*PREVIEW* The Santa Fe Expedition (Live in London)
Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast
Lions Led By Donkeys
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🗓️ 3 June 2026
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So he began putting together a wagon convoy, appointed a man to lead it named William Gordon Cook. |
| 0:06.2 | Now, Cook was the last commanding officer of the standing Texan Army when it existed. |
| 0:11.5 | He'd obtained that position with zero military education or prior service before the revolution. |
| 0:16.9 | Rather, he'd been a pharmacist from Virginia. |
| 0:19.2 | You know, the 1800s version of a pharmacist, meaning he was a Coke and heroin dealer. |
| 0:26.1 | Potions, cocaine, things of that nature. |
| 0:30.9 | If only a MPC 3000 existed, he could have been writing UGK lyrics. |
| 0:37.0 | No, I'm just liking the idea that the average Texan in 1840 is more fucked up on like proto-Fentanyl than today. |
| 0:46.2 | Texan merchants joined the convoy without hesitation and packed what amounted to be hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of goods on it so they could sell it in Santa Faye. But that wouldn't be all. Since Texas had reverted back to a volunteer army, Lamar called |
| 1:00.0 | up volunteers to join. Technically, at least according to him, this was not a military invasion. |
| 1:05.0 | These guys would simply be needed to protect the convoy. Congress approved, and somehow |
| 1:10.0 | the volunteer force ballooned up to 321 men, including the entire |
| 1:14.9 | company of artillery, you know, for protection. |
| 1:19.0 | Yeah, the artillery from the, you know, the country that couldn't smell metal, so they're |
| 1:23.1 | literally just throwing big rocks. |
| 1:25.3 | It's interesting. |
| 1:25.9 | It helps when you steal all your shit from Mexico. |
| 1:27.9 | Yeah, but also you made this, I mean, the fact that they had to disband their regular army because they didn't have any funds. It's like we haven't invented the car yet. We don't even have the sort of like err image of a car in our minds and yet you've managed to strip out your own catalytic converter somehow. We invented it so we could steal it. there must have been Armenians in Texas |
| 1:45.2 | Okay |
| 1:47.9 | I somehow. We invented it so we could steal it. There must have been Armenians in Texas. |
| 1:47.4 | Okay, just in case Joe's surname is Kasavian. He's allowed to make that show. |
| 1:52.2 | Many of you don't know the show apparently. They made me say it. Don't believe him. |
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