Part One: Jim Bowie: The Worst Texan | BEHIND THE BASTARDS

Bowie fought heroically(?) so I could drink margaritas and eat fajitas across the street from The Alamo, then stumble around the river walk.

Now, as a fella who grew up in Texas, I was going to be mighty disappointed if you didn't have a proper good ol' boy as a guest for this episode, but then I heard the voice of Billy Wayne Davis, music to my ears, like the strummin' of a guitar, and realized I had nothing to fear. Edit: Christ, that sandbar fight. Everyone really wanted Bowie dead. Like, I see how they made that into a legend for him, but you really have to ask yourself "how is it that so many people are so determined to kill me? Maybe I should examine my life? Naw. It's probably everybody else."

Ahhh yes, Texas history class. That’s a suppressed memory

"At POINT. BLANK. RANGE." - Ron White 😂😂😂

As a person who spends a lot of time in both cities, you got Nacogdoches (Texas) right, but Natchitoches (Lou'siana) is pronounced "Nackadish", because Cajuns. Legend I heard (probably in Texas History class) is the towns are named after the tribes we stole the land from (true), and those tribes were founded by two brothers with similar names who set off three days in either direction from their pa the chief's town to found their own settlements (questionable).

This gun fight sounds like the game grumps skit "and I shoot, and I miss, and I shoot again, and I miss" 🤭

Bowie: "While you were developing ethics, I studied the blade."

"The fair ones are women" Oh I assumed they were fae. Wait a minute... THAT'S WHY THEY'RE TAKING OUR NAMES!

BWD is such a great guest! Not that it's unusual on this show, but it's worth mentioning.

Appalachian area names are basically a crap shoot on spelling as many were picked because they sounded neat so it's not unusual for Reason to be changed to Resin. It's also not odd for a name to be associated with gender we might not expect. For example, several women were named Homer. The history of names in that region of the US is kind of interesting

It's too bad there was no S.E.C. back then, because it sounds like Jim Bowie invented insider slaving.

God damn knife technicals are such a cool idea!

Are they missing or misfiring? Probably a bit damp in the middle of a river.

Resin Bowie sounds like a sociopath.

Rezin is an obscure character from the Old Testament, so that's probably where the name came from. The classic baby-naming technique of "open the Bible to a random page and pick the first name you see". Very popular when people had 10+ kids and less than half of them lived to age 5.

Nac is Nac, and that is that. You should look into the city a little closer, there's some real bastards there. :)

Nobody had "sixguns" then. All single shot weapons.

Come on... the worst Texan? How can you even narrow it down with so many candidates?