154 - The Outlaw Jesse James and the James-Younger Gang

Timesuck with Dan Cummins

Dan Cummins

Cults, True Crime, Adult Humor, Religion, Conspiracies, Society & Culture, Education, History, Conspiracy, Biographies, Comedy, Dark Humor

4.8 • 22.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2019

⏱️ 131 minutes

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Jesse James! Perhaps the most notorious outlaw in wild west history. Yip, yip, yaw! But do you know why he was so infamous? Do you understand the social climate that helped create him? Do you know what dirty deeds he committed to become so infamous? Today, we learn a lot about how the chaos of the Civil War created a lot of outlaws, and a number of the most ruthless of these men ended up in the James-Younger gang - easily the most "successful" wild west gang there was, if you count robbing one train, stagecoach, and bank right after another - for over a decade - as being "successful." We go full bandit on another wild west, guns blazin' edition of Timesuck! Donating $2800 this month to the Impulse Youth Arts Organization! http://www.impulseyoutharts.org/ Happy Murder Tour Standup dates: (full calendar at http://dancummins.tv) ** September 13th Chicago Thalia Hall CLICK HERE for tix ** August 29 Los Angeles The Comedy Store Hollywood, CA CLICK HERE for tix! August 30 - September 1st San Diego The Comedy Store La Jolla, CA CLICK HERE for tix! September 19-21 Copper Blues Live CLICK HERE for tix! *** LIVE ANT HILL KIDS TIMESUCK *** September 21st at Copper Blues Live CLICK HERE for tix September 26-28 Indianapolis Helium Comedy Club CLICK HERE for tix! Listen to the best of my standup on Spotify! (for free!) https://spoti.fi/2Dyy41d Timesuck is brought to you by the following sponsors: Scared to Death! The trailer for Scared to Death comes out Midnight PST August 20th. First two episodes come out on September 17th at Midnight. Subscribe!!!! (including on Youtube) NHTSA! The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is reminding you - don't drive high!! Harry's! Get your special trial set by going to HARRYS.COM/timesuck Leesa! Get 15% off your entire order at leesa.com/TIMESUCK Use promo code TIMESUCK at checkout! Watch the Suck on Youtube: https://youtu.be/L2IvMU1Pya8 Merch - https://badmagicmerch.com/ Want to try out Discord!?! https://discord.gg/tqzH89v Want to join the Cult of the Curious private Facebook Group? Go directly to Facebook and search for "Cult of the Curious" in order to locate whatever current page hasn't been put in FB Jail :) For all merch related questions: https://badmagicmerch.com/pages/contact Please rate and subscribe on iTunes and elsewhere and follow the suck on social media!! @timesuckpodcast on IG and http://www.facebook.com/timesuckpodcast Wanna become a Space Lizard? We're over 5000 strong! Click here: https://www.patreon.com/timesuckpodcast Sign up through Patreon and for $5 a month you get to listen to the Secret Suck, which will drop Thursdays at Noon, PST. You'll also get 20% off of all regular Timesuck merch PLUS access to exclusive Space Lizard merch. You get to vote on two Monday topics each month via the app. And you get the download link for my new comedy album, Feel the Heat. Check the Patreon posts to find out how to download the new album and take advantage of other benefits.

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0:00.0	Jesse James was one of the most infamous bank and train robbers in the history of the American
0:04.1	Old West, the image of the outlaw, narrowly escaping capture after another brazen bank or train
0:09.5	robbery. Guns of blazing, saddle to top, a galloping getaway steed is an iconic image of the American
0:15.7	Old West. James is one of the leading members of the James younger gang of outlaws, a man involved
0:20.5	in numerous holdups that left far too many men dead. Jesse robbed and killed for the entirety
0:25.1	of his adult life and he made a lot of enemies and also gathered a lot of admirers during a long
0:30.3	criminal run. Robert Pinkerton, son of Alan Pinkerton, founder of America's first private
0:35.6	detective agency, not an admirer. When speaking to a reporter for the Richmond Democrat on November
0:42.2	20th, 1879, he said, I consider Jesse James the worst man without any exception in America.
0:50.1	He is utterly devoid of fear and has no more compunction about cold blooded murder than he has
0:55.9	about eating his breakfast. The editor of the Lexington, Lexington Kentucky's questionably named
1:02.1	19th century paper, The Weekly Caucasian, wrote about Jesse and his fellow gang members in nothing
1:07.6	but glowing terms in an article written on October 17th, 1874. All the annals of romantic crime furnished
1:15.2	no parallel to the exploits of Missouri's bold rovers. Since Ishmael hung out his shingle 37
1:21.2	centuries ago in the deserts of Eden, as a dashing, untamable boss preganned, they have been
1:27.2	unsurpassed. They've laid a Latin in the shade and snuffed out all his marvel hatching lamps.
1:33.7	They've eclipsed the wildest wonders of the Arabian nights and rendered commonplace the most
1:38.3	incredible achievements of the Sid. They've made the tales of the Crusaders and the Buccaneers stale
1:44.0	nursery crunings, Achilles and Hector, Barabbas, Rob Roy, Dick Tarpen and 16 string Jack Dwindle
1:51.8	to ordinary marauders beside them. John Edwards, editor of the Sadalya Democrat also seemed to have
1:58.9	a lot of love for Jesse James, writing the following for James April 1882 obituary. We called him outlaw
2:06.6	and he was, but fate made him so. When the war closed, Jesse James had no home, hunted, shot,
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