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Wow. 

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But who are we talking about 
today, Kel? 

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Oh my goodness. 
We are talking about we are 

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talking about a Wild West 
couple. 

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Today we are going back to the 
Old West. 

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We were talking about Annie 
Oakley. 

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Have you heard of her? 
Yeah, I heard her and her love. 

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Frank Butler. 
Frank E Butler. 

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I never knew that she was in a 
relationship me. 

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Neither I OK, I'm just gonna 
give a little back story. 

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I was not intending to do this 
couple by any means. 

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They were not on the list. 
They weren't even on my radar. 

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But I was randomly feeling the 
Wild West. 

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I was in the mood to talk about 
it. 

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Maybe because my dad let me the 
book version of Once Upon a Time

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in Hollywood by Quentin 
Tarantino and that has a lot of 

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Old West, you know, what's his 
name? 

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Rick Dalton is like in a Western
show. 

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So and then Killers of the 
Flower Moon is kind of Old West 

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thing. 
We just saw Beyoncé's gone 

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country. 
I don't know, there's just a lot

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of Western stuff. 
Power the Dog was like 2 years 

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ago. 
I don't know, the West is just 

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on my mind. 
So I started looking up people 

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from the Wild West, and I wanted
to pick out a name I knew, like 

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somebody notable that I'd heard 
of before. 

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But a lot of the people I was 
looking up had kind of messed up

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love lives like Butch Cassidy, 
Jesse James, Buffalo Bill, 

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Calamity Jane, all these people 
like I'd heard of, they did not 

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have very cute love stories. 
Sometimes they're pretty fucked 

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up. 
I even thought about doing 

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Sacagawea and her husband. 
I was like, oh, I didn't know if

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she had a husband. 
No, that was not a good story. 

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So I was like, I don't know. 
And then, so then I had always 

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heard of Andy Oakley, but I 
honestly didn't even know who 

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she was or what she was famous 
for. 

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And I just started reading 
briefly about her and realized 

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that she actually had a really 
cute love story, so wanted to 

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share it with you guys. 
So. 

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What? 
3 words would you use to 

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describe this couple? 
3 words I would use to describe 

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Annie and Frank would be mutual 
respect if that's two words and 

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rifles. 
Rifles. 

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Rifles. 
Like guns. 

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Oh, OK. 
Is the Old West right? 

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OK, so Annie Oakley, if you guys
didn't know, she was a 

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sharpshooter and so was her 
husband. 

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What does that mean, Butler? 
So yeah, that's not a type of 

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person. 
I think this is the first, 

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definitely the first 
sharpshooter we've had on the 

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podcast. 
Probably the last sharpshooter 

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is basically somebody who is 
skilled with a rifle at hitting 

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targets and that's their job. 
I mean, she would travel around 

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and do all these shows where she
would shoot moving discs or 

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glass balls or birds, sadly. 
I mean that's kind of just part 

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of hunting, I guess so. 
Like she did for entertainment. 

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Like to entertain? 
Yes. 

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Oh, OK. 
Yeah, probably the only one 

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We'll. 
Cover. 

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Yeah, probably. 
You don't really see many sharp 

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shooters these days, but she was
considered the best sharp 

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shooter ever, basically. 
Like, nobody could beat her. 

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She was the best. 
And that's that's her kind of 

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fame. 
And there was even a 1946 

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musical about her and Frank 
called Annie, Get Your Gun, 

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which I've heard of before. 
OK Yeah. 

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And I have not seen this movie, 
guys. 

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I kind of want to watch it after
I do this, 'cause I didn't want 

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it to, you know, interfere. 
Cause I've heard that the way 

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they depict her and Frank is 
like, completely inaccurate, 

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like completely just changed 
their personalities. 

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But that's that is the musical 
that has the song that goes. 

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Anything you can do, I can do 
better. 

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Do you know that song? 
Yeah. 

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Why did I think that musical was
like a spin off of Annie the 

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musical I Orphan Annie? 
Yeah, I mean, I don't know. 

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Maybe Orphan Annie is inspired 
by Annie Oakley. 

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I who knows? 
I read that the sunglasses 

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Oakleys were named after the The
Founder. 

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His dog was named Oakley Ann. 
So interesting. 

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The sunglasses are kind of named
after her, too, but I was 

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thinking before I got started 
with this, cause The thing is, 

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Annie, even though she's 
associated with the Wild West, 

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she wasn't actually a Wild West 
person, and we'll get into this 

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later. 
But she wasn't actually an 

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outlaw like out in a town on a 
horse, like shooting at people 

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after she robbed, robbed a bank 
or anything. 

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She was famous for her skills at
shooting and traveling and 

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performing. 
And then I was just thinking, 

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like, when was the Wild West? 
Like, when did it start and when

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did it end? 
And I'm sure people that, like, 

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live out in Wyoming and you 
know, the Dakotas and stuff, I'm

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sure they know this much better 
than us, 'cause we're from New 

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England. 
But it's not as interesting 

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because, like the Lewis and 
Clark expedition was like 1804. 

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So this is like when people 
define it as like when European 

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settlers were settling in the 
Western US and I guess before 

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there was like that much law 
enforcement, you know, the 

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Oregon Trail was in use by 1830.
So some people say that the Wild

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West was like over by 1890, but 
some people say it went on even 

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through, like the 1920s. 
So it's kind of like a vague 

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time period. 
Kind of depends where you are 

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and how you define it. 
But anyway, the Wild West was. 

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Wild, because it just like 
hadn't been explored as much 

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yet, so there wasn't as much law
enforcement and everything. 

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I think just because it was such
a vast place. 

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There wasn't like surveillance 
on what they were doing. 

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I mean, yeah, it's it's 
interesting because I read that 

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you would be surprised how much 
there actually was in certain 

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towns. 
But I think just because it's so

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rural and people would just, I 
don't know, ride off. 

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It was it was just a new way of 
life, I guess. 

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But I don't think it was 
actually quite as crazy as 

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people think. 
It was like shootouts in the 

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street all the time, you know? 
But we'll get into it anyway. 

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Who is? 
Who the heck even is Annie 

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Oakley? 
All right, I will have to stop 

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