0:00 [SPEAKER_00]: You don't know Jack about my love for cheese. 0:04 [SPEAKER_00]: Aside from honey buns, cheese is my favorite food. 0:09 [SPEAKER_00]: I love a good chunk of cheddar or Swiss. 0:12 [SPEAKER_00]: I'll never say no to a string cheese or a basket of fried curds, but out of all of them, my favorite has always been Monterey Jack. 0:25 [SPEAKER_00]: Did you know here in the US, the average person eats around 40 pounds of cheese a year? 0:30 [SPEAKER_00]: Some of us, probably 60. 0:34 [SPEAKER_00]: My love for cheese is pretty basic. 0:37 [SPEAKER_00]: I grew up in the Midwest. 0:39 [SPEAKER_00]: Don't come at me with anything that's moldy or smells like sweaty dress socks. 0:45 [SPEAKER_00]: Did you also know that there is a cheese with maggots in it? 0:50 [SPEAKER_00]: On purpose. 0:52 [SPEAKER_00]: Hmm. 0:55 [SPEAKER_00]: little did I know that the history of my favorite Monterey Jack cheese was more rotten than from Unda. 1:04 [SPEAKER_00]: The cheese, nobody wants. 1:08 [SPEAKER_00]: So let's check our mirrors and take a look back at the history 1:25 [SPEAKER_00]: Reflections and darkness, stories of old, Gaze into the glass where the truth resides, Revealing the rotten souls and soh, by my magic and moonlight, I call to thee, Show me the truth of our 1:54 [SPEAKER_00]: magic mirror on the wall. 1:57 [SPEAKER_00]: Who is the most rotten one of all? 2:05 [SPEAKER_00]: Hi, hello, and howdy my darlings, and welcome back to Ron to the core. 2:10 [SPEAKER_00]: I am Ravenna Revenge, the not so evil queen, and I am absolutely delighted to have you embark on this enchanting journey with me on Ron to the core, as we uncover the darker side of history, and explore the complexities that shaped their legacies. 2:30 [SPEAKER_00]: I desire to draw meaningful lessons from the missteps of historical figures who, despite some of their remarkable achievements, were not without their flaws. 2:42 [SPEAKER_00]: By examining their mistakes, I hope to uncover insights that resonate with our lives today, offering guidance and understanding as we navigate our own challenges. 2:55 [SPEAKER_00]: And boy, are they ever increasing? 2:58 [SPEAKER_00]: This one was hard for me. 3:00 [SPEAKER_00]: My two literal favorite things are cheese and Scottish men. 3:05 [SPEAKER_00]: And David Jax had all the conditions to make him my dream man. 3:10 [SPEAKER_00]: If he just wasn't so damn rotten. 3:14 [SPEAKER_00]: and dead, of course. 3:17 [SPEAKER_00]: Let's get into his story. 3:19 [SPEAKER_00]: David Jacks was born six out of nine siblings on April 18, 1822, and Creef Perthshire, Scotland. 3:29 [SPEAKER_00]: He was the first child of his father, William 3:35 [SPEAKER_00]: who had three children with him. 3:37 [SPEAKER_00]: There wasn't a lot documented about Jack's early life, but it is believed that he may have worked in a hand-loom weaving factory, which was a common job for children in the region at that time. 3:50 [SPEAKER_00]: We know that his family lived in a small, one-story house and rented an acre of land nearby to keep a cow. 3:59 [SPEAKER_00]: There were letters passed between Jack and his sister that revealed the bleakness of his life in Scotland. 4:07 [SPEAKER_00]: Due to poverty, violence, and hard labor, the life expectancy of men in Scotland at that time was only 30 to 40 years. 4:18 [SPEAKER_00]: I got him one foot in the grave. 4:21 [SPEAKER_00]: So David decided to take a big step. 4:24 [SPEAKER_00]: an immigrated to New York in 1841 when he was just 19 years old, which at the time in Scotland would have been middle-aged. 4:33 [SPEAKER_00]: David followed his brothers to America, and he spent seven years working for an army contractor in Williamsburg, Virginia, and then he moved to Fort Hamilton, New York. 4:46 [SPEAKER_00]: In 1848, Jack came across stories about the huge wealth available during the California 4:54 [SPEAKER_00]: Like many others at the time, he figured he'd give it a shot. 5:00 [SPEAKER_00]: Before heading out, he threw all of his savings about $1,400 into buying revolvers. 5:07 [SPEAKER_00]: Thinking he could sell them to both good and rotten folks, since he believed that both would pay good money for the guns in California. 5:19 [SPEAKER_00]: David actually sailed to San Francisco from New York, which I didn't even think about as a way to get there. 5:27 [SPEAKER_00]: In my head I was thinking like covered wagons, or maybe even a shoddy train, but the first continental railway wasn't built until 1869, so it was either a horse or a boat. 5:43 [SPEAKER_00]: That means he sailed from New York all the way down to the very tip of South America, which is known as the most dangerous stretch of water in the world. 5:53 [SPEAKER_00]: Then up to San Francisco. 5:56 [SPEAKER_00]: Now today we have the Panama Canal, which cuts that trip in half, but it wasn't built until 1904. 6:03 [SPEAKER_00]: In David's voyage took a while. 6:08 [SPEAKER_00]: But by 1890, he finally arrived in San Francisco, California, immediately taking up business in the lumber trade. 6:18 [SPEAKER_00]: He's not the first man to go to San Francisco and make money with his wood. 6:23 [SPEAKER_00]: The large amounts of wood he was getting in San Francisco didn't cut it for David though. 6:29 [SPEAKER_00]: He had his side set higher, and he used his skills to venture into real estate. 6:36 [SPEAKER_00]: In the 1870s, he ventured to the picturesque landscape of Monterey County with its beautiful rolling hills. 6:44 [SPEAKER_00]: he quickly saw the value in the fertile land and began cultivating vast expanses of it to grow various crops. 6:55 [SPEAKER_00]: He even recognized the artichokes untapped potential and played a major part in why we have it today. 7:03 [SPEAKER_00]: You can thank David Jackson each time you put a chip in some spinach artichoke dip, which is really the only good way to eat an artichoke. 7:15 [SPEAKER_00]: Whoever thought of eating cheese and breadcrumbs off of a hard leave was out of their mind. 7:22 [SPEAKER_00]: Now during the 1800s, Spanish missionaries and later Mexican settlers made a semi-soft white cheese in California called Caso Blanco Pass. 7:32 [SPEAKER_00]: Can you guess where this is going? 7:35 [SPEAKER_00]: Those missions were kind of taken over in the 1830s, their land and properties, including 7:46 [SPEAKER_00]: Can you imagine if we did that today? 7:48 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I'm sorry, but your church is built on land that we can use to make a profit. 7:55 [SPEAKER_00]: We'll also keep anything of value you have, but you gotta get out of here. 8:00 [SPEAKER_00]: Go on, get it. 8:03 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, David, so happened to by large amounts of land in Monterey County. 8:08 [SPEAKER_00]: And some of that already settled by Spanish people, there were several derries that specialized 8:17 [SPEAKER_00]: How he acquired all this land wasn't always on the up and up either. 8:22 [SPEAKER_00]: He purchased Monary County at a land auction for about a little less than $1,500. 8:26 [SPEAKER_00]: That auction would later be called the R word of Monterey. 8:33 [SPEAKER_00]: Now what do you do if you're a corrupt guy and you want to get rid of a bunch of people who are living on land you unjustly purchased? 8:45 [SPEAKER_00]: David didn't just hand him to him though. 8:49 [SPEAKER_00]: He would have them posted somewhere on the large property that would either be difficult to get to or hard to see. 8:57 [SPEAKER_00]: He'd even write them in a language he knew that the occupants couldn't read. 9:03 [SPEAKER_00]: Can you just imagine the life of these people in the beautiful roll and hills of Monterey County, just making cheese, just loving Jesus, making cheese, take the Jesus part away, maybe add some toothbrushes and deodorant and I'd be down for it. 9:23 [SPEAKER_00]: David quickly saw the marketable potential of the cheese. 9:28 [SPEAKER_00]: And since he now owned the land, he saw that as he now also owned their ancestral recipes. 9:36 [SPEAKER_00]: He also owned 14 dairy farms now. 9:40 [SPEAKER_00]: You know that old saying, why buy the milk when the cows for free comes to mind? 9:45 [SPEAKER_00]: Literally in this case. 9:49 [SPEAKER_00]: Have any of you other harlots been told that by somebody before? 9:53 [SPEAKER_00]: It's basically a polite way to say you're easy. 9:57 [SPEAKER_00]: If anybody ever says that to you, just tell them what I do. 10:01 [SPEAKER_00]: Better to be a cow still getting milked than an old frigid heifer. 10:07 [SPEAKER_00]: Moo! 10:08 [SPEAKER_00]: Remember, there's an art to backhandedness. 10:11 [SPEAKER_00]: The key is to confuse them and give yourself a little laugh. 10:17 [SPEAKER_00]: How David took over the cheese from these Spanish people, made me think if someone were to come and try to take my grandma's family recipes, especially now that she's passed, like over my cold dead body, what I give him that recipe for the cheese, like hell no, this is our heritage, you're not getting this shit. 10:43 [SPEAKER_00]: Imagine the bloodshed that would have occurred if that was in Italy, and not in California. 10:48 [SPEAKER_00]: Do you see all those known as just handing over their saws recipes? 10:54 [SPEAKER_00]: We'll David took the recipes and under, I'm sure horrible working conditions. 11:00 [SPEAKER_00]: The residents started mass producing their case, and David gave it the new name, Jack's cheese. 11:08 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, if I saw that in a shot, my first thought would be, what part of Jack is it off of? 11:13 [SPEAKER_00]: Fromanda? 11:16 [SPEAKER_00]: The four skin? 11:21 [SPEAKER_00]: organic fellas. 11:24 [SPEAKER_00]: You must pull it back and clean it, or you'll have your own brand of smelly cheese. 11:29 [SPEAKER_00]: Just given a little advice since circumcision and acetaminophen are being propagandized to have ties with some belief that they can cause altism. 11:39 [SPEAKER_00]: That's like saying more money can make someone attractive. 11:43 [SPEAKER_00]: When the wealthiest men in the country look like Monterey Jack Cheese, that's been left out in the sun and stepped on. 11:49 [SPEAKER_00]: Christy. 11:51 [SPEAKER_00]: Jack's cheese was an instant hit among everybody. 11:56 [SPEAKER_00]: It started selling throughout the West Coast and people began calling it Monterey Jack Cheese. 12:03 [SPEAKER_00]: aside from cheese making and buying up land, David also actively participated in local politics as a Monterey County supervisor. 12:14 [SPEAKER_00]: During his tenure in the position, it allowed him to influence local government directly. 12:20 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, he owned everything. 12:23 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't really think it was that hard for him to become supervisor. 12:29 [SPEAKER_00]: David Jackson passed away on August 20th, 1909. 12:34 [SPEAKER_00]: His efforts and cultivating Artichoke led to the region's designation as the Artichoke capital of the world. 12:42 [SPEAKER_00]: He is also immortalized in cheese, which I think is one of the better ways to be remembered. 12:53 [SPEAKER_00]: The next time you chow down on some Monterey Jack cheese, or Colby cheese, which is a mixture, remember that it is all because a Jack ass made a possible. 13:08 [SPEAKER_00]: Was David Jack the worst person in the world? 13:11 [SPEAKER_00]: No. 13:12 [SPEAKER_00]: But who knew there could be anything so rotten about something as wonderful as cheese? 13:21 [SPEAKER_00]: And on that note, let's cleanse ourselves and I'll let you be on your way. 13:29 [SPEAKER_00]: In the darkness deep and troubles long, within my heart, I carry some. 13:36 [SPEAKER_00]: Through life's most rotten days I stand my ground and make some way. 13:43 [SPEAKER_00]: Those storms may strike and shadows fall. 13:52 [SPEAKER_00]: So be it. 13:56 [SPEAKER_00]: Thanks for supporting Ron to the core. 13:58 [SPEAKER_00]: Let's catch up again next time. 14:00 [SPEAKER_00]: In the meantime, be happy, find peace and don't hurt anyone. 14:09 [SPEAKER_00]: If you enjoy rotting to the core, please follow me on Instagram or join me on Patreon, both of those are at its rotting to the core. 14:17 [SPEAKER_00]: You can also list me on my other podcast, Mystery Ink, or ever you listen to podcast. 14:23 [SPEAKER_00]: And if you're on YouTube, please hit that like button and subscribe if you haven't, to stay up to date with our lessons. 14:30 [SPEAKER_00]: And if you have any ideas for future lessons, please email me at mothman8myassatgmail.com. 14:40 [SPEAKER_00]: I can't believe that was available. 14:43 [SPEAKER_00]: I will talk at you next time.
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