Short Stuff: Johnny Ringo

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🗓️ 4 March 2026

⏱️ 13 minutes

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You might be familiar with the outlaw Johnny Ringo from the movie Tombstone. He was indeed a real-life black hat gunslinger, and a tragic figure at that.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.5	Guaranteed Human.
0:08.1	Hey, and welcome to the Short Stuff, Josh, Chuck, Jerry, in for Dave.
0:12.8	And we are quick on the draw.
0:14.5	You're on short stuff.
0:17.3	That's not lasers, though.
0:19.5	You can draw a laser S-ConSola. consola oh okay uh good point but not in the old
0:25.0	west unless it's west world i guess uh because we're talking about the old west and we're talking
0:29.9	about a lesser known old west gunslinger by the name of johnny wringo yeah not johnny angel
0:37.3	johnny wringo although you can substitute his name for that, for Johnny
0:41.7	Angel in the song if you sing it in your head.
0:43.9	I bet you could.
0:45.2	He was, at the time, very well known, he was an outlaw.
0:50.3	He was one of those cowboys.
0:51.4	He was a hired gun.
0:53.6	He was a mercenary, which I guess is a
0:55.6	hired gun. He also ran gangs that were known to murder and that kind of stuff. But he wasn't
1:03.1	like a bank robber. He wasn't a train robber even. He just seems to have been a guy who just
1:10.5	kind of made his way from town to town,
1:13.1	ended up in kind of famous situations and did nefarious things here or there, just enough to make a
1:19.3	name for himself. Yeah, he was born in May 1850 in what is now Green's Fork, Indiana.
1:29.1	Shout out the Greens Fork.
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