272. Solving The Mystery of America's Lost Colony

Lust auf frische Vielfalt zu kleinen Preisen? Dann ab! Zu Rewe. Rewe Bestival Snack Äpfel Gala. Frisch und knackig. Klasse 1. Je 1 Kilo Schale für nur 1,99 Euro. Oder frischer Blatt Spinat. Klasse 1. Je 250 Gramm Packung für nur 1,39 Euro. Und mit Rewe Bonus sollst du zusätzlich 20 Cent Bonusguth haben. Frische Vielfalt, kleine Preise. Rewe, dein Mag. Welcome to this episode of Empire with me, Anita Arnan. And me, William. Drumble. And we're all in sort of back of the bus mode because we've got one of our naughty guests back on. Uh who we absolutely adored. I mean, honestly, uh could not love this man more. Mark Horton, archaeologist extraordinaire, who you might remember last time was on, talking about Darion. The attempt of the Scots to found their own empire. And can I just say you got me into all sorts of trouble because you made me laugh.

So much. I had a heaving post bag. From people of the north. Why are you finding this so bloody funny? It's a great tragedy. What's wrong with you? But you said it funny. It's not Marvel you said it funny, but it was it was a very funny and very marvelous episode. Remind them Anita what it was that was funny. Oh well I mean the thing was it was Mark gave this list of uh reasons why this um colonization attempt may not have been successful, and among them were the fact that they took leather cannons. I mean already I no military person, but I don't see how that was a good idea. And they took to trade with the natives bonnets and Bibles as if they were gonna get anything for that stuff. So the whole thing

It was just not Not great. Big potential market for bonnets even today in Pellow. The scale of the it was a planning snufu, as we say in the trade, which Mark told really well. Anyway, welcome, Mark. Oh, thank you. All right. We are here to talk about a very different subject, one that we have covered. on this podcast before, but Mark is going to have a whole new perspective on this, and it comes straight from the dirt. of truth and reality. So Willie, do you want to give people an idea of what it is we're talking about? I'd love to open this'cause weird enough, what Mark has dug the same sort of time as he was digging it, I have one of the opening scenes of my book, The Anarchy. about the the subject we're about to talk about, which is

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