The Dollop with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds - 643 - Mike Fink
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1770.
Whoa.
Year of our Lord J-Town.
Sure.
What do you know about J-Town? Sure. What do you know about J-Town?
I mean, I believe the roots are...
I feel like whatever I say isn't going to matter.
What do you have him doing now?
Jet skiing?
I'm just going to say Jesus rips.
That's all.
J-Town rips.
Yeah.
And I don't think we need to say anything else because that's...
I don't think we need to say anything.
...says it all.
J-Town rips.
He's never not ripped.
Okay.
I think we're- The kids love him.
Okay.
1770, maybe, actually, nobody knows really.
But around then, Mike Fink was born at Fort Pitt,
near what is today Pittsburgh?
Okay, think and pit. Okay, so I guess pit became
They probably start calling it pits and then threw a burg on there. It's weird, right? I
Was it?
I guess there's a pit there doesn This doesn't make any sense. Wouldn't that make sense?
I mean-
There was a pit, some sort of pit, and they built the fort near the pit.
Maybe.
Sure.
But why not?
Sure.
Maybe some guy just threw Ada Peach and threw it on the ground.
I was like, I don't know.
Fork pit.
I think it's probably better for us to not speculate and just to do what you know.
Like what do you know?
Let's start there.
So Mike thinks-
No, that's a problem.
Okay. I don't know anything. That's a huge issue. So Pittsburgh, Fort Pitt was on a
river. And so growing up, Mike was super into boats. He loved boats, loved seeing boats,
loved hearing boats, loved watching boats. He was a boat kid like you were. Yep. Big
time. Boat boy. Super fascinated by the dudes who lived and worked on the boats, watching boats. He's a boat kid, like you were. Yep, big time, boat boy. Super fascinated by
the dudes who lived and worked on the boats, the boatmen.
I wouldn't say lived on, but just were on the boats all the time. The boatmen
is what they were called. Okay. So Mike grew up as a kid, he was very good
with a gun, because he's American. It's very
interesting, just interesting little setups.
I'm seeing some seeds.
Well, he grew up at a fort, so he's around militia dudes all the time.
And there's, obviously, they're not getting along well with the Native Americans because
we're assholes.
Well, because the Native American...
I don't think that's fair.
The Native Americans started encroaching on the land that we had taken from them.
Okay.
Well, you're framing it like that.
I hear you.
Which is rude.
Give it to us and then go away.
I'm trying to come back.
Thank you very much.
As a teen, he started working as an Indian scout.
Okay.
It was called, uh, that was,
so he would go out on his own for weeks to like scout. What's he scouting? He's just,
I think he's scouting. I think he's that. Yeah. I think it's like a Bushman. Well,
Bushman were more Ranger crime. Yeah. Maybe Bush Ranger. Uh, but he but he Yeah, he's he's checking it out. He's checking out the lay of the land and seeing what's up. Sure
So he'd have to shoot his own animals to survive and you know, live on live on his own out there, right?
Yeah, so picking up skills much like you did. Yeah. No, I'm very yeah, there's a lot of similarities. Mm-hmm
So he he becomes known for being very bold and cunning as a scout.
Now back to his boat, his love of boats.
So he got really good at imitating the sound of boat horns.
There we go.
What?
There we are.
There it is.
And he could really do it. It's like going to like a rave and that's like when the beat drops.
Okay, now we're moving.
Now I knew it was coming and I waited patiently.
I heard you kind of, there was some pullback and then now boom, we're, the Molly's kicking
in and we're really partying.
Yeah, no, it's like when you kicking in and we're really partying.
Yeah, no, it's like when you take acid and all of a sudden you're like, do you see that?
Yeah.
Or how about this?
I've had this where I took acid and forgot I took acid.
That's a fun place.
Okay, so he could do boat horns.
Yeah, I mean, imagine how long it took to perfect a boat horn.
And that's just like, like that. I don't know. Honestly, I mean imagine how long it took to perfect a boat horn. And that's just like, like, I don't know.
Honestly, I think it is what?
1790 years.
So this can't be.
It can't be very crazy what they have.
Well, I can't.
Nobody's playing like La Cucaracha or something.
No, there's no La Cucaracha going on.
But I think it's more like a horn.
Yeah.
And look, neither one of us have any idea because we're just going off of what we've
seen in movies and shit, but it's like a loud horn, not like a...
You just did like a-
That's a horn.
Like a ship at sea.
Yeah, yeah.
Oh, but it's more like, I really got one of those.
Yeah, that's right.
Okay, all right. Okay, all right.
So he was so good at the horn sound that when he first got work on a keelboat, they didn't
need a trumpeter with an instrument because he could do it perfectly.
Okay, so the horn was really an actual horn.
It's a guy playing a horn.
So you just tie rope to a guy's dick and then yank it and he'd be like, brrr.
What?
Yeah.
Hold on.
Just to sort of replicate the... Go ahead.
Well, I think you've added stuff that-
I'll take questions now.
Go ahead.
Sure.
I think you've added stuff that maybe is not there, like you've put on a whole dick part.
Like you said, Dave, neither one of us are there.
It's only what we've seen in movies.
And I've seen that trope in a thousand movies a thousand times.
Yeah.
I mean, I think Disney regretted doing that in all their old films.
Well, I mean, whatever.
About the David.
Yeah.
Didn't age, right?
No, didn't.
So, Kielb boats hauled cargo and they were propelled by either pushing poles or pulling
on ropes.
That's like I'm saying.
By the way, thank you, validated.
Sometimes the oars were really big.
So it's super hard to do.
The dudes who work on keelblades are just like muscled,
like you know, they're working out.
They're the heiress. Yeah, right. Yeah. They're like us. Like just chiseled to the old fuckers.
Oh, like they like picture picture J town. Man. Yeah, right. Or Trump. Oh, I can't do this.
So he loves being on the river.
He loves it.
It's his ultimate life.
He wants to see ports everywhere, especially want to see New Orleans where he heard they
spoke French in war Sunday clothes all week long.
He's like, that's how.
Imagine a city full of people in their Sunday clothes.
Imagine.
I mean, what do they even have?
Do they even possess Mondays and Tuesdays?
It's just everything's a Sunday outfit.
Put on your Sunday's best.
Yeah.
Well, I assume he has like one set of clothes.
Well, but it's also so, it's not funny.
It's just weird to imagine.
Like Sunday,
you dress to the nines.
Sunday, you put on a real special little outfit,
show everyone.
I think these people, although I don't know,
I don't think he went to church,
but I think these people live out here,
like they probably had one of those clothes,
a Sunday set, like a nice set.
Yeah, they probably wore that to church a lot,
and then so it was probably like, yeah.
But so these people only have Sunday clothes because they dress in sweet all this guy gets
revved up over the boats. Okay. All right. All right. You get the picture. So sometimes the
river got too low for boats. And during those times, Mike stayed in Pittsburgh or close to So he killed a lot of squirrels. He was a squirrel killer. Just food and whatnot.
Sure.
And probably just fun.
Of course. It's a hobby.
He also took part in the Saturday shooting matches, which happened all the time.
To shoot squirrels?
No, no. They would shoot at a target.
Oh, like a skills competition.
And the prize would be beef.
Yeah, yeah, and I understand the prize.
I don't, I'm not, I know what, I know what we win.
Obviously most prizes at that time were beef purses.
So that's not surprising to me.
I just was sort of highlighting the, what is the actual event?
Obviously you get a beef stipend when you have competed.
You get a slab of meat.
Yeah, you get a couple handfuls of ground chuck,
something like that.
You get to dip your hand into the ground beef.
Instead of like shaking champagne all over the place,
you're just sort of throwing steaks at each other.
In the locker room. By the way, is there anything funnier than when a team wins a championship and you're
like these chiseled athletes who put these are men's men champions.
Now let us put our goggles on so the champagne doesn't hurt our eyeballs.
These gladiators grid iron, just all all they do is sacrifice, but their little
eyeballs will burn from the bubbles.
It's so, it's so like, I don't think they realize how like sterilized and lame it looks,
but
Well, it's great when you watch like footage from like the seventies, what, cause guys
were just like, ah ha, you know, they were like, it was like they got tear gas. They
were like, man, we did it. Who ate, who's, who said that? Ah, ah. I'm like, ah, ha, you know, they were like, it was like they got tear gassed. They were like, man, we did it. Who ate? Who's who said that? Ah, ah, like that wasn't great. But when they
have to put on their like champagne goggles. Yeah, it's not good. It's a little bit of
a separator. So pretty soon, Mike think became known as the best shot in the country and
got the nickname bangle. Bangal.
I think maybe bang.
I think maybe bang all.
Bang all.
It's it's.
That's what they called you in college, right?
Yeah, but not not because of the way you stop talking right now.
Thank you.
It's because I started around a gong.
Okay.
And I don't got it. Yeah. because I carried around a gong. Oh, okay. A donkong.
Yeah.
Since he was so good, they stopped letting him
take part in the shooting contest
because he would win every time.
So they're just like, okay,
so you don't get to do this anymore.
What are you doing with all the beef?
No one's having fun.
Save some beef for the rest of us.
They said he, quote, spoiled to all the fun.
Well, I mean, okay.
But they understood it was unfair what they were doing, kicking him out of the contest.
So they let him take the, quote, fifth quarter of the beef, which was the hound.
So he got a beef bribe.
Hide in the tallow, yeah.
So he would just get a beef bribe every time.
So he would just show up to just get a basket of his beef.
He would get the wrapping of the cow, the outer wrapping.
Excuse me, that's what he would...
Are you serious?
The hide in the tallow, yeah.
He would get the wrap, the part that cows used to wrap themselves in.
The skin cows.
It's not like that.
Like a shawl.
That well, that's what I'm a bit chilly.
Will you put my flesh over my shoulders?
That's what cows wrap their meat in so that it doesn't go bad.
That is that is the boy you've just sort of Tyson foods your way into some weird logic.
But wait, so he would just get the...
And he's just what?
He's just making things with the...
That's leather.
He's just leathering it up.
He's not eating it.
I mean, yeah.
Okay.
So yeah, no.
He would then take the hide and the tallow to the saloon and trade it for whiskey, and
then he'd treat everyone to shots, especially himself.
Okay. Yeah. Well, for sure.
It's okay. So the saloon is getting the high end every week.
Sure. Right.
I don't know what they would do with it.
I mean, I tried to noodle that one, but unfortunately it seems like... I mean, it's leather.
I mean, maybe that's what they kept their...
They probably dried it out and fucking, you know, made a-
Go ahead.
I was hoping you'd cut me off quicker.
You gotta see what- No, no, I want you to go on.
Okay, so they would probably dry it out.
Aprons.
Let me finish.
Yeah, exactly, aprons, hats, shoes, boots.
Boots, you idiot.
Boots, you fool.
What if they use it to rewrap their beef?
Cause it keeps beef-
It would be weird.
Good, fresh. Jesus Christ. wrap their beef because it keeps beef. It would be weird. Good.
Fresh.
Jesus Christ.
So when, uh, when the local, uh, Native American wars start in the 1790s, Mike's,
uh, Mike's the kind of guy who's going to go out. By the way, we should have known that we were not going to be a helpful culture when we
were having target practice contests for beef.
We should have been like, those are seeds that are going to grow into Hulk Hogan speaking
at a political campaign.
Yeah.
We should have been like, it's not great. Eventually, Hull Cogan was gonna get involved.
Everybody knew that.
It's true.
Okay, so when the local Indian Wars ended in the 1790s,
Mike was not the kind of guy,
like a lot of the other Scots were like,
okay, well I made my money and now I'm gonna settle down
and own a farm and domesticate,
but he's not that kind of guy.
Sure.
So he ended up going west and own a farm and domesticate, but he's not that kind of guy. Sure.
So he ended up going west and got into the boat transport business on the Ohio or Mississippi
rivers.
I think he was Ohio first and then Mississippi.
Just driving the boats and just taking them to and fro.
Yeah, basically go on the great Miami River, which went from Ohio to Fort Laramie, like
all that stuff, right?
Sure.
He's transporting goods.
And also the Maumee River to like Erie.
Maumee River?
So he, Maumee, Maumee.
Okay, not Maumee.
Maumee.
Maumee.
Maumee.
Maumee.
Maumee.
I think Maumee River is better, don't you?
I like the Maumee River.
Yeah, so the Maumee River to Lake Erie.
So he's all over the, he's all over the place. Hey, a lot of momm so the mommy river to Lake Gary. So he's all over the he's all over the place
Yeah, a lot of mommies take the river to Lake Gary
For those of you only listening Dave Dave Dave Dave Dave's laughing
So So he's working all over for like 20 years. This is what he does now.
He's a boatman.
He's working all over.
He becomes a captain.
He's running his own crew.
Like we said, working on the keelboat very, very hard.
The keelboat on the Western waters, quote,
the workers were the wildest and toughest men
on the frontier at first Indian fighters.
So they're not just going out on boats.
They also have to, you know, the Native Americans are like,
no, we're not really into you guys.
Stop coming here.
Yeah, and so they also have to fight.
Enough. You'll poison this
land you'll go down with the ship are you talking to me right now are you
talking to it's talking to everybody yeah not good they were usually very
tall gaunt and big boned they were very daring kind of guys and velikos they
were a type right so the boatman was a
type that everybody knew. Right. Yeah. From the Pittsburgh story, Pittsburgh story
of a city, quote, many were pirates and conmen. Great. I love when those two get
together. Yeah. Boatman had a specific way of talking described by Hiram Martin
Chichidin as, quote, half horse, half alligator.
What the fuck?
That does not help me at all, by the way.
I was hoping the second part would help influence
a little bit.
No, but-
Alligator speech is really-
Maybe you could give it a crack.
Now tell you a little bit about that.
I think we's exactly right.
It's not wrong.
Feels okay.
Yeah.
Why don't you ask me a question and I'll answer it as one of these guys.
Okay.
So are you headed up to Lake Erie?
I'm going to go up to Lake Erie and find a, oh, we got to get a bunch of that gold coin. We gotta get a better number
Yeah, why don't you ask me one more question
How was the weather at Fort Laramie I didn't you had the weather didn't do us no favors, but we thought through it
What is the end part that they do it's the I'm adding the alligator part
I don't know how to do it.
Mike was very witty and he really enjoyed doing pranks.
Okay, boy.
What are pranks like back in this day?
Well, I know, right?
Other boatmen liked pranks, except I guess the one problem with this is Mike was known to beat up anyone who
didn't laugh at one of his jokes or his pranks.
That's a good follow-through.
I like that.
He said he told his jokes to be laughed at and no one should make light of them by not
laughing.
Okay.
So yeah. Well, I mean, that's like some, that still permeates today a little bit where people are
like, hey, man, come on.
I'm allowed to say it.
It's like, yeah, it's just not funny.
It's not funny.
It's not funny.
That's the issue.
You should work on that one.
Yeah.
So, this led to, he basically always had a group
of like toady dudes laughing at whatever he said,
even if it wasn't funny.
Right, imagine.
Mostly just because they're scared,
they don't want to get beaten up.
So Mike liked to say quote,
I am a salt river roar, I love the winning,
and as how I am chock full of fight.
And you'd just be like, ah, that's great.
Okay, Mike.
That's great.
All right, Mike.
And he just cuts a guy's throat.
He's like, got him.
You're like, that's hilarious, Mike.
Wow, I did not see.
Holy crap, that's crazy that he's gone.
Look at that.
There's egg on that face underneath the pipes of blood that are just oozing out of the man.
I mean, unbelievable how much a guy bleeds once you cut him right there.
I think there's a lot of the main arteries.
That's arterial bleeding.
It's dark.
That's that burgundy bleeding. It's dark. That is the, that's that burgundy blood.
Yeah, it's not, it's not.
Man, oh man, talk about a change up.
Ah, shit.
That is funny, man.
That is good stuff, Mike.
So somehow, even though we painted this not normal character, Mike is chivalrous.
Okay, nice.
He's got ladies all up and down the river.
You know what I'm saying?
Sure.
Every part he had a lady and they all let his back, like they all loved him.
They all thought he was great.
But his main lady became Pittsburgh Blue,
that was her name.
Sure, it's always good to, yep, it's a Smurf?
Yeah, she's a Smurf.
She's one of the first Smurfs.
Yeah, okay.
So he didn't let anyone talk to her on, he didn't.
How chivalrous?
Okay, that's the wrong word.
He was described as chivalrous, but he didn't let anyone talk.
He was possessive?
On the boat, no one could talk to his lady.
Jesus Christ.
Boy.
Sometimes, he'd tell her to, when they were at a port or whatever, he'd tell her to walk
a distance away and put a tin cup on her head at a port or whatever, he'd tell her to walk a distance away
and put a tin cup on her head or between her knees
and then he'd shoot it.
Jesus Christ.
What?
It's called chivalry, buddy.
I mean, I don't know,
I haven't heard the chivalrous part yet.
So far he's like, don't talk to anyone,
now put this suit between your thighs, I'm gonna pop it.
What the fuck? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's high stakes.
It's called digging your lady.
Boy, oh boy.
I mean, it's still a man's world, but Jesus Christ.
Back then, just like, cause there's no way you want to, you know.
Do that?
Yeah.
Nobody wants to put a can on their head.
No. Yeah. All right. Nobody wants to put a can on their head.
No.
Yeah.
All right.
So Mike's about 5'9", he's about 180 pounds.
He was said to have a pleasant face, blue eyes, big mouth.
Sure.
Boy, I think you just described me.
Yeah.
Except he was super tan from the sun,
because they're out. Me?
The boatman guys are out in the sun all day long,
so they're like gnarly tan. Like the kind of tan you're like, oh, this isn't healthy. Yeah. Or someone
smiles and you're like, oh boy. Oh shit. And then he's pure muscle like we said. So Chittenden
quote, he was a perfect model for a Hercules. Okay. So he's that's hot. That's sexy. We're talking about sexy.
Yeah.
So, a lot of accounts say Mike was very hard fighting and hard drinking and a hardheaded
like bragger who just lived kind of recklessly.
That's his thing.
He sounds...
It's pure...
I mean, I guess what you basically did just describe is fully a leather pirate.
Leather pirate. That's right. He's just leather river, leather river, a leather river pirate.
Inland, an inland river pirate. But he's just, but it's just like he does everything he wants to do.
And that's kind of the way it is. That's it. That's the deal. Yeah.
It's just like your base instincts to just be like, I'll drink, I'll fuck, I'll shout,
I'll kill, and everyone will love me.
And he wanted his way always, right?
So Tavern's up and down in every port, knew who Mike was.
He was drinking in everyone.
And then he was happy to fight anybody who disagreed with him.
Like if you disagree with him, he's like, all right, well, let's just deal with this
with fists like you're supposed to. Sure. And so keel boats hit their peak in like 1817.
Did they sink? And then steamboats. Yeah, then they just start sinking. And then steamboats
come and kind of take over. Okay. So when that happened, Mike said the country is getting too civilized.
So one of those guys, it's like that video, remember that video where they were like,
you can't drink open beers in your car anymore. And people are like, I mean,
the government just took everything away from us. One false move.
That's exactly it. I mean, the life is better for a guy on a boat because now they don't have to push the
boat with oars and poles.
But he liked that.
But he liked that.
He's like, that's how you do boating.
Yeah, right.
Right.
Because he talks so much and he was so aggressive, Mike was also called the snapping turtle.
Okay.
He also later got the nickname the snag.
Sure, sure, because he's, I guess, difficult to move.
I think so.
He also wore, he started wearing a long red feather
in his felt hat. There we go, there it is.
And that- There we go.
And that, so everyone knew who they were dealing with
on the boat or on the shore.
He's a fucking idiot. They could see him. And then they, he was like, then who they were dealing with on the boat or on the shore. He's a fucking him.
And then he was like, then pirates won't fuck with us because they'll see it's me.
And they'll be like, no, I don't want to steal from that guy.
Well, and then what you just do is you get the exact same hat.
And you know, you're just like, they all think I'm fake.
Pirates don't do anything.
Yeah, that's true.
You could.
But I don't think they did that kind of stuff back then.
I don't think that's why I would have been so great in this area. That's true. You could. But I don't think they did that kind of stuff back then. I don't think people would like-
But that's why I would have been so great in this era.
Yeah, that's fair.
Like, again, I just missed my time.
Yeah, you really did. You know what I mean?
You could have been Red Feather Guy.
I just could have been awesome.
This would have been it.
Shooting cans off my lady.
Hey, put this can between your cans. I'm doing puns and shooting, babe.
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So Mike's two closest friends were William Carpenter and Levi Talbot, and they were all
pretty equal fighters and marksmen.
And I seem to go with the job of Boltman,
they like to drink obviously, all three of them.
Sure, yep.
Mike, known for drinking, but said he never got too drunk.
Uh-huh.
Which he bragged about all the time.
He bragged about how he could hold this liquor, right?
He said he could polish off a gallon of whiskey
and still shoot straight.
Jesus Christ, what?
And still shoot straight.
What the fuck?
He's 5'9".
And this is whiskey back then.
I mean, this is like made in a tub whiskey.
Yeah, it's like hardcore.
Oh.
It's like wood grain.
Yeah.
A reporter said he drank at least a gallon of, quote, Flemcutter or anti-fogmatic and then said, quote,
he must fight something or catch the dry rot.
I unfortunately blacked out after you said Flemcutter.
Yeah.
Cause that's as good as it gets.
The Flemcutter? Flemcutter as a gets. The phlegm cutter?
Phlegm cutter as a liquor.
It is a phlegm.
Think about it.
That's what I mean.
It's like so...
Perfect.
It's just very open with what we're going for.
Yes.
Mike and Carpenter like to put 10 cups of whiskey on each other's heads and use them
for target practice.
So that's what they...
Well, that's how you go through a gallon a day.
They did with each other.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Right.
Okay.
So they just get drunk and shoot cans off each other's heads.
Yeah.
Cups usually-
I mean, again, there was no Wi-Fi.
They would do this from 70 yards away.
That's quite a distance.
That's very far.
So if people- what's a yard compared to a meter?
I think it's around the same-ish,
right? Hold on. Let me get my conversion hat on. I want to say three meters to a yard.
No, but I think it's because it's three feet to a yard, right?
Oh, that might be what I'm thinking of then. People listening right now just the anger pulsating through the edges.
1.04 yards. So it's it's a little bit. What is a meter or three meters? A meter is just
a tiny bit under a yard. Okay. So it's wrong. So 70 meters away. So they would always shoot
the cup successfully, obviously, because they would have a head
blown open.
It's one of their favorite things to do, and it's what they're known for doing.
It was said Mike shot a lock of hair off a Native American once.
Probably.
What was he going to do?
He was trying to kill him, probably, right?
Yeah, I'm assuming the Native American didn't want that.
Yeah.
Way to go. Once while boating on the Mississippi
River, Mike saw a sow with nine pigs on the bank. Oh, and he
picked up his rifle and said in the standard Boatman dialect
that he quote wanted to pig. I want to pig. Others asked him
please do not shoot the pig. but he took the shot from about 40 or 50 yards away
from the shore, and he shot pig after pig,
but just shot off their tails and nothing else.
Okay, so.
How do you feel about this, Jared?
I don't know.
I'm glad they probably lived.
There's no need to do it, but again, I'm in his harem, so I'm just like, oh, that's hilarious.
Those tails really bleed, so that's going to be tough for those little babies for sure.
But boy, look at those things go.
That's hilarious, man.
Mike, I'll tell you.
Man, you are a cut up.
Because when you said you wanted pig, I thought we were going to eat pig.
But instead you just kind of mutilated them all for no real reason.
Comedically just such a fun little space to be swimming around in right now.
I'll tell you what, I am into what just happened.
Hey, if you think I'm upset, I'll say this.
I don't think so.
Oh, Christ Almighty. Hey, if you think I'm upset, I'll say this. I don't think so
The little one doesn't look like it's moving the same no, hey, sorry buddy get out of the way we got a punchline
Hell yeah, hell yeah, hell yeah, it's just nice to be out on the boat with some men who know what a goddamn joke is. Sick of these woke mob.
You know what the woke mob would do if we told them we just shot a bunch of tails off
pigs for no good reason?
They'd like their torches and they'd try to take away our fun.
And I just say to them, go back to your little weird dungeon.
Go put your model airplanes back together, you little creeps.
Because we're men's men.
And we like to have real fun.
Anyway, I picked-
And sorry, sometimes we're going to shoot little baby cutie piglets' tails off, even
though they're cute.
So, I went over to the shore and picked up the tails for you.
Good.
Yes. Here's. Good. Yes.
Here's your necklace.
Yes.
I'll wear this with great pride.
Look at that.
Look at how tiny some of these are.
These pigs can't be more than two weeks old.
I don't know the world out there.
And now they're probably just going
to have a little bit of fear instilled in them forever.
I'll tell you what, I replaced that little curly cue
as a pint of total fear, just phobia over men and us.
It gets better, Gareth. In 1821, he was on the levee in St. Louis when he saw a black
kid just standing there staring. Mike noticed he had a strangely shaped foot.
Oh, no.
His heel stuck out the back so far
that it was like he had another foot in back.
Uh huh.
Quote, this unshapely form offended Mike's eye
and outraged his sense of symmetry.
I love that this guy's like,
I'm like aesthetically kind of specific.
I'm really into symmetry.
Hey man, you got beef coming out of your pocket.
I'm kind of a neat freak.
From 30 Paces, Mike shot the heel off.
All right.
Oh my, man oh man.
Good one, good one.
That's awesome.
That is awesome, cause that kid's probably going through
hell, and now he's gonna have a little bit less of a foot,
and you did it because, and to be honest,
I think it was more of a shadow than anything,
but I think it's great that you knocked that out.
That is hysterical, that is so good.
The boy dropped to the ground screaming,
a murder, a code to murder.
Yeah, man oh man, I'll tell you what,
I'll never unhear that.
That is hysterical that you just shot a kid's foot off,
a child, a child's.
The heel, the foot still there, he fixed it.
You fixed it, that's what I'm saying, he fixed it, back off Jack, I'm telling you, A child. A child. A heel. The heel. The heel. The foot.
The foot.
You fixed it.
That's what I'm saying.
Back off, Jack.
I'm telling you.
I'm telling him he fixed it.
He fixed it real good.
Now, my only wonder is,
can he get to a doctor pretty soon
to make sure that we sort of bandage it properly
and make sure it doesn't get infected
the way you fixed it.
But I'll tell you what,
here's what's great.
We're gonna keep going and we're probably not gonna think much about it, especially
me.
And that kid will think about that moment for the rest of his life.
Like the pigs.
Like the pigs.
Here I am forgetting about those, what was that, a month ago?
That was hysterical too.
I can't wait to see what innocent victim he shoots something off of next.
So Mike for this was arrested and indicted and put on trial.
Oh, that's good.
That's shocking news.
Instead of walking to court, he ordered his men to put his boat on a wagon and push it
through town to the court.
Sure.
Of course.
Yep.
Yep.
Yep.
Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep.
He said he, quote, felt at home nowhere but in his boat and among his men.
It's becoming strange and sad.
He told the judge.
It's like a whoopie.
He told the judge that he was just trying to fix the kid's foot so he could wear a proper shoe.
That is like such a classic, you've been caught with your hand in the cookie jar bullshit.
I cared about the kid.
It's a drunk guy excuse.
I cared about him.
I hope it's better.
I performed a medical procedure called shooting.
The judge did not buy this and found him guilty, but he didn't get much of a sentence because
he was soon right back on the river.
As compensation for what he'd done, Mike sent the slave, quote, a handful of silver to extract
the pain from his shortened heel.
By the way, I'm pretty sure he sent that to the owner and not the kid specifically.
Well, it's not shocking, but also shocking.
Yeah. Well that yeah, it's not shocking but also shocking. Yeah
At some point on his travels. He did run across Davy Crockett and they were probably the two most famous guys out there and
So they did have a meeting but we don't exactly know I tried to find it But most people are like he probably said this to him and he probably said this back. So
No one really knows but they, but they were both known
for being huge braggers.
Yeah, but Davey had the song.
Mike didn't have the song.
Yeah, he did have the song.
The song did it all for Davey.
Yeah, oh.
Yeah.
That's it.
I mean, imagine being such a good,
so what Davey Crockett, he went on the frontier
and he was just awesome and everyone was like, man.
No, we'll do one about Davey Crockett,
but it's not, it's definitely not.
We should write
A song for Mike. Yeah, you better think
Think about what you're trying to do something like that. Maybe
Not think you kind of ripped off the first one you ripped off another song
Yeah
William Ashley placed an ad in parallel St. Louis Intelligencer on September 17, 1822, seeking
able-bodied men of hard-working spirit to become engaged on the Missouri River fur trade.
Quote, To enterprising young men, the subscriber wishes to engage 100 young men to ascend the
Missouri River to its source, there to
be employed for one, two, or three years for particulars, inquire Major Andrew Henry near
the lead mines of the County of Washington.
Okay.
So, Mike Talbot and Carpenter join up with this new company.
Of course.
They're the perfect guys for the job.
They're boatmen, they're
trappers, they're hunters. Other men in the company included Hugh Glass and Jedidiah Smith.
Jesus Christ. So we've got a dollop, a boat, a dollop boat basically. A ballop. So we've
got all these guys sharing a project. Three dollops in one boat, basically.
By late October, they traveled to the mouth of the Yellowstone River and built a fort.
Now you call it a fort, but it's probably just a fort.
Pillows.
Shack.
Yeah.
All the while, they're hunting and trapping animals who are just mining their own business
out in nature and making this company rich.
They're just making tons of money.
Then a small party breaks off and walks up the Missouri River on foot with instructions
to hunt and trap.
Fink, Jedidiah Smith, and William Carpenter are part of that group.
They get to their destination, which is the mouth of the Mussel Shell River, and they
make really crude sort of dwellings, places to live in for the time they're going to be
there.
Smith, quote, our houses being finished were well prepared for the increasing cold.
When the weather had at length become extremely cold, that ice strong and firm across the
river, we were astonished to see the buffalo come pouring in from all sides into the valley, and particularly the vast bands that came
from the north and crossed over to the south side of the ice.
We therefore had them in thousands around us and nothing more required of us than to
select and kill the best for our use whenever we might choose.
So they're just meat.
There's just meat there.
Meat and pikes. Shoot buffaloes at will. Sure. So they're just meat. There's just meat there. Meat and heights.
Shooting buffaloes at will.
Yeah.
One legend said Fick had 100 rifle balls
and he said he would bring in 100 choice hides
and meet that night and he did.
So he killed 100 in a day.
It's pretty great.
Yeah, it's awesome.
That's what nature.
That's what happened, right?
I mean, the heights just took out all the buffalo.
Massacred, yeah.
And then at some point just killed them to kill the Native Americans.
Yeah, right.
Cool.
Yeah, it's super cool.
But the Native Americans were upset at this time because they would just take the hide
and the meat and they're like, you know there's tons of other stuff on the buffalo
that you should take to use, like you use the whole animal.
Yeah.
Now Mike and Carpenter are roommates.
They live in a cave that they carved out of the river
in Bankman.
So this is disgusting.
This is like, these are pig mud people.
These are terrible.
This is awful.
The smell, everything, it's dirt. It's just guys in dirt.
It's muggy, it's wet.
Yeah, it's terrible.
There's nothing about this that is-
They're not, there's no soap.
No, this is a bad-
They're working hard.
It's a bad thing.
Just...
So they hole up there for the winter,
and at some point they have a serious disagreement.
And others have to come over and get involved and calm them down. No one knows exactly what they
were fighting about, but it sounds like a Native American woman was part of it.
So they're fighting over a lady. Apparently, they're both into her. And Mike did have a kid that was born in Yellowstone,
so maybe it was over that woman.
Another belief is that it was over a bet,
but either way, they aren't getting along
in their little mud cave.
Sure.
Which is hard to believe,
because usually in that kind of comfortable situation,
you're just getting along.
It's hard to nitpick when you're doing so well.
Yeah.
In the spring, they head back to the fort, and when they get there, they hit the whiskey
pretty hard.
Uh-oh.
By the way, a government regulation forbade the use of free alcohol at trading posts on
the Missouri River, which caused a lot of disagreement between the men and the commander,
Major Henry.
So, Mike seemed to be the most upset
about the not drinking thing.
I feel, and I don't want to push him,
maybe had a little bit of a drinking issue.
Yeah, I would say this should be called
drunk man out west.
Maybe he was a little, he liked to get wet.
Yeah, I mean, yeah.
He liked to get wet. Yeah.
I mean, yeah.
The West to him is like the fart chair to my dad.
Well, let's all take a minute.
Let that think in.
I got to see if my sister has a picture of him in the chair.
I honestly, I don't even know if I want to know.
I don't know if I want to see that.
I told you my agent is obsessed with that.
Yeah, he used to be my agent.
Yeah.
He loves it.
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Super good guy.
The greatest.
Yeah.
The Knoxville Register quote, one of his freaks was to march with his rifle into the fort
and demand a supply of spirits.
I love the framing of one of his freaks.
That feels like a thing.
That feels like a TikTok trend, like, what are you freaks?
He would walk in.
So his freak is essentially to get liquor at gunpoint.
Yeah, from the major in charge.
I got weird quirks.
Yeah, one of my quirks.
One of my weird things. I like to liquor-rob the people above me. To demand my nephew just sent me
a text. Uh-oh. Biden dropped out. No. Oh, I'm getting a shitload of texts. So yeah, this must have happened. I am too now.
My sister and Graham Elwood and Katie Helper.
Oh yeah, we're getting there.
And Josh Olson.
Yeah.
It's Jover.
Jover.
Joey B out.
This is like, I was doing a live podcast with Karen Kugarev and Greg Barrett when Osama bin Laden got killed.
Oh, wow.
So it's like that.
It's like one of those moments.
Wow.
Well, what a hard to believe, but also even harder to believe is that tomorrow he won't
remember and we'll keep running for president.
I really am like, okay, it's like a breakup.
Okay, you've had the breakup conversation and now it's a little of like, now what?
Now I'm going to stay out of it.
You know a joke I tried out last night?
I thought of it right before I went on stage and and I was with two buddies, and I told them
and they started laughing.
I was like, I'll do that.
I went up there, I said it.
It was a silent, I can't remember the last time I got less of a reaction to a joke.
I was like, it was legitimately crazy and I opened with it.
I did a quick little thing, but then I like first joke. I was like, here's a joke
I was like and it's strange that Trump got shot in the head and Biden went down
God it was the most snake eyes. He is snake eyes. That's a good joke
That's what I thought and I had like a follow-up thing that I'd said like off the cuff to them, too
But I was like, I can't say there's no
You got to rip the get out of here fast. No, you can't tag once you get silence. There's no tagging
Yeah, you're not like although here's a callback. Although I've seen a lot of people do that. Oh, yeah
Yeah, okay. So he likes to go in to the forward and demand booze
Yeah, so Mike was denied by the majors, so he shot a ball through the cask
and then walked up and filled his can
from the whiskey coming out of the hole.
Okay, badass.
And other people then lined up behind him and did the same.
Well, cause he probably didn't think,
I should have shot a little higher up,
that thing's got fully drained.
Ha ha ha ha ha.
Mike was not punished as it was chalked up to his quote, queer ways.
Sure.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, it's like when you have a fucking amazing, it's like Rodman.
You're like, look, it's kind of crazy, but he gets a lot of rebounds.
So let's let him do some stuff.
Drinking revives the argument between Mike and Carpenter.
And once again again others intervene
and they agree to let it go, but it's simmering.
As evidence of the piece, Mike said they should do their old classic, shooting whiskey cups
from each other's heads.
I don't know if you should do that when you have a ton of tension with the other guy.
Mike said it would show their trust and the confidence they had in each other.
I don't like that.
I'm going to flag this setup now.
Well, who would shoot first was obviously very important.
Yeah, because who's going to kill the other guy.
So to decide that, Mike said they should, quote, spin.
Why don't we shoot hands off each other's head to figure out who goes first?
Mike said they should sky a copper, so that's to flip a coin.
Sky a copper?
Why did that go away?
I know there are things that should not have gone away, right?
Sky a copper is amazing.
For the Super Bowl?
All right, we're going to sky a copper.
So Mike won.
Uh-oh.
So he's going to shoot first.
And at that point, Carpenter said he thought Mike planned to shoot and kill him because
Mike couldn't let anything go.
But Carpenter's not about to back down because he had made an agreement and you don't walk
away from an agreement.
So he just-
No.
Yeah.
You hold onto your integrity when you're not alive.
So he just prepares to die instead.
Okay.
He gives his rifle, bullet pouch, powder horn, belt, pistol, and money to Talbot and then
goes to the spot where they're going to do the shooting thing.
He filled the cup all the way up with whiskey and put it on his head.
And Mike loaded his rifle.
And Carpenter then stood there.
And Mike was about 60 yards away and he aims.
He said, quote, oh, that he lowered the gun.
And he said, quote, hold your noddle steady.
Noddle, it's gotta be noodle, it's noddle, it says noddle.
Hold your noddle, maybe I wrote it wrong,
but hold your noddle steady, Carpenter,
and don't spill the whiskey, as I shall want some presently.
Now I'd-
That would make you feel like he's not going to kill him.
Yeah, but if he shoots the cup, there's going to be no whiskey in it.
Dave, trying to get into the heads of these gentlemen.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
A fool's errand.
And then he shot Carpenter in the middle of the forehead.
Oh, Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ. Mike blew smoke out of the barrel of his gun while looking at
the body of Carpenter and then he said, quote, Carpenter, you have spilled the whiskey. And
someone then told him, Mike, you killed him. He's dead. Someone that said he was dead. And everyone's pretty upset at this point, especially by Mike's casual attitude.
But Mike apparently says he did not mean to kill him, quote, it's all a mistake for I
took as fine a bead on the black spot on the cup as I ever took on a squirrel's eye.
How did it happen?
Well, obviously, it's very clear what he's saying. It is the perfect coverup.
Yes. You can't, what are you going to do? They did it all the time.
Yeah. It's a high risk sport they were involved in.
Yeah. And then he cursed the rifle and the bullet and then he cursed himself.
Everyone's pretty suspicious, obviously, because they had argued and Mike also never missed.
By the way, that's the last time you play that game.
That's it.
You just put them in the rafters.
There's no law enforcement out there of any kind, right?
The men for years been afraid of Mike, so everyone just kind of lets it go.
If you were in his posse, you had to go like, oh, whoa, this party just
got crazy.
Mike, oh my Lord.
Well Carpenter is no more.
No, he's not around.
He is, that is a doornail.
You know what I loved is how you were like, don't spill that whiskey,
and then all that blood just oozed out of his head.
Yeah.
Man, oh, God damn.
Every day with you's a ride.
I love it, man.
I know, I'm pretty great.
You're a wild man.
Say I'm great, say I'm great.
You're great.
Yeah, funny too, right?
I'm funny.
And man, funny is an understatement.
You are hysterical.
Can I have your money?
Yes, take it all.
Yeah?
Okay, cool.
And the way that you've moved on so quickly from that cold-blooded shit is just, man,
I love it.
I love it.
I love it.
I love being around.
You're my man.
Yeah.
You're my guy.
Every day with you is just a ride that I don't want to leave.
Can I have your shoes?
Yes. Taking them off right now.
Okay, cool.
Have one and two. That snow is cold, but I dare you mind, my man. You are the best.
That's your wife back there, right?
Yes, it is. Yes, Kathy has been a supporter of mine.
I spend the night with her?
Absolutely. Kathy, get over here. Mike Brumannachta is you right now.
So there you go.
Have her at Boyle Boys.
This is your dog?
Yeah, that's right.
That's Lucy.
I don't have a dog.
She's a sweet little lady.
Yeah, well, now you do.
You're one dog richer, amigo.
And I know how you are with animals.
So cut her up, eat her, make steaks out of her, do whatever.
You're just a pleasure every minute.
A pleasure, if I may be totally honest with you.
Now that's your hand, right?
I have two of them.
I have one too many is what I like to say.
You need that?
Let's just get the hatchet over here and cut it right off.
I don't know what the hell you'd do with a hand.
I mean, it's not like you could do much with that.
I'm gonna put on a hat.
I'm gonna put on a hat.
Well, that's a crazy, that's upsetting to some people.
To me, I say, that's a funny chapeau, my friend.
Thank you.
My life is gonna get a lot more complicated
without that. And then the last thing,
I think, your tongue. Yeah, absolutely.
Yes, you should have it.
All I've been doing is licking your ass with it.
Why not just put it directly in there, my man?
Go ahead and slice that off.
Okay.
Well, why don't I do, I'll go tongue then hand, just so that I'm able to use both to
take the tongue out.
I'm just thinking a little strategy-wise here, so why don't we make sure that happens in
that order?
Use the knife.
Go ahead.
Yeah, okay.
All right.
Well, yeah, yeah, okay. All right. Well, yeah
Last thing is I'm gonna put a bullet in your head.
Except the one guy who held onto it pretty tight, the anger, the injustice of it all,
was Levi Talbot, who was probably Carpenter's best friend.
He thought Mikey just killed Carpenter, and so he vowed revenge when he got a chance.
So a few months later, Mike was on one, just ripped,
and he starts bragging that he'd killed Carpenter on purpose
and was happy to do it.
So Talbot quickly pulled out his pistol,
it was the one Carpenter had given him,
and he shot Mike in the heart.
I like the way that he's like, wants the opportunity,
like to me that's just like, once I have a moment to make it look like the way that he's like once the opportunity like to me
That's just like once I have a moment to make it look like an accident
He just is like you said a bunch of shit now. I'm gonna shoot your heart
Well, I think you got to be careful because there's no legal authorities
Yes, then he's just waiting for the right moment that the right motivated
Yeah, and that does then everyone be like well. he did say he killed a carpenter who was happy.
So I guess it works.
Nothing was done to Talbot, just like the same with Mike.
No one really had any authority.
Most probably didn't want to do anything because
it was justice, basically, for what he'd done to a carpenter.
And then on top of that, Talbot is also a terrifying person,
and no one wanted to be his enemy.
Three months later, Talbot was in the Arikara battle
and proved himself to be very cool and a great fighter.
And then 10 days after that,
he went for a swim in the Teton River and drowned.
So he didn't make it through that year either.
So they're both dead.
So all three guys are dead basically.
Okay, cool.
Logs from the expedition quote, Holly Wheeler died from wounds received from a bear. Mike
Fink shot carpenter Talbot soon shot Fink and not long after was himself drowned at the Tetons.
Wow. So that's like in the records of the expedition.
Mike Fink was called the last of the boatmen and word of his death then spread in newspapers.
There's different versions on how he died, but that seems to be the correct one.
Later in 1923, Blackfeet warriors were on the banks of the Missouri River.
They had just killed four American trappers and were looking for others to kill.
And then they came across-
In 1823?
Yes.
What did I say?
19? Yeah. Sorry, it says 19 here.
I just would love to picture 1923 like,
it's called the Charleston.
Hey, whoa, what the hell?
So they're looking for others and they come across
the crudely built Yellowstone Fort,
which is abandoned at this time.
And they want to fight, but there's no one there.
So they start ransacking it.
They find nothing inside
because they took everything when they left.
Outside, they find two graves,
which they dug up to pillage whatever,
clothes, valuables, whatever's inside,
and they found the bodies, quote,
a putrid state and left them without further molestation.
Within five years, Mike's grave was a landmark
for travelers to stop and see.
And his legend grew as stories were told about him.
And as the country expands, he's like this guy that everyone loves to talk about.
People also came to believe that Talbot had died while being transported on his way to
St. Louis to stand trial when he jumped overboard and drowned, but that's not true.
Oh, okay.
In 1829, the Vermont Aurora wrote, quote, at the court of Charlemagne, he might have
been a Roland.
With the Crusaders, he would have been the favorite of the Knight of the Lionhearts.
And in our revolution, he would have ranked with the Morgans and Puritans of the day.
He was a hero of a hundred fights and a leader of a thousand daring adventures.
Often at night, when his tired companions slept, he would take an excursion five or
six miles and return before morning, rich in spoil."
So after he died, they just came up with shit like that and he just became like-
It's really interesting.
He was just like a It's really interesting.
Like he was just like a huge asshole.
Yeah.
He's a drunken asshole.
Like he's just a huge dick and we're all like, man, they don't make them like this anymore.
And they still, like if you go and look up like his name, whatever, it'll be like, he's
just crazy daredevil.
You're like, no, he's a fucking drunken dick.
We really do, people are always trying to be like, man, it just used to be a man's man.
But it's like, people who got drunk all the time made everyone feel fucking uncomfortable,
took whatever the fuck they wanted.
The celebration of individuals like that is...
It's probably that. Yeah, like should the celebration of individuals like that is it's it's it's it's everywhere
There's this country's inability to like ever reassess its past and its history and instead we just are like
Man, they were awesome. And then if you like say they're not awesome, then people are man. You said it's like a
Woke canceler whatever but yeah, this guy just sounds like a fucking dick. Yeah
It's funny now
But it was what a horrible human to be around. Yeah, he was a fucking asshole, but now he's like
What a mountain man
Christ
but this is how a lot of the
people who love authoritarian types and whatnot love Trump.
This is because this spirit of America.
Yeah, right.
Right.
I think they even own it.
Your point, I think they own and admit the fact that he's just a prick.
And again, there are times where that makes you laugh a little bit, but it's certainly
not a philosophy to hinge your future to.
None of it is.
No.
No, it's bad.
It's bad.
It's all horrendous and it's just like, oh, man.
Yeah.
I don't know.
It's very strange what seems to just be bone deep in our culture.
Stop it. No more winking.
Take bone deep again.
No.
That's what makes me wink.
No.
Say it.
No, there's that story in the Howard Zinn book, The People's History, where it's like,
I don't know if it's the Spaniards or whatever it is, but a Spaniard just cuts someone's
throat and the natives are just like oh fuck. Yeah
They're just like that is so unmotivated. They're just like this is how we operate and they're all like what dude
Like and then like someone else like protest and they like cut their arm off and they're just like oh, we're dealing with like some
psychotic shit that
Yeah, that ever seen. That was Columbus shit. They were fucking just madmen.
That was all it really was. It wasn't like, oh, fantastic explorers. It was just like,
oh no, they would just do anything for gold.
And that was just different.
Yeah, dude. Good times.
Yeah, yeah. No, absolutely. I think the point is we're trying to say good times and it seems like a perfect segue to
remind people to go to join the dollar plus on the app.
Let's all enjoy the ride.
There you go.
All right.
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