Joe Rogan

You nailed what it must have been like to try to travel across the country, to be a civilized person living in the city and try to make your way across the country and just experience the wild shit those people saw.

Well, there's a few things.

So a lot of research.

But interestingly, I had.

My family had come one side of my family had come from Kentucky to Texas in the 1840s and Whatever great-great-grandmother journaled Wow had the journal holy shit and and then I started finding other journals there wasn't you know, some were published and and reading about

Just how fucking dangerous it was.

If you think about it, rivers were the most terrifying thing.

Crossing rivers.

Because no one swam.

No one could swim.

And most of the people who came into either the port of New Orleans or Galveston, they were European.

They were German, a lot of Germans.

There were a lot of Central Europeans that came and they were promised free land, right?

There would be travel agencies that they would arrange the entire trip with before they've even left Germany or...

or wherever they were.

And so by the time that they landed in Galveston, they would meet up with their group and the group would, you know, they'd have chipped in all this amount of money and they've got guides and they would have already arranged for mules or horses and wagons and off they go.

No, and a lot of them had never fucking ridden a horse in their life.

Much less fired a gun.

Much less, you know, they were in a completely foreign country

And they landed in Texas, most of them heading to Oregon because that area was the most similar to where they were from in Central Europe.