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I used squarespace to set up my soap with a prize business. Thanks Simon!

I AM SO HAPPY YOU DID A VIDEO ON THIS GUY! I worked up in Skagway, AK where he died. Giving tours and talking about him was so much fun. Edit: you should also do a video on Frank Reed. He was a super interesting guy that was only there because he was wanted for murder. He's kinda portrayed as the hero of Skagway, but he just as bad as Soapy.

Am I the only one that thinks Soapy's life would make for a really interesting movie, or mini-series?

I was raised in Southeast Alaska. We grew up hearing this guys name! I have been to the saloon (museum), it's wonderful, as is the entire town of Skagway. I highly recommend anyone visiting Alaska to consider Southeast... and explore the wild history of the Inside Passage.

For your 1 million subscriber special you should do a biography on yourself.

1:35 - Chapter 1 - Early years 4:50 - Chapter 2 - Smith gets soapy 6:50 - Mid roll ads 8:00 - Chapter 3 - King of denver's underworld 13:15 - Chapter 4 - From denver to creede 16:05 - Chapter 5 - And back again 17:55 - Chapter 6 - Last stop at alaska

Soapy Smith was a slippery character.

I’m having a heart attack from the realization this guy is real. I played Yukon trail as a kid on the pc and thought he was made up!!! Great video btw!

Writing from Denver. Thanks for highlighting one of our most famous and colorful historical criminals.

Today, Soapy could probably have made his career in Washington D.C.

When I was just about 15, I was in a show called “ The ballad of Soapy Smith!” Never knew it was based on a real person!! LOL Ahhh “the more you know!!”🤠👍🏻

Hi guys! Good video, as always. I wanted to make a suggestion: a combination biographics/geographics video with the subjects being the Leakey family of paleoanthropologists and their discoveries about the origins of man at the Olduvai Gorge. Thanks!

They should have put that guy in Red Dead Redemption 2 as part of Arthur Morgan's gang.

Colorado native and this is the first time hearing this story! Thank you for sharing I really enjoyed it!

Simon !!! the expert at inserting a sponsor at any given time of his storytelling 🤓

I would love to see a Biographics video on the Warner Brothers. Thanks for the great content!

I am from Denver where there used to be a bar named Soapy Smiths, and I always wondered who he was. Thank you for the video.

There used to be a bar in Downtown Denver that was named after him. It was a notorious pick up bar full of sloots. The Tivoli is still around, including a nice brewery with great food.

That intro into square space advert was as smooth as the top of Simon's head

Where do you guys/girls find this stuff..you must have an amazing team of researchers.. Simon y'all must work 24/7..love your channels... have a great day.. cheers

On your way to ONE MILLION subs.! Way to go! 🖖🐩 can't wait, glad to be part of it.😉

“My god, don’t shoot” Soapy Smith

Great video and phenomenal Segway into the Squarespace ad. 👍🏻

A bit off topic but I'm curious about that circular lamp in the background. Is it for lighting, is it for setting the mood, or is it to keep Simon's head warm?

For those unfamiliar, Round Rock is essentially north Austin (used to be a separate town, but sprawl has spread and swallowed a lot of former satellite towns). If you ever find yourself there, do yourself a huge favor and visit the Round Rock bakery, and get yourself some of the best doughnuts in Texas.

Awesome. The world famous Magic Castle in Hollywood often has a Soapy Smith night. Now I know why.

Fun fact: Simon Whistler is the only person in the world to have appeared on every KZfaq video ever made.

"317" Note the sign on the building: Jeff Smith's Parlor 317 The number is more likely an address than a number of people.

I live hear in Denver and there use to be a bar named Soapy Smith right near where the old city hall stood. As a student at UCD I took a history of Denver class and learned about Soapy's exploits here in Denver. Thanks for the great video of Soapy!

Awesome! I love Skagway! Great little town to visit if you get the chance!

Wow! Never heard of Soapy. Sounds like somebody my dad would like. Dad loved the old West 🤠

After you mentioned him in your Geographics video about the Klondike, I was wondering if you were going to do a bio on him. Well done!

Very interesting and entertaining! Oh and educational! Lol awesome video as always.

Hey Simon, if you are ever looking for any Irish historical figures for St. Patrick's day then here's a few suggestions- Thomas Andrews(1873-1912) Dr James Barry or Margaret Bulkley(1789-1865) Lilian Bland(1878-1971) Brian Boru(941-1014) Robert Boyle(1627-1691) William Brown or Guillermo brown or Almirante Brown(1777-1857) Gay Byrne(1934-2019) Sir Roger Casement(1864-1916) Thomas J. Clarke(1858-1916)- Agnes Clerke(1842-1907)l Michael Collins(1890-1922)-m Saint Columba or Colum Cille(521-597)- James Connolly(1868-1916) Edward Despard(1751-1803) Anne Devlin(1780-1851)l Margaretta or Margaret Eager(1863-1936) Mary Elmes(1908-2002) Robert Emmet(1778-1803) 'Silken' Thomas Fitzgerald(1513-1537) Betsy Gray(died 1798) Patrick Lafcadia Hearn or Koizumi Yakumo(1850-1904) Chaim Herzog(1918-1997) James Joyce(1882-1941) Sir Hugh Lane(1875-1915) James Larkin(1878-1947)l C.S. Lewis(1898-1963) Juan or Kuhn Mackenna(1771-1814) Terence MacSwiny(1879-1920) Annette Elizabeth Mahon(1918-2013) Constance Markievicz(1868-1927) Bernadette Devlin McAliskey(1947-present) Annie Moore(1874-1924) Turlough O'Carolan(1670-1738) Daniel O'Connell(1775-1843) Hugh O'Flaherty(1897-1963)l Gráinne Ní Mháilleor or Grace O'Malley(1530-1603) Hugh O'Neill(1550-1616) Peter O'Toole(1932-2013) Charles Stewart Parnell(1946-1891) Padraig or Patrick Pearse(1879-1916) Jeremiah O'Donavan Rossa(1831-1915) - Mary Ryan(1873-1961) Bobby Sands(1954-1981) Ernest Shackleton(1874-1922) George Bernard Shaw(1856-1950) Francis Sheehy-Skeffington(1878-1916) Jonathan Swift(1667-1745) Theobald Wolfe Tone(1763-1798) Eamon de Valera(1882-1975)- Ernest Walton(1903-1995) Arthur Wellesley(1769-1852) William Butler Yeats(1865-1939) And for April fools day you should do Nate Tate. Anyway great video, as always. Keep up the good work.

Tell me, how do you guys manage to put out so many quality, informative videos? I need to know how you guys manage to study so much because myself and many others could really use the learning capacity as broad as yours.

Great video I am a huge fan! Can you do Davy/David Crockett. He was an American hero who served in the war of 1812 and gave his life at the Alamo during the Texas revolution. In America he has the title “ King of the Wild Frontier”

I'm a huge Deadwood fan, and other fans will doubtless recall a character that loosely resembles Soapy - in the first (maybe second ?) episode he can be seen walking the main thoroughfare shouting "SOAP ! Soap with a prize inside !!!" Bullock eventually loses his patience with 'Soapy' and convinces him to be elsewhere in that winning 'Bullock style'. Just thought this was cool, and something I didn't know was so close to a real figure from history.

Was just re-watching Deadwood, then this video pops up in my feed. Love it. "SOAP! Soap with a prize inside!"

There used to be a bar in Denver called Soapy Smith's. It's no longer there unfortunately.

Growing up in South East Alaska I was able to hear first hand accounts form some old timers about Soapy Smith. Not sure how much they were aggrandized, but they were fun to hear.

Fun fact: Rod Steiger played Soapy Smith in the 1980 movie Klondike Fever.

I noticed fewer cuttings in the editing, Simon. Great improvements.

Best segway into sponsor ever lol

You have to do one on Wernher Von Braun. I'd say it's long overdue

I worked in Skagway about twenty years ago. Partied and drank beer at Soapy's grave. Also got to hold his gun which was owned and on display at Kermsies Curios, 5th and Broadway.

I had a feeling that the guy in my childhood game , Yukon Trail, was real.

Cavalier work as always Sir.

*If there's one thing that I learned from gaming, it's that people who are named Soap are badass...*

Can you do Slobodan Milosevic? He had a very interesting life (:

I have read a lot of Pierre Burton books and in the Klondike he talks a great deal about Soapy Smith ... The Famous Mounty Sam Steale of Dawson City knew him and hated him .

Not sure if you've done him yet, I looked but could not find it, but a Biographics on Seth Bullock would be awesome. He has always been my favorite "Cowboy". He was best friends with Teddy Roosevelt, sheriff of deadwood and in my opinion probably the most honorable man of his day. Love all the channels, keep up the amazing work.

Can you please do Ambrose Bierce. A very interesting character.

Just a tip from the locald Pocatello is said like Po-Cat-ello. hope that helps

I love your presentations in the various topics that you have going. But I do want to explain what I always thought the expression "Are you going to fish or cut bait?!" meant. I thought it was used to get someone going who was just poking around always trying to get ready, but never quite ready without a little prodding. Simply put: "Are you going with us or just sit there?"

To contrast with Soapy smith, add an episode about Sam Steele of the Northwest Mounted Police?

Now do Joseph Smith - king of the New England and Midwest Con Men. Many parallels to Soapy.

Simon you MUST do on video on the life of Dick Cheney, it would be a fascinating video that would surely be a huge boost in viewership

How about make a video about Elmer McCurdy also known as "The Bandit who woudn't Give up" or "The Oklahoma Bandit" a bandit in the early 20th century who died in 1911 and become a attraction in a funeral home and traveling carnival up to 1960's and was discovered in 1976 in a amusement park.

I still want something about Alkibiades

Haa my dad’s name is Soapy,, thought he was the only one,, guess not !

Could you please do a video on Robert E Howard the creator of Conan the Cimmerian please?

The fact that the price of the soap wasn't fixed just screams scam, even if the winners had been real one would assume the game was rigged so that the higher prizes were among the last batch in order to drive up prices.

I Invision the miracle cure medicine salesman(just before the river crossing), from the movie> the outlaw Josie Wales.

Got to watch those McCanns, sneaky so and so's.

This makes me want one about John Bozeman

Awesome video

Please do a video on Chesty Puller. 🤘🏻Round Rock

Cap must be that Courier that got shot in Goodsprings

Greetings and much love as always to ye! 💘 I would like to request biographics on Lord Byron and Yuri Gagarin at your soonest convenience, and would also like to request one on Ozzy Osbourne some time after he passes (hopefully quite far from now), as a biographic is like a book of one's life, and one on a person still living is missing it's final chapter.

Holy crap, I live in Newnan! haha I had never heard of this fellow.

What about a video on one of Denver’s more famous and colorful founders: silver queens: Molly Brown (as in HMS Titanic) and/or Baby Doe Tabor.

I was looking at the thumbnail of this video while playing a thoughty2 video. This dude is thoughty2!

Soapy: I have a plan Arthur

I have two requests: Can you do your biography? Can you do Margaret Thatcher's biography?

5:45 The building with the flag in Leadville is the Tabor Grand Hotel. I lived there for a while. Famous as a house of ill repute in the 1890s.

The only reason I ever heard the name Soapy Smith before is from when I played The Yukon Trail as a kid and he showed up and would challenge you to the shell game.

Thought I heard a surf style 'teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' theme coming out of that squarespace spot...

He is the only brother who is still remembered

The soap racket is pretty much just the US lottery lol

In the HBO series Deadwood there is a scene with a Soapy Smith character selling bars of soap with prizes in the wrappers to the lucky. I was fortunate to be chosen to play the part of his Shill in that scene.

the swindler episodes are the best i swear lol

Please do bio of LBJ ( 36th President), he was one of the craziest and most ambitious President in American history 🇺🇸

Can we get one about Narmer this first Pharoah of Egypt?

There's a street in Round Rock named after Sam Bass. I didn't know this history.

Simon the phrase is Card Sharp not Shark

Funny. The mayor Skagway now is named Sam Bass.

Being from the same area of Georgia than where hes from,this is very interesting thanks

Where I live Simon Soapy Smith is as well known as Paul Bunyan is in Minnesota maybe better

@5:45 🤔🤔 $1.00 USD in the late 1800s is $25 today.

This dude was real about his money it seems like.

soapy smith is my great great great grandpa!!

There a Soapy Smith-esque character in named Soapy Saunders (played by Sam Jaffee) in the old TV series Alias Smith and Jones.

Soap scam sounds like your states lottery

Denver is a haven for people like me still

Why hasn't this made into a movie yet?!?!

with a name like soapy its no wonder he got away clean.... most of the time

4:43 When you encounter someone online that has different political beliefs

The deputy killed by Sam Bass was named AW Grimes. Both names are now main roadways in the city of Round Rock. Absolute travesty that Sam Bass is memorialized as he was truly an evil person. I think we need a buy a graphics on some of these guys.

Sprang that ad from nowhere, great effort. Young rascal