Brandon Quittem

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775 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 15 Jul

Brandon Quittem’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The leader let him in.

They wanted to have a conversation with these crazy magic people from another part of the world.

And he essentially got himself stuck in the palace.

And they're like, hey, we want the gold now.

We're in charge.

That was it.

So the takeaway there is a centralized organization has a leverage point, a choke point, which can't be exploited.

So superior technology, small group, exploit the leader, civilization falls.

Then Hernando Cortes with his soldiers went north and he stumbled into the Apaches.

He's like, oh, these are our primitive people.

No roads, no aqueducts, no big temples.

This should be easy.

And unfortunately, Hernando Cortes realized that these Apache don't play by the same rules.

They were separate groups.

So they went and got the leader, killed the leader.

They're like, oh, this is done.

And then they realized that the leader's gone and now the group fractures into two.

And they're doing these like hit and run type things.

You go to sleep, they steal all your horses.

You're on the road up through the mountain pass and you get ambushed.

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