Ep. 101 - The Shortcut
The Conspirators Podcast
The Conspirators Podcast
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2019
⏱️ 32 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | There's a legend out of 16th century Spain that tells of a soldier named Gil Perez, |
| 0:11.0 | who was on guard in the governor's palace in Manila. |
| 0:15.0 | The date was October 24th, 1593, and Perez was exhausted. |
| 0:22.0 | The night before the palace had been raided by Chinese Pyrene. was exhausted. |
| 0:22.5 | The night before the palace had been raided by Chinese pirates, and despite the Guard's |
| 0:27.0 | best efforts to prevent the worst from happening, the raiders still managed to assassinate |
| 0:32.0 | his excellency. Governor Gomez Perez d'Marenius. |
| 0:37.8 | After that, the palace fell into disarray, and it was the duty of Perez and the remaining soldiers to maintain order until a new governor was appointed. |
| 0:47.0 | But Perez had been on his feet for close to 24 hours without food or rest. And by now he was feeling pretty weary. |
| 0:56.6 | The pirates had long since fled. It was late, and the night was still. |
| 1:02.0 | Perez figured it couldn't hurt if he just sat down in a quiet corner and rested for a bit. |
| 1:07.6 | He closed his eyes for what he thought was just a moment. |
| 1:11.4 | But when he opened them again, he realized that something was very, very wrong. |
| 1:17.0 | He was no longer in the Governor's Palace in Manila. |
| 1:21.0 | In fact, at first he didn't know where he was. But that soon became abundantly clear as well. |
| 1:27.6 | Several other guards swooped in around him demanding to know who he was and where he came from. These guards were a completely |
| 1:36.2 | different uniform than Perez had on. Instead of answering their questions, Perez asked |
| 1:42.1 | one of his own own. |
| 1:43.0 | Where the hell was he? |
| 1:46.0 | What they told him couldn't possibly be true. |
| 1:49.0 | They informed him he was in the Plaza Myor of Mexico City, which made no sense at all because that was more than 9,000 nautical miles away from Manila on the other side of the ocean. |
| 2:03.0 | Perez told the men that this had to be a joke because he had just received his orders the morning |
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