#85 The History of US-Mexican Relations w/ Bruce Carlson (Recorded Live in Riviera Maya, Mexico)
The Road to Now
Benjamin Sawyer
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2018
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
The Road to Now was lucky enough to be part of The Avett Brothers at the Beach music festival, so we invited our friend Bruce Carlson of My History Can Beat Up Your Politics to join us for a discussion of some key moments in the relationship between the United States and Mexico. We cover the US annexation of Texas and the Mexican-American War, as well as the ways that the US and Mexico have contributed to each other's development. We couldn't hit everything, but we hope this discussion shows that despite a tumultuous past, both countries stand to gain a lot from cooperation with one another.
We'd like to thank everyone who came out to the live recording. We hope to see you on the road again soon!
For more on this episode and others, check out www.theroadtonow.com
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| 0:00.0 | Good afternoon. |
| 0:12.0 | You know, this is an interesting place to talk about mid-19th century American history. |
| 0:24.5 | You know, but hey, this is beautiful. |
| 0:28.2 | We're here at the Ait at the Beach Festival. |
| 0:31.9 | I'm Bob Crawford, as always with my co-host, Dr. Ben Sawyer. |
| 0:36.4 | How's it going, everybody? |
| 0:40.9 | We're here at a lagoon because we're recording this for the podcast, so I just want to describe the scene. |
| 0:46.9 | You have a lot of really happy people. |
| 0:51.0 | All happy. |
| 0:52.5 | Some of them may have been drinking since about 11 o'clock this morning. |
| 0:56.1 | Some of them maybe not. |
| 0:57.4 | Maybe just getting started. |
| 0:58.5 | It's going to be a long day. |
| 1:00.5 | But there is a nice pool, almost like a lagoon swimming pool between us and some of the crowd. |
| 1:07.6 | A lot of people are in the water. |
| 1:09.0 | Can we get closer? |
| 1:10.1 | Does anybody want to come |
| 1:10.8 | closer come on come closer uh i may go down there in a minute myself we have uh some zip lines |
| 1:18.8 | going back and forth um but really just a real festive uh just a beautiful day here uh in toulom is it toulom |
| 1:26.8 | are we in tulum? Proper? |
| 1:29.3 | We're right outside of Tulum, Mexico, and we're all happy to be here. |
| 1:35.0 | And thanks for being here. This is awesome. I got to say, I do a lot of talking about history. |
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