Bonnie and Clyde: Lovers, Outlaws, Morons

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[@TheCasualCriminalist]

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[@Yltimate_]

Holy shit 3 hour pod

[@IcecoldLulu]

3 hours?!

[@jessgunn6639]

DO NOT CALL YOUR KID ARTIE! HE WILL END UP BEING CALLED FARTIE WHISTLER AT SCHOOL!!!

[@shamirk.g.864]

If only they made my shoe size

[@ClockworkEngineer]

Vessi good. I love mine.

[@dr.davidbaker86]

I had a lot of fun working on this one.

[@GIBBO4182]

I see 3 hours 20 minutes, I think to myself “this is a David episode” 😂😂 My favourite writer on the channel mate 👍

[@Stichting_NoFap]

me too

[@oracleofdelphi4533]

Love that title. Just like my wife and I. Well 2 out of 3 anyway.

[@RealPumpkinJay]

@@GIBBO4182I keep rewatching the extra long episodes over and over again too. 😂

[@DamnWhoAsked]

I'm sure you did, It's Bonnie and Clyde.😂

[@BeanManolo]

2:08:09 "Wait, or did they drove a car off a cliff?" Simon mixing up Bonnie and Clyde with Thelma and Louise 😂

[@KarbonKopy]

Lmaoooo

[@luckyspurs]

I love how in Simon's fan fic Brad Pitt just randomly turns up halfway through.

[@mcsexyinc]

YASSSS I was listening to this, not watching it, and when he got to this part I told myself I had to go back and see if they showed a clip of the end of Thelma and Louise at this part. They didnt, but my god I was shouting THELMA AND LOUISE when I heard this 🤣🤣🤣

[@mildredflemyng-middleton4795]

Now I want the writers to screw with him by submitting a synopsis of Thelma and Louise for an episode

[@BeanManolo]

@@mildredflemyng-middleton4795 that would be a pretty good April Fool's video

[@hannibalstrausskahn4033]

1. Three hours? God damn. 2. Bonnie saying she didn't want to kick her ex husband when he's down and Simon countering with well he seemed to like to kick you while he was up is straight savage. I laughed out loud at work for seemingly no reason cause people don't know I secretly listen to this while working. Now they probably think I'm higher then they already know I am.

[@cellochick42]

I accidentally comment out loud occasionally when I'm listening while running errands and depending on the episode ....I can't even DESCRIBE the looks I've gotten 😅

[@KatlynJShute]

I work as a recreation therapist for mentally disabled adults and we will often connect our phones to the speakers to play work out music during warm up’s. I turned off the “auto connect” associated with that speaker because I absolutely terrified someone’s going to accidentally connect the phone to the speaker since my office is just on the other side of the wall. I do not need my coworkers or my students to suddenly have Simon talking to them about death, murder, and other violent crimes on full blast and I don’t know because i can’t hear the audio playing in the next room. I just started using my iPad for the music but I am still paranoid my boss is going to start thinking I’m plotting a murder or something. With the amount of true crime and legal commentary I watch on the daily I give it a 50/50 chance I am on a watch list of some sort at this point. If anyone I know dies under sus circumstances I am completely screwed lol.

[@JanelHelms]

I laughed so many times I had to pause and check how many times I hit the penjamin 😅

[@madalice5134]

Same here. 😂😂😂

[@paigeharrison3909]

My great grandfather was a moonshiner (in Texas) and preferred Ford V-8s. He was pretty sure it was the fastest thing around, but rumor was that a Sheriff a few counties over had a Cadillac that was faster. Great grandpa was pretty sure, but he'd decided he should have back up. So as he and his brother took off for the drive they put my 8 year old grandfather in the trunk. With a few bags full large rocks. So off they go. Once my great grandfather spotted the Sheriff in question he floored the Ford. It started off reasonably well, but it wasn't long before the Sheriff in his Cadillac was catching up. As the Sheriff got closer and closer my great grandfather reached back rapped on the trunk. My 8 year old grandfather popped up and dumped the bags of rocks. As the pelted the Sheriff's car it destroyed his radiator, stopping his pursuit. At least that's the family legend. My grandfather actually grew up to be a respectable law abiding citizen.

[@i.b.640]

Being Stuck in a trunk with rocks, I'd be scared straight, too 😂

[@wingerding]

I don't think that happened...

[@paigeharrison3909]

Family legend. I assume it's possible. Likely? That I don't know. I've been told some interesting dirt on Dad's family.

[@BullScrapPracEff]

Nice legend. Don't be upset when people call bull on it.

[@samneis128]

2:07 In 1934 in rural America, a rabbit as a gift was not a big obligation for the gift-ee. Whenever they ceased to want it as a free new pet, it would become a free new lunch. The past.

[@allenbedingfield2888]

I grew up eating fried rabbit with rice and gravy. Still a favorite.

[@Bigcountry54K]

@@allenbedingfield2888I grew up eating rabbit too, all while having my own pet rabbits. They’re cute little fuckers but my god do they taste good fried next to some potatoes. 😁

[@JerryEricsson]

I grew up on a dirt poor farm in very rural North Dakota back in the 1950's. A rabbit was. a wonderful addition to our table, it was meat after all and when mom prepared it like she did chicken it was very tasty as well. Just lost mom on New Years Day I shall miss her greatly, she was one month shy of her 98th Birthday.

[@joelhernstrom6060]

@@JerryEricssonI’m sorry for your loss Jerry

[@baalzeebub4230]

This is one of the reasons full auto is illegal here in the states. It’s a famous case we all hear of one way or another.

[@theaceguitarist]

“WHY IS CLYDE DRIVING??” Control issues, if I remember correctly. Being the passenger made him incredibly anxious. Which I’m going to assume would be bad for everyone’s health.

[@johnbellessa]

"Future president, J. Edgar Hoover" You know something the rest of us don't, Simon? lol

[@EatTheMarxists]

He might as well have been President. He had every president that he “served under” terrified of him and what evidence he had on their criminal and/or immoral activities. If you’ve never read Curt Gentry’s biography of J. Edgar Hoover I highly, highly recommend it as it is a fun and absolutely *fascinating* read.

[@werekat1367]

Herbert 💯🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@CA-kp9lt]

Simon clearly has access to the darkest timeline, where J. Edger Hoover became president.

[@ATLmodK]

Thank God that never happened. Bad enough that he had blackmail files on every president he served under. I use the word “serve” advisedly. He had a gambling addiction so became friendly with mafia guys while he swore there was no such thing. A “longtime confirmed bachelor” running for office would have been a bad idea.

[@TheWanderer691]

Do you think he meant, Herbert Hoover?"

[@almitrahopkins1873]

He’d blow a gasket if you confused Jack Churchill with Winston Churchill, but fact-boy can confuse the two Hoovers.

[@ayiza8511]

What a world that had been. A Orwellian world were big brother is watching 24/7

[@Deathisdark05]

@@TheWanderer691 More than likely, considering the surnames.

[@Doc_Tar]

Simon, J. Edger Hoover was the founder and head of the FBI until his death in the 1970's. Herbert Hoover was the President at the start of the Great Depression (until FDR got elected in '32). Also, Bonnie & Clyde predate FDIC insurance, so the money stolen in a bank robber was not backed by the federal government so the lost was taken by depositors. That's why towns people were so keen to fight back.

[@sabrinaschell4938]

I would love to see edits like: Simon says “Like future president J Edgar Hoover??” A screen flashes up that says “No, you’re thinking of Herbert Hoover.”

[@templarw20]

@@sabrinaschell4938 That shows up more when Jen edits the video.

[@droomzy]

J. Edgar Hoover was a real piece of work in his day; iirc he had MLK on the FBI's watchlist for 'communist ideology'. And Herbert Hoover is now frequently considered by historians & polled as one of the worst US presidents. I can't fault Simon for mixing up two 20th century US Hoovers who were both reviled by many. Also I'm learning that I enjoy saying & typing the word 'Hoover' :)

[@alexron42]

I think that was an episode of Sliders

[@histrogeek]

J. Edgar Hoover would never have taken a demotion to president.

[@acdallas6356]

My father (born 1920) grew up in West Dallas on the right side of the tracks. As a teenager, my uncle went to Bonnie's funeral and the big event was a small plane flying over and dropping a wreath in front of the funeral home. Much later, my father was an official at the church which owned the graveyard where Clyde and Buck Barrow are buried. People kept stealing their headstone, so one of the church men attached it to a massive slab of concrete and it has not been stolen again. I still have the key to the graveyard that my father left me.

[@alvarezchris2552]

“America’s weird it’s the richest country in the world but has so many poor people” gotta love fact boy

[@chivebutter8794]

Disparity is fun

[@shinnok80]

i found this quote, quite fitting for the pair: “In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable.” ― Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

[@GREGWATSON-lc8cc]

I'm proud team Bonnie& Clyde

[@rooky1991]

PSA; DO NOT MESS WITH FARM ROOSTERS!! There is such a thing as a GUARD rooster! They are vicious and fear NOTHING

[@SolaScientia]

My sister has hens, and back when she was with her now ex-husband they'd accidentally gotten a rooster along with the hens. He was so aggressive. My sister could hardly tend to the chickens and while she was okay with him trying to attack her, he started going after their kids. The now ex-husband took care of that in a hurry. I've known some sweet roosters, but most have definitely been protective if not outright aggressive.

[@stephanybrown3226]

I remember as a kid we had one boy he was MEAN. I was maybe 5 or 6 before my dad finally whacked him 😅. Had some 'guard' turkeys too. Pair of toms always on their own would take any chance they had to flop you.

[@somethingandapie]

Literally vicious dinosaurs

[@SkunkApe407]

Oh, they fear something, alright. Found out that beating a metal trash can lid with a stick scares the 💩 outta 'em.😂 It also works well as a shield when you gotta go into the turkey pen.

[@d4mdcykey]

FACTS

[@Mikie-in-the-Mist]

😂 mistaking the end of Thelma & Louise for Bonnie & Clyde's death cracked me up

[@jnothanks]

"You could just own a machine gun back in the day?" Mr. Whistler, you could buy a fully automatic Thompson submachine gun from a Sears and Robuck magazine, and have it delivered via the U.S. Postal Service at this time.

[@almitrahopkins1873]

Automatic firearms were illegal after 1929, if I recall correctly.

[@jnothanks]

Very good point. After a quick gander, it looks like the National Firearms Act (NFA) was enacted in June of 1934, the same year, but months after these two loves birds died.

[@almitrahopkins1873]

@@jnothanks My great-grandfather and my grandfather had matching JC Higgins model 29 & 30 that were both fully automatic .22 long rifles. The only difference between the two is which side the spent casings ejected. They were the right and left-handed models. I went through a nightmare getting the license to inherit them.

[@Markbeb3]

​@@almitrahopkins1873.No it was 't it,s still legal you just have get permit which cost bit much to get the permit to own one.

[@almitrahopkins1873]

@@Markbeb3 Yes, I know. I have one. Both rifles are hanging on my wall, more as decoration than anything else.

[@LtColShingSides]

A criminal pulls out a machine gun, and Simon asks if that's legal? I don't think criminals are concerned about the legality of their machine gun...

[@wolfsmoke6053]

Hence the reason gun control will never work

[@wolfsmoke6053]

Hence the reason gun control will never work

[@iivin4233]

It was legal at the time, just expensive. You can double check this, but a Thompson cost almost as much as a new car at the time.

[@LtColShingSides]

@@iivin4233 Back then, it wasn't legal to have a machine gun that you stole from a National Guard armory. Lol

[@iivin4233]

@@LtColShingSides As far as we know. Kidding.

[@autumntipton3670]

Legit, no joke, my grandmother had an aunt named Bonnie. And Bonnie was married to a guy named Clyde. It wasn't THE Bonnie and Clyde, but funny that they had the same names. It's like that meme of "if i had a nickel for every time this happened, I'd have 2 nickels, but it's weird it happed twice". Also funny enough, I got to meet aunt Bonnie before she passed. She was also extremely petite and mean as all hell.

[@violet7773]

Waiting for the "Bonnie and Clyde faked their deaths and became your grandmother's aunt and uncle" conspiracy theory lol

[@StupidCatLady]

My dad's dad (my grandpa) had the unfortunate situation of being named Jim Jones 😬

[@regan3873]

In a similar story my grandpa and his sister were born in the 40s, and were called Barbara and Kenneth, or Barbie and Ken for short respectively. Barbie hadn’t come out yet.

[@mchngunner8859]

Top notch Dr. Doofenschmirtz reference there. Just wanted to let you know someone noticed.

[@batmanpancake96]

3 hour movie- "heeeeeeeell no" 3 hour cascrim - 😍😍😍😍🥴🥴🥴

[@i.b.640]

Well, most three hour movies are pretentious, padded or both.

[@likebot.]

At least CasCrim has plot all the way through!

[@batmanpancake96]

@@likebot. it's a true crime story 😅 of course it's gonna have a solid plot

[@taylorslade961]

I'm choosing to believe that Snowball the dog found a good home and lived a long happy life.

[@nannettefreeman7331]

My grandmother had her hair cut by Bonnie Parker in Seminole, OK, 1930-ish. She loved to tell that story! ✌🏼

[@JE4-1]

Clyde Barrow was my fourth cousin. My great grandfather (Clyde baker) was his 1st cousin and best friend growing up and hid them out at their house in Nacogdoches Texas from time to time. When Bonnie & Clyde died, most of the members of both Bonnie and Clyde families were all sent to prison for hiding the famous outlaws including Bonnie's wheel chaired Grandmother. All except my grandfather. Our family still owns the land and has zero legal troubles.

[@alisonhill3941]

If your great grandfather was his first cousin, he wasn't your fourth cousin, he was your first cousin 3 times removed.

[@lanceholder7794]

I literally just drove past the (now broken) Bonnie and Clyde bridge on FM 2854

[@babyramses5066]

Cool, cool. Do you guys do anything with it like a historical tour thing or is it just regular houses or something now?

[@ruzi.the.spider]

Why was your grandfather spared? o_O

[@NoelleTakestheSky]

My mother’s mother’s mother was such a dead-ringer for Bonnie that she was actually arrested and only released when Bonnie AND Clyde were spotted elsewhere. After that, until Bonnie was murdered (there was no reason to kill her), my great-grandmother stayed inside.

[@wesbeuning1733]

Seems like Clyde had some major PTSD, understandably. Every time he started shooting impulsively it looks like it was whenever he's about to be caught.

[@wingerding]

Isn't that just logical?

[@klemen680]

@@wingerdingNot when it’s about drinking moonshine. Clyde definitely had PTSD from his prison stint and had his head set to not spend another minute in jail, death be damned.

[@wingerding]

​@@klemen680 he was literally facing execution the entire time...didn't have much to lose. Of course he answered with bullets.

[@snowalfie3783]

😂

[@debbylou5729]

😂😂😂😂😅. DUH. You’d be closer to PTSD if he just started blasting bluebirds on a sunny day

[@Fabala827]

Simon: Wow, they’re just drinking and driving all over! Simon an hour later: Why is Clyde crashing so many cars???

[@ImmortalKat4ever]

I know my brain is extremely broken, but I was SO relieved when Sonny Boy made it to his destination safely. Bonnie's joke about keeping him out of trouble just made my night.

[@karenyee9812]

"Drunk as a Hobo's Fart" 😂😂😂😂😂

[@janetrawlings1691]

Yes,i liked that one 😮🤔🙃

[@katwitanruna]

We used to keep a board of the weeks best names at a job I had. Best one ever? “May I speak to Mr Boff?” “One moment, Biff will be right with you.” Yes. His name was Biff Boff.

[@MimiYuYu]

I worked somewhere that kept a database of customers. Occasionally the customer would forget their membership card and we could look them up to print out a new one. One of the funniest names I ever came across was “Dick Gozinya”

[@alopeksintx2959]

My absolute favorite was getting yelled at for mispronouncing a realtor's name "Sh'Tonya" because I DIDN'T say it 💩-on-ya!

[@86wezza88]

In relation to the name Art, I heard a joke literally yesterday about that. What do you call a man with no arms and no legs stuck to a wall - Art What do you call 2 arms and 2 legs stuck to a wall - pieces of Art

[@stevenshatswell53]

I knew this was a David script as soon as I saw the run time 😂

[@bodyfarmbrat]

"there's all SORTS of important stuff in there! like.....your SPLEEEN....and ......some other stuff...."

[@MichaelMikeTheRussianBot]

"You're going to go to prison for a long-ass time..." I used to work for a printing company. Among our publications were several small town & regional weeklies & monthlies. Most had 50 or 100, or even 150 years ago, today in the [XYZ Press] sections, that often included what we'd call "The Police Beat" . Except for the death penalty, things were generally less harsh than they are now. Punishment was mostly less severe, & fewer things were illegal.

[@luckyspurs]

It's crazy that this feels like one of the less horrific Casual Criminalists. And yet the amount of injuries is insane.

[@topogigio7031]

Because people have killed as many as these two injured. This isn't that horrific, you just don't value human life

[@topogigio7031]

You must be one of those Zoomers that screeches about your life being in danger from a frog on the road

[@wanabee]

​@@topogigio7031what!!

[@TheKrispyfort]

It's because it's Cops and Robbers, and not the personalised violence that CasCrim has previously presented, eg the Family Annihilators.

[@TheKrispyfort]

​@@topogigio7031 don't lash out on the unknown person. They're not just pixels on your screen.

[@ibrahimsannoh8384]

Well aren't you feeling charitable today, I haven't even finished the 2 hours video on warographics and I am already being spoiled with a 3 hour one. Thank you to the whole team. You guys do fantastic work.

[@styge7512]

Trying to remove the bullet, regardless of sanitation, was the conventional medical wisdom of the time. Not so very long before, even Presidents Lincoln and Garfield were subjected to this treatment, which may well have accelerated their demises.

[@mp40submachinegun81]

lincoln was dead regardless. bullet went in his left ear and was lodged behind the right eye. paralyzed instantly. died 9 hours after being shot. Garfield its almost certain would have survived had the doctors done nothing at all. bullets hit no vitals. died 80 days after being shot from sepsis. infections thought to be caused by unsanitized hands and tools used to dig around looking for the 2nd bullet.

[@SolaScientia]

@@mp40submachinegun81 That's also why the Union lost a ton of soldiers in hospitals. They used sponges to soak up blood, but all they did was wring them out without sterilizing them. Confederacy didn't have the sponges, just standard bandaging materials, but they'd sterilize them in boiling water between patients a lot of the time.

[@debbylou5729]

Had nothing to do with their deaths. It didn’t matter

[@goatsandroses4258]

Maybe it had to do with fear of lead poisoning, which could have been a very real thing.

[@styge7512]

@@goatsandroses4258 Would that it was, but there was an awful lot of lead around in daily life at the time for that. Even children's toys from the period have been found with lead paint on them. General anxiety about lead exposure is relatively recent.

[@katebowers8107]

*Herbert* Hoover, US President, 1929-1933 *J. Edgar* Hoover, FBI Director, 1935-1972 I know Simon doesn’t care, but I feel the need to supply this information.

[@RockismyAir]

Easy mix up

[@AmyHoldaway27]

Thanks for that because I thought I missed a day in school when he said that 💀💀

[@luckyspurs]

David's scripts are a great advert for the book. Always very informative but never heavy or unweildy. Also very detailed and empathetic, yet funny and frivolous as well.

[@Peugeot40]

This story is such a timeless classic it never seems to fade no matter how long passes

[@elliottprice6084]

I'm surprised by how much I learnt about Bonnie and Clyde in this episode. Now I'd like to see an episode about John Dillinger. That would be brilliant, please

[@ShellShock11C]

"His names Smoot?" Lol, I dont know why that made me laugh so hard.

[@emilycarlin6081]

I really appreciate these longer episodes. I like that they do a lot of work correcting the mainstream narrative with actual historical records.

[@yolandiewessels8093]

Fun fact I got to go to the original church club in an actual church, won’t forget the sound of the stained glass vibrating to the beat of the music on the inside. Friends had a wedding reception in the crypt. Those were the days!

[@dismothafuka405]

More Midwest gangs(John Dillinger, "baby face" Nelson, Ma barker, "pretty boy" Floyd).

[@cellochick42]

My little Ohio town has an old corner store that used to be a bank and it has a PLAQUE boasting about being robbed by John Dillinger. An actual historical plaque bragging about being victims of a crime.

[@luckyspurs]

Was literally watching a documentary about John Dillinger yesterday thinking it's amazing Simon's never done a Casual Criminalist on it. And suddenly a 3 hour Bonnie and Clyde Casual Criminalist pops up.

[@jdt.jd.]

Pretty Boy Floyd would be an interesting one, especially because his death as part of the Kansas City Massacre is still officially unsolved. Also as a side note, I once accidentally trained my cat to answer to Floyd because I always call him "Pretty Boy." For like two months after I watched a documentary on Pretty Boy Floyd, the cat would perk up whenever he heard someone say the name Floyd. His actual name is Polish and sounds nothing like that lol

[@robertking8862]

Jesus saves but George T. Nelson withdrawals

[@benstrbich8813]

1:49:07 brother is an ER doc, he’s confirmed that most of the time they leave bullets in people unless it’s causing some sort of internal problem.

[@Berengier817]

Physical ID pretty much didnt exist a century ago. Clyde had a criminal record. However he could have just changed nis name to John Smith and that would be the end of it. Like you said, he wanted to live fast

[@Lanka0Kera]

Some years ago I owned a scooter, and while it was parked outside my apartment someone stole the licence plate... F'ing headache and pointless waste of money to get a new one registered. Like 2 years later I got letter from police that they'd by accident found the licence plate while searching a local drug seller's garage/storage. So if you've ever wondered why anyone would bother - apparently druggies rip off anything even vaguely valuable to trade for drugs.

[@michaelf.2449]

You understand the point in stealing it isn't for vanity but the fact you need a plate on a scooter so you use a stolen plate on a stolen scooter if you're trying to commit a good crime

[@Jayyyjy]

I don't think it was stolen to be exchanged for drugs, rather it was stolen to be used on drug runs to avoid detection.

[@amandafloyd1617]

I, too am guilty of romanticizing Bonnie and Clyde, I live an hour away from where they were gunned down in Louisiana. They still have Bonnie & Clyde trade days every year here

[@rocketamadeus3730]

Who wouldn't? It's two lovers vs. the world. It writes itself.

[@mp40submachinegun81]

my wife and i rescued horses shortly after getting engaged. names are bonnie and clyde.

[@Alloy211]

The Colt Monitor was an improved version of the BAR light machine. The Barrow gang was also known to modify their BARs by shorting the barrels and stocks in order to make them easier to use and conceal. Just some additional unnecessary information.

[@b.clarence]

The state guard’s ability to have their guns taken by wanted criminals is both impressive and horrifying in equal measure.

[@NoelleTakestheSky]

Stephanie Harlow’s 7-part miniseries is, hands down, the BEST series EVER on Bonnie & Clyde, though I’ll give this one a reasonably close second. This video is amusing, but Stephanie’s is deeply informative and humanizing.

[@pokeydot1975]

My absolute FAVORITE episode (all of them) of hers!!! I still watch it every now and then!!! But this one is definitely a close 2nd ❤

[@katew7844]

I was thinking about Stephanie’s series while watching this. I enjoyed this Cas Crim episode, but Steph’s is amazing. I have watched it a few times through. Love it.

[@bobmyers7030]

A 3 hour special on Bonnie & Clyde? I didn't know today was Christmas!

[@angelashoson8900]

My husband is a master of rooster catching. As soon as that mean little bastard comes running at him and jumps to spur him my husband snatches one or both legs mid jump and flips him upside down. They give up pretty quick after that. He usually only has to catch him to clip wings or take off the spurs or deal with the hens but the rooster still hasn't learned to keep his distance.

[@Underacactus]

Gangster 😅

[@kdkorz10211]

That’s pretty badass

[@JohnDrummondPhoto]

The 1967 'Bonnie & Clyde" movie left out a few minor details. Like Bonnie getting her leg almost burned off by battery acid. They would have made a pretty good movie into a classic. P.S. it was the fictional characters "Thelma & Louise" who drove their car off a cliff. You're welcome.

[@KylieCassidy08]

Arent Natasha and Boris from Rocky & Bullwinkle (the bad guys on the show) supposed to be Bonnie & Clyde? (Just written as Russian bc of the times the show originally aired in)

[@JohnDrummondPhoto]

@@KylieCassidy08 no, more like Maxwell Smart and Agent 99. A couple of loyal Bolsheviks, not ruthless bandits.

[@darkermatter125.35]

In Germany, you do not get extra time for breaking out of prison, but you do get theft of your uniform charges slapped on. Essentially, it is "the natural human condition to yearn to be free." Which I think is much more fair. You add 10 years when you forget that prisoners are human beings, like punishing an animal for doing something that is hard wired into them. But we also have slavery in our prisons, so, you know. Probably should fix that part first.

[@topogigio7031]

In the US we have no right to freedom AND slavery.

[@topogigio7031]

Being born in another country is now illegal in Texas, and they will now indefinitely detain anyone without a current passport

[@debbylou5729]

I’ve heard Germans brag about this before….like it’s altruistic or something. Just ignore the people they endanger and the cost and possibility of death while finding them. I guess when you live in a homogenous country that small the risks are diminished

[@darkermatter125.35]

@@debbylou5729 do you... think they don't hunt down escaped prisoners? Like "oh, made it out without committing another crime, so all of the other jail time is erased. Free to go, it's only fair..."? Or do you think every prison should just be Gitmo?

[@manuelleluciani9208]

@@debbylou5729 it doesn’t mean that they leave the back doors of prisons open . They don’t send every kid caught with a bit of weed to prison with gang members hence lower prison population, secure and well resourced prisons .gun control is taken seriously so even if they escape they can’t buy guns on every corner . Police actually do policing instead of choking unarmed people of colour .most importantly Germany is actually in the sane world and not batcrap insane usa .

[@Darkflowerchyld718]

Holy crap y'all! 3 hours and 20 minutes?!? Thank you so much. I needed this. Got my snacks and my coffee and I'm ready!

[@albertamcknight9882]

Same. Waited til this morning, made a big breakfast and coffee. And now I’m listening while relaxing into today😁

[@Willy.Whispers]

I swept, vacuumed and mopped am entire shopping center to the length of this! Sat down with a coffee just as the appendices finished. Perfect timing.

[@gravemomnito]

not Simon mixing up Bonnie and Clyde with Thelma and Louise 😭

[@MK-gv1wd]

I aspire to have a KZbinr call me a Lover, Outlaw, and Moron. LOL.

[@topogigio7031]

Typical subhuman Zoomer

[@topogigio7031]

Millennials: 'I hope I can save the world before I die.' Zoomers: 'I hope I can kill the world before I die.'

[@likebot.]

Boomers: 'I hope I die before the next WW'.

[@MK-gv1wd]

what weird reactions to what is clearly a joke. And I don't know what a Zoomer is but I'm definitely far too old to be called that.

[@SolaScientia]

@@MK-gv1wd Yeah, that first commenter has been making weird comments on here. Zoomer is what people call Gen Z.

[@llcoolray3000]

Simon slowly learning that Bonnie and Clyde were monsterous murderers.

[@larakeller2478]

They were also monstrously murdered.

[@user-pq4fc1mc7q]

@@larakeller2478 By someone who killed more than the whole Barrow gang put together and certainly more than Bonnie Parker, NOT a murderer

[@the4tierbridge]

@@user-pq4fc1mc7q its kind of hard to feel bad when all the people he killed were KKK members and other generally bad people.

[@valsptsd814]

I, as an American, am in giggles at Simon’s British tangents, while sitting in his posh Prague basement. Reading a script from a guy in the UK. Moments I absolutely love YT. Thanks for the education I did not know.

[@carston101]

Just rewatched the ambush scene from The Highwaymen. They really did get that scene quite wrong. Not to mention the sad piano music after their deaths to make it seem super tragic and sad, as if we're supposed to feel bad for them.

[@SECRETARIATguy224]

Absolutely. It wasn't historically accurate at all. In fact, none of the films about them have ever portrayed the ambush accurately.

[@SECRETARIATguy224]

@@carston101 I really think that none of the filmmakers that have taken on this story have wanted to show how the ambush really went down because it was a gaffe: Hamer wanted to give them a chance to surrender but Prentiss Oakley got nervous and fired before anyone said anything, and that shot killed Clyde instantly, which caused his sock foot to slip off the clutch, which caused the car to start rolling forward, which in turn caused the posse to open up after two or three seconds because they thought Clyde was getting away again. None of them had any idea that Clyde was already dead. I find the real event incredibly dramatic and intense, much more so than any of the film depictions. I think that bottom line they just didn't want to show that they weren't given a chance to give up, even though they did intend to do so.

[@zzakarie]

This was a great script David. I watched it yesterday on Spotify. I thought I knew a good amount of their history but my lord you put so much detail into it.

[@DeliveryMcGee]

On the honeymoon with a friend and tons of guns: clearly the guns were wedding presents and Jack was their servant hired to assist with the guns.

[@scottbubb2946]

About the bullet thing... I was shot with a bullet that hit a bone and broke into several small fragments. After surgery, the doctor said they couldn't get all of it cleaned out, but that it wouldn't be a problem. He said there might be enough to set off a metal detector. That was over 30 years ago and I've never had any trouble with it.

[@craigrowin1365]

Great video, love the mix up with Thelma and Luise and J.Edgar Hover and Herbert Hover.....also "S" enjoyed wrapping on the National Guard Armory.

[@ignitionfrn2223]

2:55 - Mid roll ads 5:05 - Back to the video 13:55 - Chapter 1 - Meet bonnie parker 24:00 - Book plug 25:15 - Chapter 2 - Meet clyde barrow 44:40 - Chapter 3 - Prison as an aphrodisiac 56:15 - Chapter 4 - The mutilation of the soul 1:01:50 - Chapter 5 - Never piss off a crowd of texans 1:12:35 - Chapter 6 - Rivers of whiskey & a hail of bullets 1:23:25 - Chapter 7 - Good help is hard to find 1:36:10 - Chapter 8 - Punctuations of pure havoc 1:47:45 - Chapter 9 - The barrow gang in light & shade 2:00:05 - Chapter 10 - Crimes always pays...in gold or lead 2:15:35 - Chapter 11 - The bright lights of eastham prison farm 2:22:20 - Chapter 12 - The return of the wild west 2:30:00 - Chapter 13 - No honour among thieves 2:39:15 - Chapter 14 - Tell them i don't smoke cigars 2:49:10 - Chapter 15 - The end of the line 2:56:15 - Chapter 16 - 16s seconds in bienville 3:05:45 - Chapter 17 - Arcadian hyenas 3:09:35 - Dismembered appendices

[@steel8231]

Yeah Bonnie and Clyde are romanticized (or more accurately fetishized) to an insane degree mostly due to female criminals being very sexualized already and criminal couples being incredibly rare. On another note BARs (the guns) were first heavily regulated in the early 1930s (and all-out banned in 1986), they were very uncommon before the regulations were passed due to expense and the army ordering basically all of the ones produced. But a thing being illegal never stopped criminals before, they're even drinking in the open during prohibition.

[@ProfessionalPregumin]

Doesn't matter how regulated something is if it's stolen. In this case much like most crimes involving firearms the BARs were stolen. Sure you already know this, just wanted to annotate that under your comment.

[@mp40submachinegun81]

national firearms act was passed 1 month+3days after bonnie and clyde were killed. also should note they werent all out baned in 1986. only new civillian sale and manufacture was banned. you can still go buy and use a pre 1986 machine gun of basically any type in the US. important distinction because im a dual canada-us citizen, have a couple firearms in canada that have actually been all out banned. illegal to do anything more than take them out of the safe.

[@steel8231]

@@mp40submachinegun81 you can still buy a pre-86 MG IF: you're able to get a federal license, live in a state that hasn't completely banned them, have a security clearance, have never done anything worse than get a parking ticket, never touched weed, buy a tax stamp for it in advance, and again depending on the state are white and/or make 6 figures (there was a civil rights case recently that found California and New York along with 4 other states were denying firearms permits of any kind to poor and/or not-white people).

[@mp40submachinegun81]

@@steel8231 only businesses need a federal license. you dont need a security clearence. only requirements are to pay the tax stamp, have no criminal record, be a US citizen 21 or older, and not live in 1 of the 13 states that banned machine guns independently. you cant touch weed if you own any gun in the US. its illegal full stop. even in states that weed is legal. theres usually a question about it on background check forms. the federal controlled substances act makes it illegal for anyone who uses any federally illegal drug to posess a firearm. its a federal felony, regardless of state law. ive had to worry about that before being half canadian. weed is federally legal in canada, as common as alcohol.

[@alexhndr]

Another David Baker supercut And its with THE legendary story as well Big ups!

[@Baiswith]

The farmer volunteers to loan them mules...so we get a picture of donkeys...

[@myself2noone]

It's called polyandry when it's one women and multiple men. It's only really common among cultures that live in arid mountain environments. At that only really between brothers. Surprised that history of sex book didn't mention this. The logic of it is rather interesting.

[@kdkorz10211]

It probably did and Simon just forgot, considering how many times he’s mentioned not knowing something only for the comments to point out that he’s done one or more videos on the topic.

[@letsgobrandon4175]

It's probably the worst way to handle the family unit. It minimizes population growth, and all you have to see to know how bad it gets is by wayching that show of the poly "family" (one woman, four men) where one of the men murdered the child one of the other men had with the woman a few months after they aired the episode about them.

[@lesleycouch6557]

@myself2noone One woman. Many women.

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

MORE THAN 3 HOURS?! THANKS 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤

[@Khanjikai]

A 3 hour long Casual Criminalist on cleaning day?!? What have I done to deserve such a gift?

[@Noah_E]

FYI - They were killed in 1934 and most of the cars Clyde wrecked were 32/33 V8s equipped with 550-17 bias ply tires. In modern terms they would be 140/105R17s. That's a very small contact patch not meant for the speeds and maneuvers a man fleeing for his life would push them. Even economy cars have tires at least 50% wider and shorter sidewalls so they don't tuck under in tight turns.

[@debbylou5729]

And your point? Are you imagining that the available tires had a wide range of tires? No one at that time had worked out a way to make tires wider and cotton was used with a cross ply of nylon

[@Noah_E]

@debbylou5729 Simon kept mentioning how bad a driver Clyde was. Most of his accidents were due to the tires. He was going as fast as possible on essentially space-saver spares. That's going to increase the likelihood of a crash. I've autocrossed and own a tree farm. Tires can make the difference between whether you win or lose or get stuck or not just as much, if not more, than driver skill or RWD vs 4X4.

[@debbylou5729]

@@Noah_E yes, I know. I’m simply saying he didn’t have a choice

[@DeliveryMcGee]

Machine guns weren't regulated at all until a month after Bonnie and Clyde stopped needing them, and even then it was just a $200 tax (which was the retail price of a Thompson, so it doubled the cost of a really nice gun). Still is just the $200 tax to own one, but since registration of new ones was closed in 1984, now the bar to owning one is supply and demand -- the cheapest go for upwards of $10k these days.

[@cotati76]

My dad has a Thompson. That thing is heavy as hell when it isn’t loaded. A full drum of ammo would make that thing weigh quite a bit. Loaded with standard magazine that thing weighs about 14 pounds which is a lot less than with a drum full of ammo. She must have been strong for her little frame to be able to hold that thing up ajd fire with any kind of control. I think it also uses a .45 round which is pretty big.

[@forwhomthebelltrolz]

Dog she used a browning auto, that thing is like 35 pounds. And the recoil is no joke, that tommy gun is a toy relative to it​@@cotati76

[@letsgobrandon4175]

"Just a $200 tax" on something that SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED in the 1940s, which is roughly $3,500 today. "Only" $200, what an idiot.

[@marissawinnett8038]

My great grandparents rented an over garage apartment to the couple when they hid out in Joplin MO

[@mikeredd8833]

Lol I've lived in almost all these towns in Texas and Oklahoma. Lol i say whoop every time i get a name drop

[@kevindeibler346]

You say giving a rabbit as a obligation?I see it as easter dinner😂😂😂😂😂

[@gclayton86]

Besides quick exits, backing in is much safer for you and people around you than backing out. I don't always take my own advice, but when possible I'll back in or pull through to the next spot. When backing in, you have time to survey the area before you start backing, and you have a greater forward view pulling forward out. Parking nose in, you have a more dangerous back out even with a backup camera because there are a *lot* more blind spots in the back of a car than in the front.

[@Underacactus]

This is why you see government cars always backed in their lots. They don’t need another reason to be sued. 😂

[@lexicat6177]

Simon this was the 20's and 30's depression era in the states. Very early no money, banks closed country was broke.

[@katiepeninger6759]

I really like the long ones. They help pass the time while I'm doing my mundane job.

[@doylesgirl73]

I swear this is the first time I've heard Bonnie and Clyde's full story. I never really watched anything about them before. Great work Simon and David.

[@MimiYuYu]

My only other background that I’ve watched about Bonnie and Clyde is ERBs battle with Romeo and Juliet

[@adamsmith5207]

Very sad that "sweat shop wages" in 1920, translates to $1000 MORE per year than working full time at minimum wage TODAY in the US.

[@debbylou5729]

No skills, no money. Generally those people actually worked. They didn’t tap a picture of a burger and told how much change to give back

[@hannahnguyen7993]

This came out just in time for me to sit down and do a long homework session thank you Simon and David for all the hard work!

[@kdkorz10211]

The reason crossing state lines while committing crimes is such a bad idea is that doing so turns it into a federal crime, which is a Big Deal

[@zebrababy9019]

Great re telling! Loved it... 1. Hammer killed WAY MORE people than B&C. 2. When they kidnapped someone, they fed them, gave them money and / or just dropped them off

[@13thMaiden]

Oh goodie I get to listen to a story about my great great aunt Bonnie! (Or cousin I don't remember the lineage without it in front of me.)

[@outpost990]

Thank you Simon and David y'all make my boring work so much better

[@realkarfixer8208]

@ 2:07:10 Backing into a parking spot is the best way, you can see where you are going when you pull out. I learned this when I got my CDL.

[@tonymartin9784]

I love these in-depth long specials. Both about historical people and common place tech that's been around for large parts of history like the one you did on firearms on your other channel.

[@rivervan]

Thank you Simon, David, and Christopher as always for great videos - over 3 hours!!

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Thanks for this beast of a video simon and david! Specially love your scripts david

[@sambrook3191]

Yayyy.... I live for these longer episodes! Made my day so much better. Loved it.... Classic story, but still totally hooked me in until the end. Thanks!!!

[@88happiness]

Old McDonald has a Farm playing in the backgroum around 27:00 is hilarious

[@Jasminjaeda]

Hi Simon, I just wanted to say thank you so much for continuing to entertain us all. With the help of the writers and editors you have created such awesome shows!!!

[@DeliciousBoi]

Still waiting for an episode on Richard "Iceman" Kuklinski.

[@DahliaVonHellion]

Ohhh shit yeah!

[@alyssak1025]

This episode was absolutely phenomenal from start to finish. Well done to the writer, editor and host 👏

[@paulhammer4941]

Yep. Owning a machine gun was perfectly legal in 1933. Didn’t even need any paperwork. That was actually the case in much of the world at that time. Today a civilian can still own a machine gun in plenty of places including the US, Switzerland, Germany, Czechia, and others. There is just extremely rigorous paperwork that needs to be filled out and/or some very hard-to-get licenses to be secured.

[@One.DeSanctis.]

Well, yes one can easily smell the liquor emitting from the pours of others. Sometimes difficult to distinguish one alcoholic from one's self, but that is a separate issue. (😅 10 years in recovery)

[@DaemlichesStueck]

My parents were alcoholics and I always found they smelled kinda sickly sweet. Like meat that's gone off. Still hate that smell

[@jamyDodger]

Well done for the 10 yrs!! 😊

[@limner123]

If my phone were stolen, I could not easily get another phone. If my car were stolen, I could not get another car; I would have to get a different job I could walk to, and my life would be significantly harder. I hope I wouldn't get myself eliminated instead, but it's understandable.

[@Sullywoo]

This was a perfect story to listen to while painting a room. Cheers Simon and team!!

[@betinababbles249]

Whoa this was so long but so entertaining! Awesome job David and Simon thank you so much for your dedication! 🤩