Let Them Fight Podcast

Welcome to part 2 of the Jesse James saga, and episode 100! Ignoring the bonus episode anyways. That was just for fun, but go listen to it anyways. Anyways, we're picking up where we left off in the last episode and covering the more famous part of Jesse's life. The bank robbing, train robbing, stagecoach robbing, and still cousin fucking, part. He continues to be a garbage person masquerading as a champion of the people, but we don't buy it. And we cover some of the post-death stuff. Enjoy!

This week we're doing something special and splitting a story in half. And who better for us to cover the week of our 100th episode than Jesse James. Today we'll be covering his life pre-criminal days. Well, technically he was a war criminal during the Civil War, and we definitely talk about that. But pre-bank robberies at least. Anyways, enjoy part 1 of the life of Confederate hero, and honestly super not good person, Jesse James!

Join us, dear listeners, as we travel back to Japan to talk about a guy some of you may recognize from a previous episode, Takeda Shingen. This dude had a pretty dope life. Just a constant back and forth from battling other samurai and kicking ass, to chilling in his fuck mansion and plowing anybody who was into it. He did get kind of a mediocre death, but hey, the rest of his life was still awesome. Enjoy!

I'm gonna tip our hand here a little bit and let you know upfront, this episode doesn't have a twist or another shoe dropping. It's just good old fun all the way through. Stagecoach Mary lived a really dope life on the frontier as basically an anomaly of the old west. She was pretty damn awesome, and with the exception of one douchebag bishop who never even met her, I couldn't find anybody that actively disliked her. Even people she punched in the face loved her. Enjoy!

Today we're covering fame adjacent outlaw, Harvey Logan AKA Kid Curry. Some say he was a murderous psycho, some that he was the victim of circumstance. It's probably somewhere in the middle where he got dealt a bum hand and decided he really loved murdering and stealing after a little while. Also we're still not absolutely certain if he died when the authorities claimed, or many years later while hiding out. Either way, dude had a crazy life. Enjoy!

Today, dear listeners, we have a very well, interesting, person's story to share. Agrippina the Younger of Rome. She was related to several people you should recognize, and if you don't, well then public school failed you. In either case, this crazy broad caused a lot of death, and apparently the later years of her life were sponsored by Acme. Also special mention for the goofiest failed assassination I've ever heard. Enjoy!

To all our friends up north in America's hat, Canada, don't worry, we haven't forgotten about you. In fact, today's episode is about one of your soldiers, William Barker. Started flying planes in World War 1 and realized very quickly that he loved shooting other planes and blowing stuff up. He was a crazy good pilot and earned a ton of awards. Sure, his story ends tragically. But he also has one of my favorite Christmas stories, so I'll call it a win. Enjoy!

Today, dear listeners, we're going to take you to Victorian era England to talk about notorious baby farmer and serial killer, Amelia Dyer. She got started in the baby farming business for the money, and soon ramped up her work for the love of the game. And yes, baby farming is exactly as fucked up as the name would imply. While the exact number of Dyer's victims is unknown, it's entirely possible that she was the most prolific serial killer of all time, or at least in England. Enjoy!

I'm sure you've all been wondering when we're going to go back to Russia, well your prayers have been answered. Today we visit the Motherland to talk about Russian superkiller, Alexander Solonik. Dude bumped off some very dangerous and very powerful Russian criminals. Then repeated that same trick in a bunch of European countries with other criminal organizations. He also really didn't like staying in prisons. And while there is an official death date for him, he could still be out there killing. Enjoy!

Welcome back, dear listeners! Today we're bringing you epic mustache, and man that dick slapped Nazis and Chinese alike, Lewis Millett. He fought in WW2 and decided that wasn't enough killin', so he shipped off to Korea to fight against the Chinese forces holding a couple important places. I don't want to give anything away, but he learned two things about himself: he loved big guns, and he loved stabbing people. And we learned if you're going to make propaganda, don't make it easily proven false. Enjoy!

Hello again, dear listeners, we're back with another psycho that loved murder! Rodney Alcala's story has more twists than an M. Night Shyamalan movie and boy does it get kind of bonkers. Also, his outside of murder accomplishments are definitely not what you'd expect. Listen in to find it all out, and to hear Tim's smug satisfaction as Jacob rages at both Alcala and the judicial system.

In today's episode we will be going back to the wild west, dear listeners, to talk about Texas John Slaughter. He did all the traditional wild west things. Cattle driving, working as a sheriff in Tombstone, gambling, and shooting people he didn't like. He also collected a couple wives and some kids along the way, some even survived! Also, he super did not like being called Tex. Something to keep in mind if you meet his ghost or something. Anyways, enjoy the badassery that is Texas John Slaughter!

Welcome back, dear listeners, and settle in for an episode about a genuinely good dude, who also kicked a metric ton of Nazi ass, Matt Urban. If you've ever played a video game set during WW2, chances are the crazy shit you did was inspired by some of the real shit this guy did. And boy is it a lot. I don't want to give anything away but, this dude earned 29 goddamn medals. Honestly, if his story doesn't get your dick at least a little hard, well that's on you. Enjoy!

It's time to go back to Mexico, dear listeners, so that we can talk about Juana Barraza. Her life story is pretty much a constant rotation between, "holy shit that's tragic," and events in dire need of being backed by Yakety Sax. One moment she's being abused by damn near everyone in her life, the next she's a clown luchador. Also we all get some insight into just how effective the Mexican police can be. Enjoy!

Welcome back, dear listeners. We're leaving Chicago behind for a little while to take a look in on a mob hitman in New York, Gregory Scarpa. Dude did some wild shit, and after every atrocity you'll be thinking, "Man, I don't like this guy." Then you find out he also beat a Klansman so bad it changed who he was as a person and you'll think, "Ok, maybe he's not that bad. You gotta break a few people eggs to make a Klansman boot party omelette, right?" Enjoy this bonkers mobster and all his shenanigans!"

Welcome back to another week of historical violence, dear listeners! We're sticking around Chicago again today to talk about Samuel DeStefano, a dude who made the bad guys from all the Saw movies seem reasonable. Except Samuel's game was loaning out money to people, then dreaming about all the ways he was going to punish them for not paying. Sounds like a nice guy right? Well strap in, because that's just the tip of the iceberg to this crazy guinea. Enjoy!

Happy continued apocalypse, dear listeners! We have another Chicago goon from the early 1900s for you today. Whatever the Irish version of a goombah is, a potato maybe? I don't know, micks gonna mick. Anyways, as always we had a lot of fun making fun of people who lived more exciting lives than us. Enjoy the tales of this nicely dressed leprechaun and his life of newspaper wars and booze wars!

Why hello again, dear listeners. Today we have the story of a fun person from the early 1900s, Jack Johnson. He's our second boxer and honestly, we need to cover more because apparently boxers have lives made out of pure, unadulterated insanity. Jack was a simple man, he loved hookers, boxing, and white hookers. He was a man that gave no shits about what he might have to do to get what he wanted, and if his actions in that regard don't inspire you in some way, well then there's just no helping you. Enjoy!

Hello, dear listeners! We have another episode for you with our friendly neighborhood shaved Sasquatch, Anthony Davis. And today we're talking about William Burke, a British man who went on to run a very successful business in Scotland. So successful that Simon Pegg even played him in a movie. Don't worry though, you'll still get your biweekly dose of violence because Burke loved turning breathing people into sweet, sweet nonbreathing money. Which of course involved murder. Enjoy!

Today we will be going back to Australia, dear listeners, to talk about hitman, and friend of people with terrible nicknames, Christopher Flannery. Also known as Mr. Rent-a-Kill. Yes, that was the real nickname of a real man who killed real people. Also we are joined by comedian, hillbilly Teletubbie, and friend of the show Anthony Davis. We had a lot of fun talking about goofy Australian names and murder for hire with him, and we hope you enjoy the fun!