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Within the Wires

Season 3, Reel 8: April 20, 1954

Within the Wires

Night Vale Presents

Science Fiction, Fiction

4.62.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2018

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

NOTE: We will be taking a break the week of Christmas. Episode 9 will return on Jan 1, 2019. Dictation recording 8 of 10: Office of Michael Witten, April 20, 1954. Letters to Bernice Jones and Sima Choudary. # Music: Mary Epworth, maryepworth.com Written by Jeffrey Cranor and Janina Matthewson. Performed by Lee LeBreton Within the Wires T-Shirts & Posters, topatoco.com/collections/within-the-wires Free transcripts, patreon.com/withinthewires Support this show on Patreon, patreon.com/withinthewires Support our sponsors, nightvalepresents.com/sponsoroffers Logo by Rob Wilson, robwilsonwork.com Part of the Night Vale Presents network. nightvalepresents.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Amy, have you ever been to the Alamo?

0:09.1

When Bernice Jones had BB and I down to visit last year, she took us to some historic

0:12.8

sites.

0:13.8

I thought the Alamo was fascinating.

0:15.8

This monument to great defeat.

0:19.6

The few hundred Texas insurgents showed resilience in the face of thousands of soldiers, so I suppose

0:24.4

the moral of determination is worth something.

0:28.3

Remember the Alamo is the famous shout when they finally defeated the Mexican leaders

0:33.1

Antana.

0:34.1

But they didn't shout just that.

0:38.3

They shouted, remember the Alamo, remember Goliad.

0:45.5

Remember the Alamo, remember Goliad.

0:51.5

Bernice and Miguel took us to Goliad, to Presidio La Bajía.

0:55.9

The Alamo is in the middle of San Antonio, not much of a city that you can tell it's growing.

1:01.2

Some taller buildings popping up around the old mission, which is also somewhat of a local

1:05.5

tourist attraction.

1:08.0

Feels museum-y.

1:09.5

Presidio La Bajía, it's nowhere.

1:12.9

You stand there and you can feel a hundred and twenty years just spin off the clock.

1:18.2

It's pristine, the same as it was in the 1830s.

1:24.3

No museum, no sign, no city.

1:28.2

They shouted, remember Goliad.

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