WEBVTT - "Two Gun Hart": The Lawman With the Big Secret! 0:00:00.560 --> 0:00:02.760 Ridiculous Crime is a production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:03.840 --> 0:00:07.480 Elizabeth Dunton, Saren Burnett. How are you doing? I'm great, 0:00:07.520 --> 0:00:08.520 you ridiculous? 0:00:08.720 --> 0:00:11.360 Yes, I do what you just got right to it? 0:00:11.400 --> 0:00:11.920 Listen here. 0:00:13.119 --> 0:00:17.239 You know you've seen that movie Deadpool, silly guy and 0:00:17.320 --> 0:00:18.040 a costume. 0:00:18.160 --> 0:00:21.079 Oh okay, yeah, Momentarily I was thinking of like a 0:00:21.120 --> 0:00:23.439 Clint Eastwood eighties movie, isn't. 0:00:23.239 --> 0:00:24.919 That I think there might be one? 0:00:25.000 --> 0:00:27.840 Yeah? Anyway, go on, yeah, Deadpool, the comic guy. Yeah, 0:00:27.840 --> 0:00:30.240 the comic Yeah, the Ryan Reynolds. 0:00:29.840 --> 0:00:31.880 Ryan Reynolds, And you're like, are you spider Man? 0:00:32.240 --> 0:00:34.680 Yeah, I don't know. Are you lippier. 0:00:34.720 --> 0:00:35.760 Lippier spider Man? 0:00:35.840 --> 0:00:37.800 And then now he's got one with the hairy fella, 0:00:37.880 --> 0:00:39.159 the Wolverine, the. 0:00:39.240 --> 0:00:40.760 Nail and with the attitude and the. 0:00:42.240 --> 0:00:42.440 Nail. 0:00:42.560 --> 0:00:43.360 I love Wolverine. 0:00:43.360 --> 0:00:46.640 Actually, okay, so you know there's that movie coming out right? Yes, 0:00:46.840 --> 0:00:48.519 I'm aware, and like I would think that there's a 0:00:48.560 --> 0:00:50.599 big crossover that a lot of people who like the 0:00:50.600 --> 0:00:51.760 movie also liked it. 0:00:52.000 --> 0:00:55.080 You just stop it right now? Can I finish a lot? 0:00:55.160 --> 0:00:57.360 I'm totally listen. I'm not guessing where you're going at all. 0:00:57.440 --> 0:01:00.440 Go on across over yourself a lot of people who 0:01:00.520 --> 0:01:03.520 watched those kind of movies also play video games. 0:01:04.760 --> 0:01:06.680 That's to say today. 0:01:06.440 --> 0:01:07.800 That's is that ridiculous? 0:01:07.800 --> 0:01:10.600 No, I got more. I got more, and that's so 0:01:11.040 --> 0:01:14.120 it's so ridiculous. Okay, So anyway, Xbox right. 0:01:14.040 --> 0:01:14.800 Yeah, it's not familiar. 0:01:14.920 --> 0:01:17.280 You like an Xbox xbox in your life? 0:01:17.360 --> 0:01:18.040 My cousin does. 0:01:18.400 --> 0:01:19.080 So you know. 0:01:19.040 --> 0:01:24.000 The the controllers, yes, yes, the buttons with your hands 0:01:24.040 --> 0:01:25.360 and your hands in your face. 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:26.000 Yeah. 0:01:26.240 --> 0:01:31.400 And so they've made a special controller for the Xbox 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:37.959 uh designed by Deadpool, it says, okay, means it's business 0:01:37.959 --> 0:01:39.319 in the front, party in the back. 0:01:39.640 --> 0:01:42.080 But it's not a mullet, it's not a hairy controller. 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:45.479 It had it looks like the surface of it looks 0:01:45.520 --> 0:01:48.000 like Deadpool's red and black leather costs. 0:01:48.000 --> 0:01:50.280 Oh sure, so I got a leathery controller in my head. 0:01:50.320 --> 0:01:52.360 And I also just really quickly tell you that don't 0:01:52.400 --> 0:01:56.559 blame me, blame Barb from Instagram for bringing this forward. 0:01:57.840 --> 0:01:58.600 God blissard. 0:01:59.360 --> 0:02:02.200 Okay, anyway, so that it's like the surface of the 0:02:02.200 --> 0:02:04.760 controller is like the leather of his cost it. Sure, 0:02:04.800 --> 0:02:08.040 I'm with you, But then the back of it has 0:02:08.280 --> 0:02:09.079 butt cheeks. 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:12.200 So I'm showing you right now? Do you see this? 0:02:13.240 --> 0:02:14.040 So it's got. 0:02:13.919 --> 0:02:18.959 Juicy booty boy, straight up juicy booty, Elliott Stabler level 0:02:19.200 --> 0:02:19.840 juicy booty. 0:02:20.080 --> 0:02:21.519 It would be distracting during gameplay. 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:23.240 I don't know. I don't know. 0:02:23.480 --> 0:02:27.960 So it's called the Cheeky Controller and you hold on 0:02:28.000 --> 0:02:30.840 to his butns will you wiggle his buttons in the 0:02:30.880 --> 0:02:36.720 front and the press release said quotes designed by the 0:02:36.840 --> 0:02:39.760 MRK with a mouth himself. It also comes I don't 0:02:39.800 --> 0:02:42.160 even know what that means. It comes clad in the 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:46.519 anti heroes, instantly recognizable and might we add incredibly flattering 0:02:46.680 --> 0:02:48.520 red and black tactical suit. 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:49.520 Yeah. 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:51.720 So there's only one Captain America. 0:02:51.800 --> 0:02:53.120 It only created one. 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:56.919 Yeah, you have to make only one. 0:02:57.040 --> 0:03:01.160 You gotta go to their sweep steaks. And it said 0:03:01.160 --> 0:03:03.280 that you had to look at a post on Twitter. 0:03:03.360 --> 0:03:06.040 They called it x whatever whatever. How many times have 0:03:06.080 --> 0:03:07.000 you entered this contest? 0:03:08.000 --> 0:03:10.519 I have not because I don't have an Xbox. 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:12.400 Yeah, but you want that control, you have to. 0:03:12.360 --> 0:03:15.400 Go to Twitter and then you do these other things 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:17.680 and it's like whatever. You have to have a Twitter account, 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:18.440 so I can't enter. 0:03:18.840 --> 0:03:19.840 It's true, you don't have Twitter. 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:24.760 It ends August eleventh, and you have eighteen or older. 0:03:25.040 --> 0:03:26.080 I still got a Twitter account. 0:03:26.080 --> 0:03:28.240 I just I can't believe you still have a Twitter account. 0:03:28.240 --> 0:03:30.480 Why anyway, still swimming in film? 0:03:30.760 --> 0:03:34.600 Well, go swim and filth, grab some cheek, play a little, 0:03:34.680 --> 0:03:36.120 you know, diddle around on the front. 0:03:36.200 --> 0:03:37.520 Okay, say a little the. 0:03:39.520 --> 0:03:43.080 Yeah, and then a thousand people who they'll get an 0:03:43.240 --> 0:03:46.400 Xbox Elite Wireless controller Series two Core? 0:03:46.520 --> 0:03:47.760 Are they paying you to say all this? 0:03:48.040 --> 0:03:51.960 I wish I wish they would give me things. It 0:03:52.200 --> 0:03:53.320 just gives me things. 0:03:53.560 --> 0:03:55.000 You're out here just freelance, like. 0:03:55.000 --> 0:04:01.000 All of these companies I promote. They're insane idea, and 0:04:01.080 --> 0:04:03.480 so many people get excited about it. 0:04:03.640 --> 0:04:03.960 Not me. 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:07.280 Tens of people get excited about it, and so they 0:04:07.280 --> 0:04:09.440 should be just I don't pay me to do it. 0:04:09.520 --> 0:04:11.640 Just send me the stuff, like send. 0:04:11.400 --> 0:04:15.480 Her the butt controller, get this woman control. 0:04:16.000 --> 0:04:17.640 I just need free stuff. 0:04:17.680 --> 0:04:17.840 There. 0:04:18.000 --> 0:04:19.760 I think you need more free stuff. 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:20.120 I do. 0:04:20.279 --> 0:04:21.520 I don't get anything free. 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:23.040 I just meant stuff for. 0:04:23.120 --> 0:04:27.440 Shine, more stuff. So in summary, that's ridiculous. 0:04:27.480 --> 0:04:30.159 That is oh my goodness is why did they make 0:04:30.200 --> 0:04:32.280 this one? I mean this one? I guess supply and 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:36.040 demand anyway special you know, uh, you know what else 0:04:36.120 --> 0:04:39.920 is ridiculous you tell me sit back down. Okay, imagine 0:04:39.960 --> 0:04:43.200 this right, just this whole scenario, Elizabeth, you base your 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:45.640 like you're a person. You're like, oh, I'm feeling like 0:04:45.680 --> 0:04:47.320 I don't really know who I am and other people 0:04:47.320 --> 0:04:48.800 don't know who I am. I'm gonna make that more 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:51.200 clear to them. Right, So you decided to like change 0:04:51.240 --> 0:04:54.520 your persona, your public persona, and you base your whole 0:04:54.560 --> 0:04:57.520 new identity on a character from a movie. Okay, and 0:04:57.600 --> 0:04:59.800 then people they accept it because you're like, you're really 0:04:59.800 --> 0:05:02.360 can to the bit. They're like, whatever, that's just two 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:04.919 gun heart right, Because it turns out that like you 0:05:05.000 --> 0:05:07.560 decided to be like a movie cowboy, I tho's your 0:05:07.600 --> 0:05:10.200 thing in life. Okay, but also this is like a 0:05:10.200 --> 0:05:13.200 while ago, so little it wasn't so weird to do that. 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:15.760 It was still weird. But anyway, turns out you also 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:18.839 have a big bad secret, and you're not sure if people, 0:05:18.880 --> 0:05:20.880 if they knew about your big bad secret, if they'd 0:05:20.920 --> 0:05:23.240 be so forgiving of your cosplay as an old timey 0:05:23.400 --> 0:05:24.120 Western hero. 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:44.760 Oh yeah, it's ridiculous. 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:50.920 This is Ridiculous Crime a podcast about absurd and outrageous capers. 0:05:51.000 --> 0:05:55.960 Heis and cons It's always ninety nine percent murder free 0:05:56.000 --> 0:06:01.919 and one hundred percent ridiculous. Yes, oh, Elizabeth, Oh, zaren Today, 0:06:01.920 --> 0:06:05.800 I've got a doozy for you. It's another sequel. Oh yes, 0:06:05.880 --> 0:06:09.520 it's another installment in my ongoing coverage of strange but 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:13.000 true tales from one of America's most American families. 0:06:13.680 --> 0:06:14.440 Oh, who's that? 0:06:14.560 --> 0:06:15.960 Yeah, I'm not going to tell you. May be wondering 0:06:16.000 --> 0:06:17.880 what FAMI were you talking about. I'm not going to 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:20.240 tell you. Okay, it's a great question, Elizabeth. Thank you, 0:06:20.360 --> 0:06:22.640 and I'll tell you when the time is right. How 0:06:22.680 --> 0:06:24.720 about that. I promise you. That's my guarantee. That's the 0:06:24.800 --> 0:06:27.599 Zara and Burnett guarantee. Okay now, but for now, I'd 0:06:27.600 --> 0:06:30.880 like to introduce you to Richard James two gun Heart. 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:32.600 Richard James two gun Heart. 0:06:32.960 --> 0:06:35.040 I mentioned him up top, two gun Heart. Yeah, this 0:06:35.080 --> 0:06:35.680 is his story. 0:06:35.720 --> 0:06:36.400 I'm confused. 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:38.360 I know you should be. I'm not helping you much, 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:42.040 so Old James Heart that's how he was known mostly. 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:45.400 He was born in eighteen ninety two, okay, right at 0:06:45.400 --> 0:06:48.320 the end of the Old West era. He's like I 0:06:48.400 --> 0:06:50.480 made it kind of, He's like, I'm just gonna squeeze 0:06:50.480 --> 0:06:52.360 it out. So he stretches it out and he makes 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:55.560 it last longer. Anyway, the age of three, though, he 0:06:55.640 --> 0:06:59.680 first came to America as an immigrant from whence did 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:03.400 he Well, I will tell you that, but uh no, 0:07:03.520 --> 0:07:04.720 I'm not going to tell you that. You know what 0:07:05.000 --> 0:07:08.960 his father that was a barber. His father was named Gabrielle, 0:07:08.960 --> 0:07:12.600 and his mother, her name was Teresa Heart Yeah, well 0:07:12.640 --> 0:07:15.960 whatever from she was a seamstress. Okay, right, Remember I 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:17.880 said the guy's a big secret, so don't get so 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:18.760 hung up on names. 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:19.280 Okay. 0:07:19.520 --> 0:07:21.440 Anyway, at the age of the three, I told you 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:25.400 immigrant got the parents Gabrielle, Teresa, right, Barbara seamstress. 0:07:25.560 --> 0:07:27.720 He gets not rich, would you say, eighteen ninety five 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:28.280 he gets. 0:07:28.120 --> 0:07:30.480 Here basically yeah, because yeah, because eighteen ninety two he 0:07:30.560 --> 0:07:34.160 was born eighteen ninety five. He arrives here three years old. Anyway, 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:36.800 parents they start in Canada, but they make their way 0:07:36.840 --> 0:07:39.720 down to Brooklyn, New York. They there make a home. 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:42.320 Right now, we're still around eighteen ninety five, eighteen ninety 0:07:42.320 --> 0:07:45.440 six in America, everyone calls his cat James. That's where 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:48.000 he starts getting known as James. Now soon enough, he's 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:50.600 got a bunch of siblings, right, Mom and Pop, just 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:52.400 keep me at it, right, they don't stop all of a 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:58.120 sudden's Ralph Frank Armina, John Albert Matthew Mafalda. I mean 0:07:58.320 --> 0:08:00.160 I I could keep going. That's it. That's all all 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:02.440 the kids right now. Anyway. In nineteen oh four, at 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:05.760 the age of twelve, James he leaves home. He goes west, 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:08.040 and as he put it, he was looking for adventure. 0:08:08.120 --> 0:08:12.040 What year nineteen oh four four he finds very young, 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:15.720 very young, twelve. He finds work with a traveling circus, 0:08:15.800 --> 0:08:18.120 working as a roustabout. So he's helping to set up 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:19.920 the big tent, take it down when the circus hits 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:22.440 sound right, So later he finds other work. He goes down. 0:08:22.680 --> 0:08:26.480 He's a oiling windmills in Texas. Oh yeah, it sounds 0:08:26.480 --> 0:08:27.920 like a euphemism, doesn't it totally? 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:33.480 In Texas Cleveland ice cream, so he also done. 0:08:33.480 --> 0:08:36.480 While he was in Texas, he roped steers for the ranchers. 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:40.520 He starts getting into the cowboy life. Sometime around nineteen eighteen, 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:43.080 James Hard He hops off the freight train in a 0:08:43.080 --> 0:08:47.600 little town called Homer, Nebraska. It's like homy Nevadam Homer, Nebraska, 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:49.720 was a spring day Elizabeth. Town of Homer was about 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:53.600 sixteen miles west from the Missouri River. On the opposite bank. 0:08:53.960 --> 0:08:56.320 In the east sat the town of Sioux City, Iowa. 0:08:56.520 --> 0:08:58.760 So not too far from the Iowa state line. Yeah 0:08:58.880 --> 0:08:59.200 got it. 0:08:59.280 --> 0:08:59.480 Yeah. 0:08:59.520 --> 0:08:59.640 Ok. 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:02.120 He arrives in town, James hard he said, Nebraska is 0:09:02.120 --> 0:09:03.800 a big state. I don't want you going too far west. 0:09:04.559 --> 0:09:06.199 We're in the deep midwest of. 0:09:06.360 --> 0:09:10.520 H Deere Country is totally corn country, John Deer country. 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:13.040 You got it? Imagine? Yeah, anyway, but a little early 0:09:13.040 --> 0:09:15.720 on that, but still stick with that idea. Now, when 0:09:15.720 --> 0:09:18.480 he arrives in town, James Hardy looks like just about 0:09:18.480 --> 0:09:20.760 any other hobo who might be riding the rails at 0:09:20.760 --> 0:09:23.360 that time, and he's looking for, you know, a better 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:26.480 tomorrow somewhere else. The young man he finds work in 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:28.240 this small town, which is not easy, but he gets 0:09:28.280 --> 0:09:30.800 work as a house painter. Right now, when locals are 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:33.360 asking like, what brings you to town there, James, and 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:35.480 he's like, oh, well, he tells them he used to 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:40.120 be working on a railroad gang like laying track totally. 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:42.440 They're like, oh, he's a hard worker, young kid. Now 0:09:42.480 --> 0:09:45.120 the folks of Homer. They accept this hard work and newcomer. 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:47.839 He tells everyone that his full name is Richard Jay Hart, 0:09:47.840 --> 0:09:50.800 but call him James Jim Hart, James Hart. His eyes 0:09:50.880 --> 0:09:53.600 are intelligent, Elizabeth Alive. The locals. They find that he 0:09:53.640 --> 0:09:57.280 is quote gifted with a frank and open countenance. All right, yeah, 0:09:57.400 --> 0:09:59.400 just like a big, friendly guy. But he's not a 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:03.360 tall guy. He's lean and strong. He's also well muscled 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:05.920 at this point from working all these hard jobs. He 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:09.440 has thick black hair, dark eyes, alive complexion, his nose 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:12.839 suggests that he might be not from northern Europe, right, 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:14.959 But most folks in Homer, Nebraska, they're used to doing 0:10:15.000 --> 0:10:17.480 the calculus different. They're like, oh, maybe part Mexican, maybe 0:10:17.480 --> 0:10:20.280 part Native American, if anyone asks, though, he tells his 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:24.040 people his people are from Oklahoma, so that of course 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:26.120 plays into the whole idea. He may be from Indian. 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:27.839 Territory because you see Italian. 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:32.120 That's a good guess, Elizabeth. And anyway, so his story 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:34.720 makes sense to folks in Nebraska. Yeah, they're like, oh, yeah, 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:39.000 five civilized tribes probably are his people. Whatever he knocked about, 0:10:39.040 --> 0:10:40.640 like a lot of people do. And now he's here 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:42.840 at Homer, Nebraska. Yeah, he's a good hard work I 0:10:42.960 --> 0:10:45.080 like that guy with the really bright eyes. Anyway, soon 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:47.760 enough he finds more work in town. He gets work 0:10:47.800 --> 0:10:51.560 as as a wall like a wallpaper hanger, and also 0:10:51.840 --> 0:10:54.960 house painter obviously related tasks yea. Then he becomes a 0:10:55.040 --> 0:10:58.319 railroad timekeeper. Apparently they trust him. He's good with the watch. 0:10:58.480 --> 0:10:58.680 Yeah. 0:10:58.720 --> 0:11:00.840 The longer he stays in town Elizabeth, the more the 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:03.240 locals learn about this friendly newcomer. And then he tells 0:11:03.320 --> 0:11:06.080 tales of his time down in Texas, like, oh, tell 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:10.360 us more about busting broncos and punching cows and helping 0:11:10.440 --> 0:11:12.800 round up strays and stuff. They love it. Everybody loves 0:11:12.800 --> 0:11:13.680 a good cowboy story. 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:13.840 Right. 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:16.079 He tells them about getting in gun fights with bad men. 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:19.319 They're like, this guy's amazing. Nineteen seventeen rules around you 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:22.200 know what happens? Then us enters the Great War in Europe. 0:11:22.360 --> 0:11:24.080 He's a young man. He's like, oh, I'm gonna go 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:26.640 off in enlist and protect freedom and stuff. 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:26.880 Right. 0:11:26.880 --> 0:11:29.840 He gets sent overseas to the bloody battlefields of France Elisabe. 0:11:29.840 --> 0:11:33.280 But he survives, wow, because he fights with General Blackjack 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:36.040 Pershing and the US Expeditionary Forces so well that he 0:11:36.080 --> 0:11:37.680 gets awarded medals and stuff. 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:38.080 Wow. 0:11:38.280 --> 0:11:41.760 After the war, he returns to Homer, Nebraska. He regales 0:11:41.800 --> 0:11:44.360 the locals with tales of all of his battlefield bravery. 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:47.560 They're like, oh, that's amazing. He's just like he did 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:50.680 in Texas. Right. Oh, he's this guy. They're they're thinking 0:11:50.720 --> 0:11:52.360 they got a real life hero in town. 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:52.640 Right. 0:11:52.760 --> 0:11:52.960 Yeah. 0:11:52.960 --> 0:11:56.920 I mean he's telling telling stories Elizabeth, a gunfire exchanges 0:11:56.960 --> 0:11:59.240 with the hun right, and he how he been personally 0:11:59.280 --> 0:12:02.360 decorated with a a medal for sharp shooting and bravery 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:05.880 by General Blackjack Pershing himself pinned it on his chest. 0:12:06.240 --> 0:12:06.520 Wow. 0:12:06.600 --> 0:12:08.880 Yeah, that's why he was so good a shot with 0:12:08.960 --> 0:12:11.360 the Bochee. That's what they called the Germans back then. Anyway, 0:12:11.400 --> 0:12:14.600 for proof of all, takes out the Jerry. There you go, now, 0:12:14.640 --> 0:12:18.080 proof of his marksmanship. This war tested soldier. He puts 0:12:18.120 --> 0:12:20.679 on a demonstration for the locals of Homer. He has 0:12:20.679 --> 0:12:22.920 a row of tin cans and glass bottles all lined 0:12:22.960 --> 0:12:25.400 up on a fence behind the American Legion hal because 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:27.120 all the old veterans they want to see the guys 0:12:27.160 --> 0:12:30.280 who had fought in like the Spanish American War. Anyway, 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:33.000 there before all the other veterans, Elizabeth, he pops every 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:36.760 single cannon bottle on the rail with his six shooter pistols, 0:12:36.800 --> 0:12:39.880 just like he did over on the French battlefield. Yeah huh, 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:42.800 all right, now he's around the same time he fully 0:12:42.840 --> 0:12:45.559 adopts his new persona. So because before he's like, you know, 0:12:45.640 --> 0:12:48.319 knocking about Texas. Now he's got these people going along 0:12:48.320 --> 0:12:50.240 with it. He's gonna be the town's hero. 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:50.640 Yeah. 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:52.640 So not onlys you call himself James Hart in honor 0:12:52.679 --> 0:12:55.440 of William S. Hardt, who's this big cowboy star of 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:58.600 the Silent film era. He starts to pattern his behavior 0:12:58.679 --> 0:13:02.200 after this silent movies and his look. So he starts 0:13:02.240 --> 0:13:06.040 looking like a real picture house cowboy hero walking around Homer, Nebraska. 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:08.320 And they don't know he's from New York City. 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:12.120 No, no, not not in the real West, this immigrant 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:15.240 boy from Brooklyn. He's cosplaying as a real life cowboy. 0:13:15.280 --> 0:13:18.439 He picks up a pair of cowboy boots, tall heels, Elizabeth, 0:13:18.679 --> 0:13:23.920 he starts to wear wide like whoa hey, six inch heels, 0:13:24.640 --> 0:13:28.000 wide brim, ten gallons stetson cowboy hat make. 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:31.840 A huge like beach blanket, Babylon and stiletto cowboy. 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:33.920 I have got the picture in my head on. 0:13:34.080 --> 0:13:37.080 He also wears a fancy vest that's always described as 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:38.079 a fancy. 0:13:37.800 --> 0:13:41.800 Vest, one of those like embroidered Grandma Ones Teddy Bears 0:13:41.800 --> 0:13:42.360 at a picnic. 0:13:43.280 --> 0:13:46.199 There's tassels on it. Now around his waist, he's wearing 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:50.880 a low slung holster. Oh got a pair of pearl 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:52.000 handled six shooters. 0:13:52.480 --> 0:13:53.680 Yeah, and no pants. 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:57.640 He looks and actually basically a dime novel rendition of 0:13:57.640 --> 0:13:58.720 a Wild West cowboy. 0:13:58.840 --> 0:14:00.760 In my head, he's like one of the sisters of 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:02.640 perpetual insults exactly. 0:14:02.760 --> 0:14:03.600 It's amazing. 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:06.040 So this silver screen buckero he's out we was. He 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:08.960 practices his looks so much and also though it matches 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:11.560 his skills, he actually is a quick trick Okay, he's 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:14.600 good with pistols, like I said earlier, and so nineteen 0:14:14.679 --> 0:14:17.800 nineteen yearlls around right after the war May in nineteen nineteen, 0:14:17.880 --> 0:14:20.640 James Harden becomes an actual town hero when he exhibits 0:14:20.720 --> 0:14:25.440 bravery in an emergency Elizabeth Townhomer's flooded and I'm talking flooded, 0:14:25.480 --> 0:14:29.760 like flash floodwaters, like just wash over the farmland, right, 0:14:29.960 --> 0:14:33.640 the farmhouses have water up to the rooflines, and there's 0:14:33.720 --> 0:14:37.120 hard paddling around and this churning floodwaters, and he's saving 0:14:37.160 --> 0:14:41.720 townspeople from rooftop to rooftop. Pill pulls some people from trees. Wow, 0:14:41.760 --> 0:14:43.320 oh yeah, totally here. At one point he saves a 0:14:43.320 --> 0:14:45.240 little girl from drowning. Then he turns around and goes 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:47.640 back to save the family of the local grocer. The 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:50.360 nineteen year old daughter of the grocer. So impressed, she 0:14:50.760 --> 0:14:51.360 falls in love. 0:14:51.480 --> 0:14:52.520 Oh she was ready. 0:14:52.560 --> 0:14:55.080 Oh yeah, she's warm for his form, Elizabeth. So the 0:14:55.120 --> 0:14:57.120 pair they fall in love get married in the fall 0:14:57.160 --> 0:15:00.200 of that same year. Now he's happily married hero of 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:02.680 the town. When they had the big flood, he starts 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:06.320 to you know, really bury his old identities and just 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:08.760 submerge it so no one, not even his wife, will 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:11.080 ever know about any of his time back east. Yeah, 0:15:11.080 --> 0:15:14.040 he's just a cowboy from Oklahoma. Now he lives out 0:15:14.040 --> 0:15:16.160 this fantasy so much that he starts to believe it, 0:15:16.200 --> 0:15:19.560 at least mostly the small town council. They're impressed with 0:15:19.560 --> 0:15:22.200 this guy, though, Man, we should have him like become 0:15:22.440 --> 0:15:24.800 more important town because of how lucky we had have 0:15:24.880 --> 0:15:27.360 such a brave, heroic guy, and they nam him what 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:30.240 the new Marshal, So like, oh, you be our Marshall star. 0:15:30.320 --> 0:15:32.760 It's like an old movie. Yeah, would you be the Marshall? 0:15:33.360 --> 0:15:36.240 So the American Legion they elect him commander of the Post. 0:15:36.320 --> 0:15:38.080 He's like your charge of all the veterans. If we 0:15:38.120 --> 0:15:41.040 ever have to, like, you know, do anything, you get. 0:15:40.880 --> 0:15:42.920 To say who does and doesn't get to have an 0:15:42.960 --> 0:15:45.400 event at our hall exactly. 0:15:45.600 --> 0:15:48.840 Boy Scouts of America they name him the district Commissioner, 0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:50.240 which I don't know what that means, but he was 0:15:50.320 --> 0:15:53.160 named district commissioner. So now he's an official town father 0:15:53.560 --> 0:15:56.280 so to speak. Yeah, same year, in nineteen nineteen, major 0:15:56.360 --> 0:15:59.640 change comes to America, one that would initiate a whole 0:15:59.680 --> 0:16:02.040 new area in American life. Do you remember what that was? 0:16:02.480 --> 0:16:02.720 Flew? 0:16:03.360 --> 0:16:05.520 No, that's a good one. That totally that's a we 0:16:05.520 --> 0:16:08.600 would take that answer. This was jeopardy. But on January sixteenth, 0:16:08.680 --> 0:16:12.400 nineteen nineteen, it was I had a couple answers available. 0:16:12.720 --> 0:16:16.280 The US ratified the eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution making 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:17.680 production of liquor, wine and. 0:16:17.600 --> 0:16:18.720 Beer and legel. 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:22.600 Then much later, when they realized, oh, we need to 0:16:22.640 --> 0:16:25.640 pay people to enforce this. Local cops are just totally corrupt. 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:27.680 We need to actually get some federals on this. So 0:16:27.720 --> 0:16:30.880 they on October twenty ninth, nineteen nineteen, Congress passes the 0:16:31.000 --> 0:16:34.000 Volstead Act, which is the law that provides for enforcement, 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:38.400 thus creating the prohibition agents. Right, So this also marks 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:41.720 effect technically the official start of prohibition. So nineteen nineteen, 0:16:41.760 --> 0:16:44.080 either one you want to pick January sixteenth or October 0:16:44.160 --> 0:16:46.400 twenty ninth, Yeah, boom, there you go over or combine them, 0:16:46.440 --> 0:16:49.440 just say nineteen nineteen whatever. Almost as soon as prohibition 0:16:49.480 --> 0:16:52.760 becomes the law on the land, bootleg liquor and speakeasy 0:16:53.000 --> 0:16:55.680 start to spread across America. The Volstat Act, you know, 0:16:55.680 --> 0:16:58.040 as I tell, they provided for law enforcement to fight 0:16:58.080 --> 0:17:00.440 this spread of like bathtub gin and the rise of 0:17:00.480 --> 0:17:03.560 the rum runners, like your man, the real McCoy right. Well, 0:17:03.600 --> 0:17:05.760 one of the men who stepped up to fight for 0:17:06.000 --> 0:17:09.960 prohibition was local town hero and Marshall Lahomer, Nebraska one. 0:17:10.600 --> 0:17:11.280 James Hart. 0:17:11.400 --> 0:17:13.480 He's like, I just can't get with the drinking. 0:17:13.640 --> 0:17:15.840 Oh no, now he's about Elizabeth. He's about to become 0:17:15.840 --> 0:17:19.200 a prohibition cowboy. Oh wow, Yeah, he's got there raiding Stills. 0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:21.520 He was one hell of a badass lawman, which you 0:17:21.920 --> 0:17:24.800 rarely will hear me say. But I do believe in 0:17:24.840 --> 0:17:26.320 the rule of law, right, I got to say that 0:17:26.400 --> 0:17:28.439 straight up. But I'm not always rooting for the villains 0:17:28.440 --> 0:17:31.359 and the criminals. Sometimes when a lawman is this bad ass, 0:17:31.760 --> 0:17:33.879 I can't help but root for him. Elizabeth, I'm very 0:17:33.920 --> 0:17:35.399 excited to get into the next but let's take a 0:17:35.440 --> 0:17:37.960 little break and after this all these sweet sweet ads, 0:17:38.640 --> 0:17:40.400 I will tell you about how my man James Hart 0:17:40.440 --> 0:17:41.880 becomes a prohibition cowboy. 0:17:42.280 --> 0:18:06.760 Excellent, Elizabeth, ze, we're bad Hi. 0:18:07.320 --> 0:18:10.960 So nineteen nineteen, Yeah, remember that. They It was like 0:18:11.000 --> 0:18:14.080