168 - Killdozer

Timesuck with Dan Cummins

Dan Cummins

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4.8 • 22.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2019

⏱️ 171 minutes

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Summary

Killdozer. The story of one man, Marvin Heemeyer, who modified a Komatsu D355A bulldozer into a demolition weapon, and then go on a two plus hour rampage in the small town of Granby, Colorado in 2004. Why did he do this? Well, in a way it's very complicated. And in another way it's very simple. I do my best to make sense of it all and explain it to you in today's small town mayhem edition of Timesuck. Check out Lynze and I's new horror podcast Scared to Death. Listen on Spotify, Stitcher, iTunes, Youtube, and more! Here's the iTunes link: https://apple.co/2MRMgai Happy Murder Tour Standup dates: (full calendar at http://dancummins.tv) December 5-7 Tacoma, WA Comedy Club CLICK HERE for tix! ** LIVE TIMESUCK Tacoma, WA Tacoma Comedy Club CLICK HERE for tix! December 26-28 Spokane, WA Spokane 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: Leesa! Get 15% off your entire order at leesa.com/TIMESUCK - use the promo code TIMESUCK. For Hims! Start with a FREE online visit. Go to ForHims.com/timesuckED Parcast's new podcast - Natural Disasters! Listen on Spotify! Watch the Suck on Youtube: Coming Soon 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 6000 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	Marvin hemeyer, an American welder, a Colorado Muffer mogul, a man who decided to modify a
0:05.4	Komatsu D355A bulldozer into a demolition weapon and then go on a two plus hour rampage in the
0:12.4	small town of Granby, Colorado in 2004, destroying the town's concrete plant, town hall, local newspaper
0:18.9	office, hardware store and much more. He shot at local police, shot at a local enemy, tried to
0:24.4	blow up some propane tanks and then he shot himself. Why? Because the city decided to allow a
0:29.4	concrete plant to be built next to his muffler repair business. But is the story really that simple?
0:35.9	Of course not. The story of Marvin hemeyer and his killdozer may be one of the most misunderstood
0:40.4	stories on the internet today and I'm so glad we're covered it this week. It plays out like some
0:45.6	kind of backwood shake spirit and tragedy set 20 years ago in the mountains of Colorado.
0:50.0	The internet seems to have come to one general consensus regarding who Marvin hemeyer was
0:55.6	and I have come to another. The web has anointed Marvin as some kind of anti-government hero,
1:00.5	a blue collar David who fought a governmental galaeth and one kind of. But is that true? Maybe not.
1:07.8	Let's dig down past myth building and get to some truth. And today's did that guy really attack a
1:12.4	town with a heavily modified bulldozer over a fucking zoning issue edition of Time Suck.
1:25.7	To time suck.
1:36.0	Happy Monday meet sacks. Welcome to the cult of the curious. He'll Nimrod stick around
1:40.8	loose to fena praise about jangles and glory be to triple M. Hope y'all got to spend time with
1:45.2	family biological and or chosen over the past few days. Hope you got to eat some good food.
1:51.0	Hope you're enjoying the beginning of the holiday season. I'll look forward to seeing some of you
1:55.6	this weekend in Tacoma. Lindsay will be coming with me to queen of suck standup shows that
2:00.1	Tacoma comedy club this Thursday through Saturday live ant hill kids podcast also on Saturday.
2:06.0	And then I'll be in spoke in Washington right after Christmas December 26th to 28th and that's it
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