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Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you welcome to Stuff you should know

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Speaker 1: from House Stuff Works dot com. Hey, and welcome to

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Speaker 1: the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant. Yes, indeed,

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Speaker 1: I'm here. I did not skip bail. No, you didn't, Chuck,

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Speaker 1: And if you had, something would have happened to you. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: maybe a bounty hunter would have come after you. Part two, Josh,

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Speaker 1: our first ever. Well, I'm not true, but this is

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Speaker 1: a two part sweet Yeah, it's definitely not our first ever.

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Speaker 1: Thank you Steve reader, Steve who sent in the suggestion. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and again, it was an MPR three part series on

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Speaker 1: bail in the United States that kind of kicked this

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Speaker 1: thing off. It's like I said, it's worth reading. Go

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Speaker 1: to MPR dot org and you can check it out.

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Speaker 1: I think you'd probably just type bail in their handy

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Speaker 1: search bar. Yeah. Um, but yeah. We we asked the

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Speaker 1: out on Tuesday. Here it is Thursday. The question was

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Speaker 1: what happens when you skip bail? And, as we've just established,

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Speaker 1: you get a bounty hunter sicked on your Yes, in

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Speaker 1: many cases that is exactly what will happen, is a

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Speaker 1: bondsman will hire what they like to be referred to

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Speaker 1: as a bail enforcement agent. But of course we like

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Speaker 1: to call them bounty hunters because it's just a cooler name.

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Speaker 1: It is a way cooler name, and it's a name

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Speaker 1: that goes back, um several centuries, right at least one

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Speaker 1: or two. Well, sure, are you talking about the Old West? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they had when the whole thing started was when um,

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Speaker 1: I believe in eighteen seventy three a Supreme Court case

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Speaker 1: This case gave bounty hunters authority to act as agents

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Speaker 1: for bail bondsman and then starting then, and even if

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Speaker 1: poster in the Old West, like bringing back dead or alive.

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Speaker 1: Of course, that's just a bounty on someone's head, right,

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Speaker 1: because he brings me back dead, that's not gonna do

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Speaker 1: much good in court. It's dead is easier transporting. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: But that's the way it started. And I believe what

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Speaker 1: was Jesse James was worth five grand at his peak. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: have thought more. Uh yeah, but the bill was different then,

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Speaker 1: like now, he would probably be like ten million. Oh sure,

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Speaker 1: Actually he's worth about a hundred million and adrennine dollars. Yeah. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: We're basing that on an article by Stephanie Watson who

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Speaker 1: talked to a very legendary um bounty hunter by the

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Speaker 1: name of Bob Burton. Right. Yeah, you saw the picture

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Speaker 1: two thousand seven, yes, two thousand seven made uh twenty

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Speaker 1: the National Enforcement Agency. Yeah. I guess that's just the

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Speaker 1: God if she had Sam Elliott. As bounty hunters were

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Speaker 1: very very little, not very much. No, it depends. Um,

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