WEBVTT - Part One: Duterte: The Mass Murdering Mayor 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:08.520 Mmm, Hello again everybody, and welcome to Behind the Bastards, 0:00:08.560 --> 0:00:10.440 the show where we tell you everything you don't know 0:00:10.560 --> 0:00:13.200 about the very worst people in all of history. Now 0:00:13.320 --> 0:00:16.080 on this show, I read a story about someone terrible 0:00:16.160 --> 0:00:18.040 to a guest who is coming in cold and this 0:00:18.120 --> 0:00:22.279 week my guest is Blake Wexler, stand up comedian. You 0:00:22.360 --> 0:00:25.800 just had an album drop called Stuffed Boy. I got 0:00:25.800 --> 0:00:29.000 Stuffed Boy. You nailed this stuff Boy nailed it. Excellent, excellent. 0:00:29.040 --> 0:00:30.760 How are you doing today? I'm good man, Thanks for 0:00:30.800 --> 0:00:33.560 having me. Yeah, I love this idea. It's so cool. Well, 0:00:34.000 --> 0:00:36.720 you don't know who we're talking about today. Um, does 0:00:36.800 --> 0:00:40.239 the name Rodrigo do Terte mean anything to you? It 0:00:40.320 --> 0:00:45.519 does not? Actually, Okay, yeah, this is good, fantastic. I 0:00:45.600 --> 0:00:48.680 just took a sip of something that's not derito, so 0:00:48.720 --> 0:00:50.080 I'm not going to give them a free ad. But 0:00:50.120 --> 0:00:52.120 you did you see me wolf down a significant chunk 0:00:52.159 --> 0:00:54.400 of a bag before we got into this, so you 0:00:54.480 --> 0:00:57.120 liquefied it with your mouth. I'm fired up and I'm 0:00:57.160 --> 0:01:00.200 ready to get into this, so let us start an 0:01:00.200 --> 0:01:03.160 episode that I'm I'm right now calling Rodrigo du Terte, 0:01:03.360 --> 0:01:06.840 the mayor of murder Town, this is a part one. 0:01:06.959 --> 0:01:09.720 He's a politician. Then oh yes, yes, oh is that true? 0:01:10.040 --> 0:01:15.360 Very successful politician, excellent title. Currently the President of the Philippines. Okay, yeah, 0:01:15.440 --> 0:01:19.600 So early on in his presidency, Donald Trump congratulated Rodrigo Duterte, 0:01:19.760 --> 0:01:22.920 President of the Philippines, for doing a quote, unbelievable job 0:01:23.000 --> 0:01:25.920 on the drug problem. In February of two thousand eighteen, 0:01:25.959 --> 0:01:29.240 a senior administration official said this to the website Axios. 0:01:29.520 --> 0:01:33.120 Quote he Trump often jokes about killing drug dealers. He'll say, 0:01:33.360 --> 0:01:35.840 you know, the Chinese and Filipinos don't have a drug problem, 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:39.080 they just killed them. Interestingly enough, large parts of both 0:01:39.080 --> 0:01:41.320 of those statements are accurate. It would be fair to 0:01:41.360 --> 0:01:44.360 call Dutertes drug war in the Philippines unbelievable. In the 0:01:44.440 --> 0:01:47.120 last two years, one hundred and eighteen thousand, two hundred 0:01:47.160 --> 0:01:49.880 and eighty seven drug users or dealers have been arrested, 0:01:50.120 --> 0:01:52.840 and one point three million drug users have turned themselves 0:01:52.840 --> 0:01:56.000 into the authorities. More than twenty thousand people, many of 0:01:56.000 --> 0:01:59.200 them children, have been killed. Virtually all of them were murdered, 0:01:59.240 --> 0:02:02.240 often by mask in on motorcycles. This carnage was all 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:04.520 explicitly promised to the people of the Philippines when they 0:02:04.600 --> 0:02:07.720 voted for Rodrigo Duterte. He's been fairly open about his 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:11.440 desire to murder drug addicts, mostly users of shabu or methamphetamine. 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:14.920 In September of two thousand and sixteen, President Arte said this, 0:02:15.600 --> 0:02:18.720 if Germany had Hitler, the Philippines would have and then 0:02:18.760 --> 0:02:22.560 he pointed at himself and continued, Hitler massacred three million Jews. 0:02:22.880 --> 0:02:25.760 There's three million drug addicts there are. I'd be happy 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:29.720 to slaughter them. So that's who we're talking about today. 0:02:30.240 --> 0:02:33.120 Guy who became president promising to kill three percent of 0:02:33.160 --> 0:02:38.040 the country, and so far he's kept his promise. Yeah, 0:02:38.200 --> 0:02:41.399 the guy will deliver on a promise. Now, I think 0:02:41.400 --> 0:02:43.560 he had promised to have killed a lot more by 0:02:43.600 --> 0:02:46.079 this point, so you could argue that he's I mean, 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:49.639 every politician they've been to a little bit. He promised 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:52.360 something like sixty thousand and six months or whatever, and 0:02:52.360 --> 0:02:54.680 he hasn't made that much. But how do you make 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:56.680 up for that, Like, you know, like we need more 0:02:56.760 --> 0:02:58.920 masked men. Well, we ran out of masks, so we 0:02:58.960 --> 0:03:01.639 can't do Have you seen the mask shortage lately? It's 0:03:01.680 --> 0:03:05.080 there's just nothing left on the shelves. People stop using drugs. Now, 0:03:05.120 --> 0:03:07.799 we just have to kill regular people. We're just murdering people, 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:10.720 which they are, they are. They also are killing petty criminals, 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:13.799 pickpockets and stuff are also getting shot dead by by 0:03:13.840 --> 0:03:16.720 murder squads, like petty criminals and that like they're passive 0:03:16.760 --> 0:03:21.880 aggressive and like they like you interpreted that sentence differently 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:26.480 than it usually is. Just major criminals who are really 0:03:26.520 --> 0:03:31.639 really passive aggressive. No, no, no, that's not what's happened. Okay, 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:34.520 that's fair. They're just murdering poor people. Oh that's bad then, yeah, no, 0:03:34.600 --> 0:03:37.680 it's it's really terrible. So President dotterte Is drug war 0:03:37.760 --> 0:03:40.360 in the Philippines is now the greatest mass slaughter of 0:03:40.400 --> 0:03:44.000 civilians in Asia since the camer Rouge in Cambodia. But 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:45.840 much of the death caused by the camar Rouge was 0:03:45.880 --> 0:03:49.400 accidental due to their insane and patently idiotic social experiments. 0:03:49.640 --> 0:03:52.760 What's happening the Philippines is entirely intentional, directed by a 0:03:52.800 --> 0:03:55.920 single man. So how did a man like Rodrigo do 0:03:56.040 --> 0:03:58.960 Tarte come to be and how did Filipino democracy allow 0:03:59.040 --> 0:04:01.920 for his rise to power? Ready for a history lesson, 0:04:02.000 --> 0:04:04.600 I'm very ready here's a quick Uh. Is Manny Pacio 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:07.400 in the Philippines. Yeah, he's coming to the story. He's 0:04:07.400 --> 0:04:10.960 a member of Congress and a supporter of Day right, okay, cool? Yeah, yeah, 0:04:11.000 --> 0:04:12.840 I mean he doesn't play a big role in this, 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:15.680 but he actually is like very politically active in a 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:19.359 supporter of the mayor's people agenda. God, that guy just 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:22.480 gets worse and worse press over and over. Yet he's 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:25.960 a homophobe, not good at boxing anymore, and he uh, 0:04:26.080 --> 0:04:30.200 he supports a murderer all right anyway, Yeah, just wondering murderer. Sorry, 0:04:30.279 --> 0:04:32.880 don't you dare take the mass away. Don't undercut this 0:04:32.920 --> 0:04:37.040 man's accomplishments. He earned that title. He did, Yes he did, Yes, 0:04:37.279 --> 0:04:41.159 yes he did, and yes he can have That was 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:44.120 just shot in the streets. That was his campaign slogan, 0:04:44.160 --> 0:04:50.440 by the way, Yes, yes we can shoot pickpockets. Yes 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:53.719 we can accidentally gun down children off of motorcycle. Back 0:04:53.800 --> 0:04:56.080 because it's hard to hit drug addicts when you're shooting 0:04:56.120 --> 0:04:58.839 at him from a motorcycle. It is, yeah it is. Yeah, Well, 0:04:58.839 --> 0:05:01.320 accidents are going to happen. You miss a hundred of 0:05:01.320 --> 0:05:03.800 the shots that you don't take. That's a really good 0:05:03.800 --> 0:05:06.120 way to look at gunning down people in the street. Yeah. 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:08.559 I've been saying it for years in regards to that issue. 0:05:08.720 --> 0:05:11.280 I think American police could adopt that as a motto too. 0:05:11.720 --> 0:05:15.640 They definitely could, especially when they're well, I mean, we 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:17.680 all live in Los Angeles, we were all there for 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:20.600 the that's outside of the point the police firing at 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:23.640 a trader Joe's. But oh my god. Yeah. Yeah. You 0:05:23.720 --> 0:05:26.359 do get a lot of cases like that in in 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:28.680 the Philippines right now, because there's just essentially guys on 0:05:28.720 --> 0:05:32.239 motorcycles roaming around killing people who have been the government 0:05:32.279 --> 0:05:34.280 has put on the list as drug pushers or whatever, 0:05:34.320 --> 0:05:36.400 and they're just kind of firing into crowds and stuff 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:40.359 a lot of the time. Do they have a cool name? Um? Yeah, 0:05:40.480 --> 0:05:43.520 actually they do. I figured they'd have to write yeah, well, 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:46.480 we'll get into that. There is a cool name. Yeah, no, 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:48.799 for sure. They even have like a patch and stuff. 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:51.560 It's pretty sweet. Um. All right, So let's get in 0:05:51.640 --> 0:05:53.640 some history so we can understand sort of the context 0:05:53.720 --> 0:05:55.880 that Dot came to power, and so Spain was the 0:05:55.920 --> 0:05:58.800 first colonial power to take control in the Philippines. Their 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:01.479 rule they're sort of began the fifteen twenties, when fernand 0:06:01.520 --> 0:06:04.960 Magellan successfully planted some flags and then got murdered. UH. 0:06:05.000 --> 0:06:07.839 Spanish domination nonetheless spread across the island chain, and for 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:09.800 the next three hundred and something years they would be 0:06:09.839 --> 0:06:13.280 the dominant power in the archipelago. UH Spain brought many 0:06:13.320 --> 0:06:16.240 things to the Philippines, including the Catholic faith. This would 0:06:16.240 --> 0:06:18.479 prove to be a decidedly mixed bag, but that's coming 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:21.119 in a little bit. So by the late eighteen hundred, 0:06:21.200 --> 0:06:23.760 Spanish power had started to fade. In eighteen ninety six, 0:06:23.800 --> 0:06:27.960 self declared president Emilio Aguinaldo led a local insurrectioning in Spain. 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:30.440 By the time the Spanish American War kicked off and 0:06:30.600 --> 0:06:34.400 US forces reached the Philippines, Aguinaldo had conquered basically everything 0:06:34.440 --> 0:06:37.560 in the Philippines but the capital of Manila. So the 0:06:37.600 --> 0:06:40.200 Filipino rebels worked with the U. S. Navy to encircle 0:06:40.240 --> 0:06:42.920 the city, but the US refused direct support until her 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:47.120 troops were able to land and replace the Filipinos around Manila. See, 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:50.080 the US was actually communicating directly with Spain during this 0:06:50.120 --> 0:06:52.360 whole time, because even though we were actively at war 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:55.279 with them and fighting alongside the insurgents trying to cast 0:06:55.320 --> 0:06:58.960 off Spanish control. We still considered Spain the rightful government 0:06:59.000 --> 0:07:01.839 of the Philippines. Um the fact that the Filipino people 0:07:01.880 --> 0:07:04.039 had actually already picked a president and fought and bled 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:06.320 for a new government didn't really matter to us. So 0:07:07.080 --> 0:07:08.599 we sat down and we worked at a deal with 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:11.600 the Spanish garrison commander. He agreed to surrender under the 0:07:11.600 --> 0:07:13.760 condition that the US make it look like there'd been 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:16.400 a battle. So he was like, I'll surrender the city, 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:18.720 but you gotta pretend that we fought for it. But 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:21.400 people have to die in this surrender. Well, I don't 0:07:21.440 --> 0:07:23.280 think anybody died in the fighting. It was like a 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:25.600 staged battle where they were just kind of like shooting. 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:29.240 So it looked like, Okay, we didn't just surrender Manillas. 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:31.480 Like when your kids you just bang your swords together. 0:07:31.800 --> 0:07:34.680 You know, we're fighting with fake swords. That by the way, 0:07:34.760 --> 0:07:37.520 I was assuming that we've all had sword fights as children. 0:07:37.640 --> 0:07:40.600 Was yeah, but it's not an actual stabbing motion. You're 0:07:40.600 --> 0:07:43.160 just hitting. Yeah, I would love to watch a fake battle. Yeah, 0:07:43.200 --> 0:07:45.560 it seems like it could have been a lot of fun. Yeah. Yeah, 0:07:45.600 --> 0:07:48.720 So there were other conditions to the surrender, no Filipino 0:07:48.800 --> 0:07:52.720 rebels could be allowed inside the city. So on August, 0:07:52.920 --> 0:07:56.200 the fake Battle of Manila was fake fought, and Americans 0:07:56.200 --> 0:07:59.040 took the city. Now, you might think that helping a 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:01.880 captive people throw off the chains of colonial bondage would 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:04.480 have been the US is thing, what with that being 0:08:04.840 --> 0:08:08.520 our history. Uh. But President William McKinley felt differently. He 0:08:08.560 --> 0:08:11.160 decided to annex the islands and reded a better quote, 0:08:11.600 --> 0:08:15.240 educate the Filipinos and uplift them and christianize them. He 0:08:15.280 --> 0:08:17.680 did not believe that they were capable of governing themselves. 0:08:17.840 --> 0:08:20.240 The Treaty of Paris, which ended the Spanish American War, 0:08:20.320 --> 0:08:22.400 gave the US the option of buying the Philippines for 0:08:22.440 --> 0:08:26.000 twenty million dollars. By January of eighteen ninety nine, they 0:08:26.000 --> 0:08:31.320 were ours. Yeah. The assassinated got shot dead by an 0:08:31.320 --> 0:08:33.760 anarchist and kind of had it coming. I'm gonna go 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:36.680 ahead and say a fun funk, William McKinley, kind of 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:40.160 a dick. Yeah. Uh. So, as you might have guessed, 0:08:40.200 --> 0:08:42.559 the army of free people who had just liberated themselves 0:08:42.559 --> 0:08:45.240 from a colonial oppressor, we're not happy with having another 0:08:45.280 --> 0:08:48.800 colonial oppressor. Land on top of them. In February, Aguinaldo 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:52.520 and his army attacked the United States Forces. Conventional warfare 0:08:52.600 --> 0:08:56.000 was not successful for the Philippine rebels, what with the 0:08:56.040 --> 0:08:59.120 machine guns and such, so the Filipino Army turned into 0:08:59.160 --> 0:09:02.760 the Filipino and urgency in November of eighteen nine. The U. S. 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:05.959 Army proved profoundly ill suited to guerrilla warfare, which is 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:09.800 something that's never happened again in our history. Right, Yeah, Yeah, 0:09:10.120 --> 0:09:11.720 that was the first and the last time. First and 0:09:11.840 --> 0:09:14.440 last time. It's the uniforms. They're not breathable. You can't 0:09:14.440 --> 0:09:16.880 wear a minute jungle. No. And once we figured out 0:09:16.960 --> 0:09:20.360 under armour, we really had counterinsurgency down. That was the key. 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:25.719 It turned out d Yeah, it was a hydration, Yeah 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:27.840 it was. It was a hydration issue. But that's that 0:09:27.920 --> 0:09:31.800 was the problem. Uh So, after about a year of fighting, 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:35.240 Major General Arthur McArthur took over the US forces and 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:39.280 declared martial law over the entire Philippine Archipelago. He enacted 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:41.880 General Order one hundred, which was an old Civil War 0:09:41.920 --> 0:09:45.640 directive that allowed the army to execute ununiformed combatants in 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:48.800 their supporters. The goal was to isolate the guerrillas, and 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:52.040 that's exactly what happened. Aguinaldo was captured in March of 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:55.400 nineteen o one. Now at that point things degenerated into 0:09:55.559 --> 0:09:59.600 severe ugliness. General Franklin Bell forced three thousand Filipino civilians 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:01.880 on deca centration camps, where a good number of them 0:10:01.920 --> 0:10:04.800 died of disease. In August of nineteen o one, there 0:10:04.840 --> 0:10:06.960 was a machete attack that wiped out most of an 0:10:06.960 --> 0:10:10.079 American garrison on an island called Samar. The U. S. 0:10:10.200 --> 0:10:13.160 Army responded by massacring every man above the age of ten, 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:17.240 which you may note included a lot of children. I've 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:19.280 never heard the phrase, oh I saw this eleven year 0:10:19.280 --> 0:10:25.280 old man the other day checking on. Okay, he's ten, 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:28.319 But this this sounds a heart eleven, like you get 0:10:28.400 --> 0:10:30.480 him in the killing truck. There was a group of 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:35.839 twelve year old men yelling at yeah, I mean, this 0:10:35.920 --> 0:10:39.320 was a different time. People died of cholera when they 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:42.800 were fourteen usually, I guess, but still seems a little 0:10:42.800 --> 0:10:47.079 bit harsh. Um the average age of retirement. By the way, Yeah, 0:10:47.160 --> 0:10:50.600 we did make the general who carried out the massacre retire, 0:10:50.760 --> 0:10:54.640 So that's a version of justice. It really is a 0:10:54.720 --> 0:10:58.440 shade of justice. Yeah. By February of nineteen o two, 0:10:58.480 --> 0:11:03.080 the insurgency finally ran out of steam. President Roosevelt, Teddy Roosevelt, 0:11:03.160 --> 0:11:06.040 the bully guy, declared victory on the fourth of July 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:08.640 nine two. They actually extended the length of the war 0:11:08.720 --> 0:11:11.520 so that he could declare victory on the fourth. Yeah, 0:11:11.720 --> 0:11:14.960 that's a very Teddy Roosevelt thing to do. What's a 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:19.319 few more days of war? Four? We'll save so much 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:24.280 money on fireworks. Let's do this right. Uh. In total, 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:27.640 four thousand, two hundred and thirty four Americans died during 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:30.760 the fighting, along with twenty thousand Filipino insurgents and two 0:11:30.840 --> 0:11:35.560 hundred thousand civilians. So it's a bad time, bad time 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:39.520 all around. Except for a three year occupation by the Japanese, 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:42.680 the Philippines remained in US control until nineteen forty six, 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:44.920 when we gave the country back to itself and helped 0:11:44.920 --> 0:11:47.960 them build a wonderful democracy in our image. From nineteen 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:50.960 fifty to nineteen sixty five, this worked pretty well. Average 0:11:50.960 --> 0:11:53.200 economic growth was higher in the Philippines than it was 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:56.640 anywhere else in Southeast Asia, so a little bit of 0:11:56.679 --> 0:11:59.320 a rough start couple of hundred thousand dead, you know. Yeah, 0:11:59.520 --> 0:12:01.520 not a great start, right, but you can move on. 0:12:01.640 --> 0:12:03.679 But you can move on, and by the fifties you're 0:12:03.679 --> 0:12:06.360 making bank. Yeah. We use them as a base and 0:12:06.480 --> 0:12:09.120 so yeah, we used the ship out of them as 0:12:09.120 --> 0:12:11.720 a base. Man. We parked some planes on that fucking 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:15.680 rock boats, all the damn boats, aircraft carriers going left 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:18.839 and right. US soldiers getting real drunk in Manila. Oh 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:22.600 my god. I mean, how many generations of now elderly 0:12:22.640 --> 0:12:25.640 Americans got their tattoos and Manila in that period. I 0:12:25.640 --> 0:12:28.439 would love if we can get that stat that exact 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:33.040 stat how many staff infections from the tattoos? Right, Yeah, 0:12:33.080 --> 0:12:35.800 identical amount. By the way, it's the same number, the 0:12:35.880 --> 0:12:41.120 same number. Uh. Rodrigo Roa du Terte was born right 0:12:41.120 --> 0:12:44.520 on the cusp of this period on March ninety five, 0:12:44.640 --> 0:12:47.920 so right before the Philippines gets its independence. So like 0:12:48.000 --> 0:12:51.160 many Filipinos, he grew up Catholic, which I said before 0:12:51.200 --> 0:12:53.079 has been kind of a mixed bag for the people 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:55.720 of the Philippines. Um, now the people of the United 0:12:55.760 --> 0:13:00.480 States as well, really the world people, yeah, really, for 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:05.000 for everybody. In two thousand two, Archbishop Orlando Cuivado, president 0:13:05.040 --> 0:13:07.760 of the Catholic Bishop's Conference, admitted that two hundred of 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:11.480 the seven thousand priests in the Philippines may have committed 0:13:11.520 --> 0:13:15.080 sexual misconduct over a twenty year period. I'm gonna guess 0:13:15.120 --> 0:13:18.080 this means that actual abuse of Filipino children by Catholic 0:13:18.080 --> 0:13:21.560 priests goes back further than twenty years, probably to the 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:25.080 beginning of Catholicism in the Philippines. One of the presumably 0:13:25.120 --> 0:13:29.440 many Filipino children molested by Catholic priests during this time 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:32.480 was a fourteen year old school boy named Rodrigo do Tarte. 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:35.480 Shortly after taking off as he called Pope Francis a 0:13:35.559 --> 0:13:38.160 son of a whore, uh, due to a traffic thing 0:13:38.240 --> 0:13:40.400 that the Pope had caused. And when this coused something 0:13:40.400 --> 0:13:46.040 of an out yeah, yeah, the yeah, thetly relatable thing, 0:13:46.160 --> 0:13:49.440 that defensible thing that he's done. Get piste off at traffic, 0:13:49.520 --> 0:13:51.640 piste off at traffic and calling the Pope the son 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:54.160 of a horror of horror, this creates something of an outrage, 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:56.280 and do Tarrte sort of talked because most of the 0:13:56.280 --> 0:13:59.600 Filipino people are Catholic, and so do Tarte sort of 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:02.200 tried to walk this back by claiming that he had 0:14:02.200 --> 0:14:05.880 been abused by an American Jesuit priest, father Mark Falvey, 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:09.199 in nineteen fifty nine when he was fourteen. Deuchart said, quote, 0:14:09.360 --> 0:14:11.400 it was a case of fondling, you know what he 0:14:11.440 --> 0:14:14.240 did during confession. That's how we lost our innocence early. 0:14:15.040 --> 0:14:17.520 Um Touchart claimed he was too afraid to file a 0:14:17.600 --> 0:14:20.120 complaint at the time, but he claims that Falby abused 0:14:20.120 --> 0:14:22.840 several other boys as well, and this is very likely true, 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:25.320 um Fall. They returned to the United States I think 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:27.880 in the mid fifties after his time with Ducharte in 0:14:28.120 --> 0:14:32.200 his classmates and set up shop on Sunset Boulevard and Hollywood, California, 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:34.200 and was there for a couple of decades and allegedly 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:36.680 abused a number of children in the United States, although 0:14:36.720 --> 0:14:39.240 none of this came out until he was already dead, right, 0:14:39.520 --> 0:14:41.480 It's interesting that this guy is such a pile of 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:45.320 ship that even someone who like speaks out about his 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:47.840 personal set, like you know, being sexually abused, is still 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:51.920 not a sympathetic character, you know. I mean, there's a 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:53.560 claim to be made that maybe this guy is a 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:56.320 worse person. This may have contributed to some of why 0:14:56.360 --> 0:14:58.440 he is the way he is. Sadly couldn't have helped, 0:14:58.520 --> 0:15:00.960 you know, no, no I would. Yeah, it certainly didn't 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:04.240 make him a kinder person. Was not a positive thing. 0:15:04.520 --> 0:15:07.400 He has a major anti Catholic bias, and currently with 0:15:07.440 --> 0:15:09.440 all the fund up stuff as governance doing, the Catholic 0:15:09.480 --> 0:15:11.680 Church is fighting back against it, which in this case 0:15:11.680 --> 0:15:14.080 I think they're right to be fighting against murdering people 0:15:14.080 --> 0:15:16.360 in the street. But also he's got a real good 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:21.080 reason to be angry with the Catholic Yeah, it is. 0:15:21.240 --> 0:15:24.440 It is a real mess. So obviously, uh, you know, 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:27.080 it's hard to say how this abuse impacted adult president 0:15:27.160 --> 0:15:29.920 you tete, but it undoubtedly had an impact on him. 0:15:29.920 --> 0:15:32.840 As a child, he repeatedly got in trouble for acting 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:35.160 up in school. On one occasion, he got in trouble 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:38.000 for shooting rocks at a priest with a homemade catapult. 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:43.160 Now it is possible that the writer who related this 0:15:43.200 --> 0:15:47.360 story meant, uh sling shot. I didn't check up on 0:15:47.400 --> 0:15:49.720 that to see if that slang, because I want to 0:15:49.840 --> 0:16:00.560 believe that he fashioned and crude. That's that's imagine what 0:16:00.680 --> 0:16:06.920 the Oh you have to have a team as well, 0:16:07.080 --> 0:16:08.320 you have to have a team, and you have to 0:16:08.320 --> 0:16:13.160 be very good whittling that. That is a very funny word. Confusion. Yeah, 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:15.560 I choose to believe that it was a catapult. He 0:16:15.600 --> 0:16:17.880 also got in trouble for shooting at a priest who 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:20.760 was in like on all white outfit, some weird priest outfit, 0:16:20.880 --> 0:16:23.200 with a water gun filled with ink. He would know 0:16:23.280 --> 0:16:25.360 it was after a labor day in his that's cute, 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:27.840 it's cute, that's it. It's fun so far. Of course, 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:30.680 he was known to go truant for months at a time. Um. 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:33.200 And of course all of his acting out was punished brutally. 0:16:33.640 --> 0:16:37.400 Rodrigo's mother, solid Dad Roa Gonzalez, was a harsh disciplinarian. 0:16:37.520 --> 0:16:41.080 She would flog him brutally for his misbehavior, like whipping 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:43.560 him in the back and stuff. She was also a 0:16:43.600 --> 0:16:45.840 teacher known for forcing her students to stand out in 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:48.640 the tropical sun for long periods of time when they misbehaved. 0:16:48.880 --> 0:16:53.080 So Jesus, he's got a rough childhood in a lot 0:16:53.080 --> 0:16:55.960 of ways. Um, he's also kind of a privileged kid 0:16:55.960 --> 0:16:58.320 in a lot of ways. Because Rodrigo's father was Vincent 0:16:58.400 --> 0:17:01.680 du Terte, prominent politician who became the governor of the 0:17:01.760 --> 0:17:05.000 de Vaux province. Now, Rodrigo and his three siblings grew 0:17:05.080 --> 0:17:07.600 up with a private cook, a driver, a boy, which 0:17:07.600 --> 0:17:10.680 I don't know that's how he's described as a boy. 0:17:11.480 --> 0:17:16.200 So I assume that's like a little girl for a 0:17:16.280 --> 0:17:19.359 runner or something. But just a kid in the house, 0:17:19.560 --> 0:17:22.679 just a child that we basically own, right, that is 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:26.520 a rich thing. Yes, no, we uh you know. I 0:17:26.520 --> 0:17:28.480 was born with only one boy, but I've worked my 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:31.040 ass off and now we have six boys. Six boys. 0:17:33.320 --> 0:17:36.560 Oh boy, yeah, oh boy, there we go. He also 0:17:36.640 --> 0:17:39.520 had several bodyguards. Rodrigo was even given a bodyguard of 0:17:39.600 --> 0:17:41.520 his own, and since his parents were too busy to 0:17:41.520 --> 0:17:43.800 talk to him a lot of the time, the bodyguards 0:17:43.800 --> 0:17:46.640 who took care of Rodrigo did a lot of the raising. Now, 0:17:46.680 --> 0:17:49.240 this next quote comes from a book called Rodrigo de Tete, 0:17:49.440 --> 0:17:52.320 Fire and Fury in the Philippines by Jonathan Miller for 0:17:52.480 --> 0:17:56.080 British Correspondent, foreign correspondent who spent years and years living 0:17:56.119 --> 0:18:01.040 in and reporting on Philippine politics. Quote adopted the persona 0:18:01.119 --> 0:18:03.359 of a bugoy, the term for hoodlum in his local 0:18:03.359 --> 0:18:06.440 Bisaiah language. He developed what was to become a lifelong 0:18:06.440 --> 0:18:09.560 obsession with guns. He drank and smoked and slept around. 0:18:09.680 --> 0:18:11.760 Often he didn't come home at all, and if he did, 0:18:11.760 --> 0:18:14.879 he'd slip in at four am. He became increasingly nocturnal 0:18:14.920 --> 0:18:17.399 and remains so to this day. He holds press conferences 0:18:17.440 --> 0:18:19.840 that begin at one am. He appears groggy when he 0:18:19.880 --> 0:18:23.800 has to attend a morning function. Now this is not 0:18:23.840 --> 0:18:26.720 that the teritories a dictator, because he's not quite yet. 0:18:26.760 --> 0:18:28.680 But this is a thing that you will run into 0:18:28.760 --> 0:18:31.800 in dictators all throughout histories. They are all night owls, 0:18:31.840 --> 0:18:35.639 like interest all in Kaddafi, Saddam, the list goes on 0:18:35.680 --> 0:18:37.760 and on and on, like they all are famous for 0:18:37.840 --> 0:18:40.200 staying up really really late and usually have trouble getting 0:18:40.280 --> 0:18:42.359 up in the morning. They often are like watching movies 0:18:42.480 --> 0:18:44.880 late into the night and stuff like it's just kind 0:18:44.880 --> 0:18:48.280 of a dictator trope. Interesting, Yeah, I guess it makes 0:18:48.280 --> 0:18:50.240 sense because like, yeah, no, I don't need all like 0:18:50.520 --> 0:18:53.840 you know, the sun, you know, just anything. Not a 0:18:53.880 --> 0:18:56.160 lot of positive things happen at night after you get 0:18:56.200 --> 0:18:58.480 past a certain period of nights, like now I need 0:18:58.520 --> 0:19:01.080 to be up at four for all the wonderful things 0:19:01.119 --> 0:19:05.400 that happened at four am. It's very isolating and are 0:19:05.440 --> 0:19:07.920 you like that? I am like that. I like it, 0:19:08.119 --> 0:19:11.360 But I think that there's probably like a reason if 0:19:11.359 --> 0:19:15.440 you're the kind of person who is awake more often 0:19:15.480 --> 0:19:17.520 at night than you are in the day, you have 0:19:17.560 --> 0:19:21.680 a different perspective than everybody else does. And that's useful 0:19:21.720 --> 0:19:23.159 in a lot of things. But one thing that may 0:19:23.160 --> 0:19:25.399 be useful and is if you're trying to like manipulate 0:19:25.440 --> 0:19:28.480 a political structure, maybe having that different perspective on things 0:19:28.520 --> 0:19:30.520 helps you do that. Maybe the fact that these guys 0:19:30.880 --> 0:19:33.359 don't live in the same world as everyone else allows 0:19:33.359 --> 0:19:36.760 them to manipulate it better. Yeah, that makes sense. Why 0:19:36.800 --> 0:19:42.159 do these bats have feathers? Day bats? These day bats, 0:19:42.280 --> 0:19:47.000 these damn davits. Somebody get my boy to get rid 0:19:47.040 --> 0:19:50.639 of these day bats. Well, that's the boys, you found it. 0:19:50.680 --> 0:19:57.920 That's his job, getting rid of the day bats. Uh. 0:19:57.920 --> 0:20:00.680 So Miller, the guy just quote it who wrote Fire 0:20:00.720 --> 0:20:02.800 and Fury in the Philippines. That's a major source for 0:20:02.840 --> 0:20:06.080 this episode. It's like it's the first I think biography 0:20:06.119 --> 0:20:09.080 of Doutete that's been published at least for like a 0:20:09.160 --> 0:20:12.000 world audience so far, and it has a very clear 0:20:12.040 --> 0:20:16.280 anti Doutete bias. Um But the journalist writing it also 0:20:16.320 --> 0:20:18.359 has spent a lot of time talking to Rodrigo in 0:20:18.400 --> 0:20:20.280 person and a lot of figures in his life, his 0:20:20.359 --> 0:20:22.919 sisters and like other family members, people who knew him 0:20:22.920 --> 0:20:26.240 as kids. So the book is pretty indispensable, even though 0:20:26.240 --> 0:20:28.720 it is it does have a clear bias. He got 0:20:28.760 --> 0:20:31.360 a number of anecdotes about young Rodrigo. One of them 0:20:31.359 --> 0:20:34.199 from his sister Jocelyn, was about how when he was 0:20:34.240 --> 0:20:36.760 a teenager, Rodrigo would scare off her want to be 0:20:36.840 --> 0:20:38.960 boyfriends by when they would come over to the house 0:20:39.240 --> 0:20:42.840 waving a gun at them. That'll do it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:20:42.840 --> 0:20:44.240 So this is what he's doing, is like, you know, 0:20:44.320 --> 0:20:48.000 fourteen or so, right, Um. Now, in nineteen sixty five, 0:20:48.040 --> 0:20:51.360 when tar Te was twenty, Ferdinand Marcos was elected President 0:20:51.400 --> 0:20:54.280 of the Philippines. Do you know much about Marcos? Actually 0:20:54.359 --> 0:20:57.480