CLASSIC: William Walker: Filibuster and (Fantastically Bad) President
Ridiculous History
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4.3 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
In today's Classic episode, Ben, Noel, Casey In Spirit and Max explore a bizarrely American story. The adventurer and filibuster William Walker was, in his heyday, lauded as an American hero for his repeated failed invasions of areas of Mexico and Nicaragua. But what led this man on a fanatical mission to invade these regions? Perhaps more importantly, why did so many folks in the US support his various strange escapades?
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| 0:00.0 | fellow ridiculous historians, one of the time-honored aspects of U.S. culture is to always |
| 0:09.2 | make fun of people in power. |
| 0:12.6 | Yes, of course, especially in podcasting. |
| 0:16.4 | Especially in podcasting, sketch comedy, in cafes, the nation round. |
| 0:24.8 | There is a guy named William Walker. |
| 0:28.0 | We would love to introduce you to him if you haven't heard our classic episode from |
| 0:33.2 | 2018. |
| 0:34.9 | In his halcyon days, Noel, he was an American hero because he was seen like some kind of military version of Rocky. |
| 0:47.3 | Or what's that football film, Rudy? |
| 0:50.6 | Rudy, yes, of course, the underdog. |
| 0:52.9 | Always root for the underdog. |
| 0:54.6 | Yeah, William Walker keeps trying to invade different parts of Mexico and Nicaragua, and he keeps failing. |
| 1:01.6 | Oh, yeah. |
| 1:02.3 | You got to fail a bunch to become an underdog, I suppose. |
| 1:05.6 | Did he ever rise above underdog status? |
| 1:08.6 | Well, no, not really. Oh, okay. Well, why don't we hear more about |
| 1:15.5 | that in this classic episode? You're listening to an I-heart podcast. I found out I was related |
| 1:25.0 | to the guy that I was dating. I don't feel emotions correctly. |
| 1:28.3 | I collect my roommate's toenails and fingernails. |
| 1:31.1 | Those were some callers from my call-in podcast, Therapy Gecko. |
| 1:35.4 | It's a show where I take phone calls from anonymous strangers as a fake gecko therapist |
| 1:41.2 | and try to learn a little bit about their lives. |
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