In this episode, we explore sixteen weeks that built the american empire. Welcome in everyone. I am so glad you're joining us for today's deep dive. Today's Monday, March 23. 2026, and we have a really wild story for you today. Yeah, we absolutely do. It's one of those historical moments that sounds almost like fiction. Right. I mean, we are talking about how in 1898, the United States basically accidentally conquered an entire empire just because someone brought a map of the Pacific to a meeting about the Caribbean. Exactly. It's wild. So for you listening, we're unpacking a massive stack of sources today. We've got this comprehensive Wikipedia historical archive. And we're exploring a conflict that lasted just 16 weeks. I mean, 16 weeks total. But it completely detonated the existing global world order. We are, of course, talking about the Spanish ...