The Black Lawman Who Arrested The Entire Wild West

Softcore History

History, Comedy, Improv

5 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Bass Reeves was a slave turned deputy U.S. Marshal who became one of the most prolific manhunters in the Wild West. He arrested over 3,000 outlaws, collected bounties on some of the biggest gangs of the time, and barely had a scratch on him after three decades in the line of duty. Jack Mandaville helps break down this American legend.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Softcore History.
0:07.8	Welcome back to SoftCore History.
0:10.0	I'm your host for the week, Dan Register, joined, as always by Rob Fox.
0:14.0	Happy Mother's Day.
0:15.6	Hooray.
0:16.1	To my wife, who I left alone to do this show.
0:19.3	Congrats, dude.
0:20.4	Woo!
0:21.9	Sorry, babe, we got to work.
0:23.1	I got to work.
0:25.1	Did you like your present that you bought yourself?
0:27.5	Why are you going to fucking pay for it?
0:29.1	She's crying.
0:30.2	See, you're going through it.
0:32.4	Woke the kids up from a nap, just screaming at her.
0:36.8	But I made an Instagram post that was really nice that's all you needed to do.
0:39.9	Flowers, Instagram post.
0:42.3	The amount of people...
0:43.0	Make her not have to cook breakfast.
0:46.1	Yeah.
0:46.4	Do you think women 100 years ago
0:48.4	felt so balzy chewing their husbands out
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