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Everything Is Stories

Across the Purple Sage

Everything Is Stories

Everything Is Stories

History, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.8606 Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

They say stealing cattle in Texas can get a man hung by the neck until dead. From a young age Roddy Pippin was ready to take that risk, as he and his crew would take home close to a million dollars rustling cattle over the course of 3 years. In this episode Pippin speaks of his idyllic childhood and love for the ways of the old west, the precarious choices he made while chasing the steal that would lead to brushes with death, and how those few years on the run pushed him and his lifelong friendships to the limit.  --- Produced by Grace Heerman, Mike Martinez, and Tyler Wray. Sound Design by George Drake Jr. Music by Mike Etten and Dominic Palermo Intro/Outro music by Anand Wilder For more about this story, including photos by Justin Hollar, visit everythingisstories.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The comfortable way to deal with these stories is to say they are about them.

0:10.0

The way to understand these stories is to say they are about us.

0:14.0

No, no.

0:16.0

No.

0:18.0

The comfortable way to deal with these stories is to say they are about them.

0:22.6

The way to understand these stories is to know they are about us. Well, raising cattle has long been a staple of life in America's heartland. It's a pastime. That's big business for America's ranchers, but it's also becoming an even bigger target for crime. Over the past few years, we've seen a steady increase in cattle thefts across the state

0:58.0

with some industry experts estimating the losses in the millions of dollars,

1:02.8

often known as cattle rustling, stealing cattle is a crime as old as the American West,

1:07.6

yet today thieves are taking full advantage of modern day tools to ply their age-old

1:13.6

trade.

1:14.6

Well, if I was born in Houston, you know, I'd probably consider stealing Lamborghinis and

1:30.3

Porsches and BMWs, but you know, I was born in Bum-Fuck Egypt and cattle made the most sense

1:36.8

at the time.

1:39.8

Cattle rustling is when you deprive livestock from honest working people.

1:47.0

The stories are, and I'm sure they're true.

1:49.0

West of the Paco, you were hung for it by the neck until dead.

1:53.0

Although everybody you'll run into still says you'll get hung it by the neck until dead,

1:59.0

or they can still hang you in Texas for stealing cattle. I got so sick of hearing that prison.

2:03.6

The law doesn't say you can hang people.

2:05.6

We had a hard time with hanging Solomon Hussein.

2:08.6

If you pass something around for a million times, they believe it's gospel.

2:13.6

Another big reason I filed that motion to be hung by the neck until dead. And some of them morons still said,

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