Dr. James Fitzsimmons

Yeah, it's the most insane story ever.

Yeah, yeah.

There's a festival.

They kill her, take her flesh off, and they wear it.

And yeah, that's a bad...

Well, there is a red wedding kind of thing that's happening there.

I mean, the mythology around it sort of differs from place to place, but yeah.

I mean, the general sort of idea is, yeah, they sort of do all this sort of stuff.

And I guess, yeah, you don't feel as sorry for the Aztecs, the Mexica at least, once you sort of hear about how the rest of the folks didn't like them.

But that said, you know, we think about sort of the Spanish inquisidores and such, and

taking over a base in New Mexico and sort of taking out the Aztecs.

The Spanish didn't take out the Aztecs.

The Aztecs took out the Aztecs.

If you look at, like, even among the Triple Alliance, one of the main members of the Triple Alliance, Texcoco, actually defects to the Spanish.

If you look at, like, how the Aztecs, you know, how the Aztec Empire, sort of the collapse happens, they...

You have the Spanish arrive, and they get there, and there's like, what, like a couple hundred of them?

A couple hundred of them aren't going to do anything.

You look at what they actually have, their equipment.

If you look at Spanish conquistador tactics and tools that they have at the time, it's really bad.

You might imagine them wearing these shiny armor and helmets and things.