The Last Public Execution in the United States

History Dweebs - A look at True Crime, Murders, Serial Killers and the Darkside of History

Tim Scott

Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4 • 619 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2015

⏱️ 43 minutes

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On August 14, 1936 more than 20,000 people showed up, in Owensboro, Kentucky, to witness the last public execution held in the United States.

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone, and welcome to the latest edition of History Dweeps.
0:09.8	I am Tim, and as always, I'm joined by the Blue Hair Beauty Brandy.
0:15.0	How are you today, Brandy?
0:16.4	I'm well, Tim. How are you?
0:17.9	I'm outstanding.
0:19.2	Excellent.
0:20.4	And we were fortunate to have with us today, who's fresh off the campaign trail, the Honorable Colonel Charles Bolrigan, Hawk Walters III, affectionately known as the Southern gentleman.
0:34.9	How are you today, Colonel?
0:36.2	Oh, Timmy, I got a little bit of jet lag. A little bit of jet lag.
0:40.2	Did you take the red eye?
0:41.5	I took the red eye. As you know, the Colonel got something going on with his,
0:47.0	he got a rab in his glee, as Granny Clampy used to say.
0:50.7	I don't know what that is.
0:53.5	Some going on in my back here, but I'm sure they'll take care of it.
0:57.7	I got the finest doctors in the world looking after me, so.
1:00.8	Well, you're a presidential candidate, so I'm sure that you'll get the best care possible.
1:06.8	Obamacare.
1:07.7	Perhaps you should get trying for Obamacare.
1:10.5	Well, and that's part of my platform. Yeah. Well, I actually should get trying to sign up for Obamacare. Well, and that's part of my platform, ObamaCare. Or Colonel Care, whatever you want to call it. What we're going to do. Yeah. And it's going to be known as Colonel Care. Well, what we're going to do to me is I don't know if we've gone over this yet on my platform, but what is the big divisive thing in our country today? We have gone over.
1:30.6	Obamacare. We've gone over at Colonel Care. No, I've gone over with you. Not with our
1:35.3	listeners. Yeah. So listeners, I want you to listen up. We're going to fix this country
1:41.2	by doing one thing. Well, a bunch of things, but the most important thing, my first-day-in-off is Obama-Care gone.
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