Can't Go Back, Won't Move On

Gavrilo Z.
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A paranoid historical storytelling podcast focused on this history of the Americas, telling the stories of what happened as the conspiracy of those who lived through it.

  1. Mar 16

    1.16 - The Siege of Tenochtitlan

    Everything has come to this. Cortes and allies attack Tenochtitlan, and the Mexica fight back until all that is left are their broken spears...

  2. Mar 9

    1.15 - Gonzalo de Sandoval and the Campaign of Terror

    The gloves come off in the Spanish strategy as the captains mutiny against Cortes and force his hand in permitting all out warfare to the death. Gonzalo de Sandoval, the boy wonder, leverages this as an opportunity to carve his mark on the scalp of history.

  3. Mar 2

    1.14 - Cuauhtemoc, Smallpox and the Birth of a Nation

    Desperate times come from desperate measures, and in the wreckage of the Aztec capital a new generation of leader will arise to restore Mexica glory... and in the process becomes a founding myth for a nation he'll never know.

  4. Feb 23

    1.13 - Pedro de Alvarado and La Noche Triste

    With the Spanish colonial counterattack defeated, total victory felt inevitable to Cortes. That is, until word reached him that all was not quiet on the western front...

  5. Feb 16

    1.12 - Panfilo de Narvaez and the Velazquista Revenge

    Cortes begins to face his blowback in the form of the Velazquista counter-response. Led by Panfilo de Narvaez, Spaniards will see themselves at war with other Spaniards in a struggle to see who will determine the future of "New Spain."

  6. Feb 9

    1.11 - Bernal Diaz, Tenochtitlan and the Conspiracy of History

    The Spanish arrive in Tenochtitlan... and immediately begin to try and cover their tracks. One soldier, Bernal Diaz, takes in the glory of the Aztec capital even as he wrestles privately with the weight of Spanish crimes in achieving their ultimate goal.

  7. Feb 2

    1.10 - Xicotencatl and the Tlaxcallan Bargain

    Cortes' gang begin their march to Tenochtitlan by attempting to court the Tlaxcallan Confederacy... bittermost enemies of the Aztec Empire. Leading this confederacy is Xicotencatl, a man who sees inside the heart of the Spaniards and finds not their salvation, but the same bottomless appetite for conquest he despises in the Aztecs. Still, as they say, the enemy of my enemy...

  8. Jan 26

    1.9 - Montejo, Portocarrero and the Happy Fiction of Legal Treason

    The Spanish conquest of Mexico becomes a two-front war as two representatives of the Cortesista mission are sent back to Spain in order to repeat the myth of the conquest until it becomes its legal justification.

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A paranoid historical storytelling podcast focused on this history of the Americas, telling the stories of what happened as the conspiracy of those who lived through it.

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