EPISODE 98: Machine Gun Blues

History on Fire

Daniele Bolelli

Society & Culture

4.8 • 5.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2023

⏱️ 103 minutes

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“Most people go through life thinking they’re totally safe. People like us, we know the truth. Life is hard and dangerous, and sometimes you just got to chop off somebody’s head to survive.” — Ash vs. Evil Dead

“No friend ever served me, and no enemy ever wronged me, whom I have not repaid in full.” — Lucius Cornelius Sulla

“Around four o’clock on that Monday afternoon of the thirteenth, with a light rain falling, the bandits attacked. To the sound of a trumpet—for Lampiao did things in style—and the rumble of thunder in the cloudy sky, the outlaws entered the city, on foot and divided into groups.” — Billy Jaynes Chandler

“The first step toward becoming a true outlaw is the refusal to be victimized.” — Tom Robbins

This is the tale of the most famous outlaw operating in Brazil in the early 1900s. Much like the Old West in the 1800s in U.S., the backcountry of North-Eastern Brazil was a rough place where disputes were often settled with guns. Extreme wealth inequality, and a lack of opportunities to climb out of poverty, pushed many people toward criminality. Lampiao was the most legendary of them all. After turning to banditry in 1916, Lampiao led a gang that battled with rivals and with the police all the way until 1938. News of his feats reached around the globe, even making the pages of the NY Times. Some people considered him a popular hero. Others believed he was a blood-thirsty criminal. In this episode, we’ll explore his story.

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0:00.0	Whether you like history or not, if you care about bravery, wisdom, passion, larger-than-life
0:05.6	characters, and some of the most emotionally intense moments in human experience, you have
0:10.5	come to the right place.
0:11.9	Danielle Ebolelli is a university history professor, writer and martial artist, and he shall
0:16.9	be your guide and a journey to the place where history and epic lie.
0:30.0	Hello and welcome to episode 98 of History on Fire.
0:54.7	First and foremost, I would like to remind you that the thing that's keeping the podcast
0:59.7	afloat is a listener support on Patreon.
1:03.6	So if you want to join the brave band of heroes who are helping making sure that history
1:08.6	on fire stay afloat, you can go to patreon.com for wordslashhistoryonfire.
1:19.9	Not only just out of the goodness of your heart, but on top of it you get a whole bunch
1:25.4	of extra bonus episodes.
1:27.7	Every single month I release a mini episode can be a short of 50 minutes as long as an
1:33.1	hour, but I dive into some fun stories.
1:37.2	It doesn't fit with like main big episodes that I do, but it's still stuff that I deeply
1:42.8	enjoy creating and so far people seem to dig.
1:45.6	So if you want to check it out that's what you get when you join at the $5 level at
1:51.0	patreon.com for wordslashhistoryonfire.
1:54.6	Quick shout out to some folks who have been donating at a much higher level and those
2:00.2	would be Mr. Marc Chang, Chimi Moxam, Jesus Renteria and Charles Accorso.
2:05.5	Thank you, thank you, thank you.
2:08.8	Last thing before we get going, I'd like to give a shout out to Dakota PureBison.com.
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