“Cheap Fake” of President Biden Reportedly Freezing on Stage Said to Be Heavily Edited 6/17/24

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today. There's some great stuff onthe show. Also, I must tell
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Brentwood in the Bay Area, whichis a lovely little community, and he'll
be there Sunday. Are these datescorrect? I only asked that because sometimes
we get dates wrong. Well,I went to the website, the Bobby
Slayton dot com, and that isdirectly from the website. So if it's
incorrect, it's incorrect on his part. Okay, So it's July twenty first

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and July twenty second. More onthat, so you have plenty of time
to get tickets and to make thingshappen. Slayton is a great, you
know, club comic and one ofthose guys where you go, wow,
I mean I've just never seen anythinglike it. So wait a minute,
I mean there's never been anything likethat. Yes, thank you. I
love when he comes through, becausehe he's kind of like, I don't

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know, like an older brother thathassles you and heckles you. Yes,
I mean, I really enjoy theway he pokes fun at you. It's
fantastic. Yeah, Tony, Cherylis already suggesting that you may have COVID,
the new COVID, they new andimproved COVID. The latest variant has
those symptoms, shows Cheryl Mascearelli.Tested twice. Nope, she says,

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I hope not, and he says, no, I don't thank you not.
Wow. We are accepting other diagnosesthough, as long as we're on
for meds for Tony. Get better, Pal, says Luis. Big shout
out to Louis, big shoutout.Yeah, well, I will tell you

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also news for me. I've gotto leave early tomorrow. I have to
jump on a plane my dad sadly, as you know, he's kind of
well, he's at the end ofhis life, and I'm going back to
support family and see him. I'dplan to go anyway. It's eerie,

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actually, I mean, obviously we'veknown he's been struggling for some time,
and I go back frequently to supportand to see him, and I love
him so much, but I hadplanned this week to go, but he
really is in his last day ortwo, and so I'm going to have
to leave tomorrow and Kim will behelming the show, and I Kim,

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how are you? I think shehas plans to get people through. We're
going to try to get people toride Shotgun with Kim as she does.
She's even floated some interesting kinds ofscenarios that I think you'd enjoy. So

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and I will. I don't knowhow long I'll be back there, but
I will probably join from the EastCoast as well. So all of that.
Yeah, yeah, it really sucks. But he is ninety We're going
to be ninety four in a month, and he won't make it. But
that's a pretty good run and alot of good years. And my dad

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like me. Really is thetube ofit. So it's yeah, but just
adjust your programs because it'll be It'llbe Kim and a bunch of I think

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Yeah, yep, oh, Iwas going for you, Kenneth.
You cannot say you love your country. Thank you. Yeah. I love
in the chat there, Mark,Oh, thank you. No. I
know everybody's very supportive and I reallyappreciate it, and it's been a very
I mean, I didn't sleep allnight thinking about this and what to do
blah blah blah blah. But it'sdefinitely, you know, sadly something that

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we've all dealt with, probably manyof you who are watching now have dealt
with. And I feel as though, to be perfectly honest, which I
always am with you, put thatcoffee down. I'm sorry, I'm going
to put to coffy down and makethis point. I feel as though he
kind of gave me a soft landing. He he did. I was joking

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before that, you know, hecared so much about the show, but
he did. He loved this showand he listened to this show even as
he became less and less able todo other things like read and write.
And you know, he was alecturer and he's a constitutional scholar. He's
a scholar and so many you know, Irish poetry and all of these different

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community standpoint. So I mentioned itbecause he gave me as salt landing.
He was not in a good placefor the last few months, so I
knew this would be happening, andas I say, he was going to
be ninety four. So again it'shugely emotional, don't get me wrong.

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I mean I've been up all night. But I also feel as though we
knew this was coming soon, andI for that reason have I hope a
better time of it. And that'swhy you know, it wasn't sudden like

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Sam Rubin for example, which Iwas gutted by. So anyway, thank
you for all the love in thechat and I am going to move on,
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Yes, I know he would.I know he would. Luis, godspeed,
Mark, safe travels best to youand your family, especially your dad,
without whom there be no MT show. That's a very good point,
Thank you, Luise. Yeah,I didn't even think of it that way,
So wow, I do have somewild stuff. We mention it in

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our front page thumbnail of this show. The latest from trump World is a
cheap fake as it's being called videowhich sort of suggests that Joe Biden is
so out of it doesn't know wherehe is. That's really what they're running

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on. Look, you may notfeel as though Joe Biden is your ideal
candidate, if you're a Democrat,or if you're just someone who feels as
though Trump is corrupt and not upto the job. And you know,
for any number of reasons doesn't belonganywhere near the White House. You may
still not be crazy about Joe Biden. I think there's a lot of that,

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although I would suggest that he isa fairly accomplished leader as president with
an opposing party that is dug inhard and essentially does nothing but try to
block legislation. They're an obstructionist party. Essentially, they're just playing real tough
politics of the sort that we haveseen with Mitch McConnell holding up the Supreme

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Court seat, et cetera. Anyway, more back to Biden, they have
pursued the narrative that you may feel, again if you're reluctant on Biden,
that you know you wish he wasyounger, and you wonder how his mental
acuity is affected by his advancing age. Okay, so they've taken that and
they have perverted it. Right,They've just run through this is their big

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move to say Biden doesn't know wherehe is. He you know, he's
out of it. And so theytook this moment which was not Joe Biden
meandering with no idea where he was, and they have run with it from
a propaganda standpoint. Rupert Murdocks.New York Post actually puts this headline on

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that still that you're seeing now meanderin chief Biden embarrasses us with confused wanderings
at World conference. Well, actuallythat's not what happened, because that's still
that you see. Or Biden hasturned away from the crowd and he appears
to be you know again, they'retrying to pursue the narrative that he was
just sort of wandering off. Actuallyhe wasn't wandering off. He was walking

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over to paratroopers who were there.And you'll see it here there is a
paratrooper who just sky dropped in.And then you'll see there's another one frame
right, and as he walks,you'll see those paratroopers there. He's talking
to those guys. Then is ithis wife or you know, someone on

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the staff there says we're going totake a picture over here, mister president,
and she gestures that way. That'sall it was. But they took
this moment and they cropped out theparatroopers to the right, and they made
it look like this guy doesn't knowwhere he's going. He's wandering off and
now look some handler has to pointhim back the right direction. It's absolutely

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not what was going on. Thisis how cheap and perverted and grotesque this
campaign has already become. But peoplewill believe that they'll see these headlines or
they'll see video that is heavily editedin a way that makes him look bad.

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That's really not the case. Andthat's the same thing we saw over
the weekend at that fundraiser. Hehad this star studded fundraiser in southern California
over the weekend, right, andhad a moment after I think it was
a half hour long interview with Kimmelon stage where he and former President Barack
Obama are standing on stage and they'rewaving at the audience. Lasts for about

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a minute and Barack Obama, misterObama touches the arm of President Biden as
if to say, have you hadenough? Let's head out right. Here's
the video waving at the crown.I love you, Tony, thank you.
And so it's made to look aslike are you ready, grandpa?

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You know, do you need helpoff the stage? When that's not what
it was. It was just ait could have been a touch like hey,
you ready to go, Let's getout of here. Sure, sure,
we have don't forget we have thatmeet and greet backstage, like yeah,
right whatever, it's like anything we'retaking off, come on up.
Yeah, could have been like,hey friend, I missed you, I
haven't seen you. That was agreat interview. I really like when you
said this or what we were talkingtoo much into it, but I think

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it was a quick tap like we'regoing we're exiting stage left. Yeah exactly,
but we don't know. But it'smade to look like and it's being
published by you know, all thesemedia outlets that are making a big deal
like he's some doddering old grandpa thatcan't figure out how to get off the
stage. Well that's their play.It's pretty much the only play they have,

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which is Biden is too old,doesn't know where he is. And
it's actually been picked up by somany people. The tech bros. That's
what they did, the David Sachs'sChi Moth that all in podcast. That's
what they talk about, that he'sso diminished, doesn't know where he is.
I hear it even when I doKFI radio. They mentioned it occasionally.

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This is the again, I'm notsaying that he's the same he was
ten years ago. But I thinkhe's still pretty together. He's guarded in
the way he moves. I thinkso is Trump. Trump is a smack
talker. He's only what three yearsyounger? Or is it? I mean,
it's so you're telling me you're gonnavote for Trump. He'll be Biden's

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age in office. If you don'tthink that that's an age that one should
be eligible any longer to serve theUSA as chief executive, then why do
you want Trump in there? Imean, he's gonna be the same age.
It just again, you know,I have a bias. Apparently it
was not the it was not ahandler. It's the president of Italy who
was pointing him back the other way. Thank you, Copper. But all

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I'm trying to say is they aremaking great hay of this one thing.
It's pretty much all they have,and it's offensive. I mean, to
take a situation that's innocuous like that, that's completely innocent, and then completely
turn it on its side and makeit look like the guy is a doddering

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dude, it doesn't know where heis. It's it's horrible, I mean
it really, it's it's shameful,you know, I mean, it's true.
That's you know, does that passfor journalism? And I really looking
forward to talking to David K.Johnston about the you know we He've kind
of discussed it before, regarding differenttopics, ethics and media, and is
this you know you you want tosay, Oh, I'm going to make

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him look like a doddering old grandpato get clicks, to get people to
watch it, because you know,the people that don't like him will want
to see him in a fragile,frail state. Or maybe I'll convince other
people that this is true. Butwhat are you doing to your publication and
the stuff that's wrong? Well,I mean it's it's a propaganda right wing

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publication anyway. The New York Postand a lot of the you know,
the right parts of the world,these are right wing, you know blow
torches. So they take it,they take this deep fake slash, cheap
fake video and they get it outon blast. And then people like Chris
Haltkren, they who are at youguys are nuts to vote for a dementia
patient. I mean, that's notwho he is, you know that.

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Did you see him the State ofthe Union, dude? Did you see
him at the press conference? Haveyou seen him address some of these various
collections of journalists, for example,on D Day, How did your boy
do on D Day? Trump,Chris, how did he do? Oh?
That's right, he didn't want togo because it was raining. I
mean, did you see Donald Trump? Your boy? You call Biden a

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dimension patient. Again, I'm notsome raw rob for Biden. You'll remember
I didn't even I didn't even wanthim to be the Democratic nominee back when
the last election rolled around, whenhe was up against Trump. So I'm
not some raw rob for Biden.But I'll tell you when you call him
a dementia patient, I think that'scompletely unfair. Your boy, who is

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went off on this thing where theboat is sinking and there's a shark coming,
and what you want to get eatenby the shark? You know there
are a lot of shark attacks thesedays. I mean, you talk about
a guy who is just a completelystream of consciousness moron. That was not
y Donald Trump. I was notedited. That was not edited, and

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that was exactly what he was saying. In this case, we're looking at
a stage we don't know what they'resaying, right, Well, I mean
that was just as simple, simple, he's walking off the stage. Yeah,
and I think you do hire anadministration. Look at the people around
Joe Biden. Look at the peoplearound Donald Trump. I've told you before
you had three cabinet officials resign underthe shadow of corruption. Look it up.

(17:48):
It's there for you, Okay.I mean so, I think on
some level you have to look atBiden as accomplished. Now you may not
like the things need to come.Maybe you didn't want the infrastructure package,
your boy, Donald Trump talked aboutan infrastrucructure package. I actually was hopeful.
I thought the political capital he had, the charisma that he clearly has,
and the following he clearly has,and they'll follow him anywhere. Would

(18:08):
he could say, and he couldbe for abortion against abortion, for infrastructure
against inversation. You guys who arelike in that camp of those who love,
who are mag of followers, you'llfollow him anyway. And I thought
he really would be able to pushthrough an infrastructure package. I thought it
was kind of exciting, like hecould actually do something positive. But that's

(18:29):
not what he did. He talkedabout an infrastructure package. I've got a
great package. There's one coming upin a couple of weeks. I'm going
to have it for you. I'vegot a great healthcare package, and a
couple of weeks I'm going to haveit for you. Never happened. So
the one thing I will say forBiden is he's gotten some things done against
an obstructionist GOP. It's impressive.So this is interesting, Doug writes,

(18:52):
I reckon, we'll see how itpans out in the presidential debate. And
I guess is that what we're lookingfor? Who looks more senile this time
around? Like who looks more cognitivelyimpaired during the debate, That's who you
vote for. Well, Doug,what I wonder about is what I've just
said to you. I mean,I hear this a lot from you guys.

(19:14):
We'll see what happens. Well,when he has to address the nation
on the state of the Union,you're going to see that he's really well.
Then he crushed it on the Stateof the Union. He ad lived
as he was heckled by the HouseChamber in different pockets of those who were
hurling insults at him, he adlibd So now we're onto that, Well,

(19:36):
that was because he was on drugs, And you guys have always got
an excuse. Chris, You're let'sface it, you're a true believer.
I've dealt with people like you onany number of issues. You're a true
believer. I'll never convince you ofanything. You're always going to make an
excuse for your boy, Donald Trump, and you're always going to find a
reason to attack anybody who opposes yourboy. In this case, it's Joe

(19:56):
Biden. So play the dementia card. It's literally the only you have when
you know as well as I dothat your boy, Donald Trump has lost
a lot of steps. He neverhad intellectual curiosity. He'd never had a
real intellectual capacity. He didn't readthe briefings they give him presidential briefings and

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materials every they every day. Henever read them. Okay, they had
to reduce them to one page briefingswith pictures and his name in every paragraph.
Look it up. That's what yourboy is about. But you'd rather
have him because the last guy,this guy, Joe Biden, you feel

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you don't like, so you hangthe dementia thing on him. Please,
dude, please, it's weak.It's really weak. Good Get Trump made
it okay to be mean to oneanother and to promote racism. I do
think being mean to each other.Thank you, Wes. I think you're
a big shout out, big shoutout for the super chat. I do

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think that the nature of the discourse, if you want to call it that,
has definitely changed and become far morerancorous and far more intense and offensive
than it used to be. Youknow, you don't hear my distinguished colleague
believes that we should cut back onwomen's You don't hear that anymore. No
one calls it. You know,you don't hear Donald Trump ever say my

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distinguished colleague. He calls it theBiden crime family, you know, and
Biden doesn't know where he is.It's it's it's changed, man, it's
changed. The king of nicknames,right, Yeah, I know that's I'm
sorry, Mark, don't waste yourtime explaining to all the fanboys it's useless
to use reasoning. They don't care. Yeah, I think that's probably true.

(21:44):
Rancorous is a ding word. You'reright about that. Thank you,
Tom, the keeper of the dingTrumvor Starr in Hollywood. Maybe while Mark
is gone, Kim can play someof your interviews with your parents. So
that's a really sweet idea, Trevor, I love that. Yeah, it's
really is that? Really? Iswe ten ten from big shout out from
Trevor Starr in Hollywood, formerly inConquered California. Now he's in Hollywood,

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California. Trevor's gone Hollywood on us. Grady Kingcain, much love to you,
MT five dollars super chat from Grady. We love Grady lost his sweet
companion parrot, which is also abrutal, brutal thing. So I know
you're dealing with your own, yourown stuff, so thank you for that.

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All right, um, let's uhquickly if I can the Mark Thompson
Show, I'd like to. Ihave a choice. This is always tough.
I have a big chunk of Trumptoday, but I feel like I
kind of already did chunk of Trump. I mean, or I did some

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Trump stuff, but I've got abigger chunk of Trump that includes Byron Donald,
includes Trump himself with apparently serious,serious severe it's called memory issues.
This is from the journalist who interviewedTrump for a new book. So I

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would say that toever, who isit again, Chris Hulkron, stay tuned
for that, Chris, because you'lllove it. If you think you think
Joe Biden's got problems. This guyjust sat down with Trump for his book.
Okay, he's on Trump's side,and I think severe memory issues is
the quote. So maybe, asI might suggest, it's a push between

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the two. So I don't thinkit is. I think I think,
as I told you, I'll takeBiden on life support before i'll take Trump
in the White House. But thatmight be my own bias. So what
I'd like to do the Mark ThompsonShow, Tony, I'd like to do
some law and disorder. I'll tryto get through it quickly, and then
if it's okay with you, we'llgo to Kim's News. Then we'll do

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True Crime Corner with a guest.Bobby Slayton then joins it in the second
hour, I promise you. ThenI will get to do we have another
guess or do I have that lasthalf hour? I can do the chunk
of Trump with the severe memory issues. Give the last half hour open.
That's last half hour, so Iwill get that. I'll get that in
as well. So all of that'sstill to come. Right now, here's

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some law disorder in the criminal justicesystem. The people helps addicts thieves,
bumbs, lineups, girls who can'tkeep on address, and men who don't
care are represented by two separate andequally important groups. Copp of flat Foot,
a bullet, Dick, John Law, You're the fuzz, the heat,
You're poison, your trouble, yourbad news. These are their stories.

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Wells Fargo firing more than a dozenworkers, allegations that the employees were
faking work activity on their computers.I'm working here, look away. The
bank getting rid of the workers afterinvestigating claims of simulation of keyboard activity creating

(25:08):
the impression of active work. Whathow weird that they monitor people's keyboard anyway,
Like case, they do this ina lot of places. I mean,
can't you see the thing has beendone that there's you know, accounts
have been edited or whatever they're doing. Data has been input. No,
they increasingly look at what you're doing, keyboard strokes. There's even a minimum

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number of keyboard strokes in some ofthese newsrooms. My friend works at Bloomberg
says that it's crazy. It's likethey are looking at your computer all the
time, and now they have aito do it. So, according to
this filing, the terminations were reportedin disclosures filed with the Financial industry Regulatory

(25:53):
Authority. Again, because this isWells Fargo and they oversee broker dealer organizations
in the US. Wells Fargo holdsemployees to the highest standards, goes the
release, and does not tolerate unethicalbehavior. The workers were all in the

(26:14):
wealth and Investment management division of WellsFargo. Many employees remain remote or in
hybrid roles following the pandemic. Atthe same time, some workers turn to
strategies as such as quote mousemovers ormouse jigglers to trick activity tracking software used

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by their employers. These devices,which cost about twenty dollars each, keep
cursors jiggling on screen in a waythat mimics mouse movement, making it appear
that a worker is active at theircomputer and working when they're not. This
is crazy. I love it.It's a wild idea, but it just
might well, yes, it wasworking for a People just do their job.

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There are also devices that automatically presskeyboard keys, mimicking the act of
typing. Those cost slightly more thosewho you are curious, they're about sixty
dollars each. Employers, though,are increasingly turning to what they call bossware
to monitor their workers, and accordingto the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the most

(27:26):
common type of bosswaar can log theapplications and websites used by workers and also
record input from a worker's keyboard andmouse and monitor activity that way. So
it's kind of spy versus spy.Everybody is going up against each other,
and workers can check their devices forwhether bossware programs are loaded into their systems.

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But it's unclear whether the Wells Fargoemployees were using mouse movers or faking
work at home or at the office. It's unclear how they were faking it.
They were faking it and now theyare fired. So they fired again,
more than a dozen workers doing allof this, and it's a cyanaara
suck gun. Yeah, they gotrid of the you know, Wells Fargo

(28:14):
has already had a lot of trouble, you know with shall we say,
malfeisons of their own. They don'tneed it inside. Maryland's governor is going
to pardon one hundred and seventy fivethousand marijuana convicted weed smokers are yeah,
people who are convicted of smoking theweed, or having the weed, or

(28:36):
dealing the weed. It's a blanketpardon by Governor Wes Moore. It's among
the country's most far reaching. It'llforgive decades of low level marijuana possession charges
for an estimated one hundred thousand people. I say right on, it's the
most sweeping act of clemency involving adrug now in widespread recreational use. As

(29:00):
I say, it will forgive thelow love of marijuana possession charges. And
he called the scope of his pardonsquote the most far reaching and aggressive executive
action among officials nationwide. To me, big big news. And finally,
this is bizarre. The Kansas Citychiefs Isaiah Bugs is arrested. He's arrested

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in Alabama on a burglary charge.He's already facing separate misdemeanor animal cruelty charges.
So the cops have been called tohis residence. Found two malnourished dogs.
It's pretty brutal. I was readingthis piece yesterday and the condition of
these dogs reflects neglect and worse.So this isn't like a Michael Vick thing.

(29:55):
It might be Michael Vick adjacent.OK. Yeah, he's on a
twelve hour domestic violence hold. Hewas released, so he's had. He's
had some stuff going on, andas I say, he's facing these misdemeanor

(30:15):
animal cruelty charges as well. Sothis latest situation with him involved in a
robbery is something that he vehemently deniesthrough his attorney. But we will have
to see the situation with the teammatesas everybody's pretty mum on the whole thing.

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But that's the latest word out ofthe Kansas City Chiefs. Again,
Isaiah Bugs arrested in Alabama on burglarycharges. That is law and disorder.
Tune in again next time. Fourmore law and disorder on a Mark Thompson
show. All right, that's it, let's roll. Hey, we careful
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(32:55):
something and then we lost her.Go ahead. Now. The highest risk
is in the Great Lakes region intothe Northeast, including Chicago, Detroit,
Cleveland, New York City, andBoston. Hunter Biden is withdrawing an appeal
for his gun conviction. Oops,wrong, wrong person convicted. There there

(33:15):
you go. He lawyers for thepresident's son convicts confused. Yeah, lawyers
for the President's son are not sayingwhy. The appeal was quickly withdrawn shortly
after being filed in a Delaware federalcourt today. Hunter Biden faces a maximum
of twenty five years in prison afterbeing found guilty for unlawfully purchasing a gun

(33:36):
while addicted to drugs. Again,that's a maximum and not likely the sentence,
but could be. About one infive Americans say former President Trump's conviction
makes them less likely to support himcome November. That according to an IPSO
survey, which shows that another fortypercent say Trump's guilty verdict has no impact

(33:57):
on how they plan to vote.I did everything they indicted me. I
mean, how does it not haveany impact? You don't want to president
who's a felon and who goes toprison. Well, that's one way to
I think I'm the most honest,perhaps said God. Ever, God was
pretty busy, created a lot ofstuff, and he created Donald Trump is
the most honest doing that's something.Whatever happened to having a president and holding

(34:21):
them to these standards where they're themost upstanding citizen in the United States,
Well, that's never been, tobe fair, that's never been. No,
they cheated on their wives and theycovered it up. But in the
press they were, you know,slick and untouchable, right, Yeah,
Slick and untouchable should be a nickname. I think. Yeah, I feel

(34:43):
like it doesn't work for me.I'm not. I'm not. I'm not
courtneys here, I'm not. I'mnot. But somebody should have, somebody,
somebody in the chat. You shouldchange your name. Go to slick
and touchable. I think that's agreat handle for our chat. Somebody should

(35:04):
go for that. Six percent saidthe verdict made them more likely to support
Trump. What's going on with thosesix percent? Yeah, I don't know.
A former CDC director is warning thenext pandemic could actually come from bird
flu. Doctor Robert Redfield told NewsNation it's not a question of if,

(35:25):
but more of a question of whenwe have a bird flu pandemic. This
after the recent World Health Organization announcementof a human death from the bird flu
in Mexico. That was the firstone ever reported. That's not fake,
that's really I do think that we'vedetailed here a couple of times how it's
jumped into the human population. Soyeah, Speaking of health, the US

(35:49):
Surgeon General wants social media to includehealth warnings for kids. It's an op
ed for The New York Times,doctor VIVEC. Murphy writing it's time to
require a warning label since there's plentyof evidence social media is linked to significant
mental health risks in younger users.He also calls on social media companies to
make sure that they enforce minimum agerequirements and prioritize safety. High fire danger

(36:13):
in California, crews across the statehave their hands full. At least thirteen
wildfires are burning, some of themsparking over the weekend. The National Weather
Service is extending several red flag firewarnings through today, including parts of the
Sacramento Valley, San Joaquin Valley,parts of the Bay Area, Los Angeles,
Ventura County Mountains. That those areset to end this evening, but

(36:34):
they could end up being extended Thisis because of high temperatures, low humidity,
and strong winds. Speaking of which, a wildfire continues to burn north
of Los Angeles today. The PostFire off of Gorman and I five started
Saturday afternoon. It has exploded tocover more than fourteen thousand, six hundred
acres. So far, twelve hundredpeople have had to flee from this fire.

(36:57):
It's destroyed at least two structures.Los Angeles County Fire says it's about
eight percent contained. In Sonoma County, Uncle Rush says, fire along Highway
five coming back from La Sunday.Yeah, that's the fire. It's called
the Post Fire, fourteen six hundredacres. Here in Sonoma County, evacuations
also underway as a wildfire explodes toone thousand acres, this one near Healsburg.

(37:19):
Another four thousand people have told theycould be next to have to leave
their homes. The flames started yesterdaynear Lake Sonoma. That's an area mainly
open ranchland and vineyards. This fireis burning along Dry Creek, which is
a very famous area for wine grapesand vineyards and the like. Officials say
the fires already destroyed several buildings.Ground crew being assisted by bulldozers, helicopters,

(37:45):
big air support there in San Jose, the search on for a mob
caught on camera attacking a San Josepolice car. Video on social media shows
them in ski masks stopping a reserveofficer on the way to help an injured
per and they jump and stomp onthe hood, smash the windshield, pound
on the windows. It all wentdown Saturday night after a side show,

(38:07):
one of many reported. The policechief calls it deplorable, says his conduct
the conduct won't be tolerated in thecity of San Jose. And in sports,
the Boston Celtics will try once againto close out the NBA Finals tonight.
That series back in Boston for Gamefive, with the Celtics holding a
three game to one lead over theDallas Mavericks. Nicko Caim with a little

(38:28):
sports up, David, this iswhat we do. Hey, I've been
on cambr before. You know howit goes. Yeah're the real thing.
Country music star George Strait now hasbragging rights for the most tickets sold for
any single concert in US history.Yeah, you'd think it was Taylor Swift.
Apparently people like country music. Hisconcert on Saturday night at Kyle Field

(38:49):
in College Station, Texas, drewa crowd of one hundred ten, nine
hundred five ticket buying fans. Whois this is George Strait, George Straight.
We saw George Straight? Remember,yeah, we did. We saw
him in Las Vegas. Saw inLas veg He's terrific, he's great.
We love Toeorg George Straight. Yeah. Well he's got the record now.
The previous was set nearly forty sevenyears ago in nineteen seventy seven with a

(39:12):
Grateful Dead show in New Jersey.So now it's George has never been anything
like this, Thanks Tony. Checkit out. Look at all those people.
Man, Now that's not a sI don't know what filled up a
whole whole stadium. Yeah. Yeah, So the way it works is and
then we'll get Tom to Coordney.He had a it was a huge stage,

(39:37):
square stage in the center of thearena, and he had a microphone
at each side of the stage,right, Yeah, And so he'd go
to each microphone and he'd play twosongs. Then he'd move to the other
microphone, so he's facing now adifferent part of the stadium. He do
two songs there than the next microphone, and the last microphone and he just

(39:57):
rotate microphone and microphone all night.Right. Yeah, yeah, it was
great. It was such a goodidea. It's so basic, but it
worked beautifully. Yeah, he's terrific. But we had so much fun at
that show. You had so muchfun. Yeah. Look at the humanity
in that picture. That is wild. Yeah, that's crazy. That's cool,
man. Look at the COVID.I know, that's what I'm thinking.
Look at the COVID jumping from personto person like wildfire. Oh that's

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all right, let's get to truecrime. Yes, I'm kim McAllister.
This is the Mark Thompson Show,The Mark Thompson Show. It was
great. I loved it. Howwould you have this? We could try
ignore you, sir morning. Youcannot say you love your country? Where

(41:52):
am I weed smokers at? Stayat home and get baked? Yeah?
What's up everybody? I am excited. I am excited about this next segment.
You know my other half Courtney,Yes, Hi, she is a
big follower of that true crime.She's been drawn in by this true crime
the way so many Americans have embracedthis genre. And so she comes every

(42:17):
week on Mondays with a segment wecall True Crime Corner. Let's pay a
visit to Mark's True Crime Corner.This is not a good neighborhood. I'm
scared. Now here's your houset,Mark Thompson. And how about it for
Courtney? Hi? Welcome, thankyou, Yeah, thank you, thank

(42:42):
you. We have a guest today. Would you introduce our guest please?
Yes, I'm so excited to haveChester McCurry us. Yeah, well,
who is Chester McCurry? Can youtell us who is Chester Chester? Well,
he's a friend and we were talkingto him at Thanksgiving and chatting about
true crime. Yeah. Chester currentlyruns events for a venue in Los Angeles,

(43:08):
but Chester has done a lot inthe entertainment space, including was a
child actor. Oh and ran DollyParton's company for thirteen years. We love
Doll, Yes, we love DollyCarton. Chester. Hello, sir,
Hey there, how are you guys? We're very excited that you're on the
on the show. I know.Can you just give me thirty seconds on

(43:31):
Dolly Parton? I love Dolly Parton. It's hard to America loves Dolly Parton.
What was that? It's hard togive you thirty seconds on Dolly Parton.
She's the most amazing person I've everworked with in my life. I
got to tell you that she isexactly what you see. I mean,
everything you've seen on TV about heris exactly her. Her personality is the
same. She is no different thanwhat you see. Isn't that great?

(43:53):
Tony? Can you hear Chester?Okay? Please? Sir? Can you
hear him? Okay? Okay,I want to just make sure Chester everybody
hears you. Well, that's Imean, that's like the best thing you
could hear because she's so delightful,charming, talented in every way. And
if you heard like, well backstage, she's a total you know what I
mean, like she's a day orwhatever, that would have just ruined it.

(44:14):
But she's real. That's really great. And so you've been to Dollywood,
Chester, I was actually director ofentertainment at Dollywood. I started out
performing at Dollywood in nineteen ninety seven, director of entertainment in ninety eight.
So I was director of entertainment therefor almost seven years. I'm dying to
go to Dollywood. I am too. And I just we saw Dolly Parton,

(44:35):
Yeah, oh yeah, we sawat the Hollywood Bowl. Trevor says
that he sounds a bit low.He sounds a bit low to me as
well, so maybe crak him upa little bit, but Chester does.
But wow, Dollywood, Dollywood's beenaround a while now. I remember when
Dollywood opened and I couldn't believe that, you know, Dolly Parton was opening
with a theme park. But it'sbecome a real destination place hasn't had Yeah,

(45:00):
it has. You know, it'sin its thirtieth It opened in nineteen
eighty five, so it's in itsalmost thirtieth year. A fortieth year shoot.
I can't even do math right now. It's probably the biggest thing park
in the in I would say almostin the world. It covers three hundred
and eighty five acres, and mostpeople don't know that. I feel like
I'm doing a Dolly part and commercialdollar and I'm happy to do that.

(45:21):
Actually, yeah, it covers threehundred and eighty five acres. It goes
there's a train that goes through themiddle of the Smoky Mountains and through the
woods. It's there's nine live showsthere right now. My best friend actually
just performed with Dolly last week.They just opened The Dolly Parton Family Show,
and he's one of the leads init. Yeah, and there's the
train. So when Dolly Parton goesto and thank you Tony for putting up

(45:42):
pictures of Dolly. Ni yeah,thanks Tony. When Dolly Parton goes to
some venue, everybody loves Dolly.Look at in the chat that you're getting
so much love. But and thenwe'll get to the true crime, I
promise. But uh, the requestsyou must get when Holly goes to play
venue or I'm just wondering, likeyour life has to be punctuated through that

(46:04):
time you were Dolly with can youget us you know better seets? Can
you get us into she Dolly?Can we do a meet and greet?
Is it? Am? I right? One thousand percent? Yes? It's
so funny because you said you sawat the Hollywood Bowl the day tickets went
on so I think that was liketwenty sixteen, twenty seventeen, somewhere in
there. I don't remember. Itwas right at that time period. As
soon as the tickets went on sale, I had probably two hundred emails and

(46:28):
that many text messages. Hey,Dolly's going to be at the Bowl.
Did you know Dolly's going? Yes, I can't get you tickets. I'll
be there. She was just intown a few weeks as well. Everybody
thought she was going to be intown a few so she just got an
award from I think it was theEr Women's Rights Organization or something. She
Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda, andof course my text messagees blew up soon
as they announced it and they werelike, hey, can you yeah,

(46:51):
she's not even going to be here, She's actually going to be a Nashville
accepting Yeah, I have to.Can I tell my really quick story about
Dolly in West Hollywood? Oh mygosh, please, I think I've told
Courtney the story. If not,it's one of my favorite stories. So
Dolly actually was in West Hollywood visiting. This was probably, oh, I
don't know. We were here earlytwo thousand and went to a gay bar

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and there was a drink, alot of games. I mean, it's
a lot of gay bars. Ihave to say, I do live down
the street from this particular one.And we went to Rage just as back
when Rage was a thing, andthey were having a Dolly Parton lookalike contest
and it was all drag queens,and we talked Dolly into joint into entering
the contest. So she went tothe bathroom, put a little more makeup
on, a lot of lipstick,got on stage, did the whole Dolly

(47:37):
parton look alike aime in second place, And in second place, I went
to the bar, I know,right. I went up to the bar
to get a drink in. Thebartender said, oh, did you enjoy
the show? I said yeah,he said, he said it was great.
The winner was fantastic, but thatone that was second place should never
have even placed at all. Yeah. I love the dollar story for shelf

(48:02):
can't win her own Dolly Park.And to be fair, there's gonna be
tough competition, you know. Ohmy god, that's just all right.
Now we have to put you towork. Chester. I'll turn it over
to Courtney, and they're the uh, what is it? What is that

(48:22):
cinnamon bread from Dollywood? Grist meall, I can take exactly what it
is, the best cinnamon bread you'llever in your life. Oh, that's
terrific. I think we got toput Dollywood. That's a pocket list thing
for me. Yeah, I know, all right. Uh, now,
without further delay, go ahead,Courtney take the lead. Well, I've

(48:43):
I've found my my you know,twin flames spirit in Chester because from what
I understand too, Chester hosted apodcast of sorts or a YouTube show of
shorts talking about true crime. Andit was that Thanksgiving, Yes, and
we are seating that seated next toeach other, that we started talk about
true crime. Are you still doingthat, Chester? No, I'm not.
Actually I did it for about ayear. I did it during COVID

(49:06):
for about a year, and then, of course fourteen thousand other things happened
during COVID and we went different directions. But I do love true crime.
I've always been a fan of it. And yeah, it was a great
conversation to have with you. Iwas like, oh, yes, I
know when I can connect with anyonearound murder, I ram chay toward that,
especially a Thanksgiving. But today,so I've been begging Chester to come

(49:30):
on and he is very busy.As I mentioned, he runs an event
space here in Los Angeles, andso I'm so grateful that we found the
time to talk about the murder thatI didn't know about. Oh, which
is the I will try to saythis properly techs arcana moonlight murders or phantom
killer. And this was a serialkiller who was murdering people and harming people

(49:54):
in Texas, Arcana, Texas andArkansas. It's a town that's right on
the bord order of Texas and Arkansasfrom Festus County, yes to May of
nineteen forty six. And I believeyou live near here, right Chester.
Yeah, so I'm right on theLouisiana border. I grew up right on
the Louisiana border outside of this fortyfive minutes outside of Texarkana. And yeah,

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this was all these murders happened inthe nineteen forties. Was nineteen forty
six. But as a kid growingup in the seventies, this the murderer
was. The killer was never caught, so he could have you know,
he could have still been around inthe seventies. He probably was. The
rumor is that he actually made hisway down to my hometown. So as

(50:37):
a small child, I was scaredto death. We lived out in the
middle of the nowhere. And sothis killer should I do you want to
tell the story? You want totell the story? Okay? Yeah,
yeah, yeah. So this killerwore a like a bag over his head,
like a sack over his head,and he would go up to these

(51:00):
cars where these young I want tosay young adults. Kids. I mean
the youngest victim was fifteen, woulddrive off into a lover's lane. I
heard the police in the film thatwas a adopted screenplace, a lonely road,
so that was really interesting. Andthese kids would go off into these
lover lane, lover's lane, andthen this murderer, this phantom killer would

(51:24):
come up and beat them and shootthem when they were in these lover lane.
Yeah, so there were five peoplethat died. There were eight victims.
The first victim is here, JimmyHollis is pictured here. And then
he was on a date with MarieJeanine Larry and the murderer came up.

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He beat them, but they bothsurvived, yes, I know. And
then the second attack happened on acouple that was out on a lover's lane.
Now, Pollyann Moore was much youngerthan Richard Griffin. I think they
were just a This might have evenbeen their first date. And the killer
shot both of them and killed bothof them. And similarly with the next

(52:08):
couple, they were particularly long young. Betty Joe Booker was a saxophone player
and she was playing her saxophone asPaul Martin picked her up for this date,
and I was listening to something abouthow she had reservations about going out
with Paul. That's a particularly long, young looking photo of Paul. And

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they were both shot and killed.Now, so he didn't just be Yeah,
he had a thirty eight pistol Ibelieve was the pistol he was using.
But the first two victims he beat, there was some conversation about how
he wasn't quite ready to murder people, so he was harming them, hurting

(52:55):
them obviously extraordinarily. But he didin fact murder these two couples. The
last the last incident was he wentto a home and there was a couple
at home. Now, they livedin a farm that was in a fairly
rural part of Texarkana. So thisis like like Chester kind of neighborhood where

(53:21):
Rychester. Yeah, yeah, correct, it's in the middle of nowhere.
When I say nine, it wasnine miles to the closest neighborhore I lived.
It was the same in this areaas well. Wow. And it
was interesting because at the time nota lot of these farm homes had phones,
but this farm home did, andthe killer didn't think about that.
So he goes up to a window, he shoots the husband, Virgil Starks,

(53:45):
and then he sees Katie Starks,who's the wife, trying to call
for help on the phone. Andit was a wind up phone, so
she's winding the phone like a crank. Oh yeah, yeah, exactly,
and she sees him and runs andhe shoots her. But she does make

(54:05):
it to a house and reports thecrime, so she does survive. And
I believe the first how she goesto is her sister and her brother in
law, but they're not home,so she ends up making it to a
different house reports the crime, buther husband, Virgil is killed. Now,
I but they didn't catch the guy. No, And there is a
sixth victim, but I don't knowas much about how he was killed.

(54:27):
I know his body was found ontrain tracks, but I know less about
how he was murdered. They neverfound him. Now, there are several
suspects right Chester. There was liketwo suspects, but one of them was
fairly well recognized as the murder andhis name was Yule Swinney. Sweeney and

(54:49):
his wife actually admitted to the cops, to the sheriff about having been out
with her husband and he quote wentto the bath room for an hour off
of a dirt road and then cameback with blood on him and they drove
away. So I think his wife, Penny was was very much party to

(55:13):
what Yule was allegedly doing, buthe was never prosecuted because she recanted her
statements and would not speak out againsthim. Now there's some theories that they
were just dating and you will marriedher because you cannot force a wife to
to, you know, speak outagainst her husband. Yeah, so in

(55:37):
a court of law. Yeah,I don't know if I'm missing anything Chester,
but it was. It's a crazystory. If you go down there's
actually a photo that was taken thatwas in the Art techs Arkana Gazette,
and it's a family and they're sittingaround and it's like after dinner and they
look like they're reading and playing,and then there's this big rifle on the
side of the living room. Andit was like everyone in that town,

(56:00):
much as Chester described, we're livingin here. Yea of what was happening
maybe on the dead lab, momreading and there in the middle is I'll
say, shotgun. Yeah, shotgun. Also because up until the crime at
the house with the Starks. Thekiller had been murdering people on lover's lane,

(56:22):
and now suddenly he was at thiscouple's home, and so that changed
the possibility and the vulnerability of familiesin and around the area. And this
went to the FBI. The FBIactually released eleven hundred documents in twenty twenty
related to this crime, and soyou can go there into the FBI vault

(56:45):
and you can look through those documents. So Chester, the idea, I
guess was that cops sort of knewmaybe who the lead suspect was, or
you know, at the time,we know who he is, but we
just can't actually pinned on him.Is that because just policing there and you
know, obviously the forensic of thetime in the forties just didn't lend itself

(57:07):
to them being able to make anarrest. Well really, so there was
all of this brew haha around thisbecause there was actually a Texas ranger that
came in. His name was ManuelGonzalez, and he was supposedly this really
good looking Hollywood type Texas ranger andhe came in to investigate the whole murder,

(57:27):
the whole serial killer, and broughta reporter from life magazine. So
when the purporter came around, shestarted taking photographs and interviewing people. It
became national news at that point.So when it became national news, all
the other news media came into town, and everyone wanted to be famous.
So they had about twenty people saythat they were the murderer. They confessed

(57:50):
to the murder. So people allover the town were confessing to the murder,
and of course they were all noneof them were, and the facts
were coming out because they just allwanted to be that wild. Yeah.
Josh is asking in the chat overhow long a period of time were these
murders. I believe they were overthere were. It was a very short
period of time. I believe itwas like from February twenty second through mid

(58:15):
May early June, so it wasjust a few months. Actually, it
was. They were very concentrated thatit was very It all happened very quickly,
and I think that's why it gotsuch such attention because serial killers back
then, you know, especially inmainstream media, had not heard of.
And there was even a University ofArkansas student who confessed to the murder and

(58:37):
then killed himself in his dorm room. This was in the clearly in the
forties early fifties, and of coursethat came out that he was not the
killer. He wanted to be famousas well. So but yeah, as
I said, earlier, reports camethat this person, whoever it was,

(58:59):
if it was Yu'll Swinny or ifit was someone else, had made his
way down to Monroe, Louisiana.And there was actually a string of murders
that happened in Monroe, Louisiana thatwere also similar to this. It was
never pinned as the same person oras the phantom killer, but they still
those still go unsolved as well.We actually had a road in my hometown

(59:21):
in Calhoun, I'm from Calhoun,Louisiana, just outside of Calhoun, that
was called the Hollow that was sortof a lover's lane. It was a
deserted dirt road and at this timeeveryone was afraid to go down there.
Between the forties to the early eighties, you were afraid to even go down
that road at night because this fatomkiller may be out about. Wow,

(59:43):
that's the legend does kind of beginto spread, right if you go down
First of all, Tony, thankyou for showing all the visuals. If
you go down there. There wasa movie that was written and produced around
this, But I think the visualof this sack over the man's head is
just particularly jarring because contemporary versions ofserial killers or murders, they're in all

(01:00:07):
black, they're very kind of underthe radar, and this is just an
image that is haunting. And Itried to watch this film and I just
got so scared I could I couldn't, right, yeah, I really did.
When the town when was this filmwas done in right, like nineteen
seventy six Chester, right, yeah, yeah, seventy seven. And it's

(01:00:28):
funny that you say that because itwas took an hour. Our closest movie
theater was an hour away from myhometown, and my mother and godmother took
me to see this movie in nineteenseventy seven. We came out of the
parking lot at a mall and wewere the only car in the parking lot,
and we took at the door.Yes, we took the door and

(01:00:49):
took a very deep bread for asecond and ran as fast as we could
to the car to get in andlock the doors. Oh my god,
yeah, yeah's wild. Well itwas so it starred Ben Johnson. It
looks to me like uh down Wellswho played Mary Anne in Gilligan's Island.
I believe she is in this movie. I'm fairly certain that. Yeah,

(01:01:10):
I believe it's Done's believe she wasactually the one who got shot in the
who got shot in her home andran to the farmers the next farms house.
Wow. Wow. Yeah. AndI read the Town that Dreaded.
I didn't interrupt, but I lovethat The Town that Dreaded Sundown. I
mean, you can you can getit on Amazon grateful, Yeah, you

(01:01:36):
can watch it on Amazon. Itried mostly I had time to watch it
as I was going to sleep,and I yeah, I was listens to
and watches the scariest stuff before shegoes to By the way, maybe you
do that too. As a fanof true crime not healthy, I was.
I'm curious Blumhouse, who's somewhat famousand known as a horror genre production

(01:02:02):
company, was going to do aremake of this film, and what they
actually did was like a contemporary versionof The Phantom Killer. In twenty fourteen,
that was the year that they releasedthis new film. But I don't
think it was as widely accepted andenjoyed or whatever as this original film,

(01:02:25):
So there was never an arrest madelike this. This guy whoever, he
was faded into the Yeah, whenhis wife recanted what she said, it
was very hard to prosecute him becausethere wasn't any DNA obviously at the time.
I think there was blood type matching. Now, some of the women
were sexually assaulted, some were not. It was proven that some of the

(01:02:49):
men that they were on dates withdid not have sex that night, So
the DNA had to come from thekiller. Yeah, there was a I
think there's a handprint that was shownearlier. I don't know if that was
taken from one of the suspects orwas found at one of the crime scenes.
There was a Interestingly enough, therewas a flashlight that was found at

(01:03:09):
one of the crime scenes, andthey artificially put in the colors. It
was the only colorized picture of anyof the pictures in and around this that
they put into the paper. Ifyou're watching on the visual, it's red
black, red. It was.It was a flashlight that was found at
one of the scenes of the crimes. That handfrint has to be something that
cops got after the fact. Yeah, Yeah, it must have. Yeah,

(01:03:31):
And also there was somebody that wasso as I mentioned, Betty Joe
Booker was a saxophonist and her saxophonewasn't with her, and that was fairly
notable in that she was very farfrom the car, very far from Paul,
and her saxophone wasn't with her.There was a man trying to sell

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a saxophone, and in and ofthat they questioned him as a suspect.
I think ultimately three hundred suspects werequestioned and really east during the FBI and
the sheriffs, you know, lookingand investigating the case. The prior headline,
there was one headline just quickly,guys, as we finish up that
mentions that she was able to idthe killer, the woman who got away?

(01:04:16):
Is that not right? Go back? There was a headline there that
said, and the upper left youhad a girl identifies slaying suspect. So
there were people that weren't murdered,obviously had eyewitness accounts of the person who

(01:04:36):
had perpetrated the crime. There weredifferent in Chester might be able to add
to this, but there were differentiatingaspects to each story. So because they
were on dates, there was theman and the woman, some of them
believed that he was a white male. Some of them believed that he was
an African American male. They allgave the report of it being a man

(01:05:01):
and of him being six feet tall, So there were some aspects to it.
But again he was wearing that coveron his face that so there wasn't
any specific information I think about howhe looked, but I might. No,
No, you're you're correct. Eveneven the first the first couple that
neither were killed, he gave areport. I believe he said that it

(01:05:24):
was an African American male and shesaid it was a white male. Even
the same couple gave different reports.That's bizarrow, isn't it. Underdog,
says Ben Johnson as Captain J.D. Morales, a fictionalized version of
Texas Ranger Captain Mt. Lone WolfGonzolias, who we saw yeah in the
pictures that he provided. Wow.Yeah, just a scary thing. I

(01:05:48):
mean, I understand why the legend, as Chester was saying, could carry
through the years because they never gotthis guy. It was such a gruesome
thing. You're on these dirt roadsand rural desolate area. Yeah stops anyway,

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and you know, whenever you're outthere in the middle of nowhere.
You're already just feeling like this isscary when you have this is the backdrop,
like you know this it had almosta cultural memory. It sounds like
this area about this incident, Wowchester, that had to be truly chilling.
It was. It was and likeI said, as a kid in the
middle of nowhere, you know,with in the seventies, you're like,

(01:06:31):
okay, this wereet's still around,so it was scary to go outside sometimes.
Yeah. And it also some ofthe crimes were in Texas, but
some of them are in Arkansas,and I think that also complicated stuff.
Oh yeah, sure, jurisdictions,We've talked about that before. That makes
it more difficult. And most ofthe couples ad at a diner before this
happened, so maybe avoid diners andlovers lane direct. All right, I'm

(01:07:00):
going to go ahead just to addlike it's interesting because it has so many
hallmarks of what was happening in theforties, you know, diners and lovers
Lane. And then this this likethis sack over his head that is just
like this truly chilling image. Soyou look back at it now in contempt
sort of in a contemporary time andit's really interesting. It definitely speaks to

(01:07:21):
the nineteen forties. So I thinkit's interesting that you found that movie is
still scary, you know. Ohyeah, I couldn't watch it. Yeah
it's wild. Yeah, Chester,how cool to visit with you now that
we know you have this, youknow, share love of this genre.
I love it. I love it. I'm glad that we connected on this

(01:07:42):
too, So it's great. Yeah, it uite making this quite external,
but I'm hoping that you'll be back. I guess is what I'm getting at
anytime. I'm ready. I'll shoehornsome more Dolly Parton questions. Your way
sounds great. I have plenty ofDolly Partner stories to tell you. I
love it. I love it itone more time for Chester Chester. Thank
you, guys. I appreciate it. Yeah, Courtney, thank you,

(01:08:05):
Oh thank you for having me.Mark. Really a good one, scary
little yarn A lot of good visualstoo, Thank you, Courtney. Everybody
that, my friends is true CrimeCorner for today, True Crime Corner only.
I'm a Mark Thompson Show, TheMark Thompson Show. It is with

(01:08:27):
the greatest excitement that I change gearshere at Courtney. You know, this
is our guest next Courtney. Youknow him. It's Slayton is no way
next? I keep you on herefor well, thank god I didn't have
to follow Bobby. Yeah, Bobby, it's a much more difficult position to
be in. You know he loveshorror movies. What yeah, Bobby,
Well he likes like a really vintagemonster movies. I think he's coming to

(01:08:50):
the bay. I mentioned the lasthour and now get right to him.
How about it for Bobby Slayton.Everybody, Hey, Bobby's hey. Can
you hear me? Okay, yeah, we hear you. Prince do I
Mailkins every time I do these thingsand the skype thing there's always something wrong
with my microphone. But here's thething. This is a great segue because
you're speaking about scary and working inthe middle of nowhere and killing. That's

(01:09:12):
exactly what I'll be doing this weekendmy CAP's Bar and grill and a little
town of Breadwood, California. Myshow was very scary and uh, and
I'll be I'll be killing a lotof people because this weekend. It's this
weekend, Kim, Can you putthe banner up to indicate that it's this

(01:09:35):
weekend? For Bobby, it's notin July. It's this weekend. Why
do you have I can't hear it, but yeah, yeah, I can't
hear Kim Body. It's because yourwebsite indicates the shows in July. Oh
my website says July. Yeah,no, I think it. No,
in July, doesn't it say theshow in Montreal? Mm? Hm oh

(01:09:57):
blow it up, Toddy? DidI screw up in the day? My
web people okay, sorry about lifedoes say July twenty first. It's actually
you know what, I got tofix that. It shows you how often
I will see I don't do eventhe nights are wrong. Aren't you going
to be up there? Aren't youup there? You're not there Sunday and
Monday. You're up there this weekendit's day. I don't know if that

(01:10:18):
was my web person's fault or myfault, but I'm gonna somebody has to
be has to pay for this.I think you have to get rid of
somebody. I don't know. Yeah, it's caps Oak Street Bar and Grill
in Brentwood, California, Northern California, this weekend. So no wonder,
I'm not selling any tickets. Igotta do your you know. No,

(01:10:41):
I'm actually doing it this weekend topractice for showing July. But you know
that horror movie thing. Let mejust tell you really quickly. When they
were talking about Lovers Lane and allthese things, I love horror movies.
I can't watch those kind of movies. I'm not talking about the vintage you
know, nineteen thirties, forties horror. I'm talking about stuff like this Texas
Chased Friday in the thirtiees. Ican't watch this stuff. I become such

(01:11:02):
a big baby. It's such abig pussy in my old age, I
can Somebody told me I had towatch a movie called X. It's about
these people shooting an adult film.Uh. It was very reminiscent of the
Texas Change. So I'm massacred andthey're shooting it in this you know farmhouse,
you know, you know a placelike Texas, Canada, and I
can only They said, you gottasee this. It's not that bloody,

(01:11:23):
but it's really scary. I canonly watch ten minute increments and showed you
off because I'm such a big babythat it was that scary. Is that
right? It's not that it's notscary to somebody who's not old and frightened.
Who lives in a haunted house?You know, somebody was murdered in
my house, which is a wholeother podcast. But yeah, what is
before I lived here. I hadnothing to do with it, So I'm

(01:11:45):
not taking a responsibility for the deadguy. Thank you for the clarification.
Oh no, let me So,this is what happened my my home many
years before I lived here, Andthey don't have to tell you this if
there's like a five year window.Back in the sixties, one of the
regional owners of this house, hewas a doctor and he couldn't find any
work. I guess he was workingfor UCLA or Ceedar Sinai or something,

(01:12:09):
and he lost his job. Hewas having personal problems and his girlfriend left
him. His wife left him,and he was living in this house that
I'm in now, and he shothimself in my bedroom. And the reason
I know this is my next doorneighbor who had been living here. His
mail was piling up and they cameinto the backyard. They went into my
bedroom and they found the guy notonly dead, but his brother told me

(01:12:31):
I met his brother years later,said there was like the Twilight Zone,
said there was a message on themachine for a job offer and an apology
from his girlfriend. So wow.Yeah. So I was on the road
all the time, and my wifeand daughter, who were very susceptible to
believe you all kinds of haunted housecrap. You know, only so much
of that. I mean, evenif one percent of that is true,

(01:12:53):
like flying saucerers, something's real outthere. They said, all kinds of
wacky stuff was going on, andmy dog was barking at all kinds and
stuff, and they said, oh, it could be rats in this ceiling.
So there's a lot of wacky stuffgoing on in this house. And
even though I haven't seen any ofthat for years, when you watch a
scary movie that comes you know comesback. Sure, absolutely wow. But

(01:13:14):
there's the uh, it's really reallywell done and if you like, I
don't want to say slasher movies,but it's just one of those classic Texas
changed for a massacres kind of films. But the other night I was watching
Turner movie classics or Turner classic movies, I don't know, and Weekend and
Birdies comes on, and I don'tknow where this piece of crap that came

(01:13:36):
a classic, But right after theweekend of Bernie's they had I hadn't seen
this in years. The Hand,the Rocks, the Cradle. Do you
remember this movie? Oh? Sure, yeah, Rebecca, Rebecca de Mornay,
who you know. I don't knowif she's around anymore, but she
was like Sharon Stone, basic instinct, Taylor Swift, gorgeous rights, exactly

(01:13:57):
right. Right. So the descriptionsays psychologue to horror thriller. And I
had seen it years and I watcheda movie and it's basically about a babysitter,
a hot babysitter who wants to killmy wife and have sex with the
husband. You can't find help likethat today for four dollars an hour.
When did you have about a hotlooking drawn just gonna kill you? Why

(01:14:17):
I make love to you? Yeah? See that? To me, people
misinterpret films. That's a beautiful movie. I should be a film critic.
One word, and so more importantly, speaking of family, my girlfriend says
hello, and Corney, are youstill there? Yeah? I'm here,

(01:14:40):
Yeah, happy to be here.Yeah, I don't really want to be
here. My girlfriend said to sayhello, And I was wondering, here
is a sandy in the chat?I love the hand that Rocks the Cradle,
and I've often wondered why Rebecca dMorne didn't become a bigger star after
that movie. That's interesting, Bobby, she did have a moment, but

(01:15:01):
yeah, she faded quickly. Huh. Okay, Well she's a lot like
Bobby Slayton with a vagina. She'sbeautiful. She has a lot of talent,
and nobody knows why he didn't makeit. She made it quickly.
Bobby sad A should be married toRecA the Morning. Two faded stars with
an amazing amount of talent going nowhere. Rod says he met her once in
Maui. She was, let's getup with my Rebecca Morning. Can we

(01:15:24):
get back to me? I'm sorryI brought it up. You really can't
buy Rebecca the Morning. Get herat the stupid show? Okay, okay,
okay. Beautiful And you know herfather was, oh, Wally George,
Wally George, that crazy idiot,one of the first not not not
quite Alex Jones, but he wasthat kind of Alex Jones combined with doctor

(01:15:45):
Phil and Phil Donio and he rememberhe had that wacky show, that right
wing and like a more American flagand yeah, see if you can get
a still of Wally George up there, Tony, because he was he was
a phenomenon. A lot of likerat boys would show up at his Uh
yeah, yeah, don't put BobbySlayton's name up there next to Wally George.

(01:16:10):
First, I'm still upset that Ihad the wrong dates on my website.
But well now that the but CAP'swebsite has the dates correct, is
what you got it correct? Yeah? And there are the correct dates on
our screen now six two that's thisweekend at CAPS in Brentwley. Anyway,
you know, it's really scary forme because I, as you know,

(01:16:30):
I've told you this before, Idon't really do stand up. Get Wally
George out of it. I I'mnot bringing up any other people. I
don't want to see them on mypretty much. On the Imaginary Show of
Mark Thompson. I remember seeing youyears ago, says Cecilia Rhodes. It
was in Lake Tahoe. I thinkit was the show you were doing the
same night that you had married yourwife earlier that day. Is that right?

(01:16:55):
Okay? Yeah? I not onlydid I marry, oh my god,
not only that I was playing CaesarsTahoe and they had a comedy club
up there. And my wife shewasn't. I wasn't planning and she wasn't.
She was had the baby early.She wasn't supposed to have the baby
for another six weeks. So Ifigured I could squeeze one more. Data
seesars Tahoe. It's good money,and who doesn't love Tahoe. So that

(01:17:17):
afternoon they called me up, yourwife is giving birth. So I had
to fly to Tahoe. Not theeasiest place to get out of on a
moment's notice. You know, itmight not be Texarcata, but you know,
you have to go to retail andget a plane, and it was.
It was crazy. So I hadto cancel my show, which I've
never done before. And I getto the Santa BGCA hospital. I burst

(01:17:39):
into the room and the first one'sout of my mouth is the baby white?
And there was a black woman mywife, and didn't that's Clayton's thing.
He does that, you know,inappropriate crap. So did you do
a show? I saw you atanother show in Tahoe with I want to
say, Kevin Pollack and Dana CarbonData Carb. Yeah, that was great,

(01:18:00):
you know Data. I think Datawas kind of doing as a favor.
I don't think was he an SNLby then? I guess you.
I think that was pretty big bythen, Yeah, but maybe not.
Yeah, well Data was really bigeven before SNL because he did a lot
of other stuff, but he wason. I got to host the show
and was me. I remember thisand Pollock of course is great, our

(01:18:24):
buddy Kevin Pollack. But Data washeadlining and we all got paid the same.
It was a great weekend hanging outwith my friends. And because Data
was kind of I'm not gonna saya family act, but because he was
on SNL and he had a coupleof other things, there was some people
in the fro row with children.My act is not exactly fun. Your

(01:18:44):
actors inappropriate and uh yeah, it'sbarely appropriate for grown up. That's kind
of your that's kind of your tradingin that kind of stuff. Yeah.
Yeah, well that's why this weekend, you know what I'm doing. It
caps Oak Street Bar and Grill inLovely Brentwood, which, by the way,
have you ever been. It's notthe Breadwood we know in California and

(01:19:06):
California town, great little town,great little restaurant. And I played there
a few times, but I'm rehearsingfor this thing in Montreal, the Montreal
Comedy Festival. I talked to youabout that off the air the other day.
It was the biggest comedy festival inthe world, hundreds of comedians over
a three week period. It's youknow, all these venues, theaters,

(01:19:26):
clubs, cafes. The whole townof Montreal is inundated with comics and it's
really good. So they went bankruptand they the ex president calls me up
and goes, you know, there'sno comedy in July and Montreal people are
missing comedy. Why do you comeup? We have a beautiful venue that's
kind of like the Rainbow Room inNew York. It was this defunct room
that they rebuilt. It's Art decomasterpiece and it's like five hundred people.

(01:19:50):
Why do you come up and doyour show? I hosted a show for
years called The Nasty Show, whichwas you know, I don't want to
say just blue, but there wereguys like Louis c k and Dave Chappelle
and Joe Rogan before they were bigstars, and they all did the show.
And so where is that? Itwas in Montreal? We did it

(01:20:11):
this big theater. We did itevery year and we've sold hundreds and hundreds
of tickets. But now that thoseguys are big stars and the festivals defunct,
they want me to come. That'samazing, by the way, because
the festival was sort of like oneof the cornerstone comedy festivals in the world.
It was I think it was thefirst one. It was. You
know, they do them all overthe place. Now there's a couple of

(01:20:31):
big ones in Ireland and Australia,but that was the granddaddy of all festivals.
And it was so well run andso magnificent. And then they did
a French Week, which you know, nobody give a rights answer about because
French people aren't funny. You know, they walked around on stilts, you
know, et escargo and well thepantomime stuff is awful, awful, But

(01:20:55):
the American every agent, every managerwas up there and it was really cool,
inexperience, and I hosted it foryears and years. So I'm gonna
go back in July. So nowI got to practice. Here's the problem.
They advertise it. If you goon you can find it. Bobby
Slaton is back, nastier than everand I'm thinking, I'm not that nasty

(01:21:15):
anymore. I'm tired and cranky.If they were, Bobby Slaye's tired,
he's efing cranky, He's cranky.Bobby Slayton the Cranky Show, the crankiest
guy ever. You know, it'smore of a Larry David cranky than Sam
Kennison nasty. I like to maybeI'm a combination of nasty. So you
have to find you're nasty again.Is that what you're saying for mine?
I gotta find my nasty. Andyou know, without the cocaine and without

(01:21:39):
the being married and angry, andwithout the vodka, you know, there
were there were things that stimid andwhen you're around other comedians who were all
nasty, you know everybody's getting nasty. Well, I angry only civil wrestlers
getting ready to But it's hard forit's hard to out and nasty. These
guys who are already been, they'vebeen trafficked and nasty for a while.

(01:22:00):
I get it right and everybody putson their best nasty everything there it is
Bobby Slayton will bring much needed nastinessto Montreal in July. Well, they
really hit nasty, got a lotto live up to and now my girlfriend's
coming with me, so you know, you know me, no cocaine,
no hookers. It would have beenanyway, no more hookers. But actually,

(01:22:26):
I mean, you don't know thisabout you know, Bobby had a
residency in Las Vegas. So he'splaying a Vegas showroom night after night,
and but he's worked out every day, didn't gamble, no coke he does.
You know. It makes a lotof those references, but that's not
really who he is. No,not at all, not at all,
you know. I mean in theold days in San Francisco, there were
a few nights, but people alwaysbecause they talked fast, I got bad

(01:22:47):
sinuses. There was always drugs involvedthen it wasn't. It's a fun reference,
but yeah, I'm more like DeanMartin who drank apple juice. That
wasn't Bourbot staying up for nine daysin a row, you know what,
So that was not alcohol. AndDean Martin's hand when he go out of
the stage very rarely, you know. And the reason I know is not

(01:23:08):
an expert about the rat pack.But when I did the movie at HBO
and I played Joey Bishop back inthe nineties, I read not only every
book about the rat Pack, notonly so every every drop of information about
the rat Pack. But I gotto talk to all these guys that you
know, between Buddy Hackett and CarlReiner and Joey Bishop and you know,

(01:23:28):
Dean and Frank already dead by them. But you spoke before you before you
played Joey Bishop in the rat Packthing on on that movie, the rat
Pack movie which you were in.You you spoke with Joey Bishop and all
those other guys you just mentioned JoeyBishop. I had actually a really bad
confrontation with God, who is it? Who is the radio guy in Chicago?

(01:23:50):
And I know you know man cowor oh no, before that idiot
lou Jack Larry Lujack or the guyI know. I'll think of him in
a minute. But I'm having ahard enough time remembering my material for this
weekend at Pau and Grill twenty two, not July nine pm show. Yeah,
there, there it is, friendSam got a nice job. There.

(01:24:15):
It is Caps Comedy Nights with BobbySlayton, Armed and Dangerous. They
say it's Friday night, Saturday Nightin Brentwood. That's in northern California,
Brentwood Bay area people. It's anine o'clock show Friday and Saturday night in
Brentwood and Caps Comedy. So anyway, go back to Joe Joe. But
for first of all, for youngerboys and girls, Joey Bishop was this

(01:24:35):
guy who how would you describe him? Shoot? Okay, but he came
and wait. Joe Jition was oneof those cats skills, you know,
bush Belt comics that went on tobecome a Vegas icon, and they kind
of they used them in the RedPack as kind of you know, Frank

(01:24:55):
and Dean and Samuel were all overthe place and then we're drinking, having
a good time. They quote thekind of called him the traffic cop.
So he would go on and openthe show, and he would go on
and in between to keep the bantergoing. And he was very hosty,
like there he is hosting his ownshow. He hosted tonight show and Carson
wasn't there. He was very no, you know, yeah, I'll tell
you a great story, and thisis a well known story. When they

(01:25:17):
gave him the Joey Bishop Show,you know, they gave a lot of
people shows to go against, youknow, Johnny Carson years later with Joan
Rivers Jerry Lewis had a show thatwas very very short lived. You know,
they were all going against Carson andnobody could topple this guy. And
Joey Bishop had a late night show. Whatever his problem was. Regis Philbin
was his ED McMahon. Regis Philbinwas, you know, his co host,

(01:25:41):
and Joey his live TV before thatthe seven second delay or taped the
night you know, four thirty inthe afternoon. Joey in the middle of
the show and he was only onfor a little while a few months from
maybe a year, walked off theshow mid show and left Regis Philbin sitting
there like like an idiot, youknow, and real why well he just

(01:26:04):
quit and he couldn't wait. Hecould do before the show or after the
show. He did it in themiddle of the show, walked off,
whatever the problem was. So Regiscame to my show years later. I
was about to play Joey in therap Pack movie and Reis, who was
the nicest guy in the world.I didn't really know him very well.
We we you know, had drinksa few times. Could not have been

(01:26:25):
a nicer guy. Regis Philbin.He comes to my show at Caroline Comedy
Club and Broadway. And after theshow, I said, Regis, you
know I'm playing Joey Bishop in thisnew rap Pack movie. Can you tell
me about Joey at all? Hesaid to me, the man was evil?
You know it's that Regis, Philbman, Carl Reiner, Lake, Carl
Reiner, who's the nicest man ofthe world. You know, we became

(01:26:47):
friends. I'm not trying to dropnames. I'm just trying to tell you
these comedy icons who I revered andgrew up watching his little kid and Carl
Reiner had nothing to say good abouthim, Buddy Hackin, but you actually
had a run in with him ornot? Okay, I was exchange with
him. Go ahead. As soonas we hang up, I'm gonna I'm

(01:27:08):
going to tell you who the showwas. But but by the way,
this is again and what we're talkingwith this be goes Joe because again Bobby
played Joey Bishop in the rat Packmovie. Go ahead, So Joey I
didn't realize he was on the phone. God damn, but it's really pissing
me off that Kevinmember, the guycalls me up from Chicago and he doesn't

(01:27:29):
tell me Joey Bishop is on theend of the line. He doesn't tell
Joey Bishop that I'm on the linenow. Joey, allegedly, and I've
heard this from many, many,many people, was a horrible womanizer.
He you know, he cheated onhis wife like crazy. This is what
I heard. You know, Frankwas Frank Dean was a pretty loyal Dean
didn't really care about alcohol and womenthat much. You'd sit in his room

(01:27:53):
with a glass of milk watching Westernsafter the show and get up the next
morning and play go. So,Joey he's on the other line, and
I don't realize this. He thinkshe's being set up. We're both being
set up. And they started askingme questions about Joey Bishop, and I
said, well, you know,I heard Joey was not the nicest guy

(01:28:13):
in the world. Not realizing Joey'son the other line, and he starts
screaming at me, you little beston, I'll kill you. You know,
Joey was like five and six fivesent seven. I'm not much toler than
that, but he was like aboxer when he was a young guy in
Philly. He starts screaming to me, so I calm him down on the
radio. You know what, I'llfind the tape and give it to you.

(01:28:33):
You can hear this. And onceI start telling him how much I
love him and I thought he wasthe greatest comic ever, and I start
talking about Joey, he calms down. We're talking about Joey and he we
We finally hang up, and Joeystays on the line to talk to me
after we're off the radio, andhe, how dare you call me a

(01:28:56):
woman? Isier? And I know, Joey, I didn't mean that.
I meant that you loved women.You I'm trying to, you know,
I try to, I know,I try to get myself out of this.
And I finally invited him to thepremiere of the rat Pack movie,
and he wanted to have nothing todo with it because he said, you
can't really create the magic we had. And I think that's a wild that's

(01:29:19):
wild though, because you know,and we didn't really recreate it. Ninety
minutes. You know, it's RayLiota and the great Joe Montanez, Franken
Dean and Don Chenelan went on toGreatness and Academy words play Sammy and everybody
said to me, you were agreat Joey Bishop. All I had to
do was flow down a little,cut my hair in that monk hairdoo.

(01:29:42):
You know. Hey, hey,Frank, let's go. You know the
ans, the ant, the Jackiemakes me. Hey, yeah, so
good. There it is there,it is there, you guys are It's
great. It was. I enjoyedit. But I mean maybe you know
I always am giddy when you're insomething. So you get over me.
Well that's so cute. I do, well, I do. I'm excited.
I love it when my friends arein something I love to support.

(01:30:04):
All right, So speaking of thatagain, Bobby will be in and around
and on stage at Caps Bar andGirl in Brentwood. It's this weekend,
Friday and Saturday night. You canget tickets caps Restaurant dot com. Go
to the events section of Caps Restaurantdot com. Friday. Can I tell
you one more thing before we go, please be since the murder of people,

(01:30:29):
the Texas changed so people went over. It took six minutes that I
could have been on the radio.You know, Bobby felt you went on
a little too long. You gotcut into his time talking. Yeah,
now you've got me. I'm nowI'm pissed. I'm just kidding. Well
women, you know, well,look, let's be honest. Women do
go on a little long Thank godyou saved it is having the fact women

(01:31:00):
talk a lot, which is myreason, not that my girlfriend and wife
ever would have done this. Thereason one of my biggest nightmares in life
would be having minajatois two women atone time, because all I keep thinking
about doesn't matter how gorgeous say are. It can be Taile Swift and Rebecca
the Morning, but that's two womenyou have to talk to after that.
To me, I want to killmyself. Many people wait, let me

(01:31:26):
tell you what. Yes, goahead, sir. First of all,
I want to give a plug tothat great restaurant. The four of us
had dinner at that vegan donnic Jean. That was one of the best pizzas
I've had. I know you guysloved it because you're vegans. Uh.
My girlfriend and I are very pickyby our pizza. We both loved it,
and I just I I can't evenbelieve I'm saying I love vegan pizza.

(01:31:48):
Because of people from my neighborhood,beck East knew I would never be
allowed back in New York telling themI love vegan pizza. But here's what
I want to tell you. Mark. You know my daughter is a vegan.
You know that didn't know that vegan? Is it vegan? Vegan?
Vegan? Of course you know that. Gentlemen, she is now eating eggs.

(01:32:13):
Is that really a crime in yourworld? Oh it's not. I
mean, it's not pure vegan.You don't have anything from an animal.
But it's not. I mean,look, that was your daughter. Would
you disown her if your vegan daughtercame home and said, Dad, Okay,
I'm a stripper making it five thousandan hour or I'm eating eggs.
Stripper would be better when you okay? I do. I do decry animal

(01:32:42):
cruelty of any kind, but Ialso understand people. Everybody to their own
lifestyle. I'm excited that there'll besome vegan options. Bobby Slaton performs a
caps bar and grill and Brentwood.Yes. Yeah, and if you don't
need the chicken palm, which isgreat, they do have bread and apple
juice. Diet broke crazy. Wedon't have them. I'm guessing they're no

(01:33:02):
vegans watching, So don't worry aboutvegan options. But I don't think anybody's
watching. I don't think anybody's watchingthe cab dining room and patio dining order
for pickup Bobby at Caps in Brentwoodin Northern California. The Bay Area.
I'm going to say, like oneof the great birth places of you know,
in your your origin story goes backto the Bay Area, and I

(01:33:26):
started there. You know, peoplewould go where are you from? And
I went from New York. ButI left New York when I was twenty.
I lived in San Francisco for asolid ten years obody up for rock
and roll bands, and I'll tellyou all the bands I opened up for
at the Keystone, at the OldWaldorf, at the boarding House, at
the Great American Music Hall. Iknow, you know, all of those
venues. It was the hardest thingfor a comic to do. We all

(01:33:48):
did it. Data did it,Bill, the late peul Rapherney, Robin
did it. I did it,and it was very, very tough.
But I'm more frightened about going tothis little one hundred seed venue this weekend
because I don't stand up, youknow, my notes. I have notes.
It's wild to hear Bobby sort oflike, you know, a little
anxious about his set. I loveit. How long are you going?

(01:34:11):
You do an hour? How longdo you go on? I'm gonna stretch
twenty minutes material to an hour.I'm gonna's a crowd before you come on,
going, Bobby, Bobby, Bobby? You need me there to get
the crowd warmed up with Bobby,Bobby. I'm telling you, well,
I'm excited because Sam van Zant.You know another radio legend from the Bay

(01:34:31):
Area. Sure, he's in theRadio Hall of Fame as a Terry McGovern.
Are you in the Radio Hall ofFame? All right, Bobby,
I gotta wrap up. I mean, I really would you like to apologize
for what you've done. You've hurtme, you cut me to the quick.
Let's listen to me. The RockRoll Hall of Fame, which I
think is a bullshit organization, theJay Dolls Band, the New York Dolls,

(01:34:53):
there's a lot of great procol harumje throw a Towell, I go
pull on the Raiders. They're notthe rockall Hall of Fame. They're great.
So just uja nuts and stupid.Hall of Fame doesn't mean you're not
great. I love twell, Ilove that. Thank you. You stuck
the Landing. I love it,Bobby. This weekend in Brentwood at Caps
Bar and Grill. Go to CapsRestaurant dot com, go to the events

(01:35:14):
section, get yourself tickets and tellme about the show. I'm so excited
that you made some time. Andthen you're on to Montreal. This is
the set that he's then going towork out and then take to Montreal to
the festival. We'll see what happens. I'm not sure. And by the
way, the show, it's atnine o'clock show. I'm probably on nine
twenty thirty. I'm usually asleep bythat. I know you like he likes

(01:35:35):
it early. Man, Will yougo to dinner with the Slatons? You
know? And Jesus I want tosee you. Can we get it?
Can we get a reservation at fourforty five? Boys open till five.
But here's the other reason. Welike to go swimming after and in my
in Dominique, in my girlfriend's pool. And you know, you know how

(01:35:58):
it is in la It is lasteddays about five six o'clock, the fog
rolling in. It's like Monday aftermidnight. It's like a show like Holmes
movie. It's freezing outside. It'slike crap. I've had it. Bobby,
we love you. Come visit again, Bobby Slaton, everybody, I'll
talk to you, so thank byebye Bobby. By the Mark Thompson Show.

(01:36:26):
I went and saw Bobby at theimprov in San Jose years ago,
had no idea who he was.Funniest show ever, says James Watson.
He is so funny. He isgreat. He really is good. Website's
not very up to date, buthe's great. It's true. Thank you
Courtney for lingering. Oh, thankyou. I love Bobby. That's great,

(01:36:48):
really good. I love that hetalked about saying something about the Bobby
Jones what was it, the bratpack guy that he yeah, Joey yeah,
and then said the same thing aboutour murderers, our murder segment.
Because I was still on He's andhis girlfriend is lovely, lovely love.

(01:37:11):
Yes, all right, Courtney,thank you, thank you. By well,
I'm you know, struck by thefact that I really want to get
this chunk of Trump in which Ipromised for you, but I also,
to be honest, would like anupdate on that fire and I just would

(01:37:31):
like, maybe, whatever are youtalking about the fire off? I five
Ner Gorman. Yes, I suream. I know that. You know,
we've got a lot of viewers whoare either if they're not watching it
live, they'll watch within an houror two. So, by the way,
I want to just recognize Russell Johnson. A big shout out to Russell
Johnson. He says, thank youfor your show and my two month rookie.

(01:37:55):
Wow, Russell, I love havingyou here. Big shout out,
Thank you so much, Thank youso much for hanging out with a ten
dollars super chat too, very verycool. Love having you here. Thanks
for sharing the show everybody. Ithink that's kind of how we grow audience,
and people like Russell will then swiminto our world and hopefully hang out.

(01:38:18):
Vicky and Saucelito already welcoming Russell.Nice. Russell says, ba okay
Russia, Mark Thompson Show community.Yeah, you'll want to apologize here.
It's going to be great. Yeah. So Kim's News, She'll do a
Turbo newscast and then I will giveyou an update on what is happening with

(01:38:40):
chunk of Trump. Severe memory issuesis what the journalist says who interviewed Trump
for this new book. I knowmuch is made of Joe Biden and his
cognitive challenges, even though I thinktoo much is made of that. But
Trump, who you know, barksout whatever gets into that ahead of his

(01:39:03):
They kind of give him a freepass. I don't understand why they're about
the same age. And Trump isall over the road in terms of his
remarks. So I'm anxious to sharewith you with this journalist who interviewed him
for the new book, says aboutDonald Trump. Kim's News. First,
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We'll get to that chunk of Trumpnext Mark Thompson Show, The Mark Thompson
Show. On The Mark Thompson Show, I'm Kim McCallister. This report sponsored
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more than a dozen fires, someof them Big Mark wanted an update on
the Post fire, so I willlet you know that it continues to burn.
You can see it's off I fivein the Gorman area. More than
fourte teen thousand, six hundred acresnow burned. The fire has necessitated evacuations
in this area as well. Morethan twelve hundred people have had to flee

(01:40:10):
their homes, others being warned theymight be next to have to leave the
area. And the fire is stillbeing again fought by land and by air,
and they showed no signs of containment. When I last checked it was
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(01:40:31):
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This is an area that is aboutsixty two sixty three miles north of Los
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(01:40:53):
area that it's called the Point firestarted near Lake Sonoma burning in the Healsburg
area currently one one hundred and ninetyacres and that also getting a lot of
air support. So fires all overthe place. Look at all the little
flames everywhere. And the president hasraised thirty million dollars for his re election

(01:41:15):
campaign at this star studded event overthe weekend in downtown Los Angeles. The
LA Times reports it's the largest amountof money raised from a one night event
in Democratic Party history. The fundraiserat the Peacock Theater featured an interview moderated
by late night late night talk showhost Jimmy Kimmel. It also included First
Lady Jill Biden, former President ofBarack Obama, actors George Clooney and Julia

(01:41:40):
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For half a million dollars, peoplegot seats close to the stage of photo
with both President Biden and former PresidentBarack Obama, and they got to attend
a VIP after party as well.Governor Gavin Newsom is ordering state flags at
the Capitol to fly at half staffin honor of a Los Angeles County firefighter

(01:42:01):
who died in the line of dutylast Friday. Andrew Pontius, a nineteen
year veteran of the department, wasope. So I don't know what happened
to Kim. She's got this inand aut thing that's going on with her
internet from the hospital. The causeof that fire and the explosion that followed
still not clear. The Governor ofMaryland is pardoning more than one hundred and

(01:42:26):
seventy five thousand marijuana convictions, GovernorWes Moore calling it the most sweeping state
level pardon in any state in Americanhistory. Cannabis was made legal for recreational
use for adults in Maryland last July. And Russia. Russian that's a great
thing. It's a little too muchof too much of the enforcement. I'm

(01:42:48):
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In North Korea. Russian President ofVladimir Putin making his first visit to
that country and more than two decadesTomorrow. Putin will spend two days in
the country after North Korean leader KimJong un invited him when he visited Russia's

(01:43:08):
Far East last year. Russian officialssay the visit may include the two countries
signing a partnership agreement. Wow,everything is good there. Yeah, twenty
five years here you go, that'sit. A twenty five year old man
is hospitalized with moderate injuries after gettingstuck in a chimney in downtown Los Angeles.

(01:43:30):
What is this? December no OnSunday night, firefighters spent more than
two hours trying to get this guyout of the chimney at an abandoned four
story apartment building. They cut througha wall with electric power tools, went
into the shaft below where he was, and then pulled him down. Not
clear exactly why that man climbed intothe chimney, whether or not he was
bearing gifts. Yeah, it wasn'ta break in. It it feels like

(01:43:56):
it would be a break in,and maybe not. Perhaps, I don't
know. Maybe yeah. Yeah.The Dodgers will be without shortstop Mookie Bets
for some significant time because Bets hasa broken hand. He was hit by
a ninety eight mile per hour fastballand the seventh inning of Sunday's game against
Kansas City out Wow. Manager DaveRoberts says Bets will not require surgery,

(01:44:17):
but it's not clear how long he'llbe out of the lineup. He'll see
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(01:47:02):
had to close down an entire radiostation to silence him, and now he's
here, ladies and gentlemen. MarkThompson, seton, You're soul. The

(01:47:26):
Mark Thompson show girl, Baby girldon't even plays Mark Thompson. Hey,
let's want to use Mark Thompson.Put that coffee down effective. How about

(01:47:48):
that. There's a reason that thisplace is fun. There is no defense
for my conduct. Joe Fish Sealthe shoemaker, Joe Box and little Anthony

(01:48:11):
Molblack's brother in you. Let himfinish, sir with your iron rod right
on. Everybody, thank you forbeing here. It's our big finish.
Yeah. I promised it to youand I will deliver it to you.

(01:48:32):
This is your chunk of Trump,open wide. Ready, here comes You're
chunk of Trump. It's my favoritefood with your first bife. Here's Mark
Thompson. I have a feeling it'sgoing to be beautiful. The co editor
in chief at Variety is a guynamed Ramin Sidude spent a lot of time

(01:48:56):
interviewing former President Trump for his newbook about the Apprentice. So Doe appeared
on various cable outlets and talking abouthis new book, Apprentice in Wonderland.
How Donald Trump and Mark Burnett tookAmerica through the looking Glass after describing the
access that he's had to Trump.He's had apparently quite extraordinary access and spent

(01:49:18):
many hours with Trump speaking. Hetalked about the fact that Donald Trump was
bragging about the fact that he hasa great memory and that Joe Biden should
take a cognitive test because he DonaldTrump has taken one. He says,

(01:49:39):
I took a cognitive test. Thisis Trump speaking, and I aced it.
He referred to the doctor who administeredthe cognitive test as Ronnie Johnson.
The doctor's name who administered the cognitivetest for memory, the test that Trump

(01:50:00):
aiste is Ronnie Jackson, not RonnieJohnson. Yeah, so just saying for
a guy who, look, I'mnot saying you couldn't make that mistake.
I would make it, but Ialso wouldn't precede that mistake by going I've
got the best memory of anyone who'sever lived. I aced the exam.
Biden should take it. So itis shocking. Actually, he says,

(01:50:26):
how little the former president remembers,and how many gaps there are, and
how diminished he is in terms ofhis own mental acuity. This is according
to the guy who spoke with himfor hours for this new book. This
is Donald Trumper talking about, notJoe Biden. The other thing is that

(01:50:54):
he spent the most time with DonaldTrump of any journalist who has spent time
speaking with him. Well, ofcourse, and he's the book that was
supposed to make him look good,right exactly, the book was supposed to
make him look good. And theyspent an hour together in twenty twenty one

(01:51:14):
in May. Then a few monthslater, he went back to the White
House. Same journalist. I wentback to Trump Tower to talk to him
about his time in the White House, and he had this vacant look on
his face. Donald Trump did andI said, do you remember me?
And he said no, Oops,he had no recollection of our lengthy interview

(01:51:36):
that we had. This is thequote continuing, and he wasn't doing a
lot of interviews at that time.So I think that the American public this
is him continuing. I think thatthe American public really need to see the
portrait of Donald Trump because this showswhat he is like and who he is
and who he has always been.So there's that meantime, Yes, I

(01:52:00):
wonder does he not remember the journalistbecause his memory is going, or does
he not remember the journalist because itwas never really about the journalist. And
Donald Trump doesn't really pay attention toanyone but himself. I think it's the
latter to be honest when he talksabout because this shows what he is like
and who he is and always been. It's that is everything's really superficial.

(01:52:23):
He'll pretend he connects with you,but he really doesn't. No. The
other thing that is interesting and scary, and it's happening in increasing ways,
and you'll see what I mean ina moment is the power that a potential
Trump presidency has over a lot ofdifferent situations that would probably shake out differently

(01:52:45):
were it not for the fear thatDonald Trump will ascend a power and then
begin this process of revenge. Right, he could be vengeful in any number
of ways. We talk about theJustice Department, but it could be the
irs. There are any number ofthem. And you know what happened with
those FBI agents. They were taggedin IRS audits, and David K.

(01:53:08):
Johnson, who knows a lot aboutthat world, said, there's just no
way randomly those FBI agents end upin that audit. I mean, it
just doesn't happen that way. Itwould be like winning the lottery and getting
bitten by a shark on the sameday kind of thing. Well, there's
a new movie and it's called TheApprentice, and it's about the relationship between

(01:53:33):
Roy Khne and a young Donald Trump. You see it there. On the
left is the Roy Kohne character,and on the right, obviously the young
Donald Trump character. It got astanding ovation and great reviews when it premiered.
It can last month. It's astory of a mentor and his protege,

(01:53:54):
chronicling how Trump first learned from andthen later surpassed the Roy Cohne machiavellian
fixer that was his mentor. Theperformances apparently are extraordinary. The guy on
the left that you see there,if he looks amor to you, that's
Jeremy Strong from the success from Successionand apparently and Strong is one of those

(01:54:19):
actors who immerses himself in a role. He really captures the reptilian menace that
Roy Cohne was, and he alsoapparently gives the role tremendous emotion as Roy
Cohne wastes away. You know,Roy Cone died of AIDS or complications from
AIDS. So, but there area lot of other important performances apparently,

(01:54:43):
and Sebastian stan who plays Trump,makes Trump. They suggest more human in
other words, not the cartoonish versionof Trump that we've seen. So it's
not a sympathetic portrayal I've been reading. It's a movie that depicts Trump in
any kinds of compromising situations, someof which can be aggressive, with sexual

(01:55:06):
assault and this kind of thing.But there's also the glamour of the Trump
world before he became this cartoon.So why do I mention it here Because
it's likely we'll never see it.And the reason we'll never see it,
even though, as I've just describedand I just kind of gave you a

(01:55:28):
broad stroke on it is very welldone and well put together and well executed,
is because distributors in this country areworried about revenge from a guy who
actually may be President Donald Trump.Negotiations are ongoing and domestic distribution could still

(01:55:50):
come together. But the possibility thatThe Apprentice may not be seen in America
is extraordinary, and it to merepresents another level of intimidation that we saw
in the last administration. Well,if you have people reacting out of fear

(01:56:10):
already and the guy is not evenin power, right, imagine what happens
when he if he comes to poweragain. I mean, here you have
people censoring movies and art already crazy. The reality is we've seen Trump and
I just mentioned with the FBI agentsin the irs. But there's also a

(01:56:33):
Vinman who you know you'll remember,testified before Congress and then he was xed
out before his retirement kicked in.It's pretty brutal what the Trump people and
Trump himself, it's pretty brutal whatthey do to those who they feel wronged

(01:56:55):
by. But here is what's happeningin this case. And I do want
to be fair to this question becauseyou could say, well, political films
sometimes a struggle to get an audience. I believe the was it the Adam
McKay movie Vice that really didn't dothat well. It was about Dick Cheney
and George Bush. So you couldsay that there's some built in reluctance there.

(01:57:15):
But talking to people around Hollywood,it does seem as though mostly the
world of Hollywood already struggling a bitthese days with streaming et cetera. They're
worried about taking on not just Trump. You understand, it's not just worrying
about revenge from Donald Trump himself orhis people in the White House or in

(01:57:36):
a new Trump administration. It's worryingabout Maga and the MAGA faithful and how
they'll create a kind of pushback onthis movie and all of the movies that
come from whatever distributor actually takes onthis film. So the heavy lifting associated
with getting a stink on a companyis done by Magga. It's like what

(01:58:00):
they did to bud Light. Youknow, it's a weird new aspect of
the American culture. So again,they don't want to end up in Maga
crosshairs these companies like Disney and budLight. And it's likely or very possible
that we won't see this also becauseof regulators. Remember, a new administration

(01:58:28):
would have power over mergers, andincreasingly Hollywood is doing the merger thing right
at and T and Time Warner,And you need government approval for mergers like
that, And if you're associated withdistributing a film that disparages the former president
Donald Trump, you may not getthat merger. It's a scary aspect and

(01:58:54):
ripple effect of the Maga movement.Steve Bannon talks about a plan to target
journalists for saying anything uncomplimentary about Trump, talking about Trump lies about the stolen
twenty twenty election. He said,quote, We're going to come after you,
whether it's criminally or civilly. It'sin that environment that even though europe

(01:59:20):
and European distributors pick up this moviethe Apprentice, American distributors and American audiences
may never pick it up. Andthat is your chunk of Trump. That's
it for this edition. Well,I really enjoyed it, but make sure
to join us again next time.I think you might want to listen.

(01:59:42):
There's nothing wrong with listener for anotherchunk of Trump. These are wild times,
everybody wild times. The Mark ThompsonShow. It has been a good
show. We've had a lot ofdifferent stuff today in the show. And
I did leave a couple of thingson the table that I will pass along
to my darling Kim. Yeah.I like to pass stuff along to Kim

(02:00:05):
and then it's shared in the showin future days. This week, so
if you missed it, smashed thelike button like cub with your iron rods.
Smash it with your iron rod.And I also saw I wanted to
acknowledge a couple of comments and maybea this is great. Thank you for

(02:00:29):
this, David Acres, go bewith your dad. Thank you Mark and
the Marquee crew for all you dofor us. Big shout out big,
David Acres, and thank you somuch for your heartfelt feelings about my father,
who I don't know if he's evengoing to make it to tomorrow.
To be perfectly honest, I'm goingto catch a plane back. But I've
spent a lot of time with mydad, as you know, I've been

(02:00:50):
back a lot, so I feelpretty good about having spent a lot of
time with dad. So now I'mgoing back for family and that kind of
thing. Kim will be here,but I am you know, I'll give
you more. But that's that's important, you know. Like I don't have
that thing that people do or likegosh we never got along and bubbly.
I don't have that where you wantto like square some emotional baggage or you

(02:01:15):
want to square some problem that youhad with your father before he dies.
I don't have that. But I'myou know, I'm moved and horribly broken
up about it, but I Iat least know that we're good, you
know, if you want to thinkof it, that way, the Trump

(02:01:36):
made me want another Marktini from theRed Jack? Is it too early?
Big shout sound, Never too earlyfor a martini from the Red Jack.
Go to the Red Jack Saloon inSan Francisco order a Marktini. Have one
for me, Harry Magnan, Thankyou, big shout out her, big
supporter. I appreciate that. Andof from Rod, there is this.

(02:02:00):
You are all awesome. Thank youfor all the hard work you put into
this wonderful show. Longtime kg Olistener here. Yeah, we miss our
KGO, but it is great tohave you here and we can do some
things here we couldn't do on KGO, you know. Rod Jamison, by
the way, twenty five dollars,very generous, big shout out, Rod.
Thank you, in fact, thankyou so so much, so much,

(02:02:24):
so so much, Thanks you soso much. And are you familiar
with the podcast Shrinking Trump. Twoshrinks discussed Donald's dementia each week. Michael,
Yeah, you know I did.It's funny You're not the only person
to suggest that a podcast to me. I did watch it, and I'm

(02:02:45):
going to tell you something between youand me, I thought I because it
came recommended to me. I gottabe honest with you. I thought it
was a little boring, but Ithought the guys are really good. But
I was a little bored. NowI might have caught a bad one.
I'll go back on your recommendation.I listen to more. They're clearly super

(02:03:05):
qualified people. These psychiatrics areway youin on it. But I just found
it a little bit. I don'tknow, maybe that's it's my failing,
but I just but thank you forthat. I did see it, and
I am and I like the information. It just again it was for the
presentation, Jim, Thank you,Jim Slayton for a five dollars supersticker.
Love you for that. Courtney killingit every week with True Crime Corner.

(02:03:30):
How about a five dollar supersticker.Luis our mistress of murder and Mayhem,
go, Courtney says, Louis,shout out, big, shout out.
And on the bird flu, BAAware says, over fifty percent of people
die from bird flu covid though isroughly one percent fatality rat so you have
that to look forward to from thispandemic. If half the population that get

(02:03:57):
bird flu die, we are inserious trouble. And we talked about this
when the first pandemic of recent days, right, the COVID pandemic. When
it hit, we said, Hm, easy to catch, it probably won't
kill you, is what we said. The next pandemic, what we said,

(02:04:21):
could be easy to catch and itcould be more in the bird flu
category. If those statistics bear out, were easier to kill you. You
know, if bola, which wegot lucky with you had a very low
survival rate on you know, wegot lucky because it didn't really turn into

(02:04:47):
a pandemic of the sort that wouldrival COVID. But we haven't really done
much. You know how I standon this. I'll leave you with this
last thought, just because I've madethis point, but I'd like to make
it repeatedly. I mean, oneof the things I count on government to
do, and those people who arelegislators who spend time, you know,
trying to I don't know they puttogether some congressional committee to investigate the bidens

(02:05:13):
or you. I'd like a blueribbon panel Senators and House. I'd like
a blue ribbon panel with health professionalsto talk about in report form what happened
during COVID nineteen, the response toCOVID nineteen and recommendations for the future pandemics.

(02:05:35):
The fact that we haven't had thatis shameful. I mean, as
a wealthy nation that has all ofthese assets to address the next pandemic,
we got to have legislators and governmentofficials who do just that. Have it
come out of NIH, have itcome out of independent university research. You

(02:05:57):
can have it put together by anynumber of experts. But that Blue Ribbon
Panel, the report on COVID nineteendoesn't exist because they've never done it,
and they also have a much betterplan. And remember under Trump, funding
was cut for pandemic related responses.Yeah, well there's that. Damn.
Here came the pandemic, right,Yeah, it was. It was associated

(02:06:20):
with Obama and the playbook on howto handle pandemics that was almost literally thrown
into the fireplace by Donald Trump becauseit had the fingerprints of Obama on it
and he wanted nothing to do withObama and anything that Obama had done.
So the Mark Thompson Show, Yeahwell I could. I could go on

(02:06:46):
all day, So Kim, thedeal is, I will be on the
road to Washington, d C.And there for a while, but I
will check in from there once thingsset out little bit, so I'm not
gonna be I'm not going to beout of your life, so I'll be

(02:07:08):
in touch with you. Jim.How are you, Tony. Thank you
for your participation and I hope youfeel better soon. Pal, Yeah I
know, fluids aspirin? Okay?Every week to you and your family.
Mark, We'll hold down. Thankyou, Thank you so much, Thank
you so much. Tough times forsure. So after Party Live is next

(02:07:30):
door on the after Party Live channel, and I'm Shadow of Stevens for the
Mark Johnson Show. Thanks everybody.Until next time, show Kim some love
while I'm away. By b

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