Roy Bean
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Sep 30, 2026
MarcoHOST
Yeah.
Spider MikeHOST
Judge Roy Bean?
Eric SamaniegoHOST
That's who it is.
MarcoHOST
He sounds like somebody you buy your car from.
Bryan BurroughHOST
Murrieta, it turns out, began riding with a band of outlaws led by his brother-in-law.
Bryan BurroughHOST
A couple years later, in 1852, he was implicated in the murder of General Joshua Bean, the first mayor of San Diego, and a brother of Judge Roy Bean, who would later become famous as the so-called law west of the Pecos.
Bryan BurroughHOST
This murder accusation was the turning point in Murrieta's career.
Bryan BurroughHOST
A vigilance committee strung up his brother-in-law and two close friends, and Urieta headed north to start a gang of his own.
William CooperHOST
Now, because of this testimony, it's just coming out in court in Florida and, and the, the investigations that are being conducted, there's, uh, defense lawyers in at least three different counties are gonna ask the court to reopen cases involving drug conventions, convictions.
William CooperHOST
Even the judge is really upset about this.
William CooperHOST
And the judge has made a public statement that there may be many hundreds of people in jail who don't belong there.
William CooperHOST
Isn't this, this is weird, huh? But I've told you about this all along.
William CooperHOST
I know you didn't believe me, but it's true.
William CooperHOST
Most people are in jail because they talk to their own self into jail.
William CooperHOST
They volunteered to go.
William CooperHOST
A judge told me that one time.
Mike ImpreventoHOST
He was the logistics.
Mike ImpreventoHOST
And you don't have to worry about a Judge Roy Bean.
Mike ImpreventoHOST
You could shoot somebody through the head, dump him out next to his cactus and get on with your life.
Mike ImpreventoHOST
Very rough, very rough life, very difficult life.
Jay PowersGUEST
Well, the reason I ask
Michael BerryHOST
is now you're moving away from Silver Dollar Jim West or Judge Roy Bean type personalities into kind of a Bastrop style.
Michael BerryHOST
uh, Tara fab, you know, uh, well to do overnight money that says I've come to Texas.
Michael BerryHOST
I want a ranch.
Tony GaytonGUEST
Yeah, Milius, working for him was pretty great, 'cause he loved to tell stories, and I could...
Tony GaytonGUEST
When I didn't have to do something for him, like go pick up some shotguns from some gun shop, like, 60 miles away in rush hour traffic, [laughs] I could just sit and listen to him tell stories about Apocalypse Now, and, you know, Judge Roy Bean working with John Houston.
Tony GaytonGUEST
And it was, it was pretty cool.
Tony GaytonGUEST
Yeah, it was pretty good.
Jay PowersGUEST
Well, the reason I ask
Michael BerryHOST
is now you're moving away from Silver Dollar Jim West or Judge Roy Bean type personalities into kind of a Bastrop style.
Michael BerryHOST
you know, well-to-do overnight money that says, I've come to Texas, I want a ranch.
Michael BerryHOST
And that would be, they got a lot of money and it's a different demographic, but you also have to account for their needs and shortcomings.
Hank WilsonHOST
The phrase West of the Pecos eventually became legend.
Hank WilsonHOST
Judge Roy Bean helped make it famous.
Hank WilsonHOST
Books made it famous.
Hank WilsonHOST
Movies made it famous.
Josh GivensGUEST
I didn't really just want to write another story about Jimmy Buffett.
Josh GivensGUEST
We had that with the Judge Roy Bean piece, and the Judge Roy Bean piece was phenomenal, and I loved writing that piece.
Josh GivensGUEST
Um, but there's so many people out there who can tell you about Jimmy Buffett, the musician, right? Historically, um, and all of that.
Josh GivensGUEST
And he was kind of at the center of the judge would mean peaceful.