1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:08,040 Speaker 1: M podcast. Shit, I'm Robert Evans. This is Behind the Bastards, 2 00:00:08,360 --> 00:00:11,840 Speaker 1: the most poorly introduced podcast in the podcast game. We 3 00:00:11,920 --> 00:00:14,239 Speaker 1: also talk about bad people from time to time when 4 00:00:14,280 --> 00:00:17,840 Speaker 1: I'm not introducing the show badly. My guest today is 5 00:00:17,960 --> 00:00:25,120 Speaker 1: Mr Miles Great. You so much. How you doing Miles Great? Since? Uh, 6 00:00:25,360 --> 00:00:26,720 Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know when this comes out, but 7 00:00:26,760 --> 00:00:29,000 Speaker 1: we saw each other recently. That was a pleasant experience 8 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:31,600 Speaker 1: we had. That was nice. You came up to Portland's 9 00:00:32,040 --> 00:00:34,680 Speaker 1: Uh they wouldn't let us play with knives on the 10 00:00:34,720 --> 00:00:37,519 Speaker 1: stage because they were cowards, but otherwise nice people. They 11 00:00:37,520 --> 00:00:40,920 Speaker 1: don't respect respect the laws of the state. Yeah, exactly, 12 00:00:40,920 --> 00:00:45,440 Speaker 1: blated weapons are not their their tools over there. They're 13 00:00:45,520 --> 00:00:51,440 Speaker 1: they're wildly unregulated and it's beautiful. M h. Now, Miles, yes, 14 00:00:53,080 --> 00:00:56,160 Speaker 1: when I when we when Sophie asked you two guests 15 00:00:56,240 --> 00:00:58,360 Speaker 1: on this week's episode, and you had a simple request, 16 00:00:58,400 --> 00:01:02,360 Speaker 1: which was, don't make it horribly bleak and depressing so 17 00:01:02,400 --> 00:01:05,399 Speaker 1: that I want to die more or less. Not your 18 00:01:05,400 --> 00:01:08,800 Speaker 1: exact words, but your sentiment, yeah, is that this was 19 00:01:09,080 --> 00:01:11,480 Speaker 1: how bleak is this one going to be? Because you 20 00:01:11,520 --> 00:01:13,720 Speaker 1: know these shows, these episodes, I've done a few now 21 00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:16,080 Speaker 1: they kind of fall into a couple of different buckets. 22 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:19,720 Speaker 1: Some are like so out of this world, what the 23 00:01:19,760 --> 00:01:22,280 Speaker 1: fuck is reality kind of thing where you're just your 24 00:01:22,319 --> 00:01:25,840 Speaker 1: gob smacked because of that. Other times you're gob smacked 25 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:29,880 Speaker 1: or laughing because sometimes it's fun. Other times you so 26 00:01:30,319 --> 00:01:33,760 Speaker 1: brilliantly bring the focus of the show in to talk 27 00:01:33,800 --> 00:01:37,200 Speaker 1: about evil people that I found myself in a place 28 00:01:37,240 --> 00:01:40,480 Speaker 1: where jokes do not exist, and the only only response 29 00:01:40,480 --> 00:01:43,479 Speaker 1: I could have is, oh my god, that's so fucked up. 30 00:01:44,840 --> 00:01:49,880 Speaker 1: I think you're gonna like this one. Um. This is 31 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:53,400 Speaker 1: obviously it's a story about a terrible person, thousands of 32 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:58,360 Speaker 1: people die, um, but it's um, it's a story of 33 00:01:58,440 --> 00:02:01,440 Speaker 1: a of a monster that gets his come uppance in 34 00:02:01,480 --> 00:02:06,200 Speaker 1: the end. This is um. Yeah, yeah, this this one 35 00:02:06,240 --> 00:02:10,200 Speaker 1: should be fun and it's not um, you know, it's 36 00:02:10,200 --> 00:02:13,560 Speaker 1: not mass child rape like we sometimes get into on 37 00:02:13,639 --> 00:02:15,360 Speaker 1: this show. So that's nice too. Yeah. I felt like 38 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:19,799 Speaker 1: even the like prevailing sentiment from listeners was like, damn, 39 00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:23,239 Speaker 1: I think that was one of the darkest episodes ever. Yeah, yeah, 40 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:27,639 Speaker 1: as it should be. It was very dark. So today, Miles, 41 00:02:27,639 --> 00:02:30,120 Speaker 1: have you ever heard of a fella named William Walker? 42 00:02:31,080 --> 00:02:33,440 Speaker 1: I mean that sounds like a very common name where 43 00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:35,400 Speaker 1: I'm trying to rack my brain being like, I'm pretty 44 00:02:35,400 --> 00:02:40,200 Speaker 1: sure I do know a William Walker. It's to to 45 00:02:40,280 --> 00:02:44,040 Speaker 1: put it shortly. Um. Walker is an example of one 46 00:02:44,040 --> 00:02:46,359 Speaker 1: of my favorite kind of history stories because because he's 47 00:02:46,360 --> 00:02:49,880 Speaker 1: a guy who is incredibly well known by millions and 48 00:02:49,919 --> 00:02:52,400 Speaker 1: millions of people around the world, very close to the 49 00:02:52,440 --> 00:02:55,519 Speaker 1: United States. In fact, Um, if you go to Nicaragua, 50 00:02:55,520 --> 00:02:57,160 Speaker 1: if you go to Costa Rica, if you go to 51 00:02:57,320 --> 00:03:01,280 Speaker 1: Mexico's Baja Coast or Sonora. Uh. Walker is a very 52 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:05,280 Speaker 1: prominent historical figure. And even though he's an American, he's 53 00:03:05,280 --> 00:03:08,360 Speaker 1: almost completely unknown in the United States today. I mean, 54 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:11,919 Speaker 1: I guess most Americans have not known his name. Um. 55 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:15,560 Speaker 1: And the reason he's well known in Baja and Nicaragua 56 00:03:15,600 --> 00:03:18,959 Speaker 1: in Costa Rica is that he almost single handedly tried 57 00:03:19,040 --> 00:03:25,120 Speaker 1: to conquer all of those places. What ye when recently? Um? Yeah, 58 00:03:25,280 --> 00:03:27,519 Speaker 1: like the eighteen fifties, like not all that long ago. 59 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:31,959 Speaker 1: Do you really think about it? Yeah, okay, look at him. Yeah, 60 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:37,840 Speaker 1: he was like a one man colonialism. Um. That's like, 61 00:03:37,960 --> 00:03:43,520 Speaker 1: it's weird the the term makes me shudder, But also 62 00:03:43,800 --> 00:03:47,440 Speaker 1: I dig the dedication. If you're like I'm gonna do 63 00:03:47,480 --> 00:03:51,120 Speaker 1: this whole colonialism thing just with me. Colonialism is usually 64 00:03:51,160 --> 00:03:53,040 Speaker 1: the very bleakest stories, and there's a lot of I mean, 65 00:03:53,040 --> 00:03:56,000 Speaker 1: obviously Walker was a horrible person who who did horrible 66 00:03:56,040 --> 00:03:59,880 Speaker 1: things that impacted huge numbers of people's lives. Um. But 67 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:01,800 Speaker 1: there's also one of the things that's kind of I 68 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:03,600 Speaker 1: guess makes this a little more of an upbeat story 69 00:04:03,680 --> 00:04:05,960 Speaker 1: is that this is one of those cases of colonialism 70 00:04:05,960 --> 00:04:08,920 Speaker 1: that was completely unsupported by the government that of this 71 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:12,520 Speaker 1: guy's country, and so he gets his come uppance in 72 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:14,520 Speaker 1: the end, Like it's not one of those tales where 73 00:04:14,840 --> 00:04:17,240 Speaker 1: he exploited these people and got away with it forever 74 00:04:17,360 --> 00:04:20,520 Speaker 1: and his great great grandkids are still rich today and 75 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:22,760 Speaker 1: now that's good. They have a whole line of hotels 76 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:27,360 Speaker 1: that we constantly patronized. Is um, Is he one of ours, 77 00:04:27,920 --> 00:04:31,760 Speaker 1: good old American? Oh yeah, yeah. There is no other 78 00:04:31,880 --> 00:04:33,840 Speaker 1: country in the world this guy could have come from. 79 00:04:33,839 --> 00:04:36,720 Speaker 1: But I thought maybe yeah, because I guess even an 80 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:38,880 Speaker 1: English guy would be like, I think we've had our time. 81 00:04:38,920 --> 00:04:40,719 Speaker 1: I don't need to I don't need to be a 82 00:04:40,720 --> 00:04:44,159 Speaker 1: one man wrecking crew. Yeah, you know, the English weren't 83 00:04:44,200 --> 00:04:46,479 Speaker 1: really good at being one man wrecking cruise. There were 84 00:04:46,480 --> 00:04:49,120 Speaker 1: more you know, that slow Nazi ship. Um, this is 85 00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:51,479 Speaker 1: a very American story of a guy who just like 86 00:04:51,520 --> 00:04:53,920 Speaker 1: looked at a forward several foreign countries in a row 87 00:04:53,960 --> 00:04:56,760 Speaker 1: and was like, I bet I could take that. That's 88 00:04:56,800 --> 00:04:59,200 Speaker 1: the truly an American attitude looking at him at Huh. 89 00:04:59,279 --> 00:05:10,599 Speaker 1: Yeah about this one, Nichols rob we who cost you 90 00:05:10,680 --> 00:05:14,600 Speaker 1: were the right call for guests? All right, let's get 91 00:05:14,640 --> 00:05:18,200 Speaker 1: into it. William Walker was born in Nashville, Tennessee, on 92 00:05:18,360 --> 00:05:21,920 Speaker 1: May eighteen, four uh. He was the first of six 93 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:24,839 Speaker 1: children of James S. Walker and Mary Norville Walker. His 94 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:28,160 Speaker 1: family was not like super rich, but they were probably 95 00:05:28,200 --> 00:05:30,880 Speaker 1: like the wealthiest family or among the wealthiest family in 96 00:05:30,920 --> 00:05:35,159 Speaker 1: their frontier community. Um. His father was a Scottish immigrant 97 00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:37,120 Speaker 1: from Glasgow who had moved to the United States at 98 00:05:37,160 --> 00:05:39,719 Speaker 1: age twenty two and started a general merchandise store with 99 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:42,920 Speaker 1: his uncle in eighteen twenty. Soon the business was successful 100 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:45,000 Speaker 1: enough that James and his uncle partnered with three other 101 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:46,960 Speaker 1: men to build a river front warehouse and by a 102 00:05:46,960 --> 00:05:50,279 Speaker 1: fleet of steamboats. Now Nashville was a big old shipping 103 00:05:50,320 --> 00:05:53,279 Speaker 1: hub at the time, uh, and as the nation expanded westward, 104 00:05:53,279 --> 00:05:56,640 Speaker 1: the Walkers made a small fortune facilitating the movement of tobacco, corn, 105 00:05:56,720 --> 00:05:59,720 Speaker 1: and cotton across the country. Since this was the early 106 00:05:59,760 --> 00:06:02,599 Speaker 1: eight hundreds, all these products came from the Deep South. 107 00:06:02,880 --> 00:06:05,719 Speaker 1: Uh and the Walker's business relied heavily on slavery. So 108 00:06:05,760 --> 00:06:09,279 Speaker 1: the family fortunes, such as it is, is absolutely built 109 00:06:09,320 --> 00:06:12,000 Speaker 1: off the blacks, the well backs. You know what I'm 110 00:06:12,040 --> 00:06:14,880 Speaker 1: trying to say here. Yeah, I'll let you slide with 111 00:06:14,920 --> 00:06:20,200 Speaker 1: that one. Yeah. After a few years, um, James sold 112 00:06:20,200 --> 00:06:22,919 Speaker 1: out and got into the business of selling commercial insurance 113 00:06:23,160 --> 00:06:27,400 Speaker 1: um which oddly enough sounds like maybe even more exploited 114 00:06:27,760 --> 00:06:31,800 Speaker 1: what he was doing before. Um. I'm sure it's not. 115 00:06:31,920 --> 00:06:35,840 Speaker 1: That's just my opinion of the insurance industry. Um So. 116 00:06:36,200 --> 00:06:38,840 Speaker 1: James's wife, Mary was the sister of his two former 117 00:06:38,880 --> 00:06:41,880 Speaker 1: business partners. Now, since his records from eighteen thirty, when 118 00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:45,200 Speaker 1: William Walker was six, indicate that his family owned no slaves, 119 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:47,440 Speaker 1: which was odd for a family at their level of 120 00:06:47,520 --> 00:06:50,200 Speaker 1: wealth and Nashville at that time. By the time William 121 00:06:50,279 --> 00:06:52,679 Speaker 1: was fourteen, this had changed and the Walker family owned 122 00:06:52,720 --> 00:06:55,960 Speaker 1: four enslaved black human beings, two men and two women. 123 00:06:56,320 --> 00:06:58,800 Speaker 1: Um So, he absolutely comes from a slave holding background, 124 00:06:58,960 --> 00:07:02,680 Speaker 1: grows up with us Um. Religion was also a big 125 00:07:02,720 --> 00:07:05,640 Speaker 1: part of the Walker family life. His mother's family were 126 00:07:05,680 --> 00:07:08,279 Speaker 1: prominent within the Baptist community, and his father was a 127 00:07:08,279 --> 00:07:11,120 Speaker 1: member of the Disciples of Christ. Uh. The Walkers were 128 00:07:11,120 --> 00:07:13,800 Speaker 1: described as being strong and stern, and they were also 129 00:07:13,920 --> 00:07:17,920 Speaker 1: extremely political. William's mother was a good friend of Sarah Polk, 130 00:07:18,320 --> 00:07:21,520 Speaker 1: the wife of future President James K. Polk. While William 131 00:07:21,560 --> 00:07:23,720 Speaker 1: was a child, James was named Speaker of the House 132 00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:26,400 Speaker 1: and then the governor of Tennessee. Since Polpe was a 133 00:07:26,440 --> 00:07:29,080 Speaker 1: Democrat and Democrats were at the time the party of 134 00:07:29,120 --> 00:07:32,240 Speaker 1: even more white supremacy than the Republicans. You can assume 135 00:07:32,240 --> 00:07:35,200 Speaker 1: for yourself what kind of politics William imbibed as a child, 136 00:07:36,120 --> 00:07:40,840 Speaker 1: really really wholesome stuff. Yeah, oh my gosh. A lot 137 00:07:40,880 --> 00:07:43,520 Speaker 1: of people would like to move back to those days. 138 00:07:43,520 --> 00:07:48,840 Speaker 1: And that's all we'll leave it. You're talking about John Kelly, Um, 139 00:07:48,880 --> 00:07:52,280 Speaker 1: I'm talking about, yes, Stephen Miller. A whole lot of well. 140 00:07:52,320 --> 00:07:55,040 Speaker 1: John Kelly was at least gracious enough showed his grasp 141 00:07:55,080 --> 00:07:58,760 Speaker 1: of history to actually refer to like basically the antibell 142 00:07:58,880 --> 00:08:02,080 Speaker 1: him South without like fully saying that we're like, I 143 00:08:02,080 --> 00:08:05,000 Speaker 1: think we know what you mean. Yeah, we used to 144 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:11,160 Speaker 1: respect each other. Okay, yeah, you mean white people. Yeah, 145 00:08:11,200 --> 00:08:13,600 Speaker 1: and I guess we had what we would call back then, uh, 146 00:08:13,720 --> 00:08:19,960 Speaker 1: indentured independent contractors. Yeah exactly. It's like, um, I don't know, 147 00:08:20,040 --> 00:08:24,920 Speaker 1: there's no good joke to me. Yeah, the one and 148 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:27,600 Speaker 1: it wasn't even good. We're just gonna breeze right on 149 00:08:27,680 --> 00:08:31,960 Speaker 1: past that. Um. So. William um was recalled by a 150 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:34,720 Speaker 1: family friend at the period as very intelligent and as 151 00:08:34,760 --> 00:08:37,440 Speaker 1: refined in his feelings as a girl. I used to 152 00:08:37,480 --> 00:08:39,439 Speaker 1: go often to see his mother and always found him 153 00:08:39,520 --> 00:08:42,800 Speaker 1: entertaining her in some way. William was devoted to his mother. 154 00:08:42,840 --> 00:08:45,520 Speaker 1: His father was kind of a giant asshole, very very 155 00:08:45,520 --> 00:08:50,160 Speaker 1: strict and stern. His mother was kind of more uh, 156 00:08:50,200 --> 00:08:53,000 Speaker 1: someone he could like deal with and get comfort from. 157 00:08:53,440 --> 00:08:55,920 Speaker 1: But she was also very ill throughout his childhood, and 158 00:08:55,960 --> 00:08:58,240 Speaker 1: he often spent his mornings in her room, reading to 159 00:08:58,280 --> 00:09:01,360 Speaker 1: her while she struggled to start the day. William grew 160 00:09:01,400 --> 00:09:05,920 Speaker 1: into a child a contemporaries described later as cold, quiet, studious, 161 00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:13,679 Speaker 1: painfully modest, slight, effeminate, almost insignificant in appearance. Uh yeah, yeah, effeminate. 162 00:09:13,920 --> 00:09:17,000 Speaker 1: Um yeah, you could yeah, the the you can tell 163 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:19,520 Speaker 1: what they're trying to say there. Yeah, and I can 164 00:09:19,520 --> 00:09:21,720 Speaker 1: also just see like the if we we're looking at 165 00:09:21,720 --> 00:09:24,320 Speaker 1: a biopic of this guy, we're starting to see the 166 00:09:24,320 --> 00:09:26,520 Speaker 1: foundations of when he goes, oh, yeah, you know what 167 00:09:26,559 --> 00:09:31,320 Speaker 1: I'm gonna do, then I'll show you fucking Okay, watch 168 00:09:31,400 --> 00:09:36,840 Speaker 1: me fucking a wrecking crew. Yeah, yeah, that is really 169 00:09:37,080 --> 00:09:40,920 Speaker 1: the story here. Um. Yeah. He was small, thin, and 170 00:09:41,040 --> 00:09:43,199 Speaker 1: not very masculine at a time when that was something 171 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:46,560 Speaker 1: a boy would pay dearly for. Um. The only physical 172 00:09:46,559 --> 00:09:48,840 Speaker 1: feature that stood out about him were his eyes, which 173 00:09:48,840 --> 00:09:51,280 Speaker 1: were a unique shade of gray that people without his 174 00:09:51,440 --> 00:09:54,360 Speaker 1: throughout his life would notice. Everybody would commented on this 175 00:09:54,400 --> 00:09:56,240 Speaker 1: guy's eyes. He's just sort of one of those people 176 00:09:56,240 --> 00:09:59,800 Speaker 1: who everyone's like that dude's eyes are fucking something's up there, right. 177 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:01,720 Speaker 1: It's never the ones you're like, oh my god, you 178 00:10:01,760 --> 00:10:04,800 Speaker 1: have such beautiful eyes. It's always like, yo, did you 179 00:10:04,800 --> 00:10:07,880 Speaker 1: see the fucking guy's eyes. You see that dude's eyes? What? 180 00:10:07,920 --> 00:10:11,280 Speaker 1: Then I think he's kind of conquered Nicaragua. Yeah, he 181 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:19,160 Speaker 1: looks like he's transitioning into some kind of zombie or wraith. Yeah. Yes, um, Now, 182 00:10:19,240 --> 00:10:22,720 Speaker 1: possibly due to his mother's sickness. Williams classmates found him 183 00:10:22,760 --> 00:10:25,880 Speaker 1: to be grave and seemingly always afflicted by sorrow, which 184 00:10:25,880 --> 00:10:28,960 Speaker 1: if you're a kid growing up in like the eighteen thirties, 185 00:10:29,280 --> 00:10:32,000 Speaker 1: I guess sorrow is really the only reasonable way to 186 00:10:32,040 --> 00:10:35,240 Speaker 1: approach life. But I don't think he was horrified by 187 00:10:35,240 --> 00:10:38,360 Speaker 1: the injustices of his time. Um. I think that was 188 00:10:38,400 --> 00:10:41,040 Speaker 1: just like we we started. That word was just used 189 00:10:41,040 --> 00:10:44,280 Speaker 1: to describe what we call emo kids. Now. Yeah, he 190 00:10:44,480 --> 00:10:47,640 Speaker 1: absolutely would have been. Yeah, and with his I'm sure 191 00:10:47,640 --> 00:10:50,320 Speaker 1: if he wasn't like super masculine, he would have got 192 00:10:50,320 --> 00:10:54,080 Speaker 1: the little fringe haircut, had like one black fingernail, and 193 00:10:54,160 --> 00:10:58,280 Speaker 1: been crying to like dashboard confessional lyrics too. Yeah. Absolutely 194 00:10:58,360 --> 00:11:00,719 Speaker 1: just may have been in the wrong time. This kid 195 00:11:00,720 --> 00:11:05,079 Speaker 1: would have been a huge dash head. Oh my gosh. Yeah, 196 00:11:05,679 --> 00:11:09,640 Speaker 1: his hopes are so high that your kiss might kill him. 197 00:11:09,760 --> 00:11:12,280 Speaker 1: You just revealed something about yourself there. That's the one 198 00:11:12,360 --> 00:11:14,680 Speaker 1: dashboard song I know. And I just think that lyrics 199 00:11:14,760 --> 00:11:17,920 Speaker 1: are so great. I know right home cut to my 200 00:11:18,040 --> 00:11:24,040 Speaker 1: full sleeve tattoo of dashboard album coverage. Uh So, Yeah, 201 00:11:24,080 --> 00:11:26,240 Speaker 1: William was like quiet and kind of sad, but he 202 00:11:26,280 --> 00:11:29,400 Speaker 1: was not unfriendly, and one class mate later noted, quote 203 00:11:29,400 --> 00:11:31,720 Speaker 1: none in school was more ready to oblige his fellow 204 00:11:31,760 --> 00:11:35,360 Speaker 1: student with a little or extra help with a difficult lesson. Um, 205 00:11:35,400 --> 00:11:37,240 Speaker 1: so he's a really smart kid and he helps out 206 00:11:37,280 --> 00:11:39,560 Speaker 1: his fellow classmates. A lot of kind of is known 207 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:41,800 Speaker 1: for that. I heard that very cynically, like, yeah, he 208 00:11:41,840 --> 00:11:45,080 Speaker 1: was always down to teach someone a fucking lesson rather 209 00:11:45,120 --> 00:11:48,600 Speaker 1: than like, hi, if you need some help with your studies. Yeah, 210 00:11:48,679 --> 00:11:51,640 Speaker 1: I get the I get the legitimately helpful thing more 211 00:11:51,760 --> 00:11:55,400 Speaker 1: from like reading stuff that his his fellows reported about him. Um, 212 00:11:55,440 --> 00:11:57,840 Speaker 1: he was a good student, um, and developed something of 213 00:11:57,840 --> 00:12:00,600 Speaker 1: a complex around his grades. Uh. When he got an 214 00:12:00,600 --> 00:12:03,040 Speaker 1: answer wrong in class, he would cry, which did not 215 00:12:03,160 --> 00:12:08,520 Speaker 1: help with his perceived level of manliness. Um. Yeah yeah. Um. 216 00:12:08,679 --> 00:12:11,640 Speaker 1: One friend noted quote, I never saw him lively in 217 00:12:11,679 --> 00:12:14,120 Speaker 1: my life. That is, I never heard him laugh out 218 00:12:14,120 --> 00:12:17,920 Speaker 1: loud as boys do it play. Oh shit, yeah, you're 219 00:12:17,920 --> 00:12:24,199 Speaker 1: getting some that great right kids should laugh? That's right 220 00:12:24,200 --> 00:12:29,680 Speaker 1: there a red flag. Yeah, Spanish two skills haven't failed me. 221 00:12:30,040 --> 00:12:34,360 Speaker 1: The non laughing thing as a team. I mean, that's 222 00:12:34,400 --> 00:12:37,080 Speaker 1: a little boy. Yeah, it's dark there. That's like some 223 00:12:37,200 --> 00:12:40,160 Speaker 1: real dark ship because it's usually not to like young adulthood. 224 00:12:40,200 --> 00:12:42,679 Speaker 1: You meet people who have like completely just gone into 225 00:12:42,720 --> 00:12:46,120 Speaker 1: themselves and don't have any joy, And I don't want 226 00:12:46,120 --> 00:12:48,120 Speaker 1: to be like, you know, there's a fine line between 227 00:12:48,320 --> 00:12:50,040 Speaker 1: being like it's kind of weird that this guy never 228 00:12:50,120 --> 00:12:52,320 Speaker 1: laughs and like being one of those dudes who's like, 229 00:12:52,360 --> 00:12:55,760 Speaker 1: why don't you smile, ma'am? But like it is like 230 00:12:55,840 --> 00:12:58,240 Speaker 1: you hear, like everyone talks about this guy when he's 231 00:12:58,240 --> 00:12:59,800 Speaker 1: a little kid. He's like, yeah, he never really like 232 00:13:00,080 --> 00:13:04,240 Speaker 1: after played around and that is like, uh yeah, like 233 00:13:04,280 --> 00:13:07,120 Speaker 1: I'm I'm in the moment if I'm just taking him 234 00:13:07,280 --> 00:13:09,600 Speaker 1: and like looking at it in a vacuum, my heart 235 00:13:09,679 --> 00:13:14,360 Speaker 1: kind of goes out to this young as Yeah, he's 236 00:13:14,400 --> 00:13:17,080 Speaker 1: not an aspirate, Like at this point, he's blameless even 237 00:13:17,080 --> 00:13:19,120 Speaker 1: of the slavery. Like he's a little kid, I can't 238 00:13:19,120 --> 00:13:21,920 Speaker 1: have any choice in that. Yeah, Um, I don't know, 239 00:13:21,960 --> 00:13:24,040 Speaker 1: maybe he could have grown into maybe he like he's 240 00:13:24,040 --> 00:13:26,800 Speaker 1: clearly like a sensitive boy. Um, and we just really 241 00:13:26,800 --> 00:13:29,600 Speaker 1: don't know enough about his actual thoughts at the time 242 00:13:29,640 --> 00:13:33,319 Speaker 1: because it's eighteen thirties. And yeah, anyway, at least when 243 00:13:33,320 --> 00:13:35,840 Speaker 1: they start doing that this show, like a hundred years 244 00:13:35,840 --> 00:13:38,840 Speaker 1: from now, when your consciousness has been uploaded to some 245 00:13:38,920 --> 00:13:42,000 Speaker 1: kind of like bio algorithm. At least we'll be able 246 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:44,360 Speaker 1: to look at like the Twitter and Facebook posts of 247 00:13:44,400 --> 00:13:46,960 Speaker 1: our future fascists and be like, wow, this is what 248 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:49,000 Speaker 1: they were going through at the time. Oh no, they'll 249 00:13:49,040 --> 00:13:51,360 Speaker 1: come through my Twitter and be like, well, I mean, 250 00:13:51,440 --> 00:13:54,520 Speaker 1: obviously he was going to do what he did to Nicaragua. 251 00:13:55,360 --> 00:13:59,520 Speaker 1: Spoiler spoiler alert for the twenty years from now when 252 00:13:59,520 --> 00:14:04,000 Speaker 1: I conk Nicaragua bold not a not a colonialism thing, 253 00:14:04,240 --> 00:14:08,720 Speaker 1: just like just love conquering. Yep, just just leave it 254 00:14:08,720 --> 00:14:12,800 Speaker 1: at that. Yeah. Uh. In eighteen seven, when Billy was three, 255 00:14:12,960 --> 00:14:16,000 Speaker 1: his grandfather, Lipscomb Norville, moved to Nashville to be with 256 00:14:16,040 --> 00:14:19,600 Speaker 1: the family. Uh. Lipscomb wound up having a profound impact 257 00:14:19,640 --> 00:14:22,520 Speaker 1: on growing William. Um. See, he was a veteran of 258 00:14:22,560 --> 00:14:25,840 Speaker 1: the Revolutionary War, and he had fought at like most 259 00:14:25,880 --> 00:14:28,480 Speaker 1: of it. Um. He'd been at the Battle of Brandywine Creek, 260 00:14:28,480 --> 00:14:31,280 Speaker 1: the Battle of Trenton, the Battle of Monmouth, Um. He 261 00:14:31,400 --> 00:14:33,840 Speaker 1: was one of the battle hardened survivors of the hellish 262 00:14:33,840 --> 00:14:37,400 Speaker 1: winter at Valley Forge. Um. Yeah, so this like like 263 00:14:37,480 --> 00:14:40,400 Speaker 1: his grandpa was like there for the fucking war. Oh 264 00:14:40,440 --> 00:14:45,880 Speaker 1: my Trenton and Valley for it's like some ship. I 265 00:14:45,920 --> 00:14:50,440 Speaker 1: get it. I'm a pussy. You've eaten human flesh. We 266 00:14:50,720 --> 00:14:55,000 Speaker 1: know now it's starting to make sense. Your grandpa is 267 00:14:55,320 --> 00:14:58,040 Speaker 1: probably has in no way can look at a sensitive 268 00:14:58,120 --> 00:15:01,640 Speaker 1: child and be likes gonna work. No, he's probably chewing 269 00:15:01,720 --> 00:15:04,920 Speaker 1: bullets for gum. Um, he's done with that pewter dish. 270 00:15:05,040 --> 00:15:09,000 Speaker 1: I'm gonna melt down to some ket gonna make my 271 00:15:09,160 --> 00:15:14,800 Speaker 1: morning bullets. You're not using that t service, are you. Uh. 272 00:15:14,840 --> 00:15:17,680 Speaker 1: Norville was present at the Surrender of Charleston, which ended 273 00:15:17,680 --> 00:15:20,240 Speaker 1: in defeat for the Revolutionaries, and he was imprisoned for 274 00:15:20,280 --> 00:15:24,120 Speaker 1: a year as a pow. Um. So like this dude 275 00:15:24,160 --> 00:15:27,320 Speaker 1: goes through it. Um. This is a big influence on 276 00:15:27,480 --> 00:15:31,240 Speaker 1: William when he's young. His war hero grandfather his uncles 277 00:15:31,280 --> 00:15:33,960 Speaker 1: were also major influences on his future life, because you know, 278 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:37,440 Speaker 1: William's dad was kind of very like a very boring 279 00:15:37,520 --> 00:15:40,560 Speaker 1: business and stern businessman who doesn't really he doesn't really 280 00:15:40,600 --> 00:15:43,280 Speaker 1: identify much with his uncles and his grandpa. He does 281 00:15:43,320 --> 00:15:46,320 Speaker 1: more so uh. Four of his uncle's either founded or 282 00:15:46,400 --> 00:15:49,880 Speaker 1: worked as editors at newspapers. UH. Three more got involved 283 00:15:49,960 --> 00:15:53,440 Speaker 1: with local or national politics, and five served in the military. 284 00:15:53,920 --> 00:15:57,360 Speaker 1: So how many how many numbers did you see? How 285 00:15:57,360 --> 00:16:01,320 Speaker 1: many fucking uncles fuck load uncles? I did ten different 286 00:16:01,360 --> 00:16:04,920 Speaker 1: people basically, Yeah, yeah, he's got like four seven, Yeah, 287 00:16:04,960 --> 00:16:09,000 Speaker 1: like twelve uncles. I keep forgetting that we're talking about 288 00:16:11,880 --> 00:16:14,920 Speaker 1: you don't survive, you don't survive Trenton and Valley Forge 289 00:16:14,960 --> 00:16:17,440 Speaker 1: and then just not funk out a couple of basketball 290 00:16:17,480 --> 00:16:21,520 Speaker 1: teams worth the kids. Seriously, Like, I gotta I got 291 00:16:21,560 --> 00:16:24,600 Speaker 1: two starting five plus a six man for each one. Yeah. Yeah, 292 00:16:24,760 --> 00:16:29,280 Speaker 1: he just goes right from war to pounding. Oh that's 293 00:16:29,280 --> 00:16:31,960 Speaker 1: a real talking about real the real baby boom coming 294 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:36,560 Speaker 1: after yucking for surviving Valley Forge. It is impressive. Yeah. 295 00:16:36,560 --> 00:16:38,680 Speaker 1: I mean some of those are probably his mom's uncles. 296 00:16:38,720 --> 00:16:42,040 Speaker 1: I don't know. Um either way, dude as a funkload 297 00:16:42,040 --> 00:16:45,239 Speaker 1: to uncles. Most of them are. They're all in journalism, politics, 298 00:16:45,360 --> 00:16:49,200 Speaker 1: or the military. Um So he grows up surrounded by influential, 299 00:16:49,360 --> 00:16:53,800 Speaker 1: powerful men who either exercise political power directly or through 300 00:16:54,320 --> 00:16:57,880 Speaker 1: the press, or who are in the military fighting colonizing 301 00:16:57,880 --> 00:17:02,040 Speaker 1: the United States, killing Native and mayor Americans Mexicans. Um 302 00:17:02,280 --> 00:17:04,760 Speaker 1: So these are like the people who raise him, right, 303 00:17:05,280 --> 00:17:08,200 Speaker 1: They're not. They're not just like kick back and relax 304 00:17:08,240 --> 00:17:10,879 Speaker 1: if someone does some ship. You know, family, it's a 305 00:17:10,960 --> 00:17:14,440 Speaker 1: high achieving family. Um, Like they're well off, but these 306 00:17:14,440 --> 00:17:17,399 Speaker 1: aren't like they're not like inherited money, sort of like 307 00:17:17,480 --> 00:17:21,879 Speaker 1: lazy aristocrats. They're like everybody's like up and out of 308 00:17:21,920 --> 00:17:26,120 Speaker 1: bed and fucking up the continent from like eight to nine, 309 00:17:26,280 --> 00:17:29,840 Speaker 1: you know, and fun the country, right, and it's just 310 00:17:29,840 --> 00:17:34,640 Speaker 1: just just colonized the piss out of this this month's day. 311 00:17:34,920 --> 00:17:38,600 Speaker 1: Colonize the day. That's the that's the motto in that house. Yeah, 312 00:17:38,800 --> 00:17:42,959 Speaker 1: that is absolutely how this kid is raised. Um. And 313 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:44,760 Speaker 1: it's not surprising that he grew up to be a 314 00:17:44,880 --> 00:17:49,360 Speaker 1: very ambitious boy. Um. In eighteen thirty seven, at age thirteen, 315 00:17:49,440 --> 00:17:52,119 Speaker 1: he finished his primary school education and enrolled in the 316 00:17:52,200 --> 00:17:56,600 Speaker 1: University of Nashville. Um. And Yeah, a lot of sort 317 00:17:56,640 --> 00:17:59,560 Speaker 1: of like contemporary articles that you'll find talking about this 318 00:17:59,600 --> 00:18:03,440 Speaker 1: guy will make it like he was a child genius writing. 319 00:18:03,480 --> 00:18:07,159 Speaker 1: I found like deeply written biographies of this guy by 320 00:18:07,240 --> 00:18:10,040 Speaker 1: historians say that this was actually not that unusual at 321 00:18:10,040 --> 00:18:12,200 Speaker 1: the time. He was a little young, but it wasn't 322 00:18:12,240 --> 00:18:15,399 Speaker 1: super weird, you know. Um, it's not many year of 323 00:18:15,440 --> 00:18:19,080 Speaker 1: college is at thirteen, not for everybody. But it wasn't 324 00:18:19,119 --> 00:18:21,000 Speaker 1: It wasn't weird. Oh, it's not like in the arrow 325 00:18:21,040 --> 00:18:23,840 Speaker 1: we live in now, it's like this baby genius is 326 00:18:23,880 --> 00:18:27,200 Speaker 1: going to college when yeah, they should be an academia 327 00:18:27,280 --> 00:18:30,239 Speaker 1: for nineteen years. Yeah, he had a friend who went 328 00:18:30,280 --> 00:18:34,560 Speaker 1: to college at fourteen. Like, it wasn't like super bizarre. Um, 329 00:18:34,600 --> 00:18:36,960 Speaker 1: it wasn't like the norm, but it wasn't super weird. 330 00:18:37,119 --> 00:18:40,359 Speaker 1: High school exists yet back then, or your primary school, 331 00:18:40,400 --> 00:18:41,959 Speaker 1: you're like, yeah, you're gonna learn everything you know by 332 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:45,000 Speaker 1: fourteen and then look you can be an apprentice or whatever. 333 00:18:45,040 --> 00:18:47,440 Speaker 1: Then yeah, that's kind of the thing. By like thirteen fourteen, 334 00:18:47,480 --> 00:18:49,679 Speaker 1: you're starting to be an adult, like in Germany and 335 00:18:49,760 --> 00:18:52,840 Speaker 1: like the eighteen seventies, at fourteen you are legally an adult, 336 00:18:52,920 --> 00:18:56,639 Speaker 1: Like it's time to go. Um, So it's not that 337 00:18:56,760 --> 00:18:59,199 Speaker 1: weird that he's he's you know, he's in college at 338 00:18:59,240 --> 00:19:02,840 Speaker 1: Thirteens were shorter back then, right, and education was rarer. 339 00:19:02,880 --> 00:19:05,080 Speaker 1: You know, Um, you want to get a head start 340 00:19:05,119 --> 00:19:07,720 Speaker 1: on things before you die of cholera at age or 341 00:19:07,720 --> 00:19:11,320 Speaker 1: a broken leg or a broken lake or just like 342 00:19:11,359 --> 00:19:14,440 Speaker 1: a splinter from the wrong piece of world. I didn't 343 00:19:14,480 --> 00:19:16,359 Speaker 1: have any I didn't have the right salve to do 344 00:19:16,440 --> 00:19:20,440 Speaker 1: with the infection. Oh I got a splinter. I've loved 345 00:19:20,440 --> 00:19:24,639 Speaker 1: you all. It's been a good life, serial glad. I 346 00:19:24,640 --> 00:19:30,880 Speaker 1: went to college at age nine. Uh so Yeah, Um, 347 00:19:31,080 --> 00:19:35,240 Speaker 1: college was rigorous. Uh for a thirteen year old boy. Um. 348 00:19:35,280 --> 00:19:37,720 Speaker 1: And it's hard to imagine any modern team dealing with 349 00:19:37,760 --> 00:19:40,320 Speaker 1: this level of discipline not coming out fucked up that set. Again, 350 00:19:40,359 --> 00:19:42,640 Speaker 1: this was not abnormal for the time. Um. And here's 351 00:19:42,640 --> 00:19:45,400 Speaker 1: how the biography William Walker's Wars, which is a very 352 00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:51,120 Speaker 1: good biography, describes his his college education. Quote. Entering students 353 00:19:51,119 --> 00:19:54,360 Speaker 1: were expected to be accurately acquainted with the grammar, including 354 00:19:54,359 --> 00:19:56,920 Speaker 1: prosody of the Greek and Latin tongues, as well as 355 00:19:56,920 --> 00:20:01,480 Speaker 1: with English grammar, math, and geography. Once admitted, students pursued trigonometry, 356 00:20:01,520 --> 00:20:05,520 Speaker 1: principles of constitutional and international law, philosophy, natural history, and 357 00:20:05,520 --> 00:20:09,040 Speaker 1: religious studies. Disciplined with strict students attended chapel twice a 358 00:20:09,080 --> 00:20:11,320 Speaker 1: day and stood for a communal prayer before each meal. 359 00:20:11,640 --> 00:20:14,760 Speaker 1: Quiet hours were enforced, and activities like horse racing, dancing, 360 00:20:14,840 --> 00:20:19,240 Speaker 1: or going to the theater were strictly prohibited. Yeah no, 361 00:20:19,640 --> 00:20:24,680 Speaker 1: no horse racing or dancing No, absolutely no dancing of 362 00:20:25,480 --> 00:20:29,000 Speaker 1: the horse racing dancing and the miles. Every step you 363 00:20:29,080 --> 00:20:31,159 Speaker 1: take is a dancer, is a step you take with 364 00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:35,080 Speaker 1: the devil. Oh wow, I'm pretty sure that poster was 365 00:20:35,119 --> 00:20:38,680 Speaker 1: that one of am I like kindergarten classroom? Yeah, yeah, 366 00:20:38,840 --> 00:20:42,240 Speaker 1: dancing is Satan's golfing. And sadly the image was like 367 00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:47,560 Speaker 1: a people break dancing. They're like, just not that kind um. 368 00:20:47,680 --> 00:20:49,720 Speaker 1: I would actually argue that break dancing is the only 369 00:20:49,760 --> 00:20:53,119 Speaker 1: acceptable kind of dancing. But I mean anything like the 370 00:20:53,200 --> 00:20:55,800 Speaker 1: Seventh Day Adventist if you can fuck somebody up with 371 00:20:55,840 --> 00:20:58,879 Speaker 1: your dance moves, like, hell yeah, just keep keeping keeping on. 372 00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:02,800 Speaker 1: So William grew into an extremely devout adolescent and there 373 00:21:02,840 --> 00:21:05,240 Speaker 1: was talk of him becoming a minister, but then his 374 00:21:05,280 --> 00:21:08,160 Speaker 1: interest took a turn towards politics. He joined a debating 375 00:21:08,240 --> 00:21:11,600 Speaker 1: society and eventually became its president. He proposed several debate 376 00:21:11,640 --> 00:21:14,600 Speaker 1: topics during his time, including was it politic for the 377 00:21:14,640 --> 00:21:17,760 Speaker 1: French to assist the US and the American Revolution, was 378 00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:21,520 Speaker 1: it preferable a monarchical or republican form of government? And 379 00:21:21,800 --> 00:21:24,399 Speaker 1: has the career of Napoleon Bonaparte been of benefit or 380 00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:29,520 Speaker 1: injury to the world Wow. Yeah, hot take Steven. Pose 381 00:21:29,640 --> 00:21:32,720 Speaker 1: those questions, sir, some hot takes. Notice one of them 382 00:21:32,760 --> 00:21:35,000 Speaker 1: is wondering like whether it was worthwhile for the for 383 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:39,280 Speaker 1: France to intervene in a foreign nations like political development militarily, 384 00:21:39,359 --> 00:21:42,280 Speaker 1: and the others wondering is this imperialist warlord was he 385 00:21:42,320 --> 00:21:46,040 Speaker 1: good for history? Yeah, I'm just asking what he's thinking. 386 00:21:46,040 --> 00:21:48,000 Speaker 1: I'm just asking. I'm just I don't really have an 387 00:21:48,040 --> 00:21:49,760 Speaker 1: opinion on it. I'm just seeing what you mean. It's 388 00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:51,919 Speaker 1: a question, you know, I don't know. Maybe I have 389 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:53,240 Speaker 1: one and I'm not gonna share it with you, but 390 00:21:53,240 --> 00:21:54,480 Speaker 1: i just want to see where that how that sort 391 00:21:54,480 --> 00:21:56,120 Speaker 1: of stacks up with the rest of the world. But anyway, 392 00:21:56,400 --> 00:21:59,480 Speaker 1: just asking. I mean, I'm a big Napoleon fan, not 393 00:21:59,640 --> 00:22:03,120 Speaker 1: of his conquering but of his fucking um huge Oh 394 00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:06,640 Speaker 1: my gosh, that dude. Yeah. Oh he was landing. Oh 395 00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:11,920 Speaker 1: my god, like a fucking Mario man. No oh yeah, 396 00:22:11,960 --> 00:22:18,720 Speaker 1: here we go. Oh yeah. So um. William graduated summa 397 00:22:18,760 --> 00:22:21,359 Speaker 1: cum lauda on October third, eighteen thirty eight, half a 398 00:22:21,400 --> 00:22:24,080 Speaker 1: year after his fourteenth birthday, So college wasn't long back 399 00:22:24,119 --> 00:22:27,680 Speaker 1: then either. By this time, his interest had changed yet again. 400 00:22:27,760 --> 00:22:30,040 Speaker 1: And he decided to seek a medical degree. First, he 401 00:22:30,119 --> 00:22:33,000 Speaker 1: spent two years as an apprentice under local physicians. Then 402 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:36,040 Speaker 1: he was admitted to the University of Pennsylvania. He graduated 403 00:22:36,080 --> 00:22:38,600 Speaker 1: in eighteen forty three and headed to Paris to further 404 00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:42,160 Speaker 1: his medical education in Europe. He arrived at age nineteen 405 00:22:42,359 --> 00:22:46,000 Speaker 1: a doctor, but one wildly unready for the cosmopolitan realities 406 00:22:46,040 --> 00:22:48,840 Speaker 1: of a progressive city like Paris. In a letter home 407 00:22:48,840 --> 00:22:52,680 Speaker 1: to his parents, he noted this of his new Parisian acquaintances, quote, 408 00:22:53,119 --> 00:22:55,760 Speaker 1: most of them have mistresses, and nobody thinks them, and 409 00:22:55,840 --> 00:22:58,199 Speaker 1: he was the worse for it. Indeed, the relations of 410 00:22:58,200 --> 00:23:01,000 Speaker 1: the two sexist among all classes of the idea are horrible. 411 00:23:01,280 --> 00:23:03,879 Speaker 1: You find many married couples between whom there exists a 412 00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:06,600 Speaker 1: tacit agreement that the husband may have as many mistresses 413 00:23:06,760 --> 00:23:09,439 Speaker 1: and the wife as many lovers as they choose. The 414 00:23:09,520 --> 00:23:12,240 Speaker 1: poison of infidelity is found in every vein the effects 415 00:23:12,240 --> 00:23:13,760 Speaker 1: of it may be seen in the whole body. What 416 00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:16,760 Speaker 1: a striking lesson may the moralists learn here? So he's like, 417 00:23:16,800 --> 00:23:21,800 Speaker 1: everybody's fucking and they're fine with it. How horrible I 418 00:23:21,840 --> 00:23:25,399 Speaker 1: can't ya? And the woman lovers as well? Yeah, I 419 00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:27,359 Speaker 1: want to make it clear, he's not like, he's not 420 00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:29,000 Speaker 1: like seeing that all of his friends are cheating on 421 00:23:29,040 --> 00:23:30,880 Speaker 1: their wives and being like that's fucked up. He's seeing 422 00:23:30,880 --> 00:23:33,440 Speaker 1: like all these people are fucking other people that they're 423 00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:36,359 Speaker 1: not married to and everyone knows and is okay with it. 424 00:23:36,640 --> 00:23:39,960 Speaker 1: This is awful. Yeah. How is this? How is this 425 00:23:40,119 --> 00:23:43,840 Speaker 1: city not gone asunder? Yeah? How has God not turned 426 00:23:43,880 --> 00:23:47,679 Speaker 1: it into salt? Yeah? So William was fascinated by the 427 00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:50,360 Speaker 1: power and culture that radiated from old Europe, even though 428 00:23:50,359 --> 00:23:54,000 Speaker 1: he didn't really jell with its libertine values. Um. He 429 00:23:54,040 --> 00:23:55,920 Speaker 1: also wasn't a fan on what he saw as its 430 00:23:55,960 --> 00:23:59,560 Speaker 1: limitations on individual rights. Um. He left Europe after two 431 00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:06,160 Speaker 1: years feeling more American than ever. He also felt less likely. Yeah, 432 00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:09,720 Speaker 1: getting around different opinions to get you to double down 433 00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:12,840 Speaker 1: on your bad opinions. Yeah, I mean there's an extent 434 00:24:12,880 --> 00:24:15,080 Speaker 1: to which I understand. Every time I go to Europe, 435 00:24:15,119 --> 00:24:18,240 Speaker 1: I realize how fundamentally an American I am. But it's 436 00:24:18,240 --> 00:24:21,480 Speaker 1: not in a positive way. It's like, actually that I 437 00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:23,520 Speaker 1: can't blow shut up in the middle of nowhere, and 438 00:24:23,560 --> 00:24:25,359 Speaker 1: it's like I don't know that that's a healthy thing 439 00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:27,320 Speaker 1: to do. But it's just the way it is, Like, 440 00:24:27,359 --> 00:24:29,159 Speaker 1: what do you mean you don't sell Tanner in this 441 00:24:29,320 --> 00:24:37,959 Speaker 1: hardware store? What is this communist Russian um? Yeah. William 442 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:40,200 Speaker 1: also felt less like a doctor than he had upon 443 00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:42,000 Speaker 1: moving there, and a let her home to his parents. 444 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:44,280 Speaker 1: He admitted that his interest in his chosen vocation had 445 00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:47,080 Speaker 1: begun to fade. Quote. It is said that no idea 446 00:24:47,119 --> 00:24:49,960 Speaker 1: which enters our mind is ever entirely removed. Often we 447 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:52,159 Speaker 1: see the specter, as it were, of our departed notions 448 00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:54,760 Speaker 1: or opinions. By experience, I know how firm is the 449 00:24:54,800 --> 00:24:57,399 Speaker 1: hold of these early and long cherished ideas with me, 450 00:24:57,520 --> 00:24:59,720 Speaker 1: Whilst a child and a boy I determined on a 451 00:24:59,720 --> 00:25:01,920 Speaker 1: police iCal career. There have been times when I thought 452 00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:04,320 Speaker 1: that the last vestige of such an idea had disappeared, 453 00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:06,840 Speaker 1: But often it reappears to me and my waking dreams, 454 00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:09,120 Speaker 1: leaving me uncertain whether it be an angel of light 455 00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:16,040 Speaker 1: or an angel of darkness. Darkness, buddy, darkness, black on 456 00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:21,040 Speaker 1: that one. If you're in eighteen forty four, near the 457 00:25:21,119 --> 00:25:24,320 Speaker 1: end of William's European tour, his family friend James K. 458 00:25:24,520 --> 00:25:28,080 Speaker 1: Polk won the presidential election. James was an expansionist and 459 00:25:28,119 --> 00:25:30,720 Speaker 1: supported the annexation of the Republic of Texas, which most 460 00:25:30,760 --> 00:25:34,600 Speaker 1: people considered to be America's greatest mistake. He also supported 461 00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:37,360 Speaker 1: the United States taking over Oregon, which Great Britain also 462 00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:40,000 Speaker 1: claimed at the time. Polk's victory over the Whig showed 463 00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:43,080 Speaker 1: that a majority of the American people supported these expansionist, 464 00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:46,840 Speaker 1: colonialist values. It was in the air. In eighteen forty five, 465 00:25:46,920 --> 00:25:51,280 Speaker 1: writer John O'Sullivan coined the term manifest destiny, the idea 466 00:25:51,359 --> 00:25:54,560 Speaker 1: that God himself had decreed the United States should expand 467 00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:57,600 Speaker 1: to control all of North America. Mm HMM's one of 468 00:25:57,640 --> 00:26:00,399 Speaker 1: those I'm assuming we all remember this from history. Yeah, 469 00:26:00,520 --> 00:26:04,239 Speaker 1: the worst fucking idea put in anyone's head. Yeah, all 470 00:26:04,359 --> 00:26:06,720 Speaker 1: this was ours. What if God said like, yeah, just 471 00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:09,320 Speaker 1: take all this ship, dude. I'm on your side, dude, 472 00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:13,760 Speaker 1: I'm God. Listen to me. You can remember, though, all 473 00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:16,560 Speaker 1: those times in the Bible where Jesus stole people's houses. 474 00:26:16,680 --> 00:26:24,320 Speaker 1: That was that was Jesus. Yeah, destiny Chips to bro Yeah, sorry, 475 00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:29,440 Speaker 1: manifest destiny coming through. Get then out Manifest destiny mm hmm. Yeah. Now. 476 00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:32,159 Speaker 1: William returned to the United States shortly after Polk's victory, 477 00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:34,760 Speaker 1: and very soon made the decision to move to New Orleans. 478 00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:38,000 Speaker 1: This was a risky proposition at the time. The city's 479 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:41,040 Speaker 1: swampy conditions and horrible water quality meant that it had 480 00:26:41,040 --> 00:26:43,679 Speaker 1: a death rate twice that of other American cities. So 481 00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:46,679 Speaker 1: like moving to New Orleans is a little bit like 482 00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:49,720 Speaker 1: playing Russian roulette in this period. And now to be honest, 483 00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:55,919 Speaker 1: um yea yeah, I have some friends there who just 484 00:26:56,000 --> 00:27:00,320 Speaker 1: had both of their neighbors murdered. Um, oh my, yeah, 485 00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:02,920 Speaker 1: it's just like it's just like a thing, like I'll 486 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:05,199 Speaker 1: check in on them on Facebook and it'll be like 487 00:27:05,359 --> 00:27:08,120 Speaker 1: found some bullets in my lawn today, like some shells 488 00:27:08,119 --> 00:27:11,119 Speaker 1: and casings, like more gunshots last night. I don't know, 489 00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:14,200 Speaker 1: I haven't been. I also here. It's a wonderful place, uh, 490 00:27:14,240 --> 00:27:15,679 Speaker 1: And I have a lot of friends who love it, 491 00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:19,400 Speaker 1: like they live there. But it's always been a little 492 00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:22,639 Speaker 1: bit of a roll of the die. I can always 493 00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:24,560 Speaker 1: count on you to be like be like, oh yeah, 494 00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:26,840 Speaker 1: I know someone those there and then they knew somebody 495 00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:31,320 Speaker 1: who was murdered, Like how what happened? What happened? Well, 496 00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:33,840 Speaker 1: you know, if I'm not mistaken in that case, it 497 00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:36,680 Speaker 1: was like a murder suicide because like the guy's mom 498 00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:40,160 Speaker 1: had told him home that like she couldn't afford her healthcare, 499 00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:42,720 Speaker 1: and it was like, yeah, it's like a really dark, 500 00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:46,280 Speaker 1: fucking tail man, it's fucked up. Yeah, that's really not 501 00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:51,440 Speaker 1: on New Orleans as much as America. Yeah. I was like, yeah, 502 00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:53,840 Speaker 1: this this episode is pretty light, and then you bring 503 00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:57,800 Speaker 1: it to like the real real Oh we're getting off topic. Yeah, 504 00:27:57,840 --> 00:28:00,159 Speaker 1: and that is that's not on New Orleans, that's on 505 00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:08,000 Speaker 1: our entire country. Um yeah so um. Yeah. It was 506 00:28:08,080 --> 00:28:10,800 Speaker 1: dangerous moving to New Orleans in this period. Luckily, William 507 00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:13,159 Speaker 1: was ethnically wealthy and he was able to shack up 508 00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:15,560 Speaker 1: with a classmate from his college who had a nice 509 00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:17,879 Speaker 1: townhouse in an affluent part of town. So we didn't 510 00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:20,920 Speaker 1: have to deal with like as much of the disease 511 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:23,919 Speaker 1: as like, you know, the tenements and stuff I have. Uh. 512 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:26,520 Speaker 1: In New Orleans, William officially made the shift from medicine 513 00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:29,720 Speaker 1: to politics, and he began to study to become a lawyer. Uh. 514 00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:32,560 Speaker 1: Now in New Orleans, as in Paris, Walker was horrified 515 00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:35,639 Speaker 1: by the fact that everyone wasn't an insufferable goody two shoes. 516 00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:38,640 Speaker 1: He wrote to his parents that they had no idea 517 00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:43,640 Speaker 1: of the profaneness of the people of New Orleans. I 518 00:28:43,720 --> 00:28:46,600 Speaker 1: just love the pro clutching of this guy. Yeah, and 519 00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:49,600 Speaker 1: just cut to whatever dark shit is inevitable here. But 520 00:28:50,160 --> 00:28:55,320 Speaker 1: somebody is saying poop yeah profane yeah, Like it is 521 00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:57,959 Speaker 1: like he's literally talking about curse words. Um. And he 522 00:28:58,040 --> 00:29:01,040 Speaker 1: was particularly horrified by the nity used by one of 523 00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:04,920 Speaker 1: his law teachers, a man named Mott. Quote. Looking at him, 524 00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:07,640 Speaker 1: I would suppose him almost incapable of using an oath. 525 00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:09,920 Speaker 1: But yet I hadn't been in the office long before 526 00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:12,360 Speaker 1: my ears were saluted with such words that I had 527 00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:16,440 Speaker 1: deemed long before consigned to Draymond importers. This common use 528 00:29:16,480 --> 00:29:19,640 Speaker 1: of oaths appears to be procuted, But I think he 529 00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:22,760 Speaker 1: meant to say precluded by an absurd affection of energy. 530 00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:25,800 Speaker 1: Not content with activity and simple power, They must have 531 00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:28,240 Speaker 1: bustle and swelling words. A man wants to have the 532 00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:33,040 Speaker 1: appearance of strength, although he is conscious of weakness. Oh wow, okay, 533 00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:36,520 Speaker 1: big yeah. Yeah. You know it's kind of like you 534 00:29:36,520 --> 00:29:38,560 Speaker 1: know some people like when folks are like pose with 535 00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:40,320 Speaker 1: guns and stuff, they'll be like that person must have 536 00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:42,560 Speaker 1: a tiny dick. He's kind of doing the same thing, 537 00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:46,240 Speaker 1: but with curse words. It's like, you're yeah, the reason 538 00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:48,120 Speaker 1: to use curse words is because you have a little 539 00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:50,920 Speaker 1: weener And that's it, you know. And that's why I 540 00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:55,880 Speaker 1: always talk nice words. Because my PEP also big. Now, Miles, 541 00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:59,320 Speaker 1: you know whose pp is also big? One of our sponsors. 542 00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:05,320 Speaker 1: This egg's absolutely I know this show. Listen to these 543 00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:18,360 Speaker 1: big swinging dick ads. We're back, Miles. In eighteen forty six, 544 00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:21,040 Speaker 1: the United States went to war with Mexico. William was 545 00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:23,880 Speaker 1: skeptical of this venture and called it a type of fever. 546 00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:26,560 Speaker 1: In a letter to a friend, he noted that quote 547 00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:28,760 Speaker 1: for a little time, the patient was far gone, and 548 00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:31,920 Speaker 1: a delirium of joy and destruction. War was preached as 549 00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:34,640 Speaker 1: being the noblest and sublimest of all states and conditions 550 00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:37,720 Speaker 1: of men, a spectacle of delight for gods and demi gods. 551 00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:40,880 Speaker 1: He evinced a particular disgust that the people of Mexico 552 00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:44,080 Speaker 1: were being treated as pagans by many of his fellow Americans, 553 00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:46,640 Speaker 1: and not the good Christians that they were. The war 554 00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:49,120 Speaker 1: sparked a deep interest in current events and William and 555 00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:51,760 Speaker 1: a growing obsession with the news that increasingly pulled him 556 00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:54,320 Speaker 1: away from his nascent law career. He passed the bar 557 00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:56,680 Speaker 1: in eighteen forty seven, but his young practice saw a 558 00:30:56,720 --> 00:30:59,320 Speaker 1: little success. He got a gig working briefly at the 559 00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:02,400 Speaker 1: Commercial with You, a local paper. The work didn't last long, 560 00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:05,640 Speaker 1: but William found journalism appealing. In early eighteen forty nine, 561 00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:08,480 Speaker 1: he put together a thousand dollars of probably mostly his 562 00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:12,360 Speaker 1: parents money, and bought an interest in the Daily Crescent newspaper. Now, 563 00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:15,320 Speaker 1: The Crescent was at the time a moderately liberal publication, 564 00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:18,600 Speaker 1: which meant then that they accepted ads for slave markets 565 00:31:18,760 --> 00:31:22,760 Speaker 1: but didn't attack abolitionists. Literal demons deserving a violent murder. 566 00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:27,200 Speaker 1: Oh so like MSNBC. Yeah, yeah, they're the MSNBC of 567 00:31:27,280 --> 00:31:31,320 Speaker 1: the time. Absolutely, yeah. Uh in eighteen forty nine, New Orleans, 568 00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:33,480 Speaker 1: this was a pretty progressive attitude for a rich white 569 00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:36,000 Speaker 1: guy to take. Now, eighteen forty nine proved to be 570 00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:38,160 Speaker 1: a pretty bad year for Walker. He'd fallen in love 571 00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:40,480 Speaker 1: with a young woman, Ellen Martin, a socialite and a 572 00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:43,920 Speaker 1: deaf mute whose parents had, unusually for the time, insisted 573 00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:47,080 Speaker 1: on letting their daughter live in normal life. Uh. That summer, 574 00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:49,880 Speaker 1: a horrific bout of yellow fever hit New Orleans, afflicting 575 00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:52,800 Speaker 1: William and forcing him to temporarily flee the city. It 576 00:31:52,880 --> 00:31:55,400 Speaker 1: reaped a more vicious toll on the Martin family, killing 577 00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:58,080 Speaker 1: first Ellen's cousin and then taking hold of her. She 578 00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:01,760 Speaker 1: spent several miserable weeks battling the illness until on April eighteenth, 579 00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:05,800 Speaker 1: it finally claimed her. Walker was devastated by this, and 580 00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:08,120 Speaker 1: his friends would later claim that it marked a turning 581 00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:12,480 Speaker 1: point in his life. He became cold, calculating, and increasingly violent. 582 00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:15,720 Speaker 1: His coverage in The Daily Crescent turned over and over 583 00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:19,440 Speaker 1: to confrontational, attacking his fellow journalists for, among other things, 584 00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:23,240 Speaker 1: reporting on corruption within a local bank. Walker's angle seemed 585 00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:25,840 Speaker 1: to be that by reporting on this, journalists were damaging 586 00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:29,040 Speaker 1: public confidence in the bank and revealing personal details about 587 00:32:29,040 --> 00:32:32,360 Speaker 1: the lives of several bankers. This new Walker was also 588 00:32:32,440 --> 00:32:37,080 Speaker 1: more inclined to support colonialist ventures. In the late eighteen forties, Nearrisco, Lopez, 589 00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:40,000 Speaker 1: a Spanish general and a former governor of Trinidad, Cuba, 590 00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:43,400 Speaker 1: began agitating for the island to rebel against Spanish control 591 00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:46,160 Speaker 1: and join the United States. Lopez did not do this 592 00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:48,960 Speaker 1: for reasons of Cuban self determination. He was worried that 593 00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:51,320 Speaker 1: the island would be taken by a slave uprising like 594 00:32:51,360 --> 00:32:53,320 Speaker 1: the one that had liberated Haiti, and he wanted the 595 00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:55,760 Speaker 1: military backing of the United States to protect he and 596 00:32:55,800 --> 00:32:58,920 Speaker 1: his fellow property owners. Spanned into slavery and most of 597 00:32:58,960 --> 00:33:01,200 Speaker 1: its domains in eighteen a and so Lopez and his 598 00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:03,640 Speaker 1: fellow people owners were worried that they would lose their 599 00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:07,400 Speaker 1: ability to own people. Lopez initially sought the help of 600 00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:10,120 Speaker 1: the U. S Government in this, but President Polk's administration 601 00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:13,440 Speaker 1: was unable to start a war with Spain. He became 602 00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:16,120 Speaker 1: convinced via delusion that the United States would step in 603 00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:18,440 Speaker 1: if he could spark an uprising on the island, and 604 00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:21,000 Speaker 1: so he hatched a plan to recruit hundreds of random 605 00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:23,280 Speaker 1: Americans with guns and use them as an army to 606 00:33:23,320 --> 00:33:26,280 Speaker 1: invade Cuba. By eighteen forty nine, he was recruiting men 607 00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:29,080 Speaker 1: directly from the streets of New York City. Uh now 608 00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:32,760 Speaker 1: Zachary Taylor, the president who followed Polk, issued Proclamation fifty 609 00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:36,440 Speaker 1: one to warn Americans against participating in Lopez scheme. He 610 00:33:36,520 --> 00:33:38,680 Speaker 1: promised that they would face charges at home and would 611 00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:41,280 Speaker 1: receive no aid in their endeavors. And it's kind of 612 00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:42,680 Speaker 1: a mark of where we are right now that I 613 00:33:42,680 --> 00:33:45,160 Speaker 1: think if the same thing happened today, the President of 614 00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:49,800 Speaker 1: the United States would be completely on board. I uh, 615 00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:53,680 Speaker 1: it's so many things. Even what you're saying like just 616 00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:57,960 Speaker 1: mirror the positions of so many people. It's also really 617 00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:01,040 Speaker 1: interesting to know that the I was like, when's the 618 00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:03,479 Speaker 1: fork in the road moment come for this guy? And 619 00:34:03,520 --> 00:34:06,760 Speaker 1: it's when he lost it was his girlfriend or his wife, 620 00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:11,319 Speaker 1: his girlfriend, his girlfriend to yellow fever. And that is 621 00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:14,719 Speaker 1: like when he this sounds like the beginnings of the 622 00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:18,239 Speaker 1: end for him. What was yellow fever exactly? I don't know. 623 00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:21,359 Speaker 1: Some horrible fever kills you as guessing it's a fever. 624 00:34:22,120 --> 00:34:24,360 Speaker 1: I think it's one of those poop yourself to death fevers. 625 00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:27,640 Speaker 1: Oh god, you hate one? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, no, good, 626 00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:31,600 Speaker 1: yeah yeah. I'm not a yellow fever expert though, um 627 00:34:31,680 --> 00:34:35,879 Speaker 1: and you never claimed to be. I think, just um 628 00:34:36,040 --> 00:34:39,480 Speaker 1: oddly enough, I am. I don't know. I don't have 629 00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:42,359 Speaker 1: a joke for that. Um anyway, Yeah, let's move along here, 630 00:34:42,719 --> 00:34:46,600 Speaker 1: so uh yeah. Lopez succeeded in gathering up several hundred 631 00:34:46,680 --> 00:34:49,959 Speaker 1: armed men, boats and eighty thou dollars in funding, which 632 00:34:50,040 --> 00:34:51,960 Speaker 1: was enough money to run a war at that point 633 00:34:51,960 --> 00:34:55,440 Speaker 1: in history. Uh to avoid arrest, he and his men 634 00:34:55,520 --> 00:34:58,600 Speaker 1: disguised their endeavor as a trip to California to mind Gold. 635 00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:02,120 Speaker 1: This did not fool anyone, and Lopez's army was broken up. 636 00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:05,160 Speaker 1: He fled from New York down to New Orleans, reasoning 637 00:35:05,160 --> 00:35:07,719 Speaker 1: that the lawless swamps of Louisiana would be friendlier to 638 00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:10,120 Speaker 1: someone trying to raise an army to invade a sovereign 639 00:35:10,120 --> 00:35:12,520 Speaker 1: state in order to further the cause of human bondage, 640 00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:16,200 Speaker 1: and he was not wrong in this um William Walker, 641 00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:19,480 Speaker 1: for his part, loved General Lopez and supported his efforts. 642 00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:22,440 Speaker 1: He justified this by pointing out that a slave uprising 643 00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:25,480 Speaker 1: in Cuba so close to Florida might spread the contagious 644 00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:28,799 Speaker 1: disease of wanting to be free to enslaved black Americans. 645 00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:32,640 Speaker 1: Quote from one of his editorials, If, for example, the 646 00:35:32,680 --> 00:35:35,400 Speaker 1: great number of Negroes now being carried into Cuba should 647 00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:38,480 Speaker 1: end in a second Haitian insurrection and an establishment of 648 00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:41,080 Speaker 1: a Negro state on the island, it would be very 649 00:35:41,120 --> 00:35:44,040 Speaker 1: injurious and dangerous for US Southern partners to have such 650 00:35:44,040 --> 00:35:46,239 Speaker 1: a neighbor. Of course, we have the right and ought 651 00:35:46,239 --> 00:35:49,399 Speaker 1: to exercise it of preventing any policy that would lead 652 00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:53,560 Speaker 1: to such a disaster. Oh boy, it's funny how disaster 653 00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:58,000 Speaker 1: freedom these moments where like class power structures are about 654 00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:01,520 Speaker 1: to be disrupted and then the the dominant class has 655 00:36:01,560 --> 00:36:03,279 Speaker 1: to go all right, so how are we gonna suck 656 00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:06,640 Speaker 1: in make sure this doesn't happen here? It's like we're 657 00:36:06,680 --> 00:36:09,520 Speaker 1: gonna make sure this freedom thing doesn't spread it. Yeah, 658 00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:11,319 Speaker 1: And then like with Haiti, it's like, okay, well, we'll 659 00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:15,200 Speaker 1: just punish them forever monetarily with the banks. Uh, and 660 00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:17,680 Speaker 1: we'll make sure not they will never prosper and we'll 661 00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:21,360 Speaker 1: keep them like indebted to this other system. We'll keep 662 00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:25,040 Speaker 1: punishing them right up until the modern era, and no 663 00:36:25,080 --> 00:36:27,840 Speaker 1: one will talk about it because like we'll just assume 664 00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:30,319 Speaker 1: at that point that Haiti has always been fucked up 665 00:36:30,360 --> 00:36:33,560 Speaker 1: for an explicable reason. And then City City Bank is like, 666 00:36:33,719 --> 00:36:38,320 Speaker 1: oh wait what what? Oh is that us back the Okay, 667 00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:41,799 Speaker 1: we gotta get a real Haiti episode up in here. 668 00:36:41,880 --> 00:36:45,240 Speaker 1: Oh my god Jesus, Yeah, I mean, because that's really weak. 669 00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:48,319 Speaker 1: All those slave uprisings really had people shook, like in 670 00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:50,040 Speaker 1: this way you're talking about where they're like, wait, we 671 00:36:50,080 --> 00:36:52,879 Speaker 1: can't we don't want people get an ideas about like 672 00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:56,720 Speaker 1: like liberation over here. They had so many different ways 673 00:36:57,040 --> 00:36:59,840 Speaker 1: to combat it that weren't like, hey, if you stop 674 00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:03,120 Speaker 1: owning people, they won't want to murder you, right, Just 675 00:37:03,120 --> 00:37:07,360 Speaker 1: just just a pitch, just to try that. Yeah, yeah, 676 00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:10,960 Speaker 1: so um Walker claimed that he supported an invasion of 677 00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:14,600 Speaker 1: Cuba on humanitarian grounds, arguing that the US could stop 678 00:37:14,640 --> 00:37:18,120 Speaker 1: Cuba from importing new slaves and then slavery on the 679 00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:21,440 Speaker 1: island would take the mild and comparatively inoffensive form and 680 00:37:21,520 --> 00:37:24,759 Speaker 1: which it exists in the Southern States. Oh fuck right off, 681 00:37:28,640 --> 00:37:32,800 Speaker 1: I just love again, same pattern. Okay, this country is 682 00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:34,960 Speaker 1: doing something that we don't want to give ideas to 683 00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:37,080 Speaker 1: our people that might be a good thing. Therefore, we 684 00:37:37,080 --> 00:37:38,960 Speaker 1: were just going to force our way in with this 685 00:37:39,040 --> 00:37:41,959 Speaker 1: weird lay mass subtrafuge of like, no, we care about 686 00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:44,160 Speaker 1: the people. It's about the people. Yeah, it's really about 687 00:37:44,160 --> 00:37:47,560 Speaker 1: the people. Um it's not about like humanitarian, not about 688 00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:50,360 Speaker 1: preserving these power structures that we need to like extort 689 00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:53,160 Speaker 1: and you know, exploit the week. But anyway, it's fine. 690 00:37:53,280 --> 00:37:58,680 Speaker 1: It's called a humanitarian humanitarian humanitarian. In his constant editorials, 691 00:37:58,719 --> 00:38:03,359 Speaker 1: William began to explicitly endorsed the practice of filibustering or freebooting. 692 00:38:03,719 --> 00:38:06,040 Speaker 1: Now this is not a term we used today often 693 00:38:06,040 --> 00:38:09,120 Speaker 1: in its original form filibustering, like it's the congress thing 694 00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:11,080 Speaker 1: where you talk for a long time and probably have 695 00:38:11,120 --> 00:38:13,520 Speaker 1: to wear a diaper. But back in the eighteen fifties, 696 00:38:13,520 --> 00:38:17,160 Speaker 1: according to the book Filibusters and Financiers, filibusters were basically 697 00:38:17,160 --> 00:38:19,640 Speaker 1: people who would have been described as pioneers if they 698 00:38:19,760 --> 00:38:23,080 Speaker 1: turned their attentions toward colonizing parts of North America already 699 00:38:23,080 --> 00:38:26,520 Speaker 1: controlled by the government. Quote If, on the other hand, 700 00:38:26,560 --> 00:38:29,279 Speaker 1: they happened to direct their attention towards another nation whose 701 00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:33,160 Speaker 1: sovereignty was formally recognized by their own, they were called filibusters. 702 00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:36,440 Speaker 1: The term filibuster was originally one of a probrim banned. 703 00:38:36,440 --> 00:38:39,000 Speaker 1: Its use in the fifties was much resented by those 704 00:38:39,040 --> 00:38:41,320 Speaker 1: to whom it was applied, inasmuch as it was regarded 705 00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:46,400 Speaker 1: as synonymous with pirate or buccaneer. And it stops meaning 706 00:38:46,440 --> 00:38:49,200 Speaker 1: pirate in this period because a lot of people like filibusters, 707 00:38:49,239 --> 00:38:52,800 Speaker 1: but really it is piracy. It's just grander than normal piracy. 708 00:38:52,840 --> 00:38:56,120 Speaker 1: They're just fucking around in switching labels around to make 709 00:38:56,160 --> 00:38:58,920 Speaker 1: it see them different. Yeah, it's just the label. They're like, 710 00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:02,440 Speaker 1: oh God, please don't call me a buccaneer. I yeah, 711 00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:08,320 Speaker 1: I prefer genocidal. I'm I mean, um, filibuster yea friend 712 00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:11,640 Speaker 1: decide ship. No, that doesn't work. So I find that 713 00:39:11,680 --> 00:39:14,800 Speaker 1: book Filibusters and Financiers really interesting because it was published 714 00:39:14,800 --> 00:39:17,840 Speaker 1: in nineteen sixteen, an age in which most white people 715 00:39:17,880 --> 00:39:21,280 Speaker 1: considered colonialism to be a clear good, in an age 716 00:39:21,280 --> 00:39:24,600 Speaker 1: in which a lot of people still remember the eighteen fifties. Um. 717 00:39:24,640 --> 00:39:27,239 Speaker 1: It credits the growth of filibustering and its support by 718 00:39:27,239 --> 00:39:29,880 Speaker 1: men like William Walker, to the fact that the blank 719 00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:33,720 Speaker 1: map of North America was rapidly being filled. In quote, 720 00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:36,280 Speaker 1: there was a proverb current among Frenchmen to the effect 721 00:39:36,360 --> 00:39:39,160 Speaker 1: that the appetite comes with eating, and in the case 722 00:39:39,200 --> 00:39:41,279 Speaker 1: of the land hunger of the American people, the truth 723 00:39:41,320 --> 00:39:43,880 Speaker 1: of this assertion seems well established. As soon as they 724 00:39:43,920 --> 00:39:46,480 Speaker 1: set foot on American soil, the colonists from Europe were 725 00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:49,120 Speaker 1: compelled to rest their lands from the savages, many of 726 00:39:49,120 --> 00:39:51,759 Speaker 1: whom resisted the invaders to the death. Nature as well 727 00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:54,319 Speaker 1: as the natives, had to be subdued. Rodent Field were 728 00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:57,440 Speaker 1: cleared with acts and spade. Pioneers built their log cabins 729 00:39:57,480 --> 00:39:59,600 Speaker 1: far in the wilderness, and like the advanced guard of 730 00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:02,040 Speaker 1: a march army, kept always ahead of the main body 731 00:40:02,040 --> 00:40:04,600 Speaker 1: of westward moving settlers. There was no arrest of this 732 00:40:04,640 --> 00:40:07,040 Speaker 1: westward progress till the pioneer stood on the shores of 733 00:40:07,040 --> 00:40:09,600 Speaker 1: the Pacific. In eighteen o three, the boundary was moved 734 00:40:09,600 --> 00:40:12,120 Speaker 1: from the Mississippi to the Rockies, and the next generation 735 00:40:12,160 --> 00:40:14,400 Speaker 1: saw it extending from the Rockies to the sea. A 736 00:40:14,440 --> 00:40:17,200 Speaker 1: whole continent had been one, but the land hunger seemed 737 00:40:17,280 --> 00:40:20,520 Speaker 1: keener than ever. The appetite had increased with the eating, 738 00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:25,800 Speaker 1: And you know, it's, uh, I think that's pretty accurate, 739 00:40:26,800 --> 00:40:29,200 Speaker 1: Like obviously they're kind of pro that, but it still 740 00:40:29,239 --> 00:40:32,480 Speaker 1: doesn't mean it's an inaccurate assessment of what's going on. 741 00:40:32,840 --> 00:40:35,200 Speaker 1: It's funny too, because I was just reading this study 742 00:40:35,239 --> 00:40:38,640 Speaker 1: about how um like when people who aren't used to 743 00:40:38,680 --> 00:40:41,840 Speaker 1: the American diet um come to the United States and 744 00:40:41,840 --> 00:40:44,799 Speaker 1: begin eating like typical foods, like you know, people like 745 00:40:44,880 --> 00:40:47,600 Speaker 1: that normal people would eat like not gormation all the time. Yeah, 746 00:40:47,640 --> 00:40:52,080 Speaker 1: like nineteen pounds of bacon wrapped up in fat sugar. 747 00:40:52,160 --> 00:40:55,040 Speaker 1: Diet it leads to a normal breakfit, it leads to 748 00:40:55,280 --> 00:40:59,440 Speaker 1: more eating. So like it's still like seemed like the 749 00:40:59,520 --> 00:41:01,879 Speaker 1: metaphor even holds for the way in which we even 750 00:41:01,920 --> 00:41:04,200 Speaker 1: consumed food in this garden is also like yeah, and 751 00:41:04,239 --> 00:41:07,480 Speaker 1: then that also extends to aggressive land grabs where you 752 00:41:07,520 --> 00:41:09,480 Speaker 1: get a little bit and then you get such a 753 00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:12,440 Speaker 1: boner for boundary pushing. Uh, they just keep going to 754 00:41:12,560 --> 00:41:15,000 Speaker 1: you get to a body of water that apparently you 755 00:41:15,040 --> 00:41:18,440 Speaker 1: can't put a flagon. Yeah, it's amazing, Like the the 756 00:41:19,440 --> 00:41:23,239 Speaker 1: American culture is very much like if you, I don't know, 757 00:41:23,320 --> 00:41:26,440 Speaker 1: somehow like magically were to take like the collective hunger 758 00:41:26,960 --> 00:41:30,120 Speaker 1: of like all past generations of human beings who struggled 759 00:41:30,160 --> 00:41:33,040 Speaker 1: with like the wilderness and the seasons and and the tides, 760 00:41:33,480 --> 00:41:37,680 Speaker 1: and then just like lumped that into a relatively small 761 00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:40,440 Speaker 1: chunk of human beings like like like we're just filled 762 00:41:40,480 --> 00:41:44,440 Speaker 1: with this insatiable need to consume that's almost metaphysical and 763 00:41:44,480 --> 00:41:50,239 Speaker 1: it's it's yeah, boundaries anyway, the hunger. Yeah, So we're 764 00:41:50,239 --> 00:41:53,480 Speaker 1: talking about this guy Lopez trying to conquer Cuba. Um. 765 00:41:53,560 --> 00:41:56,280 Speaker 1: He carried out a couple of different unsuccessful expeditions to Cuba. 766 00:41:56,320 --> 00:41:59,040 Speaker 1: He was eventually, like executed and ship Um, it didn't 767 00:41:59,040 --> 00:42:01,680 Speaker 1: work out. But this didn't not dissuade Walker from breathless 768 00:42:01,680 --> 00:42:04,680 Speaker 1: support for the idea of filibustering. He was in general 769 00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:07,400 Speaker 1: more aggressive after the death of his girlfriend than he 770 00:42:07,520 --> 00:42:10,359 Speaker 1: in all spheres of his life. In late eighteen forty nine, 771 00:42:10,360 --> 00:42:12,080 Speaker 1: he got into a dispute with the editor of New 772 00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:16,000 Speaker 1: Orleans largest Spanish language newspaper over the arrest or kidnapping 773 00:42:16,040 --> 00:42:18,920 Speaker 1: of a Cuban citizen by the Spanish government. The dispute 774 00:42:18,920 --> 00:42:21,640 Speaker 1: was based mainly on a misunderstanding by both men, but 775 00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:24,560 Speaker 1: and since by an editorial that had insulted him. William 776 00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:27,440 Speaker 1: Walker found the other publications editor and beat him with 777 00:42:27,520 --> 00:42:30,919 Speaker 1: his cane. So he is like, and he's not really 778 00:42:30,920 --> 00:42:34,600 Speaker 1: He's never before this like a violent physically person. So 779 00:42:34,680 --> 00:42:37,080 Speaker 1: this is like he's there's really a change going on 780 00:42:37,120 --> 00:42:42,640 Speaker 1: in this dude. Oh wow, yacking him up over maybe 781 00:42:42,640 --> 00:42:45,200 Speaker 1: what the whole thing I thought. I thought you're talking 782 00:42:45,200 --> 00:42:48,120 Speaker 1: about Ellien Gonzalez for a second. In the beginning for 783 00:42:48,480 --> 00:42:53,799 Speaker 1: kidnapped Cuban national, completely different time, very similar to, very 784 00:42:53,800 --> 00:42:59,160 Speaker 1: different story. But then he solves his beefs by just 785 00:42:59,400 --> 00:43:02,800 Speaker 1: kine whip and somebody. He gets really comfortable with violence 786 00:43:02,840 --> 00:43:05,279 Speaker 1: after this point, and it's one of those things it's 787 00:43:05,360 --> 00:43:07,680 Speaker 1: totally plausible that like the death of a loved one 788 00:43:07,719 --> 00:43:10,000 Speaker 1: could lead to that kind of change. I also wonder 789 00:43:10,120 --> 00:43:12,200 Speaker 1: maybe maybe just got hit in the head at some point, 790 00:43:12,280 --> 00:43:13,920 Speaker 1: And that's like a part of this story that's just 791 00:43:13,960 --> 00:43:16,080 Speaker 1: not reported because nobody thought it was a big deal. 792 00:43:16,480 --> 00:43:19,359 Speaker 1: Whatever I hear about like a personality change that leads 793 00:43:19,400 --> 00:43:22,520 Speaker 1: to violence, I wonder maybe a t V I yeah, yeah, 794 00:43:22,600 --> 00:43:25,080 Speaker 1: or something yeah going on with your brain, Yeah, some 795 00:43:25,200 --> 00:43:30,120 Speaker 1: cte up in air, jeez, or just or hey, maybe 796 00:43:30,120 --> 00:43:32,920 Speaker 1: you were called, you know, a feminate your whole life, 797 00:43:33,080 --> 00:43:36,279 Speaker 1: and or an old celery stick arms and now you 798 00:43:36,360 --> 00:43:39,120 Speaker 1: just have had it and now your toxicity is now 799 00:43:39,200 --> 00:43:41,600 Speaker 1: the world's problem. Yeah, maybe this was something that was 800 00:43:41,640 --> 00:43:44,680 Speaker 1: just simmering inside him his entire childhood and it finally 801 00:43:44,760 --> 00:43:47,479 Speaker 1: blew over. And yeah, maybe the death of a loved 802 00:43:47,480 --> 00:43:50,279 Speaker 1: one was a catalyst. Who knows either way. He is 803 00:43:50,360 --> 00:43:54,600 Speaker 1: a very aggressive man from this point forward. In eighteen fifty, 804 00:43:54,760 --> 00:43:56,960 Speaker 1: Walker left New Orleans and his job at the Daily 805 00:43:57,000 --> 00:44:00,440 Speaker 1: Crescent for the Windy City that Never Sleeps sand from Cisco. 806 00:44:01,040 --> 00:44:04,560 Speaker 1: His journey there was nightmarish by modern standards. He had 807 00:44:04,600 --> 00:44:06,719 Speaker 1: to take a series of boats down to Panama. He 808 00:44:06,760 --> 00:44:08,480 Speaker 1: had to hike through the mountains for days, and then 809 00:44:08,480 --> 00:44:11,000 Speaker 1: book passage on a steamer headed for the West coast. 810 00:44:11,239 --> 00:44:14,880 Speaker 1: It took around five months. Um so long would it 811 00:44:14,960 --> 00:44:19,120 Speaker 1: have taken over land? I guess worse? Probably because it's 812 00:44:19,160 --> 00:44:22,319 Speaker 1: like there, there's it's very much less developed, you know 813 00:44:22,400 --> 00:44:25,520 Speaker 1: at that point, I mean a lot more dangerous. You 814 00:44:25,640 --> 00:44:29,879 Speaker 1: take the ten west, you can take that from Jacksonville 815 00:44:29,880 --> 00:44:32,520 Speaker 1: all the way. Well, I don't know. The ten at 816 00:44:32,560 --> 00:44:35,239 Speaker 1: this point is a series of gun fights with bandits 817 00:44:36,640 --> 00:44:41,000 Speaker 1: and there's no car bowling. Yeah. Uh. Now in sconstin California, 818 00:44:41,040 --> 00:44:44,040 Speaker 1: William got another job at another newspaper, the Daily Herald. 819 00:44:44,200 --> 00:44:46,600 Speaker 1: He had immediately set to work waging a personal war 820 00:44:46,719 --> 00:44:49,680 Speaker 1: with the entire Citi's justice system, which, in fairness, was 821 00:44:49,719 --> 00:44:53,719 Speaker 1: incredibly corrupt and fucked up. Crime was rampant in San Francisco, 822 00:44:53,760 --> 00:44:56,319 Speaker 1: which at that point was a nigh lawless frontier town. 823 00:44:56,680 --> 00:45:00,200 Speaker 1: William viciously attacked the district Judge Levi Parsons or his 824 00:45:00,239 --> 00:45:03,880 Speaker 1: failure to adequately prosecute criminals. After a local businessman was 825 00:45:03,960 --> 00:45:07,360 Speaker 1: murdered during a robbery gone wrong, William began to advocate 826 00:45:07,520 --> 00:45:10,520 Speaker 1: armed crowds of murderous vigilantes is a good solution to 827 00:45:10,520 --> 00:45:16,040 Speaker 1: San Francisco's crime problem. Oh boy, he he wanted armed 828 00:45:16,120 --> 00:45:19,759 Speaker 1: mobs to clean up the streets. Who doesn't Miles that 829 00:45:19,880 --> 00:45:22,440 Speaker 1: old fashioned armed mobs so weird. I just feel like 830 00:45:22,480 --> 00:45:24,200 Speaker 1: this could be a headline we're gonna read in like 831 00:45:24,280 --> 00:45:27,600 Speaker 1: three months from now. Yeah it is. I mean there 832 00:45:27,640 --> 00:45:30,000 Speaker 1: it is like a focus of right wing grifters right now, 833 00:45:30,040 --> 00:45:33,840 Speaker 1: the fact that there's poop in the streets of San Francisco. Sometimes. Yeah, 834 00:45:33,960 --> 00:45:36,239 Speaker 1: it's like, putty, I got some news about Dallas for you. 835 00:45:36,880 --> 00:45:40,960 Speaker 1: Um hey, just get some hires, some Pinkerton's and it's 836 00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:45,320 Speaker 1: like what. So Here's how Walker wrote about his desire 837 00:45:45,400 --> 00:45:48,800 Speaker 1: for vigilante murder squads. Quote. When citizens are murdered and 838 00:45:48,880 --> 00:45:51,359 Speaker 1: robbed in their houses, are feloniously entered in the most 839 00:45:51,360 --> 00:45:53,839 Speaker 1: populous portions of the city, is it not time that 840 00:45:53,880 --> 00:45:56,440 Speaker 1: there were some action taken to vindicate the law. We 841 00:45:56,480 --> 00:45:59,000 Speaker 1: have urged the formation of a volunteer night patrol. Until 842 00:45:59,040 --> 00:46:00,839 Speaker 1: such a body be organ nice, we doubt if there 843 00:46:00,840 --> 00:46:03,600 Speaker 1: can be any security. A summary example must be made 844 00:46:03,600 --> 00:46:06,200 Speaker 1: of the first person detected in the commission of these crimes. 845 00:46:07,040 --> 00:46:08,640 Speaker 1: So we just we just got to go out and 846 00:46:08,960 --> 00:46:12,760 Speaker 1: shoot us one criminal and that will scare the rest straight. Ah, 847 00:46:12,920 --> 00:46:16,160 Speaker 1: it's it's it's good to know that those terrible ideas 848 00:46:16,239 --> 00:46:19,360 Speaker 1: people have been having those for centuries now, yep, because 849 00:46:19,400 --> 00:46:22,719 Speaker 1: people never learned a single thing ever, not one severistory. 850 00:46:22,800 --> 00:46:27,279 Speaker 1: Has anyone learned a single lessons that we don't learn. Yeah, 851 00:46:27,320 --> 00:46:30,279 Speaker 1: we'll create order by creating more fear. I'm pretty sure 852 00:46:30,360 --> 00:46:34,040 Speaker 1: that's how it's gonna work. Walker was particularly furious when 853 00:46:34,120 --> 00:46:36,640 Speaker 1: Judge Parsons ruled in the case of another judge who 854 00:46:36,680 --> 00:46:40,279 Speaker 1: had been accused of bribery. Uh. He felt, probably accurately, 855 00:46:40,440 --> 00:46:42,560 Speaker 1: that the judge had just done a favor for his buddy. 856 00:46:42,880 --> 00:46:45,880 Speaker 1: Walker was further outraged when this judge, a guy named Morrison, 857 00:46:45,920 --> 00:46:47,880 Speaker 1: assigned the property of a dead man to one of 858 00:46:47,880 --> 00:46:50,880 Speaker 1: his colleagues, even though the deceased had family back in Boston. 859 00:46:51,600 --> 00:46:55,440 Speaker 1: Walker attacked these corrupt judges with admirable ferocity, eventually provoking 860 00:46:55,520 --> 00:46:58,280 Speaker 1: one of their proteges to attack Walker as a liar, 861 00:46:58,360 --> 00:47:02,560 Speaker 1: a poltroon coward. This prompted William to challenge the man 862 00:47:02,600 --> 00:47:05,120 Speaker 1: to a duel, which was accepted by another one of 863 00:47:05,160 --> 00:47:09,000 Speaker 1: the judges protegees. The terms were set as revolvers fired 864 00:47:09,040 --> 00:47:14,720 Speaker 1: at ten paces. Uh back back when there was honor, 865 00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:19,640 Speaker 1: right before we just cancel people. Exactly when we would 866 00:47:19,719 --> 00:47:23,160 Speaker 1: cruelly cancel people. Instead, we would nobally stand ten feet 867 00:47:23,160 --> 00:47:26,000 Speaker 1: away and shoot each other with handguns. Oh my god, 868 00:47:26,200 --> 00:47:31,400 Speaker 1: ten paces, sir. Not a sembless William lost and received 869 00:47:31,400 --> 00:47:34,239 Speaker 1: a bullet in his leg for his trouble. He kept writing, though, 870 00:47:34,280 --> 00:47:36,759 Speaker 1: and eventually earned himself a charge for contempt of court. 871 00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:42,239 Speaker 1: He was basically he posted through it um. He was 872 00:47:42,280 --> 00:47:45,080 Speaker 1: fined five dollars, which he refused to pay. The people 873 00:47:45,080 --> 00:47:47,560 Speaker 1: of San Francisco mostly seemed to back William in this, 874 00:47:47,760 --> 00:47:51,839 Speaker 1: seeing his crusade against the corrupt judiciary is fundamentally just next. 875 00:47:51,880 --> 00:47:55,200 Speaker 1: According to the book Filibusters and Financiers. A mass meeting 876 00:47:55,280 --> 00:47:58,080 Speaker 1: was held on the Plaza on March nine, with several 877 00:47:58,080 --> 00:48:01,120 Speaker 1: thousand citizens and attendance, whereas a sutions were quickly adopted, 878 00:48:01,160 --> 00:48:04,080 Speaker 1: approving Walker's conduct, calling on Parsons to resign his seat, 879 00:48:04,080 --> 00:48:06,840 Speaker 1: and asking the local representatives in the legislature to initiate 880 00:48:06,880 --> 00:48:10,400 Speaker 1: impeachment proceedings. After adjourning, the citizens marched in a body 881 00:48:10,440 --> 00:48:12,520 Speaker 1: to the jail and made Walker a visit of sympathy 882 00:48:12,760 --> 00:48:15,600 Speaker 1: habeas corpus. Proceedings were next instituted before a judge of 883 00:48:15,600 --> 00:48:18,160 Speaker 1: the Superior Court, who held that Parsons might institute a 884 00:48:18,160 --> 00:48:20,600 Speaker 1: suit for libel, but that his punishment for the contempt 885 00:48:20,640 --> 00:48:23,520 Speaker 1: alleged in a newspaper statement was inconsistent with the freedom 886 00:48:23,560 --> 00:48:26,240 Speaker 1: of the press and a violation of the Constitution. Walker 887 00:48:26,280 --> 00:48:29,080 Speaker 1: was thereupon set free. He had once presented a memorial 888 00:48:29,080 --> 00:48:31,080 Speaker 1: to the legislature, and the committee to which it was 889 00:48:31,120 --> 00:48:34,360 Speaker 1: referred recommended on March twenty six that Parsions should be impeached. 890 00:48:34,560 --> 00:48:37,319 Speaker 1: A special committee was that appointed to investigate the charges, and, 891 00:48:37,400 --> 00:48:40,560 Speaker 1: upon its reporting insufficient grounds for impeachment, the case was ended. 892 00:48:40,719 --> 00:48:44,120 Speaker 1: Had Walker possessed anything like personal magnetism, he might have 893 00:48:44,200 --> 00:48:46,960 Speaker 1: made of this episode the foundation of a successful career 894 00:48:46,960 --> 00:48:50,520 Speaker 1: in California politics. He was indeed not without political ambition, 895 00:48:50,560 --> 00:48:52,840 Speaker 1: but in the prime requisites of a successful politician he 896 00:48:52,880 --> 00:48:56,000 Speaker 1: was woefully lacking. So it's just unable to turn this 897 00:48:56,120 --> 00:48:59,319 Speaker 1: into any kind of political I mean, what how more 898 00:48:59,440 --> 00:49:02,959 Speaker 1: could you fail upward? As a white man you're like, look, 899 00:49:03,000 --> 00:49:05,480 Speaker 1: I started some ship with a judge. I got clapped. 900 00:49:05,680 --> 00:49:08,560 Speaker 1: I had to take that l Then suddenly I became 901 00:49:08,640 --> 00:49:10,960 Speaker 1: like I got a lot of sympathy. I could have 902 00:49:11,040 --> 00:49:13,239 Speaker 1: turned that into something, but then I just didn't even 903 00:49:13,239 --> 00:49:18,040 Speaker 1: know how to do that. So I'm just gonna rob people. Hey, Robert, Yeah, Robert, Yes, 904 00:49:18,200 --> 00:49:24,759 Speaker 1: you know what isn't woefully lacking? Robert, I feel I 905 00:49:26,360 --> 00:49:30,520 Speaker 1: felt like it got he wanted to let you sit 906 00:49:30,560 --> 00:49:34,120 Speaker 1: with that one. What a cruel man, And now you 907 00:49:34,280 --> 00:49:37,360 Speaker 1: at home can sit with these products and services. That 908 00:49:37,440 --> 00:49:48,000 Speaker 1: was shameful, Robert. I know. As we're back, quick question 909 00:49:48,080 --> 00:49:50,680 Speaker 1: about duels. Did you or you only allowed to shoot 910 00:49:50,680 --> 00:49:53,799 Speaker 1: one shot when you turned like it was like no, no, no, 911 00:49:54,080 --> 00:49:57,480 Speaker 1: you could want one at a time, all six at once. No, no, 912 00:49:57,560 --> 00:49:59,360 Speaker 1: it's one at a time. Though, Like I think you 913 00:49:59,440 --> 00:50:01,120 Speaker 1: have to like wait for the other person to do 914 00:50:01,280 --> 00:50:05,759 Speaker 1: their second shot if you miss. Oh my god, Yeah, 915 00:50:06,880 --> 00:50:10,120 Speaker 1: it's pretty cool. It's pretty cool. I'm surprised people just 916 00:50:10,120 --> 00:50:11,719 Speaker 1: didn't cheat that, Like, you know what, I'm just gonna 917 00:50:11,800 --> 00:50:15,879 Speaker 1: unload this whole clip when I turned. Yeah, I'm sure 918 00:50:15,920 --> 00:50:18,120 Speaker 1: people did cheat. Yeah, and then it would just be 919 00:50:18,239 --> 00:50:20,160 Speaker 1: like it would be a terrible It would be a yeah, 920 00:50:21,040 --> 00:50:24,719 Speaker 1: dishonorable Jackson cheated at a duel and killed a guy 921 00:50:26,000 --> 00:50:29,799 Speaker 1: and it ruled. Um. But anyway, we'll get We'll talk 922 00:50:29,840 --> 00:50:33,279 Speaker 1: about that some other day. So um. William's time in 923 00:50:33,320 --> 00:50:36,480 Speaker 1: California turned him into a powerful supporter of manifest destiny. 924 00:50:36,520 --> 00:50:38,399 Speaker 1: You'll remember he was kind of like on the edge 925 00:50:38,400 --> 00:50:40,960 Speaker 1: about the Mexican American War at first, but like he's 926 00:50:41,080 --> 00:50:44,320 Speaker 1: on board at this point. Over his months in San Francisco, 927 00:50:44,360 --> 00:50:46,400 Speaker 1: he switched from writing about crime to authoring more and 928 00:50:46,480 --> 00:50:50,120 Speaker 1: more essays about the necessity of American expansionism. He could 929 00:50:50,120 --> 00:50:52,520 Speaker 1: see the writing on the wall. The old United States 930 00:50:52,600 --> 00:50:55,560 Speaker 1: was filling in, and one entire massive continent was, in 931 00:50:55,760 --> 00:50:58,840 Speaker 1: his view, not enough for the awesomeness that was America. 932 00:50:59,320 --> 00:51:01,840 Speaker 1: He believed that Wes needed to annex not just Cuba, 933 00:51:02,080 --> 00:51:05,680 Speaker 1: but Nicaragua and probably parts of Mexico too. He also 934 00:51:05,760 --> 00:51:08,720 Speaker 1: felt that the annexation of Central American states might eventually 935 00:51:08,840 --> 00:51:11,120 Speaker 1: provide the US with more slave states, which would be 936 00:51:11,160 --> 00:51:15,160 Speaker 1: pretty cool in his view. Um, there it is there. 937 00:51:15,239 --> 00:51:19,359 Speaker 1: It is, yeah, West debated, but it seems to scan. Yeah, oh, 938 00:51:19,680 --> 00:51:23,319 Speaker 1: that's debatable whether that's what his actual intent was yeah, yeah, yeah, 939 00:51:23,440 --> 00:51:25,600 Speaker 1: you know you. We'll talk about that a little later too. Yeah, 940 00:51:25,640 --> 00:51:27,320 Speaker 1: I mean yeah, I was like, let's what does he 941 00:51:27,400 --> 00:51:29,640 Speaker 1: think you're gonna do with all this land. He's not 942 00:51:29,760 --> 00:51:31,480 Speaker 1: the only person who believe that there was actually like 943 00:51:31,560 --> 00:51:34,840 Speaker 1: a Southern like Confederates after the Civil War who moved 944 00:51:34,880 --> 00:51:36,759 Speaker 1: to I forget it might have been Costa Rica. I 945 00:51:36,840 --> 00:51:39,279 Speaker 1: forget exactly where to like try to start a new 946 00:51:39,360 --> 00:51:43,160 Speaker 1: confederacy in Latin or in Central America. Um So, this 947 00:51:43,320 --> 00:51:44,840 Speaker 1: is like, he's not the only guy with this basic 948 00:51:44,960 --> 00:51:47,120 Speaker 1: idea and all they all they were able to do 949 00:51:47,239 --> 00:51:52,000 Speaker 1: is create Cancun. Yeah. Well, actually Cabo San Lucas comes 950 00:51:52,080 --> 00:51:55,960 Speaker 1: up in this quite a lot. Um So, as William's 951 00:51:56,040 --> 00:51:58,480 Speaker 1: career in journalism petered out in his brief career as 952 00:51:58,520 --> 00:52:01,320 Speaker 1: a lawyer proved unfulfilling, attention drifted more and more to 953 00:52:01,400 --> 00:52:05,360 Speaker 1: the possibility of filibustering himself and possibly adding new territory 954 00:52:05,440 --> 00:52:08,440 Speaker 1: to the glorious United States. Perhaps he wasn't inspired to 955 00:52:08,480 --> 00:52:11,040 Speaker 1: this work by the example of his arobic grandfather and 956 00:52:11,080 --> 00:52:14,200 Speaker 1: i achieving family full of soldiers and politicians and newspaper owners. 957 00:52:14,480 --> 00:52:17,160 Speaker 1: Conquering a sovereign nation was just about the only way 958 00:52:17,200 --> 00:52:20,000 Speaker 1: to stand out. He found an opportunity lurking just a 959 00:52:20,040 --> 00:52:22,760 Speaker 1: few hundred miles south of San Francisco and the untamed 960 00:52:22,840 --> 00:52:26,040 Speaker 1: wilds of northern Mexico. At that point, the Sonora Desert 961 00:52:26,080 --> 00:52:28,960 Speaker 1: and the place we now call Baja was still largely unsettled. 962 00:52:29,080 --> 00:52:31,920 Speaker 1: It was occupied by numerous indigenous people, of course, but 963 00:52:32,040 --> 00:52:34,800 Speaker 1: by the standards of racists in the US and Mexican government, 964 00:52:35,000 --> 00:52:38,359 Speaker 1: it was essentially empty the few villages that existed there. 965 00:52:39,000 --> 00:52:43,279 Speaker 1: This is just the way people thought. That's like what 966 00:52:43,440 --> 00:52:47,480 Speaker 1: they modern racism at that time just meant and nobody's there. Well, 967 00:52:47,520 --> 00:52:50,000 Speaker 1: and it's it's funny because like the big problem Mexico 968 00:52:50,160 --> 00:52:51,880 Speaker 1: has is that the villages that are there have all 969 00:52:51,920 --> 00:52:54,680 Speaker 1: these problems with like apaches and comanches raiding them. So 970 00:52:54,800 --> 00:52:57,480 Speaker 1: it's like this place is too empty for us to control. 971 00:52:58,000 --> 00:53:00,440 Speaker 1: And this is a problem because all of people that 972 00:53:00,520 --> 00:53:02,160 Speaker 1: are there want to kill us, all of the people 973 00:53:02,239 --> 00:53:04,239 Speaker 1: that are there in this empty place, and there's kind 974 00:53:04,280 --> 00:53:09,160 Speaker 1: of they're not worth it. Um. So the first kind 975 00:53:09,200 --> 00:53:11,320 Speaker 1: of freebooters who sort of sailed in to try to 976 00:53:11,440 --> 00:53:14,439 Speaker 1: deal with this problem, we're actually French, a guy named 977 00:53:14,520 --> 00:53:17,879 Speaker 1: Charles de pendre Um and like a bunch of French 978 00:53:17,960 --> 00:53:21,719 Speaker 1: San Franciscan's um like traveled to uh guy Mus, which 979 00:53:21,760 --> 00:53:23,840 Speaker 1: is like sort of like the big city and Sonora 980 00:53:23,920 --> 00:53:27,880 Speaker 1: apport Um, and they developed an agricultural settlement to like 981 00:53:28,080 --> 00:53:32,279 Speaker 1: essentially try and provide um a base of people that 982 00:53:32,400 --> 00:53:36,759 Speaker 1: would like allow them to like basically provide some sort 983 00:53:36,760 --> 00:53:39,959 Speaker 1: of order against the Apache raiders, right, so like that's 984 00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:42,520 Speaker 1: the goal here um, and it doesn't work out. Pendre 985 00:53:42,680 --> 00:53:45,040 Speaker 1: is eventually murdered after getting into allowed argument with the 986 00:53:45,080 --> 00:53:47,879 Speaker 1: Sonoran government. So like the Mexican government kind of wants 987 00:53:47,920 --> 00:53:50,880 Speaker 1: these French people there because they're having trouble like controlling 988 00:53:50,960 --> 00:53:54,040 Speaker 1: the territory and fighting off these native tribes. But at 989 00:53:54,080 --> 00:53:56,399 Speaker 1: the same time, they don't really trust these people because 990 00:53:56,400 --> 00:53:58,319 Speaker 1: they're like, you're trying to steal this land from us, 991 00:53:58,400 --> 00:54:02,120 Speaker 1: Like we're pretty sure, so like it's it's it's fraught 992 00:54:02,200 --> 00:54:04,000 Speaker 1: and there's a complicated history here that we're not going 993 00:54:04,040 --> 00:54:07,480 Speaker 1: to get into enough. Like both sides are stealing, so 994 00:54:07,600 --> 00:54:10,279 Speaker 1: they have to be. They're like, we're trying to take 995 00:54:10,360 --> 00:54:12,080 Speaker 1: this land too, but we kind of need you, but 996 00:54:12,200 --> 00:54:14,279 Speaker 1: I feel like you're gonna steal it more what do 997 00:54:14,360 --> 00:54:19,319 Speaker 1: we do. Yeah, the colonizers Catch twenty two. Yeah, they 998 00:54:19,400 --> 00:54:23,160 Speaker 1: are both colonizers here. Um. I guess you could say 999 00:54:23,239 --> 00:54:27,120 Speaker 1: Mexico's less colonizery at this point, because there is at 1000 00:54:27,200 --> 00:54:30,040 Speaker 1: least like they've been there longer. I don't know. I'm 1001 00:54:30,080 --> 00:54:33,359 Speaker 1: not going to try to parse that out more. Yeah. 1002 00:54:33,719 --> 00:54:36,600 Speaker 1: Another wave of French freebooters came next, led by a 1003 00:54:36,640 --> 00:54:41,520 Speaker 1: French count, gas Dundrosseau boubone. I'm not going to pronounce 1004 00:54:41,560 --> 00:54:43,640 Speaker 1: that right, but fuck him. He receive permission from the 1005 00:54:43,680 --> 00:54:45,839 Speaker 1: Mexican government to do the same thing, basically to start 1006 00:54:45,880 --> 00:54:48,880 Speaker 1: a settlement to try and like provide a defense against 1007 00:54:48,960 --> 00:54:52,080 Speaker 1: the apache um. But again, these would be colonists in 1008 00:54:52,080 --> 00:54:54,920 Speaker 1: the local government wound up at logger heads. Uh. The 1009 00:54:55,160 --> 00:54:57,800 Speaker 1: count and his men eventually decided to settle their differences 1010 00:54:57,840 --> 00:55:00,359 Speaker 1: with the Mexican government by marching on a nearby city 1011 00:55:00,400 --> 00:55:03,400 Speaker 1: and conquering it at gunpoint. Uh. They succeeded in this, 1012 00:55:03,960 --> 00:55:06,680 Speaker 1: but were eventually beaten by like a kind of a 1013 00:55:06,760 --> 00:55:10,040 Speaker 1: grassroots insurgency, and the survivors were chased out of Mexico 1014 00:55:10,120 --> 00:55:14,000 Speaker 1: in December eighteen fifty two. All this was closely observed 1015 00:55:14,040 --> 00:55:17,040 Speaker 1: by William Walker who thought the whole mess sounded very exciting. 1016 00:55:17,440 --> 00:55:19,360 Speaker 1: He'd actually put together a plan with a couple of 1017 00:55:19,400 --> 00:55:22,040 Speaker 1: business partners to establish a settlement in Sonora with the 1018 00:55:22,120 --> 00:55:25,440 Speaker 1: goal of protecting Mexican villagers and ranchers from Apache and 1019 00:55:25,480 --> 00:55:28,440 Speaker 1: Comanche raiders. They had been unable to get the Mexican 1020 00:55:28,520 --> 00:55:31,040 Speaker 1: government to give them permission, though, and Walker had shelved 1021 00:55:31,120 --> 00:55:33,880 Speaker 1: the idea until the Count's efforts ended in bloody failure 1022 00:55:33,960 --> 00:55:37,360 Speaker 1: at the end of eighteen fifty two. In June eighteen 1023 00:55:37,400 --> 00:55:41,120 Speaker 1: fifty three, William Walker and two business partners traveled to Guaymas, Mexico, 1024 00:55:41,239 --> 00:55:43,680 Speaker 1: with the goal of scouting out possible locations for a 1025 00:55:43,719 --> 00:55:46,920 Speaker 1: border settlement. They received passes from the excellent Consulate to 1026 00:55:47,080 --> 00:55:49,560 Speaker 1: visit the country, but they were most definitely not allowed 1027 00:55:49,600 --> 00:55:51,080 Speaker 1: to go there in order to plot how they could 1028 00:55:51,080 --> 00:55:54,320 Speaker 1: illegally build towns full of white settlers in Mexico. The 1029 00:55:54,440 --> 00:55:56,920 Speaker 1: captain of the port was immediately suspicious of Walker and 1030 00:55:57,000 --> 00:55:59,080 Speaker 1: his friends and sent this message off to the local 1031 00:55:59,160 --> 00:56:03,000 Speaker 1: general out, Your excellency will perceive that there was undoubtedly 1032 00:56:03,040 --> 00:56:05,880 Speaker 1: an intention to invade this portion of the Mexican territory. 1033 00:56:06,320 --> 00:56:09,200 Speaker 1: There's like, yeah, everyone knows what's going on here? You're like, 1034 00:56:09,239 --> 00:56:12,200 Speaker 1: you're not slick. Yeah, it's the same thing, like a 1035 00:56:12,360 --> 00:56:15,239 Speaker 1: time shared, like pitch. It's like, yeah, yeah, you're you're 1036 00:56:15,360 --> 00:56:19,319 Speaker 1: offering me a fucking free trip. What are you trying 1037 00:56:19,320 --> 00:56:23,520 Speaker 1: to fucking steal? Yeah? Now, the governor ordered Walker and 1038 00:56:23,560 --> 00:56:25,680 Speaker 1: his friends detained, and they spent the next month trapped 1039 00:56:25,719 --> 00:56:28,359 Speaker 1: in Guy must trying to convince the governor that no, really, guy, 1040 00:56:28,440 --> 00:56:30,360 Speaker 1: we're cool dudes, We're not trying to conquer part of 1041 00:56:30,400 --> 00:56:32,839 Speaker 1: your country. And while they waited, Walker made a bit 1042 00:56:32,840 --> 00:56:35,160 Speaker 1: of a name for himself around town for dressing like 1043 00:56:35,280 --> 00:56:38,239 Speaker 1: a maniac. He was described as wearing a huge white 1044 00:56:38,320 --> 00:56:41,320 Speaker 1: fur hat whose long nap waved with the breeze despite 1045 00:56:41,320 --> 00:56:47,160 Speaker 1: the hundred plus degrees summer heat. Um okay, fucking big 1046 00:56:47,680 --> 00:56:52,200 Speaker 1: fur white fur hat in the Mexican summer. Oh my god? 1047 00:56:52,960 --> 00:56:56,399 Speaker 1: To do? What to let people know you're a pickup artist? Hell, 1048 00:56:57,640 --> 00:57:00,480 Speaker 1: he's picking up the whole country. I'm negging the whole country, bro, 1049 00:57:00,719 --> 00:57:04,799 Speaker 1: I'm neggat him right into my bedroom. Kinda is actually uh. Now, 1050 00:57:04,920 --> 00:57:07,520 Speaker 1: Despite his best attempts at argument, the government held to 1051 00:57:07,560 --> 00:57:09,880 Speaker 1: the heart of the line that William Walker was absolutely 1052 00:57:09,920 --> 00:57:12,520 Speaker 1: not allowed to travel further into Mexico, and so at 1053 00:57:12,520 --> 00:57:15,080 Speaker 1: the end of July, William and his friends left. Despite 1054 00:57:15,120 --> 00:57:17,480 Speaker 1: their failure, he was optimistic for he had received some 1055 00:57:17,760 --> 00:57:20,720 Speaker 1: very exciting news, which he related in an article published 1056 00:57:20,760 --> 00:57:24,520 Speaker 1: shortly thereafter. Quote apaches had visited a country house a 1057 00:57:24,560 --> 00:57:26,600 Speaker 1: few leagues from gay Mus, murdering all the men and 1058 00:57:26,720 --> 00:57:29,520 Speaker 1: children and carrying the women into captivity. Worse than death. 1059 00:57:29,840 --> 00:57:31,720 Speaker 1: The Indians sent where that they would soon visit the 1060 00:57:31,800 --> 00:57:34,760 Speaker 1: town where water is carried on asses backs, meaning gay Mus, 1061 00:57:35,080 --> 00:57:37,120 Speaker 1: and the people of that port, frightened by the message, 1062 00:57:37,200 --> 00:57:39,760 Speaker 1: seemed ready to perceive anyone who would give them safety. 1063 00:57:40,040 --> 00:57:42,280 Speaker 1: So he's like psyched about this, Like some apaches murder 1064 00:57:42,320 --> 00:57:43,920 Speaker 1: a bunch of people, and he's like, fun, yeah, this 1065 00:57:44,040 --> 00:57:48,760 Speaker 1: is my chance. Oh boy. The tactics are always the same, 1066 00:57:49,000 --> 00:57:52,160 Speaker 1: right yea? What is there an atmosphere of fear there 1067 00:57:52,160 --> 00:57:55,600 Speaker 1: I can exploit for my own game? Fantastic. Let me 1068 00:57:55,720 --> 00:57:58,200 Speaker 1: hop right in, let me roll right up in that. 1069 00:57:58,400 --> 00:58:00,360 Speaker 1: Are you guys fearing for your life? Okay? About come 1070 00:58:00,360 --> 00:58:03,920 Speaker 1: through with the homies who have no training but willstely 1071 00:58:04,040 --> 00:58:07,000 Speaker 1: no training. But we have guns, more guns than we 1072 00:58:07,040 --> 00:58:11,760 Speaker 1: should have, despite the fact that literally no when he 1073 00:58:11,840 --> 00:58:14,320 Speaker 1: had met in Mexico had wanted him there. William Walker 1074 00:58:14,360 --> 00:58:16,760 Speaker 1: insisted to his readers that several women in the country 1075 00:58:16,840 --> 00:58:19,920 Speaker 1: had begged him to repair immediately to California and bring 1076 00:58:20,000 --> 00:58:23,600 Speaker 1: down enough Americans to keep off the Apaches. Walker was 1077 00:58:23,680 --> 00:58:26,200 Speaker 1: not the least bit dissuaded by the Mexican government's refusal 1078 00:58:26,240 --> 00:58:27,760 Speaker 1: to work with him. He felt that the ease with 1079 00:58:27,800 --> 00:58:30,320 Speaker 1: which those French settlers had captured a whole town meant 1080 00:58:30,360 --> 00:58:33,800 Speaker 1: that a comparatively small body of Americans would surely see 1081 00:58:33,880 --> 00:58:38,640 Speaker 1: even greater success. Enough Americans with guns could protect local 1082 00:58:38,720 --> 00:58:42,640 Speaker 1: families from rampaging natives, and of course secure themselves significant 1083 00:58:42,680 --> 00:58:46,720 Speaker 1: financial benefits. Walker wrote insistently that such an act would 1084 00:58:46,720 --> 00:58:49,320 Speaker 1: be one of humanity no less than of justice, whether 1085 00:58:49,440 --> 00:58:53,360 Speaker 1: sanctioned or not by the Mexican government, and so William 1086 00:58:53,400 --> 00:58:57,120 Speaker 1: Walker returned to California intent upon the goal of invading Mexico. 1087 00:58:57,600 --> 00:59:00,360 Speaker 1: He wrote that his plan was to establish as early 1088 00:59:00,440 --> 00:59:03,760 Speaker 1: a time as possible a military colony not necessarily hostile 1089 00:59:03,800 --> 00:59:06,360 Speaker 1: to Mexico on the frontier of Sonora, with a view 1090 00:59:06,400 --> 00:59:09,240 Speaker 1: of protecting that state from the Apaches. It's like, we're 1091 00:59:09,280 --> 00:59:12,640 Speaker 1: not necessarily hostile no. I mean, yeah, we have guns 1092 00:59:12,720 --> 00:59:15,360 Speaker 1: and we're shooting people that like don't agree with us, 1093 00:59:15,440 --> 00:59:17,400 Speaker 1: but like that's not the point though we're here, like 1094 00:59:17,480 --> 00:59:19,520 Speaker 1: that's only hostile if you don't agree with us. It's 1095 00:59:19,560 --> 00:59:22,200 Speaker 1: just it's pretty simple. I'm pretty sure we laid it out. 1096 00:59:22,280 --> 00:59:24,920 Speaker 1: You disagree with me, I shoot you. It is the 1097 00:59:25,160 --> 00:59:28,960 Speaker 1: geopolitical equivalent of that scene in Simpson's where Bart walks 1098 00:59:29,040 --> 00:59:31,400 Speaker 1: forward swinging his fists in a windmill and if I 1099 00:59:31,520 --> 00:59:34,200 Speaker 1: hit you, it's not my fault, exactly. You're the Actually 1100 00:59:34,200 --> 00:59:35,760 Speaker 1: you're the aggressor because you knew it was coming your 1101 00:59:35,800 --> 00:59:37,880 Speaker 1: way and you've got in the line of fire. Now, 1102 00:59:38,040 --> 00:59:40,880 Speaker 1: what Walker was doing was wildly illegal, um and so 1103 00:59:41,000 --> 00:59:43,720 Speaker 1: we had to hide his activities. But he was really 1104 00:59:43,760 --> 00:59:47,200 Speaker 1: bad at secrecy, and almost immediately local papers started commenting 1105 00:59:47,240 --> 00:59:49,320 Speaker 1: on the rumors that he was going to invade Mexico. 1106 00:59:50,000 --> 00:59:53,000 Speaker 1: There was criticism for the idea in some papers, but 1107 00:59:53,120 --> 00:59:55,920 Speaker 1: at the time many Americans supported the idea of conquering 1108 00:59:55,960 --> 00:59:59,200 Speaker 1: more Mexico. One of Walker's fellow Californians wrote this in 1109 00:59:59,280 --> 01:00:02,000 Speaker 1: an eighteen fi defour op ed, speaking for a sizeable 1110 01:00:02,040 --> 01:00:05,040 Speaker 1: chunk of the territory. Quote, it is the fate of 1111 01:00:05,120 --> 01:00:07,360 Speaker 1: America ever to go. She is like the rod of 1112 01:00:07,400 --> 01:00:10,080 Speaker 1: Aaron that became a serpent and swallowed up the other rods. 1113 01:00:10,400 --> 01:00:13,600 Speaker 1: So will America conquer or annex all lands that is 1114 01:00:13,640 --> 01:00:16,560 Speaker 1: her manifest destiny, only get her time for the process 1115 01:00:16,760 --> 01:00:19,040 Speaker 1: to swallow up. Every few years of province as large 1116 01:00:19,120 --> 01:00:21,600 Speaker 1: as most kingdoms of Europe is her present rate of progress. 1117 01:00:21,840 --> 01:00:24,880 Speaker 1: Sometimes she purchases the mighty morsel. Sometimes she forms it 1118 01:00:24,920 --> 01:00:27,360 Speaker 1: out of waste territory by the natural increase of her 1119 01:00:27,360 --> 01:00:30,720 Speaker 1: own people. Sometimes she annexes, and sometimes she conquers it. 1120 01:00:31,440 --> 01:00:36,440 Speaker 1: Oh boy, waste territory. Yeah, this is the attitude common 1121 01:00:36,560 --> 01:00:39,440 Speaker 1: at the time. I mean, in fact, yeah, you realize, 1122 01:00:39,480 --> 01:00:41,760 Speaker 1: Like whenever I think about this, I'm like, how people 1123 01:00:41,880 --> 01:00:44,720 Speaker 1: so callous and like brazen in this time. It's like, yeah, 1124 01:00:44,760 --> 01:00:46,520 Speaker 1: I get it. The language you're using is just sort 1125 01:00:46,560 --> 01:00:49,280 Speaker 1: of it's merely looking at it like you're you know, 1126 01:00:49,440 --> 01:00:52,880 Speaker 1: at a fucking like a parking lot swap meat, and 1127 01:00:52,960 --> 01:00:54,680 Speaker 1: you want to make sure you get there early enough 1128 01:00:54,720 --> 01:00:57,439 Speaker 1: to get the good spot. We don't often talk about 1129 01:00:57,440 --> 01:00:59,600 Speaker 1: that with manifest destiny. It was not I won't say 1130 01:00:59,640 --> 01:01:02,200 Speaker 1: the major ploraty of Americans felt this way, but not 1131 01:01:02,360 --> 01:01:04,960 Speaker 1: insignificant number of Americans were like, Oh, no, we're supposed 1132 01:01:05,000 --> 01:01:07,160 Speaker 1: to take the whole fucking world, or at least all 1133 01:01:07,280 --> 01:01:10,800 Speaker 1: of South and Central Yeah. If I can walk there 1134 01:01:11,000 --> 01:01:12,800 Speaker 1: and I don't need a boat, I think it should 1135 01:01:12,800 --> 01:01:16,520 Speaker 1: be ours for as long as that goes. Now, Walker, 1136 01:01:16,600 --> 01:01:18,760 Speaker 1: in a growing circle of comrades, raised money for their 1137 01:01:18,840 --> 01:01:21,360 Speaker 1: venture by selling five hundred dollar bonds at half face 1138 01:01:21,480 --> 01:01:24,800 Speaker 1: value for the Independence Loan Fund of the Republic of Sonora. 1139 01:01:25,240 --> 01:01:28,040 Speaker 1: They promised that purchasers of these bonds would receive seven 1140 01:01:28,160 --> 01:01:31,520 Speaker 1: square miles of Mexico's sovereign soil once their new country 1141 01:01:31,640 --> 01:01:35,200 Speaker 1: was established. In conversations with his supporters, Walker did not 1142 01:01:35,360 --> 01:01:37,280 Speaker 1: even bother to pretend that his goal was to create 1143 01:01:37,320 --> 01:01:40,840 Speaker 1: a settlement for humanitarian reasons. Now he was openly raising 1144 01:01:40,880 --> 01:01:44,080 Speaker 1: funds to conquer Mexican territory and establish his own country. 1145 01:01:44,880 --> 01:01:47,200 Speaker 1: In order to avoid running a foul of the Neutrality Act, 1146 01:01:47,320 --> 01:01:50,760 Speaker 1: Walker carefully worded his sales pitch to prospective soldiers. Rather 1147 01:01:50,800 --> 01:01:53,920 Speaker 1: than outright saying I'm recruiting mercenaries, he would talk up 1148 01:01:53,920 --> 01:01:56,080 Speaker 1: all the wealth and spoils and excitement to be gained 1149 01:01:56,120 --> 01:01:58,160 Speaker 1: in the venture. In the hopes that his target would 1150 01:01:58,160 --> 01:02:01,040 Speaker 1: ask if they two could join. For some reason, lost 1151 01:02:01,080 --> 01:02:04,000 Speaker 1: of time, Walker felt that people volunteering to invade Mexico 1152 01:02:04,120 --> 01:02:06,360 Speaker 1: with him was more legal than him hiring people to 1153 01:02:06,440 --> 01:02:10,440 Speaker 1: invade Mexico. So it wasn't he would just have like 1154 01:02:10,560 --> 01:02:13,400 Speaker 1: a really cool pitch, and like the whole play was like, dude, 1155 01:02:13,720 --> 01:02:16,320 Speaker 1: beat him in with such a dope pitch that they're 1156 01:02:16,320 --> 01:02:18,040 Speaker 1: going to be like, yes, i would like to join 1157 01:02:18,120 --> 01:02:22,200 Speaker 1: this illegal expedition. I'm not raising an army. An army 1158 01:02:22,400 --> 01:02:26,000 Speaker 1: asked me if they could help me invade Mexico. That's 1159 01:02:26,120 --> 01:02:29,200 Speaker 1: totally different, so different, your honor, Are you kidding me? 1160 01:02:29,280 --> 01:02:31,760 Speaker 1: I was like, this is how it started. I'm like, yo, Brett, 1161 01:02:32,520 --> 01:02:35,200 Speaker 1: this place Mexico is fucking cool. I'm gonna check it out. 1162 01:02:35,240 --> 01:02:36,920 Speaker 1: I don't know what you're thinking. Next thing, you know, 1163 01:02:37,040 --> 01:02:38,600 Speaker 1: he's coming with like a bunch of home he's out 1164 01:02:38,640 --> 01:02:40,880 Speaker 1: of guns. What do you want me to do? Yeah, 1165 01:02:40,960 --> 01:02:45,080 Speaker 1: it just sort of happened. Yeah Wow, what a pitch though, too. 1166 01:02:45,160 --> 01:02:47,240 Speaker 1: And you're like, also, can you put in like five 1167 01:02:47,320 --> 01:02:50,760 Speaker 1: bucks on my fucking like colonizer fund and you will 1168 01:02:50,800 --> 01:02:53,720 Speaker 1: get you will secure your own piece of land. This 1169 01:02:53,840 --> 01:02:56,680 Speaker 1: all does kind of make me want like an eighteen 1170 01:02:56,760 --> 01:02:59,680 Speaker 1: fifties like version of The Hangover, where like they all 1171 01:02:59,760 --> 01:03:04,240 Speaker 1: wait up having conquered Baja Mexico, and like what had happened? 1172 01:03:04,640 --> 01:03:09,360 Speaker 1: What happened? Where's William Walker? You can make a fun 1173 01:03:09,440 --> 01:03:12,560 Speaker 1: movie out of that um. Walker hired a ship called 1174 01:03:12,600 --> 01:03:14,640 Speaker 1: the Arrow to carry he and his men to Sonora, 1175 01:03:14,800 --> 01:03:17,280 Speaker 1: and of course both the Mexican and US government's almost 1176 01:03:17,320 --> 01:03:20,200 Speaker 1: instantly realized what was happening. The boat was seized while 1177 01:03:20,240 --> 01:03:23,280 Speaker 1: full of guns in San Francisco. Walker responded by suing 1178 01:03:23,360 --> 01:03:25,480 Speaker 1: the government to release his boat, arguing that it had 1179 01:03:25,520 --> 01:03:27,800 Speaker 1: no authority to take possession of a ship without evidence 1180 01:03:27,840 --> 01:03:30,400 Speaker 1: of a criminal act. He loudly denied he was planning 1181 01:03:30,440 --> 01:03:33,560 Speaker 1: any kind of invasion. A media storm enveloped the whole issue, 1182 01:03:33,600 --> 01:03:36,080 Speaker 1: and Walker was once again successful in getting the people 1183 01:03:36,080 --> 01:03:39,120 Speaker 1: of San Francisco on his side. Well, all this attention 1184 01:03:39,200 --> 01:03:41,560 Speaker 1: was focused on the Arrow, William Walker went and chartered 1185 01:03:41,600 --> 01:03:44,360 Speaker 1: another ship and filled it with guns and ammunition. A 1186 01:03:44,440 --> 01:03:47,880 Speaker 1: little bit after midnight on October fifty four, the local 1187 01:03:47,960 --> 01:03:50,600 Speaker 1: police caught some of Walker's men moving supplies into the boat. 1188 01:03:50,800 --> 01:03:53,040 Speaker 1: They seized a bunch of m O prompting Walker to 1189 01:03:53,120 --> 01:03:54,720 Speaker 1: panic and rouse all the men he could get his 1190 01:03:54,800 --> 01:03:58,160 Speaker 1: hands on forty, most of whom were drunk, and rested 1191 01:03:58,200 --> 01:04:00,320 Speaker 1: them aboard his new ship with whatever guns they had 1192 01:04:00,360 --> 01:04:03,600 Speaker 1: on hand. The Minset sail later that night, severely underman 1193 01:04:03,720 --> 01:04:06,440 Speaker 1: and under armed, but finally on their way to Sonora. 1194 01:04:07,160 --> 01:04:13,200 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, fucking disaster. Get on the boat. Get on 1195 01:04:13,280 --> 01:04:15,160 Speaker 1: the boat. I don't care how drunk you are. Hey, 1196 01:04:15,280 --> 01:04:18,640 Speaker 1: we're going. Hey, Will's going on and there's a cops 1197 01:04:18,720 --> 01:04:20,880 Speaker 1: are coming. Man, do you want to get on a boat? 1198 01:04:21,000 --> 01:04:24,200 Speaker 1: I don't have my musket. That's cops are angry because 1199 01:04:24,400 --> 01:04:30,200 Speaker 1: trying to invade. Get on the boat. Worry mother, there's 1200 01:04:30,240 --> 01:04:32,160 Speaker 1: there'll be fucking booze on the boat. Just get on, 1201 01:04:32,760 --> 01:04:36,080 Speaker 1: bring your gun now. Walker named his small army, slightly 1202 01:04:36,200 --> 01:04:39,600 Speaker 1: larger than a platoon, the first independent Battalion. He declared 1203 01:04:39,680 --> 01:04:42,720 Speaker 1: himself colonel because it was the eighteen hundreds and everybody 1204 01:04:42,840 --> 01:04:46,600 Speaker 1: was a colonel. And then, shockingly, he succeeded in using 1205 01:04:46,720 --> 01:04:49,800 Speaker 1: his small force to conquer the town of Lapaz, population 1206 01:04:49,960 --> 01:04:52,880 Speaker 1: six thousand. This was less impressive than it sounds. There 1207 01:04:53,000 --> 01:04:55,040 Speaker 1: was no one to defend the town. Walker and a 1208 01:04:55,080 --> 01:04:57,400 Speaker 1: bunch of his men just stumbled, probably drunk, into the 1209 01:04:57,480 --> 01:05:00,520 Speaker 1: Governor's office waving guns and terrorized every when they're into 1210 01:05:00,560 --> 01:05:03,680 Speaker 1: giving them control. As soon as the governor surrendered, William 1211 01:05:03,720 --> 01:05:06,280 Speaker 1: Walker ordered the Mexican flag taken down and replaced with 1212 01:05:06,320 --> 01:05:09,000 Speaker 1: the new flag he had designed himself, the flag of 1213 01:05:09,080 --> 01:05:11,760 Speaker 1: the Republic of Sonora. Looking out from his new base 1214 01:05:11,840 --> 01:05:15,160 Speaker 1: of operations, his ambitions expanded. No longer was he content 1215 01:05:15,240 --> 01:05:18,280 Speaker 1: in creating a small republic of Sonora. Lapaz had fallen 1216 01:05:18,360 --> 01:05:20,720 Speaker 1: so easily that he now desired to conquer the entire 1217 01:05:20,840 --> 01:05:24,440 Speaker 1: Baja Peninsula. Within days of capturing the town, he renamed 1218 01:05:24,520 --> 01:05:27,680 Speaker 1: his new country, issuing a declaration that the Republic of 1219 01:05:27,800 --> 01:05:31,520 Speaker 1: Lower California is hereby declared free, sovereign, and independent, and 1220 01:05:31,560 --> 01:05:36,080 Speaker 1: all allegiance to the Republic of Mexico is forever renounced. Okay, 1221 01:05:36,240 --> 01:05:39,160 Speaker 1: just like that, huh ambition, man, You just you gotta 1222 01:05:39,160 --> 01:05:41,000 Speaker 1: fake it till you make it, just like that. And 1223 01:05:41,080 --> 01:05:44,640 Speaker 1: also way to get slowly like deceived by how easy 1224 01:05:44,720 --> 01:05:47,240 Speaker 1: one It's like, oh well that was pretty easy in 1225 01:05:47,360 --> 01:05:50,240 Speaker 1: this small town easily. You know what, Fuck it, I'm 1226 01:05:50,240 --> 01:05:53,160 Speaker 1: gonna do, you know what, Yeah, let's do the whole thing. Lesly, 1227 01:05:53,280 --> 01:05:55,240 Speaker 1: this is the hardest thing will ever have to do. 1228 01:05:55,480 --> 01:05:57,640 Speaker 1: Do you know what did that flag look like? I'm 1229 01:05:57,640 --> 01:06:00,880 Speaker 1: always curious when people was pretty boring. Okay, it wasn't 1230 01:06:00,920 --> 01:06:05,000 Speaker 1: like indulgent. I would talked about it if it was cool. No, no, 1231 01:06:05,200 --> 01:06:09,440 Speaker 1: it wasn't. Damn it. That's when these guys fucking disappoint me. 1232 01:06:09,560 --> 01:06:12,680 Speaker 1: When there's like a real opportunity for some just straight 1233 01:06:12,800 --> 01:06:16,640 Speaker 1: up buffoonery, and it's like, you actually took flags very seriously, 1234 01:06:16,760 --> 01:06:20,080 Speaker 1: very minimal design, very minimal design. It's a pretty Yeah, 1235 01:06:20,200 --> 01:06:24,000 Speaker 1: it's not super crazy. Uh. Walker concluded his declaration by 1236 01:06:24,040 --> 01:06:26,480 Speaker 1: announcing that he was now the president as well as 1237 01:06:26,520 --> 01:06:28,680 Speaker 1: a colonel, which is a pretty impressive series of title 1238 01:06:28,760 --> 01:06:32,680 Speaker 1: changes for a single week. Yeah, the President, I'm the 1239 01:06:32,760 --> 01:06:35,400 Speaker 1: colonel of the Hair Club for men. President. Colonel Yeah, 1240 01:06:35,680 --> 01:06:38,840 Speaker 1: Colonel President, Yeah, Colonel. President. Walkers set to work at 1241 01:06:38,880 --> 01:06:41,240 Speaker 1: once giving a bunch of other people fancy titles, appointing 1242 01:06:41,280 --> 01:06:44,480 Speaker 1: a Secretary of War who was by himself three percent 1243 01:06:44,560 --> 01:06:52,800 Speaker 1: of the army. Most critically, he appointed a propagandist who 1244 01:06:52,840 --> 01:06:55,440 Speaker 1: started mailing off dispatches to the San Diego Harold in 1245 01:06:55,520 --> 01:06:57,960 Speaker 1: order to inform Americans about what Walker and his men 1246 01:06:58,000 --> 01:07:01,160 Speaker 1: had done. He set to work at confiscating the arms 1247 01:07:01,200 --> 01:07:03,400 Speaker 1: and ammunition of the citizens of Lapase so they could 1248 01:07:03,440 --> 01:07:06,320 Speaker 1: not rise up against him. He attempted to fortify the city, 1249 01:07:06,400 --> 01:07:09,280 Speaker 1: but eventually realized that it was indefensible if the Mexican 1250 01:07:09,360 --> 01:07:11,960 Speaker 1: army attacked, and so he moved his forces to Cabo 1251 01:07:12,040 --> 01:07:14,240 Speaker 1: San Lucas, which he felt would be an easier place 1252 01:07:14,280 --> 01:07:17,760 Speaker 1: to draw Americans and to fight for his costs. He 1253 01:07:17,880 --> 01:07:20,120 Speaker 1: moves to Cabo because he's like, this is where if 1254 01:07:20,160 --> 01:07:22,360 Speaker 1: I want to get more Americans, I gotta go to Kabba. 1255 01:07:22,520 --> 01:07:25,360 Speaker 1: This is where it's at. Lapa is so last year. 1256 01:07:25,680 --> 01:07:29,600 Speaker 1: If you haven't been to Cabo, you really must. So 1257 01:07:29,720 --> 01:07:32,920 Speaker 1: it's it's he makes the same decision as an insurgent 1258 01:07:33,040 --> 01:07:37,400 Speaker 1: general as Jimmy Buffett does. Is Jimmy Buffett, come on, margarite, 1259 01:07:38,080 --> 01:07:41,040 Speaker 1: does he um? Is he just thinking like because a location, 1260 01:07:41,280 --> 01:07:43,880 Speaker 1: He's like, okay, yeah, this is this is an easier 1261 01:07:43,920 --> 01:07:46,760 Speaker 1: place to get reinforcements, like he's relying on. He's not 1262 01:07:46,880 --> 01:07:48,840 Speaker 1: an idiot. He knows that like forty five minut isn't 1263 01:07:48,920 --> 01:07:50,920 Speaker 1: enough to take all of Baja, but he hopes that 1264 01:07:51,040 --> 01:07:53,720 Speaker 1: like the stories that are spreading in the news will 1265 01:07:53,760 --> 01:07:56,600 Speaker 1: send hundreds of Americans to join his army. And he 1266 01:07:56,680 --> 01:07:59,960 Speaker 1: knows that Cabo San Lucas it's easier for people from Californi. 1267 01:08:00,080 --> 01:08:02,600 Speaker 1: You get to right right right there, just going straight 1268 01:08:02,640 --> 01:08:06,480 Speaker 1: down the coast. Yes, okay. I also I'm in my mind, 1269 01:08:06,520 --> 01:08:08,640 Speaker 1: I'm also thinking of a dude who's like starting at 1270 01:08:08,680 --> 01:08:11,760 Speaker 1: like a terrible vacation spot too, and he's like, Nah, 1271 01:08:11,880 --> 01:08:13,640 Speaker 1: you know, we're not gonna get a lot of business here. 1272 01:08:13,680 --> 01:08:16,160 Speaker 1: We gotta go to Cobbo. Man, They're gonna see these beaches. 1273 01:08:16,320 --> 01:08:19,000 Speaker 1: They're gonna love it, and they'll fight my war. And 1274 01:08:19,120 --> 01:08:22,160 Speaker 1: they'll fight my war. Uh so, yeah. Well, he and 1275 01:08:22,240 --> 01:08:23,880 Speaker 1: his men were loading up their boat to flee the 1276 01:08:23,960 --> 01:08:26,000 Speaker 1: capital of their new country for the new capital of 1277 01:08:26,080 --> 01:08:27,920 Speaker 1: their new country, which they would have to conquer. Once 1278 01:08:27,960 --> 01:08:30,360 Speaker 1: they got there, they ran into a passenger ship waving 1279 01:08:30,360 --> 01:08:33,160 Speaker 1: the Mexican flag. Walker's men boarded the ship at once 1280 01:08:33,240 --> 01:08:36,799 Speaker 1: and realized it held Juan Clemaco Riboletto, the new governor 1281 01:08:36,880 --> 01:08:39,679 Speaker 1: of Lapaz. They arrested him immediately and took him prisoner 1282 01:08:39,720 --> 01:08:42,360 Speaker 1: along with the old governor. The Americans hold up on 1283 01:08:42,400 --> 01:08:44,479 Speaker 1: their boat for a few nights, with their prisoners waiting 1284 01:08:44,520 --> 01:08:46,559 Speaker 1: in the harbor of the city they had conquered. When 1285 01:08:46,600 --> 01:08:48,479 Speaker 1: a few of them landed to get firewood, they were 1286 01:08:48,520 --> 01:08:52,080 Speaker 1: ambushed by Mexican soldiers and townspeople. Walker and his troops 1287 01:08:52,120 --> 01:08:54,880 Speaker 1: responded to the ambush by returning fire, which is fair, 1288 01:08:55,080 --> 01:08:57,960 Speaker 1: and also by lighting random people's houses on fire, which 1289 01:08:58,040 --> 01:09:00,160 Speaker 1: is not fair. They made it back to the out 1290 01:09:00,200 --> 01:09:02,400 Speaker 1: and told Walker what had happened. His first reaction was 1291 01:09:02,479 --> 01:09:05,040 Speaker 1: to load his ship's cannons and open fire on La Pause, 1292 01:09:05,120 --> 01:09:07,439 Speaker 1: which was again the capital of the new country he 1293 01:09:07,479 --> 01:09:10,439 Speaker 1: had founded. Walker landed with thirty of his men after 1294 01:09:10,520 --> 01:09:12,080 Speaker 1: this and took to the fight to the enemy for 1295 01:09:12,200 --> 01:09:15,519 Speaker 1: ninety minutes or so. The ambushing Mexican forces fled, and 1296 01:09:15,600 --> 01:09:18,080 Speaker 1: Walker were at a glowing report of their victory to 1297 01:09:18,160 --> 01:09:21,559 Speaker 1: be shared in the newspapers back in California. The enemy's 1298 01:09:21,600 --> 01:09:24,120 Speaker 1: lost was six or seven killed and several wounded. Areman 1299 01:09:24,160 --> 01:09:26,200 Speaker 1: did not so much as receive a wound except from 1300 01:09:26,280 --> 01:09:28,920 Speaker 1: cacti while pursuing the enemy through the chaparal in the 1301 01:09:29,280 --> 01:09:32,080 Speaker 1: rear of town. Thus ended the Battle of Lapase, crowning 1302 01:09:32,120 --> 01:09:35,479 Speaker 1: our efforts with victory, releasing Lower California from the tyrannous 1303 01:09:35,600 --> 01:09:39,439 Speaker 1: yoke of declining Mexico and establishing a new republic. Oh 1304 01:09:39,640 --> 01:09:42,919 Speaker 1: my god, man. Yeah, he he got into a gunfight 1305 01:09:43,000 --> 01:09:45,640 Speaker 1: over firewood, burned down a quarter of the town, and 1306 01:09:45,720 --> 01:09:48,600 Speaker 1: then called at the Battle of lapase n't see. And 1307 01:09:48,720 --> 01:09:52,479 Speaker 1: this goes back to fucking Grandpa too, where you're like, yeah, 1308 01:09:52,680 --> 01:09:56,280 Speaker 1: that motherfucker, he's got a few stories and then he's 1309 01:09:56,280 --> 01:09:58,960 Speaker 1: having to like self mythologize when he writes back because 1310 01:09:59,000 --> 01:10:01,560 Speaker 1: he's like, well, I'm never gonna do that. Um so, 1311 01:10:02,160 --> 01:10:04,280 Speaker 1: let me just really pump this story up so it 1312 01:10:04,320 --> 01:10:10,000 Speaker 1: sounds a lot way cooler. Yeah, and Miles, that's where 1313 01:10:10,000 --> 01:10:12,519 Speaker 1: the story is going to have to remain for the 1314 01:10:12,720 --> 01:10:15,519 Speaker 1: end of part one, and we're gonna we're gonna talk 1315 01:10:15,520 --> 01:10:17,720 Speaker 1: about what happens next with William Walker and his men 1316 01:10:17,880 --> 01:10:21,280 Speaker 1: in part two. On Thursday, you get some plug doubles 1317 01:10:21,360 --> 01:10:25,080 Speaker 1: to to drop in the p zone. You know, I 1318 01:10:25,200 --> 01:10:28,360 Speaker 1: do dailies that want to colonize this podcast. I want 1319 01:10:28,400 --> 01:10:30,800 Speaker 1: to I want to put the flag deep into the 1320 01:10:30,880 --> 01:10:34,439 Speaker 1: fertile soil of behind the Bastards right now. I do 1321 01:10:34,600 --> 01:10:37,120 Speaker 1: want to shout out my new show for twenty Day 1322 01:10:37,160 --> 01:10:39,720 Speaker 1: Fiance that I co host with one of your other 1323 01:10:39,920 --> 01:10:43,320 Speaker 1: esteemed guests, Sophia Alexandra, where like we just get high 1324 01:10:43,320 --> 01:10:46,040 Speaker 1: and talk about ninety day Fiance. It's like, excellent if 1325 01:10:46,080 --> 01:10:48,840 Speaker 1: you need a break from life, you know. That's that's 1326 01:10:48,840 --> 01:10:50,599 Speaker 1: sort of like why we do it. It's like I'm talking, 1327 01:10:50,640 --> 01:10:52,519 Speaker 1: we're talking about all kinds of serious. I'm like, can 1328 01:10:52,560 --> 01:10:54,200 Speaker 1: we just talk about my favorite show? But like get 1329 01:10:54,320 --> 01:10:59,080 Speaker 1: faded before? That sounds great? And that's all. Well, I 1330 01:10:59,200 --> 01:11:01,560 Speaker 1: have no plugs to plug because I do nothing but 1331 01:11:01,760 --> 01:11:04,479 Speaker 1: this episode of this podcast, which is the entirety of 1332 01:11:04,600 --> 01:11:08,640 Speaker 1: my breadth of work. Um, so the episode is now done. No, 1333 01:11:08,800 --> 01:11:12,840 Speaker 1: it's not, Robert, is it not? Do I do other things? 1334 01:11:12,920 --> 01:11:17,800 Speaker 1: You do other things? You almost worst your disappointing with 1335 01:11:17,920 --> 01:11:20,920 Speaker 1: our good friends Katie Stole and Cody Johnston. I guess 1336 01:11:20,960 --> 01:11:24,640 Speaker 1: so yeah. You can also find Robert on Twitter at 1337 01:11:24,680 --> 01:11:26,519 Speaker 1: I right, okay, and you can find us on the 1338 01:11:26,520 --> 01:11:30,280 Speaker 1: Twistagram at at Bastard's Pod, and we have a tea 1339 01:11:30,360 --> 01:11:33,599 Speaker 1: public store, and to be honest, I don't know about 1340 01:11:33,640 --> 01:11:35,439 Speaker 1: all that. But if Sophie says so, I guess I'm 1341 01:11:35,479 --> 01:11:38,280 Speaker 1: not gonna argue. I'm gonna thank you so much. That's 1342 01:11:38,280 --> 01:11:41,559 Speaker 1: so kind of me now the episode is over. Excellent,