The Matewan Massacre/Battle of Blair Mountain

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

Tim Scott

Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4 • 619 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2015

⏱️ 61 minutes

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On May 19, 1920 The Stone Mountain Coal Mine Corporation sent hired guns into Matewan, West Virgina to squash attempts by Coal Miners to unionize. This lead to a deadly shoot out that became known as the Matewan Massacre. It was followed a year later by the largest armed rebellion since the civil war, when 10,000 armed Coal Miners took on the coal mining industry's private army at Blair Mountain, West Virgina.

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone and welcome to History Dweeb. I am Tim, and joining me, as always, is the
0:11.4	Blue Hair Beauty Brandy. How are you today, Brandy? I'm well, Tim. How are you? I'm outstanding.
0:18.1	Spectacular. And, of course, we were joined by, as always, by the very distinguished Colonel Charles Bolrigard, Hawk Waters III, affectionately known as the Southern gentleman.
0:33.9	How are you today, Colonel?
0:35.4	Well, Timmy, I'm just re-energized.
0:39.2	You know, I am burning the candle at both ends with these podcasts, the presidential campaign. How is your campaign going?
0:45.6	It's going along just swimmingly, Tim. I understand you just got back from NASA, New Hampshire?
0:52.2	New Hampshire, yeah. And you had spoke in front of 19,000 people.
0:56.8	19,000 people.
0:58.1	I didn't even know there were 19,000 people in New Hampshire.
1:01.4	I really did not know where New Hampshire was.
1:04.6	I knew it was somewhere east of me.
1:07.6	Sure.
1:08.1	And it was going to be cold up there.
1:09.7	Right.
1:10.2	But very nice people. They ate a lot of pancakes. Sure. And it was going to be cold up there. Right. But very nice people.
1:12.4	They ate a lot of pancakes.
1:14.5	So you're well received.
1:16.6	I was well received because they don't like,
1:20.2	the people in New Hampshire don't like foolishness.
1:23.2	Yeah.
1:23.4	They don't like, they don't tolerate foolishness.
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