What's matter with you people, your soldiers at age man?

Studio.

They're not civilians anymore.

They're not too long to act like this.

They're going to Cuba to kill us men you're going to Cuba to to kill us man yet.

Hello and welcome to yet another episode of the lines on my donkey's podcast and

like I just ruined my intro.

Yeah, I'm Joe and with me me today, as always, for the most part, is Nick. And you all know,

like of the podcast dog who just ruined my intro. Hello, like. Now, uh, so we have wanted to do some earlier American episodes for quite some time.

Like we've dicked around the Civil War a few times we've talked about the War of 1812 which is our first series but there's like that weird

interim period between like America being nothing on the global stage and then like World War II.

Yeah. Obviously World War I's in there but we kind of get a participation trophy for that ward because

it was mostly already over. So we thought we would talk about America's first overseas war of empire.

And that is the Philippines American War.

Are you familiar with this war at all? Not really, honestly. You know, and this is where I say,

either was I, because before we start, I have to thank Robert Chang. So Robert was the lead researcher in this episode, meaning it's the first episode where that was not me, which means it's probably going to be the best one.

He's a history grad and he's an activist with the International Coalition on Human Rights in the Philippines.

He did virtually all the legwork for this series.

And he also provided me with a pronunciation guide for the Tagalog language, which I will still fuck up.

If you get, we're damn near a hundred episodes into this podcast,

and everybody knows that I can't pronounce a goddamn thing correctly.

So Robert, well known. Thank you for giving me a pronunciation guide but I'm so

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