The Bay of Pigs - Cuba 1961

We Are History

Angela Barnes and John O'Farrell

History

4.9 • 802 Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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When America was shocked to see their neighbour Cuba going socialist, they trained and armed a group of Cuban exiles to invade, confident in the knowledge that this would spark a popular uprising against all that free healthcare and universal education. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to We Are History. I'm John O'Farrell and I'm Angela Barnes.
0:08.5	And this week on the most laughable history podcast on the World Wide Web. We are talking about La Bahiaida Conchinos.
0:18.7	Not bad, John. Not bad.
0:21.2	You gave me.
0:21.9	I like the way you gave me the Spanish bit in the intro for John to do.
0:26.8	Lovely.
0:27.6	I didn't learn Spanish.
0:28.7	I only learned German and French.
0:30.2	The only Spanish I learned is teaching my daughter, GCSC Spanish.
0:32.8	We went on a whole day to Spain and they left me to do all the ordering.
0:35.1	They'd learned Spanish at school and I said,
0:39.3	do Tervesa, two beers,
0:41.5	you bought two beers for your children?
0:43.7	John.
0:43.8	This is for me and Jackie.
0:45.0	Cafe con lece and a Coca-Cola.
0:47.5	And they're all going, oh,
0:49.3	una Coca-Cola.
0:52.0	They were taking the piss out of me saying Coca-Cola in a Spanish accent.
0:55.1	It's like, oh, you not, did Spanish at school, you should be ordering.
0:59.6	Anyway, La Bahia da Conchinos is the Bay of Pigs.
1:06.3	Yes.
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