This week we start out with the most DTF relationship of all time - Bonnie & Clyde! These two bumbling thieves hosted an actual reign of terror over the American South for two years. It seems sexy and fun, but then you remember that 12 people died (well, 14 if you include Bonnie and Clyde, oh, and also Clyde’s brother - so 15). These two would be the most annoying prank couple on TikTok if they were alive today, they would potentially survive. It’s 50/50. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/doomedtofailpod/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/doomedtofailpod Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@doomedtofailpod Email: doomedtofailpod@gmail.com
This week we start out with the most DTF relationship of all time - Bonnie & Clyde! These two bumbling thieves hosted an actual reign of terror over the American South for two years. It seems sexy and fun, but then you remember that 12 people died (well, 14 if you include Bonnie and Clyde, oh, and also Clyde’s brother - so 15).
These two would be the most annoying prank couple on TikTok if they were alive today, they would potentially survive. It’s 50/50.
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Episode 369: Bonnie and Clyde Part I - Once You Go Short — The Last Podcast Network
Hi Friends! Our transcripts aren't perfect, but I wanted to make sure you had something - if you'd like an edited transcript, I'd be happy to prioritize one for you - please email doomedtofailpod@gmail.com - Thanks! - Taylor
and as I always say we need more banter that's what the people want
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give them what the people want Taylor tell me what your week was like um well my week was super fun last time
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we spoke I was in New York a little bit Upstate I we went to a water park we
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went into the city to the Natural History Museum we were super fun and then we also went to the Roosevelts
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which was like just so fun we went to Eleanor's Cottage we went to the big house at Hyde Park you get to like take
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the tour go in the store was closed which was devastating so I was like I want to buy all these things but it was
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wonderful um so beautiful up on the Hudson River and just so nice so did all of that had
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a great time but man traveling is just exhausting so we flew from Newark to Las Vegas and it was like
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the bumpiest ride ever and then we stayed in Vegas for the night and then
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drove home yesterday so I was like confusing because we stayed at the hotel for a little bit and went swimming and stuff
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and then from yesterday it was like a four hour drive and then and then we got home and yeah so it's like confusing but I'm glad
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we have today which is Sunday to just like get our [ __ ] together
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um man traveling I think I mean I don't know if it's
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gotten worse or if I've gotten older people have told me that I'm becoming more of a grump the older I get and so
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maybe that's a component of this but I
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was in DC so I'm just like so discombobulated I have
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not been in my house in like eight nine days I left for Dallas last Last Friday
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left Luna with my mom and dad flew out to DC on Sunday and then when I was gonna come back I
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was gonna come back on um on that's Luna hold on so I
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it was supposed to come back from DC on Friday it was a one-week trip and
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get to the airport my flight keeps getting pushed back because the flight before me kept saying push back and all the flights before that got pushed back
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and what's happening what time are you supposed to leave I was supposed to leave like six something because we left at 4 30 and I
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feel like they were like the last flight out like I didn't realize that there were storms but it was like we had to take a whole new route instead of going
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like South we went North and the flight attendants had to sit in their jump seats twice it was so bumpy yeah no it
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was well finally it's like around eight or so 8 30 that they finally put us on
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the plane and we sit there and we sit there and we sit there and we sit there and then 30 minutes past 40 minutes past
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this storm you can see it is kicking up and the pilot comes on and says hey we are not getting authorization to take
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off because of the weather and we've been working since 11 o'clock in the morning legally if we don't take off
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like soon we won't be able to take off at all because we can't legally work
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and so we just wait another 10 15 minutes and they're like yep we're we're calling it they scrap it so luckily I
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got one of the first seats after first class or before first whatever you know what I mean
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um and I just sprinted I was like I know we're all headed to customer support and
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so I spent it there and I was maybe like only like the 15th person there I waited for like an hour and 20 minutes all
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these people all these people with international flights were like I have to connect from my from uh DFW to Miami
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to Peru to it was it was just insane I lived behind me the line was at least
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100 people long and I was like I don't I didn't get to my hotel till midnight hadn't eaten I was just like this is so
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bad anyways long story short as I got to Dallas finally and I literally just stepped in my house in Austin like 20
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minutes before we hopped on this yeah I'm over traveling and if yeah I'm just
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oh completely over it I know our friend asked us a very nice question about his wedding coming up in December and you're
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like I don't care I just want to be alone no yeah yeah JJ texted me and
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Taylor was like hey would you like to be a heaven I was like I'll do whatever I just want to have the ability to be completely isolated that's fine like if
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as long as I have my own bathroom that's an ensuite I'm good but um anyways so anyway we're glad we're
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both home safe we're both home safe let's go ahead and hop straight into it I didn't do our intro welcome to Doom to
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fail the podcast we discuss a historic or True Crime uh relationship that was doomed to fail I'm Taylor joined here by
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wow and I'm far as well I'm forced
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yeah you go first you do the drink first I'm gonna tell you a story first um I just want Lacroix I just want
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liquids I want to hydrate I want to just feel normal again and that's it I'm just having my little
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peaceful look right here and it's delicious I love that that's right I drink all my other coil which is uh disappointing we have to go to the store
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after this um but I'm drinking whiskey
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I have the exact same Rock loss it's from Amazon
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I bought them at my job a couple jobs ago to start whiskey Fridays because I thought that would be
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fun and then covet hit and never happened but I gave everybody a glass so I possibly also got mine from Amazon
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that seems likely I'm sure you did where else would you do go to a store don't be ridiculous
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um all right you ready yes while you're talking I'm gonna periodically walk over to this window
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so also as an aside because I was gone for 90 days my cowboy pool completely evaporated because 110 degrees here
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every day so I'm filling the damn thing up and I'm trying to make sure I don't over overflow it so anyways yeah
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somebody wow that's crazy it's 700 gallons gone in eight nine days
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wow gross yeah yeah not great all right so I'll get us started
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I can't remember if I told you that you could do this and hopefully I didn't because I'm going to do Bonnie and Clyde
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are you doing binding crab this week no good did I tell you you could do it
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yes this is like a comedian coming up with a great joke a great bit and giving it to someone that came back and saying
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you can't have it I didn't think about until like Friday night and I was like did I tell Farsi could do this but then I was like it's too late I'm too far
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into this so I think you know enough that we can just have a conversation about it anyway do you know Mitch had
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burgers and Artie Lange no okay there are two comedians there's two stand-up comics and one time Mitch
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Hedberg went up to Artie because already he's a fat guy and he goes uh already I came with a really funny joke but I can't use it
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um I'll tell you what I'll give it to you but if I ever get fat enough to use it then you got to get back to me and like okay what's the joke and he goes
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um you care about the fat guy who uh has never been swimming because it's never been 30 minutes past the last time he
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ate and then he goes well that's good I'm gonna use it and then somebody told that joke already at a dinner party and then he comes up to Mitch Hedberg and
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goes somebody else told me that joke he's like yeah I get hot really high and I tell that joke to a lot of fat guys who knows
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little little bit about giving your jokes away to people that's really funny I love that so you
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can have it you can have it back thank you I'm gonna give that joke to people as well because that's very exciting
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um very funny um anyway okay so as you know it was a lot of stuff out
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there about Bonnie and Clyde there's like the movies there's podcasts there's books there's just like everything you
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could possibly want to know about them um I read go down together which I've
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read before and which is a book about there are adventures and they're spray I listened to the last podcast some time
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in the last six months about this um and I also read a little bit of a book called fugitive by Bonnie's mom and
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Clyde's sister which was like written really cute and colloquially you know like yeah about them and they're
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like they're like they're like we don't deny that these guys were bad guys you know but we you know we love them they
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were our family so it was quite sweet and if you ride through if you read go down together or you listen to like the
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four the four episodes of Last podcast you can get like a play-by-play of all the things that they
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did together but let's focus on a few of the human things that I think are really interesting and
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more of like the doomed to failness of their relationship um so I want to focus on before they met
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each other the food they ate and the places that they slept there's like six things they're equipped into family the people
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they killed their injuries and their deaths that's still a lot let's talk about these six things for two days but
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here we are sweet let's get into it go um so my final analysis which I'm sure I
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don't know I'm sure you agree with me but let's tell me if you don't is that they're just like real dumb kids who wanted to be famous what do you think
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about that yeah and they were born into circumstances
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that didn't allow for other means of becoming important to the world exactly and they needed to be they wanted to be
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important so this is one thing that they could do did you ever like if they were alive today I think they would be you know
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doing like really stupid pranks on tick tock tick tock you know yeah so do you remember in um 2018 that that woman who
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shot her boyfriend yes yes they're like those guys so that was Mona Lisa Perez and her boyfriend
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Pedro Ruiz she was 19 and she was pregnant with her second child when they decided to start a YouTube channel of
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pranks and he the the video is of her being like I don't want to do this and
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he'd be like it's gonna be fine don't worry about it and he hold an encyclopedia that says shoot here as a Target written on drawn on it up to his
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chest and within arm's distance she shoots him in the chest and he dies 180 days
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because I think he they use like a Desert Eagle or something like a 50 caliber gun that was gonna it would have
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gone through like metal I don't know what that means yeah either way I have no confidence that a book is
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gonna stop a bullet and I know nothing about guns they play some of 22 a Bible could probably stop at 22. really even follows
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thin pages that close well Taylor when's the next time you're in Austin I don't know nothing to do with this
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we'll record a podcast that's stupid um I'm just gonna say right away that was dumb so anyway that guy died and
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other criminals in this time so it's like a really fun criminal time you know there's
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a gang and Pretty Boy Floyd they like knew about Bonnie and Clyde but they were like their small time and they're
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stupid yeah that was that was actually the biggest takeaway I have from the last podcast series was that
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it was just like a sexy story in terms of like actual being criminal masterminds there were like absolute nobodies yeah exactly they were pretty
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pretty terrible at the actual being a criminal part we'll talk a little bit about some of the things that they did but before they met they were both just
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like poor kids in Dallas in the Dallas area Clyde was born Clyde Chestnut
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Barrow on March 24th 1909 and that is a horse's name it's not as yeah the trust
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him is definitely one Preakness at one point exactly so he was dirt poor like
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in the dirt poor everyone was very very dirty he was the fifth of seven children which is too many children the dad was a
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farmer and not in like a prosperous way in like a barely made anything kind of
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way and the mom was just trying to take care of her kids which was really hard because there were so many of them
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in the book fugitive his sister mentioned two times where he almost died
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as a child that I thought was interesting that I hadn't heard before she said she's five years older than him
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and she said that she was so excited to have a little brother that when he was like one she squeezed him so hard he
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stopped breathing and Taylor there's actually
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oh my God the world becomes full circle there was a horse that was alive from 1995 until 2015 who
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was raised by a jockey named Oppenheimer and the name of the horse was Chestnut
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oh my God everything is connected everything is connected no no I'm waiting I'm waiting
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yeah I'm gonna drive to San Antonio because San Antonio has the only big reel that you watch on actual IMAX I'm
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probably gonna go next weekend I cried the whole time I didn't see happen on her but I didn't see Barbie in
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a cried the entire time um I hate all men that is uh offensive statement and that
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is kind of blankets and you have a son who's gonna be a man one day except Juan and miles and you both
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yeah Jay you didn't make the cut anyway so Clyde Chestnut Barrow the
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horse is very poor um his sister said one time she squeezed him so hard when he was a baby that he almost died and the mom had to go to a
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neighbor and get him revived and then when he was four he almost drowned and they'd like Shake him so like that I think it's interesting and weird that he
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had a couple like near-death experiences because like these kids were not well supervised you know it doesn't sound
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like it you know um he was like Farm smart but not like
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book smart like he only went through fifth grade to school um Clyde his family moved to Dallas in the 20s
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it's like 100 years ago in Dallas and they lived in the slums and like the Cement City part of Dallas they lived
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under a wagon until the dad could get enough scrap to build a house so they like took a horse and a wagon to Dallas
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and lived under the wagon with seven kids and two adults that just like blows my mind how poor
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people those these guys were and some of his sisters and brothers were able to go into the City and become like
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hairdressers and get married and like get good jobs his sister who wrote the book she was married to someone who's in
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an orchestra so they're able to kind of like get out of it feel like relationships and little skills But
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Clyde didn't have any skills besides kind of being a little bit of a crook you know
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um and he had several long relationships before meeting Bonnie and he's Young's entire story he never gets old
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um but he had a girlfriend named Eleanor and a girlfriend named Anne he lived with both of them um at different points
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when he was like a teenager and he had one arm had a tattoo for Eleanor and the other arm had a tattoo for Anne he never
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got a tattoo for Bonnie oh poor Bonnie so but so it was hard to do petty crimes
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he just couldn't make enough money to be out of the slums there's also a really big car stealing time so people always
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would like leave their keys in their cars cars were new you know I'm sure you've heard that before and like I don't know exactly the details of like
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starting up a Model T but I hear it's hard you have to like crank it yeah do the cranking and then you have to like
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press a bunch of pedals and like move things and so it's not easy to do yeah I think I think it's supposed to
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replicate what the current starter motor does you know when your battery is dead and you're you trying to shut the corner
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does that thing that's a starter motor trying to fire I think this I'm doing a crank motion right now
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yeah exactly got it so that's that's what I had to do like every time it's hard in the car yeah
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eventually in oh but also I want to also mention that he's a really good driver he drives without his shoes on
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um so no shoes bare feet and he can like drive like up to 100 miles an hour on these like dirt roads because most of
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the roads in America are dirt you know yeah exactly So eventually in 1930 Clyde gets sent to
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prison and he goes to the Eastern Prison Farm which is essentially a farm and it's still a farm where and also a
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prison today it's called something else that I did not write down but it's still a form
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there are 4 000 cows 52 000 chickens 5
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000 Hogs and 1400 Acres of crops and guess how many people actually work
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there and get paid toward there for 11. okay and the rest of it's just
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like prisons yeah prisoners exactly but it's just like prisoners for like two cents a day
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working this land while Clyde was there he was repeatedly raped by a fellow inmate named Big Ed Crowder which was
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horrible and it was horrible for Clyde to like being in control obviously and he was like brutally raped by this man
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like every day um and another inmate who was in in jail
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for life it had nothing to lose was like if you kill him Clyde if you kill Big Ed I'll take the blame so you won't get any
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more time on your sentence but I just don't want to kill anybody but like you can do it so Clyde waited for him in the shower and hit him over the head with a
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pipe and killed him and then the other guy came in and stabbed it a bunch of times and said that he was the one who did it
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never yeah super nice so um Clyde was miserable there he hated
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it he started on the farm duty all the time and do you remember how we got out of farm duty but he did yeah he cut his
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toe off right yeah he cut his toes two toes off like a big toe and like the second toe so I feel like I would go for the pinky toe or I
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talked but he didn't but he didn't even need to do that right exactly he didn't need to because six days later he got
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out yeah of his mom talking to the governor and talking to people so he really didn't have to do that but for
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the rest of his life he had a limp because he was missing two toes probably
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why wearing shoes was uncomfortable in the car you know yeah it does so
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Clyde probably met Bonnie right before he went to prison but they like started start to really be
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together after he gets out Bonnie Elizabeth Parker was born in 1910
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in Rowena Texas so she's two years younger than him she was also poor lived in this terrible neighborhood she liked
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to write poems and imagine like that she could be a movie star she was very dramatic like really wanted to be famous
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like that was like her big thing she likes to write she had to write poems she also probably dabbled in sex work
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before she met Clyde and leaving a little bit after that's something that girls did you know pretty often in that
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situation she was when she was 15 she married a man named Roy Thornton she had
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a tattoo of his name so which is I don't know funny he was also a criminal
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um Billy Billy Bob nope I don't think so maybe everything in life comes full
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circle so it's true possibly um they Bonnie and Roy never divorced
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but they didn't see each other after 1929 they never saw each other again he was killed in 1937 trying to escape from
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prison so this is I just wrote in all caps she's just tripping over scumbags yeah yeah you know hey that's my joke I
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know that's your joke I saw that too but you know like none of these guys are gonna take her out of this
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toward a neighborhood you know you you date within the circle that is around you so like if the circle you're around
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is like other poor dark farmers and Brooks and that's what you date
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exactly so it's 1930 and here's what they're doing they are
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blah blah blah he gives us some robberies he's robbing banks getting like a little bit of money robbing grocery stores stealing cars and I want
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to talk about the food they ate and the places that they slept because I think it's fascinating So eventually like
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they're on the Rock The Run constantly and they didn't eat very much they never
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had that much money so they would give money back to their families they would buy nice clothes but they didn't want to concentrate on like food and they're
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both very very small but they lost like a ton of weight while they were on the run because they just like didn't have time to eat everything
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they there was a story where Bonnie asks one of her accomplices to boil her one egg which I think is funny because I
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feel like I have one egg I don't know I mean I don't I don't get people that can't eat me I mean either
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on the way home from from Dallas just now the reason I was I swooped in 20
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minutes like before this recording time was because I took like a 10 minute detour to go get a burrito from Chipotle
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and I was gonna eat the burrito in the car while I was on the highway driving back to my house like I was that hungry
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half the thing just ended up all over my clothes but I was like I I'm hungry so the thought of like not eating you gotta
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stop and eat yeah exactly now we're only ate queso in your car in the morning and got everywhere
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either you or the ex-wife was holding on to the case so just yeah I remember that because it was just like in the middle
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of everything anyway it was delicious home state yeah delicious
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um so some things that I think are fun about them like their food like they would eat like tinned sausages and like cold food
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you know and they couldn't have like a fire sometimes because that would have people you know pay attention to them so they wouldn't have a fire to cook
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anything so you get like cold sausages and they often wanted to eat but couldn't like sit in a restaurant because people were kind of always on
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the lookout for them so they would go to the restaurant and ask for food to go but that wasn't really a thing so they would get the restaurants to give them
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plates and silverware and they would take them and go eat in the woods and then bring it back wow which I think is funny and nice and when Bonnie died she
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was holding a hamburger and I think about that every time I eat a hamburger that's exactly how I hope I
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die where is another I want to be holding a hamburger when I finally die so uh I
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think about that every time we have hamburger so they never have a home they're staying in motor courts which is where you could like park your car and
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like camp or eventually it would turn into like mode side roadside motels this was like happening at this time in
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America like right before the depression later there'll be like farm houses and
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places that are abandoned that they'll stay at because of the depression starts to really kick in and people are being
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like foreclosed on and losing their homes eventually they could rent a room for like one night or they would stop by a farmhouse and be like hey we're
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driving by can we stay here tonight and they would like give them a few dollars which was like I think common until it wasn't yeah for most of humanity that
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you could just stop at someone's house and be like can I stay over you know no it's an Airbnb yeah that's what I was gonna tell you
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that there's another one that's an Airbnb I'll get there so they're on the Run killing people robbing things
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um I'll tell you about the people they killed and um one particular place where they stay is in Joplin Missouri and this is the
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Airbnb I'll tell you about so it's 1933 and they have an accomplice named W.D
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Jones he's like a young man he's even more of a teenager than they are and also Clyde's brother buck and his second
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wife Blanche joined the gang so Buck had just gotten out of prison he had turned
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himself in to get a lighter sentence and got pardoned so he was like he had the opportunity to kind of go straight but
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he um did not he went straight enough yeah and Blanche you don't want to be there
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but she wanted to leave a buck so she stayed so the whole time they're going back to Dallas to see
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their family no matter where they are they're like in like Missouri like all over the South like driving around but they go back to Dallas like at least
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once a month to see their families Clyde's dad owns a gas station so they throw a coke bottle with a note in it in
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the front yard and be like meet us at this park at midnight and people and that's where the family would know want to meet them and say hi when they were
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doing well they'd be able to give their family money they would give Clive's Brothers money to go buy them nice clothes because they always liked having
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nice clothes they really wanted to like look look nice even though they probably smell terrible yeah sleeping in the car all the time
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and um eventually Bonnie's mom and sister join them like they're not thrilled they want Bonnie to get out of this but they
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want to be able to see her so they spent a lot of time with the barrows just to be able to see to see Bonnie and so they
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keep going back home um now they're in Joplin's this is where kind of the Cross of like their families
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and where they lived they're in Joplin Missouri and prohibition just ended to the drinking beers because beers are the
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thing that's legal even though they drink bootleg whiskey all the time um Clyde would never get super drunk because he's always a getaway driver but
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Bonnie would drink a fair amount um for someone so small and they're in this building you can rent an Airbnb and
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it's also on the national register of historic places that we talked about last week so you can never be destroyed
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um it's an apartment above a garage so it's a standalone Building a garage an apartment at the top they rented it for
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a while they were there for like almost two weeks um with the group and they were doing some shady things like
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Blanche had said that the apartment was had two people but there were clearly five people there it was W.D Blanche
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Buck Bonnie and Clyde and then also they like park backwards in the garage you
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could like zoom out really quickly yeah so the neighbors were like we're a little assessed about like this these people
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that are staying at this of this apartment um eventually someone calls the police so 12 days into their stay there it's
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April 13th 1933 and they the police come and try to raid the place and there's a
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shootout two police officers die so they end up the barrel gang kills I think 12 people I'm gonna read you their names in
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a minute so two officers died and Blanche loses her dog which is she
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like live on her dog she lost her dog and I can imagine her being like I have to get my dog being like no you know
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like no [ __ ] out of here so they left and they left everything behind and this if you remember is like
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the reason they're super famous because they left behind like a [ __ ] ton of guns Bunny's poems all the newspaper
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clippings that they had been keeping to like keep up with how famous they were becoming and the famous photos of them
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it wasn't they weren't even developed it was roller film and the police got them developed and it was like a gold mine it's the photos that you know of Bonnie
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and Clyde like in front of the car with guns and she's smoking a cigar and they're like putting guns in each other
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and they look they have a cute little when he started his clothes on and that's what really made them like super
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famous yeah I know the cigar the woman that was
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like like lecturist for a woman to have like a cigar in her mouth apparently so
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she was adamant that she didn't actually smoke it she just had it yes yes she was a lady because that like would hurt her
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reputation after she's like in this murderous gang of bumbling you know but
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she didn't smoke a cigar and so now they're like nationally famous because those pictures are printed and
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everything because they're cool you know like it's a time when like now it's super into the depression people are
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like super looking for like a distraction I think like you said before it's like it's sexy that these two
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people are like on the run together oh yeah yeah and so I also want to tell you the people that died because it's all
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fun and games but a lot of people died um and Clyde killed some of the people killed by the gang Bonnie was kind of
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charged with one of the murders who knows she probably shot the gun sometimes but they're mostly police
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officers who were not like career police officers they were like a dude who would
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like have a job as like the sheriff on like the weekend right right and you get like paid a little bit of money if you
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like brought someone in but it wasn't like you'd like bring your own gun it wasn't like the police force but the
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people have been killed just to read their names um there's John Napoleon
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butcher Deputy Eugene Campbell Moore Howard Hall Doyle Ellie Myers Johnson
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Deputy Malcolm Simmons Davis detective Harry Leonard McGinnis Constable John Wesley Harryman Town Marshal Henry
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Dallas Humphrey prison guard major Joseph crownson patrolman Edward Brian
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wheeler patrolman Holloway Daniel Murphy and Constable William Calvin Campbell so
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they killed a fair amount of people yeah the 12. that's what I counted 12
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yeah 12. that's a lot it's a lot and it's in only two years you know it's a
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lot I thought yeah I don't remember the last podcast episode of it all that well um there's something that stick out to
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me but like how many people they killed didn't stick out to me well like you should have yeah because it's I mean it really is a
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ton and they didn't they never like got away with like millions of dollars you know like it was all stupid it was all
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stupid they described um who was it it's like broke crimes it's like it's not
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even like cool like sexy like they could get away with like a dollar fifty and somebody would die for it or something
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yeah yeah yeah it is a lot of like sometimes the bank teller would like try
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to be a hero you know and like have a gun you know that kind of thing right and she won't be there so there's also
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some jailbreaks during this time I'm not going to talk about it in full But Clyde was obsessed with breaking people out of
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um specifically Eastern prison where he had been because he was so had such a terrible time there that he just like
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wanted everybody to be free and he had planned several times just like driving and save everybody in like certain ways
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um they did one little jailbreak where they got six guys out and people died during during that
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um so this whole time they are killing people for literally no
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reason they're stealing small amounts of money they're starving but they're nicely dressed
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um and they're also very very injured someone talk a little bit about their injuries that they have and some of
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their gangets during this during these like the two like kind of crazy years or 32 to 34. at least remember Clyde cut
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two of his toes off so he's limping the whole time they're also like very short and he's limping and on June 10th 1933
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they're driving at night and he misses like a turn off for a detour and he's very good at driving so he's probably
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like confidently going very fast and he misses a turn and he flips the car and the car flips over and Bonnie's leg is
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burned from hip to toe by battery acid you can see the bone in places
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so just like an absolutely horrifying burn all over her leg that go to a local
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like not a local like a nearby Farmhouse and the people who live there put um baking soda on it to try to like help up
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she used to go to a doctor and Clyde's like you can't go to a doctor like we can't go to a hospital so
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it never heals it's like always oozing and she can't walk and she's always in
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the car because they're always on the move but there's no place to stay and heal so she's always like curled up in the back seat so when it does start to
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heal even a little bit her leg can never be straight again yeah yeah I'm feeling like a curled up position
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and like there are people who will find them and Report they know where they are because
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they keep throwing bloody bandages out the windows I remember this he's like dressing her her like horrific wounds so
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even when they're like getting other members of the people like join the gang or whatever that means and other people coming in if they like
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go rob a bank she's in the car like waiting for them like all like kind of curled up and injured in the back must
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have been just like horrifically painful I can't even imagine you know at the same time though
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if she went to a doctor back then they probably would have just sold her in half like I mean would she have really been that much better off with actual
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medic Medical Care maybe maybe the I feel like that you're right there probably amputated her leg
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yeah they would have made it easier to move around yeah yeah he had to carry her like they went back
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to their to their parents a couple times and they were like horrified by how um unbelievably
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um injured they both were they get shot other times as well there's like blood everywhere at one point their clothes are so bloody that they have to wear
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sheets they cut a hole in a sheet and are dressed like ghosts you know because like their clothes are just so full of
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blood like the car is full of blood it's just like disgusting they're so injured this story veers away from like a
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romantic tale of like a sexy couple into like Halloween Horror Nights yeah real
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quickly let's see here's the details you're like ew guys go home yeah I'm kidding me if I were so
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in the end she can't walk um Angela in July 1933 they're camping
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and the cops are called because they're being suspicious and Blanche is still with them so Blanche is
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um you know Buck's wife and she's like she's lost so much weight she weighs 90
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pounds when she's finally in jail she'll weigh 80 pounds she's just like emaciated she's not eating anything and she's wearing this like really nice
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outfit that she bought with some of the money that they got so she looks weird people are like suspicious because she's wearing this night's outfit that doesn't
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fit her anymore because she bought it when she's healthier and now she's like you know 80 pounds and she's wearing
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this outfit so people are like what's going on and so they call the police because these guys are like you know
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Public Enemy Number One you know they're looking for them and um the cops come and they find them
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where they're camping out and there's there's a shootout and buck who is Clyde's brother is shot in the head through his forehead and his brain is
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exposed which is so gross but he's alive and they all get into the
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car Blanche pushes them into the car Bonnie's in the front seat WD is there Bonnie can't straighten her body Blanche
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has her arms around around buck in the back seat and she looks up right as a cop shoots out the window and glass from
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the window shoots into her eyes and Blanche can't see so when it's just screaming because her
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eyes are full of glass and buck is still alive they're in the car they drive like
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they drive away they go stay in an abandoned amusement park which is unbelievable and they're there
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and they are pouring hydrogen peroxide into the hole in Buck's head oh my God
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and he doesn't die for him it's like terrifier except it's all happening like
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yeah but it's all self-made problems so they they he they dig a grave for him
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they're like Buck's gonna die any minute he doesn't die so they're waiting for buck to die they can't really move him
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because his head's like open the cops find them and they start shooting bucket
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shot again and he still doesn't die he's shot in the back and there's a great
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picture of Blanche I'm sure you've seen it and I'll post it where Blanche like is getting arrested she's like screaming and she has like sunglasses on because
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she can't see anything because her eyes are full of glass and um they take him to the hospital Buck's
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mom gets to see him before he dies he ends up dying of pneumonia which is like
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so crazy because you were shot so many times people are Hardy back then I guess
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yes really pretty she's really pretty and so she actually one of her eyes will
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never regain eyesight but her other one does heal and she goes to jail she just get put in jail for her part and some of
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the some of the shenanigans but she gets to be old she dies in 1988. so seriously
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that's crazy so yeah that's it's it's not that ancient history I guess
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in the movie in the the Warren Beatty movie um the woman who plays Blanche is not as
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pretty as Blanche in real life but she won the Academy Award for that role and Blanche was pissed because she was like
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I was way cuter than Bonnie which is true because Bonnie was hotter
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than yeah and the movie Bonnie was hotter yeah yeah well she's a lead I mean yeah
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we know know your place so okay so now during that shootout so
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Blanche and buck they go buck does die Blanche gets in jail so um WD Bonnie and Clyde runaway is still
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another car uh you know the real they're unbelievably injured unbelievably dirty unbelievably starving and they
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now like the Texas Rangers are after them which are like you know the
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top comps of Texas is a crazy law man specifically a man named Frank Hammer he's like gonna get them WD is still
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there but they dropped him off to see his family in Houston and they tell him to just say that you were like forced to do
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this eventually he goes to jail I think for this and for other things but he also lives to be old um as well so Bonnie and Clyde are alone there are
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23 and 25 they're still like very young and they're both like super
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injured um and the Rangers get a tip that they think they're going to be driving down a certain Road at a certain time so the
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Rangers are waiting like in the bushes and it's super hot and it's a muggy and there's mosquitoes everywhere and they're like about to give up and then
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the car drives by it's 9 15 a.m on what day it's on April nope it's on May
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23rd 1934. so it's 9 15 a.m and the car is driving
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by fast and the cops just start shooting they shoot and they kill Clyde instantly they shoot him in the head so his car's
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still moving so the car swerves to the side of the road Bonnie starts screaming and the officers get up and they shoot
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130 rounds into the car um obviously killing them both
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I know for real because it was so bad that the coroner
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had a hard time embalming them because they were so full of holes yeah so many times
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um but thousands of people came to see their bodies um and that's where it becomes sort of like a myth and a legend as well because
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people are seeing their bodies they see the car the car was obviously stolen um so the woman who got who's the car
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was stolen from took it back full of blood like not cleaned just like took it back
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and it went on like a tour you could sit in it for a dollar and it would like go into sideshows and now it's in Prim
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Nevada I tried to find it last time I was in Prim that's like on the way home from Vegas and I like went to the casino
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and it was 10 in the morning and it was like really weird and everybody was smoking and like gambling and I was like I couldn't find it I just like left I
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didn't ask anyone is it so it's in a casino yeah it's in Prim Nevada which is on their way on the
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15 on the way between LA and Las Vegas Prim Valley Resort and Casino
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Resort I think it's generous oh the death car there we go
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I mean that's a pretty cool thing I mean I saw it in high school yeah I'd post in front of it it's pretty cool
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so it's a lot of bullet holes though it's a lot of bullet holes they really went down
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I mean look I get it if you're the cops and you're like all these people do is kill cops and I got a chance to take
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them out like just empty the empty the what are they called magazine yeah yeah
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I know I know things okay Tommy Guns you know the whole thing yeah their liabilities to have them out there you
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know you can't just like like oh they're Petty criminals because like they're doing Petty crimes or they're killing people so like it just can't it's just
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not safe to have them out on the road they gotta go you know yeah they love us taping from jail as well so others other stories I
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didn't talk about with like putting a saw inside a radio is to get into jail you know like stuff like that
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like it's very like a cartoon what do you think being in a jail in 1930 would be like
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uh this also reminds me of Godfather when Sonny was killed remember they jump
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out and it's just like you just like Tommy Gun riddle the whole thing right the most violent scenes I saw that as a
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kid my parents should not let me see that movie well hopefully um hopefully Bonnie died quickly
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after that I mean that's yeah that first shot you know and didn't get like a thousand shots like Buck did and still
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like hang on you know hopefully it went fast for her um yeah they were super young
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um a couple things that I wanted to mention though before I cut it off obviously the cars that he was stealing
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were Fords which is like it was like the most popular car then so
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um on April 10th 1934 so less than two months before he was killed Clyde wrote
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a letter to Henry Ford and he said while I still have got
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breath in my lungs I will tell you what a Dandy car you make I have drove Forest exclusively when I could get away with
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one for sustained speed and freedom from trouble the Ford has got every other car skinned and even if my business hasn't
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been strictly legal it don't hurt anything to tell you what a fine car you've got in the V8
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but that's actually kind of sweet that's not sweet like you didn't never bought one but he sure should stole a ton of
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them did that let her get to Henry Ford maybe I don't know I don't know how else we read it you know yeah yeah that's a
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good point yeah that is uh this that is like the most quintessential Doom to fail
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of all most iconic Doom to fail relationships I think um I can I can imagine
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yeah I think so too and I have a poem of Bonnie's but I'll put it on the same to read it but they're long for like really long rambling poems that's actually the
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thing I remember the most from the last last podcast was how she had no understanding of punctuations or
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anything so like because Henry would read it like with punctuations and it was it just quote unquote and then you
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know well yeah and she's like writing she's I feel like she in her own way is writing for
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history because she knows that there there's so many times her mom is like
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you have to leave you have to leave him and she's like I'm just gonna I'm gonna die with him like this is it you know like I'm not gonna I'm not gonna like
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leave and like go to jail for 10 years and then like have a regular life she's like I I'm gonna die with Clyde and it's gonna be soon and they knew it would be
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soon like when Buck died his parents didn't buy a gravestone because they were like let's just wait till Clyde dies so we can buy one for both of them
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I literally had the thought earlier while I was driving I was like dude in two years I'm gonna be 40 which makes in
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like 20 years after that 60 like I'm almost dead yeah it's 100 sure you're
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always dead or at least 50 dead yeah twice as long as Clyde
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the whale the way I live I'm probably three quarters dead
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I think you're fine you'll be fine for a while thank you thank you
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foreign so before we go over were you over to
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your side and cut it off and do the next one I do have a listener mail from my cousin Lindsay again and she wanted to
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let us know about how sex is sexist it is that crimes are not named after women and she was like yep it's definitely
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sexist um she says if you think about things that are native to women they tend to be things like tropical storms victim
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crimes and food the first two are involuntary or or irrational reconfirming stereotype types of women
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as powerless weak and illogical and the last not necessarily bad but it celebrates women's contributions to food
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but also exceptifies the way the system is worked and trans women in the kitchen so she goes on but essentially like yep
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it's not nice yeah what else is named after women yeah
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just nothing yeah I mean to my credit there's no there's no hurricane farzas or uh I
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think they like very recently had to be like you have to stop naming off hurricanes after women
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like recently because they were like it's rude
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what about the fact that we think that all like ships and usually cars have female
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yep just got her yesterday you know in the feminine which like I don't know
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if I owned a yacht I mean it would be weird to call it mail I agree
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um 1979 is when they stopped being named after just women media for men and women wait what did I okay why are boats
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female summarized in ancient history ships were once dedicated to goddesses
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when beliefs and goddesses Wayne ships were named of her moral important mortal women I don't know I don't know that's
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true but could you imagine yourself like you and Juan get rich enough you have like a
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40-foot yacht and you're like hey guys y'all want to go on the Bert no I don't want to go on Bert
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usually refer to where cars as men like masculine
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yeah really interesting yeah
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I don't know I don't know anyway well Lindsay thank you for the sentiment anybody else if you have
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thoughts on other things that should be named male or female please let us know Lindsay did you see Barbie I feel like
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you also would hate the patriarchy as much as I do after watching it so I didn't even realize there's supposed
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to be like a political note to Barbie I cried the
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entire time I was so mad interesting well Ben I probably won't see it
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great I don't want to be I don't want to make myself upset for no reason um cool well so through the power of
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editing I'm gonna go ahead and cut this off and I will join we will join you all again in four days three days two days
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two days okay thanks all [Music]