Part Two: Buford Pusser: The Worst Sheriff Ever

Behind the Bastards

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🗓️ 25 September 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Robert discussed Buford Pusser's war on crime and the crime he committed when he murdered his wife and blamed the mafia. We also talk about how he died, which is fun.

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0:00.0	Callsor Media.
0:04.0	Hey everyone. Robert Evans here, and on Thursday, September 25th at 8 p.m. Behind the Bastards is doing a live show.
0:09.8	The show itself is in Portland, Oregon, but all of the in-person seats have sold out. However, there are live stream tickets available.
0:16.2	If you go to Alberta Rose Theater, T-H-E-A-T-R-E,E-A-T-R-E-B-H-E-A-T-R-E-B-B-E-R-E-B-B-E-R-E-B-R-E-R-E-R-E-R-E-R-E-R-E-R-E-R-E-R-E-R-E-R-E-R-E-R-E-R-E-R-E-R- which helps bail people out who don't have, you know, resources of their own.
0:39.2	So it's a good cause.
0:42.6	Tickets are $25 for the live stream version of the show.
0:47.3	So please go to Alberta Rose Theater Behind the Bastards and pick up a live stream show to check it out on Thursday, September 25th at 8 p.m.
0:52.9	And we're back to Behind the Bastards, a podcast about bad people, the worst ones in all of history.
1:00.2	This is part two of our series on Buford Pusser, the man whose family could not give their kids normal names to save their lives.
1:09.4	Also, he committed a bunch of horrible crimes and killed people.
1:12.5	Back as my guest, Dan O'Brien.
1:16.3	Hello, thank you for having me.
1:18.1	There's no depth to my appetite for Pusser.
1:26.0	That's right.
1:27.7	I just love Pusser. That's right. I just love pusser.
1:31.0	Buford, I'm agnostic on.
1:33.2	Have you ever met a Buford?
1:34.8	Do you know a single Buford?
1:36.6	The only, this is not a person that I know.
1:38.7	The only time I've ever heard that name was
1:41.2	Benjamin Buford Blue, the full name of Bubba from Forrest Gump. I know that doesn't count. I didn't remember that was Bubba's full name. As a person I know. But yeah, that's the only other instance of that name I've ever heard anywhere. Huh. Yeah, I know that I'm actually looking up the name of the sheriff from Smoky and the Band. Yeah, Buford T. Justice is the sheriff from Smoky and the Bandit, yeah.
2:04.2	Which I think is probably the first time I heard that name and did not realize that it was, yeah, that came out in 77.
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