Huckleberry or Hucklebearer?

The Wild West Extravaganza

Wild West Josh

Education, History

4.8 • 667 Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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We all know the "scene", right? Wyatt, Virgil, and Morgan Earp are walking the streets of Tombstone when they’re confronted by a visibly inebriated Johnny Ringo. He informs the trio that he wants their blood and their souls, and he wants them now. Wyatt refuses to fight, says there ain’t no money in it and tells Ringo to sober up, as he and his brothers turn and walk away. At this point Johnny really begins to rage. “Don’t any of you have the guts to play for blood?” And that’s when Doc steps out; fingers dancing close to the butt of his holstered revolver with another pistol concealed behind his back. He’d been watching the events unfold from a nearby barber’s chair and once Ringo blurts out his bold invitation, Holliday decides he wants to play. And you know what he says next. Or at least I should say you THINK you know. 1994’s Tombstone remains an iconic movie that produced many an iconic phrase, one in particular that people have been quoting nonstop for the past 3 decades. A simple idiom now emblazoned on t shirts, hoodies, whiskey tumblers, key chains, shot glasses, bottle openers, beanies, baseball caps, hell…even fuzzy socks. In my kitchen right now is a coffee mug with this famous expression printed on it in big bold letters. But are those letters wrong? Are we wrong? Is this some sort of Mandela effect, did our ears betray us? Or are there simply some among us pretending to be smarter than they really are? What the hell did Val Kilmer aka Doc Holliday really say? And what SHOULD he have said? Check out my website for more true tales from the wild and woolly west https://www.wildwestextra.com/ Email me! https://www.wildwestextra.com/contact/ I’m Your Huckleberry by D.T. Christensen | Oldwest.org - https://www.oldwest.org/im-your-huckleberry-meaning/ David Lambert on the old west - https://twitter.com/DavidLambertArt/status/1526547092864258048?cxt=HHwWgMCiscafsa8qAAAA David Lambert Art - https://www.patreon.com/davidlambertart Buy me a coffee! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wildwest Free Newsletter! https://wildwestjosh.substack.com/ Join Patreon for bonus content! https://www.patreon.com/wildwestextra Become a YouTube Paid Member for bonus content! https://www.youtube.com/c/WildWestExtravaganza Listen to Texas History Lessons! https://www.texashistorylessons.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.8	We all know the scene. Wyatt, Virgil, and Morgan Earp are walking the streets of tombstone
0:34.8	when they're confronted by a visibly inebriated Johnny Ringo.
0:38.5	He informs the trio that he wants their blood and their souls and he wants them now.
0:43.1	Wyatt refuses to fight, says there ain't no money in it and he tells Ringo to go sober up,
0:47.5	as he and his brother's turn and walk away.
0:50.1	At this point, Johnny really begins to rage.
0:52.5	Don't any of you have the guts to play for blood?
0:55.4	And that's when Doc steps out.
0:57.3	Oh, yeah.
0:58.8	Fingers dancing close to the butt of that holstered revolver.
1:01.9	Another pistol concealed behind his back.
1:04.4	He'd been watching events unfold from a nearby barber's chair,
1:07.4	and once Ringo blurts out his bold invitation,
1:10.2	Holiday decides he wants to play.
1:12.3	And you know what he says next. Or at least I should say you think you know.
1:17.5	Ninety-four's Tombstone remains an iconic movie that produced many an iconic phrase.
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