1 00:00:12,680 --> 00:00:16,400 Speaker 1: Hello, delicious friends, and welcome to Who Did What Now? 2 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:20,160 Speaker 1: The history podcast that is not your history class with 3 00:00:20,239 --> 00:00:24,720 Speaker 1: me your host Katie Charlwood, History Arlotte and reader of books. 4 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:27,840 Speaker 1: And this week, this week has been wild. I had 5 00:00:27,880 --> 00:00:31,880 Speaker 1: a million followers on Facebook, which wild, absolutely wild. Now 6 00:00:32,159 --> 00:00:35,240 Speaker 1: that mean said, if talk Talk at Talk Talk, if 7 00:00:35,320 --> 00:00:38,480 Speaker 1: TikTok and Instagram could catch up, that would be great, 8 00:00:38,720 --> 00:00:41,720 Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Anyway, I don't know if 9 00:00:41,760 --> 00:00:44,360 Speaker 1: you know of the pleasure pain theory. It's the idea 10 00:00:44,479 --> 00:00:46,800 Speaker 1: that for every good thing that happens, something bad has 11 00:00:46,840 --> 00:00:49,879 Speaker 1: to have happened. So like it's evening out the scales. 12 00:00:50,479 --> 00:00:54,360 Speaker 1: So I had a million followers, and that very same day, 13 00:00:54,440 --> 00:00:57,560 Speaker 1: as I was enjoying my little mcdade's cola with some 14 00:00:57,720 --> 00:01:02,200 Speaker 1: brazil nut toffee, tooth broke a molar. So word to 15 00:01:02,240 --> 00:01:04,240 Speaker 1: the wise, make sure you get your check up with 16 00:01:04,280 --> 00:01:07,200 Speaker 1: your dentists, you know, especially the ne're divergent people who 17 00:01:07,280 --> 00:01:13,560 Speaker 1: keep on forgetting to schedule that appointment. So yeah, oh, 18 00:01:13,959 --> 00:01:17,560 Speaker 1: if you haven't voted on tour tour stuff, because more 19 00:01:17,600 --> 00:01:19,760 Speaker 1: tour in yours come in soon. If you haven't voted 20 00:01:19,800 --> 00:01:22,320 Speaker 1: on that, gut on that, let me come and see you. 21 00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:25,360 Speaker 1: And yes, if you do notice that I sound a 22 00:01:25,360 --> 00:01:28,560 Speaker 1: bit different, yet it is because the it's the tooth. 23 00:01:28,720 --> 00:01:31,200 Speaker 1: It's the tooth. I'm on a cancelation list with my dentist. 24 00:01:31,319 --> 00:01:33,959 Speaker 1: It's all good, but it's making it hard to speak. 25 00:01:34,360 --> 00:01:36,800 Speaker 1: And I've noticed that I've been like buggrowing up a 26 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:40,760 Speaker 1: bunch of words. But everything shall be well. But yes, 27 00:01:40,840 --> 00:01:43,080 Speaker 1: back to the tour, Back to the tour. And so 28 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:48,920 Speaker 1: I love you, lovely denizens of the Internet, but of 29 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:52,160 Speaker 1: the Internet of the world, I should say, but when 30 00:01:52,160 --> 00:01:56,120 Speaker 1: you're recommending places to me, please stop trying to send 31 00:01:56,120 --> 00:01:59,840 Speaker 1: me to like three thousand seat theaters and you know, 32 00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:03,720 Speaker 1: seventeen hundred seat concert halls. Like I love you and 33 00:02:03,840 --> 00:02:06,040 Speaker 1: I know that you enjoy this, but I feel like 34 00:02:06,080 --> 00:02:09,959 Speaker 1: we should maybe lower our expectations ever so slightly, Like 35 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:15,519 Speaker 1: I'm trying to focus on independent and minority owned, especially 36 00:02:15,919 --> 00:02:18,000 Speaker 1: like if I can't get that, I'll move on to 37 00:02:18,080 --> 00:02:21,760 Speaker 1: the next one. Just because listen, everything that's going on 38 00:02:22,160 --> 00:02:24,600 Speaker 1: over in the States right now, I'm specifically talking about 39 00:02:24,600 --> 00:02:28,840 Speaker 1: the US, right you have lost so much tourism in 40 00:02:28,919 --> 00:02:30,880 Speaker 1: so much everything in the places that are going to 41 00:02:30,919 --> 00:02:35,239 Speaker 1: be hit worst first is always going to be the small, independent, 42 00:02:35,320 --> 00:02:38,720 Speaker 1: local places, and so that's where I'm trying to trying 43 00:02:38,720 --> 00:02:42,000 Speaker 1: to push push my business there. Now here's the thing 44 00:02:42,040 --> 00:02:47,760 Speaker 1: about Europe. In Europe, everybody's happy to to tell you 45 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:50,360 Speaker 1: about a room above a pub that's available. It's great, 46 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:54,320 Speaker 1: you know what, And I love that about here. But yes, 47 00:02:55,120 --> 00:02:57,880 Speaker 1: I hope to get this tool likefully locked in and 48 00:02:57,960 --> 00:03:02,200 Speaker 1: sorted with y'all. But I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, 49 00:03:02,280 --> 00:03:05,519 Speaker 1: quite your jibbel jabbel in fact me, in fact you, 50 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:08,919 Speaker 1: I will. But first we've got to get our source on. 51 00:03:10,040 --> 00:03:14,360 Speaker 1: Our sources are Hamilton the musical I'm kidding, I'm kidding. 52 00:03:14,680 --> 00:03:19,360 Speaker 1: I'm kidding. It's a bop, but I'm absolutely jogging. So 53 00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:24,760 Speaker 1: our sources are due Alexander Hamilton. Aaron Burr and the 54 00:03:24,760 --> 00:03:30,680 Speaker 1: Future of America by Thomas Fleming. Aaron Burr, a biography 55 00:03:30,760 --> 00:03:36,800 Speaker 1: by Nathan Shackner. The Burr Conspiracy Uncovering the story of 56 00:03:36,840 --> 00:03:42,600 Speaker 1: an early American crisis by James E. Lewis Fallen Founder, 57 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:49,000 Speaker 1: The Life of Aaron Burr by Nancy Eisenberg. The Life 58 00:03:49,040 --> 00:03:52,160 Speaker 1: and Times of Aaron Burr by James Patten, And the 59 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:58,440 Speaker 1: Heartbreak of Aaron Burr by H. W. Brands ils diding 60 00:03:58,600 --> 00:04:04,240 Speaker 1: comfortably good. Then let's begin. Now, some of you may 61 00:04:04,280 --> 00:04:09,520 Speaker 1: know Aaron Burr, Sir. Sir. I actually really wanted to 62 00:04:09,520 --> 00:04:13,160 Speaker 1: do this is a live show, specifically because I just 63 00:04:13,160 --> 00:04:15,320 Speaker 1: thought it'd be really funny that when eavily talked about 64 00:04:15,320 --> 00:04:18,240 Speaker 1: Aaron Burr, I would get the audience to respond with, Sir, 65 00:04:19,080 --> 00:04:25,000 Speaker 1: Aaron Burr, Sir. Listen, listen. I amuse myself if nobody else. 66 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:28,320 Speaker 1: So some of you may know Aaron Burr, Sir as 67 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:31,080 Speaker 1: the man who lost a popularity contest to Thomas Jefferson 68 00:04:31,200 --> 00:04:34,160 Speaker 1: and who shot a guy. But of course there is 69 00:04:34,320 --> 00:04:38,080 Speaker 1: much more to this story. Aaron Burr was born on 70 00:04:38,120 --> 00:04:42,080 Speaker 1: the sixth of February seventeen fifty six in Newark, New Jersey, 71 00:04:42,760 --> 00:04:48,360 Speaker 1: to Esther Edwards, a diarist, and Aaron Burr Senior, a 72 00:04:48,440 --> 00:04:51,760 Speaker 1: Presbyterian minister and the second president of the College of 73 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:55,320 Speaker 1: New Jersey, which some of you may know now as 74 00:04:55,480 --> 00:05:01,280 Speaker 1: Princeton University. Estherel's father was a theologian, so they were 75 00:05:01,279 --> 00:05:05,080 Speaker 1: all educated stock and they weren't like poor, you know 76 00:05:05,160 --> 00:05:08,640 Speaker 1: what I mean. And this is all in the province 77 00:05:08,680 --> 00:05:13,200 Speaker 1: of New Jersey in the thirteen colonies. Aaron Burr Junior, 78 00:05:13,560 --> 00:05:16,160 Speaker 1: as he was known then, was the second child born 79 00:05:16,200 --> 00:05:19,280 Speaker 1: to the couple. His older sister, Sarah was known as 80 00:05:19,440 --> 00:05:22,640 Speaker 1: Sally because that's what they did back then. That is 81 00:05:22,680 --> 00:05:25,440 Speaker 1: a very very common way to make a nick name. 82 00:05:25,560 --> 00:05:30,719 Speaker 1: Let's have the exact same amount of syllables, like it's 83 00:05:30,760 --> 00:05:35,280 Speaker 1: fine and letters. Yeah, that's that's how nicknames work. Now. 84 00:05:35,320 --> 00:05:38,280 Speaker 1: It wasn't all sunshine and roses for baby Barr, because 85 00:05:38,880 --> 00:05:43,320 Speaker 1: when he was but a year old, his father, Aaron Barsenia, 86 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:50,440 Speaker 1: passed away from quote exhaustion and fever. His maternal grandfather, 87 00:05:50,520 --> 00:05:53,839 Speaker 1: Jonathan Edwards, came to take over his father's role in 88 00:05:53,880 --> 00:05:57,280 Speaker 1: the college, but then he had complications from his smallpox 89 00:05:57,360 --> 00:06:03,039 Speaker 1: vaccine and died in March seven fifty eight. Then, sixteen 90 00:06:03,120 --> 00:06:06,520 Speaker 1: days later, Esther Burr's mother dies from a short illness 91 00:06:06,520 --> 00:06:14,440 Speaker 1: with fever and delirium. So he's two and he's lost 92 00:06:14,600 --> 00:06:20,200 Speaker 1: already his father, his mother, and his maternal grandfather. So 93 00:06:21,279 --> 00:06:25,680 Speaker 1: enter Sarah Edwards, Burr's maternal grandmother, and she decides she's 94 00:06:25,680 --> 00:06:27,960 Speaker 1: coming down to collect the children and to take them 95 00:06:27,960 --> 00:06:31,919 Speaker 1: back to Philadelphia with her, and so she does. She 96 00:06:32,040 --> 00:06:34,360 Speaker 1: collects them, they head back to Philly and they are 97 00:06:34,360 --> 00:06:37,400 Speaker 1: there for a few months and then Sarah dies in 98 00:06:37,440 --> 00:06:42,640 Speaker 1: October of dysentery. I mean, what is this the Oregon Trail, 99 00:06:43,279 --> 00:06:48,560 Speaker 1: All roads lad to dysentery. So Sally and Aaron were 100 00:06:48,600 --> 00:06:52,720 Speaker 1: already orphaned, but now it's like double orphaned at the 101 00:06:52,760 --> 00:06:55,040 Speaker 1: ages of like three and two, respectively. But they are 102 00:06:55,040 --> 00:06:58,599 Speaker 1: not Oliver twisted out to an orphanage. Luckily, they go 103 00:06:58,760 --> 00:07:04,080 Speaker 1: under the care of the Ship family in Philadelphia. Now Philadelphia, 104 00:07:04,160 --> 00:07:07,000 Speaker 1: to slip into some context, was at this point the 105 00:07:07,120 --> 00:07:11,760 Speaker 1: nation's capital, and William Shipping was a trustee for the 106 00:07:11,840 --> 00:07:16,120 Speaker 1: College of New Jersey, so he knew the family, but 107 00:07:17,240 --> 00:07:19,800 Speaker 1: the Bird children were only under his care until the 108 00:07:19,920 --> 00:07:23,880 Speaker 1: following year. And that's when their uncle, Timothy Edwards came 109 00:07:23,880 --> 00:07:27,520 Speaker 1: of age and was able to legally claim guardianship of them. 110 00:07:27,920 --> 00:07:31,440 Speaker 1: He was twenty one years old. Now he just starts 111 00:07:31,440 --> 00:07:35,800 Speaker 1: collecting children like jubejubs, right, So he has these two kids, right, 112 00:07:35,840 --> 00:07:38,880 Speaker 1: and then he has like other kids of siblings who 113 00:07:38,880 --> 00:07:43,160 Speaker 1: have died, and he just has just this cohort of children, 114 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:46,440 Speaker 1: which is great for a twenty one year old who 115 00:07:46,520 --> 00:07:50,040 Speaker 1: knows absolutely nothing about children. Now he does ensure that 116 00:07:50,160 --> 00:07:53,800 Speaker 1: Aaron is well educated. He brings in tuors and the 117 00:07:53,960 --> 00:07:57,239 Speaker 1: goal would be that, you know, until he gets educated 118 00:07:57,320 --> 00:07:59,960 Speaker 1: enough to go to Princeton or what would become Princeton 119 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:04,720 Speaker 1: and sh time basically to get him educated until he 120 00:08:04,760 --> 00:08:08,080 Speaker 1: reaches the college itself. But Arn Barr doesn't have have 121 00:08:08,120 --> 00:08:10,440 Speaker 1: the best of childhoods, and you're thinking, we know that 122 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:16,280 Speaker 1: on a yeah, give it time. So basically, when he's four, 123 00:08:16,600 --> 00:08:21,800 Speaker 1: he's like so done with his uncle's just beatings more 124 00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:24,560 Speaker 1: than anything else, because this is a time of corporal punishment, 125 00:08:25,520 --> 00:08:30,040 Speaker 1: and so he runs away and he runs away, and 126 00:08:30,080 --> 00:08:32,160 Speaker 1: then he's brought back, okay, and then he does this 127 00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:34,480 Speaker 1: again when he's like eight years old. He runs away 128 00:08:35,120 --> 00:08:37,120 Speaker 1: and then he is like he's going to go work 129 00:08:37,160 --> 00:08:40,120 Speaker 1: on a ship. At eight or like ten, he's still 130 00:08:40,120 --> 00:08:41,880 Speaker 1: really really young. They're like, you're gonna go work on 131 00:08:41,920 --> 00:08:47,240 Speaker 1: a ship and be away and escape like his very strict, 132 00:08:47,520 --> 00:08:53,760 Speaker 1: very tense uncle. Now each time he's brought back, and 133 00:08:53,840 --> 00:08:58,920 Speaker 1: when he's eleven, right, Barr jumps the gun a little bit, 134 00:08:58,960 --> 00:09:00,600 Speaker 1: mainly because I think he is to get the heck 135 00:09:00,600 --> 00:09:04,839 Speaker 1: at a dodge, right, and he tries to attend the 136 00:09:04,840 --> 00:09:08,960 Speaker 1: College of New Jersey at just eleven years old, and 137 00:09:09,080 --> 00:09:13,280 Speaker 1: luckily the college is like, no, you are an actual child. 138 00:09:13,559 --> 00:09:16,240 Speaker 1: Please go eat your greens and get some maturity and 139 00:09:16,280 --> 00:09:19,320 Speaker 1: then come back. So he decides that as soon as 140 00:09:19,320 --> 00:09:22,160 Speaker 1: he is a teenager, he's going to reapply because that's 141 00:09:22,200 --> 00:09:25,320 Speaker 1: how that works, and you know what, the college agrees. 142 00:09:26,040 --> 00:09:29,439 Speaker 1: So at thirteen, he attends the college as a sophomore, 143 00:09:30,160 --> 00:09:34,360 Speaker 1: and he joined the American Whig Society and the Cleosophic Society, 144 00:09:34,800 --> 00:09:39,480 Speaker 1: the college's literally and debating societies. This will put him 145 00:09:39,480 --> 00:09:46,199 Speaker 1: in good stead later. So in seventeen seventy two, at 146 00:09:46,240 --> 00:09:50,160 Speaker 1: the age of sixteen, he received his Bachelor of Arts degree, 147 00:09:50,800 --> 00:09:54,200 Speaker 1: but continued studying theology because of course he did for 148 00:09:54,240 --> 00:09:58,920 Speaker 1: another year and he was training with Joseph Bellamy, a Presbyterian. 149 00:09:59,559 --> 00:10:01,679 Speaker 1: But after two years of this he wasn't really feeling 150 00:10:01,720 --> 00:10:03,880 Speaker 1: it anymore and decided he was going to go do 151 00:10:04,160 --> 00:10:11,600 Speaker 1: law instead. So the college like education back then, it 152 00:10:11,640 --> 00:10:13,320 Speaker 1: isn't the way that we would have it now, So 153 00:10:13,400 --> 00:10:17,520 Speaker 1: like in the America. Now in the US you would 154 00:10:17,559 --> 00:10:22,760 Speaker 1: have sort of elementary school, middle school, and then high 155 00:10:22,800 --> 00:10:25,600 Speaker 1: school and then you'd have your college after that. Now 156 00:10:26,200 --> 00:10:28,960 Speaker 1: over in Europe, we tend to do it differently. You 157 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:31,440 Speaker 1: have your sort of primary school, which is like your 158 00:10:31,440 --> 00:10:35,800 Speaker 1: elementary level, and then you're there until you're like twelve thirteen, 159 00:10:36,240 --> 00:10:39,240 Speaker 1: and then you move on to secondary school, which is 160 00:10:39,480 --> 00:10:41,440 Speaker 1: your high school, and then of course you have your 161 00:10:41,480 --> 00:10:46,719 Speaker 1: college and university after that. Now that is that and 162 00:10:46,800 --> 00:10:50,880 Speaker 1: so yeah, he goes to this. So the schooling would 163 00:10:50,880 --> 00:10:53,080 Speaker 1: have been different back then. You just kind of went 164 00:10:53,679 --> 00:10:56,520 Speaker 1: younger and he just kind of stayed anyway, It's fine, 165 00:10:57,480 --> 00:10:59,640 Speaker 1: but anyway, he has decided he's going to do law. 166 00:11:00,320 --> 00:11:03,040 Speaker 1: He gets the heck at Dodge and moves to Connecticut, 167 00:11:03,920 --> 00:11:06,640 Speaker 1: where he attends Litchfield Law School to study law with 168 00:11:06,679 --> 00:11:12,760 Speaker 1: his brother in law, Tapping Reeves, husband to his sister Sally. Okay, 169 00:11:12,960 --> 00:11:17,640 Speaker 1: so here's the thing, Aaron Burr. It feels like he 170 00:11:17,679 --> 00:11:22,920 Speaker 1: doesn't have a direction of his own in my personal opinion, right, 171 00:11:23,800 --> 00:11:30,000 Speaker 1: because he's wantn't you go into like theology. He wants 172 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:34,560 Speaker 1: to study religion because like dad's a minister, you know, 173 00:11:34,679 --> 00:11:40,480 Speaker 1: grandfather's theology. You know, Timothy probably nothing to do with 174 00:11:40,520 --> 00:11:42,920 Speaker 1: Jimithay by the way, Timothy's probably into some of that 175 00:11:42,960 --> 00:11:45,720 Speaker 1: stuff too, And so he's doing that and then he's like, 176 00:11:45,840 --> 00:11:48,120 Speaker 1: hmm no. And then his brother in law happens to 177 00:11:48,120 --> 00:11:50,080 Speaker 1: be doing law and he's like, you know what, that's 178 00:11:50,120 --> 00:11:54,760 Speaker 1: what I want to do. So he's found out a 179 00:11:54,840 --> 00:11:58,800 Speaker 1: law school has tapping reeves, and Burr just keeps to 180 00:11:58,840 --> 00:12:03,560 Speaker 1: be following in someone else's footsteps. But again that is 181 00:12:03,720 --> 00:12:10,319 Speaker 1: just my opinion. By seventeen seventy five, news reached Lichfield 182 00:12:10,360 --> 00:12:12,839 Speaker 1: of the clashes with British troops in the Battle of 183 00:12:12,960 --> 00:12:19,840 Speaker 1: Lexington and Concord. And this these battles which launched the 184 00:12:19,880 --> 00:12:23,880 Speaker 1: American Revolutionary War or the War of Independence, depending on 185 00:12:24,360 --> 00:12:27,560 Speaker 1: how you want to read that. Now, so Barr he 186 00:12:27,600 --> 00:12:29,960 Speaker 1: puts his studies on hold so he could enlist in 187 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:33,960 Speaker 1: the Continental Army, and Bud decides he's going to be 188 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:38,880 Speaker 1: a soldier. So Burr joined the Continental Army, serving under 189 00:12:38,880 --> 00:12:42,640 Speaker 1: his body Benedict Arnold, who is like the British of 190 00:12:42,720 --> 00:12:47,480 Speaker 1: the American War of Independence, but with remarkably less stabbing somehow. 191 00:12:48,320 --> 00:12:51,920 Speaker 1: Now I say he joins the Continental Army, they basically 192 00:12:51,960 --> 00:12:57,520 Speaker 1: take on volunteers. You are volunteering in the army. Now, Barr, 193 00:12:57,880 --> 00:13:01,000 Speaker 1: he does well in the army, might even go as 194 00:13:01,040 --> 00:13:04,839 Speaker 1: far as to say that he thrives. So bur he 195 00:13:04,920 --> 00:13:10,360 Speaker 1: volunteers himself for Colonel Benedict Arnold's expedition to Quebec. Like 196 00:13:10,600 --> 00:13:13,400 Speaker 1: Quebec is not the place it is now. It was 197 00:13:13,480 --> 00:13:19,000 Speaker 1: basically of wilderness, some might say now and it is 198 00:13:19,040 --> 00:13:22,160 Speaker 1: a three hundred to three hundred and fifty mile trek 199 00:13:22,720 --> 00:13:25,280 Speaker 1: all in all right from where he's at, and the 200 00:13:25,400 --> 00:13:32,720 Speaker 1: goal is to invade Canada. It's well, sorry, it's a 201 00:13:32,720 --> 00:13:37,040 Speaker 1: wild concept to me. But anyway, this expedition, you're going 202 00:13:37,080 --> 00:13:41,280 Speaker 1: to be surprised. It does not go well, right in general, 203 00:13:41,360 --> 00:13:44,280 Speaker 1: I mean it goes great for Burr, just not for him. 204 00:13:44,920 --> 00:13:47,400 Speaker 1: So basically he's been told that he has to deliver 205 00:13:47,559 --> 00:13:52,120 Speaker 1: a message to General Montgomery. Now this General Richard Montgomery, 206 00:13:52,320 --> 00:13:55,120 Speaker 1: he had taken Montreal, so he is the big dog 207 00:13:55,880 --> 00:13:58,119 Speaker 1: and Burr has to pass a message on to him. 208 00:13:58,400 --> 00:14:00,959 Speaker 1: And so he has to get behind me lines and 209 00:14:01,040 --> 00:14:05,840 Speaker 1: he does so by Hannah Montana ing it and dressing 210 00:14:05,960 --> 00:14:10,079 Speaker 1: like a priest, right, so a Catholic priest. So he's 211 00:14:10,080 --> 00:14:15,959 Speaker 1: a Presbyterian lawyer or a Presbyterian law student, I should say, 212 00:14:16,360 --> 00:14:22,520 Speaker 1: disguised as a Catholic priest. And like it's it's oh 213 00:14:23,480 --> 00:14:28,360 Speaker 1: like He's like, yeah, super into Mary. Love love the Mary, 214 00:14:28,400 --> 00:14:31,880 Speaker 1: and the statues beg into the statues, lover statues. They 215 00:14:31,920 --> 00:14:35,600 Speaker 1: don't wait and Mary, I now say three hail Mary's 216 00:14:35,680 --> 00:14:37,840 Speaker 1: and an active condrision and you'll be fine. As he 217 00:14:37,880 --> 00:14:47,080 Speaker 1: passes through. Now because of his education, right, because he 218 00:14:47,440 --> 00:14:49,840 Speaker 1: is upbringing and his education and all that, like, he 219 00:14:49,880 --> 00:14:53,840 Speaker 1: actually does quite well here. He finds a pathway into 220 00:14:53,840 --> 00:14:57,000 Speaker 1: the inner circle. And Montgomery as well, is so impressed 221 00:14:57,000 --> 00:15:01,360 Speaker 1: with Bart that he promotes him to captain and as 222 00:15:01,400 --> 00:15:05,880 Speaker 1: his aide de camp. So he's basically like his like 223 00:15:05,920 --> 00:15:08,080 Speaker 1: we assistant is he buddy? It's like we best guy, 224 00:15:08,200 --> 00:15:11,720 Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So the Battle of Quebec, 225 00:15:12,040 --> 00:15:15,720 Speaker 1: one thing leads to another and it's an absolute shit show, right, 226 00:15:16,200 --> 00:15:22,360 Speaker 1: and Montgomery dies now burr. He does try to recover 227 00:15:22,480 --> 00:15:26,560 Speaker 1: the body, but he's under enemy fire. He's in the 228 00:15:26,600 --> 00:15:33,080 Speaker 1: snow and also Montgomery's dead weight. And I mean that 229 00:15:34,040 --> 00:15:37,080 Speaker 1: literally because between that and the harsh weather conditions and 230 00:15:37,160 --> 00:15:42,000 Speaker 1: you know, the bullets, it just wasn't happening. But it 231 00:15:42,080 --> 00:15:43,800 Speaker 1: is noted that he tried to do it. It is 232 00:15:43,840 --> 00:15:45,600 Speaker 1: a Wheebler aware he tried to do it. And so 233 00:15:46,120 --> 00:15:52,840 Speaker 1: this right, right, this established him as a hero here, 234 00:15:54,840 --> 00:15:57,120 Speaker 1: and this is also where like he gets a bit 235 00:15:57,960 --> 00:16:03,360 Speaker 1: disillusioned because after what he went through, after going through 236 00:16:03,400 --> 00:16:06,520 Speaker 1: all of this and this again absolute shit show of 237 00:16:06,560 --> 00:16:12,040 Speaker 1: trying to invade Quebec, right, he just comes to this 238 00:16:12,600 --> 00:16:19,800 Speaker 1: conclusion that Congress is basically inept at military planning, and 239 00:16:19,880 --> 00:16:26,240 Speaker 1: he writes, he writes that they are either drunk or crazy. 240 00:16:26,320 --> 00:16:31,440 Speaker 1: And also like he's serving under Benedict Arnold and he 241 00:16:31,680 --> 00:16:35,640 Speaker 1: is just sick of his shit, and so he wants 242 00:16:35,680 --> 00:16:39,240 Speaker 1: out of that. And people are saying good things about Burr, 243 00:16:40,280 --> 00:16:44,960 Speaker 1: and his relative and bestie Matthias Ogden, gets him a 244 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:48,120 Speaker 1: gig with George Washington in Manhattan as a member of 245 00:16:48,160 --> 00:16:52,080 Speaker 1: his staff now, but isn't happy with this position. Doesn't 246 00:16:52,120 --> 00:16:54,600 Speaker 1: want to be a member of this because he's like 247 00:16:55,840 --> 00:17:00,280 Speaker 1: surrounded by lots of like backstabbing and back talking all 248 00:17:00,280 --> 00:17:03,560 Speaker 1: this other bollocks and he's not there for that, and 249 00:17:03,600 --> 00:17:08,080 Speaker 1: so he quits again to be a soldier. And so 250 00:17:08,280 --> 00:17:12,680 Speaker 1: John Hancock he recommends Burt to General Israel Putnam, and 251 00:17:12,760 --> 00:17:15,919 Speaker 1: Putnam takes a shining to birth and makes him his 252 00:17:16,080 --> 00:17:22,639 Speaker 1: aid de camp and so he's actually gained in this 253 00:17:22,760 --> 00:17:25,480 Speaker 1: bit he's like, he's showing that he's you know, trustworthy, 254 00:17:26,080 --> 00:17:31,520 Speaker 1: he's responsible, he's reasonable at least, you know, to these generals. 255 00:17:32,760 --> 00:17:36,840 Speaker 1: And that's going all fine and well. And then the 256 00:17:36,880 --> 00:17:49,320 Speaker 1: British land in Manhattan. British forces landed in Manhattan, and 257 00:17:49,359 --> 00:17:53,120 Speaker 1: so the American forces, the Continental Army, they have to retreat. 258 00:17:54,400 --> 00:17:57,040 Speaker 1: Part of that is because Washington isn't great at the 259 00:17:57,080 --> 00:18:00,080 Speaker 1: old decision making, Like it's almost as if he's so 260 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:04,240 Speaker 1: worried about rushing into your decision that he's becoming too hesitant. 261 00:18:05,040 --> 00:18:08,359 Speaker 1: And this may shock you all, but Aaron Barr pretty 262 00:18:08,359 --> 00:18:12,760 Speaker 1: good at running away. Effectively. He designs the best route 263 00:18:12,800 --> 00:18:15,520 Speaker 1: out of the city and he guides about what five 264 00:18:15,600 --> 00:18:20,720 Speaker 1: thousand people to safety, during which he also salvages artillery, 265 00:18:20,760 --> 00:18:23,000 Speaker 1: which is needed to because you can't win a war 266 00:18:23,160 --> 00:18:28,560 Speaker 1: without buckets and buckets and bullets. Now, from this, he 267 00:18:28,640 --> 00:18:31,680 Speaker 1: gets promoted to a lieutenant colonel and he's in charge 268 00:18:31,680 --> 00:18:35,960 Speaker 1: of three hundred men. Basically, when you become a lieutenant colonel, 269 00:18:36,280 --> 00:18:38,560 Speaker 1: they just kind of give you three hundred men. Well, 270 00:18:38,640 --> 00:18:44,040 Speaker 1: I say that that's not true, that's wrong. No, there's 271 00:18:44,080 --> 00:18:47,520 Speaker 1: another dude. He's in charge. But he's like, never there, 272 00:18:47,640 --> 00:18:52,320 Speaker 1: and so bar just ends up in charge of this 273 00:18:52,720 --> 00:18:57,280 Speaker 1: three hundred group of men, and he's strict, but he's smart, 274 00:18:57,880 --> 00:19:01,520 Speaker 1: you know. He's fighting off for his raids into New Jersey. 275 00:19:01,840 --> 00:19:05,119 Speaker 1: There's this horrible winter in seventeen seventy seven, and he 276 00:19:05,280 --> 00:19:10,879 Speaker 1: defends the pass at Valley Forge. Now he fights in 277 00:19:10,920 --> 00:19:13,480 Speaker 1: the Battle of Monmouth, but it is a shit show. 278 00:19:13,640 --> 00:19:16,320 Speaker 1: He's defeating. His horse gets shot out from under him 279 00:19:16,560 --> 00:19:20,200 Speaker 1: and he gets severe heat stroke. He tries to get 280 00:19:20,320 --> 00:19:25,560 Speaker 1: medical leave, like without pay, but Washington denies him and 281 00:19:25,680 --> 00:19:30,000 Speaker 1: instead he is sent to West Point to oversee disciplinary measures, 282 00:19:30,040 --> 00:19:35,280 Speaker 1: and he despises it, like he is not about this whatsoever, 283 00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:40,320 Speaker 1: because like the troops are being disrespectful because they called 284 00:19:40,400 --> 00:19:44,320 Speaker 1: him like Aaron Burr's son or like young Burr because 285 00:19:44,359 --> 00:19:48,000 Speaker 1: he was so young, and they're just like, where's the 286 00:19:48,080 --> 00:19:53,840 Speaker 1: actual general look at this young villa, so like he's 287 00:19:54,160 --> 00:19:56,879 Speaker 1: young and all the generals that could have boosted his 288 00:19:56,920 --> 00:20:00,920 Speaker 1: military career. But basically now either out of the army 289 00:20:01,480 --> 00:20:05,879 Speaker 1: are dead, right, And so he says that the officers 290 00:20:05,960 --> 00:20:10,240 Speaker 1: are getting soldiers to steal food from civilians, and so 291 00:20:10,359 --> 00:20:12,720 Speaker 1: he makes his men return the ship that they stole, 292 00:20:12,800 --> 00:20:18,399 Speaker 1: which fairly good right now. One of my favorite stories. 293 00:20:18,440 --> 00:20:21,359 Speaker 1: I can't remember if it's like here or before. I 294 00:20:21,400 --> 00:20:24,560 Speaker 1: didn't write it down in this in this one, but 295 00:20:24,640 --> 00:20:31,960 Speaker 1: basically there's this plot to assassinate Burr, and so in 296 00:20:32,320 --> 00:20:37,600 Speaker 1: order to like avoid this, well, he actually gets wind 297 00:20:37,600 --> 00:20:40,919 Speaker 1: of this, right and so he actually gets you know, 298 00:20:41,119 --> 00:20:45,960 Speaker 1: his soldiers to like remove like the bullets from the guns. 299 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:48,399 Speaker 1: Like He's just like, no, we're not doing this, and 300 00:20:48,440 --> 00:20:51,600 Speaker 1: so he prevents himself from being shot. It was weird, 301 00:20:51,760 --> 00:20:56,840 Speaker 1: but anyway, so on top of this, Burr is a 302 00:20:56,960 --> 00:21:00,280 Speaker 1: ladies man, but he's also very aware that the wrong 303 00:21:00,320 --> 00:21:04,199 Speaker 1: word from him could ruin a reputation, so he keeps 304 00:21:04,400 --> 00:21:08,120 Speaker 1: stumb So this is actually very clever because I mean, 305 00:21:08,160 --> 00:21:12,359 Speaker 1: he could just be very respectful or I say respectful, 306 00:21:12,960 --> 00:21:16,960 Speaker 1: or he could be you know, knowing that ladies talk. 307 00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:22,040 Speaker 1: And if he's known for you know, ruining one woman, 308 00:21:22,480 --> 00:21:24,840 Speaker 1: he could ruin another. In what's that that's not good 309 00:21:24,880 --> 00:21:29,119 Speaker 1: on his end, you know? So in like seventeen seventy 310 00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:34,800 Speaker 1: seven seventy eight, he meets Theodosia Bartow Provost at her home. 311 00:21:35,720 --> 00:21:39,240 Speaker 1: Now he meets her at her home because her home 312 00:21:39,359 --> 00:21:44,479 Speaker 1: is being used as Washington's headquarters now Theodosia. She is 313 00:21:44,520 --> 00:21:47,879 Speaker 1: married to a British officer, and she's also ten years 314 00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:54,080 Speaker 1: by senior. She's thirty two, he's twenty two. Theodosia has 315 00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:57,440 Speaker 1: five kids with her enemy husband, who is presumably out 316 00:21:57,520 --> 00:22:02,040 Speaker 1: fighting somewhere now. She's actually pretty cool and she's not 317 00:22:02,080 --> 00:22:05,320 Speaker 1: seen as a looker pusse. She's got a facial scar, 318 00:22:05,440 --> 00:22:08,840 Speaker 1: which everyone feels the need to point out, but she's 319 00:22:09,040 --> 00:22:12,240 Speaker 1: bright and witty, and her and Barr they got on 320 00:22:12,359 --> 00:22:15,879 Speaker 1: like a house on fire. Now they start off as 321 00:22:15,880 --> 00:22:20,199 Speaker 1: friends because reasonably that's how that works, and he's visiting 322 00:22:20,320 --> 00:22:24,680 Speaker 1: a lot, and eventually they're pretty open about being together, 323 00:22:25,119 --> 00:22:26,919 Speaker 1: and no one cares about her husband because they're like, 324 00:22:26,960 --> 00:22:30,119 Speaker 1: fuck him. He's British. I mean, listen, he's a Swiss 325 00:22:30,119 --> 00:22:35,560 Speaker 1: born British officer, but he made his choice. So they're 326 00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:40,040 Speaker 1: very openly together. So it's like, here's my boyfriend, Aaron Barr, 327 00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:44,440 Speaker 1: and people are very aware those two are together, and 328 00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:53,240 Speaker 1: yet reputation unscathed. So I say unscathed. Burr's health isn't 329 00:22:53,280 --> 00:22:56,760 Speaker 1: great after the heat stroke and the probable PTSD from 330 00:22:56,840 --> 00:22:59,840 Speaker 1: all of the war trauma, so he resigns from the 331 00:22:59,920 --> 00:23:02,440 Speaker 1: arm and decides to go back into the law thing. 332 00:23:04,720 --> 00:23:07,200 Speaker 1: So he's studying up, he's getting to grips with the 333 00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:10,840 Speaker 1: law again. And then Theodosia's husband dies of yellow fever 334 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:17,000 Speaker 1: in Jamaica in seventeen eighty one, so she, for propriety's sake, 335 00:23:17,080 --> 00:23:19,359 Speaker 1: has to go through at least some official mourning before 336 00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:25,920 Speaker 1: she can remarry. And also she wants him to actually 337 00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:29,240 Speaker 1: have a profession so they can wed, which is fair 338 00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:32,400 Speaker 1: because she's like, I must wait till I'm more sensible. 339 00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:36,159 Speaker 1: There's always the possibility that, like, even though she didn't 340 00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:40,680 Speaker 1: really care for her husband much, that she was still 341 00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:42,840 Speaker 1: grieving in some kind of way, because grief is weird 342 00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:49,080 Speaker 1: and it's not linear, it's kind of wobbly, So her 343 00:23:49,160 --> 00:23:52,679 Speaker 1: reading some time seems really reasonable. Also, she would have 344 00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:56,800 Speaker 1: to go through some official mourning, but like mourning is 345 00:23:56,800 --> 00:24:00,480 Speaker 1: supposed to last like a long time, supposed to be 346 00:24:00,520 --> 00:24:04,200 Speaker 1: like a year, sometimes six months, sometimes you know, half mourning. 347 00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:06,399 Speaker 1: But she can go through like a little bit of 348 00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:10,160 Speaker 1: it because you know, he husband was British and she's 349 00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:15,560 Speaker 1: American now, so Hussa. So he decides to give himself 350 00:24:15,560 --> 00:24:18,040 Speaker 1: wearefresher on the law and ends up passing the bar 351 00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:23,080 Speaker 1: in seventeen eighty two, after which Aaron Barr and Theodosia 352 00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:28,760 Speaker 1: get married. Their daughter, also called Theodosia, is born the 353 00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:32,280 Speaker 1: following year, the only child of the couple to survive 354 00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:38,000 Speaker 1: into adulthood. So he makes sure that Theodosia Junior gets 355 00:24:38,040 --> 00:24:42,520 Speaker 1: a good education like that of a boy. Also, he's 356 00:24:42,600 --> 00:24:44,720 Speaker 1: really good to his step kids, like they all really 357 00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:46,960 Speaker 1: like him, and he seems to be a pretty good 358 00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:50,680 Speaker 1: like dad father figure in all. And his law practice 359 00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:56,120 Speaker 1: really takes off and everything is turning up Millhouse. Then 360 00:24:56,160 --> 00:24:59,800 Speaker 1: in seventeen eighty four and seventeen eighty five he's a 361 00:24:59,840 --> 00:25:06,480 Speaker 1: li to the State Assembly, which he wasn't that fond 362 00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:10,439 Speaker 1: of doing. Then in seventeen eighty nine he's appointed attorney General. 363 00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:16,199 Speaker 1: It's interesting because like he's really progressive for the time. 364 00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:20,160 Speaker 1: He's for women having the vote. He's wanting to free 365 00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:24,679 Speaker 1: all black enslaved people in New York, which progressive, But 366 00:25:24,720 --> 00:25:26,920 Speaker 1: on the flip side of that coin, he did also 367 00:25:27,119 --> 00:25:31,760 Speaker 1: own enslaved people. How he educated he made sure they 368 00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:39,240 Speaker 1: were educated too, but also though still enslaved, you know, 369 00:25:40,920 --> 00:25:45,320 Speaker 1: you know, so he's been toiling away, and by seventeen 370 00:25:45,400 --> 00:25:49,199 Speaker 1: ninety one, he's got a pretty successful political campaign against 371 00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:56,040 Speaker 1: Alexander Hamilton's father in law, Philip Skyler. Going right, Hamilton 372 00:25:56,160 --> 00:26:02,160 Speaker 1: takes this as a personal insult, right, and that's because 373 00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:06,320 Speaker 1: you know, bar takes a seat. So they've been beefing 374 00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:09,240 Speaker 1: for a while, because Hamilton lost to him in court 375 00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:13,399 Speaker 1: a bunch, and also because Hamilton is a federalist and 376 00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:16,119 Speaker 1: Bar is kind of more into democracy as a whole. 377 00:26:19,560 --> 00:26:21,760 Speaker 1: There's there's a whole thing between the two of them. 378 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:24,919 Speaker 1: And as much as the musical might want to make 379 00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:27,639 Speaker 1: you think that Alexander Hamilton is in any way progressive, 380 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:33,119 Speaker 1: he's like terrible person. You know what I'm gonna have 381 00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:36,119 Speaker 1: to do like a three part series. I think if 382 00:26:36,119 --> 00:26:39,240 Speaker 1: I'm ever gonna have to do Alexander Hamilton, like the 383 00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:44,600 Speaker 1: Reynolds pamphlet alone, is going to take up time. But anyway, 384 00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:50,239 Speaker 1: In seventeen ninety four, Theodosia passes away from cancer. Now 385 00:26:50,280 --> 00:26:52,480 Speaker 1: there are some dispute as to whether this is stomach 386 00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:59,040 Speaker 1: or uterine cancer, but she dies. In seventeen ninety six, 387 00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:04,360 Speaker 1: Bar runs for president and loses. It's the Adams administration 388 00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:09,240 Speaker 1: and when it rains, it polls like bad things coming through. 389 00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:13,199 Speaker 1: So he loses the election. He doesn't get re elected 390 00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:17,560 Speaker 1: to the Senate, and he loses to Phillip Skuyla. So 391 00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:22,720 Speaker 1: by eighteen hundred he's running again. Like initially, the parties 392 00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:26,280 Speaker 1: are like, let's run his teams. So on the same 393 00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:31,000 Speaker 1: ticket you've got. You know, Adams is running with Charles 394 00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:34,400 Speaker 1: Coatsworth in their Federalists, and then you've got Thomas Jefferson, 395 00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:38,320 Speaker 1: who's running with Aaron Burr as the Democratic Republicans. Now 396 00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:43,440 Speaker 1: there's no popular vote. State legislators appoint electors and so 397 00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:47,840 Speaker 1: they make the vote. So Jefferson and Bath sweep most 398 00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:51,199 Speaker 1: of the South and Adams is doing well in like 399 00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:55,199 Speaker 1: the northeast. Basically, the Federalists didn't want to tie, and 400 00:27:55,280 --> 00:27:57,800 Speaker 1: so they got Rhode Island to vote for John Jay 401 00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:01,760 Speaker 1: to give Adams a lead vot over Coatsworth, so that 402 00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:09,520 Speaker 1: basically the plan was Adams would be the president and 403 00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:14,720 Speaker 1: then Charles Coatsworth would be the vice president. I forgot 404 00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:18,359 Speaker 1: the word for vice president there. I was like second man. 405 00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:24,520 Speaker 1: He's the president and he's the second man. So John 406 00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:31,600 Speaker 1: Adams and Charles Coltsworth so Now with the Democratic Republicans, 407 00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:34,400 Speaker 1: they just voted for like burn Jefferson, so they had 408 00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:39,360 Speaker 1: the same number of electrical votes. Electoral votes, not electrical votes, 409 00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:43,160 Speaker 1: that's a different thing. And so the House of Representatives 410 00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:47,120 Speaker 1: had the tie. Now bum maintained that he wasn't going 411 00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:53,120 Speaker 1: to challenge Jefferson, and the House was Federalists, So you've 412 00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:59,920 Speaker 1: got a federalist House of Representatives and Hamilton, a federalist legit, 413 00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:07,080 Speaker 1: disliked Burr, so he helped push the vote in Jefferson's direction. Now, 414 00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:09,280 Speaker 1: what used to happen is whether I came in second 415 00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:12,840 Speaker 1: became vice president, although that did get changed in eighteen 416 00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:19,920 Speaker 1: oh four. So Burr is marginalized by Jefferson. So like 417 00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:24,880 Speaker 1: once they're in in play, he's just like sidelined because 418 00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:28,040 Speaker 1: Jefferson thinks Burr was being underhand and wanted to steal 419 00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:32,280 Speaker 1: the presidency for him. So but I was like, well, 420 00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:34,080 Speaker 1: if I'm offer to do other things, I'm going to 421 00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:36,840 Speaker 1: keep myself busy. And he goes and runs the Senate. 422 00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:39,800 Speaker 1: Now there's this whole thing with the impeachment of a 423 00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:43,360 Speaker 1: Supreme Court judge, a Federalist who was a bit shitty, 424 00:29:43,760 --> 00:29:45,640 Speaker 1: and so we had to go on trial before the Senate, 425 00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:51,240 Speaker 1: and Jefferson wanted him out, and like he goes to 426 00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:54,560 Speaker 1: Barr and he's like, I want him out, and Burr's like, 427 00:29:54,560 --> 00:30:00,400 Speaker 1: I hear you. Now. This is how not be clear 428 00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:05,080 Speaker 1: and concise can let people think different things. So when 429 00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:08,760 Speaker 1: someone says I hear you, you might think I agree 430 00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:14,440 Speaker 1: with you, okay, But what Barr was saying was I 431 00:30:14,520 --> 00:30:22,800 Speaker 1: understand what you mean. Not the same thing. Now, Barr 432 00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:33,959 Speaker 1: is an impartial and rigorous like he's just what was it? 433 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:42,240 Speaker 1: He is like sharp and grueling, but he is so 434 00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:48,800 Speaker 1: impartial about it that Judge Chase gets off scot free 435 00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:52,360 Speaker 1: because that isn't like completely one hundred percent enough evidence. 436 00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:56,280 Speaker 1: And obviously Jefferson is pissed because he told him he 437 00:30:56,400 --> 00:31:00,320 Speaker 1: wanted this arsehole out. Found a reason get rid of them, 438 00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:04,800 Speaker 1: you know. So we're at the point now where the 439 00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:09,040 Speaker 1: parties don't like them, the President doesn't like them, and 440 00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:12,520 Speaker 1: Alexander Hamilton is talking shit about them in the papers. 441 00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:19,120 Speaker 1: Now they're taking pot shots back and forth like Barr, Hamilton, Jefferson, 442 00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:20,760 Speaker 1: Like all this stuff is going on the papers and 443 00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:23,400 Speaker 1: people are they'll just they'll just post and whatever they want, right, 444 00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:28,600 Speaker 1: like like just because they could, there was no one 445 00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:32,480 Speaker 1: to stop them, right, Like you could defame someone didn't 446 00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:39,760 Speaker 1: mean a damn thing. So in eighteen hundred, Burn publishes 447 00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:46,360 Speaker 1: the Public Conduct and Character of John Adams, Esquire President 448 00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:52,840 Speaker 1: of the United States. Now this is not positive sort 449 00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:59,360 Speaker 1: of positive piece of writing, and also wasn't written by 450 00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:06,240 Speaker 1: Aaron b It was written by one Alexander Hamilton. Burd 451 00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:14,200 Speaker 1: just happened to buy it and publish it. Purchase, publish, Boom. 452 00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:19,640 Speaker 1: Now this was incredibly embarrassing for Hamilton, and this pisses 453 00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:24,240 Speaker 1: him off to no end. So when in eighteen oh four, 454 00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:27,640 Speaker 1: Burt is running for the New York governor, right, and 455 00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:32,280 Speaker 1: he has burned some bridges on the way. He's running 456 00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:36,720 Speaker 1: as an independent as well, and this is freaking Hamilton out. 457 00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:39,840 Speaker 1: So he tries to convince all of the Federalists to 458 00:32:40,080 --> 00:32:43,200 Speaker 1: not support Burr in any way, and so this ruins 459 00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:48,280 Speaker 1: his whole thing. Also, sideber, I've had so few side 460 00:32:48,280 --> 00:32:50,560 Speaker 1: bars this episode. It's not even a sidebarks. I'm talking 461 00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:54,000 Speaker 1: about something that happened. So doctor Charles Cooper, he's having 462 00:32:54,080 --> 00:32:57,320 Speaker 1: like this dinner party in eighteen oh four, and Hamilton's 463 00:32:57,360 --> 00:33:01,840 Speaker 1: there and he is openly talking shit about Burr, and 464 00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:06,800 Speaker 1: so doctor Cooper ends up writing a letter to Phillip Skuyler, 465 00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:10,360 Speaker 1: Hamilton's father in law, about some of the awful things 466 00:33:10,360 --> 00:33:18,000 Speaker 1: he said. And he's basically talking about just grotuisteously, gratuitously 467 00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:22,280 Speaker 1: horrible things about Aaron Burr. And this letter gets published 468 00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:31,440 Speaker 1: and it's humiliating for Aaron Burr Sir. So he writes 469 00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:40,320 Speaker 1: to Hamilton demanding satisfaction. Yes, like the song. So they're 470 00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:44,280 Speaker 1: going back and forth, politely trash talking one another, and 471 00:33:44,320 --> 00:33:46,840 Speaker 1: this leads to Burg going fuck this for a game 472 00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:51,520 Speaker 1: of soldiers and challenges Hamilton to a duel for honor 473 00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:57,840 Speaker 1: and also because he's sick of the shit. But dueling 474 00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:04,400 Speaker 1: is like a legal great area and now so like, yeah, 475 00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:09,720 Speaker 1: it kind of can happen, but it's you know, it's 476 00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:16,720 Speaker 1: maybe so y like for the record as well, Aaron 477 00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:22,399 Speaker 1: Burr is still vice president right now. Right, So they 478 00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:25,479 Speaker 1: traveled to New Jersey because apparently you're allowed to duel 479 00:34:25,520 --> 00:34:29,200 Speaker 1: in New Jersey. So then not now, I'm fairly certain 480 00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:34,799 Speaker 1: handbags at dawn, so off basically daddled and they met 481 00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:41,440 Speaker 1: inwe Hawken on July eleventh, eighteen oh four, true to form. 482 00:34:42,160 --> 00:34:46,440 Speaker 1: Burt arrives early with William van ness as a second, 483 00:34:46,480 --> 00:34:49,200 Speaker 1: who is a New York federal judge in New York 484 00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:55,759 Speaker 1: City Federal judge. Hamilton arrives thirty minutes late with Nate Pendleton, 485 00:34:56,440 --> 00:35:01,960 Speaker 1: a Georgia District Court judge and a war veteran. So 486 00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:05,560 Speaker 1: how a duel would work, right, was the first person 487 00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:09,439 Speaker 1: to draw blood would be like, do you yield, sir? 488 00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:12,160 Speaker 1: And then you yield, You'd be like, I yield, right, 489 00:35:13,120 --> 00:35:15,480 Speaker 1: and sort of honor would be restored. Everything would be 490 00:35:15,520 --> 00:35:22,640 Speaker 1: even dout. You've you've done your stuff right now. Which, uh, 491 00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:27,680 Speaker 1: here's the thing though, guns are notoriously known for, you know, 492 00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:32,920 Speaker 1: causing death. So they did bring a doctor just in case, right, 493 00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:35,520 Speaker 1: So they brought a doctor for their duel, which they 494 00:35:35,560 --> 00:35:37,279 Speaker 1: intended to not be to the death, but just to 495 00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:43,640 Speaker 1: be for the naming. So Hamilton had preemptively told friends 496 00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:46,359 Speaker 1: that he was going to deliberately shoot wide and miss bar, 497 00:35:46,760 --> 00:35:51,239 Speaker 1: which honestly stupid idea in a duel. And who's to 498 00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:54,359 Speaker 1: say if that was really his intention or if that 499 00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:58,239 Speaker 1: was going to be some kind of plausible deniability, right, 500 00:36:00,680 --> 00:36:05,080 Speaker 1: they do you know, the many steps and he shoots 501 00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:09,480 Speaker 1: Hamilton right in the abdomen. It's like above his hip. 502 00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:14,120 Speaker 1: It's it's a bad one. It's not a good place 503 00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:18,600 Speaker 1: to be shot, you know, in the abdomen. And he 504 00:36:18,760 --> 00:36:20,920 Speaker 1: knows he's not gonna make it. Like Hamilton is aware 505 00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:24,160 Speaker 1: that he is gonna die, right, so he's like, get 506 00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:29,640 Speaker 1: me home. So he is taking back to Manhattan and 507 00:36:29,680 --> 00:36:32,319 Speaker 1: dies thirty one hours later on the twelfth of July 508 00:36:32,480 --> 00:36:39,560 Speaker 1: eighteen oh four. So birthought that an honorable due would 509 00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:44,840 Speaker 1: help his reputation, but instead everyone is like he's a murderer, 510 00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:51,120 Speaker 1: and authorities issue and arrest warrant. But weirdly, no one 511 00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:56,960 Speaker 1: wants to arrest the vice president, so that doesn't happen, 512 00:36:57,840 --> 00:37:12,200 Speaker 1: and he heads with in eighteen oh five. After leaving 513 00:37:12,239 --> 00:37:15,560 Speaker 1: the presidency in eighteen oh five, Aaron Bach headed west, 514 00:37:16,239 --> 00:37:18,960 Speaker 1: traveling through the Frontier and down the Ohio River before 515 00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:24,680 Speaker 1: eventually reaching the newly acquired Louisiana Territory. Now. When he's there, 516 00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:28,160 Speaker 1: he leased around forty thousand acres of land from the 517 00:37:28,200 --> 00:37:33,080 Speaker 1: Spanish government. Now and he began gathering support for some 518 00:37:33,239 --> 00:37:37,279 Speaker 1: kind of grand Western settlement. Now exactly what he wanted 519 00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:41,759 Speaker 1: to do with it hooms toss it. One of the 520 00:37:41,800 --> 00:37:46,240 Speaker 1: most important people were brought into his plans was General 521 00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:50,120 Speaker 1: James Wilkinson, so he was commander of the US Army 522 00:37:50,120 --> 00:37:55,040 Speaker 1: at New Orleans and governor of Louisiana Territory. He also 523 00:37:55,160 --> 00:37:59,680 Speaker 1: had the support of Harman Blenner Hassett, who offered up 524 00:37:59,680 --> 00:38:02,040 Speaker 1: his I have an island in the Ohio River as 525 00:38:02,080 --> 00:38:07,160 Speaker 1: a place where bar could train and equip his followers. Now, 526 00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:09,400 Speaker 1: bus seems to have been betting on a war happening 527 00:38:09,480 --> 00:38:13,640 Speaker 1: between the US and Spain, and if that happened, he 528 00:38:13,680 --> 00:38:20,360 Speaker 1: could potentially use that Kelsta has advantage. So he begins 529 00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:25,920 Speaker 1: assembling small expeditions. Right, He's got one of around eighty men, 530 00:38:26,440 --> 00:38:32,759 Speaker 1: and they were carrying not much really, little more than 531 00:38:32,840 --> 00:38:37,760 Speaker 1: like hunting weapons. They didn't have a stockpile of military 532 00:38:37,760 --> 00:38:43,200 Speaker 1: equipment like and we know this because like the Ohio 533 00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:48,239 Speaker 1: militia like eventually seized. Blair has its island and there 534 00:38:48,239 --> 00:38:52,200 Speaker 1: like wasn't like a stockpile of any shit there. Now, 535 00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:55,600 Speaker 1: bar claimed that his plan was simply to settle the 536 00:38:55,680 --> 00:38:58,680 Speaker 1: land with a large group of armed farmers, and if 537 00:38:58,719 --> 00:39:01,799 Speaker 1: war broke out, they would have a force capable of 538 00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:05,800 Speaker 1: defending themselves and you know, perhaps taking some territory in 539 00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:09,400 Speaker 1: their process. It is like why not? But right, so 540 00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:13,240 Speaker 1: he's like, this is what it was like, no harm novel, 541 00:39:13,520 --> 00:39:16,319 Speaker 1: because what if you go to work. I'm just keeping 542 00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:22,200 Speaker 1: myself safe and keeping these farmers safe and stuff. Now 543 00:39:22,640 --> 00:39:27,799 Speaker 1: there is another theory, and that is the Iron bar 544 00:39:28,160 --> 00:39:33,360 Speaker 1: Sir may have been planning to invade Spanish controlled Mexico 545 00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:39,440 Speaker 1: and establish an independent government there. There's hint to this, right, 546 00:39:40,600 --> 00:39:43,600 Speaker 1: not conclusive evidence, but those hints. But it's talked about 547 00:39:43,719 --> 00:39:45,480 Speaker 1: enough that I need to tell you about it, right, 548 00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:51,400 Speaker 1: So he and Wilkinson, Like, there's hints that he and 549 00:39:51,440 --> 00:39:56,480 Speaker 1: Wilkinson discussed encouraging the Western States and territories to secede 550 00:39:57,040 --> 00:40:03,560 Speaker 1: from the United States and with them joining with them 551 00:40:03,760 --> 00:40:10,120 Speaker 1: in Mexico to create a new empire modeled on Napoleon's France. 552 00:40:12,160 --> 00:40:15,200 Speaker 1: So the idea is that Burr had gone from disgrest 553 00:40:15,360 --> 00:40:23,200 Speaker 1: former vice president to maybe plotting his own little empire. Right. 554 00:40:24,680 --> 00:40:29,680 Speaker 1: But if that's the case, like his big ally was 555 00:40:30,200 --> 00:40:37,160 Speaker 1: incredibly untrustworthy. If that's the case, cause James Wilkinson was 556 00:40:37,280 --> 00:40:41,839 Speaker 1: secretly being paid by Spain and after almost getting into 557 00:40:41,840 --> 00:40:45,520 Speaker 1: a wee skirmish with Spanish forces in that Coadish, wilkins 558 00:40:45,560 --> 00:40:49,080 Speaker 1: In decided the safest way to protect himself was to 559 00:40:49,200 --> 00:40:55,960 Speaker 1: betray bart and so he snitched to both Spanish forces 560 00:40:56,080 --> 00:41:01,240 Speaker 1: or Spanish you know his Spanish contacts and President Thomas 561 00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:06,480 Speaker 1: Jefferson about bars plans, the plans that are totally burs 562 00:41:06,520 --> 00:41:12,040 Speaker 1: and no one else's. So Jefferson always quick off the Mark, 563 00:41:12,480 --> 00:41:16,279 Speaker 1: issued an order for Burr's arrest and publicly branded him 564 00:41:16,280 --> 00:41:21,839 Speaker 1: a traitor before he even got indicted. Like, so An Burr, 565 00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:25,200 Speaker 1: do you know how he finds out about the warrant? 566 00:41:26,360 --> 00:41:30,680 Speaker 1: He's reading a newspaper in New Orleans or New Orleans 567 00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:36,759 Speaker 1: Territory in eighteen oh seven, So now he found out 568 00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:40,120 Speaker 1: in January, and he tries to keep ahead of the authorities, 569 00:41:40,280 --> 00:41:43,480 Speaker 1: like trying to make his way toward Spanish Florida. But 570 00:41:43,560 --> 00:41:47,200 Speaker 1: he gets intercepted in Mississippi Territory in like what is 571 00:41:47,280 --> 00:41:54,040 Speaker 1: now Alabama on February nineteenth, eighteen oh seven. He's arrested 572 00:41:54,080 --> 00:41:58,839 Speaker 1: and held at Fort stort on charges of treason. And 573 00:41:58,880 --> 00:42:05,400 Speaker 1: then there's more, because of course there is. Aaron Barr 574 00:42:05,400 --> 00:42:09,200 Speaker 1: had been secretly corresponding with both the British and Spanish 575 00:42:09,280 --> 00:42:14,880 Speaker 1: ministers in Washington, trying to secure money and conceal what 576 00:42:15,040 --> 00:42:20,880 Speaker 1: may actually have been his ultimate goal, helping Mexico overthrow 577 00:42:21,040 --> 00:42:28,680 Speaker 1: Spanish rule in the Southwest. Now, exactly what Bart was 578 00:42:28,719 --> 00:42:33,320 Speaker 1: planning to do is still mucky, right, if he really 579 00:42:33,480 --> 00:42:36,680 Speaker 1: was planning to establish his own dynasty and what would 580 00:42:36,880 --> 00:42:42,640 Speaker 1: become Mexican territory, it wasn't really the massive crime that 581 00:42:42,719 --> 00:42:47,080 Speaker 1: Jefferson portrayed it as, because, like under the Neutrality Act 582 00:42:47,080 --> 00:42:51,040 Speaker 1: of seventeen ninety four, launching a private military expedition against 583 00:42:51,040 --> 00:42:54,640 Speaker 1: a country at peace where the United States was a crime, yes, 584 00:42:55,200 --> 00:43:02,719 Speaker 1: but at the time it was a misdemeanor. However, Jefferson 585 00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:11,600 Speaker 1: wanted baucharge something much more serious, treason, which maintains that 586 00:43:11,719 --> 00:43:17,760 Speaker 1: Aaron buzz increasingly bizarre Western adventure was about to become 587 00:43:18,320 --> 00:43:23,640 Speaker 1: one of the most sensational political trials in early American history. 588 00:43:24,960 --> 00:43:28,120 Speaker 1: His case ends up before Chief Justice John Marshall, who 589 00:43:28,160 --> 00:43:32,000 Speaker 1: was sitting as a federal circuit judge in Virginia. Now, 590 00:43:32,280 --> 00:43:35,640 Speaker 1: at the time, circuit courts, not the Supreme Court, had 591 00:43:35,680 --> 00:43:40,880 Speaker 1: the power to hear treason trials, and Marshall was about 592 00:43:40,960 --> 00:43:45,759 Speaker 1: to make things very awkward for the government because he 593 00:43:45,880 --> 00:43:50,920 Speaker 1: rules that under the Constitution, treason required an actual act 594 00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:55,480 Speaker 1: of war against the United States. Now, Iron Burme have 595 00:43:55,560 --> 00:44:03,120 Speaker 1: been scheming, plotting and being told suspecial, but the government 596 00:44:03,440 --> 00:44:07,320 Speaker 1: couldn't actually prove that he had committed an act of treason, 597 00:44:08,719 --> 00:44:14,160 Speaker 1: and so Chief Justice John Marshall acquitted him. So the 598 00:44:14,200 --> 00:44:20,879 Speaker 1: trial itself had become embarrassing for the prosecution because one 599 00:44:20,880 --> 00:44:23,640 Speaker 1: of the government's key pieces of evidence was a letter 600 00:44:23,840 --> 00:44:27,840 Speaker 1: supposedly written by Burr, and it was produced by his 601 00:44:28,080 --> 00:44:32,759 Speaker 1: ally slash enemy, his frenemy, if you will, General James Wilkinson. 602 00:44:34,960 --> 00:44:38,479 Speaker 1: The issue of this letter, you may be wondering, is that, 603 00:44:39,360 --> 00:44:44,839 Speaker 1: as it turned out, the letter wasn't actually in Buzz's handwriting, 604 00:44:45,560 --> 00:44:51,600 Speaker 1: it was in Wilkinson's. James Wilkinson admitted that he had 605 00:44:51,640 --> 00:44:55,839 Speaker 1: copied the original because he claimed to have conveniently lost it. 606 00:44:56,719 --> 00:45:03,480 Speaker 1: My what a crazy random happenstance. Shockingly enough, the jury 607 00:45:03,520 --> 00:45:06,600 Speaker 1: was not impressed with this, and Wilkinson becomes the laughing 608 00:45:06,640 --> 00:45:14,840 Speaker 1: stock of the courtroom. It's so Chief Justice John Marshall 609 00:45:15,040 --> 00:45:20,479 Speaker 1: like he he sticks firmly to this right. Article three 610 00:45:20,920 --> 00:45:24,560 Speaker 1: requires that treason either be confessed in open court or 611 00:45:24,760 --> 00:45:30,400 Speaker 1: proved by an overt act witness by two people, and 612 00:45:30,480 --> 00:45:34,840 Speaker 1: no witnesses could place Bar committing an act of treason. 613 00:45:36,200 --> 00:45:39,759 Speaker 1: So yeah, September first, eighteen oh seven, the jury found 614 00:45:39,840 --> 00:45:43,480 Speaker 1: him not guilty, but the government was not done yet. 615 00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:48,600 Speaker 1: He was immediately tried on a lesser misdemeanor child but 616 00:45:48,680 --> 00:45:57,200 Speaker 1: once again he was acquitted. Right, this case became like 617 00:45:58,760 --> 00:46:01,480 Speaker 1: a defining test of the separation of the Powells in 618 00:46:01,719 --> 00:46:08,000 Speaker 1: young United States. Right, Like President Jefferson was personally convinced 619 00:46:08,080 --> 00:46:11,680 Speaker 1: that Aaron Barr, Sir. Was guilty and used every ounce 620 00:46:11,800 --> 00:46:16,880 Speaker 1: of political influence he could to secure a conviction. However, 621 00:46:18,400 --> 00:46:23,080 Speaker 1: the judge refused to bend to presidential pressure. Now, whatever 622 00:46:23,120 --> 00:46:25,480 Speaker 1: he thought of Bob personally, him's to say, but the 623 00:46:25,560 --> 00:46:30,480 Speaker 1: evidence didn't meet the constitutional standard. And like even now 624 00:46:30,880 --> 00:46:36,080 Speaker 1: historians are like it, you know, they're they're log aheads, 625 00:46:37,120 --> 00:46:39,520 Speaker 1: like figuring out what Bob was actually planning to do. 626 00:46:43,920 --> 00:46:51,680 Speaker 1: Now where whether Burr was like a fantasist or an 627 00:46:51,680 --> 00:46:57,759 Speaker 1: opportunist or some kind of aspiring emperor, him's to say. 628 00:46:59,000 --> 00:47:02,440 Speaker 1: And he works free. But again reputation buckered up his 629 00:47:02,480 --> 00:47:07,960 Speaker 1: political career over and also he's spent so much money 630 00:47:10,080 --> 00:47:12,960 Speaker 1: as reputations in ruins, as creditors are closing in, and 631 00:47:13,040 --> 00:47:16,560 Speaker 1: so Burr leaves the United States in eighteen o eight 632 00:47:16,600 --> 00:47:19,800 Speaker 1: and spends the next four years in self imposed exile 633 00:47:19,880 --> 00:47:29,240 Speaker 1: across Europe, mainly living in London, but he travels through Scotland, Denmark, Sweden, Germany, France. 634 00:47:30,400 --> 00:47:34,560 Speaker 1: He even tried to revive his dream of conquering Mexico, 635 00:47:34,680 --> 00:47:40,440 Speaker 1: seeking financial backing, but like nobody was interested. Napoleon wouldn't 636 00:47:40,480 --> 00:47:44,759 Speaker 1: even agree to meet him right, and eventually Burr had 637 00:47:44,880 --> 00:47:51,240 Speaker 1: little choice but to return home. Back in New York 638 00:47:51,520 --> 00:47:59,320 Speaker 1: in eighteen twelve. Burr resumes practicing law quietly, sometimes using 639 00:47:59,320 --> 00:48:04,520 Speaker 1: his mother's maiden name Edwards to dodge creditals, but he 640 00:48:04,600 --> 00:48:10,399 Speaker 1: never returns to national politics. In eighteen thirty three, at 641 00:48:10,440 --> 00:48:13,600 Speaker 1: the age of seventy seven, he married one of the 642 00:48:13,600 --> 00:48:18,840 Speaker 1: wealthiest women in New York, Elizabeth Brown Jumel. It looked 643 00:48:20,080 --> 00:48:25,000 Speaker 1: briefly that his fortunes may have finally turned around. They 644 00:48:25,040 --> 00:48:30,400 Speaker 1: had not. Within a year, Barr had managed to flutter 645 00:48:30,480 --> 00:48:36,680 Speaker 1: away much of her wealth, and Elizabeth filed for divorce, 646 00:48:37,360 --> 00:48:41,120 Speaker 1: accusing him of adultery, and the marriage collapsed almost as 647 00:48:41,200 --> 00:48:43,440 Speaker 1: quickly as it began, and like he's in a seventies 648 00:48:43,800 --> 00:48:48,719 Speaker 1: like Barr, sir, where are you at? Like also adultery, 649 00:48:49,239 --> 00:48:53,880 Speaker 1: he's seventy seven? Who is chased? Who who is he 650 00:48:53,920 --> 00:48:57,000 Speaker 1: committing adultery with? Who wants a seventy seven year old 651 00:48:57,080 --> 00:49:02,120 Speaker 1: man in the eighteen hundreds? Like old men are weird now, 652 00:49:03,200 --> 00:49:05,520 Speaker 1: Like we all know everyone looked really old like in 653 00:49:05,560 --> 00:49:12,200 Speaker 1: the past. So like what he's what no? What no? Anyway, 654 00:49:13,280 --> 00:49:17,640 Speaker 1: after suffering two strokes, as in he had a stroke 655 00:49:17,840 --> 00:49:20,160 Speaker 1: and then he had another stroke, he's not you know, 656 00:49:20,200 --> 00:49:24,640 Speaker 1: get your head at the gutter. After suffering two strokes, 657 00:49:25,360 --> 00:49:27,880 Speaker 1: Aaron Barr died in a boarding house in Port Richmond 658 00:49:27,920 --> 00:49:33,160 Speaker 1: in Staten Island. He died on the fourteenth of September 659 00:49:33,200 --> 00:49:38,319 Speaker 1: eighteen thirty six, at eighty years old, and in a 660 00:49:38,440 --> 00:49:45,799 Speaker 1: final piece of just amazing timing, it was the very 661 00:49:45,880 --> 00:49:56,120 Speaker 1: same day his divorce from Elizabeth was officially finalized. He 662 00:49:56,280 --> 00:50:00,279 Speaker 1: was also like hugely in debt, spent month of his 663 00:50:00,360 --> 00:50:05,359 Speaker 1: later life like struggling financially, and the boarding house where 664 00:50:05,400 --> 00:50:08,880 Speaker 1: he died ended up being renamed to Saint James Hotel. 665 00:50:10,520 --> 00:50:13,200 Speaker 1: Burr was buried in Princeton, New Jersey near the grave 666 00:50:13,239 --> 00:50:17,840 Speaker 1: of his father, And so ended the life of Aaron Barr, 667 00:50:18,600 --> 00:50:24,919 Speaker 1: a former vice president, political schema alleged tretor possible would 668 00:50:24,960 --> 00:50:28,319 Speaker 1: be emperor and the man who killed Alexander Hamilton in 669 00:50:28,360 --> 00:50:34,799 Speaker 1: a duel, and so ends the story of Aaron Burr, sir. 670 00:50:38,400 --> 00:50:41,520 Speaker 1: So that's the story of Aaron Burr, sir. And like, listen, 671 00:50:41,680 --> 00:50:43,279 Speaker 1: as someone, you're gonna be well annoyed, gonna be like 672 00:50:43,360 --> 00:50:45,680 Speaker 1: she did the Aaron Burr sir. Like, if you didn't 673 00:50:45,680 --> 00:50:48,440 Speaker 1: do it along with me, that's your fault. You have 674 00:50:48,520 --> 00:50:53,200 Speaker 1: no whimsy, Okay. So I wanted to do this because 675 00:50:53,280 --> 00:50:55,960 Speaker 1: it's gonna get it's gonna get dark, because we're talking 676 00:50:56,000 --> 00:50:58,399 Speaker 1: about World War two. And actually I'm probably gonna say 677 00:50:58,400 --> 00:50:59,879 Speaker 1: this at the beginning of the next episode, but I'm 678 00:50:59,880 --> 00:51:01,279 Speaker 1: going to say it now at the end. So if 679 00:51:01,320 --> 00:51:07,120 Speaker 1: you've stayed this far, wonderful. I made a Nazi concentration 680 00:51:07,160 --> 00:51:12,120 Speaker 1: camp series last year and this year, like literally today, 681 00:51:13,320 --> 00:51:17,080 Speaker 1: it got one of my episodes got removed, the one 682 00:51:17,200 --> 00:51:21,799 Speaker 1: on Operation Lanehad, which is the final solution, right, and 683 00:51:22,120 --> 00:51:26,279 Speaker 1: it was removed for quote glorifying like hate things. And 684 00:51:26,320 --> 00:51:29,520 Speaker 1: I was like, whoa, whoa whoa, whoa. I'm literally providing 685 00:51:29,560 --> 00:51:32,080 Speaker 1: factual information about a horrible thing that happened, and I 686 00:51:32,080 --> 00:51:36,319 Speaker 1: stay clearly that it's terrible what is going on? And 687 00:51:36,360 --> 00:51:40,480 Speaker 1: I'm like, it's removed and I can't challenge it through meta. 688 00:51:41,600 --> 00:51:45,000 Speaker 1: I can challenge it in court, which is the which 689 00:51:45,040 --> 00:51:47,360 Speaker 1: is wild. I mean, I can't believe, like that's my 690 00:51:47,520 --> 00:51:51,440 Speaker 1: solution to this. And it's like I can't challenge it 691 00:51:51,640 --> 00:51:55,000 Speaker 1: in any way on on it, and it's like, what 692 00:51:55,080 --> 00:51:57,600 Speaker 1: is going on here? Because it's like, oh, between computers 693 00:51:57,600 --> 00:51:59,640 Speaker 1: and people. I'm like, great, let me talk to the 694 00:51:59,640 --> 00:52:02,800 Speaker 1: people please. But anyway, that's actually made it very concerning 695 00:52:02,800 --> 00:52:06,239 Speaker 1: for me regarding the next month. Is it meant to 696 00:52:06,239 --> 00:52:08,759 Speaker 1: be all about World War two? And I don't know 697 00:52:08,800 --> 00:52:10,120 Speaker 1: if I'm going to be able to talk about it 698 00:52:10,160 --> 00:52:14,080 Speaker 1: without stuff being removed, So that is concerning to me. 699 00:52:14,920 --> 00:52:17,919 Speaker 1: So I'll definitely be posting more on Patreon and more 700 00:52:17,960 --> 00:52:21,400 Speaker 1: on YouTube, just because that might be my only option. 701 00:52:22,520 --> 00:52:26,040 Speaker 1: But anyway, let's get back to less terrible things. And 702 00:52:26,080 --> 00:52:31,920 Speaker 1: it's recommendation time for watching Widows B. Now that was 703 00:52:31,920 --> 00:52:34,719 Speaker 1: a swell show. It's like it's kind of like a 704 00:52:34,800 --> 00:52:40,160 Speaker 1: supernatural Jaws, but from the mayor's perspective. Right, it'll make 705 00:52:40,280 --> 00:52:44,720 Speaker 1: sense when you watch it right. For listening, I'm currently 706 00:52:44,760 --> 00:52:50,600 Speaker 1: quite into Royal Swindle and for reading Thou Savage Women 707 00:52:51,080 --> 00:52:57,919 Speaker 1: by Blessing Adams. So enjoy, listen, and I shall see 708 00:52:57,960 --> 00:53:03,080 Speaker 1: you next time. Adios au revoir of Buidozer, my friends, 709 00:53:03,120 --> 00:53:03,480 Speaker 1: Babo