Well, chat, this is it. It's the first of our three (3!) episode extravaganza dedicated to the rise, life, and fall of the evilest dork in history: Nathan Cook Meeker. Born in the conquered eastern American frontier on his family farm, Nathan spent his entire life learning the wrong lesson at every turn and eating **** for it. Ideologically dominated via an American Classical education, studying the works of history's greatest bastards, Nathan believed wholeheartedly in repaying one's debts, the inalienable right of all men to be a blowhard without consequence, and the superiority of agriculture over every other way of life ever devised. He is also the sniveling twerp for whom the town of Meeker, Colorado is named. It will be no surprise to the listener to learn that Nathan spent most of his life repaying debt and being embittered by every passing day. He is a pivotal character in the removal of the Ute peoples from Colorado, and let his story be a lesson to all White Dorks of today! Being a numbnuts like Meeker and striving to find one's place inside an Imperialist society brings not only ruin to oneself, but to everyone around. If you start a commune on a bank loan, you'd best be prepared to seize the banks afterward. It's such a shame to see a Utopian guy like Meeker choosing ideas over reality. Funny how that happens to guys like that.

Chapters:

(00:18:48) The Discussion Zone

Our book is "The Utes Must Go!" American Expansion and the Removal of a People by Peter Decker. I can't find this book from the publisher anymore, so here's a buy link for ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Abebooks⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Amazon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. I found my copy in a box of free books outside a bookstore at the mall five years ago. So you could try that too.

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Thomas Jefferson envisioned a perfect world where all geography was exquisitely mapped out, every person in existence was accounted for, and every family owned and tilled a small-acre-square pixel of land. Now, you might think we'd almost immediately run out of land if we all lived like that, but what your weak, PlayStation-addled brain doesn't realize is what if the frontier went on forever? What if there is, actually, infinite land on an infinite globe and everyone who currently lives on it doesn't deserve it because they don't have as much gold as you? What's that you're whining about now? Who will work all these farms? Why, it's simple! Either enslave the undeserving who already live there or start cranking out a family. We live in the Infinite Frontier! The Prosperity Can Never End! Surely nothing like, say, being unable to grow tomatoes on a rocky, 45 degree slope at an elevation of 10,000 feet will get in the way of our pixelation of the planet. It's Chapter 2 of "The Utes Must Go!"

Chapters:

(00:21:13) The Discussion Zone

Our book is "The Utes Must Go!" American Expansion and the Removal of a People by Peter Decker. I can't find this book from the publisher anymore, so here's a buy link for ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Abebooks⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Amazon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. I found my copy in a box of free books outside a bookstore at the mall five years ago. So you could try that too.

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The colonial era of human history marks the point at which everyone, everywhere came to understand that out of an imperialist's mouth, every accusation is a confession and every promise is already broken. The only thing that stops an empire from murdering you for its own convenience is to so-entirely kick its butt that it is forced to play nice with you. Now that's something to think about. It's Chapter 1 of "The Utes Must Go!"

Chapters:

(00:19:37) The Discussion Zone

Our book is "The Utes Must Go!" American Expansion and the Removal of a People by Peter Decker. I can't find this book from the publisher anymore, so here's a buy link for ⁠⁠⁠⁠Abebooks⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠Amazon⁠⁠⁠⁠. I found my copy in a box of free books outside a bookstore at the mall five years ago. So you could try that too.

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All complaints should be filed with the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Complaints Department⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.