WEBVTT - No Protection 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:03.760 Your holster is way more important than you think it is. 0:00:04.280 --> 0:00:06.640 It's just way more important than you think it is. 0:00:06.720 --> 0:00:09.880 What look, and I get that the holsters not the 0:00:10.600 --> 0:00:13.560 sexy part of carrying firearms. All right, You want to 0:00:13.560 --> 0:00:15.920 talk about your weapon and your ammunition. You want to 0:00:15.920 --> 0:00:17.919 talk about your safety training. You want to talk about 0:00:18.000 --> 0:00:20.080 how you did at the range. Oh, look at my groups. 0:00:20.120 --> 0:00:21.959 I was doing these failure drills today, and all that 0:00:21.960 --> 0:00:24.120 stuff is really important. I mean, really really important. I'm 0:00:24.160 --> 0:00:27.560 not discounting that, but I've known so many people who 0:00:27.600 --> 0:00:30.000 do all those things. They take all the necessary steps, 0:00:30.800 --> 0:00:34.199 and then they carry with a holster they bought from 0:00:34.200 --> 0:00:36.879 a big box hunting store that was made a thousand 0:00:36.920 --> 0:00:40.040 at a time. Please don't put your life in one 0:00:40.080 --> 0:00:44.360 of those holsters. You need to trust Northwest Retention Systems 0:00:44.400 --> 0:00:48.840 because it's all custom made gear. It's the only thing 0:00:48.880 --> 0:00:54.520 I carry around NW Retention dot Com. That's NW Retention 0:00:54.600 --> 0:00:57.520 dot Com used to promo co Jesse gets you ten 0:00:57.560 --> 0:01:23.520 percent off. This is the Jesse Kelly show well canceling 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:31.720 vacation plans to Atlanta. Have you ever thought about what 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:36.880 it would feel like to be scalped scouted like the 0:01:36.920 --> 0:01:44.920 Indians did somebody grabs ahold of the front patch of 0:01:45.000 --> 0:01:48.440 your hair. They're gonna get as much skin with it 0:01:48.480 --> 0:01:54.040 as they can. They're going to yank up, and then 0:01:54.080 --> 0:01:59.440 a blade, probably not even a razor sharp one saws 0:01:59.720 --> 0:02:06.920 your scalp off the top of your head in front 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:14.119 of your family. We'll come back to that. Remember, I'm 0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:18.720 giving you a part two today, A brief part two 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:23.280 today in the Mexican American War. Never done a part 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:31.080 two before. But here's the thing. We geniuses. We just 0:02:31.160 --> 0:02:35.840 do creative what Chris, We just do creative stuff that 0:02:36.000 --> 0:02:40.120 just it's just so impressive. I mean, and doing radio 0:02:41.480 --> 0:02:44.800 for a living maybe the hardest job on the planet. 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:49.639 And what Chris, and I know, I make it look easy, 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:52.600 But do you have any idea how difficult it is 0:02:52.639 --> 0:02:54.840 to put on a T shirt and come sit in 0:02:54.919 --> 0:03:00.560 this chair and talk for three hours a day. It's brutal, brutal. 0:03:00.840 --> 0:03:04.960 It's like breaking bricks essentially. If you're on the construction 0:03:05.000 --> 0:03:07.480 site right now, I know what you're going through. I'm 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:10.760 doing it too, buddy. This is my version of pounding nails. 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:16.360 And I considered this yesterday in my super genius brain. 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:21.000 I kind of have a couple more things, a couple 0:03:21.520 --> 0:03:23.800 little battles I want to talk about in the Mexican 0:03:23.800 --> 0:03:26.360 American War. Maybe I'll do it another time. You know what, No, 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:32.080 I'm doing it tomorrow. What Chris, that's called rebel thinking. Chris, 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:36.640 you wouldn't understand that because your IQ is fifty mine. 0:03:36.680 --> 0:03:38.440 I mean it's probably nine hundred. I don't know, I've 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:44.360 never been tested. Now, remember where we are in the 0:03:44.400 --> 0:03:52.160 Mexican American War. Let's start out with Texas. Essentially, we 0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:58.240 tried to buy everything Mexico air fingers quote owned in America, 0:03:58.320 --> 0:04:04.200 and they did own it. I shouldn't air fingers quoted, California, Utah, Arizona, 0:04:04.240 --> 0:04:07.840 New Mexico. A big portion of Texas were Mexican territories. 0:04:07.840 --> 0:04:13.520 But remember Mexico was in absolute disarray, a new leader 0:04:13.560 --> 0:04:16.560 every few months, a new coup every few months, economy 0:04:16.600 --> 0:04:21.480 wiped out, and as such, they really left these territories alone. 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:27.160 They would have a general there, maybe some troops there, 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:30.880 but oftentimes not even troops, like they did not govern 0:04:30.920 --> 0:04:34.400 these places. They were part of Mexico, but these places 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:40.719 were completely on their own, and they did what human 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:44.680 beings have been doing since the beginning of time. It 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:50.279 wasn't just complete chaos. They organized their own little mini 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:53.960 governments in leadership in their own way. And that's human nature. 0:04:56.640 --> 0:05:03.520 Human nature seeks out some form of order because it 0:05:03.560 --> 0:05:09.760 feels safe. Human nature is some people. Few people will 0:05:09.800 --> 0:05:15.599 be leaders. Most people will follow along and will want leaders. 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:18.520 It's one of those things natural leaders, which you may 0:05:18.560 --> 0:05:20.080 be one you may not be. And it's not like 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:21.880 that's a good or bad thing. It's just the way 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:29.080 God made you. Natural leaders have a difficult time understanding 0:05:29.120 --> 0:05:35.800 people who aren't leaders. I find myself doing it. To 0:05:35.839 --> 0:05:39.960 be honest, think for yourself, what's wrong with you idiots? 0:05:40.000 --> 0:05:43.400 You've heard me yell like that before. The truth is 0:05:44.400 --> 0:05:49.719 most people don't want to don't have the ability to 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:53.600 a combination of the two. They don't want to have 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:59.480 to think for themselves look into it for themselves. Maybe 0:05:59.480 --> 0:06:01.320 they don't even have the time to do so. I 0:06:02.000 --> 0:06:03.640 got ten minutes to watch the news. Just tell me 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:06.440 what to think of. Move on, But I don't want 0:06:06.440 --> 0:06:11.280 to get sidetracked here. So understand Texas where they invited 0:06:11.440 --> 0:06:14.920 the American settlers in to form a buffer between them 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:21.720 and the comanches. New Mexico, California, was huge on this. 0:06:22.440 --> 0:06:26.200 They left these territories alone. Now that was good and bad. 0:06:27.520 --> 0:06:30.040 The good news is, hey, it's not like you're under 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:34.440 a really repressive Mexican government. I mean, you haven't seen 0:06:34.440 --> 0:06:38.440 a Mexican in ages. The bad news is you also 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:42.240 don't get the services and protection of the Mexican government. 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:48.039 And this is still heavy, heavy, heavy Indian country. Remember Comanches, 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:54.400 we're talking apaches, pueblos, utes. Some of these people peaceful, 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:57.080 some of these people very not so very much, not 0:06:57.200 --> 0:07:01.000 so apaches. I mean we talked about comanches yesterday. Apaches 0:07:01.040 --> 0:07:06.520 were ferocious people and they hated Mexicans, and Mexicans hated them, 0:07:07.839 --> 0:07:13.040 and they were constantly raiding each other, taking slaves from 0:07:13.040 --> 0:07:18.320 each other. You remember the famous Apache chief Geronimo. Everybody's 0:07:18.320 --> 0:07:23.480 heard of Geronimo. His awesome words on his deathbed when 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:25.880 they asked him if he had any regrets in life, 0:07:26.240 --> 0:07:31.680 and he said, I wish I killed more Mexicans. That's hardcore. 0:07:32.040 --> 0:07:35.760 That's hatred right there. So if you're a settler, if 0:07:35.760 --> 0:07:40.800 you're pushing out west, and yeah, it's Mexican territory, but 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:45.360 this is dangerous. This is dangerous stuff. You're going to 0:07:45.440 --> 0:07:48.600 seek out other settlers. You're going to seek out protection. 0:07:50.160 --> 0:07:52.800 You are all going to be armed. Isn't it so 0:07:52.880 --> 0:07:55.360 funny how society changes and this is going to come 0:07:55.400 --> 0:08:00.360 back here. You're all going to be armed. There was 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:04.960 Now I'm just not comfortable with guns. No, not now 0:08:05.000 --> 0:08:10.480 that little billy's been born. What if he plays with it? No, 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:17.560 everybody had firearms ever, rewe And it should be noted 0:08:17.760 --> 0:08:21.280 not all the Indian tribes were warlike, and even some 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:24.520 of the ones who were would come to agreements, would 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:27.880 come to you know, they would start loose treaties with 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:32.040 the settlers and settlements. It wasn't always hostile. We like 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:34.400 to look back on it as all the Indians and 0:08:34.400 --> 0:08:37.000 the settlers were always at each other's throats. That's not 0:08:37.040 --> 0:08:42.520 necessarily true. Hostilities would rise and fall, but they could 0:08:42.559 --> 0:08:46.920 and did help each other a lot. But let's go 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:55.400 back to Texas. Remember how James Polk, the President, tries 0:08:55.440 --> 0:08:58.800 to buy all this stuff from Mexico and moves an 0:08:58.880 --> 0:09:07.000 army down there, and they eventually just decide America does oh, 0:09:07.000 --> 0:09:09.720 Texas is part of America. Now Texas wanted to be 0:09:09.800 --> 0:09:12.080 part of America. They went from being the Republican of 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:15.640 Texas to part of America, and everybody's happy, right, Well, no, 0:09:16.040 --> 0:09:23.640 because we America and we Texans I get to claim both. 0:09:24.920 --> 0:09:27.560 We all decided that the Rio grand was going to 0:09:27.600 --> 0:09:31.120 be the border of where Texas in Mexico. You know 0:09:31.160 --> 0:09:35.640 that dividing line. Mexico thought it was well north off there. 0:09:38.760 --> 0:09:43.800 And remember the President Polk moved an army under zach 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:48.559 Old Rough and Ready Taylor down to that northern Mexican 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:53.800 border where Mexico viewed it. Once we brought in Texas, 0:09:55.160 --> 0:10:01.680 once Mexico rejected our offers to purchase it, we went 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:07.040 ahead and decided, well it's time to go to war. 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:12.560 Now here's the issue then and now. We try to 0:10:12.600 --> 0:10:19.319 simplify history, but remember there are always differences of opinion 0:10:19.480 --> 0:10:23.760 in any government, always and throughout American history. We look 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:26.480 at the things that happened and act like, oh, everybody 0:10:26.559 --> 0:10:31.400 must have been on board with it. Everybody was very 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:33.840 much not on board with going to war with Mexico. 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:51.640 I go, is he smarter than everyone who knows? Does 0:10:51.679 --> 0:11:00.160 he think? So? Yeah? That Jesse Kelly show. You need 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:03.640 a good night's sleep, and you need one every single night, 0:11:03.800 --> 0:11:07.240 and if you're not getting one, I know what you're 0:11:07.280 --> 0:11:10.840 going through. I know what it's like to have your 0:11:10.840 --> 0:11:13.960 eyes burning, to have your mind feel like it's in 0:11:13.960 --> 0:11:17.840 a fog all the time, to feel a little short tempered. 0:11:17.880 --> 0:11:19.960 Then you feel bad about being short tempered. I know, 0:11:20.640 --> 0:11:23.319 to feel lazy. Oh do you finally get done with work? 0:11:23.360 --> 0:11:24.920 What do you want to do when you're tired? You 0:11:25.000 --> 0:11:27.280 just want to go home and just sit down. It sucks, 0:11:27.960 --> 0:11:30.360 and you know you don't have to live like that, right, 0:11:31.240 --> 0:11:33.360 you can go get an EBB Sleep like I've been 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:38.760 telling you about and start sleeping every single night, without chemicals, 0:11:38.760 --> 0:11:42.120 without pills, without anything. It's a wearable device. You put 0:11:42.120 --> 0:11:46.360 it on your head. It provides precise, continuous cooling to 0:11:46.440 --> 0:11:49.960 your forehead, puts you asleep. You got to try ebb 0:11:50.120 --> 0:11:54.960 dot com slash Jesse. That's try ebb dot com. Slash 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:58.400 Jesse used to promo co Jesse at checkout get twenty 0:11:58.400 --> 0:12:17.360 five bucks off. You're James Polk. You want to go 0:12:17.440 --> 0:12:22.040 to war with Mexico because you want this territory. This 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:25.120 was James Polk. Polk was a Democrat. It wasn't democrats 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:29.080 and Republicans. It was democrats in wigs back then and 0:12:29.280 --> 0:12:33.240 Polk really really really wanted this territory in Mexico, would 0:12:33.280 --> 0:12:37.560 not sell it. And remember, manifest destiny was a big thing, 0:12:38.160 --> 0:12:42.599 and so what do you do. Remember this is in 0:12:42.679 --> 0:12:47.680 an era before the president of the United States had 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:50.400 the ability to just decide he wanted to go to war. 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:53.360 This was, you know, back when Congress had to vote 0:12:53.400 --> 0:12:57.520 for that. We used to be all about that separation 0:12:57.559 --> 0:13:06.000 of power's life. And Polk had people like John Quincy Adams, 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:10.560 who it's really cool, by the way, John Quincy Adams. Yeah, 0:13:10.600 --> 0:13:13.280 that John Quincy Adams, the President of the United States, 0:13:13.320 --> 0:13:18.800 son of John Adams. He was. When he was done 0:13:18.880 --> 0:13:22.360 being president, he went back to being a member of 0:13:22.360 --> 0:13:26.160 the House of Representatives. Thomas Jefferson did this same thing 0:13:26.200 --> 0:13:29.160 when he was done being president. He went back to 0:13:29.280 --> 0:13:33.520 being a member of the House of Representatives. That's how 0:13:33.640 --> 0:13:37.839 much they treasured the people's House. They thought that thing was. 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:42.600 That was really really where the country was governed from. 0:13:43.280 --> 0:13:47.360 Kind of a different America, right, probably a much better America. 0:13:47.640 --> 0:13:51.600 But people like John Quincy Adams was dead set against 0:13:51.600 --> 0:13:55.800 this war. They viewed it as completely immoral. This is 0:13:55.840 --> 0:14:03.240 a war of conquest. We don't do that here. Nevertheless, 0:14:03.400 --> 0:14:09.360 you're still the president and you still have some some 0:14:09.520 --> 0:14:13.600 ability to manipulate things the way you want to go. So, look, 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:16.160 you don't have to declare war. You don't have to 0:14:16.200 --> 0:14:19.400 go down there and start shooting people. All you have 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:24.520 to do is send some armies down there across the 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:29.640 border for maybe a little quick scouting mission. Maybe you 0:14:30.800 --> 0:14:33.880 lost somebody from your unit. I don't know what happened 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:36.240 to it. Look, we got to form a search party. 0:14:38.080 --> 0:14:42.880 And you're Mexico. You've just rejected these huge offers. You're 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:45.960 a little salty about the American troops on your border, 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:49.280 and I know you're gonna find this shocking. But surprise, surprise, 0:14:49.600 --> 0:14:53.680 they get yet another coup in Mexico with a hugely, 0:14:54.320 --> 0:15:00.800 hugely anti American dude takeover. Well, we we'd send one 0:15:00.800 --> 0:15:06.600 of these kind of scouting parties into Mexico. Not really Mexico, 0:15:06.920 --> 0:15:11.000 depends on who you ask. We think it's Texas, Mexico 0:15:11.120 --> 0:15:18.120 thinks it's Mexico. These scouting The scouting party rides onto 0:15:18.160 --> 0:15:23.120 a ranch, a ranch owned by a Mexican. There is 0:15:23.200 --> 0:15:25.440 one way into this ranch in one way out of 0:15:25.440 --> 0:15:30.120 this ranch, one big gate. Our troops ride in we 0:15:30.280 --> 0:15:33.960 start interrogating the ranch workers. Hey have you seen our guy? 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:37.440 Have you seen this? Have you seen that? All of 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:40.560 a sudden, somebody shouts out a warning. We turn around 0:15:40.640 --> 0:15:43.720 and guess who is riding through the gate but a 0:15:44.040 --> 0:15:50.720 large portion of a Mexican army. There's a massive shootout. 0:15:51.600 --> 0:15:55.440 We have our guys get killed, our guys get captured, 0:15:58.960 --> 0:16:03.520 and what is interpreted as pretty much a celebratory letter, 0:16:03.560 --> 0:16:09.360 it gets sent back to James Polk saying hostilities have commenced. Oops, 0:16:09.680 --> 0:16:12.800 we're at war now we got dead troops. How'd that happen? 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:22.880 Remember this always for the right reasons, for the wrong reasons, 0:16:22.880 --> 0:16:29.440 It doesn't matter. There's nothing easier than starting a fight. 0:16:31.120 --> 0:16:35.840 You can start a fight. How hard would it be 0:16:37.240 --> 0:16:40.600 for you to walk in the door tonight and start 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:44.800 a fight with your wife, For you to walk in 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:47.160 the door tonight and start a fight with your husband, 0:16:47.240 --> 0:16:49.880 you know them, How hard would it be? You know 0:16:50.080 --> 0:16:55.000 the buttons to push. Starting fights goes beyond personal levels, 0:16:55.040 --> 0:16:59.320 it goes country levels. It's so easy to go to 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:04.000 war if you really want to go to war, Yeah, 0:17:04.040 --> 0:17:06.800 you gotta wait for Congress to declare it. But here 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:10.800 we have it. Wars kicked off, and what do we do? 0:17:11.640 --> 0:17:16.040 Zachary Taylor, old ruff and ready, with a young lieutenant 0:17:16.240 --> 0:17:19.040 in his unit by the name of Ulysses S. Grant, 0:17:19.119 --> 0:17:22.879 perhaps you've heard of him, with a young lieutenant, takes 0:17:23.119 --> 0:17:27.120 a few thousand dudes, rides south right to the Rio 0:17:27.240 --> 0:17:32.399 Grand River across the wide Rio Grand is a Mexican army, 0:17:33.680 --> 0:17:39.080 and in the biggest up yours in this little short conflict, 0:17:39.440 --> 0:17:43.040 they go ahead and build a fort right there on 0:17:43.200 --> 0:17:47.600 the river. You biswell have carved a big middle finger 0:17:47.720 --> 0:17:51.080 into the fort, and they call the fort Fort Texas. 0:17:53.240 --> 0:17:56.960 About six thousand Mexican troops. On the other side, we 0:17:57.080 --> 0:17:59.280 have about thirty five hundred nine. Need to do a 0:17:59.320 --> 0:18:05.000 brief set up for you on the armies one. The 0:18:05.119 --> 0:18:12.440 United States of America is strong, but nowhere near the superpower. 0:18:12.480 --> 0:18:16.000 We are now nowhere near the superpower will even be 0:18:16.280 --> 0:18:23.040 by the year nineteen hundred. We're a strongish country. We're 0:18:23.119 --> 0:18:26.040 not in the same league as countries like Britain at 0:18:26.080 --> 0:18:31.480 this time. We're just not in the same league. Mexico 0:18:32.920 --> 0:18:38.440 is pretty much equal to us. They have the same equipment, 0:18:38.960 --> 0:18:42.040 they have the same training, they have the same artillery. 0:18:42.080 --> 0:18:46.040 We have. They have some capable commanders. The death of 0:18:46.119 --> 0:18:50.400 Mexico in this Mexican American war they end up losing 0:18:51.240 --> 0:18:54.280 is not the troops. It's not really the equipment. It's 0:18:54.320 --> 0:19:00.080 the instability at the top. The mission's always changing. The 0:19:00.119 --> 0:19:04.880 mission is always changing. They don't have the money, manpower, 0:19:05.000 --> 0:19:08.800 resources to govern these territories we want from them. And 0:19:08.920 --> 0:19:12.159 as we will see here shortly, when we get to 0:19:12.240 --> 0:19:16.280 so many of these territories, the people there don't consider 0:19:16.320 --> 0:19:21.199 themselves Mexican. They don't necessarily consider themselves American. But we 0:19:21.280 --> 0:19:25.240 get to California and they just consider themselves to be Californian. 0:19:27.040 --> 0:19:30.280 They didn't think anything about Mexico. They kind of liked 0:19:30.320 --> 0:19:32.879 America because so many of these people were Americans who'd 0:19:32.880 --> 0:19:35.440 moved out there. So I mean, yeah, Americas, they are friends, 0:19:35.480 --> 0:19:38.760 but we're Californians, which is weird to think about, isn't it. 0:19:39.680 --> 0:19:43.360 People would get to these places and without anyone governing them, 0:19:43.480 --> 0:19:51.159 you start your own tribe. Remember that. We like to 0:19:51.200 --> 0:19:56.359 get awfully panicky sometimes when we talk about the disaster 0:19:56.440 --> 0:19:59.119 we see out there, What comes next? What do we 0:19:59.200 --> 0:20:05.199 do there? Like minded people living in any area, and 0:20:05.320 --> 0:20:11.280 the history of mankind will form their own version of stability. 0:20:11.440 --> 0:20:14.720 They will. But anyway, don't get me distracted. Right now, 0:20:14.720 --> 0:20:17.640 we go down to Fort Texas. We got thirty five 0:20:17.720 --> 0:20:21.080 hundred dudes, build a really nice fort. By all accounts, 0:20:22.600 --> 0:20:28.920 only Zach Taylor has a problem. You see, like I said, 0:20:28.920 --> 0:20:31.359 the Mexicans have six thousand dudes right there across the 0:20:31.440 --> 0:20:35.360 Rio Grand, a lot more than we have. They have 0:20:35.359 --> 0:20:41.400 good equipment, they have capable dudes, and we we are 0:20:41.440 --> 0:20:45.720 a long way away from our supply lines at Fort Polk. 0:20:45.760 --> 0:20:52.240 I believe it's about twenty six miles away. Now, what 0:20:52.320 --> 0:20:54.640 do you do in this moment? I find these little 0:20:54.640 --> 0:20:57.560 decisions to be endlessly fascinating. What do you do in 0:20:57.560 --> 0:21:01.040 this moment? If you're Zach Taylor, you have thirty five 0:21:01.119 --> 0:21:04.920 hundred men, You've built a good fort. They have six thousand. 0:21:06.359 --> 0:21:11.080 You need to leave this fort and get to Fort Polk, 0:21:11.200 --> 0:21:14.680 twenty six miles away so you can stock up on supplies. 0:21:15.800 --> 0:21:18.880 Otherwise your men are going to die of hunger, thirst, 0:21:19.040 --> 0:21:21.359 run out of bullets, and this thing's gonna be over 0:21:21.800 --> 0:21:47.639 really quickly. What do you do? Hang on, You don't 0:21:47.680 --> 0:21:50.280 know how to take on the irs. You don't have 0:21:50.280 --> 0:21:51.919 to feel bad about that. That's not what you do 0:21:51.960 --> 0:21:54.760 for a living. I don't know either, but I do 0:21:54.920 --> 0:21:58.159 know this. You better take on the irs. If you 0:21:58.240 --> 0:22:01.399 owe ten thousand dollars or more, you better do something 0:22:01.400 --> 0:22:05.600 about that or they're going to steamroll you. They will 0:22:05.760 --> 0:22:09.280 take you to the cleaners. You know that there's a 0:22:09.440 --> 0:22:14.000 CNC tax program and if you qualify for it, there's 0:22:14.040 --> 0:22:16.920 a chance you'll get to stop making payments while you're 0:22:16.920 --> 0:22:20.320 in it. Yeah, that sounds nice, doesn't it. But you 0:22:20.400 --> 0:22:22.480 don't know about that to you. And I don't know either, 0:22:22.520 --> 0:22:24.439 and I can't walk you through that, but I know 0:22:24.480 --> 0:22:29.240 who can. Paramount tax relief can That's a fact. Paramount 0:22:29.240 --> 0:22:32.560 tax relief takes on the irs, on your behalf, and 0:22:32.640 --> 0:22:36.920 they do that for a living. Call the professionals call 0:22:37.040 --> 0:22:40.600 paramount tax relief. Eight hundred eight one six eight seven 0:22:40.720 --> 0:22:44.240 forty nine. Eight hundred eight one six eight seven forty nine. 0:22:44.600 --> 0:23:11.400 Paramount tax relief. What do you do? The agonizing decisions 0:23:12.560 --> 0:23:14.800 a general has to make, a leader has to make 0:23:14.880 --> 0:23:17.600 in combat. These six thousand Mexicans are going to come 0:23:17.640 --> 0:23:21.800 for your guys. How many do you leave at the fort? 0:23:22.840 --> 0:23:28.800 How many do you take with you? He makes what 0:23:28.920 --> 0:23:35.320 can probably be described as an incredible decision, especially in hindsight. 0:23:36.200 --> 0:23:43.800 He takes five hundred men under General Jacob Brown, leaves 0:23:43.800 --> 0:23:48.480 them as much supply as he possibly can, and he 0:23:48.600 --> 0:23:53.320 takes off. He takes off with everybody else. He's now 0:23:53.400 --> 0:23:56.080 got three thousand dudes with him, leavest five hundred men 0:23:56.160 --> 0:24:03.400 behind to take on six thousand people in the Mexican Army. Now, 0:24:03.440 --> 0:24:07.080 the Mexican Army moved a little slower than they would 0:24:07.080 --> 0:24:12.160 have liked. But they attack, They start bombarding the fort. 0:24:12.359 --> 0:24:15.199 But these idiots in the Mexican Army, I'll never understand this. 0:24:15.359 --> 0:24:18.320 I'll never ever understand this. This is all about the 0:24:18.359 --> 0:24:21.080 siege of Fort Texas. By the way, why did they 0:24:21.160 --> 0:24:23.400 let them build the fort to begin with? With half 0:24:23.400 --> 0:24:25.760 the troops. You're sitting there watching them the whole time 0:24:25.840 --> 0:24:29.840 build the fort. But again, remember the disarray Mexico's in. 0:24:29.960 --> 0:24:33.199 The guy's probably sending dispatches the whole time. Can I attack? 0:24:33.280 --> 0:24:36.480 What am I supposed to do? Here? They wait till 0:24:36.520 --> 0:24:42.160 the fort's built. They attack these Texans and these guys 0:24:42.520 --> 0:24:46.679 can shoot. Our guys can shoot, and we have artillery too, 0:24:47.480 --> 0:24:50.800 and we start blasting back at them, and they're blasting 0:24:50.800 --> 0:24:57.119 away at us, and eventually they blow off the lower 0:24:57.240 --> 0:25:04.480 leg of our commander, Commander Jacob Brown. It's almost completely off, 0:25:05.600 --> 0:25:10.560 but not totally. And you know what that means for 0:25:10.600 --> 0:25:14.800 this time and place right, Not that this would ever 0:25:14.840 --> 0:25:18.080 be a pleasant thing to go through, but you're not 0:25:18.119 --> 0:25:20.840 going to get checked into the er and get put 0:25:20.920 --> 0:25:25.760 to sleep and doped up with a bunch of pills. Jack. 0:25:26.680 --> 0:25:29.280 They're gonna belt your leg off and carry you into 0:25:29.320 --> 0:25:31.800 a tent somewhere and they're going to pull out a 0:25:31.840 --> 0:25:35.320 saw that has not been disinfected, and they're gonna saw 0:25:35.480 --> 0:25:41.880 through what's left of your leg. I have always been 0:25:42.840 --> 0:25:47.640 morbidly fascinated with this, that this was just what people did. 0:25:49.560 --> 0:25:53.399 You can if you have a strong stomach, and only 0:25:53.440 --> 0:25:56.200 if you have a strong stomach. I can't unemphasize this enough. 0:25:56.680 --> 0:26:00.400 You can go Google image search things like Civil War 0:26:01.359 --> 0:26:05.760 hospital limbs, and you can see they have pictures of him, 0:26:05.800 --> 0:26:11.120 real pictures of him, just stacks of feet and legs. 0:26:12.520 --> 0:26:16.800 Oh gosh, that is brutal. Will they bring in this 0:26:16.960 --> 0:26:22.280 commander They saw off his leg and apparently while he 0:26:22.320 --> 0:26:25.360 appoints someone else to be in charge, the man remains 0:26:25.480 --> 0:26:31.120 calm directs his men the whole time, trying to hold 0:26:31.119 --> 0:26:36.760 out until help arrives. Now, Zach Taylor gets back to 0:26:36.840 --> 0:26:40.439 Fort Polk, gets all his supplies, and turns around and 0:26:40.560 --> 0:26:43.520 takes back off for Fort Texas because he's got to 0:26:43.520 --> 0:26:47.720 go relieve his guys, right, Except the Mexicans knew exactly 0:26:47.760 --> 0:26:51.800 what was coming, and they put their troops in between 0:26:52.000 --> 0:26:57.400 him and Fort Texas trying to cut him off. Zach 0:26:57.440 --> 0:27:01.320 Taylor has to fight not one but two major battles 0:27:01.359 --> 0:27:05.200 against the Mexicans to fight through them, and in one 0:27:05.200 --> 0:27:08.720 of those all time cool moments, they have to decide 0:27:08.760 --> 0:27:10.399 what they're going to do next. Are we going to 0:27:10.560 --> 0:27:14.200 keep trying for Fort Texas to relieve them while they're 0:27:14.280 --> 0:27:17.480 under siege or are we gonna let them go? And 0:27:17.600 --> 0:27:19.800 it wasn't even a decision. They're like, Oh, we're coming 0:27:19.840 --> 0:27:24.680 back for our guys. They fight their way back to 0:27:24.760 --> 0:27:32.120 Fort Texas. Sadly General Brown the man without a bottom 0:27:32.200 --> 0:27:34.880 part of his leg. I know you're gonna find this shocking, 0:27:35.160 --> 0:27:38.760 shocking given those conditions, but he comes down with a 0:27:38.880 --> 0:27:44.879 horrible infection and dies shortly before the siege ends. Zach 0:27:44.960 --> 0:27:50.359 Taylor gets there we win this battle. And remember the 0:27:50.440 --> 0:27:56.280 name of that general, General Brown at Fort Texas. That's 0:27:56.359 --> 0:28:03.040 now where Brownsville, Texas sits today, name for General Jacob Brown. 0:28:03.640 --> 0:28:10.600 About that, Let's go out west briefly, and then we'll 0:28:10.600 --> 0:28:17.920 wrap this thing up for today. Remember, we need we 0:28:17.960 --> 0:28:24.040 need people to be upset in order to allow us 0:28:24.080 --> 0:28:28.280 to come in and take over in California. They're not 0:28:28.359 --> 0:28:31.359 necessarily Look again, they don't hold some strong allegiance to 0:28:31.400 --> 0:28:35.240 the Mexican government. They're kind of okay with the Mexican government. 0:28:35.240 --> 0:28:39.280 There's very okay with us. We need them kind of upset. 0:28:41.000 --> 0:28:44.640 And so there's this explorer by the name of John Fremont. 0:28:44.960 --> 0:28:47.760 He's known as the Pathfinder, which is not as cool 0:28:47.800 --> 0:28:53.600 as my nicknames Jesse Showgun, Kelly, he Steal Kelly, or 0:28:53.680 --> 0:28:57.479 Jesse the Oracle Kelly. I go by all those, by 0:28:57.520 --> 0:28:59.320 the way, So if you would please just refer to 0:28:59.360 --> 0:29:02.520 me either as show Gun or the Oracle or Steve 0:29:02.880 --> 0:29:07.400 what it's fine eight seven seven three seven seven four 0:29:07.560 --> 0:29:11.440 three seven three eight seven seven three seven seven four 0:29:11.560 --> 0:29:14.640 three seven three, or the email was Jesse at Jesse 0:29:14.760 --> 0:29:18.280 Kelly show dot com. That's Jesse at Jesse Kelly show 0:29:18.280 --> 0:29:20.080 dot Com again, I go buy any of those. Any 0:29:20.120 --> 0:29:22.720 dose is fine. I prefer Showgun, I think, But whatever's 0:29:22.760 --> 0:29:31.040 fine anyway. Polk needs Californians to be upset. Polk can't 0:29:31.040 --> 0:29:34.800 look like he's trying to make Californians get upset, so 0:29:34.960 --> 0:29:40.600 you can't send official letters out there. So you bring 0:29:40.600 --> 0:29:47.000 in a man who's essentially a modern day spy, the Pathfinder, 0:29:47.120 --> 0:29:50.400 John Fremont. And what's so amazing about this is we 0:29:50.640 --> 0:29:56.280 don't know. We don't know the message Polk sent to 0:29:56.400 --> 0:30:01.680 Fremont because Polk took one of his spa gave him 0:30:01.720 --> 0:30:07.440 a verbal message to memorize that he then took out 0:30:07.520 --> 0:30:12.720 to Fremont. And we don't know what the message was. 0:30:12.880 --> 0:30:16.160 I think we can guess after what happens next. But 0:30:16.280 --> 0:30:20.320 Fremont gets sixty volunteers, including a man named Kit Carson, 0:30:20.360 --> 0:30:23.720 who you may have heard of before, a bunch of Indians, 0:30:23.800 --> 0:30:30.560 Delaware Indians, and he starts to stir up trouble everywhere 0:30:30.600 --> 0:30:34.040 he goes in California, cause a little civil unrest here, 0:30:34.120 --> 0:30:39.200 a little civil unrest there. Then Leave starts to whip 0:30:39.280 --> 0:30:46.840 Californians up into a frenzy. Why because there's power to 0:30:46.880 --> 0:30:51.880 be found. When there's chaos, good people bad people will, 0:30:51.920 --> 0:30:56.480 however you want to classify it, when there is chaos 0:30:56.760 --> 0:31:01.239 out there, when there's disorder out there there, it is 0:31:01.280 --> 0:31:06.160 the nature of man to want that fixed, and they 0:31:06.200 --> 0:31:12.080 will oftentimes follow whoever claims to be able to fix it. 0:31:15.320 --> 0:31:20.160 That's just how we operate. Why do you think there's 0:31:20.280 --> 0:31:24.840