WEBVTT - Cinco de Mayo Special 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:03.040 On the Jordan Harbinger Show, You'll hear amazing stories from 0:00:03.080 --> 0:00:06.200 people that have lived them, from spies to CEOs, even 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:10.119 an undercover agent who infiltrated the Gambino crime family. You're 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:12.440 about to hear a preview of The Jordan Harbinger Show 0:00:12.480 --> 0:00:15.400 with Jack Garcia, who did just that. My career was 0:00:15.440 --> 0:00:19.200 twenty four out of twenty six years was solely dedicated 0:00:19.280 --> 0:00:22.160 working on the cover. I walk in, I'm in the bar. 0:00:22.640 --> 0:00:25.120 How there's a bar made? Dare good looking young lady 0:00:25.440 --> 0:00:27.240 see serving me? Joey, Hey, what would you like? I 0:00:27.360 --> 0:00:29.920 usually my frank was give me a kettle, one martini, 0:00:30.240 --> 0:00:33.479 three olives, class of water on the side. I finished 0:00:33.479 --> 0:00:36.320 the drink. The guys come in. I'm gonna go go 0:00:36.440 --> 0:00:39.680 in my pocket, take out the big wad of money. Hey, am, 0:00:39.680 --> 0:00:42.200 I give her one hundred hours. If you're with the mob, 0:00:42.400 --> 0:00:45.400 I say, hey, Jordan, you're on record with us. That 0:00:45.479 --> 0:00:48.400 means we protect you. Nobody could shake you down. We 0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:50.879 could shake you down. Oh, you're on record with us. 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:53.640 For more on how Jack became so trusted in the 0:00:53.680 --> 0:00:57.440 highest levels of the Gambino organization, check out episode three 0:00:57.600 --> 0:01:11.160 ninety two of the Jordan Harbinger Show. This is a 0:01:11.319 --> 0:01:24.520 Jesse Kelly Show. Oha and a very happy Sinko to 0:01:24.680 --> 0:01:29.320 Mayo from me Casa to Sue Cossa. Here on the 0:01:29.440 --> 0:01:33.560 Jesse Kelly Show. It's gonna be such a fun day, Chris, 0:01:33.800 --> 0:01:35.560 it's Sinco to Miyo. What are we doing with the 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:44.199 music man? Let's roll? Yeah, sir, turn up your radio. Ah, 0:01:47.440 --> 0:01:51.080 just the day that puts me in a good mood. Yes, sombrero, 0:01:51.360 --> 0:01:54.800 Jesse is in the house. You didn't think I was 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:57.160 gonna let you down? Did you? You might want to 0:01:57.240 --> 0:02:02.160 tune into my TV show tonight, at least tune into 0:02:02.240 --> 0:02:06.960 the opening of it. It's going to be so culturally 0:02:07.040 --> 0:02:10.640 appropriate and sensitive you're not going to believe it. On 0:02:10.680 --> 0:02:14.160 the jetse Kelly Show, we have Brandon Darby coming up 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:17.919 next hour. He's gonna, of course, come on and talk 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:24.160 about some cartail stuff. We have, well, the future of 0:02:24.240 --> 0:02:28.640 the GOP, what it's looking like. We have a whole 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:33.520 this COVID doctor Fauci. She has another doozy out there 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:35.880 for you. We'll get to all that in a bit. 0:02:35.960 --> 0:02:38.520 And somebody wants to know, what's what's my take on 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:44.400 the legalization of weed and other drugs. Well, we're gonna 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:48.720 talk about all that next, but I'm right, just kidding. 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:51.240 That's tonight. We're gonna talk about all that today on 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:55.640 The Jesse Kelly Show. But first, let's go to Mexico. 0:02:56.520 --> 0:03:01.800 Let's go to Mexico and talk about a dude you're 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:04.280 going to like by the time this story's over, I 0:03:04.320 --> 0:03:08.560 think I think you're going to like him. You have 0:03:08.639 --> 0:03:12.239 anybody in your life or anybody you've seen on TV 0:03:13.600 --> 0:03:16.040 that prompts you to say this when you see them 0:03:16.120 --> 0:03:18.560 or when you see them doing something where you constantly 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:23.120 are saying, this freaking guy, anyone like that, You probably 0:03:23.120 --> 0:03:25.720 have someone like You have some version of that. Maybe 0:03:25.840 --> 0:03:28.840 given its given your my listener, you probably maybe have 0:03:28.919 --> 0:03:32.920 a different version of that. But this freaking guy. When 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:38.280 I was digging through Santa Anna last night, I found 0:03:38.280 --> 0:03:41.920 myself saying that like ten times and laughing to myself. 0:03:42.440 --> 0:03:44.960 I'm just sitting there going over things for the show 0:03:45.000 --> 0:03:48.040 and going over the man's life, and I'm constantly all, wait, 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:53.160 what he did? What this freaking guy? He is a nutball. 0:03:53.880 --> 0:04:00.160 Now I can't decide what I think of him as 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:04.560 a whole. If you're an American and definitely for my 0:04:04.680 --> 0:04:09.200 Texas listeners, you were not brought up to think very 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:13.280 highly of Santa Anna. And we will go over why 0:04:13.320 --> 0:04:16.840 here in a while. That is perfectly understandable. You think 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:20.880 he's a butcher, the hitler of Mexico. I guess you 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:26.119 could make that argument. The people in Mexico didn't seem 0:04:26.160 --> 0:04:28.680 to know what to make of him. I will tell 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:31.200 you this, My overall impression I'm gonna lead with this 0:04:31.440 --> 0:04:34.960 now before we dig into his story, is he was 0:04:36.040 --> 0:04:40.640 a man made for the time he lived in. That's 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:44.400 what I will say about him. What is that time? Well, 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:48.440 he was born in the late seventeen hundred, seventeen ninety four, 0:04:48.480 --> 0:04:51.000 doesn't matter. Don't worry about the days. Late seventeen hundreds. 0:04:51.040 --> 0:04:54.960 He's born. And Vera Cruz. And let's pause for just 0:04:55.120 --> 0:04:59.359 a moment and talk about Vera Cruz, because it's actually 0:04:59.440 --> 0:05:02.200 going to come in to play in our story. It's 0:05:02.200 --> 0:05:05.719 in the Golf Coast part of Mexico. Okay, you understand me. 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:09.880 So far. They have a bit of a mosquito problem 0:05:09.960 --> 0:05:16.679 down there, a huge mosquito problem down there. And then 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:23.520 as now, mosquitos are absolutely well, they're horrible, and I 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:25.839 don't just mean because of the itchy bumpies they give you. 0:05:26.360 --> 0:05:29.800 I mean because they carry deadly diseases. But people die 0:05:29.920 --> 0:05:33.760 by the millions every year to this day because of 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:39.880 mosquito born viruses. The Golf coast where Santa Anna is born. 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:46.560 It has a bad yellow fever problem, a really really 0:05:46.600 --> 0:05:53.480 bad yellow fever problem. But the thing is, like most diseases, 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:57.760 once enough of a certain area gets exposed to it, 0:05:58.440 --> 0:06:04.200 oftentimes the people who still are alive develop an immunity 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:08.239 for it. Let's just go ahead and take that little 0:06:08.240 --> 0:06:12.400 tidbit and put that in your back pocket. Now, he 0:06:12.440 --> 0:06:15.919 grows up in a middle class family, and let's discuss 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:20.880 for a moment classes. Because you an American, if well, 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:22.680 this is for my American list, there's some there are 0:06:22.680 --> 0:06:24.360 some foreigners who listen to my show. This will make 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:28.760 sense too. We don't really understand classes here, and that's 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:32.200 a wonderful thing. It is a wonderful thing. You are 0:06:32.360 --> 0:06:37.400 very very blessed if you don't fully understand classes. And 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:40.320 no I'm not talking about lower class or middle class 0:06:40.400 --> 0:06:43.640 or upper class, depending on well, if you make over 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:46.880 one hundred thousand, no, no, no, no no, no, you have 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:51.479 to understand the society that Santa Anna is born into one. 0:06:51.560 --> 0:06:54.880 This is a Spanish colony at this point in the 0:06:55.000 --> 0:06:59.960 in our story, and classes in other societies and death 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:04.760 definitely here we're not lower, middle, and upper. It was okay, 0:07:04.880 --> 0:07:08.920 here's the aristocratic class. Here are the people who will 0:07:09.160 --> 0:07:12.000 lead you in, be in charge of you, and you 0:07:12.080 --> 0:07:15.960 will do as you're told. There's kind of what we 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:19.120 would consider our middle class. And there, of course above 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:21.880 all those lower class. This is, but they're not allowed 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:25.080 in the aristocratic class. Don't don't think for a moment 0:07:25.080 --> 0:07:27.280 you're going to earn enough money to get in here. 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:31.560 And and the way they lowered themselves over each other. 0:07:31.640 --> 0:07:35.640 And also it's a bloodline thing, a huge bloodline thing 0:07:35.760 --> 0:07:41.120 in Mexico. Well he was as it was really Spanish, 0:07:41.320 --> 0:07:43.600 I mean breeding with with with the Indians. And this 0:07:43.680 --> 0:07:47.400 is these guys were creoles. This guy had this too 0:07:47.480 --> 0:07:50.080 much of this blood in him. So because of this 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:52.560 amount of blood, he's not allowed in this class. It 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:55.640 was that kind of class system. I mean, you think 0:07:55.760 --> 0:08:00.760 it's so absurd, These these whiny babies today think racism 0:08:00.960 --> 0:08:03.040 is a thing today, and it is and it always 0:08:03.080 --> 0:08:06.080 will be. By the way that again, prejudice is human nature. 0:08:08.240 --> 0:08:10.320 If you're in America today, you don't even know what 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:15.360 racism is. They're doing the seventeen hundreds version of a 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:18.720 DNA test on you to determine what kind of job 0:08:18.800 --> 0:08:23.080 you're allowed to have. In Mexico, that ladies and gentlemen 0:08:23.480 --> 0:08:28.440 is prejudice. So that's the system he's growing up in. 0:08:29.400 --> 0:08:32.400 And I say it's a Spanish colony, and it is. 0:08:33.280 --> 0:08:36.960 But we are not in the fifteen sixteen hundreds anymore, 0:08:37.080 --> 0:08:40.520 where Spain was ruling the seas and conquering the world. 0:08:41.200 --> 0:08:45.480 We're approaching the eighteen hundreds now, and the Spanish Empire 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:49.600 is getting weaker and weaker and weaker and weaker, and 0:08:49.679 --> 0:08:52.080 eventually there will be a man, maybe you've holded, maybe 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:54.400 you've heard of him before, by the name of Napoleon, 0:08:54.760 --> 0:08:57.160 who will pretty much make sure he puts the finishing 0:08:57.200 --> 0:09:00.840 touches on that back to say to Anna, he's a 0:09:00.920 --> 0:09:05.000 smart kid. See his life. It's just pause for a 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:07.520 moment and let me say this. His life has so 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:10.680 many parts to it that I'm going to, in the 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:15.280 interest of time, give one sentence today to certain things 0:09:15.360 --> 0:09:18.439 that I could do. Entire shows on it's that big. 0:09:18.600 --> 0:09:21.679 You could do a ten part episode on Santa Anna 0:09:21.760 --> 0:09:23.920 and the various things he was involved in. So I 0:09:24.120 --> 0:09:27.880 if any part of this interests you, dig, you're gonna 0:09:27.920 --> 0:09:30.760 find a very, very fascinating life. All right. He's a 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:37.280 smart kid, sharp as attack, wildly charismatic very early on, 0:09:37.720 --> 0:09:42.360 but misbehaved in school, gets himself kicked out of school. 0:09:42.679 --> 0:09:46.400 And parents just know this to this day. If your 0:09:46.520 --> 0:09:49.520 child is misbehaving in school, yes, he may be a 0:09:49.559 --> 0:09:52.040 dirt ball. There's there's a chance about that. There's also 0:09:52.080 --> 0:09:54.800 a chance he's smarter than everyone else and he's bored. 0:09:54.960 --> 0:09:58.600 Keep that in mind, especially for boys. I'm not going 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:02.640 to get sidetracked here, but boys are not made to 0:10:02.920 --> 0:10:05.880 sit down and stare at a whiteboard for seven eight 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:08.760 hours a day. That's why all the girls get great 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:11.800 behavior reviews, and half the boys are told they're gonna 0:10:11.880 --> 0:10:14.720 end up in prison. They're not supposed to be there anyway. 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:19.000 He joins the military has to kind of twist his 0:10:19.120 --> 0:10:21.439 parents arm. His mom wanted him to join, his dad 0:10:21.480 --> 0:10:24.200 wanted him to go be a businessman. Joins the military 0:10:24.240 --> 0:10:28.280 though at the age of sixteen, and pretty much right 0:10:28.360 --> 0:10:31.360 away it's time for war. How's he do? 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I want to 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:32.680 know why she's yelling at people on the right to 0:12:32.720 --> 0:12:36.040 stop complaining about the Blue State exodus. We will talk 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:39.320 to her about that later on in the show. We 0:12:39.480 --> 0:12:45.720 have Canada getting ready for vaccine travel certification. There's a 0:12:45.760 --> 0:12:49.120 lot more to that than just a headline about Canada. 0:12:49.160 --> 0:12:51.840 We'll go into all that today. Back to Santa Anna. 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:54.800 His life is too long and too complicated for me 0:12:54.880 --> 0:12:58.600 to get distracted before I get to the stories. He 0:12:58.720 --> 0:13:03.800 joins the military boom. Mexican War of Independence kicks off. 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:09.600 Santa Anna, as he will do pretty much his entire life, 0:13:10.920 --> 0:13:14.480 licks his finger sticks it in the air to see 0:13:14.480 --> 0:13:17.560 which way the winds are blowing. He's looking at the 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:21.679 Mexican War of Independence and he's saying to himself, Oh, 0:13:21.720 --> 0:13:25.679 the Spanish are absolutely going to win this, and you 0:13:25.720 --> 0:13:27.600 should understand this, and I'm not going to go into 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:29.640 this too deep because we're gonna focus on Santa Anna 0:13:29.679 --> 0:13:36.440 today Mexico. Then in Mexico now it's a very very 0:13:36.640 --> 0:13:41.319 very divided place with various groups and states, and these 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:44.080 people fighting for this and these people fighting for that, 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:48.559 the Mexican War of Independence. Initially, you can really forgive 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:51.800 Santa Anna for thinking, oh, the Spanish are absolutely gonna 0:13:52.000 --> 0:13:55.160 gonna mop these guys up. I think I'll go ahead 0:13:55.160 --> 0:13:57.360 and fight for the Spanish. Remember it was a Spanish country, 0:13:57.360 --> 0:14:00.520 it's a Spanish colony, so technically he was fighting for 0:14:00.600 --> 0:14:06.319 his own country. And he's a fast riser in the military, 0:14:06.760 --> 0:14:13.600 very very very brave, goes up to Texas and he 0:14:13.720 --> 0:14:17.120 sees some combat in Texas as well. This is this 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:21.040 is past the Wars of Mexican independence. He's fighting a 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:25.680 war against Texas. And let's pause there because we're going 0:14:25.760 --> 0:14:31.720 to come back to that. Understand that Texas was a 0:14:31.920 --> 0:14:35.160 French place, and then a Spanish place, and then eventually 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:37.920 a Mexican place, and this is going to be a 0:14:38.040 --> 0:14:42.680 complicated affair in an important part of his life. Throughout 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:45.880 his life. In fact, Santa Anna cried when he talked 0:14:45.920 --> 0:14:48.760 about Texas is how much he loved it and to 0:14:48.920 --> 0:14:51.160 this day. And this is difficult for people who don't 0:14:51.200 --> 0:14:57.040 reside in Texas to understand. Mexican culture and Texan culture 0:14:57.440 --> 0:15:01.240 are intertwined, very much intertwined. And I've lived in other 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:04.200 parts of the country where that's not necessarily the case. 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:07.720 There's a real separation there. It's not that way here, 0:15:07.960 --> 0:15:10.960 it really is not. I mean, it's glorious. I love it. 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:14.400 The food's fantastic. It's just different here. When it comes 0:15:14.440 --> 0:15:18.840 to that, the Texas was hotly, hotly disputed. We'll get 0:15:18.880 --> 0:15:21.600 to all that information in just a second. He does 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:25.440 get wounded as he's fighting against these Texans. He loses 0:15:25.600 --> 0:15:28.480 his life, he loses his leg at one point in 0:15:28.520 --> 0:15:30.400 his life, and we'll go over that a little bit 0:15:30.840 --> 0:15:34.760 later on. But he's wounded, he's get sighted for bravery 0:15:34.840 --> 0:15:38.720 fighting the Texans. This is a guy who is I 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:41.960 don't want to say he's an outstanding military commander. Although 0:15:41.960 --> 0:15:45.480 he did call himself the Napoleon of the West, which 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:49.280 is hilarious giving himself that nickname. That's something I would 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:52.359 do as a joke. He legitimately did it as himself, 0:15:52.920 --> 0:15:57.440 but he is a charismatic leader. His men love him, 0:15:58.400 --> 0:16:03.400 women love him. Women loved Santa Anna. He did, at 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:06.960 the age of thirty one eventually marry a fourteen year old. 0:16:07.320 --> 0:16:10.520 And I understand there are some cultural differences there, but 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:16.120 man is that is still kind of creepy anyway, very 0:16:16.200 --> 0:16:20.080 much a charismatic individual. His men. Part of the reason 0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:22.160 they loved him was he didn't grow up in the 0:16:22.240 --> 0:16:26.760 upper upper class, so he actually did not like the elites, 0:16:26.800 --> 0:16:30.440 the aristocrats, the politicians. He was much more at home 0:16:30.560 --> 0:16:33.720 going to a cock fight with his men doing things 0:16:33.760 --> 0:16:39.720 the more blue collar men did grow up, Chris, the 0:16:39.760 --> 0:16:41.960 cock fights of the roosters that fight each other and 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:46.400 they put blades on there. That's enough, all right. So 0:16:46.600 --> 0:16:54.480 revolution is brewing again, revolution against the Spanish. Santa Anna 0:16:54.560 --> 0:16:59.600 this time he doesn't think the Spanish are going to 0:16:59.640 --> 0:17:02.720 pull this one out, so he switched his sides, and 0:17:02.840 --> 0:17:07.800 this time Santa Anna fights against the Spanish, and of 0:17:07.840 --> 0:17:14.920 course Mexico wins their independence. Now, once they win independence 0:17:14.960 --> 0:17:18.359 from Spain, once they get the Spanish yoke off their back, 0:17:19.119 --> 0:17:22.119 as often is the case, remember you live, you are 0:17:22.200 --> 0:17:25.119 blessed to live in the exception, as often is the 0:17:25.200 --> 0:17:29.919 case they didn't replace Spanish oppressive rule with freedom and 0:17:30.000 --> 0:17:32.880 you know, a republic in a constitution and let's all 0:17:32.920 --> 0:17:36.719 have an election. They ended up getting a Mexican dictator, 0:17:36.800 --> 0:17:41.399 now a Mexican a Mexican emperor. And this guy doesn't 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:44.480 last very long. I'm not even going to come close 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:47.360 to going into all the presidents and dictators and emperors 0:17:47.400 --> 0:17:50.119 they had, because they had one every other week. Just 0:17:50.320 --> 0:17:55.320 no Santa Anna chooses to for one. This guy puts 0:17:55.359 --> 0:17:58.639 Santa Anna in charge of a post and then removes 0:17:58.680 --> 0:18:01.360 the post from him. In Santa Anna gets mad right 0:18:01.400 --> 0:18:04.160 about the time everybody was getting mad at this new emperor. 0:18:04.400 --> 0:18:07.560 So Santa Anna decides to revolt about the time everyone 0:18:07.600 --> 0:18:11.440 else does too, and Santa Anna promptly gets his teeth 0:18:11.560 --> 0:18:13.880 kicked in and a couple of battles from this emperor. 0:18:14.400 --> 0:18:17.040 But he does pull off these things that make him 0:18:17.119 --> 0:18:19.960 a legend in Mexico to this day. What kind of things. 0:18:21.359 --> 0:18:25.280 He would take over a church and dress his men's 0:18:25.359 --> 0:18:28.880 up like he dresses men's, dress his men up like nuns, 0:18:28.920 --> 0:18:31.919 and have them shoot at the guy's troops when they 0:18:31.960 --> 0:18:34.000 were coming in, and the troops wouldn't shoot back because 0:18:34.000 --> 0:18:38.000 they were worried they'd actually kill a nun. Another thing 0:18:38.040 --> 0:18:41.040 he did was remember that whole yellow fever thing. Well, 0:18:41.040 --> 0:18:43.840 the emperor and his guys weren't from the Golf coast portion. 0:18:44.200 --> 0:18:48.000 Santa Anna pretty much retreats back to the Golf coast. 0:18:48.560 --> 0:18:51.760 The Emperor comes tracking him down and all his men 0:18:51.880 --> 0:18:54.480 start to die of yellow fever, and he asked to leave. 0:18:54.520 --> 0:18:57.280 Santa Anna's totally fine with all his troops. I don't 0:18:57.280 --> 0:18:59.040 know why you guys are sick for. It's nice down here, 0:18:59.080 --> 0:19:06.080 no big deal, all right now, It's an odd, complicated conflict, 0:19:06.160 --> 0:19:08.760 will go over another time, but just know, at the 0:19:08.880 --> 0:19:11.679 end of it, after about a year, the emperor leaves. 0:19:11.720 --> 0:19:14.440 All right, I get it, you guys don't want another emperor. 0:19:14.880 --> 0:19:21.240 Mexico becomes a republic. They have elections. Are they all 0:19:21.320 --> 0:19:24.439 the most up and up elections in the world. Not necessarily? 0:19:24.880 --> 0:19:27.520 By the way, is any of this sounding familiar at all? 0:19:28.560 --> 0:19:31.320 Are you any of you right now saying to yourself, Wow, 0:19:31.359 --> 0:19:35.560 this all sounds like Mexico hasn't changed at all. It's 0:19:35.600 --> 0:19:39.760 because it hasn't. This is not that long ago. Realize 0:19:39.800 --> 0:19:43.200 that we're talking about two hundred years ago. That's over 0:19:44.480 --> 0:19:47.760 the lengths of time we deal with in history, that's 0:19:47.840 --> 0:19:51.840 not that long. And sadly, because you know, I genuinely 0:19:51.880 --> 0:19:53.879 love the country. I love the people, love the food, 0:19:54.040 --> 0:19:58.760 love the beaches. Sadly, they just have never gotten their 0:19:58.760 --> 0:20:01.439 act together. It's all always been this way, and it 0:20:01.480 --> 0:20:03.840 will be this way for the rest of our story. 0:20:03.920 --> 0:20:05.440 And I don't know how long it's going to keep 0:20:05.480 --> 0:20:08.280 being this way into the future. We're gonna ask Brandon Darby, 0:20:08.280 --> 0:20:11.560 our Mexico expert, on that in about an hour from now, 0:20:12.840 --> 0:20:16.920 you have a new president he leaves, and a new 0:20:16.960 --> 0:20:20.679 president and leaves. There are there is a constant state 0:20:20.760 --> 0:20:24.640 of rebellion right now in Mexico. I just fast forwarded 0:20:24.680 --> 0:20:28.159 over about ten eleven years, and there are more factions 0:20:28.200 --> 0:20:31.000 and rebellions, and these people are rising up, and these 0:20:31.000 --> 0:20:34.080 people think they're overtaxed, and these people don't like the emperor. 0:20:34.160 --> 0:20:37.439 It's just a constant state of chaos. And that's what 0:20:37.520 --> 0:20:39.639 I want you to understand about Santa Ana more than 0:20:39.640 --> 0:20:42.320 anything else, as we go through his life. His life 0:20:42.440 --> 0:20:45.800 is wild and chaotic, and he's on this side one 0:20:45.880 --> 0:20:48.480 day and that side another day, and that can make 0:20:48.560 --> 0:20:52.080 him look bad until you realize that was the world 0:20:52.160 --> 0:20:56.159 in which he lived, a chaotic place where your friends 0:20:56.200 --> 0:20:58.560 one day and enemies the next, and back to being 0:20:58.680 --> 0:21:01.560 friends and killing each other the next. In this government 0:21:01.600 --> 0:21:07.080 and that government, it's crazy crazy nineteen thirty two or 0:21:07.119 --> 0:21:11.200 eighteen thirty two, I'm sorry, leads another rebellion. Santa Anna 0:21:11.280 --> 0:21:13.360 actually leads this one. I know you're gonna find that shocking. 0:21:14.480 --> 0:21:19.640 This time, he actually becomes president, only he didn't want 0:21:19.680 --> 0:21:23.840 to be president. That's gonna be a problem. We'll go 0:21:23.920 --> 0:21:26.800 over why that's gonna be a problem before we get 0:21:26.840 --> 0:21:43.080 to everything else, including a Derek chauvingjuror problem. Hang on, 0:21:49.080 --> 0:21:52.359 I'm trying to I'm trying to bring this across to 0:21:52.400 --> 0:21:55.200 you in a way that doesn't make me sound obsessive. 0:21:55.640 --> 0:21:58.960 But I'll be honest. I am obsessive about my gear. 0:21:59.600 --> 0:22:02.800 I am when I go to one of the big 0:22:02.840 --> 0:22:06.479 box hunting and fishing stores and I look around at 0:22:06.480 --> 0:22:09.560 the gear in there. I don't walk in and grab 0:22:09.880 --> 0:22:13.439 this pack, or grab this holster or grab that. I 0:22:13.560 --> 0:22:18.720 just don't do it. 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All right, he becomes president, 0:23:31.600 --> 0:23:35.119 didn't want to be president, so and what an altar. 0:23:35.280 --> 0:23:38.640 It's an all time boss move. Santa Anna gets elected 0:23:38.680 --> 0:23:43.159 president and just decides, you know, I'm not really into it. 0:23:43.680 --> 0:23:46.520 I'm going back home. And he just had this hacienda 0:23:46.600 --> 0:23:49.240 he loved, you know, hang out with the fama, give 0:23:49.280 --> 0:23:52.880 the ladies some smooches. He lets the vice president take 0:23:52.920 --> 0:23:56.600 over and really run the country. And the vice president 0:23:56.640 --> 0:23:59.520 does to say he doesn't do well, it would be 0:23:59.520 --> 0:24:07.760 putting it wildly. Throughout this story, Mexico was running into serious, 0:24:07.840 --> 0:24:12.359 serious financial problems. Was really they just could never get 0:24:12.400 --> 0:24:16.200 their economy off the ground. And their vice president decided 0:24:16.280 --> 0:24:19.760 he was going to pillage the church, the Catholic Church, 0:24:19.800 --> 0:24:23.200 in order to get said money. And you can imagine 0:24:23.200 --> 0:24:27.320 how well that went over. That went over not so well, 0:24:28.119 --> 0:24:31.600 and eventually the vice president has to step down. When 0:24:31.600 --> 0:24:33.879 he does, Santa Ana was like, all right, and I 0:24:33.880 --> 0:24:36.399 guess I'll come step in and actually do my job. 0:24:37.840 --> 0:24:41.400 Which brings us to the point in our story where 0:24:41.400 --> 0:24:44.119 we're going to talk about probably the most important part 0:24:44.160 --> 0:24:47.760 of the story, at least in your mind, in my mind, Texas. 0:24:49.320 --> 0:24:53.920 What was Texas like? Well, I'll be honest with you. 0:24:55.400 --> 0:24:58.119 I moved to Texas on purpose. I'm not a native Texan, 0:24:58.200 --> 0:25:00.399 as you well know. Born in Ohio, I grew up 0:25:00.400 --> 0:25:04.800 in Montana. I've lived everywhere, Arizona, DC, I've lived everywhere. 0:25:05.119 --> 0:25:10.160 I moved to Texas specifically because I loved Texas so much. 0:25:10.200 --> 0:25:12.560 Remember I moved here without a job, just because I 0:25:12.600 --> 0:25:16.560 wanted to live in Texas. That's how much I love it. However, 0:25:17.080 --> 0:25:21.800 let's be honest about one thing. The weather in Texas 0:25:22.640 --> 0:25:31.560 is indefensibly bad, in defensively bad. It is terrible. Absolutely, 0:25:31.920 --> 0:25:35.879 there's not one redeeming quality about Texas weather. There's just 0:25:35.920 --> 0:25:39.280 simply not it's not good. Now, why does that matter. 0:25:39.400 --> 0:25:42.960 That's not me complaining about the weather. What it is 0:25:42.960 --> 0:25:47.280 is understand what that means for a settler back in 0:25:47.320 --> 0:25:52.600 the seventeen hundreds eighteen hundreds, When the weather is this bad, 0:25:53.800 --> 0:25:56.880 it's hard to get people to come here. And there 0:25:56.960 --> 0:26:00.000 was something else about Texas during this time. Remember Mexico 0:26:00.240 --> 0:26:05.600 owned Texas during this time. Indian wise, there's something about 0:26:05.600 --> 0:26:09.439 this state that simply attracted the absolute most violent ones 0:26:11.040 --> 0:26:13.320 there were. There was a right down close to me, 0:26:14.440 --> 0:26:17.920 close to Houston. There's a coastal city called Galveston. You've 0:26:17.960 --> 0:26:21.640 probably heard of Galveston. In the Galveston area, they had 0:26:21.680 --> 0:26:25.880 a gigantic tribe of Indians that would eat you. Yes, 0:26:25.960 --> 0:26:29.439 they were cannibal Indians. Oh and if you managed to 0:26:29.560 --> 0:26:33.360 somehow get north of them without getting eaten, you're probably 0:26:33.400 --> 0:26:36.119 going to run into the most powerful Indian tribe in 0:26:36.160 --> 0:26:39.720 the history of America. The Commanche the command Shee were 0:26:39.760 --> 0:26:43.480 so powerful they ran the Apache out west. The Commanche 0:26:43.480 --> 0:26:46.360 took on the US Army multiple times and did well 0:26:46.440 --> 0:26:49.679 for themselves. And if they get ahold of you, brother, 0:26:50.080 --> 0:26:52.280 you better hope they don't get ahold of you alive. 0:26:52.440 --> 0:26:54.960 I'll put it to you that way, you're going to 0:26:55.040 --> 0:26:59.320 find yourself tied to a wagon wheel, burning alive if 0:26:59.400 --> 0:27:04.920 your luck. The Texas was just a hostile place. The 0:27:04.960 --> 0:27:10.720