Jefferson Randolph "Soapy" Smith II

In America, guns are a universal tool used for all purposes.

Peak humor!! Someone make a Looney Tunes ass movie about this guy! And all before 40, how unaccomplished we all seem in comparison

American werewolf n londoner

slowly putting together a list of "required viewing" films to understand this podcast that includes A Serious Man, Serpico, Tombstone, Master & Commander, Chinatown, and The Prestige

If Mechanicville were a themed town I imagine it would just look like the rocket town from Final Fantasy 7

Small quibble here: November kinda makes it sound like Creede is maybe 30 minutes at most outside of Denver; it is about 170 miles away (as the crow flies) and there's a whole ass Rocky Mountain Range in between the two.

the concept of Themed Cities remind me of industrial policy in China where like they assign one random town being the Umbrella Manufacturing Hub and all they do is umbrellas and everyone is either a Umbrella Engineer or an Umbrella Assembly Technician

I played Lou Blonger as a reenactor for a cemetery tour of Denver; Denver was briefly more infamous than NYC or Chicago for all encompassing corruption and moral decay. Denver's market street was named to reflect its place as a red-light district. I am just glad to see my city so honored.

Apparently ousted Malagasy president Andry Rajoelina was also formerly a DJ, a media baron, and an owner of a printing company, and after becoming mayor (!) of Antananarivo just... declared unilaterally that he was president now and eventually the army decided to agree. i guess the megalomaniacal municipal mindset can actually transport you into the highest office if you're in a country with very weak civil society?

"He's becoming a bike!" So what you're saying is that guy wants to be Comptroller of The Parish from 'The Third Policeman.'

What a beautiful, baffling man.

“Hey, I got that reference!” pointing at Ronnie Scott’s, which I walked by in London last month and only just learned about!

Glad someone is keeping an eye on New York's Capitol District. Steampunk vibes are pretty easy to come by around there, a lot of the downtowns are pre-internal combustion vintage. Of course they vomitted Brutalism and highways all over Albany, which is sad.

Nominating a perrenial candidates episode because the addiction to elections doesn't stop at mayoralty

This was so much fun 😁 thanks for a silly one for a slightly delayed birthday present.

Maybe Eric Adams is trying to get himself a new job as fourth host now that he's not going to be mayor anymore.

https://www.matt-carmichael.com

Me yelling at the world with my headphones on seven minutes into this episode: FORREST GULCH.

Mattie, next time choose the Bottle In Front of Me option

The opening must be complete nonsense if you don't know the fun trivia fact that you can get cheap dental exams and procedures at the new York University dental school if you let their students practice/qualify on you. I don't know if they do cleanings, since that's a different profession.

I too love the Wild Wasteland perk.

I thought Mattie was doing a skit on Tom Hardy's Bane voice throughout the intro

This episode has big The Dollop energy

I’m Lou Blonga, and this is Two-Step Number Five

Nov. said "every town should have a gang from Warriors" but I started snapping my fingers "When you're a Jet you're a Jet all the way from your first cigarette til your last dying day"

Gonna start a sludge metal band and call it Signwinder

It canNOT be a coincidence that this episode comes out and *immediately* the churrascaria in Sydney burns down https://www.reddit.com/r/sydney/comments/1o6xnxo/what_just_happened/

Ok mechanicsville story is great bc my 1st thought was just “oh we can make this the official girl genius town”. You don’t even need to use AI to make branding! You can use girl geniuses sick as fuck branding and never ending storyline!

Sorcerer (1977) mentioned!

"Shoot Your Remaining Eye Out" Johnson is an extraordinarily Terry Pratchett ass name

Solemnly awaiting the "Inventory Boogaloo"

In the land of ‘shoot your eyes out’ Grey’s victims, the man who duelled ‘shoot your eye out’ Vermillion rules as king.

Klondike Gold Rush special interest go brrrrrr

49:00 ok, but the mid to late 1800's guns were so weird because they were black powder generally and used lead round balls, generally there wasn't an owners manual either so it was dependant on every person to come up with their own loading method and I'd assume they under powered the powder load, or didn't maintain their revolver well. I remember hearing about a silly shooting method a famous bandit had where in between shots he jumped, pointed his revolver towards the sky and raised it above his head while cocking the hammer to the next chamber, because he had to do it that way for a cap and ball revolver not to jam. And he never unlearned the habit even after modern cartridges were introduced.

50:00 Can you imagine being the Moirae looking at that thread. Atropo is staring at the yarn and turns towards Clotho. "The Fuck?"

Wanted to say thank you. This podcast has helped with the long days/nights with newborn twins!

40% of the American economy being reliant on AI just proves to me that fundamentally we are still reliant on scamming rubes, and human nature not having changed since the 1800's. Gotta love getting a silly nickname during prison intake though. 😂

Btw it’s not a churrasco (food) it’s a churrascaria (institution)

I worked in Skagway. Soapy has always fascinated me.

You charge labor hours based on how long it takes to dig an adult hole, you dig kid sized holes and don't do as much work for your money. This gives you more time for old West scams Now, the Governor should have hired a Shinobi instead of trying a lengthy siege.

Mechanicville sounds like a soviet town name like Magnitogorsk

He is clearly drinking a White Gilgamesh.

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