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Okay, welcome to the show this week. Fam, we have joining us today, Dr. Christina Heatherton. Is it appropriate to call you doctor? Is it, in fact, preferred?

Yeah, only call me doctor. If you call me by anything else, I'll sue you and you can call me Christina. That's fine.

Um, Christina is a professor of American Studies and Human Rights at Trinity College in Connecticut.

He's the co-editor of policing the planet, which I have on my bookshelf right now, with Jordan T Camp, who we've had on the show before.

There's a lot of intersecting. There's going to be a lot of intersecting things in this episode. I feel like, um, a lot of your book talks about a reegie, for example, and long time listeners of this show will know I'm a big reegie head.

Um, but today we're, we are actually meeting to talk about Christina's book, which is a year old, like today or like today, absolutely. Yeah.

Well, happy birthday. Happy birthday to your book. Also speaks to our unreliable.

We've had it within the year. There you go.

Um, Christina's book is called a rise global radicalism in the era of the Mexican Revolution.

Um, it, yes, is a year old that which means that it has just been released in paperback if I understand that correctly.

So, uh, so we're going to be talking a little bit about that book.

Um, you know, there's a lot of interesting things about this book that we can like, like, like tributaries or avenues that we can kind of like go in in any different direction.

Uh, and we don't have to start here, but I just want to say that right before we started recording actually, I was kind of chasing down one of these rabbit holes in your book, which was about the

uh, I believe they're called the San Patricia battalion or the St. Patrick's battalion.

Um, they were a group of like 150 or so defectors from the US Army in the Mexican American war.

I'd never heard of these. I mean, maybe that sounds dumb. I apologize for those of you who expect me to know everything.

But, uh, I'd actually never heard of of this group before.

Um, they defected from the US Army in the, uh, yeah, Mexican American war.

Uh, they, I think they were all executed. It was like one of the largest mass executions in the United States history.

Um, the leader was a guy named John Riley, who was like an Irish national.

Is that hence the name?

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