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Hope you enjoy. 
But is there anything that you 

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guys know about Bonnie and Clyde
before? 

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Just that they're they were up 
to no good, I think. 

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I'm guessing they're murderers, 
yeah. 

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They still just have to teach 
us. 

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Yeah, I don't know. 
I picture them like zooming 

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around in a car and shooting the
cops and on the run and stuff 

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but I don't really know what 
happened. 

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Yeah. 
I know I knew of Bonnie and 

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Clyde, obviously, partially 
because in 2016 there's ATV show

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called Timeless. 
Shout out or comment or anything

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if you guys remember that show 
and watched it. 

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I loved it. 
It was one of my favorite shows.

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And then I got cancelled. 
But anyway, they had a whole 

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episode about Bonnie and Clyde 
and I thought that was really 

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interesting and it really turned
me on onto Bonnie and Clyde. 

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And then I think a year or two 
later for school, I took history

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through film class. 
We had to watch the 1967 Bonnie 

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and Clyde movie with Faye 
Dunaway and Warren Beatty, and 

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that was also interesting. 
So I learned a lot about them 

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because we also learned about 
the Great Depression and about 

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Bonnie and Clyde through that 
class. 

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So. 
And so Kate, what 3 words would 

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you use to describe this couple?
I would use passionate fun, Oh 

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cool and dangerous. 
No. 

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So maybe they didn't come, 
people. 

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Well there is that dangerous 
word to do this episode. 

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I read a couple books. 
One was Go Down Together, The 

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True Untold Story Bond Clyde by 
Jeff Gwynn Gwynn, Jeff Gwynn 

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Bonnie and Clyde. 
The Making of a Legends by Karen

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Blumenthal. 
Love that book. 

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Wholly recommend it. 
And Bonnie and Clyde, The Lives 

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Behind the Legend by Paul 
Schneider. 

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Yeah, but let's get into it. 
So to begin Clyde Chestnut 

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Barrow. 
Chestnut, yeah. 

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That's cool, that's his real 
middle name. 

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But later in life he kept saying
that his middle name was 

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Champion, but it was actually 
Chestnut. 

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This is our first Clyde on the 
podcast. 

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That's true. 
I don't think there's that many 

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others. 
I don't know any. 

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Other famous people. 
I don't know. 

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I don't know if I know any. 
Maybe this name like kind of? 

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Killed it. 
Yeah. 

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Maybe so. 
Yeah. 

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He was born on March 24th, 19 O 
9 or 1910. 

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No one's entirely sure in 
Telico, Texas. 

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He was the fifth child in his 
family out of seven. 

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He had four older siblings and 
two younger ones. 

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He was approximately 15 years 
younger than his eldest sibling 

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and nine years older than his 
youngest sibling. 

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So there's a big age gap. 
So he was the fifth child, I'm 

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7. 
So he was towards the end, he 

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was like one of the baby 
siblings and there's 15 years 

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between him and his eldest 
sibling and nine years between 

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him and his youngest siblings. 
Is that how can? 

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The parents be doing that. 
Maybe this? 

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Started early. 
Maybe the mom was like 19 or 

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something when she started and 
then. 

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Well, our. 40. 
Grandfathers mom had each of the

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kids 10 years apart but that 
even seemed wild to me. 

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Like 15 years and then wait, 
what is it, 15? 

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15 and 9. 
That's like a huge difference. 

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I know. 
Wow. 

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But there's seven kids spread 
out throughout that time period.

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So. 
But even despite the age grab, 

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Clyde got along really well with
his siblings. 

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He was very close to them, 
especially the ones obviously 

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closest in age to him. 
And his nickname in his family 

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was Bud because he was such a 
buddy to his siblings. 

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Yeah. 
And his parents were named Henry

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and Q Me. 
I kept reading it and I never 

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looked at the pronunciation. 
How do you spell it? 

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CUM i.e. 
I think it's also coming. 

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I think it might be coming for 
real. 

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OK, no wonder he turned out. 
That way, Yeah. 

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When Clyde was born, they were 
cotton farmers. 

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OK. 
And according to Clyde's mother,

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Cummy, as a child, he was a bit 
mischievous, having once been 

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caught stealing candy from a 
store. 

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But overall, he was a good boy. 
He's considering, playful and 

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full of life. 
What if it's not cummy? 

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I think it is cummy. 
What is the other like Cummy? 

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Cummy. 
I honestly think it's cummy 

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cummy. 
I think it's kill me. 

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OK, kill me, I'll just say kill 
me even though I think it's the 

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other one. 
But anyway, I don't think. 

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I mean she comes up a lot, but I
don't think I will say her much 

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her name much anyway. 
He liked to sing and dance. 

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He even taught himself how to 
play the guitar. 

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His dream was to be in a band 
and he was also recorded as 

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being a good shot with a gun. 
But he was also an avid animal 

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lover and didn't like to hunt. 
Clyde grew poor in a three room 

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shack alongside the rest of his 
family. 

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It was a tight squeeze, and so 
most the kids had to sleep on 

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pallets on the floor. 
Oh my God, I know. 

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And even with their own cotton 
farm to manage, more often than 

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not to make ends meet. 
To make ends meet, the parents 

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had to work as migrant workers 
on other people's farms. 

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The kids did too, but most 
usually they earned their keep 

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by picking cotton on their 
uncle's farm. 

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So Clyde kind of grew up working
as a cotton picker on various 

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farms. 
However, when Kai was about 13 

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in 1922, his family ditched 
farming altogether and moved to 

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the nearest city, which was 
Dallas, TX. 

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For the first years, Kai and his
family lived alongside 20 other 

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families under a bridge that ran
across Trinity River, which was 

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apparently very polluted at the 
time. 

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The the Barrows specifically 
lived under their wagon as they 

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didn't have a tent, but 
eventually they scrapped enough 

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material together to build a 
shack in the same area. 

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So under the bridge. 
They were really roughing it. 

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I know. 
It may be one of the poorest 

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upbringings we've ever heard 
about. 

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I think. 
So Oh my God. 

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I really think it is. 
It was a big surprise to me 

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because I knew of Bonnie and 
Clyde, but I didn't really know 

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in depth their backgrounds. 
Yeah, I really know most after, 

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like, when they were already 
together. 

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Yeah. 
So when Clyde was 16 he left 

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school and began working full 
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First at a candy company and 
then a soap factory, movie 

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theatre, an auto paint shop, a 
glass company and on and on, on 

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many odd jobs and most of all 
the money he made he gave to his

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parents. 
And when he wasn't working in 

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his free time, Clyde learned how
to play the saxophone from his 

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brother-in-law. 
He also started dating a girl 

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named Eleanor and he even got 
her initials tattooed on his 

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left forearm. 
Wow. 

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And then later on he got at 
least three other girls initials

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tattooed on his arm. 
That's like that Norman 

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Rockwell. 
Painting. 

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Yeah. 
It's like crossing an out and 

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then a new name. 
Yeah. 

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Yeah. 
So he had plenty of tattoos and 

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a lot of them were initials of 
other. 

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Girls, I feel like if you were 
dating someone and he already 

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had his exes tattooed on him, 
he'd be like, well, is there 

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something wrong with me? 
You need to get me tattooed on. 

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Yeah, it's like now you have to 
do this every time. 

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All right, I will have to stop 
the episode right there. 

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