S01E164: Paradise is Terrifying!

In Moore's vision, slavery is required with each home having two slaves. Slaves are either criminals or people of differing nationalities. To travel within the state requires a passport, which if you do not have one on you for two offenses, you are placed in slavery. All religious views are tolerated, however atheists are hated. This is due to the view they may break the system with radical ideas, lacking a god and whatnot. Gold is iconic. However, not in a good way.

Slaves carry chains of gold, and gold is shown consistently in poor light as to break the desire for it. War is complicated. As the utopians do not enjoy the act, however they understand a need for it on occasion. When the occasion arises, they will try and detain enemies rather than kill them. The ideas of Moore would go on to become repeated in Karl Marx's beliefs, along with some ideas like free medical care explored by socialism.

Obviously, not all, if most of these ideas are an ideal world for most of us. The fact that the story is over 500 years old does show some age, but its influence drives us back to the main point. What's interesting is that this basis for utopia could be defined as dystopia to many today. Communal living, slavery, and lifetime leaders is an idea repeated in many, if not all, future dystopian works. Uh-huh. Yeah, it's like... No privacy, you'll own nothing.

What a place to fire off the starting pistol, you know? Uh-huh. And Star Trek portrays that very thing in a happy light. Oh yeah. Everything's super slick and shiny in Star Trek. Yeah, everything's clean, everything's good, you don't have to worry about anything, you don't have to worry about eating because everything's taken care of. Yeah, we got you, Boo. Yeah, just let us take care of you.

One final quote, this is pulled from an article, How Modern Is Utopia, the medieval roots of utopian thinking, quote, the utopian seeks to solve the collective problem collectively. That is by the reorganization of society and its institutions by education, by laws, inscriptions. The prime aim is not happiness, that private mystery, but order. More is, and more modern times, the first to...

More, Thomas More, the author is, in modern times, the first to propose that a drastic reorganization of society could lead to a better society. But that prime, that little line right there, the prime aim is not happiness, that private mystery, but order. Happiness is secondary to order, and the individual is secondary to the collective. So, be wary of utopia. It's just collectivism, hiding as a pipe dream of candy and sex and meat on sticks. On greasy poles.

Sorry, it's the crucified foul on greasy poles. Well, in our utopia, we are the greasy poles. Don't you forget it. I wonder, do you think any collars might have a greasy pole right now?

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Deep down in your tummy, we know there's a call coming in. Just let us know. Taste the telephone number. I know it's in there. Tasty. 612-263-79999. Oh, man. Well, in that regards, I think that leads us into tonight's intermission. Uh... Yes. Intermission courtesy of yourself this evening. Yeah, I'm excited about this. When I got some good stuff lined up here, we're looking at... And actually, two, these were scooped by Adam. This past Friday, Adam Curry did episode two of You Dirty Bitch.

You bitch. You dirty bitch! Uh... He did episode two of Booster Grand Ball, which is a... It's a really fun show. I'm glad to see it's finally come to life. We're gonna try and do our own take on it. That's the intent of the Scaly Show. But the first one was Sir Brian with an I. He's got this track called Rockstar. And then we have some more Sir TJ the Raffle with his band The Door Flies. That was delicious. That was another one that got scooped.

And then we're gonna wrap this with one of Dad's band's song, Rainmaker with the track No Place Like Home. Awesome. So just by what you're saying is just by listening to the show, you're supporting independent music. Well, yeah, incredible. It's really phenomenal. It's really great stuff. People really great stuff. But we'll be back for a second, second half of show here. And I hope you all enjoy this.

We'll be right back. Smell good if you got him. I'm not gonna take your friends you woke up in my bed. I've been dreaming about my night ever since. The first day we met. Don't you try to blame us in a city to make you full of regret? I'm not gonna let you go. I'm not gonna let you go. I'm not gonna let you go. I'm not gonna let you go. So then what to do when I still can't believe that I just woke up next to you? Tell my driving home to feel my mother of the car.

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So things are killing me forever. You say we're not love but we seem like a team of teams. And I say, I'm like a foyer or a virgin and you look like the rock star. Took you shirt off and you started dancing on the floor. Then you grabbed me and told me what to do. And I still can't believe that I just woke up next to you. You're a body like a rock star. Took you shirt off and you started dancing on the floor. Then you grabbed me and told me what to do.

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Face of the schemes. Also had a voicemail that we were playing. I'm going to go and rewind that on the tape now. Do it. God evening, gentlemen. I chant this screaming this evening. Good evening. I've been a face of the screen, by the way. The thing is, we were talking earlier as an active in the green room tonight. On your chat room. The green room, as it is. I was. I would like to say that I'm glad that lavish enjoyed the Barbie movie. I've been talking about it quite a bit too much lately.

People started to tell me that I should maybe lay off a bit. However, this was a great film. It was a great cinematic masterpiece. Uh, lavish also in the chat room. The green room, rather earlier, had posted that he said it was a masterpiece. I was like, guess. I would actually apply that word. I would apply that term. In the descriptive of that film. It was very good. And. Just go see it. But just be sure to bring your sense of humor. It's a silly movie. It doesn't take itself seriously.

In the first few minutes, I was so ridiculous that I just realized anybody that thought it was possibly a French at all. Must be. Fucked in the gourd. They're fucked in the head. So. All that said. Enjoy the rest of your evening. And uh, enjoy the show. Anyway, I'll try to. Yeah. Yeah. Cool guy. Yeah. I'm not going to waste. Hmm. Yeah. I did enjoy the Barbie movie. I went to the pictures. With my best gal. And we saw. We saw the Barbie movie. And it was not what I expected.

Uh, we kind of have a sort of a topic in the growing for it. I'd like to see Oppenheimer as well. Like the double feature. Uh, but I have to say, uh, the Barbie movie was very enjoyable. And it was. A philosophical and a political film as well. I've heard good things from a couple of people. I. The only part that I'm really hung up on is just the sort of hype behind it in general. Um, what's hyped now for sure.

And you know, it just, it kind of reaches the point where I'm like, you know, I'll catch it when everybody's not. Um, Chatting it up. Well, one thing I will say. If you're going to, if you're going to go see it. And you don't want it to be all hyped or whatever. You got to see it in the theater. Because seeing it in the theater is where it's at. Okay. There's certain movies.

They're just, you can't most movies, I would say, most good movies are much more enjoyable when you see them at the actual cinema. Don't, don't, don't, don't, don't believe yourself of that experience. Did you know they ended up using up all of the, uh, that specific shade of pink in Barbie land. They, uh, they used up all the Roscoe pink paint. They created a global shortage. A global shortage of pink. I believe that. And they're going to continue doing it. Pink is back.

It is a very colorful movie. It is, it's very pink, extremely pink. So fucking pink. What I liked the most about it, one of the things I liked about it was that the, the plot line is very much like a girl playing with dolls. Like someone gets injured. And the doctor's like, oh, congratulations. By the time I'm done talking, you're leg will have healed. I got to say, oh, good. It feels great. Thank you. It's kind of, kind of cute. We'll see. We'll see.

I'm definitely not in the camp of, uh, I'm just going to follow along because that's the hot talking point to trash it because, you know, that's what Shapiro is doing at a hundred miles per hour. Like man, well, Shapiro's gotten all the flat because he dropped a 43 minute long thing just ripping on the mother figure. Yeah, but he was like wearing Barbie overalls while doing it. I don't know. I'm just so like, uh, I don't care. I don't listen to him. I just wanted to go see movie. Right.

And it was fun. It was good. Don't, don't buy into the hype. Yeah. And the only, uh, faces schemes that, uh, to touch back on one other point, don't worry about just chatting in the green room and talk about whatever you want. Just don't spam gal. Just don't spam. Um, and I'm checking the emails. You can email us at booatbahindes schemes.com or lavish up behind the schemes.com. Uh, and we had two additional pay pals come through. Right. Uh, the first one.

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This is a fun show. Thank you, everybody. This is the way public radio was meant to taste. Damn it. Delicious. Still there. I'm here. Okay. Spooked me there.

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The coo? Five and nine. We're talking about it. Five and nine and I. That was weird. We're talking about this a little bit. I really only know the little bit of coverage that I've paid attention to for no agenda. So this is consider you consider this. I know this is my niner cherry. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Always the first hero every Monday. What's what I'm saying. That felt close to the line. Well, clutch your handy curts you. And take a deep breath. Get into it.

Please play my one and only clip. Yes. Which? Yes. Yes. Play. I knew foreign correspondent Deborah Patta. No. Thanks for joining us. I'm sorry. Take that back now. There we go. Niger's coo leaders have closed the country's airspace until further notice. After Sunday's deadline to reinstate austed president. Buzum was allowed to pass. The economic community of West African states or ECOS. Had warned that it could take military action if the austed president was not reinstated.

That's right of military action. Thousands of supporters of Niger's coo leaders gathered at a stadium in the country's capital yesterday. Following the latest from Johannesburg South Africa now with CBS. A news foreign correspondent Deborah Patta. Deborah, thanks for joining us now. So have we heard anything yet from ECOS in response to the deadline coming and going? No word. I'm Marie from ECOS despite that deadline to reverse the coup in real estate. Mohammed Buzum having passed yesterday.

We know that the coo leaders have closed Niger's airspace after rejecting the ultimatum. And we also know President Buzum remains under house arrest. Sources close to Buzum. In Niger have told us he is being held hostage. They are soldiers on the roof and surrounding his home while he remains inside with his wife and son. They have no electricity, no running water, and no cell phone connection. They do have food.

They also have told us that they understand ECOS will have a meeting sometime this week, no day, no day given. To determine the next steps and are confident and determined they say he will resume his presidency. I think it's important to understand that military intervention was always held up as a last resort. So it was never going to happen immediately while some observers say that the block's hardline stance was prompted by. Western allies like the US like France.

It also I think reflects a very different approach by the new chairman of ECOS. Nigeria's president, Boile Tnubu not only does ECOS not want to protect its member states, but they also don't want their military getting any ideas of their own and launching coups. This is as we know the seventh coup in the region within the past three years, which is why I think the New York Times referred to it as Africa's coup belts. Wow. Africa's coup belt. Coo belts. Wow. I like that one.

This is the title given to West Africa. Are you familiar with the history of West Africa? A lot of colonies, a lot of European colonies, a lot of trade routes setup through there. And so we know about it. Of course, Africa is quite ancient and there was a lot going on before then, but yeah, that's when European history starts with colonialism. What is West African colonialism, the war in Vietnam, and British naval dominance in the 19th century? Haven't common. Hmm. Crissons?

Yes. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, that's right. And those that make them. That's right. France. France and Africa. A two-piece and a pod for a long time. With Niger making headlines this week with the coup, which is an understandably very complicated situation, I wanted to look at just some of the events that made Africa, in particular West Africa, the wild place that it is today. I'm going to talk about France.

You see, in the 1800s France was one of the first and most enthusiastic powers to attempt the colonization of the African continent. Their rivals at the time were Britain. Britain was always their rival. And Belgium and the Netherlands and Portugal, Spain and Germany. All of these countries were trying to get a little chunk of Africa at that time. And this is everyone wanted to cut an Africa. Everybody wanted a little taste of that African business.

And this time is known as the Scramble for Africa. A very official title of the Scramble. Why did they do it at that point in history? Well, you had advancements in technology, you had steam power, you had general naval production that was at an all-time high. You had, as you said, trade routes, which had evolved into global networks that were built by private enterprise, like the East India trading company, for example.

You had military occupancy all over Egypt, due to the Napoleonic wars among other things. And you had all the other colonies that you were trying to control and trade with. And Africa was a great place to kind of have a hand on the sea routes. If you could control West Africa, then you could control the Atlantic trade, a sea trade. And if you control the Indian Ocean, you control the Indian trade, etc. You had the resources, you had gold, rubber, ivory, luxury goods and all of that.

But you also had something new, something that had never, never been really in full swing in the way that it had at this very time at the end of the Napoleonic Wars. You had European banking. You had the Rothschilds. You had the rise of the banking class as the controlling class of the globe. And all wars and all things that came after the Napoleonic Wars were essentially bankers wars. And so they had a huge port to play in the colonization of Africa. Any thoughts so far?

No, I'm just kind of thinking about Shell. Shell? Yep. And Royal Dutch Shell. How much of a, just standing they still have to this day and age. Some 200, I guess like 170, some odd years later. It's wild shit, man. Yeah, stir it up. It's wild shit, man. Yeah, started by Will Humeena, the fourth was the one who really kind of ran that whole thing. She was like the Rockefeller of Europe.

What a time to be alive during this period where you're crafting what the next couple of centuries is going to look like. They had no idea. But it must have been incredible, the industrial advancements of those times. And by those times, I mean from the end of the Napoleonic Wars into World War II. You had basically people fighting with horses and muskets. And then you have the whole rise of petroleum and the rail. And then you get flight and all these things.

An incredible leap of technology in a very small amount of time. A lot of the driving force behind that innovation was war and banking. Africa has been around. The north of Africa in particular has been part of the sort of consciousness of Western civilization. First long as anyone can remember, Africa is a large continent. The north is well known, but it is very, very large. And has a diverse array of cultures, tribes, and many mighty empires that have come and gone.

And the 54 recognized nations of Africa today were mostly created by Europe. And the borders that they drew their forms were carved by a purchase and conquest through the centuries. And they don't actually reflect truly the tribal makeup and the cultural makeup of the original African continent. Which again is so large, it's like it's hard to kind of bundle everything all into one name. But we're convenience we're doing that.

As I said to the north of Africa, we've got the Mediterranean Sea, which is probably the most crucial body of water in the history of the Western world. It kind of forms the Western world as we know it. And Africa is a part of that. Egypt is a part of North Africa. Africa is the most famous nation. Arguably the oldest source and major origin of all collected knowledge that mankind possesses. And then as we said earlier to the east is the Indian and to the west is the Atlantic Ocean.

One reason that Africa for so very long through antiquity up until about a couple hundred years ago, stayed independent from European conquest was a little desert called the Sahara. Just a little one just a wee little desert. It's a tiny little desert. And I was looking at it. The official thing they say have to say about the Sahara. The Sahara is that it's the third largest desert in the world. Do you know what the two larger deserts are technically? Hmm. The North and South Pole. Oh, trick.

It's a little bit of a tricky question. No, I thought so too. I thought that those qualified as Tundra. But I guess in some metric they are considered deserts. I see. So what a desert of snow. So Antarctica and the North Pole. Essentially are the only deserts, quote unquote bigger than the Sahara. It's a huge chunk of Africa. It's roughly one third of the entire continent. Most of it is barren and inhospitable desert.

Aside from the Nile River and the bordering Niger River, no river runs through it. It is very few lakes like Chad at the very south. Almost no trees. It's mainly sand. And nobody could cross it for a long time. Europeans had a massive struggle crossing this physical barrier. There is some evidence of ancient Roman exploration in inland Africa, which I have posted in the show notes. Zosus Corner dot substack dot com.

But generally the nations of what would be Europe simply could not access this part of the world. In the show notes by the way, if you go and look at this article, I've put in a lot of really fun art. Old maps, old paintings, portraits of people that lived and died hundreds of years ago. Pointage, great battles, maps, lots of fun stuff. Look at the size of this sea creature on this first map. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There's some good art in there.

And if you're not in the show notes, you're missing out a big chunk of the show here. It's pretty tasty stuff. I've got a portrait here of Tipu Tip, who is a slave and ivory trader back in the day. So we're talking about West Africa. We're talking about New Year. That's how we got on the topic in the first place. And West Africa was one of the first chunks of Africa that was colonized by Europe, mainly because it's lush, fertile, and you can access it by the Atlantic Ocean.

Fertile parts of West Africa, which are rich in all sorts of wonderful things, like gold, salt, ivory, and slaves, of course. We're traded with as early as 500 BC by ancient Rome and Carthage. Carthage, of course, was located in North Africa. Later on in the Middle Ages, West Africa was one of the world's greatest producers of gold.

Camel caravans of the Sahara linked North Africa to the Savannah interior, and a succession of great African empires rose off the back of the gold trade and the slave trade. And the precious metal eventually found its way into southern Europe's gold coinage. Much of this came from the guinea area. And Britain at one point had an official minted guinea coin. And that's why certain gold coins were and still are sometimes called guinea's. That's where the term comes from.

The guinea area or the guinea empire encompassed about five or six nations in West Africa. It was a pretty large area. I'd be curious to see what the percentage of gold and circulation came from this part of Africa during this time. I've seen this statistic and I think it's like 80%. God damn. Yeah. Europe at the time was in a big rut. And the massive influx of gold that came in from Africa helped put a stop to the dark ages.

In particular, Spain and Portugal between Africa and America is an insane amount of gold that they brought in from all of that. And the gold was very important for all these wars that we're talking about that finance a lot of this stuff going on back when all of these nations ran on a gold standard. And there was no credit and there was no none of that. I mean, there was credit, but not in the way that we have it today. And truly war drove nations to master the seas, namely Spain and Portugal.

They were constantly at war with each other. Spain at the time was split into smaller kingdoms and the main kingdom of Spain was Castile. And so Castile and Portugal were for hundreds of years at each other's threats. And because of that, they got really good at making and sailing boats. So once Naval Tech had managed these states under Christian monarchies would begin exploring and formally settling coastal Africa, which was just beyond the Gibraltar gate.

There they discovered many small kingdoms and within the merchants selling these luxurious goods and abundance. In the beginning, there was no conquest. There were only binding trade agreements and minor alliances. And these show notes, I've got an old French like poster for a slave trade. Is that what's a? Oh, yeah. You've got a Frenchman who's buying slaves from a local black man smoking a pipe holding a spear. I'm, are they wearing gold necklaces, you think? I think they are.

It's a. Or a little like bells maybe so that they can't run away. I'm wonder what the artist was intending. Squallar bill says camel caravans would I do every day puff puff. Yeah. Oh, yeah. In the 1480s, Portugal and Spain or Castile or whatever you want to call them. Made peace after a very bloody war where Portugal saw its navy evolved into a global power. Part of this war was battling over trade and guinea where the gold was coming from and the slaves.

And once the war was settled, one of the agreements of their peace treaty, which I have a copy of in the show notes, the treaty of Alcacovas, which settled some heritage stuff. One of the stipulations of the peace treaty was Portugal gaining full control over guinea and over west African trade. So they were the ones that kind of had a cart blanche to go out there and start making things happen.

A Portugal had been in the colonial business for a couple decades at that point with the conquest of Queta in 1415. So this is the 1480s. So Portuguese explorer Diego Cal was the first to contact the Congo Kingdom. They brought guns to trade and new types of livestock. Some of these Africans had never seen chickens and pigs before. They brought those. They brought all kinds of technology and clothing and goods and all kinds of stuff from the west.

As Portugal would do a couple decades later with the Japanese, the Portuguese were very good at going to isolated communities and weaseling their way in and selling them guns. It's so American. So they're the original Americans, these Portuguese. And the Portuguese would be instrumental in the American Atlantic slave trade. They would basically be the progenitors of the slave trade. African warlords would get slaves and sell them to merchants in Portugal.

And Lisbon was the gateway of Africa to the Americas. So you would get slaves in Portugal. They would sell them to America, sell the slaves by cheap goods like tobacco and whatever in the Americas. Sell back to Europe, sell them for a premium, take the profits, sell back down to Portugal, get more slaves and repeat the process. And this was. This was equals profit, three easy steps for profit. This was the triangular Atlantic slave trade and Portugal was very much a thank for it.

But at the time in the 1480s, this was the first major contact that any European nation had had with sub-Saharan Africa. It was when Diego Cowan all the way down to the Congo. Do you know what sort of technology they might have been bringing with them? They would have been bringing aquabuses, which are the first muskets. These were like fused lit muskets. They were very, very crude, obviously by later technology standards, but at the time. Pretty damn good.

Textiles, silks, things like that had never been seen by Africa. And then as I said, pigs, cows, chickens. Okay. These are all, these are all been very valuable to, although. Britain was, was famous for having a sort of controlled market when it came to sorts of things. And they had this agreement where they would sell these very thick blankets to India, where it's extremely hot. And nobody needed blankets. And Britain kept sending them blankets anyway. So it's not perfect.

That also, that also feels very familiar. I think it's a metaphor. I don't know. Yeah. So, but the main thing that they got out of it was gold. And in West Africa at the time, gold was very abundant. And West Africa became the world's greatest producer of gold in the Middle Ages at least. Although they'd been trading with that ever since time immemorial, the, who's the great king, the gold king of Africa? Mansu Moussa. He was, he was very well known in antiquity as a man who traveled.

Because once, you believe it or not, camels weren't always part of the equation. Camels came a little later from Arabia. Once, once camels were introduced into the Sahara, it kind of revitalized the whole trade game. And on top of making the Sahara having, being able to have trade routes through there that were pretty consistent, you also were able to spread ideas and religion. And that's how Islam spread in Africa initially was through the Saharan trade routes.

And Mansu Moussa was a king who lived in West Africa, who traveled all the way from West Africa to Mecca, with a giant parade of extravagant wealth and slaves and workers and just, you know, wives and whoever. And all along the way he gave out massive amounts of gold to where the point where the, basically the global supply of gold was deflated. And gold became worthless for a little bit. Yes, this guy was given so fucking much away. Savage.

And then he would, he got all the way to Mecca and he learned that he was screwing up by doing this. And he came on his way back home, he bought up all of his gold back at interest. Fuck your grass. I need gold. So he gave them gold and then he's like, oh, I got something even better. I've got a gold plus interest for you or whatever, you know, your local currency, silver, whatever.

So very, very famous guy who is on one of the oldest maps, one of the oldest global maps known to man, Mansu Moussa, interesting character. I wonder, not sure how to phrase this, but I wonder if there's a way to like trace back gold that's in current circulation to see if there's any traces of this stuff that he mined. As like things get melted down and reworked into more coins or jewelry, I guess I don't know enough about the whole gold industry.

I would hope that there is, but I imagine there isn't. Or is this stuff that's been, you know, locked away and forgotten vaults that will never be seen again, kind of like Bitcoin and lost hard drives and shit like that. Oh, something like that. Or just I think the main thing is how much of gold and Fort Knox is Nazi gold. That's why they don't want to do it. Oh, I don't want to.

But it would be fascinating to trace where the gold came from because gold tends to come from some very interesting places and it tends to have an interesting journey through time. Yeah. Maybe so. If you know about it, let us know. We'll put behind the schemes and laps behind the schemes. So as the West African trade grows, the succession of great African empires rose off the back of the gold trade and salt and ivory and slaves.

And gold attracted unwanted attention and competition too. So the Europeans knew that the gold was there knew where the gold came from. But they simply did not have the means to go over there and conquer that land where the gold was until the Portuguese tried in the 15th century. Around that time, they also discovered the Americas and the gold of the Aztecs and the Incas definitely also supplemented gold to Europe in a big way.

But it only gave West Africa a temporary respite as European colonial powers then returned to the continent as their cheap source of slaves and gold to work on the plantations of the new world. Surprise. You guys thought you're off the hook, but you're not. Nope. Oops. Nope. Oh, by the way, before I just want to say we're talking about the French here soon enough and I am having a French wine tonight to celebrate. Let's say, Shattano de Paul Kirkland signature 2021.

I find vintage if I may say so. And I am not drinking anything remotely French, but just a coffee. Well, that's very African. It works. It works. We're meeting each other halfway here. We're like a we're like an Oreo cookie now at this point. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, sorry. You're right, you're right. Oh, my God. Look, I have to if we're going to cut that out. Let's say that anymore. Yeah. Hmm. Hmm. Reading rainbow.

So between the 1400s and the 1800s trade in settlement in Africa grew very slowly for these poor. They weren't. Oh, God. Now I'm just thinking of Oreos. But yeah, grew slowly for hundreds of years. And then lo and behold one day in the happy magic kingdom of the earth at the turn of the 19th century. French over throws his ancient monarchy that it had forever. Never an upstart general Napoleon Bonaparte becomes emperor.

Having been x communicated by the Pope Napoleon turns France into a secular global power. A secular global power. Secular. Sucular. But he's all about the science. Trust the science. Trust the enlightenment and he wages war and Christianity itself. And the Catholics in particular. In my opinion. Oh, thanks private pros. You bought some more of us today. So. Oh. Oh, he's our wanted to throw a little goat in there. A little French goat. I'm sure the French have some good.

Well, you needed something to dunk your Oreos into right. Oh, yeah. That's what you do. You lick. It's like a whole two percent whole blood. Two percent. Dip it in there. Go cheese to make sure to milk that goat before you slaughter it. Get everything you can out of that thing. Waste not what not. Truly, truly. Harvest the whole thing people. That's what nature calls for. When nature calls. You know, there's World War One and there's World War Two.

But I've been doing a lot of reading of the Napoleonic Wars lately. And I'm pretty convinced that the Napoleonic Wars were the first World War. Just for the sheer amount of fucking participants and all the battles that went on all over the place. Let's see. The forces that fought against France were as follows.

The United Kingdom, the Holy Roman Empire, Austria, Prussia, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Portugal, Bavaria, Brunswick, French Royalists, Hanover, Hungary, Lichtenstein, Montenegro, Nassau, the Netherlands, the Ottoman Empire, Qatar, Sardinia, Saxony, Sicily, Switzerland, Tuscany, Denmark. All of these countries fought France. Yeah, but I didn't hear New Zealand in that list. New Zealand is being colonized. You did hear New Zealand because it's owned by England and I said the UK. So there you go.

Yeah, that's yeah. Gotcha. Checkmate. That's right. And there were land and naval, there was land and naval combat scene in North Africa, South Africa, Egypt, Russia, India, UK, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands. It was a World War Damant. And though Napoleon would eventually be defeated, he would bring about the destruction of the Holy Roman Empire, which I hear was a pretty big deal at the time. It's so good for him.

I've got a beautiful portrait by François Girard of Napoleon receiving surrender at the Battle of Austerlitz is one of the most famous battles of all time. Beautiful. Yeah, those people. He's got the defeated party in the middle and then he has his line, his guard like an ad science circle around them. So if any of them try to do anything, there's nowhere for them to hide. It's pretty gnarly. Pretty interesting shit.

Also, as I said before, the end of the of the Napoleonic Wars also marks the beginning of the Rothschild family's ascent. To being the richest family in the world. And from now on, all European wars would be European central banker wars.

And I've included an article that kind of goes into detail exactly what that was, but there's probably the most famous instance of the Rothschild family is when Nathan mayor Rothschild knew of the outcome of the Battle of Waterloo, which is the battle that ended Napoleon's career. As Emperor at the Rothschild family through their advanced network of messengers knew about the outcome of the battle before the British government did. Straight from the Rothschilds archive. That's right.

Cool. That's right. The Rothschilds archive. And Nathan mayor Rothschilds described it as the best business I ever did. He essentially played it off that England lost. Even though he knew that England won. He sold his stake in English currency, thus letting on to the market that England had lost. And so everybody else started selling, which made the price of English currency plummet. And then secretly while I was in a rut, he bought it all up again.

So that by the time people knew the truth that England had actually prevailed, it was too late. And Nathan made a killing. He he he single-handedly allegedly pulled a George Soros and destroyed the currency just so we could buy it up again. And this is what it sounds like. Here comes the money. Here we go. Money talks. Here comes the money. Money talks. And that's right. I think it was treasury stock. It was actual direct treasury stock in all of that. And everybody was bankrupted.

France, England, all of the major powers were completely broke after these wars. So they were put into the hands of the bank. And if the if the monarchy wanted to do anything, they had to borrow money from the central bank, from now on, from then on. So it was a very important moment in modernity and it kind of leads to a lot, a lot a lot of what is going on today. So it is an important chapter. I think you will should know.

But as I said out of the necessity of these wars, the technologies develop at a rabid pace. Ships are being built better and faster. Industry advances, factories and iron foundries are popping up in major cities. And traded manufacturing are at an all time high. And they're vital to the funding of the war machine. So in that spirit, fast global arrangements of diplomacy are created.

And far away places that were once mythical like India and China and Africa become players and partners in the global game. And through military engagements, soldiers are given the task of occupying and dominating distant states and peoples just like India and just like Africa, which parts of Africa. But basically the entire subcontinent of India came under disjure British control through the Napoleonic Wars.

They bit by bit took over peace by peace, all of India, by through the act of fighting Napoleon. And Wellesley himself, who was the guy, Sir Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of Wellington, who was the man who would defeat Napoleon at Waterloo, was actually a part of all of that and helped the English conquer India. But India wouldn't be officially de facto under British control for about another hundred years, but they would be there all of that while and for that end.

After Napoleon's end, when he finally died, he they reestablished the French monarchy. And I've said a little bit of information on them in the show notes. They're called the July monarchy. France had a lot of Timult in its government during this time. There are a lot of second and third and fourth monarchy and empires in the global. That would be a good band name, the July monarchy.

The July monarchy. That's a good one. I think so. I can put it in the list, although I don't think anybody would get it. But it is a good name. The July monarchy. For people who don't know, we have an ongoing list of band names. Um, yeah. So the July monarchy sets off the whole big Shabbang up into this point. They've only been tasting and teasing and tickling Africa with little trade deals and little occupancies here and there.

But once Napoleon's gone in 1830, the French monarchy, they want to make a big move. They want to let people know that they're on France's side, that they're trying to get the people rich and happy. And so what do they do? They set up a whole new wave of European land conquest with the invasion of Algiers. That's right. The invasion of Algiers, which Algiers to this day is France's most precious possession of its African colonies.

As a matter of fact, their partnership with Algiers goes back so far that they don't even really consider it a colony so much as they consider it like a, you know, a sister state or something. An extension. It's an extension. And in a way, it's a sort of appear, not quite, but much more of appear than the other countries or the other tribes or colonies that France would have.

And it's here being one of them. All the sub-Saharan colonies don't have that the special privilege that Algiers has and they'll prove to be quite tumultuous later when Algiers tries to declare independence. France is very, very opposed to the idea of giving them up. And I have a beautiful picture in the show notes, zosuscorner.substac.com of the Algiers harbor of 1784.

Beautiful drawing. Algiers have been around for a very long time. And this in particular, what led to this great move that France made? How could they possibly justify? Oh, yeah, French banking controls the economy of Algiers and the Congo. That's right, you're right. What knocks this whole thing off? What is the excuse? What is the catalyst for this massive domino that will lead to the entire subjugation of the African continent?

I'm going to go out on a greasy pole and play this card for a second. Was it a woman by chance? Oh, that's a good guess. Probably, I guess. Probably, but we'll allow it. I like, I like where you're going. And it's not a bad guess at all. No, it's, it's an event that is probably one of the most important things that's ever happened, but nobody knows about it. It's called the fan affair.

The slap heard round the world 18. That's right. A wicked slap. I'm going to read an excerpt from the fan affair in the conquest of Algeria by Michael Dutzick. It'll explain to us a little bit what the fan affair was.

It's a little bit of a chunk of it. So I'm going to blast through it. North African Algeria was part of European history as it had been the target of unsuccessful crusades on several occasions. For example, on 1516, the territory was occupied by the Ottomans and the Ottoman Empire had Algeria for hundreds of years for three centuries.

In the 19th century, the Bourbon regime, the people that were in charge after Napoleon, used the disputes between France and Algeria to control the country. They had a diplomatic rift in the 18th century when the French directorie sought after the failure of an Egyptian campaign and Egypt provided grain to a lot of Europe at that time.

An alternative grain seller in order to be able to feed its citizens. It found a taker on the African continent when the Algerian governor Mustafa VI offered to sell the directory grain for a million francs and assigned two Jewish merchants to negotiate with France on behalf of the ruler. These Jewish merchants were Neftali bus bush snatch nicknamed the king of Algeria or as immense wealth and Joseph Bakery, both of whom already ran an Algerian monopoly on the grain trade.

However, no one had any idea that they were unscrupulous spectators. A unit of grain, which is about 15 kilograms, was normally sold for 42 francs. They sold it for 100 to 120 francs per unit. But that offer was increased by both traders to 2 million francs. So they doubled the original offer from the guy that they were working for and they retained most of the money when they got it.

Nevertheless, the directory didn't intend to pay and the amount of the debt first reached 5 million and then later 8 million francs out of interest in which 3 million were initially paid into the hands of both traders. After the conclusion of the additional contract, another 1,200,000 francs were paid. So they're getting scalped over here. They're just trying to fucking have 1 million dollars worth of grain and here they are paying 10 million dollars.

For the rest of the amount, sorry, was this year would have been 1830 ish, right? 1830 is not a cheap chunk of change by any means. And not only that, but people are starving. If you don't get that grain, people die. So it's a touchy thing. So the French, what's that? No, I'm going.

The French government borrowed money from whom the merchants, those the two Jewish merchants to be repaid later in France, however, the Napoleonic wars broke out and in Algeria numerous revolts of, oh, by the way, this is actually closer to 1800 rather than 1830. But this, this like drama lasts for 30 years. So the French government won't pay the, the guys back and the Algeria can't pay the merchants back.

So the British fleet shell algears in August of 1816 and the British console was expelled from the country. So the French are like, okay, well, the British are gone. We're in.

He also got involved with the dispute with Bush, Natch and Bakery in France. The day of Algeria demanded that the merchants pay him the owed amount of 7 million francs, which they borrowed from Algeria. However, Bakery and Bush Natch said that they did not have enough money to repay and that they were waiting for France to pay them back. So the day sent a letter to France saying that we want you guys to pay the merchants so that the merchants can pay us.

Do it immediately. Pay them immediately. He also threatened the diplomat that if he does not send any money or he does not sufficiently justify a possible postponement, the Regency will take the position that seems most appropriate for it to achieve its goals. That's threatening war. Tantum out to threatening war. So the day put himself in the role of the negotiator and he tried to make it work, but it didn't work and in the end, Bush Natch was assassinated by Algeria.

Oh shit. Yeah, so they killed one of the merchants. By the end of 1826, the French diplomatic mission sent to resolve this whole shit show went to Algeria to seek reparations for the rated merchant ships. The Algeria had been raiding merchant ships in retaliation for them not paying their debt. This was also around the same time as the Barbary Wars, which the United States was pretty heavily involved in at the end of the 1700s.

The day is hoped for an appearance of a French ship importing money was replaced by anger, who say and accuse the consul of treachery and of being an infidel mediator. The last attempted reconciliation took place on the 30th of April 1827, when Hussein invited, this is the day, he invited Deval, the French diplomat, to his residence. Deval, the day insulted him and Deval only replied that Hussein would not get an answer because it was useless.

At that moment, the day made a fatal mistake that deprived him of the throne, subjected to the country to the will of the French and launched off the whole fucking colonization of Africa. He ordered the French diplomat to leave and when he didn't do so, the day full of anger rose from his throne, approached the diplomat and struck him three times in the face with his fan.

That's right. And we're not just talking like a fan, like a little like, you know, a hand fan, we're talking about like a fly fan. Oh shit. You know what I mean? Like, yeah, fucking cow drops whip type of fucking thing. Tell me you're a bad boy. So things get pretty kinky in Algeria all of a sudden. Oh man. There were bad boys. That's right. So this guy gets up, he goes to the French diplomat, he hits him three times in the face with all of his might with his fan. Do you want me hit him?

Yeah, yeah, three times, two chops. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We've got to go this good. I like hearing the chops. Devol stands at attention with very, you know, calm, cool, collected and he says, I want to assure your highness that I'm afraid only of God and not of people. His excellence, the Baron did to Moss answered with my mouth and the damage suffered does not affect me, but the king of France. Oh shit. He just bitch slapped the king of France, man. That's right. You can't go do that.

You bitch slapped me. You bitch slapped the king. When you bitch slapped me, you bitch slap all of France. And that's what they did. And by God, Algeria suffered for it. Oh, my God. All of Africa suffered for it within one week, within one week, the French were fleeing Algeria and panic. The local Algerians were looting French property and burning trade posts and the Navy, the French Navy imposed a blockade. This would be the first domino that would lead to the entire colonization of Africa.

Baron, yes, I think you did donate. Yeah, maybe you knew I was going to talk about it tonight. Under that, I've got this beautiful picture. It's a painting of some European ladies, some Portuguese ladies hanging out in Africa at a market. And I also have a picture here of some women hanging out in Algiers in the late 1800s. This is an early photograph. Oh, I see this one. This is pretty wild stuff. Yeah, a glass plate photograph. And then I also have a picture of the Algiers Harbor in 1899.

So we have a picture, we have a painting or a rendering of Algiers Harbor in 1784 and an actual photograph of the harbor in 1899. So pretty fun stuff to compare. Zoos is corner dot sub stack dot com. I will conclude this bit here on the origins of West Africa's modernity with this excerpt from the wiki on French West Africa. If you'll allow me. Sure. Until after World War II, almost none of the Africans living in the colonies of France were citizens of France. Rather, they were French subjects.

They lacked rights before the law, property ownership rights rights to travel, dissent, or vote. There was an exception in Senegal, but that really was kind of just nominal nature. It was just as bad for them as well. They were allowed to elect deputy to represent them in French parliament. But it wasn't really until 1914 that they had any say at anything. They could send representatives to the French national assembly, but that was just about it.

As the French pursued their part in the scramble for Africa in the 1880s and 1890s, they conquered large inland areas. And it first ruled them as either part of the Senegal colony, the original colony, or as independent entities. These conquered areas were usually governed by French army officers. They were military territories, which were kind of styled after Napoleon's military adjunct that he ruled under, under the guise of a republic.

In the late 1890s, the French government began to rein in all the territorial expansion for its officers on the ground who would go on in their uninitiative and start housing hell. And they transferred all the territories west of Gabon to a single governor based in Senegal, reporting directly to the minister of overseas affairs. By 1904, this oversaw all of the territories, which were formerly known as French West Africa. And Niger was included in that.

And Niger is a landlocked nation and doesn't have as such, you know, any nation that doesn't have access to the ocean is in a pinch. And they can't really operate. They can't really, they don't have a way to generate any substantial wealth for themselves. Because all major trade is operated by sea. So, Niger technically is a very, very poor country, but it's very resource rich.

And as history has shown, if a country is very resource rich, but does not have other avenues for people to attain that wealth, then all of the wealth is concentrated in a very small group of hands. While the vast majority of the nation goes poor. This is shown again and again in Africa in particular. So, Niger is one of those that's fallen into the category. But the history of Niger is very identical to the history of about 9 or 10 other nations that are immediately around it.

And so, we can look at Algeria and we can look at other things to kind of get a sense for these things that were kind of better documented. To get a sense of what the French and what these colonizers were engaging in and how it came about in the first place. To top off the end of the article, I've got some beautiful pictures here of the sedan and of Niger in the mid 20th century early to mid 20th century.

When we got photographs going now, so this isn't just artistic renderings. We now actually get real photographs of the ground sandals on the ground sandals on the ground. I see a lot of the soldiers are wearing sandals. They're on a beach. No, they're not. They're not. They're in the desert. Never mind. What a time for an adventure. What a time indeed. And I kind of got on this for Niger, but I also got on this to build up to a character I think is tragically overlooked in our world today.

A person who is just as important as Winston Churchill and Franklin Delan Roosevelt. And that would be of course the hero of France Charles de Gaulle. Are you familiar with Charles de Gaulle? Oh, this name, this name strikes something. I'm going to look through my stuff and see if I got anything on him already, which doesn't look like it. But this is not the first time we've talked about him. I feel like he's been brought up a few times. Charles de Gaulle is a fascinating character.

He's a fascinating life. I'm going to do a much longer piece on him in the future, but just to just to kind of sum him up. He was the leader of France going out of World War II and through a good chunk of the Cold War. He was a he was the sort of rebuilder and leader of France coming out of that whole shit show. And he was a set he was there were many assassination attempts in his life.

And one of the most famous that's been made into a movie and it was very close. They were very, very fucking close to killing this guy was when he oversaw the Algerian independence. Which happened, I think, in 1960. And when that happened, all these paramilitary groups came out of the word would work and tried to fucking snipe his ass in the street. Jesus. Is there a video of that? There, I don't know this video of the event, but they've made movies on it and there's one movie.

God, what is it called? I'm going to get into this when we talk about it before. But it's like flight of the something more. Oh, what is it now? Let's see, Charles DeGal assassination, Algeria movie. The day of the jackal. Ooh, that definitely sounds familiar. The day of the jackal. It's about a professional assassin. Not only is the jackal who was hired to assassinate Charles DeGal in the summer of 1962. And they got very goddamn close to doing it. Michael Launstale? Cool.

Yeah. It's a banger. He added to the list and I'll bring clips of it. When we do talk about it, I was going to talk about it next week, but we have an interview next week. So I'll save it for maybe two weeks from now. Well, I think we don't have a set length, but for sure the first half. I'm not sure if Pete's going to want to do both halves, but we'll see. We'll see what happens. And I don't know. Sometimes these guys get pretty excited. They stick around. This is true.

Well, very fascinating trip to Africa. Yeah, we went back in time. Could you play the able Kirby time travel? Bring us back to the present day. Yes, I can make that happen, I think. Woo! Oh, we're back. Wow. Traveling through time and space. I think I got a little sand on my shoe. I got sand and more than my shoe. I got it in my nose. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Colonial, cuckoo, cuckoo game. Oh, yes. Uh-huh, uh-huh. You know, these things don't happen overnight.

The things that happen today have been in the works for a very long time. And if you want to get behind these schemes, you've got to go back in time. Back in time. Ooh, that would be a fun hit to get back in time. Um, yeah. Uh, I wish I could go back in time to get a couple more screen-mails in the inbox for tonight. But, uh, I lost. I think that was our- we blew our shot, man. Well, you know, maybe tonight's just a mellow night. We're coming down from a full moon.

We're just hitting the bonk and chilling out, you know, that's fine. But if you do get a little itching in your bitch and you can always call us. 612-263-7999. Yeah. And we'll be back next week, uh, live on a podcast in 2.0 app. We got, uh, Pete Lee on the phone. That'll be a lot of fun. And, uh, you got anything else? Oh, I can't think of anything else here. I can either, uh, salutations, salude, aliquizine, and jobless.

I just want to comment again on how much good music is being uploaded to these feats.

Yes. For a day loose of talent. It's very good. This is another Sir T.J. track that he was involved with. It's good stuff, man. Yeah. Fucking banging. Oh, this is so cool. I'm peeing during a podcast. I haven't done this in years. Oh. You talking about smoking during a podcast? Now peeing during a podcast. What look, sir? I do have this massive mason jar here in hand. Hey, I drink water out of there. Fuck you shit. Isn't it? Yeah, it's banging.

Hmm, well, this has been episode 160, but behind the scheme. Uh, we are live every single Monday night. You can find us at badradio.live or BTS.LOL. Live every Monday night is 730 Western, 930 Central, 1030 Eastern. You're on the NodeGenius stream and also on our own Scalic stream, which you can find at our website. Check out our show notes, those those corner dots obstac.com. It's quite the spread for tonight. Very, very well put together. We made it nice and tasty for tonight.

Yeah. And I'm going to try and do my best to stay as tasty as possible. Until that time, I've been Blueberry, my fan of the Minneapolis. Uh, Jisuy Desilets, Jean-Petbal François, Jisuy Lavish. Start a podcast, die for. It's a good idea. Wait, I pressed play. It's just how I've been ever since I was a little podcast. We're streaming live to NodeGenius, Dream, Hooray. Ooh, Pat. And they need a cigarette. With my big old rigid brain, so many curves for the thoughts to fall into.