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The gun made of wood thingy: What wasn't mentioned in this video is that the wooden gun was also coated in shoe-polish, therefore giving it a shiny, black appearance that could be easily mistaken for a gun without a closer look

The idea of a group of bank robbers going on vacation to Tuskan Arizona is particularly hilarious.

I did a report on John Dillinger's life in middle school. When I shared what he went through, it shocked my class. My teacher ended my presentation early, but I got an 100 for having such a detailed report of his life. 🤓

Thoughty2 is basically Sherlock Holmes at this point

Just a couple of things... Dillinger has been mispronounced since his outlaw days. First by the media and then by everyone else. It was the German pronunciation. But apparently they thought it sounded like Derringer. It didn't. More like, Deline-gur. While Dillinger was famous for the method of bank robbing that he used, he didn't create it. That goes, at least in part, to Herman Lamm and old 'Dad' Landy. Landy was reputed to have ridden with Butch Cassidy and Lamm was known for the Lamm Technique. They taught it to Clark and iirc, Makley. Or maybe it was Dietrich. While in prison together. Lamm and Landy killed themselves. They had robbed a bank with the aforementioned Clark, Makley or Dietrich. The robbery itself was a success. The escape, not so much. After a comedy-of-errors-botched-escape attempt, they were surrounded by the posse. Rather than surrender, they killed themselves rather than go back to prison. The others did surrender though. It was while in prison for this robbery that they taught the method to Dillinger and the rest. The only thing that I think Dillinger thought up was putting hostages on the running boards of the cars as they left town. But who knows if it was actually him. The reason the fireman recognized the gang after the hotel fire was because the gang offered him a lot of money to rescue the bags with the loot. It raised suspicions. The police raid on the lodge was infamous for the cops shooting and killing innocent people. It was that gunfire that warned the gang and allowed them to escape. And yeah... Dillinger was one of the least bloodthirsty of the depression era outlaws. His gang killed a bunch. Mostly Nelson iirc. But Dillinger was only charged with one murder of a police officer. That he shot only after the cop shot him in the chest. But there was no proof that he even did that. Hence why the charges were dropped. He seemed to follow the belief that the more you kill, the more heat will come down on you. Apparently he had the cop that shot him in the leg dead to rights but seeing the cop's gun was empty, let him live.

This man better never stop making content

Thoughty has upped his animation game 😎👌

thank you 2. I am a elder man born in finland, now 60 years old. most of your stories, almost every of, are very familiar or well-known to me. still, modern style to express, your catching speak and performance, love it. keep posting

Side note: the movie Dillinger watched at the Biograph, just before he was killed, was 'Manhattan Melodrama', starring Clark Gable and William Powell: a tale of two childhood friends; one of whom becomes a district attorney; the other becomes a notorious criminal, who goes to the electric chair at the end...

As a northern Wisconsinite I have been intrigued by John Dillinger. He had traveled through my area quite a few times back in the day. Apparently, the house next door to the one I grew up in was Billy Frechette's house at some point. I'm assuming it was well after John. And a friend of mine's grandfather had given John a ride into town and after John paid him very generously for that ride. I was always fascinated by that story.

I took some forensic science classes a while ago, and we learned to identify fingerprints. So we all traded prints and tried to see who was who. I have scars going through my prints on multiple fingers. It makes them *significantly* easier to identify.

Arran's actively accentuating an absolutely amazing amount of allliteration

always a fan of Goop catching stray jabs, keep up the good work red coat

As a Romanian it's funny I am happy to hear a Romanian name in Thoughty2's video: Ana Cumpănaș 😅

Thank you for another history lesson sensei. Please do one on Yasuke 弥助, the African samurai !

Thank you for your time and effort. Your channel is awesome

Fun fact: you can goto the hotel that Dillinger stayed at in manitowish waters. The bullet holes from the shoot out are still visible on the walls.

9:28- I believe that's pronounced: "Two-sahn", mate! Anyway, hilarious episode, loved the humorous bits! 👍🏻

My uncle went to Pretty Boy Floyd's funeral in Sallisaw, OK and they barely got a glimpse of the casket as there were thousands of spectators on hand. To this day people chip pieces of the tombstone off as souvenirs and supposedly this is the second tombstone on his grave. Akin, OK

My grandfather was arrested for being John Dillinger he was sleeping in his car parked in a field, and he had a shotgun with him, hence he woke up with all sorts of people wiht guns around him. luckily my great grandfather was a senator. only spent a couple days in prison

One night, when I was a young child in the late 60s, my parents went out & left me with my grandmother babysitting. The John Dillinger Story was playing on the ol' black & white & I pretended I was asleep & watched the whole thing. Left quite an impression on my young mind. She knew I was faking & told me the next day that when she was a little girl, Dillinger was like a legendary folk hero. But she told me his gang had never killed anyone.

I always love listening to these stories and the jokes you slide in there, the skyrim one in this was particularly good all the guards in skyrim could relate

I came here from your short. Im so glad i did, this was great!

You already know it's a good video as soon as he says "Hey, Thoughty2 here"

I'm born and raised in Tucson (Tu Sawn), AZ (I still live here). I have dined in the hotel in which he was captured many times (Hotel Congress). Its a cool historical event that happened here. Cool town too honestly.

Arron: Wonderful stuff! Please note: the city in Arizona, inexplicably spelled Tucson, but is pronounced 'too-son'. In your Dillinger episode, you said 'Tuscon', which, as you know, is an Anglicised moniker for a region in Italy. We've been watching you for years. (That sounds almost creepy!) Great content, well presented.

That wink gets me every time haha

Apparently it's called nut milk because no one could say nut juice without laughing......😂

Edu-tainment at it's finest! You're the man and I can't wait for the next video; your random topics are awesome and fact filled films fulfilling and fun. Thanks

Imagine going to jail to breakout ur guys so u guys can commit more crime. Definition of badass

“I used to be an adventure like you, then I took an arrow to the knee “

I remember reading somewhere that he used shoe polish (black, naturally) to hide the fact that his prop gun was wood.

Now this is someone that deserves a movie. What a badass

love when new videos is out always entertaning

Every new Thoughty upload is an addition to my sleep playlist, I’m here for it

The intro never gets old

Your scripts are so well written!

Simple, I see Thoughty2 and I watch in peace. Thank you

I love watching your videos, thoughty2! Your voice is so soothing to listen to.

G'day mate I really enjoy your posts. Love ya work bro keep on doing such great stuff. ✌️ ❤

In SW Ohio there is a great bit of history. The building of the first bank still resides in New Carlisle. I recommend the Allen County historical museum in Lima for their display.

great content, thank you!

In the early 80s in Alaska one of my old bosses told me his buddy’s were growing a 100 weed plants and they got busted , and back in the 80 in Alaska the most police in a station in a small town like me was about 5-15 men and anyways he stormed the police station with about 20 armed men and took all there plants back with guns and ammo without killing anyone cause the police new they were outgunned , life was crazy back then

Love the Skyrim reference 13:03

Thanks for the video, amazing content as always !

Johnny Depp and Christian Bale has done a terrific job playing characters of Dillinger and Melvin Purvis that involved in a cat and mouse game in Public Enemies in 2009.

love all your videos... keep posting

Hard times make hard people. I see similarities in today’s society. History is important, thanks for the reminder.

Love ya work brother...

Thoughty2 did a better job telling his life that the documentary I've seen

I once ordered a cake I saw on a sign on the counter at a cafe. I said "I'll have the Almond Oatmeal Zymil thanks". She said, "They are options of types of milk we have for our coffees".

There was a comment on your last video about how our ancestors had to fend-off tigers but someone was way-too distraught at getting the wrong type of milk in their coffee. That's either an internet meme that I missed-out on because there's just not enough time in the day or your speed of production is insane-enough that you included that in a video 5 days later. That or it's a complete coincidence but I thought it was kinda cool!

Those were the good old days where it was easy to get away with anything and hide away. Today he would not last one bank robbery before being caught

Aaron once slept for an hour, now we set the clock back for an hour

Thank you thoughty2, two videos in one week. It's fabulous

That'd one of your best metaphors sprinkled with witty alliteration ever 😅

I know when you cover criminals, they tend to have been quite spectacular. A couple of bandits, that wasn't extremely spectacular, but both competes for the title of most banks robbed, is Paul Gaugasian in the 60's-80's and Tom Justice in the 90's-2000's, neither of them was straight up violent and none of them stole extremely big amounts at one time, but simply robbed so many banks over so many years over such a large area, that FBI had a really hard time catching them. Btw Justice is the best name for a bank robber ever. And as always a fantastic video.

Thank you for the knowledge of the day

Was his book (Bread and Circuses) ever made into an audio book? I was really looking forward to it on Audible like his first book (Stick a Flag in It) which was freakin awesome!!

A legend so famous that the crowd had to take his belongings for souvenirs after dying from his wounds. I find that hilarious quite a bit

3:22 idk why but just the way the mother disappears is so comical to me.

Yay another video :) love your work 🫶 much love from Australia 🇦🇺

I’ve been to Tommy Guns garage.. but that was a dinner and show (a play), well thought out too! We were the eaters and at time the actors (didn’t get paid, we were on our senior trip)

I enjoy watching this type of videos

This is going to be a Good Morning nothing beats waking up to some coffee and a thoughty2 video

Mark of a great storyteller. When you've seen, read, heard and told it before yourself many times but actively crave the story anyway.

Legend. Infamous, yet still one.

This guy could read furniture assembly instructions and I would love every second 😂

Another amazing video! Maybe do one on Paul Bunyan?

Fascinating history.

Thoughty2 has done it again!!

Another perfect timing upload for my 16:20 nap , from the best channel in the Tube . TYVM Sir !😊

John Dillinger, Public Enemy no. 1

Whether it's robin hood, ned kelly or dillinger, part of the public appeal was the era they were in. If the public is feeling particularly hard put upon it's inevitable they will like someone who appears to be sticking it to the man !

Tommy Gunn, and his 2 business partners Smith and Wesson probably went along on the rides to the banks with Johnny.

At least his "Craigslist" doctors got paid for their services, unlike Mexican drug lord Amato Fuentes, who's cosmetic surgeons were executed after Amato died on the operating table!

John Dillinger and 'baby face' Nelson are some of my favorite thugs. You should do a video of Albert Johnson! Aka the mad trapper of rat river. Look him up! Has to be one of the most badass criminals in history

This could be a plot of a movie based on real life events. What grossed me out was when you mentioned that people who were at the spot at the time Dilinger died the dipping some part of the cloth in his blood. Ughh . Thats gross.

Thoughty2’s stories about criminals remind me of Ethel the frog from Monty Python 😂

Holy shit the „Dillingers dad has doubled down …“ sentence at 3:30 is monstrous. how long did it take to compose those 🤣 🤣

Love your humor you interject in telling the story! ❤

America's Most Wanted Man would have to be censored for obvious reasons. That would be it.

I watched like 5 of ur vids last night with my grandad we got rlly into the pirate one in 🇯🇲

11:42 love the reference

its TOOOO-Son Arizona....and they have "Dillinger Days" at the Hotel Congress every year! (re-enactments of a (in)famous shootout....)

"Manhattan Melodrama" starring Clark Gable was the movie shown that evening. Take care.

YES!! RIGHT IN TIME

I live near the Biograph Theater where JD was shot here in Chicago. Yes, the theater still stands.😆

Thoughty2 really is the new QI 😍

Whatever happened to Thought1? Murdered? The man in the iron mask? Dumped in an alternate dimension?

Lmfaooo tuckson😂 I love that

6:39 literally The Dillinger Escape Plan

If I ever have a pet racoon I'm gonna name it john dillinger

Johnny to Snakes (from the movie "Angels with Filthy Souls'): "Keep the change, you filthy animal" 😂🤣😂

This was by far your best episode buddy 🥹

these guys are local legends 😬

Hey mate, I would love to give a suggestion if you’re open? The suggestion would be a video on Jay J Armes’s life. He was a detective actor and amputee who led an eccentric and ambitious life.

Loved the subtle Skyrim joke!

"Tuscon" Arizona.. close enough.