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Alright, welcome back to sort of sophisticated, can we say this is the podcast that, um, would help you win at, um, do you remember Trivial Pursuit? Yes. Do you remember this before about that game? I have, I'd like to have a game night with you and I on the same team now. Do you think that this is what it would help? Yes, this would help. Yes. Okay. This is the podcast that would help you win it. Sorta pursuit then. Perfect. Okay. Um, I'm Pete and that person who is just being awesome is Amanda. Hi Amanda. Hello. Welcome back. Thank you for coming to the studio for one full year. It's a full year. You're the best. It's our year anniversary. You're the best person. Can you believe you've been doing it for 52 weeks? Um, I don't know if that's good or bad. Yeah, like on the one hand, yes, I can believe it. And the other hand, I wish I was farther along. Oh my God. No, we're good. What? We're good. 50 I some two weeks is a long time. Gimme some positive reinforcement here. I need it. I know you were, I know. I'm usually to have 150 listeners I know. Need by a year. I know. I think, which was very, very overzealous. That was very aggressive and aggressive goals. We should just say thank you to everyone who listens. Okay. Regularly. Hey, thank you to everyone who listens. I really appreciate that. Uh, from the bottom of my heart. Thank you. Yeah, mine too. What? Um, I love it. What are we talking about today? What do we got on the agenda? Do you have any idea? I dunno. It's almost me. So like Cinco de Mayo, Cinco de Mayo is on the agenda. People that, is it just trying to stay relevant? If you must know. Do you want to, do you wanna know the actual title? Title? Yeah. What's the title? Title, okay. The title, title. Cinco de Mayo tacos, tequila, and totally misunderstood history. 'cause you know, I love my alliteration. You do love alliteration, but I also love tacos and tequila. Right. And I will admit that I totally do not understand Cinco de Mayo. Yeah. Right. Because I've heard that it's a. Mean, it's a holiday. Right. But it's supposed to be Mexican Independence Day. Oh my God. Oh, we are gonna, we are gonna debunk the, it's not right. Like this is perfect. No. So then why do we sate? It's like, I feel so this day I'm so conflicted, so conflicted. There is so much that we're gonna learn today. This is gonna be fantastic. Okay. I'm ready. Um, alright. So basically we're just gonna sort of get into like. What this is really all about. Like, it's not supposed to just be some massive drunk fest here in like the United States of America. There was like, I feel like we just make every holiday a drunk fest, but continue. I Right. Totally. Okay. But I gotta continue with Word of the day first, because I mean, I, I'm not spoiling the whole thing. We got, we have to drag this out, Amanda, into a full episode. Okay. Okay. We can't just be like, Cinco de Miles is not Mexican. No. There's history. I'm sure I got it. It'll, it'll, it'll take time. I got it. I got it. I got it. Okay. What are the day? We ready? Yes. Okay. Um. Contumacious, I'm sorry, contumacious. Contumacious sounds like, like you consummate, but that's not the right, um, that would be a way better word. Uh, can I ask you a question? Did you take Latin? My children are learning Latin right now. No, but did you take Latin? 'cause I did not. Because in one of our episodes before you were like, Hey, Latin roots. Latin roots, you always go back. Yeah. So I took Latin for four years. Oh, I didn't, I'm never taking Latin. Yeah. I'm learning it right now with Addie. It helped me a ton, like in everything third grade. Okay. But that's why you, that's why you go back to the roots of Latin. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So Contumacious, um, not what, what did you say? Consensus to consummate. Oh, consummate. They're not nearly close. It was just funny. Whatever. Right. Okay. Um, it means rebellious. Con being rebellious. Okay. Yeah. I don't know, whatever. All right. So that's what we gotta go for. We just gotta figure out how to work re buddies in somewhere. Are we ready to roll? But isn't that what Cinco de Mayo is? What about. A rebellion of some sort. Oh, I don't know. Is it? Yes, it is. We'll, we, we'll be able to, okay. I think we'll be able to use this. Thank you. Okay. But first what? Like, I have to know. Wait, do you ha, like, are you on the edge of your seat? You, I have to know. I do. Before we start. Well, what? Okay. So Single de Mayo. Yeah. Is it Mexican independent anymore? It is not, right? No, it is not. It never was. And spoiler alert. They don't even really celebrate it in Mexico, like at all. I didn't know that. They didn't celebrate. I knew that. Except, except for one place that we're gonna explain where this whole thing went down. But anyway, continue. What was your question? So why do we know it as Mexican Independence Day? Because we're dumb Americans. Okay, well, let's, let's get a little sophisticated, here we go. Sort of sophisticated. 1, 2, 3. Wait. So if it's not about Independence Day Yeah. Then, is this why we're gonna be a little bit more cultured and curious? Well, we're gonna be cultured and curious 'cause we gotta stay like true to the tagline here. You know what I mean? Sorta sophisticated, cultured, and curious. Tm, I think you made, I think you made your jingle. Okay, we gotta jingle it. Um. Literally gonna be the jingle. Okay, so this, so it's in the title, right? Like the whole reason we have to learn about this is what makes more cultures. 'cause it's totally misunderstood the whole point that you're making. Like, oh, as Mexican independence day. Like that's the thing. Like if we want to care more and have more self-awareness, more perspective, then we need to learn like what the hell is going on in other countries. I mean, not just ours or even like the holidays we celebrate, right? Step one, right? Because I feel like we just sometimes go through life. Right. Go through the motion. Right. We just go through the motions, we dunno. Yes, absolutely. Fair, fair, fair. So, so, so that's one piece. And then the other thing is, well I'm gonna get to it later, but, um. This sort of went down during the Civil War. So like there is like a global implication, huh? Like there's a, there's a piece of like, okay, we were having a civil war and so some other people, uh, France, um, started taking advantage of the United States who was having a civil war and like went down to Mexico and did some shit. So like there, there're like's, like a whole global implications piece of this. So again, this is much deeper Right, right, right. Than like one would assume. Yes. Then honestly sort of at the end, back to like Trivial Pursuit, like the more shit we know, the faster we can win the game. Yay. Here we are. Let's go. So that's why it makes this culture me curious. Okay. Okay. Wait, but so did it like actually start, because we celebrate on Cinco de Mayo, which is May 5th, right? Is that like the actual day? Or did we butcher that too? No. Okay. No, it's the actual day. It's the actual, okay. Okay. You're right. So's the day of something. Yes. Right. Yes, not Mexican Independence Day. It's actually about a specific battle that went down. Okay. Okay. May 5th. Yes. 1862 in this little town called a long time ago. Yes. A very, very long time ago. Puebla, Mexico. Not Pueblo. Not town. Puebla. Okay. Pueblo with an a. Mexico still there today. She, it's a little town. It's a little her. 'cause it ends in a Still still there too. It's still there. Pueblo, Mexico. A Mexican army of like 4,000 soldiers, like take on a French army about like one and a half times their size. It's like 6,000. Yeah, like 6,000. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Um, Maso, right? I mean that's, you're not, I just threw the search in there. I dunno if that was cultural pro MAs, but maso for our listeners means more or less. Okay. just to be clear, like France at that time was like. That was Napoleon. Well, it wasn't Napoleon, but it was like Napoleon ii I think so. Like France was a badass. I'm over here like, how many Napoleon is it? Okay. Whatever. Was there not just one. Here's my, the short little one. Here's the point, digress. One at one. At one point, France was the superpower. The military superpower. Yes, yes. This was that time. Okay. Okay. And Mexico was So they were destined to lose. Yeah. Okay. In theory, this was David versus Goliath. Okay. Like you understand this? Yeah. Okay. But why was France. I mean, you know, you said that the Civil war was happening in the us Yes. So then France decided to take advantage and invade Mexico, France. Right. Why, why? Okay. I had to look that up. 'cause I had no idea why. Right? Because I was just like, I still don't have an idea. Googling the Battle of Puebla with an A. Okay. so the French were hoping to like get like an emperor guy in charge of Mexico. okay, so here's why. So Mexico. Actually owed France money because Mexico was just coming out of this whole civil war that they had. And the only way to like support a civil war is to go borrow money. So they borrowed money from like England and, and like few other countries. But like France was like a main one too, that they borrowed from. So France was pissed because they were developing? Yes. So yes. France was like, no, no, no. Like if you can't pay me back, then dumb shits we're coming down there and we're gonna put like an we're, we're owning you. Yeah. We're gonna put an emperor guy charge. We're calling our note. Yeah. Yep. We're gonna do the whole colonial colonialism. Colonialism, that thing. Right, and then honestly, uh, Mexico just, they got a little like, uh, contumacious, uh, if I may say so. Right. Rebellious. Wow. I just did that. Well played. That was so fast. Well played. I wasn't expecting that. It just popped right in there. Okay. Okay. So Mexico owed money to France. and it was because they were developing their country. Like why did Mexico need the money? Mexico need the money because they were fighting the Civil War. they were like out of money. Mexico itself was also in a Mexico itself, had been in the middle of a civil war. They were coming out of it. So the US had a civil war in Mexico, had a civil war. US hadn't started the Civil War. This is back in 1861. The had the United States had not started war. Understood. So this was more like Mexico was in rebuild mode. What do you do when you're in rebuild mode? You go to borrow money. Yep. Yep. Okay. Got it. And here we're got it. Yeah. All right. Okay. 'cause the Mexican Civil War was in the 1850s or something like that. So they were broke. Yes. Needed money. Absolutely. France said, we'll give it to you. Yeah. They wanted their money back. Right. Mexico said, sorry, France said, we'll, take your land. I'll tell you this, Mexico fully intended on giving em money back, but then like in 1861, this dude, um, Benito Juarez. He gets elected. 'cause apparently that's what you do back then in 1861 in Mexico, they have elections. Go Mexico. And he was like, dude, we, you can't pay these loans. Like so he was the reneger, huh? Right. Um, Benito, Benito wore us. Anyway, so my point of all this was good old Juarez, who was a smart man, just basically said, we're not gonna do this. you know what he did? He did the same thing that the United States did to England. He wrote a strongly worded letter to France and he said, he said, it's not you, it's me. And I'm sorry, we're breaking up. We're breaking up. So, um, we're not going to pay you for a few years till we got our shit together. And that's when France was like, yeah, no, I'm, I have an idea. I'm gonna come take your land. Yeah, it's fine. We're gonna beat the shit outta you. Take your land and put in emperor, you know, some guy named, um, you know, Jacques. Jacques Custo as their emperor. Okay. You could have just gone Monte Cristo or something, right? Yes. Okay, fine. That was level seven line all the way. Wait. Okay, so can I get to the battle now? Yes, absolutely. Okay, so battle Puebla. So some guy named General Ignacio Zaragoza, some total badass. Right? Okay. Do you, you, you remember the David and Goliath story? Yes. Okay. Do you know bad news bears? Do you know this reference at all? Hold on. Bad news beers. Do you know? I dunno where it comes from. I just know it was a 19 76 movie with Walter Mattau. No, a bunch of baseball kids. Yeah, and it was hysterical, but wasn't in bad. What was the title? Was it called Bad News Beers? No. Yeah. Really? Yeah. O jk. I. Yeah. Nope, that's all I know. Alright. Don't remember. Okay. Anyway, same concept, right? The whole like little guy versus big guy. Yeah. Right? Like misfits. Yeah. Yeah. Totally unprepared like yes. Island and misfit toys, right? You get the whole idea. It's Mexico like, and I'm not shitting on Mexico. I love Mexicans. But like, I mean, it's like 1860 or something. They probably have like sticks and rocks. Right. It's not like they have like real ass weapons. They're not a developed nation. Right. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Thank, thank you for making that sort of, sort of sophisticated. Yeah. I really appreciate it. Right. But they're bad asses because Mexicans are bad asses. Yep. And they're resilient as like, fuck. Right? Yeah. And so they're like ready to go and probably hopped up on all this caffeine from the cocoa plants down there or something. I don't really know. But that's, I mean, that, that is one, one way thing. They're smoking something down there. Okay, let's go. And so they basically. Beat the shit out of France. Like that was not expected. Done and done. I'm sure. Battle of Puebla done, finished over win Now how long was it? I don't like five minutes. Really? Not long. It was not long. No, no, no, no, no, no. Like France. France ran back with their tail, tail between legs. But like, let's be honest, long story short, like it's one of those, they won the battle, but lost the war. You've, you've heard of this? Yes. Yes. Saying before, so, okay. That's won the battle. Yes. So then France was like, how, how did they lose the war? Because France was like, okay, we just bring more people and more, more money and more, this is this a French accent. I don't, it's even know what I'm doing. It's not, it's not. Anyway, they brought a bunch more people and Right. I apologized to all the French people. I've just probably just totally embarrassed myself. Um, and they just came back and kicked their ass. So actually France ended up like. I don't wanna say winning the war, but France ended up like winning sort of more long term and put in this emperor guy for like four or five years. So Mexico got screwed. So they actually, Mexico ended up like losing. Okay. Like in, in all like sense and purpose. They, they, they lost right by the end of it. Yeah. Right. Um, yeah. And then it wasn't until like, I don't remember like 1866 or 1867, like five years later, so that finally Mexico got around to kicking out France and maybe France didn't care anymore. I didn't look all that part up. I'm not that sophisticated, but like. France won. Mexico lost. But this battle of Puebla stuck as sort of this, like this symbol of resilience. Right. They, they won. It was like a fuck you to the man. Yeah. Right. Yeah, that's, that's the concept. Anyway, so I, I hope this is all making sense. I was rambling. It does, it does. So just Cliff no version is Yes. What Battle of Puebla, they won, but France came back, basically took over, yes. Ruled occupied for four to five years. Yes. And then the Mexicans like. Rose up. Yes. And overthrew that Yes. Ruler. And, and here. And here we are. Were back, was the Mexican independence. No, no, no. So that's a whole, right? So Mexican independence is way different. And that goes all the way back to 1810. But I don't wanna get into that one right now, so, so hang tight. I wanna know a little bit more about like, all the research you came up with. Like, like you gotta talk to me a little bit about how this whole thing that's ended up in the United States then, right. We gotta do full subject change. Yeah, I mean, I totally just really was fascinated by the commercialization, if that's even a word. It is totally holiday. Thats gonna be our next word today. I have a, I have a new idea. Okay. But that one's like normal's a normal word. Let's come up in a current episode, let's use one of the words we use for next week's episode every time. Do you get what I mean? Yeah, yeah. Like we just randomly say the word and we say it. No. Okay, fine. Sorry. Continue. Lot. A lot of homework to follow up on. Yeah, that's, we'd be taking notes, reading through this stuff too much. This is terrible too. Too much way too much, much. All right. So get back to like. Marketing and everything. Right? So America commercializes everything, right? Or they can't commercialize anything. I guess that's how we work, I should say. Right? It's true, but we're not the only country that does this. There are other ones that do it as well. So we're not like that. Horrible. Wait, celebrate Cinco to Myo. There's other countries that celebrate Cinco to Mayo before. No, no, no. I didn't mean like Celebrate Cinco to Mayo. I just meant other countries find ways to promote random shit. Oh. Or promote shit. Or make, you know. Okay, that makes sense. Commercialized stuff. I, I, I do get that. Right. So. Well, hold on. What? That's not true because like Japan and Canada, they actually kind of pseudo celebrate Cinco de Mayo. Wait, Japan and Canada? Yeah, so they both, they have both have like a strong Mexican population. Well, Canada, they have, I would get Canada a little bit. Really? Yeah. They go over to Japan. Yeah, they're hanging out. Japanese people are celebrating in the streets with Mexicans. Cinco to, I have an idea. Let's go to Tokyo. I don't, and celebrate. I didn't research it that much. Hold on. This would be fascinating. This would be the ultimate. Cultural experience. See what happens. We go to Tokyo. Uh, for Cinco de Mayo, a white dude goes to Tokyo with some Japanese people to celebrate Cinco de Mayo with some Mexican Japanese people. Yeah, that sounds fascinating. Mm-hmm. I'm in. Okay, let's go. Okay. I have another question though. Now I wanna know what these other country celebrations are. Did you look any of these things up? Gimme some of these. No, I did because I mean, I, again, we can commercialize anything. Right? I just wanna hear that Americans aren't, oh, Japan. You gotta look. Japan. Here we are again. You're on it. I mean, speaking of you being a white dude, they do actually have something called white day. Oh my god. Yeah, it's, we've made up, but, but it's not, they love us again. Not, it's not, not what you think it is. Are we back in good graces? I mean, you probably are gonna think you're backing good graces because actually what it is, it's a holiday that was invented by candy companies. So men would buy women's sweets because in Japan, on Valentine's Day, women buy the men suites. So wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. It's kinda like a quid per quo. They do. It's backwards. Yeah, it's backwards. So then we have white day where you flip it. To what we're our normal, so white day is like our normal Valentine's Day. Yeah. Mm-hmm. And their Valentine's Day is really when women buy men's stuff. Yes. Oh my God. I'm moving to Japan. I have to, okay. First of all, I have to move to France. Now I have to move to Japan. Move everybody. I'm moving everywhere. Okay. Whatever. Whatever. I don't what's going on. Okay. Well on the note of Valentine's Day, yes. So China actually has something that's called Singles Day. Singles Day. And it started as a joke because I kind of like this amongst all of like the lonely single students. But now it's like one of the largest shopping holidays. On Earth. Of course it is. It's in China because everyone who's single, you just go and buy. No, there's like 2 billion people in China of course. Like fair. Okay. This is amazing. Okay. And then in Spain you have the whole Laina Oh, I know. Do you know what that is? I do. I mean, yes, that's the big, like do you actually, or did you just like derive it from Okay. I'm not, no. The tomato, I have heard of this and I'm sure I've seen this on. Instagram or TikTok. This is the tomato fight. It is the tomato fight, yes. In the streets. Ol right? Yes. So that started as the big food fight in the 1940s and it's now just become a tradition and that's it. It's, there's nothing else behind that except a food fight really. Right. That's fascinating. So all I'm saying is, is that Americans commercialize culture, but so do a lot of other countries have to do episodes on all these things. Can we just write this stuff down? We have to do episode on, have a random holiday episode? Yes. No, I mean, we, why not teach people about, I mean, it's true. Or Singles Day. I agree. We could do it. Okay. Go me to start making your calendar for all of them. I think that's a good idea. Okay. So that was like the totally misunderstood part. I think we pretty much covered that, right? Between the history and your little, uh, segue on commercialization. Okay. What about tacos and tequila? If we're saying like true to the whole podcast title, like why not horchata or like duce, like real stuff. Like why alcohol? Like how do, why Americans pick alcohol. Think that's, start talking about commercialization because marketing. That's it. The core of everything, right? Fine. So in the 1980s, US beer companies, especially Mexican imports like Corona, oh my god. You know, Corona, you one of your, one of your favorites. Let's go. Um, it realized that single dem Mayo was a golden, opportunity to sell beer. So they decided to launch these massive campaigns that connected Cinco de Mayo to partying, AKA drinking, and the rest is kind of history. Everyone selling alcohol jumped on board. So you have bars, restaurants, whoever, whatever. And since most Americans had no idea what Cinco de Mayo actually is in the first place, it was easy to kind of make up your own story. Oh my God. And get on the bandwagon. Okay. First of all, I love Cinco to Miles. I'm not gonna lie, but I mean that that is really like kind of effed up that we're just like, yay we Well, right. That's why when you're talking about the meaning of it, I was like, I am obviously an American. I'm glad, didn't realize, I'm glad that we know this. Yes, I'm glad we we're the bigger industry. Good, okay, you just did beer. Why tequila? Because tequila is uniquely Mexican. It can only be made in a specific region of Mexico. Mainly Jalisco, and it must be distilled from the blue agave plant. Really? It's actually legally protected. Kind of like champagne is in France, right? I, same concept. Okay. So I am not like a huge tequila drinker and shame on me for not being, I love tequila, sort of. It's my favorite. I did not know that tequila had to be made in Jalisco. Yeah, like Mexico. Like I didn't know, like it was a purely, I didn't know it was like champagne in France. It's like champagne. Yeah. Oh my. That's, that is, wow. Same concept. Oh, okay. This makes a lot of sense now, right. Actually, that that's why we have beer. I get this. Okay, so then, so you take a working class, like a romance's drink that was a symbol of Mexican pride and combine that with some, you know, America marketing. And voila, you now have margaritas on Cinco de Mayo. How to make money. How to make money. And then you just add tacos because tacos are tacos. I mean, well it's, that's no, I mean because I love taco. That's not as interesting. Or taco actually because I love, because I love my street tacos. No tacos is just kind of a shorthand for Mexican food in the United States. Wait, what's shorthand? What the hell are you talking about? Yeah. 'cause I mean, they're easy to make. They're easy to mass produce and they're totally customizable. So that's kind of sort of it. Nothing really big or fascinating there. We're just celebrating just easy. We're just, we're just easy. We have to make easy Mexican food and Yeah. And have margaritas, Uhhuh. Okay. Eating your ground beef in a crunchy shell. Oh, that's wild. Yeah. But it's not as if like tacos were eaten at the Battle of Pueblo or anything. Right. So why They should have been. They'd be delicious. They are delicious. But that wasn't what was happening at, that wasn't what was happening at time. No, probably not. Okay, so hold on a second. Time out. So. Tequila tacos. I mean, connected to Mexico, but a totally American thing. We just did what we wanted to do to have fun. I mean, it's, it's our American, okay, we Americanized it. I get it. Yes. But then like, but like, because if we really wanted to make it like og right? Then we would've been using the official dish, which in Puebla is mole poblano, which is not a taco. And Mulling has like 30 ingredients and takes hours and hours to make. So tacos are just kind of a placeholder in America. That is awesome. And besides, who are we kidding? Tacos are way more Instagrammable anyway, right? They are. I mean, okay. Alright. So we have this little town in Puebla. Yes. That celebrates Uhhuh with, um, what's it called? Mole, basically Mole poblano. Okay. And then we have a bunch of Americans and a few Japanese and Canadians celebrating in our own weird ass way. Yes. Okay. I get this. This makes a lot of sense. Yeah, yeah. But I have a question now. Okay. What, when is actual Mexican Independence Day then? Because we can't do a whole episode on single de Mayo and explain how it is not Mexican Independence Day and then not actually, you're not gonna tell me when Mexican Independence Day actually is. That's because that's not very sophisticated. That's kind of a, that's kind of a solid point. Okay. So, um, I have no idea. No, you do, you have to. Okay. You're right. Just kidding. Okay. Okay. I was like, that was like, I'd be so disappointed. I was being a little contumacious there. Okay. I was being, oh, well played. I was being well played, being rebellious people. I was being rebellious. Okay. So, Mexican Independence Day is celebrated on Dun Dun, September 16th every year. And it marks the start of, so in Mexico, this is when they celebrate Mexican kind state. Yeah, no, this is real shit now. Okay. Okay. Yes. This is like if you live there, like in you, this is what you would do. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. It's like our 4th of July for Mexico. So here's the, here's the funny shit about this whole thing. It actually occurred in 1810, like 52 years before the Battle of Pueblo. Pueblo, okay. They already had their, they already had Independence Day going. They knew what the hell they were doing. Like, so this is when we decided to care. This is how dumb American, like, I'm sorry, I shouldn't say like, I'm a dumb American, so I don't wanna say like, we collectively, because there's a bunch of smart people out there and I don't wanna piss people off. This is how dumb I was while I'm sitting here like trying to figure all this out. So it starts in 1810 and it was basically when Mexico's war for Independence began against Spain. So it wasn't like, you know, like here in the United States we celebrate like when we beat England. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Uhhuh like here, this is more like when the war started, September 16th, the war started. So they're celebrating. The, the beginning Of the Rebellion. Rebellion. Uh, no, no pun intended. Like I don't think you can use Conac there, but whatever. 'cause that means rebellious, but not rebellion. But you get the idea. Okay. So now, you know Right. No excuses. So no mistakes anymore. Me and you. We can't be walking around calling it Mexican Independence Day. So basically it's like St. Patrick's Day. Yes. Okay. Yes. It's totally same. Do, do you wanna know the origin of St. Patrick's Day in like five seconds or less? I thought we, we haven't talked about St. Patrick's Day. We've been done St. Patrick's Day. Oh, no, this was about, this was about a guy, a dude who brought Christianity to Ireland. Literally brought Christianity to Ireland and introduced it to Ireland and here in America we're like, yeah, green beer leprechauns, and let's get drunk. Like, huh, we're So, how have we doted an episode on Saint Patrick Day? I dunno. We're we're weird. We didn't, yeah. Okay. Huh? Right. Okay. Anyway. I'm ready for fun facts. Okay, let's go. But I'm gonna, um, topsy-turvy this shit on you right now. Wait, what? Why don't you do fun facts? No. Yeah. Come on. I only know a couple fun facts. Yeah, just Google that shit right now. Okay. Ready? Ready. Let's go. Okay. Gimme a fun, gimme, gimme a fun fact that you think, you know, go. I. The only fun fact that I know of has to do with beer. Ready? Great start. I love this. Okay. Okay. Yes. So Cinco de Mayo has more beer sales than the Super Bowl bullshit, especially in the us It's true. Yeah. No, because beer companies go all in on promotions and they advertise and mark the shit out of it. So wait a second. I'm changing my mind. I think you're right. Corona, right. Uhhuh Right. Has absolutely holiday because there's nothing else to the right. There's nothing else to market on. Cinco de Mayo. Yeah, Uhhuh. Like when it's a Super Bowl, you can market, the guacamole, the avocado. Sure, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The chicken wings, everything else, but it's beer. Right. Okay. That's fascinating. And so I love the way that your only fun fact revolves around beer. For someone who I don't do well, it's more about marketing. Do you drink a lot of beer? I don't think that. I don't, but it's more about the marketing. Right. Fine. That's pretty good. I like that. Okay. But I have another fun fact. Okay. What? This is good. Well, 'cause you're talking about the Super Bowl, right? Follow fact. Follow on fact food wise? Yes. What? Okay. The world's largest burrito. The world's largest burrito. Yeah, it was thing we were talking Taco. Do you remember this? Alright, now I gotta look up World's largest taco while you, you tell me about the world's largest burrito. I'm looking up. World's largest taco fair. Okay. But the largest burrito was made on Cin de Mayo in 1997. You wanna guess how much it weighed? A hundred pounds. No. Try again. I hate when you do this to me. A thousand pounds. 4,000 pounds. 4,000? Yes. Yeah. 4,000 effing pounds. Yep. But ironically, it was assembled in Tijuana, Mexico. Oh my God. Yep. So they used like flour tortillas and they laid them out all along several city blocks. That's insane. Right. It could have had its own zip code. Wait, I'm jumping on this. Are you? I could have had its own zip code. Okay, here we go. The world's largest taco. Was created in some place called, I don't know, sorry, guys. Ro Mexico on November 20th, 2019. Oh, 102 meters long, 336 feet. Dang. Okay. Lemme do that math. A hundred yards. That's the length of a football field? Yeah. Yeah. Guinness Book of World's record. The taco was filled with Caritas. Wow. And required over a thousand volunteers to prepare it. That's crazy. There you go. It's a flat taco, like a laid on side. Doesn't say, I have no idea. Huh? That is crazy. Okay. But also what I just want, do they waste all this food? I don't know. No. People probably like, it's like a whole thing. No. How? It's not like no community comes together and eats it. The volunteer. You think so? Yes. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. And they have a lot of tequila and margaritas. Okay. Um, oh, tequila. Do you have another fun fact? No, but I have a question. What? Go Google when Our National Tequila Day is, oh, national Donut. It's one of my fun facts. Oh, it is? Yeah, it is. Okay. Okay. Okay, here we go. Alright, so I'll just skip to that one. Okay. National Tequila Day, July 24th thank you very much. Let's go. You say that you don't like tequila. It should be like, no, but I could drink, like, I could drink like certain tequilas, you know what I mean? Fair, right. Okay, I got a few more. You ready? Of course. Okay. The largest Cinco de Mayo celebration isn't even in Mexico. Well, I mean that kind of figures. I know you Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Guess where I would assume in the us Well, yeah, but, okay. Los Angeles specifically. Okay. It's called the Fiesta Broadway. Amanda, it attracts over 500,000 people. That's a lot of people per year. Concerts, food parade, you name it. Easily. The biggest cinco to Mayo Festival in the world. Thank you very much. Los Angeles. Alright, California. Okay, next one. The first Cinco de Mayo was celebrated in the US only one year after the actual Battle of Puebla. So already in 1863. Battle of Puebla, 1862. Yep. And 1863 Mexican Americans in California celebrated the very next year turning it into chare of support for freedom and anti imperialism during the US Civil War. Okay. Actually, I wanna go, I, I know we're on fun fact, but I wanna do a little history thing there. Okay. So that was the whole sort of like reason behind like. Why it started even becoming a thing in the United States. So you remember when you were asking me all about civil war? Yes. Okay. So Mexico had just gone through one. Yep. Then they have this Battle of Puebla, which was this separate thing altogether. But then because we were fighting our civil war, it became an American rallying cry that like, if the Mexicans could do this, we can do it. Yeah, we can do this. And especially since they had Mexican Americans that were now fighting in our civil war, they were using that to like spur on basically north, like cope, basically northern troops, like from the north because it, they were anti-slavery. Yeah. Right. South it was like, it was a little bit of both, but like 90% of it was the north. Yeah. So the concept started taking root in, like,. That same symbolism right. In the United States, and then a hundred years later, we commercialized the whole effing thing. But like there was, there was a strand of bringing all this stuff. The theory is is that it's like a celebration, right? Yes. You're celebrating. I'm trying to rebellion. I'm just trying to say, we actually like, thought this through a little bit. A little. Okay. last minutes. All right. You did burritos, you did beer cells. That was awesome. Uh, biggest margarita. You know biggest margarita? They made a big margarita. Yes. Biggest margarita. Las like in a pool in Las Vegas. 850 gallons. They, that's like a hot tub. They stir it with oars and served it and served it out of a glass the size of a fricking hot tub. What do you want me to say? So they made a glass for it, I guess. I don't know. I gotta look this up. Okay. Finally, spoiler alert, the cinco to my playlist on Spotify, Amanda. It's heavily American. You don't say Right, it's only got like 10% Mariachi's not gonna lie. Okay. Pit Bull. Becky G um, Jimmy Buffett, let's be honest. Margaritaville is apparently single to mile like Yeah, that's, that's appropriation. Yeah, it is. Okay. Somehow Jimmy Buffet, the white, the whitest dude you could come up with rip Jimmy Rip. Okay. But also isn't Pit Bull not even like I, I'm just telling you That's, look up the I, Spotify this. There's like not even any like Hispanic songs on this whole thing. Hold Pit Bull. Where are you from? Sorry, we're gonna pause. Isn't he Cuban? Is Pit Bull Cuban? Yeah, I, he's, I don't know. I didn't hear He has to be. No, he was born in Miami, Florida. Yes. To Cuban immigrant parents. There you go. But he is our Mexican representation, Spotify. Okay. Okay. Well I love all those random fun facts, and that's what we do. Thanks for playing along. You threw in like three of them this time. Good work. I mean, I think we should do fun faction now and like let's just Google them like on the fly as we go. We kind of did. You could. So it worked out well. It worked well. Yes. Well that's what you did. But I mean, I had mine prepared, but like yes, we could both do that. Just be like, okay. The the thing is, is some of 'em are dumb though, so you have to like comb through something. Okay. Fair. Alright. Anyway, but what. Oh, this is the part where I have to like sum up an episode for you so you can remember. You do, you can. So you're ready for trivial pursuit mostly. So we can go get some tacos and tequila. Okay. I have, I'd like to have a game night with you and I on the same team now yeah, great. Because I think we will kill everyone. I mean, mean we did when we went, remember we went to we after once we did right. And we did really well. Well, we were triple night and by We did really well. Yes, you did really well. No, I just wrote whatever. Okay, fine. Are ready for this. That, that's my job. We have to pay attention 'cause this is meaningful stuff here. Okay. Um, usually I do like a whole call to action thing, but on this one it's just like, remember the important part of Cinco de May. That's like, be respectful. Be respectful. Yeah. That's my call to action. Okay. Here's my summary. Cinco de Mayo is not Mexican Independence Day. We know that. That's September 16th Cinco to mile commemorates the Battle of Puebla in 1862, where a small Mexican force defeated the mighty French army against all odds. People think of Phil Collins singing against all Odds. Okay. Number two, the real meaning behind this whole thing was resistance and resilience. It's about standing up to imperialism and defending national sovereignty even when you're outnumbered and outgunned. Sticks and rocks, baby. Oh, gun David and Goliath. Right? Let's go. Okay. Uh, number three. It's not even a holiday in Mexico, outside of Puebla. We just talked about that whole thing, right? Most of Mexico's treats May 5th, like any other day. Only in the US do they celebrate really? And a little bit of Japan. It's technically not Mexican independence, correct? Yep. Uh, number four, the US made it a party for good reason. Mexican Americans began celebrating it during the Civil War as a symbol of freedom and cultural pride. Then corporate America took over a hundred years later. Drove us straight to Margaritaville people. Okay. Um, and number five, guys, like Amanda said, it's not just an excuse to drink unless like you want it to be. If you're gonna enjoy tacos and tequila, at least know the backstory because nothing says sophisticated like sipping a cocktail and casually drop in facts about Napoleon ii. It's true. There it is. It's true. The French guy who wanted to take over Mexico and started this whole thing. You'll be the smartest one in the crowd. You will. Here we go. Happy Cinco de Mayo. Happy Cinco de Mayo. All right, dear listeners, there you have it, the tacos, the tequila, and the totally misunderstood history of Cinco de Mayo. So the next time someone says, isn't that Mexican Independence Day? You can lean in and say, actually, it's about a surprise military victory over the French. Yes. And then you can explain how it somehow turned into a beer commercial, right? As you all are out drinking course and eating tacos. But look, CIN de Mayo is more than theme parties and questionable sombreros. It's a real moment in history, A story of resistance, pride, and a David versus Goliath win that inspired generations. Amen. If we've done our job today, you're leaving sort of sophisticated, maybe even with a historical nugget to casually drop at your next Taco Tuesday. If you've enjoyed this episode, don't forget to subscribe. Leave us a review and share it with a friend who thinks a margaritas count as cultural appreciation. Until next time, remember, behind every party there's a story, so stay curious, stay festive, and please don't say single day drinko. Love it.
