In this episode, we explore how a navigational blunder created texas. Picture this, right? It's 1684. You're a French explorer named La Salle. Oh, man, La Salle. Yeah, that guy. And you're sailing the Gulf of Mexico, trying to locate the mouth of the Mississippi River. Right. The goal is to establish this grand new colony for France. Exactly. But your maps are just, ah, they're terrible. The ocean currents are completely working against you. And you end up missing your destination by, like, 400 miles? Which is just a massive error. It's huge. You accidentally drop anchor in Matagorda Bay in what is now Texas. And okay, let's unpack this because that single navigational blunder is arguably one of the worst GPS fails in human history. Oh, absolutely. but it terrified rival nations and essentially triggered the geopolitical boundaries of modern North A ...