I kept trying to remember the time she used it. It was nearly 55 years ago. She was talking about her brother beating the crap out of some feller that made an rude remark about her father. She chuckled and said “Oscar was a Gen-u-wine huckleberry!”
@@WildWestExtravaganza when I was younger I tried to recreate it except I had a glass cup and I think you can guess how that went, lol my parents were none too pleased
I really loved this episode, history is amazing and the way you put a bit of humor in, makes it even more special. Thank you and have a Happy Holiday Season. Sandi Davis
My favorite Tombstone quote is during the Latin battle between Johnny Ringo and Doc Holliday, when Johnny Ringo says "Age Quod Agis" - meaning "do what you do best". You cannot imagine how many times I say that to myself when I find crazy stuff in the world.
Don't sell yourself short...you have the most important thing...you have a HEART. Thanks for all your hard work..the results are so enjoyable and entertaining...not to mention ACCURATE. Happy Holidays!!!
Goddamn Dave! It’s always Dave, thanks for finally outting him! Thanks for straightening out the poor misguided souls that need their ears unplugged. It has been a pleasure being here ever since I first found your channel way back in “The Bloody Beaver” days. You have given me and so many others so many hours of outright enjoyment Josh. That being said, I wish you a very Merry Christmas and a happy, healthy and safe New Year to you and your family. Cheers Josh! 🇨🇦
And once again, someone confirms my article from 2004, debunking the reenacterism about "hucklebearers". I directed the show at the OK Corral from 2007-2013. I had to put up with every idiot that wadled down the boardwalk in a brand new cowboy suit telling me the same crap some other reenacter told them. Too bad they all believe it so adamantly. A huckleberry to a persimmon was once an expression of comparison. A huckleberry was a small, bruised looking fruit and a persimmon was larger and lusher. Anything that compared as less than another thing. A slave to a master, boss to employee, etc. If you had to do a job ordered by an employer you might say "I'm your huckleberry" just as you might nowadays say, "you're the boss." Reenacters are generally nothing more than geriatric cosplayers. When I ran the show it was theatre, not a bunch geezers mistaking an audience for a student body and themselves for history professors.
Here is a fun factoid: a misheard lyric is called a mondegreen. It comes from a misheard lyric from the ballad "The Bonny Earl of Murray". The lyric “layd him on the green" was misheard as “Lady Mondegreen".
@Wild West Extravaganza Not a worry. Quality derived from effort deserves recognition. I know the amount of work it takes to produce a video. You, sir, will continue to rise and succeed. Let's see you get off that forklift! You deserve it
Lmao, like you when I get frustrated while bass fishing " it's like I'm fishing with my brothers kids " unfortunately, I say this almost every time I'm on the water . I thought I was the only one LMAO .
“I’m your huckleberry” is for sure what he said. It’s an older common expression that is in reference to huckleberries being available for foraging nearly year round. In survival situations there is always some part of that plant you can get nutrition from, hence the expression.
Great video! Thanks. Oh, and my favorite line is when they are putting an end to the cowboys and Doc and another man open the door to a hotel room and the other man yell's "Don't move!". The cowboy is in bed with a young lady and Doc says " Nonsense, by all means, move." I love that line!
I’m glad you cleared that up. I had never even heard of Huckle bearer until my sister came back from a random trip. She went to tombstone a few years back. She said one of the role players that worked there had told her that huckleberry was wrong and he didn’t have much logic behind why it was wrong, other than what you stated in your podcast. I have often wondered what was correct and I’m really glad that you cleared that up.
It's a lot simpler than the urban legend tries to make it. "I'm your Huckleberry" is probably referencing the character of Huckleberry Finn, the best friend of Tom Sawyer and deuteragonist of the extremely popular book, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain, which came out about five years before the events of Tombstone. In the book, Finn was always by Tom's side ready to stand up for him, and also always ready to get into a fight or some other mischief, so Holliday was saying, "I'm Wyatt's best friend, and I'm ready to throw down if you are." It's also of note that both times this line is spoken, he always says it specifically to Johnny Ringo, who he mentions earlier in the film is an "educated man", expressing to Ringo (and the audience) that he has in fact read this fairly recent but very popular book and is as smart as he claims.
I hear ya but apparently the first known case of the phrase "I'm your Huckleberry" in print was in 1853, 20 years before Mark Twain published his first book. It may be the other way around, or perhaps Twain helped to popularize it.
Love the show 🤠 thanks for making it 🤠 remember the one you done on John Wesley Hardin you was making a joke about his horse and how it was the first Starbucks etc etc it was hilarious 🤣
This is crazy. A guy at work (a few days ago) told me I was wrong about Doc saying "I'm your Huckleberry." He said , nope it's Huckle Bearer. I believed him, lol! I'm glad I saw this video. He said the same stuff...it was what they called a handle on a coffin and such shit. Thanks for the info!
I was brought here through a comment section on a different posting. I learned a lot through your explanation. I honestly always thought it was a misrepresentation of the texan accent, but realized it is actually "huckleberry". Thanks Val Kilmer.
Huckleberries are a pretty common sight in the US. When you hear hooves, think horses, not zebra, unless you are in the Serengeti. The adventures of Tom Sawyer was published about 5 years before OK Corral, and Huck Finn was about 4 years after. Mark Twain was a superstar. While it's doubtful that Doc Holiday was referencing a book during a confrontation involving guns, it is well known that an author like Twain would use terminology readily understandable to the common American at the time. Folks are familiar with a huckleberry. It's like using a bread box to describe a size in the 1950s.
I had just always heard the word Huckleberry first in the Hanna Barbera cartoon Huckleberry Hound. I just thought it to mean like the exact one for the job . That cartoon came out in 1958,so whoever thought the cartoon up, MUST have known that saying prior to 1958 sometime???? Where did THEY learn it from???
Absolutely Great movie. I say the same Billy Bob line you do.....but I also use the line " I'm sure of it, I hate him" from the first meeting between Doc & Johnny
I rally enjoyed your comments on this subject. I’ve watched the movie several times and as far as I’m concerned Doc Holliday (Val Kilmer) said Huckleberry, end of discussion. Val Kilmer put so much work into the portrayal of Doc Holliday, it kind of makes one wonder what Doc epwas really like, as long as you stayed on “his good side”.
My cousins, my bff and I ALL constantly quote this movie (as well as Young Guns)! Whenever I'm going to Oklahoma to visit I always tell them, You tell 'em I comin - and hells comin with me!!! :)
Man, I found this episode right on time ! So a week or two ago my wife tells me this mistruth & I says NA . Doc would’ve never offered to tote Johnny Ringo to his grave because he’d rather see the maggots eating his eyeballs! I told her it’s Huckleberry always had been & for evermore will be. So of course we had to watch it we really didn’t mind ( I think she likes it for the all star line up of mustaches ) because it’s one of the best. Now with you presenting facts this morning sold her! So thank you again for your wonderful work.
Here's another way we know "huckle bearer" never existed: At the end of them movie, narrator Robert Mitchum speaks this line: "Wyatt Earp died in Los Angeles in 1929. Among the pallbearers at his funeral, were early western stars William S. Hart and Tom Mix. Tom Mix wept." "Among the pallbearers at his funeral" Why not "among the huckle bearers"? Some folks claim Val Kilmer flubbed the line. That's nonsense. Don't they realize that if he had, the director would have simply yelled "CUT" and they would have done it again and again until it was right? Also, don't they think a legend like Robert Mitchum would have also gotten it right? The man was born in 1917. He was 12 when Wyatt Earp died. If "huckle bearer" had been a real term, he would have clearly known it.
A lot of old timers used the term Huckleberry as a slang or derogatory word for a "Dandy". I have heard my grandfather use the word this way many times.
Well done Josh! Just my opinion here, but I'm reading through Shelby Foote's amazing trilogy on the civil war and I think our nation today is woefully ignorant when it comes to history (myself included). At the very least it's a contributing factor to all the BS revisionist history and rumors like "hucklebearer" we're seeing today. I really like how your podcast has evolved from telling cool old west stories with raunchy humor to telling history, and separating fact from fiction... still with humor but not as raunchy. Lol. I can listen to most episodes now without looking to see if the kids are around. Well done!
You should do an episode on jedidiah smith. He was killed not far from where I live in kansas. There was a rumor that a body scout troop back in the 30s or 40s possibly found the bodies of him and the Indian chief that he killed, but they could never find the spot again... I'm a local and I could never substantiate these claims... to be honest I'm not even sure if there was a boyscout troop around here at the time... it's possible though!
Thank you for doing your part to fight the rising tide of stupidity. If you ever have the opportunity, check out the annual Huckleberry Festival in Spokane, Washington. 😊
All very interesting theories. I read that in the 1800's southeast region sometimes pallbearers wore sprigs of huckleberry leaves in the lapel button holes of their jackets to signify their job during a funeral.
There was Huckleberry Hound, a Hanna Barbera animated dog in the Yogi Bear animated show. Huckleberry had a show. He was a blue dog with a straw hat. You omitted this when you were mentioned huckleberries.
@@WildWestExtravaganza The cartoon character that shares the same name as Mark Twain's character is Huckleberry "Huck" Hound, an anthropomorphic Bluetick Coonhound created by Hanna-Barbera in 1958, in which the term "huckleberry" can be a slang expression for a rube or an amateur, or a mild expression of disapproval. Huckleberry is a real berry as well.
You mean I didn't grow up reading about Hucklebearer Finn, and watching the Hucklebearer Hound cartoon? These "huckle bearer" folks don't think about that
This was - and still is - one of the most interesting and entertaining shows ( just in time for Christmas )you’ve done. Which is a good Segway to the true intent for writing this comment. . . Merry Christmas to you, your family and friends. Enjoy the season and have a cool Yule.
I thought it was a clear reference to Mark Twain's "Tom Sawyer" (1876) where Tom gets his friend Huckleberry Finn all psyched up to paint a fence for him. In this context, "I'm your Huckleberry" would mean "I'm your enthusiastic replacement".
Pre dating doesn't mean much. Tom Sawyer was released a few years before the OK Corral shootout. Holiday was well read man and was making a reference to a new book. A continuation of their mental games from the gambling house. Using a book reference to accept the challenge to a gun fight seems to make so much more sense.
Great episode as always Josh out of all the Wild West era people I always found Doc Holliday the most interesting to read up on. Do you have any plans for any other podcast of anyone from the Tombstone era?. Like maybe Billy Breckinridge or Curly Bill Brocious, Frank Stiwell or maybe Johnny Behan?
Ok I've obviously never thought about this in depth enough. I just assumed based on my Southern Definition of Huckleberry that he was saying "I'll be that piece of s**t that hangs around aggravating you" 😂
My favorite line from tombstone is probably the whole conversation between Ike and doc at the poker table table. Maybe poker just isn’t your game ike, I know. Let’s have a spelling contest! It’s been a couple years so that may be a little off but we all know the scene. Also the way do drunkenly laughs and Ike gets pissed literally makes me laugh. Really you can quote almost any of that movie and the line is a banger. So good lol
I only noticed one omission but, fear not. I'm your huckleberry!. When discussing songs that people frequently hear but misunderstand the lyrics, I would add my favorite example, CCR's Bad Moon Rising. As John Fogarty sings in the refrain, "There's a bathroom on the right." I'm sure that's correct, ain't it? 😮
I never knew how much I needed wield west info until I found Josh & THE WILD WEST EXTRAVAGANZA!! @JOSH,THE WILD WEST EXTRAVAGANZA thank u 4 the hard & detailed work u put in 2 this channel 4 us!! PLZ KEEP THIS SUNBITCH! ROLLN! Because ur doing a GREAT JOB!! Thank u Brother! Huge fan Danny SparX.
I’m accepting Val Kilmer’s explanation. He should have received an Oscar for his portrayal for Holiday
I'm still mad he didnt get one for mad mardigan.
I absolutely agree!
Never heard the term ‘Huckle Bearer’ before the internet. I HAVE heard ‘Huckleberry’ from my grandmother and she was born in 1881.
I kept trying to remember the time she used it. It was nearly 55 years ago. She was talking about her brother beating the crap out of some feller that made an rude remark about her father. She chuckled and said “Oscar was a Gen-u-wine huckleberry!”
Same here, my grandparents also were born in the south, in the 1880's I've heard "Huckleberry" but never "huckle bearer"
Look darling wild west extravaganza. The best wild west podcast since bloody Beaver podcast they say.😁
It appears that the wild West is an educated man. Now, I really hate him.
@@jasonrigler7020 🤣
Should I hate him?
@@dumdubbs2427 yup, I hate him
Ain’t that a daisy!
Thank you Josh! This is my favorite Wild West show to listen to. I'll be a fan for as long as you put out material.
Thanks man
Thank you for clearing up Huckleberry for those that can't hear ! But I'm disappointed that you never brought up Huckleberry Hound, he was a cowboy!
Why that’s a right smart dog there.
The part where he spins the tin cup like a gun is my favorite doc moment in tombstone
I love that scene
@@WildWestExtravaganza when I was younger I tried to recreate it except I had a glass cup and I think you can guess how that went, lol my parents were none too pleased
I really loved this episode, history is amazing and the way you put a bit of humor in, makes it even more special.
Thank you and have a Happy Holiday Season. Sandi Davis
My favorite Tombstone quote is during the Latin battle between Johnny Ringo and Doc Holliday, when Johnny Ringo says "Age Quod Agis" - meaning "do what you do best". You cannot imagine how many times I say that to myself when I find crazy stuff in the world.
Don't sell yourself short...you have the most important thing...you have a HEART. Thanks for all your hard work..the results are so enjoyable and entertaining...not to mention ACCURATE. Happy Holidays!!!
Why, Josh! You're not wearing a bustle. How lewd.
Goddamn Dave!
It’s always Dave, thanks for finally outting him!
Thanks for straightening out the poor misguided souls that need their ears unplugged.
It has been a pleasure being here ever since I first found your channel way back in “The Bloody Beaver” days.
You have given me and so many others so many hours of outright enjoyment Josh.
That being said, I wish you a very Merry Christmas and a happy, healthy and safe New Year to you and your family.
Cheers Josh! 🇨🇦
Josh get out there and kick ass!!!! I really appreciate your time with this.
And once again, someone confirms my article from 2004, debunking the reenacterism about "hucklebearers".
I directed the show at the OK Corral from 2007-2013. I had to put up with every idiot that wadled down the boardwalk in a brand new cowboy suit telling me the same crap some other reenacter told them.
Too bad they all believe it so adamantly.
A huckleberry to a persimmon was once an expression of comparison. A huckleberry was a small, bruised looking fruit and a persimmon was larger and lusher. Anything that compared as less than another thing. A slave to a master, boss to employee, etc.
If you had to do a job ordered by an employer you might say "I'm your huckleberry" just as you might nowadays say, "you're the boss."
Reenacters are generally nothing more than geriatric cosplayers. When I ran the show it was theatre, not a bunch geezers mistaking an audience for a student body and themselves for history professors.
Just feeding the algorithm Josh! Broham, your good humor & humility are a balm to this rickety Soul!!
Thanks Fred
Favorite Line from Tombstone;
“Skin that smoke wagon!” Which can be deviated to “smoke that skin wagon!”
I prefer my skin wagon not be skunt 😂
Josh I'm glad you covered this because I've never heard them say anything besides huckleberry but now I can prove them wrong thanks man
Here is a fun factoid: a misheard lyric is called a mondegreen. It comes from a misheard lyric from the ballad "The Bonny Earl of Murray". The lyric “layd him on the green" was misheard as “Lady Mondegreen".
@nathanielgreer.. 💀..That IS Verry Cool Factoid..BAM !!!
Very well produced Josh. Beautiful audio recording and mixing. Concise script, delivered well. Keep up the great work!
Thank you, Matt
@Wild West Extravaganza Not a worry. Quality derived from effort deserves recognition. I know the amount of work it takes to produce a video. You, sir, will continue to rise and succeed. Let's see you get off that forklift! You deserve it
Too kind! Thank you again
Huckleberry it is, you sir have proved your point beyond a reasonable doubt.. I no long have to lay awake night after night pondering this question.
Sleep soundly
Hellfire, we all say berry . Thought everyone did.
Can't wait until 2023! Great job!
Lmao, like you when I get frustrated while bass fishing " it's like I'm fishing with my brothers kids " unfortunately, I say this almost every time I'm on the water . I thought I was the only one LMAO .
Great listen as always. Especially looking forward to talks on mountain men, as that was my first historical interest. Wish you a great new year!
I love your show, I listen every chance I get, love your explanation of this, I love stories of the old west, keep em coming
“I’m your huckleberry” is for sure what he said. It’s an older common expression that is in reference to huckleberries being available for foraging nearly year round. In survival situations there is always some part of that plant you can get nutrition from, hence the expression.
The term "huckleberry" can be a slang expression for a rube or an amateur, or a mild expression of disapproval.
Bread and born in the south I've always heard huckel "berry", love your material Mr. Josh a fan always👍✌and merry Christmas to you and your family🎄
Early Victorian coffin handles were called 'grips' otherwise they are handles and nothing more.
That is as clear as can be. It was “huckleberry”. Thank you.
Good thing the news doesn’t tell us stuff we never check on..
Yeah but I thought everyone heard it at huckleberry but it was wrong and there were videos and everything ffs
Doc also says, 'You're a daisy if you do.' as an answer to someone in the film which always gave me the impression he liked to use flowery metaphors.
Great video! Thanks. Oh, and my favorite line is when they are putting an end to the cowboys and Doc and another man open the door to a hotel room and the other man yell's "Don't move!". The cowboy is in bed with a young lady and Doc says " Nonsense, by all means, move." I love that line!
I’m glad you cleared that up. I had never even heard of Huckle bearer until my sister came back from a random trip. She went to tombstone a few years back. She said one of the role players that worked there had told her that huckleberry was wrong and he didn’t have much logic behind why it was wrong, other than what you stated in your podcast. I have often wondered what was correct and I’m really glad that you cleared that up.
Folks in Tombstone read internet memes, too. That's where the guy there saw it.
"I have not yet begun to defile myself" has always been one of my faves...
Good one
Love the scene when Wyatt tells curly Bill that they're leaving town and it's over.
Powers Booth gives that subtle smirk and says " ok. Bye."
I quote that too!
You smell that, Bill? Smells like someone died.
💀..@jonahhex.., "Well.., BYE.."
Dude this was great. Love this channel keep ‘em comin
This should be your most shared video !
Congrats on a Job well done
It's a lot simpler than the urban legend tries to make it. "I'm your Huckleberry" is probably referencing the character of Huckleberry Finn, the best friend of Tom Sawyer and deuteragonist of the extremely popular book, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain, which came out about five years before the events of Tombstone. In the book, Finn was always by Tom's side ready to stand up for him, and also always ready to get into a fight or some other mischief, so Holliday was saying, "I'm Wyatt's best friend, and I'm ready to throw down if you are." It's also of note that both times this line is spoken, he always says it specifically to Johnny Ringo, who he mentions earlier in the film is an "educated man", expressing to Ringo (and the audience) that he has in fact read this fairly recent but very popular book and is as smart as he claims.
I hear ya but apparently the first known case of the phrase "I'm your Huckleberry" in print was in 1853, 20 years before Mark Twain published his first book. It may be the other way around, or perhaps Twain helped to popularize it.
Love the show 🤠 thanks for making it 🤠 remember the one you done on John Wesley Hardin you was making a joke about his horse and how it was the first Starbucks etc etc it was hilarious 🤣
The script says Huckleberry. Val says it was Huckleberry. Case closed.
Nice research
This is crazy. A guy at work (a few days ago) told me I was wrong about Doc saying "I'm your Huckleberry." He said , nope it's Huckle Bearer. I believed him, lol! I'm glad I saw this video. He said the same stuff...it was what they called a handle on a coffin and such shit. Thanks for the info!
That guy is not to be trusted.
I’ve used “the strain was more then he could bear “more then once
Another good one
It's my best brazen hussy pick up line, works every time, "il be yur huckleberry"
Like the Tony Kieth tune, “ Baby I’ll be your huckleberry, you don’t have to double dare me”. Make em melt on the spot.
I was brought here through a comment section on a different posting. I learned a lot through your explanation. I honestly always thought it was a misrepresentation of the texan accent, but realized it is actually "huckleberry". Thanks Val Kilmer.
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks Josh, for crumbling my reality one brick at a time. First, Brushy Bill is a lie, and now this.
Fucking Dan!!
Huckleberries are a pretty common sight in the US. When you hear hooves, think horses, not zebra, unless you are in the Serengeti. The adventures of Tom Sawyer was published about 5 years before OK Corral, and Huck Finn was about 4 years after. Mark Twain was a superstar. While it's doubtful that Doc Holiday was referencing a book during a confrontation involving guns, it is well known that an author like Twain would use terminology readily understandable to the common American at the time. Folks are familiar with a huckleberry. It's like using a bread box to describe a size in the 1950s.
Most people also want to say “I’ll BE your huckleberry” and nothing makes me madder than hearing people add that word.
When people pull the “oh actually you’re wrong it’s” on anything it’s just safer to say “okay” and not even bother trying to argue
I always thought it was how they said "I'm that guy", or "pick me", in those days
You are smart and funny, I LOVE listening to your podcasts! I'm happy I've found you
Ha! I don't know about all that but I'm happy too
Haha; "...it just sounded like some cool $#!+ for Val Kilmer to say."
Huckleberries are like blueberries ,edible fruit,maybe this is where it came from
I had just always heard the word Huckleberry first in the Hanna Barbera cartoon Huckleberry Hound. I just thought it to mean like the exact one for the job . That cartoon came out in 1958,so whoever thought the cartoon up, MUST have known that saying prior to 1958 sometime???? Where did THEY learn it from???
Time travelers most likely
Absolutely Great movie. I say the same Billy Bob line you do.....but I also use the line " I'm sure of it, I hate him" from the first meeting between Doc & Johnny
One of the reasons I love John Ford's Movie ;
My Darling Clementine.
He knew Wyatt and his wife. He had Wyatt's Peace Maker .
Then you may or may not like the next episode!
I rally enjoyed your comments on this subject. I’ve watched the movie several times and as far as I’m concerned Doc Holliday (Val Kilmer) said Huckleberry, end of discussion. Val Kilmer put so much work into the portrayal of Doc Holliday, it kind of makes one wonder what Doc epwas really like, as long as you stayed on “his good side”.
Damn this is a badass channel
"Thunder Chief and the 40 Thieves" 😂
My cousins, my bff and I ALL constantly quote this movie (as well as Young Guns)! Whenever I'm going to Oklahoma to visit I always tell them, You tell 'em I comin - and hells comin with me!!! :)
@Vicki loves Jesus..Hi Vicki..!!
I don't see Doc or another gunslinger carrying a casket of someone they shot. So huckle bearer is pretty unlikely.
As a guy that has his text notification set to "I'm your huckleberry" I can confirm that is is NOT huckle bearer but Huckleberry. Case Closed.
If Val says he said "Huckleberry", then By Grannies, He Said Huckleberry......As In: "Pick Me Podnah"
Everything I've ever read about this even when attempting to muddy the water has all concluded that "huckleberry" is what was written in the script
our fire department medical officer used to say "I'm your huckleberry", good to know the origin !
I have used the line: “Come darlin, let’s seek our entertainment elsewhere” on multiple occasions
That's a good one
Wyatt Earp's line when he knows there's going to be a gunfight, "Oh my God.".
Happy 2023!
Thanks Josh! Merry Christmas! Liked and shared.😁👍😎
Man, I found this episode right on time ! So a week or two ago my wife tells me this mistruth & I says NA . Doc would’ve never offered to tote Johnny Ringo to his grave because he’d rather see the maggots eating his eyeballs! I told her it’s Huckleberry always had been & for evermore will be. So of course we had to watch it we really didn’t mind ( I think she likes it for the all star line up of mustaches ) because it’s one of the best. Now with you presenting facts this morning sold her! So thank you again for your wonderful work.
My pleasure!
“Turn your head into a canoe!”
Here's another way we know "huckle bearer" never existed:
At the end of them movie, narrator Robert Mitchum speaks this line:
"Wyatt Earp died in Los Angeles in 1929. Among the pallbearers at his funeral, were early western stars William S. Hart and Tom Mix. Tom Mix wept."
"Among the pallbearers at his funeral"
Why not "among the huckle bearers"? Some folks claim Val Kilmer flubbed the line. That's nonsense. Don't they realize that if he had, the director would have simply yelled "CUT" and they would have done it again and again until it was right? Also, don't they think a legend like Robert Mitchum would have also gotten it right? The man was born in 1917. He was 12 when Wyatt Earp died. If "huckle bearer" had been a real term, he would have clearly known it.
Blinded by the light
Revved up like a deuce
Another runner in the night...
Yep, think it sounds just like 'wrapped up like a douche' as well...
My southern aunt used to say this forty plus years before this movie. It means you're my sweetie or I'm you're sweetie.
A lot of old timers used the term Huckleberry as a slang or derogatory word for a "Dandy". I have heard my grandfather use the word this way many times.
Well. That is that. Done and dusted. Was a pre-internet urban legend that made the jump into the miss-information age.
I call people "law-dog" when drinking 😆
I'll be your Hucklebaby
Well done Josh! Just my opinion here, but I'm reading through Shelby Foote's amazing trilogy on the civil war and I think our nation today is woefully ignorant when it comes to history (myself included). At the very least it's a contributing factor to all the BS revisionist history and rumors like "hucklebearer" we're seeing today. I really like how your podcast has evolved from telling cool old west stories with raunchy humor to telling history, and separating fact from fiction... still with humor but not as raunchy. Lol. I can listen to most episodes now without looking to see if the kids are around. Well done!
Thank you
You should do an episode on jedidiah smith. He was killed not far from where I live in kansas. There was a rumor that a body scout troop back in the 30s or 40s possibly found the bodies of him and the Indian chief that he killed, but they could never find the spot again... I'm a local and I could never substantiate these claims... to be honest I'm not even sure if there was a boyscout troop around here at the time... it's possible though!
I heard Moon River yesterday and the singer refers to their huckleberry friend.
@leatherchopper.., "Brkfst at Tiffany's"✨️??
@@Maldoror200 yes, exactly
....my ticket off the forklift
😂🤣
Thank you for doing your part to fight the rising tide of stupidity.
If you ever have the opportunity, check out the annual Huckleberry Festival in Spokane, Washington. 😊
All very interesting theories. I read that in the 1800's southeast region sometimes pallbearers wore sprigs of huckleberry leaves in the lapel button holes of their jackets to signify their job during a funeral.
There was Huckleberry Hound, a Hanna Barbera animated dog in the Yogi Bear animated show. Huckleberry had a show. He was a blue dog with a straw hat. You omitted this when you were mentioned huckleberries.
Abraham...
@@WildWestExtravaganza The cartoon character that shares the same name as Mark Twain's character is Huckleberry "Huck" Hound, an anthropomorphic Bluetick Coonhound created by Hanna-Barbera in 1958, in which the term "huckleberry" can be a slang expression for a rube or an amateur, or a mild expression of disapproval.
Huckleberry is a real berry as well.
You mean I didn't grow up reading about Hucklebearer Finn, and watching the Hucklebearer Hound cartoon?
These "huckle bearer" folks don't think about that
This was - and still is - one of the most interesting and entertaining shows ( just in time for Christmas )you’ve done. Which is a good Segway to the true intent for writing this comment. . . Merry Christmas to you, your family and friends. Enjoy the season and have a cool Yule.
Thanks! You too
Well done sir! 👍👍👍
Really engaging content beautifully delivered.
Glad you think so!
I thought it was a clear reference to Mark Twain's "Tom Sawyer" (1876) where Tom gets his friend Huckleberry Finn all psyched up to paint a fence for him. In this context, "I'm your Huckleberry" would mean "I'm your enthusiastic replacement".
I don’t think anyone knows the actual origin but it did predate Tom Sawyer.
Pre dating doesn't mean much. Tom Sawyer was released a few years before the OK Corral shootout. Holiday was well read man and was making a reference to a new book. A continuation of their mental games from the gambling house. Using a book reference to accept the challenge to a gun fight seems to make so much more sense.
@@HarupertBeagleton-dz5gw Thanks Mr. know-it-all. I'll consider your wisdom the next time I'm taking a dump.
That stung a little ..but hell sound's right. And you have done your research.. so looks like have some crow to eat .thanks Josh..
The stenographer from that exact trial stated judge spicer as quoting “I’m your huckleberry!” Check it out.
Great episode as always Josh out of all the Wild West era people I always found Doc Holliday the most interesting to read up on. Do you have any plans for any other podcast of anyone from the Tombstone era?. Like maybe Billy Breckinridge or Curly Bill Brocious, Frank Stiwell or maybe Johnny Behan?
Thanks. And I do.
Ok I've obviously never thought about this in depth enough. I just assumed based on my Southern Definition of Huckleberry that he was saying "I'll be that piece of s**t that hangs around aggravating you" 😂
Ha!
My favorite line from tombstone is probably the whole conversation between Ike and doc at the poker table table. Maybe poker just isn’t your game ike, I know. Let’s have a spelling contest! It’s been a couple years so that may be a little off but we all know the scene. Also the way do drunkenly laughs and Ike gets pissed literally makes me laugh.
Really you can quote almost any of that movie and the line is a banger. So good lol
Great scene
Good job Josh you're my Huckleberry!
You're welcome, Josh. Oh, & happy Flying Spaghetti Monster day
Hey Josh, I like the line Powers Booth says when he bids the villains farewell. Booth says, “Well…….. Bye.” So funny.
Same
Well, let's not get into I'll be your knuckle burr.
I only noticed one omission but, fear not. I'm your huckleberry!. When discussing songs that people frequently hear but misunderstand the lyrics, I would add my favorite example, CCR's Bad Moon Rising. As John Fogarty sings in the refrain, "There's a bathroom on the right." I'm sure that's correct, ain't it? 😮
Also the saying your no daisy comes from the fact that a daisy is an extremely tough plant and can grow anywhere also pushing up daisies
You kick ass bro, also you still remind me of Danny McBride
you were just too high strung..lol
I never knew how much I needed wield west info until I found Josh & THE WILD WEST EXTRAVAGANZA!!
@JOSH,THE WILD WEST EXTRAVAGANZA thank u 4 the hard & detailed work u put in 2 this channel 4 us!! PLZ KEEP THIS SUNBITCH! ROLLN! Because ur doing a GREAT JOB!! Thank u Brother!
Huge fan Danny SparX.
Imma try
Huckleberry. A sweet fruit. A pleasurable treat.
💀..Verry well spoken, colonel..🥸👌..D'you like fish 🐟..? We're having fishes 🐟..for awhile..😢