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.

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(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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