Buddy Levy

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639 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard 25 Mar

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Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast · Ep 605 - Arctic Cannibalism (feat. Buddy Levy) · 25 Mar 2026 podcast

And my friend, this writer friend, she goes, yeah, those are called sex slaves.

And I'm like, well, no, they were like bearers and porters.

She's like, those were slaves.

Well, he didn't come with very many slaves.

He did bring one that had smallpox, which was useful for him.

What he ended up doing, Cortez ended up recruiting these ancillary villages like the Totonics and the Talascans.

And he then did deals and said, can I use your guys to go get this major leader who you call Moctezuma, right?

Yeah, but they got those from the villages that they subsumed as they first arrived.

At any rate, like they couldn't have done it alone.

And even then, they were often outnumbered significantly, you know?

But they just figured out ways to manipulate, terrorize.

That's a great question.

No, you know, when I love the research part of it,

And it's like two components to it for me.

There's the actual sitting there and reading everything that's ever been written or to the extent that I can, everything that's ever been written about the particular subject.

so that then I know the story and then I start writing.

But then I also, you know, I always go to the place that I'm gonna write about and do an expedition of my own so I can make it as real and seem like even though I'm casting myself back maybe 500 years to try to be on the ground and in the environment that I'm writing about so that I can feel the sense of the place and see the flora and fauna and we can maybe talk about some of those

expeditions that I've done but you know it's for me it's fun to immerse in that it's kind of like doing like a mini a master's degree or a PhD for every book you know and it actually leaves a freaking mark you know I mean I'm on my 10th book and every time it's a huge divot out of my brain you know because I log in for

you know, maybe six or eight months of just reading, and then I'll go on my expedition where I'm gonna go, and then I sit my ass down and spend maybe six months to a year, depending, just writing the book.

And so, but I always find the reading part, the research part, really inspiring because, you know, I'm going back to these original texts, and they've got, you know, journals and diaries, and in the case of the Spaniards, you know, they had these

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