- Well, you're gonna do some talking.
- Hello.
- I'm Mark Gagliardi.
- And today, we're gonna talk about...
- Oh, is this really that part of the thing?
- Yep.
Here he comes.
- This is how television works, bitches.
- Ready?
- Action.
- Hi, I'm Mark Gagliardi.
[glass crashes]
Bass Reeves.
- [laughs]
- Bass Reeves is born as a slave.
One night,
Bass Reeves and his master
get in an argument over a poker game.
Bass Reeves...
punches his owner in the face.
And Bass Reaves thinks to himself,
Oh, [bleep], you guys, I just coldcocked my boss.
Listen, let's be honest, my owner.
This is probably not gonna be good for me.
So, Bass Reeves hightails it
to the Indian Territories of Oklahoma.
So, Bass Reeves winds up living among
the Seminole Nation,
learning the language of all of these indigenous peoples.
And trained in the ways of Native American
tracking and hunting.
- Hmm, awesome.
- Ah, I appreciate you, Derek.
I love you.
- You're my--listen, I'm--
We're gonna make a baby.
- Um... [both laugh]
- I may be aimed down at the ground for the whole of this,
but don't worry about that.
In 1875 the U.S. is changing.
Taming the Wild West and all that kinda [bleep].
U.S. Marshal James Fagan knew that this was dangerous work.
He needed the guy that
full on dances with wolvesed in that area.
- [laughs] - So, Fagan goes to Reeves.
Hey, I have 75,000 square miles to cover
to bring bad guys to justice.
And Bass Reeves said,
Listen, I'm ambidextrous,
I can shoot a gun with both hands.
I'm 6'2" and 390 pounds.
I'm gonna be the guy that keeps you safe.
The only thing I can say to you is...
I'm gonna tape a--take a nap. [bleep] you.
- ♪ There he goes on the floor ♪
- Derek? - Mm-hmm?
- Take my hand.
- Good night, then.
- Night.
So...
So, Bass Reeves is working as a U.S. Marshal,
picking up bad guys.
So, one of the bad guy things that he does is,
he dresses himself up as an old beggar
at the homestead of a couple of bad guys' mother.
He says, I'm just a poor old beggar.
I just need a place to stay for the night.
So she gives Bass Reeves a place to spend the night.
As soon as the two outlaws fell asleep,
Bass Reeves pulled down his shawl,
grabs his six shooter.
He says, The Bass w--hold on.
I'm gonna corner their dumb asses
while they're sleeping.
I'll sleep you--
I will sleep clack you into my handcuffs, bitches!
And I'm gonna grag you...
I'm gonna grag you--hold on.
I'm gonna drag your asses in jail
where I gathered up all the criminals.
- That's pretty badass.
I'll tell you this whole story, hold on.
This is how big a badass Bass Reeves is.
The Brunter Brothers, another group of outlaws,
ambushed him at gunpoint.
Bass Reeves kept his cool,
turned to the first Brunter Brother and said,
I'm sorry, do you know what the date is today?
And as that brother was trying to figure out
the date for the day,
Bass Reeves shoots the first two brothers.
And then coldcocked the other brother
and carried them back to the court at Fort Lewis.
And they're like, You know what?
[bleep] you, Bass Reeves!
[bleep] you and your knowing what's right and wrong!
[bleep] you, Honest...
Honest Jack Reeves!
[bleep] you, Bass Reeves,
and your wanting to give the honesty to the people!
- Mark. - I love you.
- [laughing]
- I love you.
I'ma kiss you on your lips.
Derek Waters. - No.
- I'ma kiss you on your lips.
- I just wanna hold your face.
- Will you finish the story if I do this?
- I promise I will.
- Promise? - I'm--
- No slapping.
- I'm not gonna slap you, Derek.
- What're you gonna do?
- Derek? [sighs]
- That was very nice.
- I'm gonna take a nap now.
- Nope. You promised, if you could touch my face...
- I'll touch your face. - You were gonna finish
the [bleep] story. - I'ma finish it, hold on.
So, uh, one night,
Bass Reeves is chasing after Jim Webb.
He'd killed a ton of dudes, and Bass Reeves--
pew, pew, pew--
shot down this dude.
And this guy is laying there, on the ground,
looks up at Bass Reeves, and he says,
Bass, this bullet that is designed for you...
Nah, man.
I want this bullet to be designed
for people that [bleep] you up.
That guy, Jim Webb, gave that gun to Bass Reeves
because he respects him.
Derek.
- Shh. Tell the story.
- I love you. - I love you.
- Bass Reeves threw more men in jail
than any other Marshal in U.S. history,
3,000 men.
And when he died,
his funeral was attended
by hundreds of people.
White...
Black...
Native American...
and whatever the other thing was that they had.
And they all went
to pay their respects to this,
the most important man,
of the wild frontier.
You know what?
Reeves was the inspiration...
for the Lone Ranger.
- How come more people don't know that Bass Reeves
is who inspired the Lone Ranger?
- Because he's black.
- That's sad. - Yeah.
- Well, we're changing history now.