speaker 1: next day, and Walker's men were quickly surrounded inside a

424
00:22:30,520 --> 00:22:35,000
Speaker 1: walled adobe compound they'd taken for their headquarters. But unfortunately

425
00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:37,600
Speaker 1: for Malindrez, they had cannons and they were very well

426
00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:39,879
Speaker 1: set up inside this compound. So he's basically with an

427
00:22:39,920 --> 00:22:43,359
Speaker 1: almost equal sized force of men charging Walker inside a

428
00:22:43,400 --> 00:22:46,240
Speaker 1: fortified position with artillery, and it does not go well.

429
00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:50,160
Speaker 1: More than a dozen of Malendres's men are killed, several

430
00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:53,280
Speaker 1: more are wounded, and only one of Walker's raiders is

431
00:22:53,320 --> 00:22:56,240
Speaker 1: shot dead, although eight more are wounded, So Malindres pulls

432
00:22:56,280 --> 00:23:00,200
Speaker 1: back and the situation devolves into a siege. Now, at

433
00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:02,400
Speaker 1: this point in time, the boat that Walker had chartered,

434
00:23:02,520 --> 00:23:04,840
Speaker 1: the Caroline, had a great vantage point to watch all

435
00:23:04,840 --> 00:23:08,080
Speaker 1: this unfold, and it's captain decided he had no interest

436
00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:10,040
Speaker 1: in waiting around for the end and winding up in

437
00:23:10,080 --> 00:23:13,000
Speaker 1: a Mexican prison. And his captain, by the way, is

438
00:23:13,040 --> 00:23:15,879
Speaker 1: the guy Walker appointed his secretary of the Navy. So

439
00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:19,000
Speaker 1: the Secretary of the Navy goes to those two captive

440
00:23:19,040 --> 00:23:21,520
Speaker 1: Mexican governors on board and he's like, I don't want

441
00:23:21,520 --> 00:23:24,000
Speaker 1: any part of this anymore, Like, yeah, I'm gonna work

442
00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:27,680
Speaker 1: something out. Yeah, And like generations of Americans after him,

443
00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:30,359
Speaker 1: they sailed to Cabo San Lucas to chill out. Uh

444
00:23:31,119 --> 00:23:34,560
Speaker 1: irony of it all? Wait, So that guy he basically

445
00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:37,520
Speaker 1: just gave him up and was like like release that

446
00:23:37,640 --> 00:23:40,439
Speaker 1: the captive governors to just he takes them back to

447
00:23:40,520 --> 00:23:42,439
Speaker 1: Cabo and he's like, yeah, I'm not a part of

448
00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:47,600
Speaker 1: this anymore. Yeah. Uh. I wish we would see more

449
00:23:47,600 --> 00:23:51,880
Speaker 1: people like that Secretary of the Navy in today's environment. Yeah,

450
00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:54,240
Speaker 1: you know, I wish our secretary of the Navy was

451
00:23:54,320 --> 00:23:56,399
Speaker 1: like that Secretary of the Navy and gave up our

452
00:23:56,480 --> 00:23:59,320
Speaker 1: navy to Mexico. It would just be interesting, yeah, or

453
00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:03,440
Speaker 1: at its like prosecuted like war criminals. Yeah. Wow, that's

454
00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:06,480
Speaker 1: a little much to hope for. So William Walker did

455
00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:09,480
Speaker 1: succeed in breaking the siege of Ensenada by launching a

456
00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:12,720
Speaker 1: daring night attack after a series of rainstorms, but most

457
00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:16,040
Speaker 1: of his opponents, including Malindres, fled into the hinterlands around

458
00:24:16,119 --> 00:24:18,159
Speaker 1: the city in order to raise more men to repulse

459
00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:21,520
Speaker 1: the Americans. And one of these guys, one of malindres

460
00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:24,760
Speaker 1: as soldiers, a guy named Negrete, actually traveled to San

461
00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:27,679
Speaker 1: Diego and then San Francisco to try to talk with

462
00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:30,639
Speaker 1: US authorities and determined whether or not the government was

463
00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:33,720
Speaker 1: okay with what was happening, which it basically like went

464
00:24:33,760 --> 00:24:35,879
Speaker 1: to the American careers like, are you do you guys

465
00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:39,960
Speaker 1: know what's happening down here? Is this you guys co

466
00:24:40,040 --> 00:24:45,120
Speaker 1: sign this? Yeah? This seems like a problem to me. Wow.

467
00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:48,240
Speaker 1: So while all this was going on, Walker had several

468
00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:50,879
Speaker 1: men in California recruiting a new wave of soldiers to

469
00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:55,119
Speaker 1: reinforce the Republic's beleaguered forty Ish man army. These guys

470
00:24:55,119 --> 00:24:58,280
Speaker 1: succeeded and drying together roughly two hundred new soldiers and

471
00:24:58,359 --> 00:25:01,200
Speaker 1: a new boat, the Anita. It was not a wildly

472
00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:04,080
Speaker 1: competent group. Only the captain and first mate had any

473
00:25:04,119 --> 00:25:07,280
Speaker 1: sailing experience, and the soldiers weren't much better at soldiering.

474
00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:10,480
Speaker 1: One recruit later recalled that quote. Almost all on board

475
00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:14,680
Speaker 1: were more or less drunk on the trip over the Sinota.

476
00:25:15,119 --> 00:25:17,960
Speaker 1: Three of them died during the voyage over casualties of

477
00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:22,320
Speaker 1: a minor storm. So what these are not the Navy

478
00:25:22,359 --> 00:25:25,040
Speaker 1: seals riding into the rescue? Why is it always a

479
00:25:25,040 --> 00:25:28,359
Speaker 1: bunch of drunk dudes? Because didn't he like panically, didn't

480
00:25:28,359 --> 00:25:32,720
Speaker 1: he panic le hicabo? All drunken? Shit? What I mean?

481
00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:35,639
Speaker 1: What other type of man is going to pick up

482
00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:37,879
Speaker 1: a gun and try to conquer a sovereign nation with

483
00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:41,159
Speaker 1: like forty other guys. That's true, A sober man's not

484
00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:43,520
Speaker 1: going to make that call. Honestly, They'll be like, oh, wait,

485
00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:46,879
Speaker 1: I didn't really want to fight anymore? Is gonna be

486
00:25:47,119 --> 00:25:50,280
Speaker 1: fight all Mexico? I don't care. Well, is the cocaine there?

487
00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:55,080
Speaker 1: I'll check it out. I'll check it out. Wow. I mean, Also,

488
00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:57,720
Speaker 1: I like the idea you're so drunk that you died

489
00:25:57,760 --> 00:26:00,560
Speaker 1: in a storm on a ship. Yeah. Yeah, Like that's

490
00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:03,040
Speaker 1: how bad. That's how a nept you are at sailing

491
00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:08,200
Speaker 1: that three people drunk, baby boat drunk. Now. The Anita

492
00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:10,920
Speaker 1: made port it in Sonata on December twentieth, a week

493
00:26:10,960 --> 00:26:13,560
Speaker 1: after the end of the siege, and the added men

494
00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:16,000
Speaker 1: more than quadrupled the size of Walker's force. They also

495
00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:19,360
Speaker 1: supplied it with fresh cannon guns and powder. But their

496
00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:22,120
Speaker 1: arrival also meant that Walker had that many more mouths

497
00:26:22,119 --> 00:26:25,000
Speaker 1: to feed, which could only be accomplished by shamelessly stealing

498
00:26:25,040 --> 00:26:27,719
Speaker 1: food from the locals they were there to ostensibly protect

499
00:26:27,720 --> 00:26:33,199
Speaker 1: from bandits. Here we go. Oh boy, it's great. So

500
00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:35,880
Speaker 1: I'm going to quote again from William Walker's Wars quote.

501
00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:39,320
Speaker 1: Walker sent sixty five men under Captain George R. Davidson

502
00:26:39,320 --> 00:26:42,200
Speaker 1: to Governor de Grete's command center at Santo Tomas. They

503
00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:44,600
Speaker 1: found it undefended and seized it without a fight. In

504
00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:47,760
Speaker 1: his brag filled reports to the North Samuel Ruland reporter

505
00:26:47,840 --> 00:26:50,159
Speaker 1: that the wealthy ranchero owners, frustrated with a lack of

506
00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:53,360
Speaker 1: protection by the Mexican government, had fully embraced the new Republic.

507
00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:55,520
Speaker 1: He claimed that the locals offered Walker and his men

508
00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:58,160
Speaker 1: free food and other supplies, but that the self proclaimed

509
00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:01,960
Speaker 1: president had turned them down. Horses now having abundant supplies

510
00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:05,520
Speaker 1: from the confiscated property of the outlaw malindres Ruined wrote

511
00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:08,080
Speaker 1: that Walker intended to pay for all supplies received from

512
00:27:08,119 --> 00:27:11,480
Speaker 1: friendly inhabitants, and Walker issued a decree condemning to death

513
00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:14,640
Speaker 1: all persons guilty of plundering the property of the friendly inhabitants.

514
00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:17,400
Speaker 1: In other words, ranch owners who opposed Walker would find

515
00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:20,480
Speaker 1: their property pillaged, while those who acquiesced would be protected.

516
00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:27,080
Speaker 1: Now that's the way he was supposed to work on paper, Yeah,

517
00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:31,000
Speaker 1: but in reality his men stole everything that wasn't nailed down,

518
00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:33,680
Speaker 1: even from the people who agreed to be part of

519
00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:37,879
Speaker 1: this new republic to not get robbed. One landowner later wrote,

520
00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:40,000
Speaker 1: houses were broken into families were forced to do the

521
00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:42,359
Speaker 1: bidding of the invaders, and horses and saddles were taken

522
00:27:42,359 --> 00:27:45,240
Speaker 1: from passing civilians. In short, the marauders were behaving as

523
00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:47,880
Speaker 1: though they were absolute masters of the country. Haven't help

524
00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:50,040
Speaker 1: anyone who resisted or in any way refused to do

525
00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:52,200
Speaker 1: what they commanded for Then the fury of the entire

526
00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:56,400
Speaker 1: company was vented on him. Oh so they were just basically, yeah,

527
00:27:56,480 --> 00:27:58,960
Speaker 1: stick up for yourself and then we'll just beat the

528
00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:02,560
Speaker 1: shit out of you, slash kill you. Was there like,

529
00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:05,359
Speaker 1: was there like a massive body count at this point,

530
00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:08,800
Speaker 1: like or were they or they made but it's probably

531
00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:13,720
Speaker 1: recorded that probably lives trying at least a few. There's

532
00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:15,960
Speaker 1: not like a direct count, but like you have to

533
00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:20,200
Speaker 1: assume there were murders and obviously rapes. I'm gonna guess

534
00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:23,040
Speaker 1: the majority of people learned to either hide from them

535
00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:25,200
Speaker 1: or give up what because they're like, you know, there's

536
00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:27,479
Speaker 1: like there's a bunch of guys with guns. Now, Like

537
00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:31,000
Speaker 1: I guess we give them what they want. Yeah, So,

538
00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:34,000
Speaker 1: new volunteers continued to trickle in from the United States,

539
00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:36,760
Speaker 1: inspired by the stories published in California newspapers and the

540
00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:40,160
Speaker 1: promise of looting for themselves. By January of eighteen fifty four,

541
00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:43,200
Speaker 1: William Walker's army had expanded to three hundred men. He

542
00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:45,680
Speaker 1: celebrated this by declaring, get another name change to his

543
00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:50,120
Speaker 1: new country. This is the third name change. The Republic

544
00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:53,160
Speaker 1: of Lower California was now they're Republic of Sonora. It

545
00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:55,920
Speaker 1: had two states, Sonora, where he held no land in

546
00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:58,680
Speaker 1: lower California, where he controlled the town of en Sonata

547
00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:02,480
Speaker 1: and two small outposts. Reports of these momentous changes and

548
00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:05,640
Speaker 1: great victories were spread throughout the yellow Press of southern California.

549
00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:08,840
Speaker 1: But things were not going well for Walker. His minutes

550
00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:12,040
Speaker 1: succeeded in capturing mostly cows for food, and they're all beef.

551
00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:15,440
Speaker 1: Diet had gotten quickly tirings. So they have enough food,

552
00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:18,200
Speaker 1: but it's all beef and it's like all boiled beef.

553
00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:20,640
Speaker 1: And they are not happy with this. They don't even

554
00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:24,560
Speaker 1: know're not even local spices. Huh No, No, they mean

555
00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:28,440
Speaker 1: they're white. Yeah, I know they had Yeah, even these

556
00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:31,080
Speaker 1: white colonizers had linten. Yeah, I'm sure they must have

557
00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:33,640
Speaker 1: smelled someone's cooking. They're like, well, what do you call that?

558
00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:37,200
Speaker 1: Why is that so good? Human? Oh? Yeah, how do

559
00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:41,120
Speaker 1: I get that? Yeah? So the president and his commanders,

560
00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:44,280
Speaker 1: of course got bread and vegetables, but everyone else had

561
00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:46,320
Speaker 1: to make do with just boiled beef in the occasional

562
00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:48,880
Speaker 1: bit of corn. This frustrated the men enough that one

563
00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:51,240
Speaker 1: of them destroyed the oven Walker's cook used to bake

564
00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:55,640
Speaker 1: his bread. Yeah, petty. As the days and weeks rolled on,

565
00:29:55,800 --> 00:29:59,000
Speaker 1: soldiers began to desert. Others fell sick and died. Arguments

566
00:29:59,040 --> 00:30:01,560
Speaker 1: over the unequal district should have stolen horses led some

567
00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:03,760
Speaker 1: of the remaining men to the brink of mutiny. When

568
00:30:03,760 --> 00:30:05,760
Speaker 1: a group of them told the president colonel that they

569
00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:08,520
Speaker 1: were leaving, he warned them that desertion was a capital offense.

570
00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:11,000
Speaker 1: When this did not dissuade anyone, he tried his hand

571
00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:13,800
Speaker 1: at making a glorious speech to inspire his soldiers to stay.

572
00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:16,120
Speaker 1: He ended it by announcing that anyone who wished to

573
00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:18,160
Speaker 1: leave could go, and anyone who wanted to stay would

574
00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:20,320
Speaker 1: have to swear an oath through wheel and woe to

575
00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:23,040
Speaker 1: stay with him until they had conquered all of western Mexico.

576
00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:25,719
Speaker 1: So this is a little bit. I'm guessing it's not

577
00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:27,440
Speaker 1: said that this was the case. I'm guessing this was

578
00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:29,880
Speaker 1: sort of in an echo of I always forget this

579
00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:31,840
Speaker 1: guy from my Texas history class, but one of the

580
00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:33,680
Speaker 1: guys at the Alamo like drew a line in the

581
00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:36,120
Speaker 1: sand and was literally like at least so the story goes,

582
00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:37,720
Speaker 1: you know, if you want to stay on this side

583
00:30:37,760 --> 00:30:39,680
Speaker 1: and fight, you know, come on this side and whatever,

584
00:30:39,840 --> 00:30:42,960
Speaker 1: and it's like this big moment from Texas history where

585
00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:46,200
Speaker 1: this guy like draws this line in the sand. Yeah,

586
00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:49,480
Speaker 1: very powerful moment. Walker tries to do essentially the same

587
00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:54,920
Speaker 1: thing and a quarter of his army leaves immediately. I

588
00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:57,920
Speaker 1: love it. He's just like a shitty, toxic boss who

589
00:30:58,040 --> 00:31:01,040
Speaker 1: liked he's so bad. And I love those moments. I

590
00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:05,880
Speaker 1: don't I don't typically envision you, Robert, having traditional work history,

591
00:31:06,280 --> 00:31:09,360
Speaker 1: but like, have you ever worked in an office where

592
00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:11,480
Speaker 1: there was like the toxic boss and there was the

593
00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:16,000
Speaker 1: moment he realized the whole office was against him or her? No,

594
00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:18,640
Speaker 1: you know I've I've been really lucky in my bosses. Actually,

595
00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:20,880
Speaker 1: oh man, Yeah, well that's true. Yeah, and you follow

596
00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:23,480
Speaker 1: your you follow your HEARTI there been times when I've

597
00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:26,000
Speaker 1: worked like retail or other things and like there's a

598
00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:29,320
Speaker 1: moment like you guys gonna let this happen. Aarone's like, yeah,

599
00:31:29,360 --> 00:31:31,920
Speaker 1: we are because we hate you and you're not saying

600
00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:35,520
Speaker 1: the worst, So welcome to this reality. I mean, I

601
00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:38,920
Speaker 1: did have that one moment when Jack O'Brien asked us

602
00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:40,520
Speaker 1: to swear an oath to him while he was trying

603
00:31:40,520 --> 00:31:43,000
Speaker 1: to conquer and Sonata, But that was Yeah, and you

604
00:31:43,040 --> 00:31:45,280
Speaker 1: didn't take it seriously. He thought, he says this shit

605
00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:48,160
Speaker 1: all the time. He didn't have very many cannons, right,

606
00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:52,840
Speaker 1: So yeah. So in short order, just because of all

607
00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:56,000
Speaker 1: these guys who leave and then others dessert like, Walkers

608
00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:57,920
Speaker 1: down to about one hundred and forty men, and he

609
00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:00,160
Speaker 1: decides that his numbers have fallen enough that he has

610
00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:02,640
Speaker 1: to move yet again, to the town of San Vincente.

611
00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:05,560
Speaker 1: But he was halted in doing this when two US

612
00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:09,160
Speaker 1: Navy ships filled with marines set anchor just outside of Ensnata.

613
00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:11,920
Speaker 1: These were the US government's belated response to his invasion.

614
00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:14,680
Speaker 1: Their job was to block any passage south of additional

615
00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:18,560
Speaker 1: reinforcements for Walker's shrinking army. So Walker decides to march

616
00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:21,360
Speaker 1: south anyway, and once again his forts is easily capture

617
00:32:21,360 --> 00:32:24,800
Speaker 1: the undefended town, this time Sand Vincente. President Colonel Walker

618
00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:28,120
Speaker 1: immediately demands the local tribes and citizens all swear personal

619
00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:30,200
Speaker 1: fealty to him, which some of them did in order

620
00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:33,040
Speaker 1: to avoid trouble. But Walker's army was in full collapse

621
00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:35,040
Speaker 1: at this point. He left in Sonata with one hundred

622
00:32:35,040 --> 00:32:36,840
Speaker 1: and forty men, but he had less than one hundred

623
00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:39,440
Speaker 1: left by the time he got to San Vincente. So

624
00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:42,440
Speaker 1: Walker grew furious with the constant desertions, and on February

625
00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:44,320
Speaker 1: twenty eighth, some of his men caught a group of

626
00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:47,160
Speaker 1: volunteers planning to dessert. Before they could actually get away,

627
00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:49,840
Speaker 1: he placed five of them, the ring leaders, under arrest.

628
00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:53,360
Speaker 1: Two were sentenced to lashing, and two were executed immediately.

629
00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:56,960
Speaker 1: The fifth was pardon. Yeah, so he's killing his own

630
00:32:57,000 --> 00:33:00,400
Speaker 1: guys now, it's yeah, part of it's fallen apart now.

631
00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:03,360
Speaker 1: The fifth was pardoned because he was a good cattle

632
00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:07,840
Speaker 1: driver and they needed no one knew how to do anything. Yeah. So,

633
00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:11,080
Speaker 1: observing his men murdering their comrades, William Walker wrote that

634
00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:14,200
Speaker 1: this was quote a good test of military discipline, since

635
00:33:14,280 --> 00:33:16,640
Speaker 1: killing your fellow soldiers was the hardest thing a soldier

636
00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:20,800
Speaker 1: could do, and he added that God what on this occasion,

637
00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:23,640
Speaker 1: the duty was more difficult because the number of Americans

638
00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:30,080
Speaker 1: was small and was daily diminishing. Holy shit, I'm fucking

639
00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:35,040
Speaker 1: I'm guessing we're starting to enter the third act of

640
00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:39,880
Speaker 1: this disaster. Man, not even well, third act of Mexico,

641
00:33:40,440 --> 00:33:45,680
Speaker 1: right right, oh my yeah again, just the idea. He's amazing, Yeah,

642
00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:49,280
Speaker 1: and he's really like in a like true people who

643
00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:52,920
Speaker 1: have these like fixations on like dominating and conquering, like

644
00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:57,640
Speaker 1: they absolutely live in their own mind. And despite all

645
00:33:57,680 --> 00:33:59,880
Speaker 1: of the evidence and data that's in front of him

646
00:33:59,880 --> 00:34:02,240
Speaker 1: that I would say, like an intelligent person like this

647
00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:05,560
Speaker 1: is actually an abject failure and if I'm serious about this,

648
00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:08,040
Speaker 1: I mean you need to rework it. They just go, nah,

649
00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:11,080
Speaker 1: fuck it, hit the accelerator and let's just go pedal

650
00:34:11,080 --> 00:34:12,480
Speaker 1: to the metal and see what happens. Look, if I

651
00:34:12,520 --> 00:34:14,480
Speaker 1: got to kill some guys that are my own people,

652
00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:17,719
Speaker 1: then it's what I'm gonna do. And then honestly, that's

653
00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:20,720
Speaker 1: actually pretty chill because it's like a really sick test

654
00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:25,600
Speaker 1: of like discipline. So yeah, it's you, yeah, actually what

655
00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:29,799
Speaker 1: it must happen. So yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. So at

656
00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:33,040
Speaker 1: this point, Walker split his forces, leaving thirty men back

657
00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:36,279
Speaker 1: in the Sonata and taking seventy further east, intent on

658
00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:39,440
Speaker 1: finally capturing some land and Sonora, and this proved to

659
00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:42,160
Speaker 1: be a bad call. Malindras had raised another militia, which

660
00:34:42,160 --> 00:34:44,719
Speaker 1: he used to assault and capture San Vincente without much

661
00:34:44,719 --> 00:34:48,160
Speaker 1: of a fight. He immediately executed a dozen of Walker's men,

662
00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:51,640
Speaker 1: creating a sensation in California papers. This left Walker and

663
00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:54,440
Speaker 1: his remaining soldiers stuck in the middle of Baja California

664
00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:57,279
Speaker 1: with no base of operations or support. The whole mess

665
00:34:57,320 --> 00:34:59,960
Speaker 1: collapsed in short order, and Walker eventually wound up flea

666
00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:02,440
Speaker 1: for the US border. In the end, his army was

667
00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:04,759
Speaker 1: reduced to just thirty three men. Twenty two of his

668
00:35:04,840 --> 00:35:08,040
Speaker 1: volunteers had died in Mexico, eight more had been grievously wounded.

669
00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:11,479
Speaker 1: They were all almost immediately arrested, and Walker was taken

670
00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:14,319
Speaker 1: back to San Francisco for trial. He was indicted by

671
00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:16,920
Speaker 1: a grand jury on May eleventh, eighteen sixty four, along

672
00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:19,680
Speaker 1: with his secretaries of War and Navy. The charge was

673
00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:22,640
Speaker 1: violation of the Neutrality Act, a crime they were obviously

674
00:35:22,640 --> 00:35:26,000
Speaker 1: guilty of committing. The presiding judge was Isaac Ogier, the

675
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:28,880
Speaker 1: first DA for Los Angeles like the very first District

676
00:35:28,920 --> 00:35:32,640
Speaker 1: Attorney for Los Angeles. Yeah, and his chief legal claim

677
00:35:32,680 --> 00:35:34,680
Speaker 1: to fame was that in the past he'd introduced a

678
00:35:34,680 --> 00:35:37,600
Speaker 1: bill as state assemblymen to ban free black people from

679
00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:41,040
Speaker 1: living in California. So, as you might expect, he and

680
00:35:41,120 --> 00:35:43,759
Speaker 1: many of the potential juror pool in San Francisco were

681
00:35:43,760 --> 00:35:48,719
Speaker 1: inclined to sympathize with William Walker. Yeah, holy shit, Okay, yeah. So.

682
00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:51,520
Speaker 1: Walker's chief defense was that he'd never intended to enter

683
00:35:51,560 --> 00:35:55,240
Speaker 1: Mexico in a hostile manner. His expedition had only turned

684
00:35:55,239 --> 00:35:58,440
Speaker 1: into an invasion after they were attacked by violent locals.

685
00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:02,080
Speaker 1: Oh you fucking we were just on vacation with all

686
00:36:02,120 --> 00:36:04,800
Speaker 1: of our guns and cannon cannons. What did you think?

687
00:36:04,920 --> 00:36:08,040
Speaker 1: Oh my, oh you thought we were here to fucking colonize. No,

688
00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:11,720
Speaker 1: was it because of the canons? Jesus you people see,

689
00:36:11,800 --> 00:36:13,360
Speaker 1: I told you we should have painted him like a

690
00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:16,239
Speaker 1: fun color. Yeah, they thought it was. They thought it

691
00:36:16,320 --> 00:36:18,680
Speaker 1: was like for I mean, when I go on vacation

692
00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:21,040
Speaker 1: with my cannons, I do paint them like a bright,

693
00:36:21,160 --> 00:36:23,919
Speaker 1: happy like teal. Oh yeah, I find that that called

694
00:36:23,960 --> 00:36:27,200
Speaker 1: like hello, kitty stickers all over them. Absolutely, like anti

695
00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:30,239
Speaker 1: tank canon, my anti tank grounds and things like that. Yeah,

696
00:36:30,280 --> 00:36:34,640
Speaker 1: absolutely so uh. Walker neglected to mention that this violent

697
00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:36,680
Speaker 1: response from the locals of La Pause was a result

698
00:36:36,719 --> 00:36:40,200
Speaker 1: of him capturing the governor and declaring himself president. Walker's

699
00:36:40,239 --> 00:36:42,880
Speaker 1: lawyer also argued that his client's motives had been pure,

700
00:36:43,120 --> 00:36:46,400
Speaker 1: an attempt to drive back the savage apaches to protect

701
00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:49,759
Speaker 1: the people of Baja. The government of the United States was,

702
00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:53,120
Speaker 1: in their prosecution of Walker, the ally of the savage

703
00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:59,640
Speaker 1: hole man. This is really yeah, the grade a racism,

704
00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:03,880
Speaker 1: Yeah it is. And again it's timeless, like the same

705
00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:08,399
Speaker 1: sort of flawed logic and reasoning then legal arguments. We're

706
00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:13,120
Speaker 1: hearing like variations of them today still and it's amazing, like, oh, well,

707
00:37:13,120 --> 00:37:15,279
Speaker 1: actually you're you're probably on their side. Then if that's

708
00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:17,920
Speaker 1: if you know, America is probably a communist nation, then

709
00:37:17,960 --> 00:37:20,080
Speaker 1: if that's if I'm being if I'm in trouble for

710
00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:25,000
Speaker 1: inciting violence or violating the neutral Okay, sure, okay, Yeah,

711
00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:27,680
Speaker 1: he is the type of American that there has never

712
00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:31,000
Speaker 1: not been in America. Yeah, yeah, because that's what our

713
00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:34,239
Speaker 1: country is. Yeah, we just look at we we got

714
00:37:34,280 --> 00:37:36,800
Speaker 1: tired of other people telling us to give them their stuff,

715
00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:39,160
Speaker 1: and like now we're into it our way, try it

716
00:37:39,160 --> 00:37:41,480
Speaker 1: out our way. So the case went to jury, who

717
00:37:41,480 --> 00:37:44,280
Speaker 1: deliberated for a grand total of eight minutes. They declared

718
00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:47,439
Speaker 1: William Walker and his men not guilty. Oh my, oh fuck,

719
00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:51,799
Speaker 1: of course this fuck they'll never listen. Piece is shit.

720
00:37:52,440 --> 00:37:55,480
Speaker 1: A local newspaper, The Daily Altar, reported When the verdict

721
00:37:55,520 --> 00:37:58,000
Speaker 1: was pronounced, which the foreman did in a very emphatic tone,

722
00:37:58,040 --> 00:38:00,759
Speaker 1: there was an audible manifestation of applause outside the bar,

723
00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:02,880
Speaker 1: and many came up to shake mister Walker by the

724
00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:06,160
Speaker 1: hand and congratulate him. Good work on trying to conquer Mexico.

725
00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:09,319
Speaker 1: Sorry it didn't work out. Hey, love, Hey, loved what

726
00:38:09,360 --> 00:38:11,560
Speaker 1: you're going for, knew what you're going for. Love the

727
00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:15,880
Speaker 1: big fan, big fan, Love the enthusiasm. Oh yeah, just

728
00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:19,160
Speaker 1: a new place for slavery to flourish. Love that. I mean,

729
00:38:19,160 --> 00:38:20,680
Speaker 1: I don't know if you knew. That doesn't really matter,

730
00:38:20,719 --> 00:38:24,319
Speaker 1: but I love the perks. Great. Yeah, Now a free man.

731
00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:27,799
Speaker 1: Walker found employment is the editor of a newspaper in Sacramento.

732
00:38:28,239 --> 00:38:31,680
Speaker 1: He wrote a series of editorials complaining about extremists on

733
00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:38,239
Speaker 1: both sides of the slavery versus Avlan. He becomes MSNBC

734
00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:42,279
Speaker 1: himself here, but writing was not enough to capture his

735
00:38:42,320 --> 00:38:45,799
Speaker 1: attention anymore. Once you've tried to conquer a Central American nation,

736
00:38:46,120 --> 00:38:48,040
Speaker 1: nothing else is going to hit the spot like trying

737
00:38:48,080 --> 00:38:51,560
Speaker 1: to conquer another Central American nation. Never just done hit right,

738
00:38:52,280 --> 00:38:56,120
Speaker 1: I've said it a thousand times. Yeah. Now, during this

739
00:38:56,160 --> 00:38:58,839
Speaker 1: period Nicaragua was enmeshed in a civil war between two

740
00:38:58,920 --> 00:39:02,360
Speaker 1: opposing political parts parties, the Legitimists and the Liberals. The

741
00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:05,440
Speaker 1: Liberal Party had hired a number of American mercenaries, including

742
00:39:05,440 --> 00:39:07,480
Speaker 1: a fellow named Cole, who'd worked with Walker on a

743
00:39:07,520 --> 00:39:10,839
Speaker 1: newspaper called The Commercial Advertiser. Once Cole got the lay

744
00:39:10,880 --> 00:39:13,840
Speaker 1: of the land in Nicaragua, he had the Liberal Party

745
00:39:13,920 --> 00:39:17,280
Speaker 1: send an invitation to his friend Walker. The two started talking,

746
00:39:17,320 --> 00:39:20,239
Speaker 1: and eventually Walker wound up in contact with representatives from

747
00:39:20,239 --> 00:39:22,759
Speaker 1: the Liberal Party next, according to a write up in

748
00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:25,920
Speaker 1: the Peng Gazette, eager to exploit the nation whose shipping

749
00:39:25,960 --> 00:39:28,279
Speaker 1: route could prove immensely valuable to himself and to the

750
00:39:28,360 --> 00:39:31,359
Speaker 1: United States, Walker agreed. This time. However, he made sure

751
00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:34,399
Speaker 1: to circumvent neutrality laws by obtaining a contract to bring

752
00:39:34,480 --> 00:39:38,680
Speaker 1: colonists to Nicaragua. On May third, eighteen fifty five, Walker

753
00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:42,040
Speaker 1: and fifty seven followers left San Francisco by boat. Shortly

754
00:39:42,080 --> 00:39:45,560
Speaker 1: after arriving, and reinforced with local Democratic troops, they attacked

755
00:39:45,560 --> 00:39:48,960
Speaker 1: the legitimate stronghold of Rivas. They lost decisively, driven out

756
00:39:48,960 --> 00:39:52,720
Speaker 1: of town after suffering significant casualties. Though his military prowess

757
00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:55,520
Speaker 1: was questionable. Walker became the leader of the Democrats by

758
00:39:55,560 --> 00:39:58,280
Speaker 1: default when the chiefs of both the military and executive

759
00:39:58,280 --> 00:40:01,560
Speaker 1: branch died on October thirteenth, and what was considered to

760
00:40:01,560 --> 00:40:04,480
Speaker 1: be the only truly adept maneuver of his military career,

761
00:40:04,640 --> 00:40:07,080
Speaker 1: he commandeered a ferry and sailed to Grenada, taking the

762
00:40:07,160 --> 00:40:10,399
Speaker 1: legitimate forces by surprise. At this point, he effectively gained

763
00:40:10,400 --> 00:40:14,800
Speaker 1: control of Nicaragua, installing a puppet interim president in Patricio Rivas.

764
00:40:14,960 --> 00:40:17,880
Speaker 1: Soon after, he had himself elected president and was inaugurated

765
00:40:17,920 --> 00:40:21,680
Speaker 1: on July twelfth, eighteen fifty six. So he conquers Nicaragua.

766
00:40:21,719 --> 00:40:26,719
Speaker 1: He's the president. Oh my, you did it, you son

767
00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:28,799
Speaker 1: of a ba. He did it because he gets hired

768
00:40:28,840 --> 00:40:30,360
Speaker 1: and you'll see them written as the Liberal or the

769
00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:33,560
Speaker 1: Democrat party, depending on which source you find. But he

770
00:40:33,719 --> 00:40:36,480
Speaker 1: this party hires him as like a mercenary, and he

771
00:40:36,600 --> 00:40:39,680
Speaker 1: leads a disastrous attack and it gets everyone who's in

772
00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:42,160
Speaker 1: charge of the party killed, and so he just takes

773
00:40:42,200 --> 00:40:45,800
Speaker 1: control by the faults. Yeah, I don't know, my bugbling

774
00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:48,400
Speaker 1: got all my bosses killed. So hey, you know what

775
00:40:48,400 --> 00:40:50,960
Speaker 1: that means. Top of the This is particularly the part

776
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:53,960
Speaker 1: that would make a really good movie. Like, oh yeah,

777
00:40:54,280 --> 00:40:57,120
Speaker 1: I think Eric Prince must like have like this, like

778
00:40:57,200 --> 00:41:00,520
Speaker 1: has like bed sheets of this guy. Yeah. Yeah, Prince

779
00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:04,719
Speaker 1: like goes to sleep coming thinking of William Walker and

780
00:41:04,760 --> 00:41:07,399
Speaker 1: how he could be I get him. If only he'd

781
00:41:07,440 --> 00:41:09,759
Speaker 1: had an air force, if only they would just let

782
00:41:09,800 --> 00:41:13,920
Speaker 1: me modify my plane into a fighter jetge. Yeah. So,

783
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:16,640
Speaker 1: in a matter of days, Walker went from hired mercenary

784
00:41:16,719 --> 00:41:20,160
Speaker 1: to president of Nicaragua, presumably for the rest of his life.

785
00:41:20,200 --> 00:41:21,919
Speaker 1: I think that was the goal he had in mind.

786
00:41:21,920 --> 00:41:24,880
Speaker 1: I don't I don't see a lot of future elections coming. No, definitely,

787
00:41:25,320 --> 00:41:30,000
Speaker 1: no primaries. No. No one at least of all the

788
00:41:30,040 --> 00:41:33,960
Speaker 1: American government had ever considered this to be a realistic possibility.

789
00:41:34,239 --> 00:41:36,640
Speaker 1: But William Walker was very ready to run a country,

790
00:41:36,680 --> 00:41:39,840
Speaker 1: and he got right to work making proclamations. English was

791
00:41:39,840 --> 00:41:44,720
Speaker 1: declared the official language of Nicaragua. Now that's his first move.

792
00:41:45,200 --> 00:41:48,439
Speaker 1: Well we're getting read all this fucking Spanish. First move,

793
00:41:48,760 --> 00:41:52,320
Speaker 1: first order of business. All right, we're doing English, everybody.

794
00:41:52,320 --> 00:41:54,600
Speaker 1: These people are speaking in Sonata and it doesn't even

795
00:41:54,600 --> 00:41:56,960
Speaker 1: make sense. What the heck I thought it was just

796
00:41:57,000 --> 00:42:00,239
Speaker 1: an en Sonata down here too. Huh oh boy. Yeah,

797
00:42:00,280 --> 00:42:04,719
Speaker 1: we're getting rid of that straight away. Yeah, it's amazing.

798
00:42:05,520 --> 00:42:09,319
Speaker 1: So yeah, so property was confiscated from the defeated legitimists

799
00:42:09,320 --> 00:42:12,759
Speaker 1: and handed over to William's American volunteers. He established a

800
00:42:12,760 --> 00:42:17,000
Speaker 1: bilingual newspaper, El Nisi, which was based on a local

801
00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:20,120
Speaker 1: legend about a gray eyed leader who would free Nicaragua

802
00:42:20,120 --> 00:42:23,680
Speaker 1: from Spanish domination. William Walker, who had gleefully taken on

803
00:42:23,719 --> 00:42:26,440
Speaker 1: the nickname the Gray Eyed Man of Destiny, had one

804
00:42:26,440 --> 00:42:28,320
Speaker 1: of his pet journalists write an op ed in the

805
00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:31,879
Speaker 1: paper claiming this traditional prophecy has been fulfilled to the letter.

806
00:42:32,120 --> 00:42:36,880
Speaker 1: The gray eyed Man has come. Oh that must that

807
00:42:36,960 --> 00:42:41,120
Speaker 1: must have a prophecy that and now it's real. Yeah

808
00:42:41,120 --> 00:42:43,319
Speaker 1: it's real now, yeah absolutely, you know, but that that

809
00:42:43,520 --> 00:42:47,680
Speaker 1: was that prophecy actually predates him made probably almost certainly not.

810
00:42:48,560 --> 00:42:53,840
Speaker 1: He claimed it was a local prophecy. You motherfucker, I know,

811
00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:58,120
Speaker 1: I know you're also like, hi, jacking. I mean, it's

812
00:42:58,120 --> 00:43:01,279
Speaker 1: truly like, that's what that's what colonization is about. You

813
00:43:01,400 --> 00:43:04,400
Speaker 1: hijack the culture, you completely erase it, you rework it

814
00:43:04,440 --> 00:43:06,520
Speaker 1: for your own gains, and then you gaslight the people

815
00:43:06,560 --> 00:43:09,399
Speaker 1: and there thinking yeah you wanted this or at least

816
00:43:09,640 --> 00:43:11,399
Speaker 1: I'm going to project that to the other people who

817
00:43:11,440 --> 00:43:13,560
Speaker 1: don't know any better. It's like what they would say

818
00:43:13,560 --> 00:43:16,160
Speaker 1: about Native Americans using every part of the Buffalo. William

819
00:43:16,160 --> 00:43:21,239
Speaker 1: Walker colonizes every part of the Nicaragua. Holy shit, the

820
00:43:21,280 --> 00:43:25,880
Speaker 1: fucking gray eyed Please but Miles, you know what won't

821
00:43:25,880 --> 00:43:30,880
Speaker 1: colonize Nicaragua and replace its native language with English. Hmmm,

822
00:43:31,840 --> 00:43:35,480
Speaker 1: the products and services that support this podcast. Yeah, that's

823
00:43:35,520 --> 00:43:37,719
Speaker 1: one of our very few lines. Is you cannot have

824
00:43:37,719 --> 00:43:40,839
Speaker 1: attempted to conquer Nicaragua. Well, I guess I won't have it.

825
00:43:40,880 --> 00:43:43,000
Speaker 1: I won't have it supporting my podcast. I guess. Crystal

826
00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:46,759
Speaker 1: geysers out of the question. Yes, yes, they are out

827
00:43:46,800 --> 00:43:50,879
Speaker 1: of the question, as are a number of snack chip brands. Yeah,

828
00:43:51,840 --> 00:44:01,120
Speaker 1: let's world ads, We're back. So President Walker had no

829
00:44:01,239 --> 00:44:04,680
Speaker 1: intentions of actually freeing the Nicaraguan people from colonial domination.

830
00:44:05,560 --> 00:44:08,400
Speaker 1: In fact, his goal was literally the opposite. On September

831
00:44:08,400 --> 00:44:11,520
Speaker 1: twenty second, eighteen fifty six, President Walker issued an edict

832
00:44:11,600 --> 00:44:14,840
Speaker 1: repealing the eighteen thirty eight decree that had banned slavery

833
00:44:14,840 --> 00:44:17,520
Speaker 1: in Nicaragua, where he once had been something of a

834
00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:21,640
Speaker 1: moderate on this issue. By eighteen fifty six, he'd swung

835
00:44:21,680 --> 00:44:24,840
Speaker 1: all the way from pretty racist to so racist. Jefferson

836
00:44:24,920 --> 00:44:28,880
Speaker 1: Davis would have been like, slow down, dude, No, he wrote, yeah,

837
00:44:28,920 --> 00:44:34,680
Speaker 1: he's that sentence system. Yeah, soul with it. He wrote

838
00:44:34,719 --> 00:44:39,080
Speaker 1: that Nicaraguans were half casts and fundamentally disorderly, and black

839
00:44:39,120 --> 00:44:41,160
Speaker 1: people he thought had been placed on earth by God

840
00:44:41,200 --> 00:44:43,279
Speaker 1: for the use of white men. He later wrote that

841
00:44:43,320 --> 00:44:45,919
Speaker 1: Africa was, for more than five thousand years a mere

842
00:44:45,960 --> 00:44:48,439
Speaker 1: waif on the waters of the world, fulfilling no part

843
00:44:48,480 --> 00:44:51,120
Speaker 1: in its destinies and aiding in no manner the progress

844
00:44:51,160 --> 00:44:54,680
Speaker 1: of general civilization. He saw slavery as crucial to his

845
00:44:54,719 --> 00:44:57,719
Speaker 1: new goal, which was to rid Nicaragua of actual Nicaraguans

846
00:44:57,760 --> 00:45:00,279
Speaker 1: by importing slaves to handle the farming for white people.

847
00:45:00,600 --> 00:45:03,399
Speaker 1: This would stop the new white settlers Walker wanted from

848
00:45:03,600 --> 00:45:07,160
Speaker 1: fraternizing or God forbid, breeding with any actual Nicaraguan people.

849
00:45:07,920 --> 00:45:11,160
Speaker 1: Let's good. Oh wow, Yeah, this is ethnic cleansing that

850
00:45:11,200 --> 00:45:14,000
Speaker 1: he he's getting himself lathered up to do some ethnic cleansing.

851
00:45:14,040 --> 00:45:16,520
Speaker 1: Everything is a wave too. I just like that's a

852
00:45:16,520 --> 00:45:19,919
Speaker 1: way fun. That's his favorite, Yeah, his favorite comparison to make.

853
00:45:20,239 --> 00:45:23,399
Speaker 1: He wrote that quote the introduction of Negro slavery into

854
00:45:23,480 --> 00:45:26,640
Speaker 1: Nicaragua would furnish a supply of constant and reliable labor

855
00:45:26,680 --> 00:45:29,680
Speaker 1: requisite for the cultivation of tropical products. With the negro

856
00:45:29,719 --> 00:45:32,080
Speaker 1: slave as his companion, the white man will become fixed

857
00:45:32,120 --> 00:45:34,760
Speaker 1: to the soil, and they together would destroy the power

858
00:45:34,800 --> 00:45:37,280
Speaker 1: of the mixed race, which is the bane of the country.

859
00:45:37,280 --> 00:45:46,359
Speaker 1: Oh Jesus Christ, fucking yeah. Woh wow wow wow wow

860
00:45:46,400 --> 00:45:50,640
Speaker 1: wow Wow. That really yeah. Jefferson Davis is like, bruh,

861
00:45:50,880 --> 00:45:56,200
Speaker 1: that's wow. Okay, okay, h hey, I guess if that's

862
00:45:56,239 --> 00:46:00,359
Speaker 1: if that's the tune you're singing. Holy shit, Okay, Well, yeah,

863
00:46:01,080 --> 00:46:02,759
Speaker 1: he's got a vision. He's got a vision. He's got

864
00:46:02,760 --> 00:46:05,400
Speaker 1: a vision. The fact that Nicaragua was now effectively a

865
00:46:05,440 --> 00:46:07,800
Speaker 1: slave state would also help to draw in more Southern

866
00:46:07,840 --> 00:46:11,200
Speaker 1: white volunteers to fill out William's New Old Country. He

867
00:46:11,239 --> 00:46:14,720
Speaker 1: had notices printed up and distributed in several Southern American cities,

868
00:46:14,760 --> 00:46:18,759
Speaker 1: including New Orleans. The notices stated the government of Nicaragua

869
00:46:18,840 --> 00:46:21,560
Speaker 1: is desirous of having its land settled and cultivated by

870
00:46:21,600 --> 00:46:24,240
Speaker 1: an industrious class of people, and offer, as an inducement

871
00:46:24,280 --> 00:46:26,680
Speaker 1: to immigrants, a donation of two hundred and fifty acres

872
00:46:26,719 --> 00:46:29,680
Speaker 1: of land for single person and one hundred acres additional

873
00:46:29,680 --> 00:46:32,560
Speaker 1: to persons of family. Steamers leave New Orleans for San

874
00:46:32,640 --> 00:46:34,800
Speaker 1: Juan on the eleventh and twenty sixth of each month.

875
00:46:34,880 --> 00:46:36,759
Speaker 1: The fair is now reduced to less than half of

876
00:46:36,800 --> 00:46:41,640
Speaker 1: the former rates. Wow, yeah, we're offering the government of

877
00:46:41,719 --> 00:46:44,759
Speaker 1: Nicaragua was making this offer more white people. Come on,

878
00:46:44,880 --> 00:46:46,360
Speaker 1: We've come on down and get your two hundred and

879
00:46:46,360 --> 00:46:50,880
Speaker 1: fifty acres. You better not be race mixing though, yeah,

880
00:46:50,920 --> 00:46:54,359
Speaker 1: and then you can work the land. There also just

881
00:46:54,560 --> 00:46:58,680
Speaker 1: the romantic the romanticism of his writing about like the

882
00:46:58,760 --> 00:47:02,200
Speaker 1: white man and the Negro together will be bound to

883
00:47:02,239 --> 00:47:07,240
Speaker 1: the earth like friends forever, so fucking dark. Yeah, it's amazing,

884
00:47:07,280 --> 00:47:09,400
Speaker 1: you got you gotta do that flowery shit. So people

885
00:47:09,440 --> 00:47:11,640
Speaker 1: will be like, oh that sounds that sounds great, rather

886
00:47:11,640 --> 00:47:14,320
Speaker 1: than like, oh, yeah, we're torturing people everybody. One of

887
00:47:14,360 --> 00:47:17,359
Speaker 1: the important things to understand, even about like the pro

888
00:47:17,480 --> 00:47:20,120
Speaker 1: slavery people, is that, like everyone wants to view themselves

889
00:47:20,160 --> 00:47:22,520
Speaker 1: as the good guys, Like the pro slavery folks did

890
00:47:22,520 --> 00:47:25,840
Speaker 1: not like to think of themselves as like violently enforcing

891
00:47:26,360 --> 00:47:30,400
Speaker 1: a nightmarish regime of racial apartheid. They saw themselves as like,

892
00:47:30,840 --> 00:47:34,040
Speaker 1: it's no, this is us and our friend friend who

893
00:47:34,080 --> 00:47:38,080
Speaker 1: like needs a whipped to death sometimes. Yeah, oh that

894
00:47:38,120 --> 00:47:41,080
Speaker 1: would Yeah. I didn't do that. The overseer did and

895
00:47:41,120 --> 00:47:47,040
Speaker 1: that's the yeah, but we're still friends. Yeah. Back in

896
00:47:47,080 --> 00:47:50,640
Speaker 1: the US, reactions to Walker's conquest varied largely by region.

897
00:47:50,760 --> 00:47:52,799
Speaker 1: Even in the abolitionist North, though he had a lot

898
00:47:52,840 --> 00:47:55,360
Speaker 1: of fans. Plays were written about him and performed in

899
00:47:55,360 --> 00:47:58,840
Speaker 1: places like Manhattan. One eighteen fifty six playbill from the

900
00:47:58,840 --> 00:48:02,720
Speaker 1: Party National Theater declared him the hope of Freedom. Another

901
00:48:02,760 --> 00:48:05,759
Speaker 1: writer from Kentucky was inspired enough to write the Nicaragua

902
00:48:05,880 --> 00:48:11,640
Speaker 1: National Song in Walker's honor. Here's wait. They there were

903
00:48:11,719 --> 00:48:18,719
Speaker 1: fucking per plays like theatrical man Manhattan. Yeah. Can you

904
00:48:18,760 --> 00:48:22,400
Speaker 1: get your hands on that script? I hope so. I

905
00:48:22,400 --> 00:48:24,439
Speaker 1: have not yet, but that would be enough to read

906
00:48:24,440 --> 00:48:28,080
Speaker 1: behind the bastard's table, read to end them all. We

907
00:48:28,120 --> 00:48:30,560
Speaker 1: could really have some fun with that. Oh my god, God,

908
00:48:30,560 --> 00:48:35,840
Speaker 1: I can only imagine that horseshit in that fucking script. Yeah.

909
00:48:35,880 --> 00:48:38,000
Speaker 1: A writer from Kentucky was inspired, like I said, to

910
00:48:38,040 --> 00:48:40,120
Speaker 1: write the Nicaragua National song. I'm gonna read a few

911
00:48:40,120 --> 00:48:44,120
Speaker 1: bars from that mile, Okay, it needs not a profit

912
00:48:44,200 --> 00:48:46,360
Speaker 1: or talker to tell you, in prose or in verse,

913
00:48:46,480 --> 00:48:49,439
Speaker 1: the exploits of Patriot Walker, whom tyrants will long deem

914
00:48:49,440 --> 00:48:52,000
Speaker 1: a curse. A brave son of freedom is Walker, and

915
00:48:52,160 --> 00:48:57,800
Speaker 1: nations his fame will rehearse, Oh, freedom, freedom, the freedom

916
00:48:57,920 --> 00:49:00,960
Speaker 1: to own slaves. And you know, there's gonna be some

917
00:49:01,040 --> 00:49:03,319
Speaker 1: haters who are gonna act like he wasn't a good guy,

918
00:49:03,440 --> 00:49:06,560
Speaker 1: but you're gonna see, dude, They're gonna be seeing his praises.

919
00:49:06,560 --> 00:49:09,920
Speaker 1: There's some haters, but most people will look. Of course,

920
00:49:09,960 --> 00:49:12,359
Speaker 1: he was also hated by the abolitionist press and by

921
00:49:12,400 --> 00:49:15,640
Speaker 1: many people in free states. A conspiracy theory was developed

922
00:49:15,640 --> 00:49:18,360
Speaker 1: that Walker's conquest of Nicaragua was part of some convoluted

923
00:49:18,360 --> 00:49:20,400
Speaker 1: scheme to get the country annexed by the US and

924
00:49:20,480 --> 00:49:23,200
Speaker 1: add another slave state to the Union. People who knew

925
00:49:23,200 --> 00:49:26,040
Speaker 1: Walker didn't find that likely, at least that it was

926
00:49:26,080 --> 00:49:29,200
Speaker 1: like a grand scheme to support slavery. One of his

927
00:49:29,280 --> 00:49:32,399
Speaker 1: recruits later wrote, the real underlying purpose of Walker's going

928
00:49:32,400 --> 00:49:35,320
Speaker 1: to Nicaragua, in my opinion, was empire in the Tropics,

929
00:49:35,360 --> 00:49:37,960
Speaker 1: with Walker as the central figure of this. I never

930
00:49:38,000 --> 00:49:40,719
Speaker 1: had any doubt. So like that's the chief debate is

931
00:49:40,760 --> 00:49:43,600
Speaker 1: like either Walker was a pro slavery crusader and this

932
00:49:43,680 --> 00:49:45,840
Speaker 1: was part of like a scheme to add more slave states,

933
00:49:46,120 --> 00:49:50,239
Speaker 1: or he really just wanted his own empire in Central America. Yeah.

934
00:49:50,520 --> 00:49:52,439
Speaker 1: I think it's just one of those empire first. They're

935
00:49:52,440 --> 00:49:55,120
Speaker 1: both plausible. Yeah, yeah, and it's like, oh, slavery is

936
00:49:55,120 --> 00:49:57,520
Speaker 1: just a byproduct which I can live with. Yeah, my

937
00:49:57,560 --> 00:50:00,479
Speaker 1: main goals empire or yeah, it really is hard to tell.

938
00:50:01,000 --> 00:50:02,680
Speaker 1: It is hard to tell because by the time he's

939
00:50:02,719 --> 00:50:05,759
Speaker 1: in charge of Nicaragua, racism is definitely not just a

940
00:50:05,800 --> 00:50:08,400
Speaker 1: thing he's using to get more troops, but like a

941
00:50:08,480 --> 00:50:12,200
Speaker 1: motivating force right behind him, like he's being like you could.

942
00:50:12,200 --> 00:50:14,800
Speaker 1: There's a difference, you know, in how he was acted

943
00:50:14,800 --> 00:50:16,920
Speaker 1: in Mexico. And it's like tough too, because even if

944
00:50:16,960 --> 00:50:18,560
Speaker 1: he was like, noah, no, I'm not race, I was

945
00:50:18,600 --> 00:50:20,760
Speaker 1: just doing that shit because I like empire. It's like, well,

946
00:50:21,480 --> 00:50:24,680
Speaker 1: while mister Walker, because you walk the walk and talk

947
00:50:24,800 --> 00:50:30,480
Speaker 1: the fucking talk of a maniacal slave owner. Yeah, something else.

948
00:50:30,960 --> 00:50:33,960
Speaker 1: So the one positive impact of Walker's time and power

949
00:50:34,040 --> 00:50:37,120
Speaker 1: is that it did successfully unite the two warring factions

950
00:50:37,160 --> 00:50:40,399
Speaker 1: of the Nicaraguan government, the Legitimatest and liberal parties were

951
00:50:40,440 --> 00:50:42,400
Speaker 1: able to come together to say fuck you to the

952
00:50:42,440 --> 00:50:45,840
Speaker 1: white guy who'd conquered their country almost by accident, breaking

953
00:50:45,880 --> 00:50:49,400
Speaker 1: with allies. Yeah. So they got together with some allies

954
00:50:49,440 --> 00:50:53,239
Speaker 1: in Costa Rica, Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvator and put

955
00:50:53,239 --> 00:50:55,360
Speaker 1: together an army of more than six thousand men to

956
00:50:55,400 --> 00:50:59,120
Speaker 1: oppose William Walker. Now, by this point, Walker himself could

957
00:50:59,160 --> 00:51:01,959
Speaker 1: draw in about fifteen hundred men. They were well armed

958
00:51:01,960 --> 00:51:04,600
Speaker 1: and motivated, and in short order the two sides settled

959
00:51:04,600 --> 00:51:08,000
Speaker 1: into a vicious guerrilla war, burning homes and villages. The

960
00:51:08,040 --> 00:51:10,960
Speaker 1: Americans had the advantage of better weaponry and organization, but

961
00:51:10,960 --> 00:51:12,880
Speaker 1: were hampered by the fact that they were often drunk

962
00:51:12,880 --> 00:51:15,600
Speaker 1: as fuck and that William Walker was very bad at

963
00:51:15,680 --> 00:51:19,960
Speaker 1: waging war. Yeah. Those are the two down sides. I

964
00:51:19,960 --> 00:51:24,240
Speaker 1: can only imagine. Yeah, gorilla warfare and you're drunk. Yeah,

965
00:51:24,400 --> 00:51:27,040
Speaker 1: it's not ideal. The fuck are you talking? But it

966
00:51:27,040 --> 00:51:31,200
Speaker 1: sounds like a disastrous combination. It was after a series

967
00:51:31,239 --> 00:51:33,799
Speaker 1: of tactical blunders, Walker decided that his base in the

968
00:51:33,840 --> 00:51:37,680
Speaker 1: city of Granada was untenable. Rather than just hand Rather

969
00:51:37,719 --> 00:51:39,880
Speaker 1: than just hand it to the enemy, he evacuated his

970
00:51:39,920 --> 00:51:42,520
Speaker 1: wounded and ordered the four hundred soldiers stationed there to

971
00:51:42,560 --> 00:51:47,360
Speaker 1: destroy the entire town before leafing. Burn it all down. Wow, okay,

972
00:51:47,480 --> 00:51:51,000
Speaker 1: I mean yeah, another thing we've seen too. We've got

973
00:51:51,040 --> 00:51:54,160
Speaker 1: abandoned base. Burn it all down so they can't get anything.

974
00:51:54,920 --> 00:51:57,560
Speaker 1: His filibuster army took to the task with glee, looting

975
00:51:57,680 --> 00:52:00,160
Speaker 1: huge amounts of wine and getting wasted as shit as

976
00:52:00,200 --> 00:52:02,600
Speaker 1: they forced hundreds of Nicaraguas out of their homes and

977
00:52:02,640 --> 00:52:05,120
Speaker 1: then burn those homes to the ground. But they grew

978
00:52:05,160 --> 00:52:07,520
Speaker 1: so enthralled with this activity that they failed to notice

979
00:52:07,520 --> 00:52:10,239
Speaker 1: an army of fifteen hundred men surrounding them. Once the

980
00:52:10,280 --> 00:52:13,640
Speaker 1: situation became clear, the troops tried to put up defensive fortifications,

981
00:52:13,760 --> 00:52:15,840
Speaker 1: but they were way too drunk to actually do this.

982
00:52:16,200 --> 00:52:18,560
Speaker 1: Which should have been an orderly retreat became a slaughter.

983
00:52:18,680 --> 00:52:21,040
Speaker 1: More than half of Walker's forces in Grenada were killed

984
00:52:21,080 --> 00:52:23,920
Speaker 1: or captured, and all these debts were utterly pointless, the

985
00:52:23,960 --> 00:52:26,920
Speaker 1: result of Walker's cruel insistence that the city be destroyed.

986
00:52:27,239 --> 00:52:29,600
Speaker 1: Any sane person would consider this a war crime as

987
00:52:29,600 --> 00:52:32,880
Speaker 1: well as an act of supreme military idiocy, But William

988
00:52:32,880 --> 00:52:36,239
Speaker 1: Walker wrote this about his actions in the aftermath as

989
00:52:36,280 --> 00:52:38,440
Speaker 1: to the justice of the act. Few can question it

990
00:52:38,480 --> 00:52:41,480
Speaker 1: for its inhabitants owed life and property to the Americans

991
00:52:41,520 --> 00:52:44,440
Speaker 1: and service of Nicaragua, and yet they joined the enemies

992
00:52:44,440 --> 00:52:48,040
Speaker 1: who strove to drive their protectors from Central America. Why

993
00:52:48,040 --> 00:52:50,800
Speaker 1: don't you love your protectors who are burning your homes down?

994
00:52:50,960 --> 00:52:54,000
Speaker 1: Can't you see we're protecting you. I'm protecting you by

995
00:52:54,120 --> 00:52:58,000
Speaker 1: hurting you. Why can't you see this? He is like

996
00:52:58,080 --> 00:53:02,120
Speaker 1: trying to gaslight all of Nicaragua, really truly. And also

997
00:53:02,560 --> 00:53:04,640
Speaker 1: it's like is it that or it's And it's also

998
00:53:04,680 --> 00:53:07,359
Speaker 1: like the gas slighting is a byproduct of his inability

999
00:53:07,400 --> 00:53:10,680
Speaker 1: to just be honest about anything going on. Yeah, I

1000
00:53:11,160 --> 00:53:14,919
Speaker 1: want to choice, Yeah, turn their back on me. Yeah,

1001
00:53:14,960 --> 00:53:18,800
Speaker 1: it's amazing. On February twenty sixth, eighteen fifty six, Costa

1002
00:53:18,880 --> 00:53:22,200
Speaker 1: Rica officially declared war on Walker's government in Nicaragua. Their

1003
00:53:22,200 --> 00:53:26,040
Speaker 1: president issued a proclamation calling the great Central American family

1004
00:53:26,120 --> 00:53:29,360
Speaker 1: of Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras together to fight Walker.

1005
00:53:29,680 --> 00:53:31,600
Speaker 1: This was partly inspired by the fact that some of

1006
00:53:31,680 --> 00:53:36,400
Speaker 1: Walker's forces had occupied the Costa Rican town of Santa Rosa,

1007
00:53:36,440 --> 00:53:39,319
Speaker 1: and Coaster was like, you guys are invading us now, Yeah,

1008
00:53:39,719 --> 00:53:44,040
Speaker 1: physisic role so Walker responds to this proclamation by issuing

1009
00:53:44,120 --> 00:53:47,560
Speaker 1: one of his own. The natural law of individual protection

1010
00:53:47,680 --> 00:53:51,320
Speaker 1: obliges us, the Americans of Nicaragua, to declare eternal enmity

1011
00:53:51,320 --> 00:53:54,520
Speaker 1: to the servile party and servile governments of Central America.

1012
00:53:54,600 --> 00:53:56,880
Speaker 1: The friendship that we have offered them has been rebuffed.

1013
00:53:56,960 --> 00:53:58,759
Speaker 1: We are left with no option other than to make

1014
00:53:58,800 --> 00:54:01,239
Speaker 1: them recognize that are in can be as dangerous and

1015
00:54:01,239 --> 00:54:05,200
Speaker 1: destructive as our friendship is faithful and true. I mean

1016
00:54:05,520 --> 00:54:09,080
Speaker 1: his friendship, by the way, invading Costa Rica and taking

1017
00:54:09,080 --> 00:54:12,440
Speaker 1: over Santa Rosa. Yeah, friendship means yes, stealing your shit,

1018
00:54:12,760 --> 00:54:15,960
Speaker 1: abusing you and then telling and then telling you you're

1019
00:54:16,120 --> 00:54:21,200
Speaker 1: the problem. Yeah, it's pretty pretty remarkable. It's uh, very

1020
00:54:21,280 --> 00:54:25,520
Speaker 1: very uh again, a lot of these sentiments coming out

1021
00:54:25,560 --> 00:54:30,160
Speaker 1: of him, Yeah are so. I'm like kind of amazed

1022
00:54:30,320 --> 00:54:33,719
Speaker 1: that I didn't know as much about him considering how

1023
00:54:33,800 --> 00:54:37,960
Speaker 1: much Yeah, like his actions like are you know, capture

1024
00:54:38,040 --> 00:54:40,440
Speaker 1: like an entire frame of mind for sin Era that

1025
00:54:40,520 --> 00:54:44,319
Speaker 1: extends to this day. He is the platonic ideal of

1026
00:54:44,360 --> 00:54:48,840
Speaker 1: the Republican Party. Right exactly on March twentieth, the Costa

1027
00:54:48,920 --> 00:54:52,399
Speaker 1: Rican army reached Santa Rosa and forced Walker's forces out

1028
00:54:52,440 --> 00:54:55,439
Speaker 1: after a fourteen minute firefight. They then invaded the city

1029
00:54:55,480 --> 00:54:58,319
Speaker 1: of Rivas, pushing Walker's forces street by street until they

1030
00:54:58,360 --> 00:55:00,400
Speaker 1: were forced to hold up in a compound owned by

1031
00:55:00,400 --> 00:55:03,399
Speaker 1: a wealthy family. From inside the compound, the white men

1032
00:55:03,440 --> 00:55:06,440
Speaker 1: had a commanding firing position, something that Costa Rican forces

1033
00:55:06,480 --> 00:55:09,040
Speaker 1: could not crack without great loss of life. And to

1034
00:55:09,080 --> 00:55:11,080
Speaker 1: tell the story about what happened next, I'm going to

1035
00:55:11,080 --> 00:55:13,960
Speaker 1: turn to a write up in the Pengazette quote a

1036
00:55:14,000 --> 00:55:17,160
Speaker 1: Costa Rican drummer boy named Juan Santa Maria volunteered to

1037
00:55:17,280 --> 00:55:19,239
Speaker 1: charge the house with his torch as long as someone

1038
00:55:19,239 --> 00:55:21,320
Speaker 1: would take care of his mother in case of his death.

1039
00:55:21,640 --> 00:55:23,960
Speaker 1: He managed to light the house on fire, drawing out

1040
00:55:23,960 --> 00:55:26,520
Speaker 1: the filibusters, but he was gunned down and doing so.

1041
00:55:26,920 --> 00:55:30,000
Speaker 1: Juan Santa Maria is now Costa Rica's national hero. The

1042
00:55:30,080 --> 00:55:33,160
Speaker 1: international airport is named for him, and every April eleventh,

1043
00:55:33,200 --> 00:55:36,600
Speaker 1: the anniversary of the battle, the country celebrates Juan Santa Maria. Day.

1044
00:55:37,480 --> 00:55:42,040
Speaker 1: I write, that's the airport in San Jose, Yeah, Costa Rica. Yeah,

1045
00:55:42,080 --> 00:55:45,239
Speaker 1: it's named after the guy who, like I burned down this. Yeah,

1046
00:55:45,280 --> 00:55:48,440
Speaker 1: I've been there. I've been to that airport many times,

1047
00:55:48,480 --> 00:55:51,200
Speaker 1: and I disfigured. I don't know, maybe I didn't realize

1048
00:55:51,280 --> 00:55:53,360
Speaker 1: it's a dude or some guy. Yeah, I'm a torch

1049
00:55:53,440 --> 00:55:56,279
Speaker 1: this much a teenager, A teenager who was like, take

1050
00:55:56,320 --> 00:55:58,000
Speaker 1: care of my mom when I die, I'm going to

1051
00:55:58,080 --> 00:56:00,000
Speaker 1: burn this house down. We gotta get these fucking dudes

1052
00:56:00,080 --> 00:56:03,479
Speaker 1: out of here. What a fucking hero, what a g Yeah,

1053
00:56:03,760 --> 00:56:06,879
Speaker 1: god straight g also just sort of like, oh, you're

1054
00:56:06,880 --> 00:56:08,400
Speaker 1: down to do this. I'm like, yeah, man, but make

1055
00:56:08,440 --> 00:56:10,400
Speaker 1: sure my mama was taken care of, make sure my

1056
00:56:10,480 --> 00:56:13,200
Speaker 1: mom is okay. Fucking great dude, and yeah, of course

1057
00:56:13,440 --> 00:56:15,640
Speaker 1: that's a guy who gets a fucking holiday. So is

1058
00:56:15,680 --> 00:56:17,520
Speaker 1: he like he was like that. I don't know if

1059
00:56:17,560 --> 00:56:19,879
Speaker 1: you remember Lord of the Rings at Two Towers where

1060
00:56:19,920 --> 00:56:23,040
Speaker 1: the Yeah, he's like that with the torch to blow

1061
00:56:23,120 --> 00:56:25,799
Speaker 1: up the wall. I mean talk about some like that

1062
00:56:25,960 --> 00:56:28,920
Speaker 1: was based on him. Actually, So Tolkien just lifted that

1063
00:56:28,920 --> 00:56:33,919
Speaker 1: from Costa Rican history. Woke Tolkien, not what woking. Let's yeah,

1064
00:56:34,000 --> 00:56:36,359
Speaker 1: let's not dig into that too yet they are woke

1065
00:56:36,480 --> 00:56:40,239
Speaker 1: keep so yeah, and that's like part of what I

1066
00:56:40,280 --> 00:56:41,960
Speaker 1: was saying at the very top of this episode is like,

1067
00:56:42,000 --> 00:56:44,680
Speaker 1: this guy's really well known in the places he fucked up.

1068
00:56:44,719 --> 00:56:47,840
Speaker 1: We've just completely forgotten him in America, right, They're like

1069
00:56:47,880 --> 00:56:50,520
Speaker 1: they remember his acid Costa Rica. It's like, oh, yeah,

1070
00:56:50,560 --> 00:56:52,719
Speaker 1: he's a hero because he fucked up this hole, this

1071
00:56:52,719 --> 00:56:56,360
Speaker 1: whole guy's plan that you guys don't know about. Wow. Yeah.

1072
00:56:56,400 --> 00:56:59,880
Speaker 1: The brave Central American soldiers doggedly resisting the American Imperial

1073
00:57:00,160 --> 00:57:04,600
Speaker 1: wound up finding a surprising ally in their fight, Cornelius Vanderbilt.

1074
00:57:04,960 --> 00:57:13,160
Speaker 1: What Oh my god. Yeah. Vanderbilt was one of the

1075
00:57:13,160 --> 00:57:15,560
Speaker 1: wealthiest men in history, and since eighteen forty nine his

1076
00:57:15,600 --> 00:57:19,520
Speaker 1: company had controlled transit lanes across Nicaragua. Vanderbilt's men had

1077
00:57:19,520 --> 00:57:23,600
Speaker 1: actually helped Walker's efforts early on, before he completely took

1078
00:57:23,600 --> 00:57:26,200
Speaker 1: over the country, But once he took power, the American

1079
00:57:26,240 --> 00:57:29,640
Speaker 1: filibuster had revoked Vanderbilt's company charter and stolen all of

1080
00:57:29,680 --> 00:57:33,680
Speaker 1: its boats. Bad com don't fuss, So what money, honey?

1081
00:57:33,960 --> 00:57:37,600
Speaker 1: Vanderbilt clearly cared nothing for the sovereignty of Nicaragua, but

1082
00:57:37,680 --> 00:57:40,320
Speaker 1: he hated William Walker for fucking with his money. In

1083
00:57:40,360 --> 00:57:44,400
Speaker 1: December of eighteen fifty six, Sylvanah Spencer, one of Vanderbilt's employees,

1084
00:57:44,440 --> 00:57:46,560
Speaker 1: led one hundred and twenty Costa Rican soldiers on a

1085
00:57:46,560 --> 00:57:49,600
Speaker 1: canoe rate of the port of Greytown, Nicaragua. They met

1086
00:57:49,600 --> 00:57:52,160
Speaker 1: with President Mora and eight hundred more troops there, now

1087
00:57:52,280 --> 00:57:55,640
Speaker 1: armed with guns comparable to the American weapons guns provided

1088
00:57:55,640 --> 00:57:59,280
Speaker 1: by Cornelius Vanderbilt, they succeeded in cutting off Walker's forces

1089
00:57:59,280 --> 00:58:01,680
Speaker 1: and severing his life lifelying to the United States, through

1090
00:58:01,720 --> 00:58:04,120
Speaker 1: which he received the reinforcements and supplies that made his

1091
00:58:04,160 --> 00:58:07,680
Speaker 1: occupation possible. At the same time, Honduras, El Salvador and

1092
00:58:07,720 --> 00:58:12,240
Speaker 1: Guatemala had advanced on Walker's northern territories. The situation degenerated

1093
00:58:12,320 --> 00:58:15,280
Speaker 1: until on May first, eighteen fifty seven, Walker surrendered to

1094
00:58:15,280 --> 00:58:17,520
Speaker 1: the US Navy and was taken back to New Orleans.

1095
00:58:17,760 --> 00:58:20,000
Speaker 1: He was, of course, greeted as a hero by throngs

1096
00:58:20,000 --> 00:58:23,000
Speaker 1: of adoring fans. An impromptu parade carried him to a

1097
00:58:23,000 --> 00:58:26,000
Speaker 1: fine hotel, where he delivered a speech, the New Orleans Delta.

1098
00:58:26,160 --> 00:58:29,520
Speaker 1: A local paper recalled it Leusie. In his calm earnest

1099
00:58:29,560 --> 00:58:32,000
Speaker 1: manner and with manly eloquence, he said, it was a

1100
00:58:32,000 --> 00:58:35,600
Speaker 1: proud consolation after months and years of trial, to experience

1101
00:58:35,640 --> 00:58:38,280
Speaker 1: the approbation that was given to the causes, he advocated

1102
00:58:38,560 --> 00:58:40,760
Speaker 1: it was a triumph greater than arms could ever win.

1103
00:58:41,000 --> 00:58:43,720
Speaker 1: With such manifestations, it was impossible that the cause of

1104
00:58:43,760 --> 00:58:46,600
Speaker 1: Nicaragua could fail, no matter who were its enemies, no

1105
00:58:46,680 --> 00:58:49,320
Speaker 1: matter how much they labored, no matter how much they willed.

1106
00:58:49,440 --> 00:58:52,320
Speaker 1: The enemy, he said, would yet be put beneath our feet.

1107
00:58:52,680 --> 00:58:55,840
Speaker 1: What a uh? We still get a chance, guys. The

1108
00:58:56,040 --> 00:59:03,480
Speaker 1: upward failure trajectory is unbolid truly, and I like that. Also,

1109
00:59:03,520 --> 00:59:07,120
Speaker 1: he's defining as the enemy the people of Nicaragua. And

1110
00:59:07,200 --> 00:59:10,280
Speaker 1: of course the Americat audience is like, yeah, fuck those guys. Yeah,

1111
00:59:10,400 --> 00:59:12,240
Speaker 1: rather than being like, well, hold on, you went there

1112
00:59:12,680 --> 00:59:16,439
Speaker 1: and you fucked their whole shit up, they didn't like it. Okay, sure,

1113
00:59:16,480 --> 00:59:19,560
Speaker 1: what hey, let's you guys catching that five o'clock matinee

1114
00:59:19,600 --> 00:59:23,640
Speaker 1: of the William Walker Colonizer Fuckfest play. M hm, I

1115
00:59:23,680 --> 00:59:25,800
Speaker 1: bet that was a good play. We got it. We

1116
00:59:25,920 --> 00:59:28,640
Speaker 1: gotta get that script. Yeah, it has to be like

1117
00:59:28,680 --> 00:59:31,240
Speaker 1: the Library of Congress something. Someone help us. Fine, it's

1118
00:59:31,280 --> 00:59:34,360
Speaker 1: gotta be somewhere. It's gotta be somewhere. Now. It's hard

1119
00:59:34,400 --> 00:59:37,160
Speaker 1: to say how many lives precisely the whole debacle cost

1120
00:59:37,400 --> 00:59:40,320
Speaker 1: Walker took in about twenty five hundred soldiers during his

1121
00:59:40,440 --> 00:59:43,160
Speaker 1: time in power, forty percent of them died from either

1122
00:59:43,240 --> 00:59:45,880
Speaker 1: combat or illness, and it's unknown how many Central American

1123
00:59:45,960 --> 00:59:48,440
Speaker 1: soldiers and civilians died, but the number has to be

1124
00:59:48,520 --> 00:59:52,880
Speaker 1: at least in the low thousands. Oh yeah, absolutely, yeah. Now,

1125
00:59:53,360 --> 00:59:56,080
Speaker 1: Walker barely seemed to notice any of this. He still

1126
00:59:56,120 --> 00:59:59,160
Speaker 1: considered himself the president of Nicaragua, and he traveled quickly

1127
00:59:59,240 --> 01:00:01,760
Speaker 1: to Washington, DC see, where he met with President Buchanan.

1128
01:00:02,080 --> 01:00:04,360
Speaker 1: He told the actual president that he intended to return

1129
01:00:04,480 --> 01:00:07,280
Speaker 1: to his country. He also issued a formal complaint against

1130
01:00:07,280 --> 01:00:10,120
Speaker 1: the naval commander who'd arrested him. He suffered no legal

1131
01:00:10,200 --> 01:00:12,960
Speaker 1: consequences for his actions and was allowed to travel across

1132
01:00:13,000 --> 01:00:16,120
Speaker 1: the country raising money for a return to Nicaragua. My god,

1133
01:00:17,320 --> 01:00:19,400
Speaker 1: pretty cool. Right. Wait, so he had another trial in

1134
01:00:19,480 --> 01:00:23,040
Speaker 1: New Orleans, I'm guessing yeah, fine, and it went the

1135
01:00:23,080 --> 01:00:27,200
Speaker 1: same same thing. Yeah, Hey, I love you, Billy, keep

1136
01:00:27,280 --> 01:00:29,919
Speaker 1: on keeping on my man. Yeah, same, essentially, the same

1137
01:00:29,960 --> 01:00:32,560
Speaker 1: thing happens. Yeah, I mean, I actually I don't think

1138
01:00:32,560 --> 01:00:34,920
Speaker 1: there's a trial in Nicaragua or in New Orleans, but

1139
01:00:35,040 --> 01:00:37,840
Speaker 1: like yeah, he uh oh, so they just arrested Like, hey,

1140
01:00:37,920 --> 01:00:40,720
Speaker 1: come on, knock it off, you're coming home. Yeah for that. Yeah,

1141
01:00:40,760 --> 01:00:44,000
Speaker 1: he gets off scott free. Oh okay, so he's on

1142
01:00:44,120 --> 01:00:46,920
Speaker 1: time out. Yeah, so he traveled, not even time out

1143
01:00:46,920 --> 01:00:49,280
Speaker 1: because he immediately starts traveling around to raise money to

1144
01:00:49,400 --> 01:00:53,080
Speaker 1: like reinvade Nicaragua. In eighteen sixty, he published a book,

1145
01:00:53,320 --> 01:00:57,280
Speaker 1: The War in Nicaragua, and named himself as General William

1146
01:00:57,320 --> 01:00:59,760
Speaker 1: Walker on the title page. So he's been he has

1147
01:00:59,800 --> 01:01:02,320
Speaker 1: been colonel to general. Yeah, he went from colonel to

1148
01:01:02,480 --> 01:01:07,000
Speaker 1: general general. Oh wow, g e n apostrophe l he

1149
01:01:07,160 --> 01:01:09,920
Speaker 1: uh yeah, what the southernize is it? It's like a

1150
01:01:10,080 --> 01:01:16,080
Speaker 1: you know, like version of general. Yeah, it seems I

1151
01:01:16,160 --> 01:01:17,880
Speaker 1: feel like he thinks it seems a little bit less

1152
01:01:18,240 --> 01:01:21,120
Speaker 1: pompous or but like if yeah, if he had actually

1153
01:01:21,240 --> 01:01:23,360
Speaker 1: spelled it out, would that have been like cause him

1154
01:01:23,400 --> 01:01:26,320
Speaker 1: trouble because he's technically not a general. No, no, you

1155
01:01:26,360 --> 01:01:28,520
Speaker 1: could anyone could be any rank in the military they

1156
01:01:28,560 --> 01:01:30,880
Speaker 1: wanted at that point. Oh great, just a matter of

1157
01:01:31,000 --> 01:01:34,760
Speaker 1: calling it yourself. That So the book he dedicated to

1158
01:01:35,120 --> 01:01:38,440
Speaker 1: my comrades and Nicaragua, Uh, to do justice to their

1159
01:01:38,480 --> 01:01:40,480
Speaker 1: acts and motives, to the living, with hope that we

1160
01:01:40,560 --> 01:01:42,320
Speaker 1: may soon meet again on the soil for which we

1161
01:01:42,400 --> 01:01:44,880
Speaker 1: have suffered more than the pangs of death, the reproaches

1162
01:01:44,920 --> 01:01:47,040
Speaker 1: of a people for whose wealthare We've stood, ready to

1163
01:01:47,120 --> 01:01:49,560
Speaker 1: die to the memory of those who perished in the struggle,

1164
01:01:49,720 --> 01:01:51,600
Speaker 1: with a vow that, as long as life lasts, no

1165
01:01:51,680 --> 01:01:54,520
Speaker 1: peace shall remain with the foes who libel their names

1166
01:01:54,640 --> 01:01:56,800
Speaker 1: and strive to tear away the laurel which hangs over

1167
01:01:56,880 --> 01:02:08,320
Speaker 1: their graves. M A, oh, okay, yeah, Miles, it's better.

1168
01:02:09,200 --> 01:02:12,680
Speaker 1: There's not often lessons in the lives of these bastards.

1169
01:02:13,120 --> 01:02:14,960
Speaker 1: If there is in fact any lesson at all in

1170
01:02:15,000 --> 01:02:17,320
Speaker 1: the life of William Walker, it's that attempting to conquer

1171
01:02:17,440 --> 01:02:20,160
Speaker 1: Central American states with an army of drunken Southerners is

1172
01:02:20,200 --> 01:02:24,080
Speaker 1: apparently addictive. Shortly after publishing his stupid book, William Walker

1173
01:02:24,160 --> 01:02:26,320
Speaker 1: shacked up with a group of British settlers who planned

1174
01:02:26,360 --> 01:02:28,880
Speaker 1: to start a colony in Rowatan, an island off the

1175
01:02:28,920 --> 01:02:32,040
Speaker 1: coast of Honduras. Like the Nigaraguan Liberal Party, they asked

1176
01:02:32,080 --> 01:02:34,840
Speaker 1: for his help. He agreed, but was captured immediately by

1177
01:02:34,880 --> 01:02:36,640
Speaker 1: the British Navy on his way to start a war

1178
01:02:36,720 --> 01:02:40,240
Speaker 1: with Honduras. At the time, the British Empire controlled what's

1179
01:02:40,280 --> 01:02:43,240
Speaker 1: now believed and they considered William Walker, this guy whose

1180
01:02:43,280 --> 01:02:46,000
Speaker 1: only ambition is starting a series of ill conceived wars.

1181
01:02:46,520 --> 01:02:49,440
Speaker 1: They decide he's a dangerous influence on the region, and

1182
01:02:49,560 --> 01:02:52,560
Speaker 1: so rather than send him back to the USA, they

1183
01:02:52,640 --> 01:02:55,200
Speaker 1: make one of the only decisions the British Empire ever

1184
01:02:55,320 --> 01:02:57,800
Speaker 1: made that I fully endorse. They hand him over to

1185
01:02:57,880 --> 01:03:01,600
Speaker 1: the Honduran government for justice. Fuck yeah, yeah. He is

1186
01:03:01,680 --> 01:03:05,200
Speaker 1: sentenced instantly to die, and on September twelfth, eighteen sixty,

1187
01:03:05,240 --> 01:03:13,600
Speaker 1: William Walker was executed by firing squad. This Honduran firing

1188
01:03:13,720 --> 01:03:19,240
Speaker 1: squad is hell bent on making sure the motherfucker is dead. Yeah, people,

1189
01:03:20,240 --> 01:03:21,920
Speaker 1: I want to read you a quote from The New

1190
01:03:22,040 --> 01:03:26,640
Speaker 1: York Times writing about his execution. Three soldiers stepped forward

1191
01:03:26,680 --> 01:03:29,040
Speaker 1: to within twenty feet of him and discharged their muskets.

1192
01:03:29,080 --> 01:03:31,439
Speaker 1: The balls entered his body, and he leaned forward a little,

1193
01:03:31,640 --> 01:03:33,560
Speaker 1: but it being observed that he was not dead. A

1194
01:03:33,600 --> 01:03:36,360
Speaker 1: fourth soldier mercifully advanced so close to the suffering man

1195
01:03:36,440 --> 01:03:39,000
Speaker 1: that the muscle of the musket almost touched his forehead, and,

1196
01:03:39,320 --> 01:03:42,480
Speaker 1: being there discharged, scattered his brains and skull to the winds.

1197
01:03:42,840 --> 01:03:44,680
Speaker 1: Thus sends the life of the gray eyed Man of

1198
01:03:44,760 --> 01:03:53,120
Speaker 1: destiny fuck scattered his brains and skull to the wind. Yeah,

1199
01:03:53,520 --> 01:03:58,520
Speaker 1: fucking blew his head off. Wow. I can only imagine

1200
01:03:58,560 --> 01:04:01,840
Speaker 1: how in indignant he was to in the like what

1201
01:04:02,000 --> 01:04:05,000
Speaker 1: that trial was or whatever quote unquote trial, if he

1202
01:04:05,040 --> 01:04:06,920
Speaker 1: had anything to say, or if at the last one

1203
01:04:06,960 --> 01:04:12,520
Speaker 1: he's like I'm trying to help. Yeah, today, William Walker

1204
01:04:12,600 --> 01:04:14,720
Speaker 1: is an obscure figure in the United States. I would

1205
01:04:14,760 --> 01:04:16,600
Speaker 1: be surprised if much more than like ten percent of

1206
01:04:16,640 --> 01:04:19,200
Speaker 1: the audience had heard anything about this guy before the episode.

1207
01:04:19,240 --> 01:04:21,439
Speaker 1: Like you said you flew into that airport named after

1208
01:04:21,480 --> 01:04:23,439
Speaker 1: the kid who fucked up his plans for a bunch

1209
01:04:23,520 --> 01:04:26,520
Speaker 1: of times. Yeah. I only learned about this guy like

1210
01:04:26,560 --> 01:04:29,440
Speaker 1: a year ago when a fan from Central America suggested

1211
01:04:29,480 --> 01:04:32,520
Speaker 1: him as a bastard. And he is still quite famous

1212
01:04:32,560 --> 01:04:34,880
Speaker 1: in the places he harmed. They remember William Walker and

1213
01:04:34,960 --> 01:04:38,720
Speaker 1: Sonora and Nicaragua and Costa Rica and Honduras. But here

1214
01:04:38,760 --> 01:04:40,680
Speaker 1: in the US of A, the only folks who still

1215
01:04:40,760 --> 01:04:43,040
Speaker 1: know the gray eyed Man of Destiny are history buffs

1216
01:04:43,600 --> 01:04:48,280
Speaker 1: and libertarians. Oh oh yeah, buddy, we had a fun

1217
01:04:48,440 --> 01:04:51,240
Speaker 1: last act of this episode. I want to end this

1218
01:04:51,440 --> 01:04:54,200
Speaker 1: by talking about a hilarious article I found on the

1219
01:04:54,280 --> 01:04:59,600
Speaker 1: CATO Foundation website about William Walker. Oh yeah, baby, yeah,

1220
01:04:59,680 --> 01:05:03,040
Speaker 1: it's reviewing a book called Tycoons War about Walker's career,

1221
01:05:03,160 --> 01:05:06,480
Speaker 1: and the fine folks at CATO really fucking like William Walker.

1222
01:05:06,800 --> 01:05:08,760
Speaker 1: Here's how they described the start of his war in

1223
01:05:08,840 --> 01:05:13,200
Speaker 1: Nicaragua with the same strict discipline he used in his

1224
01:05:13,320 --> 01:05:16,800
Speaker 1: Sonura campaign. Walker and fifty eight men sailed in May

1225
01:05:16,960 --> 01:05:20,320
Speaker 1: eighteen fifty five for Nicaragua and made their rate of

1226
01:05:20,360 --> 01:05:24,680
Speaker 1: their revolutionary capital of Leon. Walker's reputation had preceded him,

1227
01:05:24,720 --> 01:05:27,600
Speaker 1: and he was well received. He and his men captured Grenada.

1228
01:05:27,720 --> 01:05:30,800
Speaker 1: Their fighting abilities in Walker's leadership defeated numbers that were

1229
01:05:30,800 --> 01:05:35,160
Speaker 1: as much as ten to one. Holy shit. Oh I'm

1230
01:05:35,200 --> 01:05:38,160
Speaker 1: not done, but let's just let that paragraph breathe the

1231
01:05:38,320 --> 01:05:44,320
Speaker 1: same strict discipline. Is there even a book they could

1232
01:05:44,360 --> 01:05:47,080
Speaker 1: have read that would have even given them that idea?

1233
01:05:47,200 --> 01:05:49,400
Speaker 1: Are they completely like? How do we make this guys?

1234
01:05:49,440 --> 01:05:52,080
Speaker 1: I haven't read this book Tycoons War, but maybe it

1235
01:05:52,200 --> 01:05:55,080
Speaker 1: makes it out that way. His own soldiers, when writing

1236
01:05:55,080 --> 01:05:59,280
Speaker 1: about it, later, repeatedly referenced how drunk they were. Holy shit.

1237
01:06:00,920 --> 01:06:07,600
Speaker 1: At discipline, of course, and his master tactical abilities that

1238
01:06:07,760 --> 01:06:12,000
Speaker 1: got all of the other guys in charge killed. His

1239
01:06:12,120 --> 01:06:14,880
Speaker 1: story captured world attention. He had brought an element of

1240
01:06:15,000 --> 01:06:17,800
Speaker 1: peace to the war ravaged country and hope the changes

1241
01:06:17,840 --> 01:06:20,880
Speaker 1: he enacted would help bring the entire Central American region

1242
01:06:20,960 --> 01:06:24,600
Speaker 1: under American control, changes like instituting slavery and making English

1243
01:06:24,640 --> 01:06:28,200
Speaker 1: the national language. In the new revolutionary government that formed,

1244
01:06:28,200 --> 01:06:30,560
Speaker 1: he was made commander in chief of the Nicaraguan Army.

1245
01:06:30,640 --> 01:06:33,840
Speaker 1: As such, he controlled Nicaragua in eighteen fifty eight. Minor

1246
01:06:33,960 --> 01:06:36,760
Speaker 1: breakdowns and uprisings led to the collapse of the government,

1247
01:06:36,840 --> 01:06:39,640
Speaker 1: and in Walker's re establishment of it, he was elected president.

1248
01:06:40,040 --> 01:06:42,920
Speaker 1: Walker's government was recognized by the US government under President

1249
01:06:42,960 --> 01:06:46,600
Speaker 1: Franklin Pierce, and friendly relations were established. Walker was so

1250
01:06:46,800 --> 01:06:49,560
Speaker 1: popular he was able to recruit thousands of Americans into

1251
01:06:49,600 --> 01:06:54,600
Speaker 1: his private army. Like, oh wow, bravo. Reading modern libertarians

1252
01:06:54,640 --> 01:06:56,760
Speaker 1: right about this has convinced me that, like, oh no,

1253
01:06:56,920 --> 01:06:59,320
Speaker 1: there's still a lot of people who would like today

1254
01:06:59,680 --> 01:07:02,480
Speaker 1: if an American tried to invade Nicaragua to make it

1255
01:07:02,560 --> 01:07:05,160
Speaker 1: part of America and reinstitute slavery, they'd be like, yeah,

1256
01:07:05,200 --> 01:07:12,000
Speaker 1: fuck yeah, why not absolutely, And it's I'm you know,

1257
01:07:12,640 --> 01:07:16,160
Speaker 1: they leave out the important lesson for colonizer has gone wrong?

1258
01:07:16,360 --> 01:07:19,560
Speaker 1: Is it can end up with your brains and skull

1259
01:07:20,440 --> 01:07:24,440
Speaker 1: scattering into the wind. Yeah, it's it's frustrating because like,

1260
01:07:24,520 --> 01:07:26,560
Speaker 1: you know, you've got your you've got your your good

1261
01:07:26,680 --> 01:07:30,160
Speaker 1: libertarians and your evil libertarians embodied by the Cato Institute,

1262
01:07:30,520 --> 01:07:34,600
Speaker 1: and like, like, as a libertarian, your your attitude should

1263
01:07:34,600 --> 01:07:37,280
Speaker 1: be this guy interfered directly with the liberty of an

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01:07:37,440 --> 01:07:39,760
Speaker 1: entire people, and he got murdered for it. This is

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01:07:39,800 --> 01:07:44,280
Speaker 1: a happy story therefore, Yeah, it makes sense played out. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

1266
01:07:44,560 --> 01:07:48,480
Speaker 1: but it's I don't know that this whole good on

1267
01:07:48,560 --> 01:07:51,160
Speaker 1: the Cato Institute for keeping the memory of William Walker

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01:07:51,240 --> 01:07:54,520
Speaker 1: alive by lying about it. Yeah, I mean people need heroes,

1269
01:07:54,600 --> 01:07:59,280
Speaker 1: you know. So strict discipline, strict discipline. Everyone's black the

1270
01:07:59,440 --> 01:08:02,480
Speaker 1: fuck out drunk fighting in a lot of wars. In

1271
01:08:02,600 --> 01:08:05,440
Speaker 1: a lot of ways, William Walker's strict discipline reminds me

1272
01:08:05,520 --> 01:08:10,720
Speaker 1: of my own strict discipline. Yeah, just like, fuck it, man,

1273
01:08:11,280 --> 01:08:15,360
Speaker 1: play it like a video game. See what happens. Yeah, Miles, yep.

1274
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Speaker 1: How you feeling. How are you feeling at the end

1275
01:08:17,040 --> 01:08:20,320
Speaker 1: of this? Oh, I'm glad, I'm glad. We get I'm

1276
01:08:20,400 --> 01:08:26,200
Speaker 1: on an episode where like there's justice. Uh yeah, Like

1277
01:08:26,360 --> 01:08:28,760
Speaker 1: typically it's been like and they died in obscurity and

1278
01:08:28,800 --> 01:08:31,320
Speaker 1: natural death, or like to this day, Eric Prince is

1279
01:08:31,360 --> 01:08:33,800
Speaker 1: still trying to fucking you know, act out his like

1280
01:08:34,479 --> 01:08:38,000
Speaker 1: army fantasy, or and they were rich and beloved forever. Yeah,

1281
01:08:38,160 --> 01:08:41,000
Speaker 1: or like you know when I when we did Trump University.

1282
01:08:41,560 --> 01:08:44,920
Speaker 1: That's that's that chapter is still being written. So yeah,

1283
01:08:45,000 --> 01:08:48,439
Speaker 1: it's nice to have a nice, wrapped up version of

1284
01:08:48,600 --> 01:08:52,840
Speaker 1: this moment in history with a lesson for wanna be colonizers.

1285
01:08:53,400 --> 01:08:56,240
Speaker 1: Uh and also a great lesson now knowing the history

1286
01:08:56,360 --> 01:09:00,640
Speaker 1: of U was it once? Uh? One Santa Maria, Yeah, one,

1287
01:09:00,680 --> 01:09:03,559
Speaker 1: Santa Maria. Yeah. Shout out to him, man, and shout

1288
01:09:03,600 --> 01:09:11,120
Speaker 1: out to him. Yeah, the kid's cool as hell. So yes, Miles,

1289
01:09:12,160 --> 01:09:14,519
Speaker 1: you want to colonize the end of this episode with

1290
01:09:14,720 --> 01:09:19,719
Speaker 1: some some plugables, Oh man, Yeah, I'm gonna keep plugging.

1291
01:09:19,880 --> 01:09:24,640
Speaker 1: Four to twenty Day Fiance. It's a show with Sophia Alexandra,

1292
01:09:24,680 --> 01:09:27,800
Speaker 1: who's also been a guest on this podcast, where we

1293
01:09:27,920 --> 01:09:31,960
Speaker 1: talk about the absolute garbage nightmare reality show ninety Day Fiance,

1294
01:09:32,320 --> 01:09:34,639
Speaker 1: but we smoke weed and we're just having a laugh,

1295
01:09:35,000 --> 01:09:37,280
Speaker 1: you know. So check that one. Out and then I

1296
01:09:37,280 --> 01:09:39,080
Speaker 1: don't know, check out the daily ZiT Geist too. That's

1297
01:09:39,120 --> 01:09:42,960
Speaker 1: every day, every day, bro, like every day every day

1298
01:09:43,000 --> 01:09:48,320
Speaker 1: brom ten uh yeah on social media at miles of

1299
01:09:48,600 --> 01:09:53,600
Speaker 1: gray g r A Y and you can find me

1300
01:09:53,800 --> 01:09:56,320
Speaker 1: somewhere on the internet. No one knows where, no one

1301
01:09:56,360 --> 01:09:58,599
Speaker 1: ever has known where, and no one ever will know where.

1302
01:09:59,560 --> 01:10:01,800
Speaker 1: And people still don't know that you are actually a

1303
01:10:01,880 --> 01:10:06,280
Speaker 1: disembodied voice truly, and you're just an AI algorithm that

1304
01:10:06,360 --> 01:10:09,840
Speaker 1: we interact. I am. I am channeled by a mix

1305
01:10:09,960 --> 01:10:14,040
Speaker 1: of coating and dark Satanist magic and tramadol and tramatl

1306
01:10:14,160 --> 01:10:16,439
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I need to I do need to

1307
01:10:16,479 --> 01:10:19,400
Speaker 1: go back to en Sonata cal and I is another

1308
01:10:19,479 --> 01:10:22,160
Speaker 1: couple of pharmacis. Yeah, I'm she can get a bunch

1309
01:10:22,240 --> 01:10:24,479
Speaker 1: of a whacky group of volunteers to go with you

1310
01:10:24,560 --> 01:10:27,599
Speaker 1: as well. I bet I could get forty five heavily

1311
01:10:27,720 --> 01:10:30,320
Speaker 1: armed men to go get painkillers and Ensnata with them. Yeah,

1312
01:10:30,400 --> 01:10:33,720
Speaker 1: and absolutely not needed. But a no worth the store out,

1313
01:10:34,479 --> 01:10:37,040
Speaker 1: No you don't. They sell them to you willingly, so

1314
01:10:37,120 --> 01:10:41,840
Speaker 1: there's no need for arms. Yeah, that's just for the funzies. Robert, Well,

1315
01:10:41,920 --> 01:10:46,400
Speaker 1: the episode's over. What Robert also hosts at Worst Year Ever,

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01:10:47,080 --> 01:10:51,680
Speaker 1: which is on the Twinstagram. We also have a Twinstagram

1317
01:10:51,720 --> 01:10:54,599
Speaker 1: for our show at Bastards Pod, and also follow Robert

1318
01:10:54,680 --> 01:10:57,599
Speaker 1: at I Right, okay, we have a tea public store.

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01:10:58,280 --> 01:11:03,400
Speaker 1: She's somebody is holding her forehead in just absolute disappointment.

1320
01:11:04,320 --> 01:11:05,960
Speaker 1: Just for you as a host. I just want to

1321
01:11:06,000 --> 01:11:10,560
Speaker 1: communicate that to you. It's not really a child disappointed

1322
01:11:10,600 --> 01:11:15,040
Speaker 1: mom by someone someone tweeted earlier. Robert has finally succeeded

1323
01:11:15,080 --> 01:11:18,040
Speaker 1: in doing that thing men do where they forcibly make

1324
01:11:18,120 --> 01:11:20,519
Speaker 1: themselves so incompetent at something that a woman has to

1325
01:11:20,560 --> 01:11:23,960
Speaker 1: handle it. And that exactly that's exactly what I did.

1326
01:11:24,080 --> 01:11:26,920
Speaker 1: I remember how quickly that happens too, because I believe

1327
01:11:26,920 --> 01:11:29,479
Speaker 1: the last time I was on this show, you used

1328
01:11:29,479 --> 01:11:32,559
Speaker 1: to actually give out this information I did. I did,

1329
01:11:32,720 --> 01:11:36,120
Speaker 1: used to remember it used to do my job. Eventually,

1330
01:11:36,280 --> 01:11:38,519
Speaker 1: Sophie's just going to be doing the entire show and

1331
01:11:38,640 --> 01:11:41,560
Speaker 1: I will still get paid, and that's that is my retirement.

1332
01:11:42,200 --> 01:11:44,800
Speaker 1: And then you have fully William Walker the fuck out

1333
01:11:44,840 --> 01:11:47,920
Speaker 1: of this thing. Yeah all right, Robert, shut the fuck up.

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Speaker 1: The episode's over. It is Wow