October 30, 2025 • 32 mins
Mark Thompson picks up the mic as the Dodgers enter their last gasp in Game 5 of the World Series, and by the end of the segment, it’s heartbreak in L.A. with the Blue Jays taking a 3-2 lead. He then breaks down how the government shutdown is inching toward record-breaking territory and what it could mean for your everyday life. Mark also dives into the NBA gambling ring shaking up sports, the latest Truth Social post from President Trump about nuclear testing, and how the shutdown could first hit VIP travelers at airports. Finally, Mark mourns with Dodgers fans, yet ends on hope, before pivoting to Dr. Phil’s production empire filing for Chapter 7 liquidation.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
At Dodger Stadium. The ninth inning brings the.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Last chance for the Dodgers tonight, anyway to rescue a
World Series that is all tied up. Sadly, the game
is not tied up. Toronto's six Dodgers won. There is
a man on first, and Mookie Bets is up, and
he is someone who is It's a face that has
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rescued Dodger fans from the precipice of depression before through
the season, but tonight he's zero for three.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Tonight. The Toronto pitching is really put on a show.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
So with Bets up and a man on first, you
know you can begin to eat away. But it'll have
to be a wide open comeback for the Dodgers to
make up that five run deficit, just to bring the
game to even so they're in the ninth will keep
you posted on that. We are in the middle of
a government shut down if you missed it. I was
talking to somebody from the National Weather Service about a
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weather related issue, Santa Anna wins which are diminishing tonight.
But as he was leaving, I said, hey, by the way,
are you being paid or are you you know.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
What's happening to the government shutdown?
Speaker 3 (01:14):
He said, I really am not allowed to talk about that,
but I appreciate you asking, and so I took that
to me and he's not being paid. The last government shutdown.
The longest government shutdown was the twenty eighteen government shutdown
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during the first Trump administration, lasted five weeks. Funding for
the Trump border wall was at the heart of that dispute.
Trump wouldn't sign a federal spending deal that did not
include money for the border wall, and a standalone bill
with five point seven billion was blocked by a filipbuster
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led by the Democrats. Trump eventually back to short term
federal funding measure to sort of reopen the government. I
mean they opened it in January, late January a few
weeks later, and then Congress approved almost one point four
billion dollars for fifty five miles of border fencing between
the US and Mexico. Well, the current government shutdown is
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now the second longest in history. So again Donald Trump
with bragging rights for shutting down the government longer than
anybody else. This is the second longest in history. The
longest ever full government shutdown that means Congress unable to
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strike a federal funding deal on any appropriation's bills before
the end of fiscal year twenty twenty five. That was
September thirtieth. Republicans control the House and Senate offered a
seven week extension of the federal funding deal for fiscal
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year twenty twenty five spending levels to give lawmakers more
time to hash out next year's numbers in a way
to kind of sort of kick the can down the way,
and it passed the House with support from one Democrat,
but it has stalled in the Senate twelve separate times.
So Democrats are saying, hey, any federal funding plan has
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to include an extension of the COVID nineteen pandemic era
Obama Care subsidies. They're set to expire at the end
of this year without congressional action. And most most of
these Senate Democrats are, you know, holding the line. There
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doesn't seem to be any break in that flank, which
is unusual. I mean, usually the Democrats find areas of disagreement.
They're really not as tight a unit as the GOP.
And the GOP they show those signs of giving in.
We'll see, but again, this is a full government shutdown,
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and so I think one of the things that I
don't know, I just feel like this maybe the thing
that people notice most dramatically is happening at the airports
and travel. And so when Donald Trump talks about jackhammering
money out for the military, for example, I think you're,
you know, making a mistake. First of all, you can't
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get enough money to pay the military. I know that
one guy came in that sort of angel. He's a
big Trump supporter, Thomas. I forget his last name now
with believe it was one hundred and thirty million that
he was providing. In any case, one hundred and thirty
million just I mean, it seems like a lot of money,
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but it doesn't. It doesn't begin to pay the soldiers
in the military. It was so that it's like ninety
dollars per trup. More to the point, though, if you
really wanted to stop the bleeding and avoid what will
be political blowback, you want to take care of those
air traffic controllers. That's where there is going to be
a ripple effect, especially going to the holidays. This is
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all bad already, ten thousand flight delays as a result
of a slowdown and a lack of staffing with air
traffic controllers. If you really are serious about this, you
need to take care of them now. I think you
got to pay everybody. If you're an essential worker and
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you're compelled to work, then the government's compelled to pay you.
It's outrageous to me that we consider these people essential
workers but we don't pay them. It's absolutely crazy. Meanwhile,
Congress people are getting checks. I mean, they're checks going
to homelands, to the ice agents. I mean, it's offensive.
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You're making that guy. Generically men and women go to
the air traffic control towers and you're not giving them
any money. You're making them come in. I mean, I
understand they'll get back paid, but they're gonna have to
bump a credit card, get a side hustle. It's offensive.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Anyway.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Those people should all be paid. And add to that
SNAP funding, you know, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, it's
food stamps that goes away November first. SNAP has been
around sixty years. They've never had a lapse. This will
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be the first time in sixty years because of this
government shutdown that there will be no money for SNAP.
And there have been some standalone bills to try to
do something to relieve this stress on the SNAP program.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
But nothing, nothing really breaking through.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
President Trump's saying that he's going to find a way
to fund the SNAP program.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
We'll see overnight President Trump vowing to find a solution
to help fund the federal nutrition program SNAP. More than
two dozen states and Washington d C Have now sued
the administration after it said it could not legally extend
SNAP benefits during the shutdown. Lawmakers on both sides of
the aisle are scrambling to fund the program before it
lapses this weekend.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Yeah, but they had a reserve fund, but they are
running out of money there even with the reserve fund
for SNAP. So that's your update on the government shutdown. Again,
doesn't appear to be any daylight. Both sides are dug
in pretty strongly, and we'll keep you posted. Dodgers drop
this game six to one. They lose to the Toronto
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Blue Jays at Dodger Stadium. They go back to Toronto.
Toronto now leads the series three to two. Of course,
it's best of seven, so if Toronto wins in Toronto,
they win the World Series. You may be wondering, what
are the percentages when teams are ahead three to two
that they go on to win the World Series. I
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will tell you sixty seven percent of the time the
team that's they had three to two wins. But that
may seem like a lot, but it's not necessarily an
overwhelming percentage. Dodgers are a very good team and they
can go back to Toronto and put on a show.
But again at Dodgers Stadium, the show was being put
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on by the Blue Jays tonight and Blue Jays pitching,
which all but really shut down Dodgers pitching. It seems,
six to one shut down the Dodgers lineup. Toronto leads
the series three to two. As they go back to Toronto.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Mark Thompson sitting in on this Wednesday night. Dodgers a
rough one, just dominant pitching your savage with a record
twelve strikeouts. I think that was a record for a
rookie in a World Series game, so impressive. Six to
one the final. Now Toronto leads that World Series three
to two. They'll go back on Friday night is the
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next game, and Dodgers have to get it done on
the road and they can. So all of you who
are leaving Dodger Stadium downcast, angry, bummed. It was kind
of a slow death tonight. I mean, Dodgers pitching just
being dominated Dodgers hitting, I should say, being dominated by
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Toronto pitching. And I still feel fundamentally the Dodgers have
this murderer's row of hitters and with a day's rest
and a road trip to Toronto, they could get right
back in it. I'd love to see a seventh game,
but they'll need to win Friday night for us to
see a seventh game again. The final six to one,
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it was real domination by the Blue Jays tonight at
out your Stadium. The scandal racking the sports world hits
the NBA. It's the betting scandal. It involved both betting
on props, you know, propositions where you're betting over or
under how an athlete on the floor will perform, you know,
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twenty points over or under, and there was suggestion that
they're well, there's more than a suggestion they've got they're
charging people on this, and the reality is it might
just be the beginning of what is a much wider
scandal when it comes to manipulating outcomes, not so much
of games, although that's being suggested as well, but being
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part of a manipulation of the game within the game.
That is to say, on the props over under props
that alongside the scandal of the illegal poker games that
are fixed, they involved Chauncey Billips, It's also suggested maybe
their other high profile NBA personalities that brought people into
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these games that are fixed. So the fish, regardless of
how good they are, they could be pros. Everybody becomes
a fish when the outcome of the game is manipulated.
What about these controversies and these illegalities that are racking
the NBA. It's an out and out betting scandal.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
Here's Colin Cowhard, the gambling scandal heard around the NBA.
I want to remind people of this. You go back
to the nineteen ninety three NBA Finals Phoenix Suns, Michael
Jordan and the Bulls. Bulls won, and then Michael went
to baseball after the headline of that series wasn't mj
against Barkley. Headline of that series was Michael Jordan and
gambling talk. And the NBA survived. In eighteen seventy six,
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the National League was formed in baseball. Do you know
the first betting scandal. One year later, eighteen seventy seven,
baseball's doing fine. You know, people say it's the tip
of the iceberg, and sometimes the tip of the iceberg
is an ice cube. I think the NBA will survive.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Yeah, well, I mean I think the NBA survived too.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
I don't think it's the end of the NBA, but
I think it could definitely affect the future of the
NBA in terms of the way you view the way
in which players on the floor are somehow compromised. Just
to put it that way, I think you can also
say that this might just be the beginning of and
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this is the ironic part of the NBA having embraced gambling.
I mean, in all the sports we've talked about gambling,
it was done in the shadows, it was done with
offshore betting, all of this sort of thing. NBA said,
let's get it out there, let's actually embrace what is
a massive revenue source for the league.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
And you can bet on an NBA game at an
NBA game.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
In a lot of arenas, not in California because it's
not illegal, but if you go to Georgia, you go
to I think even Washington d C. If you go
to Washington d C. Bet against the Wizards would be
my advice. Yeah, if you're at the arena. But my
point is simply it's ironic that this league that was
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first to the party when it comes to gambling and
legalizing it around their league, that they are racked by scandal. Now,
the other scandal that lurks around the NBA is associated
with NBA referees. And again, you know the referee that
was nailed said I wasn't the only one in on this.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Look.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
There have been many documentaries about this. There's an HBO
did a series on this. I think it's worth a watch.
But similarly, you could look at this that we're seeing
as you know Roseier in this case, who is the
NBA player who was accused of manipulating the outcome, pulling
himself out of the game early so that he wouldn't
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hit the number. So when Better's bet on him going
over a certain number of points within the game, he
pulled himself out. He also seemed to be you know,
really off on his shots, turned the ball over a
bunch that he's not the only one, so the minute
that happens and these questions become a part of the conversation,
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you end up with a league that begins to be compromised.
So there really have to be consequences for these people
associated with this. Otherwise the league begins to compromise itself
just based on the fact that it's not handling the
situation and the controversy and the scandal in the way
it should. And I think that is what's happening. I mean,
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it's really you know, I don't see how Chauncey Billets meant.
I don't understand the arithmetic. You're making good money. What
are you doing? I mean, I it's not worth it, man,
it's not worth it. You like to play poker, okay, great,
I like to play poker, and you say, yeah, but
I lose a lot in poker, and this helps me.
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I lose a lot in poker.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Are you kidding? I'm a loser. I enjoy it.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
If somebody said to me, hey, I got a way
that we can kind of tell you what the hands
are and we can kind of I get dude, you
know what, that's not that now I'm not having fun anymore.
I mean, part of it is trying to figure out
what the hands are in certain situations. Really, that is
the game of poker. So anyway NBA continues to wrestle
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with this, will it, you know, destroy the NBA reputation. No,
but it could it could hurt it, especially if this
is just the beginning and others may be in on
a similar deal. I mean, last thing I'll say is
this isn't just NBA players having sort of colluded on
their own. There's organized crime associated with this, you know,
the cozen Nostra. Those are the words they used as
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those who are party to all of this. So this
is more than just. And the Dodgers drop a tough one,
six to one tonight at Dodger Stadium. They'll need to
win in Toronto in order to win this World Series
dominating pitching tonight from the Blue Jays at Dodger Stadium
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a tough one. We'll keep you posted on traffic if
you're leaving Dodger Stadium. It's a slow drive after a
loss like this.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
We know. Thank you for being with us tonight.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Mark Thompson's sitting in on this Wednesday night and Uh,
a rough night for the Dodgers, who dropped to the
Blue Jays six to one. The final at Dodger Stadium.
Such a tough one because the Dodgers just never really
got going. I mean, twelve strikeouts from the rookie pitcher
for Toronto shut down the Dodgers lineup pretty much. So
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now it's back to Toronto and you'll have to win
Game six. You'll not have to win Friday night. But
as I say, Dodgers can do it. That is a
formidable team and Dodger fans I wouldn't get too down.
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I get it in a short series, anything can happen.
But the Dodgers are an amazing baseball team and they
have every bit of firepower to bring this series to
Game seven and to win this series. Speaking of firepower,
did you see this announcement from President Trump? I mean,
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this is weird because he's on this diplomatic tour and
he is posting on social media that he wants to
resume nuclear testing for the first time in thirty three years.
I mean, this is minutes before he was scheduled to
meet President she from China. Trump said because of other
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countries testing programs. He posted this on his social feed
because of other countries testing programs, I've instructed the Department
of War to start testing our nuclear weapons on an
equal basis. The process will begin immediately. I mean, China
is expanding its stockpile of nukes, but it hasn't tested
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a nuclear weapons since nineteen ninety six. I mean, this
is really where over this stuff? Man, We're over this.
Russia hasn't conducted a confirmed test since nineteen ninety Now,
Putin said that Russia had successfully tested a nuclear powered
and nuclear capable cruise missile and then separately, a nuclear torpedo.
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Putin made that announcement. The torpedo is supposed to travel,
you know, under the Pacific from Russia's east coast to
hit the America and west coast. But that saber rattling
that Putin is doing. After there was a plan for
a summit. Remember Trump and Putin were supposed to get
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together for the second time, and that didn't happen. But
there were no nuclear weapons detonated. They were testing the
delivery vehicles, the torpedoes, these cruise missiles, but they didn't
actually test any nuclear weapons. I mean, this is really
an escalation and a scary one at that. Because of
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the tremendous destructive power. Donald Trump wrote, during his first
term in office, I didn't test anything.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
He said.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
He actually said, the United States has more nuclear weapons
than any other country.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
This is a direct quote. I'm just reading from the
social media.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
This was accomplished, including a complete update and renovation of
existing weapons, during my first term in office because of
the tremendous destructive power. I hated in capital letters to
do it, but had no choice. Russia is second, and
China is a distant third, but will be even within
five years because of other countries testing programs. I've instructed
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the Department of War to start testing our nuclear weapons
on an equal basis. That process will begin immediately. Thank
you for your attention to this matter. And in capital letters,
President Donald J. Trump, Again, that would represent a departure
from what is an understood agreement that even though there's
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an expansion of nuclear stockpiles, there hasn't been a weapons
test that actually involved detonating a nuclear weapon since the
nineties China in nineteen ninety six and Russia in nineteen ninety.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
So again, when.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
You see or hear that they're testing a torpedo they're
testing a nuclear capable cruise missile. They're testing the delivery system.
But Trump may be upping the addy on that. The
government shutdown is coming for your airport. VIP security lane
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Delta one customers at JFK and LAX are inactive in
that security line. They have to jump on with everybody else.
Those are exclusive screening lanes for Delta one. There've been
staffing shortages at air traffic control facilities, thousands of flight delays.
As you know, America and the United Airlines they say
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there's been no impact on their concierge services. This is
for you higher end travelers. An AI tool is being
used increasingly to figure out where there are delays. But
what's happening is first class passengers are flying out of
New York and LA and all of a sudden they're
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getting treatment not like they're in first class, but like
they're in coach. This is all because of the government shutdown.
So all the screening lanes associated with first class travel
Delta one. These lanes allow passengers who you know, buy
expensive tickets to bypass that long line.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Now they'll wait with everybody else.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
These tickets are like four thousand dollars apiece. You can
fly from JFK to Paris. The Delta one service is
four k. And now you know you're online with everybody else.
As I told you before, if I'm the US government,
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I make sure that I don't force anybody to work
who's not also going to get paid to me. It's
just it's an abomination. You can declare people essential workers,
make them show up as TSA agents, and you don't
pay them. What kind of crap is that? Same is
true of those people that are working the National Weather Surface.
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Same is true of those people that are working in
the control power tower at Burbank or lax or anywhere else.
If you're going to compel them to work, then you
are compelled to pay them. So the mess that is
rippling through the aviation system in America will only get worse.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
In all of this.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Look, I'm leaving out the fact that SNAP runs out.
The food stamp program runs out of money November first,
but that's the latest there. Regardless, First class coach, we're
all in the same boat. Now, how the FED cut
rate will affect your finances. The rate was lowered by
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twenty five basis points. Today it will have a ripple
effect of its own on borrowing and savings rates that
consumers see every day. Will get into some of that
as we continue again. Dodgers drop a heartbreaker after that
eighteen inning marathon win, two back to back losses to Toronto,
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this one a dominating performance by a rookie pitcher. Twelve
strikeouts tonight, six to one the final. Mark Thompson sitting
in here on KFI AM six forty, glad you could
be with us. Sorry about the Dodgers. It's a slow
drive out of Dodgers Stadium after a loss like this.
It's really a heartbreaker, but we appreciate you being with
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us here tonight.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Mark Thompson on the Wednesday night, A slow drive out
of Dodgers Stadium. Brutal heartbreak, the dominating pitching performance from
a rookie pitcher, twelve strikeouts tonight, Dodgers drop at six
to one on to Toronto. Will get it done there,
Doctor Phil say it ain't so sweet, Doctor Phil. Taking
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time out of writing Shotgun with ice agents arresting those
who have overstayed their visas to show up in court
where a Northern Texas judge ruled that doctor Phil McGraw's
media company, Merritt Street Media, is going to have to
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undergo a Chapter seven liquidation. I'll remind you if you've
lost track of your bankruptcy chapters. Chapter eleven is reorganization,
chapter seven is liquidation. They're both ations, but Chapter seven
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is a worseation than Chapter eleven. Chapter seven liquid means
that Phil McGraw's company is going away. But this isn't
just a liquidation because of financial problems. There are serious
allegations yet another ation about doctor Phil's legitimacy in paying
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back those he owed money to. The US Bankruptcy Judge
Scott Everett ruled that this is all because the Chapter
seven liquidation forced the end of this media empire that
doctor Phil was building. It's because there is suspicion about
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doctor Phil McGraw's improper filing for bankruptcy following incriminating text messages.
These text messages suggest that, and this is again all
in court documents, that doctor Phil was making what they
were calling gangster moves, trying to avoid paying certain creditors
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through the Chapter eleven route. So you're taking care of,
if you will, certain people or entities you owe money to,
and others that you owe money to who should be paid.
Sometimes in these situations they're paid ahead of others. It's
actually specified as to where they are in the pecking
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order being paid. Doctor Phil ignored that is what's being
alleged and took care of some people denying payout to others.
This was a real huge network that was backed by
big money. The Christian group Trinity Broadcasting had seventy percent
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of this Merritt Street Media. They launched it in twenty
twenty three. Thirty percent was owned by McGraw's production company.
And it is suggested again by this judge, the US
bankruptcy judge, that McGraw, Phil McGraw, good old doctor Phil,
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intended to pay his own company while opting out of
paying unfavored creditors like Trinity. He also was in business
with and had gotten a lot of money from a
professional bull riding network and sports grew. So you've got
the Trinity Broadcasters, those are the Christian broadcasters, and the
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Sports group the professional bull riders who were also in
for a little bit. But McGraw was running an end
around all of them. So the idea was he's paying
his own company while denying his partners the moneies that
they are entitled to. And again these are in private messages.
And again this all came out in court. McGraw described
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a gangster move to make Trinity a passive minority investor
through a Chapter eleven bankruptcy McGraw planned on. This is
again these are quotes from the court records, taking the
money and running instead of following through on his end
of the bargain. This is a ten year agreement originally
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worth five hundred million dollars, so we're talking about a
lot of money here. Trinity would offer production and distribution
services while Doctor Phil's company would produce new content one
hundred and sixty episodes of the talk show. But they
didn't get viewership numbers that were sufficient, and Trinity wasn't
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able to get the advertising revenues and product integrations that
were promised because the viewership numbers weren't there. So the
network sued Trinity saying it was a breach of contract,
essentially saying, you know, you're the controlling shareholder. And in
this litigation, Trinity counter sued Doctor Phil and the professional
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bull Riders. They're the third parties to all this. They
filed an emergency motion wanting to seek documents to determine
whether doctor Phil was operating in good faith when he
filed the bankruptcy. In other words, did this, dude, doctor Phil,
just file the bankruptcy because you wanted to get out
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of paying these creditors and partners that he owed money
to or was it legitimate? So without getting any more
into the weeds, because I know we're already way into
the weeds, doctor Phil, and the bankruptcy judge agrees with
these people who are suing doctor Phil. Doctor Phil is accused,
and it's alleged that he was pulling some ganks to
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stuff to again change the legal obligation he had to
pay his partners. Of course, this will come as no
surprise to you. He denies this, and he's denying any wrongdoing,
and he says, I'm doing everything I can to keep
my company up and running. This theory that this was
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all a ploy to set them up is absurd, and
the judge indicated quote McGraw believed he was calling the
shots candor to the court is critical. The judge is
not crazy for doctor Phil. And the way this whole
thing has gone down, And now because of these deleted texts,
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which seem to expose doctor Phil as maybe not being
completely on the level, Doctor Phil's media company appears to
be closing up. That's the latest on Doctor Phil. I
know it's tough to hear when your favorite therapist is
not what you thought he was.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
The judge has to say it to him, and you
know what I'm talking about. How's that working out working
out for you?
Speaker 3 (32:04):
I didn't see it anywhere, but maybe it's hidden in
there somewhere. Mark Thompson. It's Wednesday Night on KFI A
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
At Dodger Stadium. The ninth inning brings the.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Last chance for the Dodgers tonight, anyway to rescue a
World Series that is all tied up. Sadly, the game
is not tied up. Toronto's six Dodgers won. There is
a man on first, and Mookie Bets is up, and
he is someone who is It's a face that has
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rescued Dodger fans from the precipice of depression before through
the season, but tonight he's zero for three.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Tonight. The Toronto pitching is really put on a show.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
So with Bets up and a man on first, you
know you can begin to eat away. But it'll have
to be a wide open comeback for the Dodgers to
make up that five run deficit, just to bring the
game to even so they're in the ninth will keep
you posted on that. We are in the middle of
a government shut down if you missed it. I was
talking to somebody from the National Weather Service about a
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weather related issue, Santa Anna wins which are diminishing tonight.
But as he was leaving, I said, hey, by the way,
are you being paid or are you you know.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
What's happening to the government shutdown?
Speaker 3 (01:14):
He said, I really am not allowed to talk about that,
but I appreciate you asking, and so I took that
to me and he's not being paid. The last government shutdown.
The longest government shutdown was the twenty eighteen government shutdown
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during the first Trump administration, lasted five weeks. Funding for
the Trump border wall was at the heart of that dispute.
Trump wouldn't sign a federal spending deal that did not
include money for the border wall, and a standalone bill
with five point seven billion was blocked by a filipbuster
(02:01):
led by the Democrats. Trump eventually back to short term
federal funding measure to sort of reopen the government. I
mean they opened it in January, late January a few
weeks later, and then Congress approved almost one point four
billion dollars for fifty five miles of border fencing between
the US and Mexico. Well, the current government shutdown is
(02:25):
now the second longest in history. So again Donald Trump
with bragging rights for shutting down the government longer than
anybody else. This is the second longest in history. The
longest ever full government shutdown that means Congress unable to
(02:46):
strike a federal funding deal on any appropriation's bills before
the end of fiscal year twenty twenty five. That was
September thirtieth. Republicans control the House and Senate offered a
seven week extension of the federal funding deal for fiscal
(03:07):
year twenty twenty five spending levels to give lawmakers more
time to hash out next year's numbers in a way
to kind of sort of kick the can down the way,
and it passed the House with support from one Democrat,
but it has stalled in the Senate twelve separate times.
So Democrats are saying, hey, any federal funding plan has
(03:29):
to include an extension of the COVID nineteen pandemic era
Obama Care subsidies. They're set to expire at the end
of this year without congressional action. And most most of
these Senate Democrats are, you know, holding the line. There
(03:51):
doesn't seem to be any break in that flank, which
is unusual. I mean, usually the Democrats find areas of disagreement.
They're really not as tight a unit as the GOP.
And the GOP they show those signs of giving in.
We'll see, but again, this is a full government shutdown,
(04:14):
and so I think one of the things that I
don't know, I just feel like this maybe the thing
that people notice most dramatically is happening at the airports
and travel. And so when Donald Trump talks about jackhammering
money out for the military, for example, I think you're,
you know, making a mistake. First of all, you can't
(04:34):
get enough money to pay the military. I know that
one guy came in that sort of angel. He's a
big Trump supporter, Thomas. I forget his last name now
with believe it was one hundred and thirty million that
he was providing. In any case, one hundred and thirty
million just I mean, it seems like a lot of money,
(04:54):
but it doesn't. It doesn't begin to pay the soldiers
in the military. It was so that it's like ninety
dollars per trup. More to the point, though, if you
really wanted to stop the bleeding and avoid what will
be political blowback, you want to take care of those
air traffic controllers. That's where there is going to be
a ripple effect, especially going to the holidays. This is
(05:15):
all bad already, ten thousand flight delays as a result
of a slowdown and a lack of staffing with air
traffic controllers. If you really are serious about this, you
need to take care of them now. I think you
got to pay everybody. If you're an essential worker and
(05:37):
you're compelled to work, then the government's compelled to pay you.
It's outrageous to me that we consider these people essential
workers but we don't pay them. It's absolutely crazy. Meanwhile,
Congress people are getting checks. I mean, they're checks going
to homelands, to the ice agents. I mean, it's offensive.
(05:59):
You're making that guy. Generically men and women go to
the air traffic control towers and you're not giving them
any money. You're making them come in. I mean, I
understand they'll get back paid, but they're gonna have to
bump a credit card, get a side hustle. It's offensive.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Anyway.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Those people should all be paid. And add to that
SNAP funding, you know, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, it's
food stamps that goes away November first. SNAP has been
around sixty years. They've never had a lapse. This will
(06:39):
be the first time in sixty years because of this
government shutdown that there will be no money for SNAP.
And there have been some standalone bills to try to
do something to relieve this stress on the SNAP program.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
But nothing, nothing really breaking through.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
President Trump's saying that he's going to find a way
to fund the SNAP program.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
We'll see overnight President Trump vowing to find a solution
to help fund the federal nutrition program SNAP. More than
two dozen states and Washington d C Have now sued
the administration after it said it could not legally extend
SNAP benefits during the shutdown. Lawmakers on both sides of
the aisle are scrambling to fund the program before it
lapses this weekend.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Yeah, but they had a reserve fund, but they are
running out of money there even with the reserve fund
for SNAP. So that's your update on the government shutdown. Again,
doesn't appear to be any daylight. Both sides are dug
in pretty strongly, and we'll keep you posted. Dodgers drop
this game six to one. They lose to the Toronto
(07:49):
Blue Jays at Dodger Stadium. They go back to Toronto.
Toronto now leads the series three to two. Of course,
it's best of seven, so if Toronto wins in Toronto,
they win the World Series. You may be wondering, what
are the percentages when teams are ahead three to two
that they go on to win the World Series. I
(08:11):
will tell you sixty seven percent of the time the
team that's they had three to two wins. But that
may seem like a lot, but it's not necessarily an
overwhelming percentage. Dodgers are a very good team and they
can go back to Toronto and put on a show.
But again at Dodgers Stadium, the show was being put
(08:35):
on by the Blue Jays tonight and Blue Jays pitching,
which all but really shut down Dodgers pitching. It seems,
six to one shut down the Dodgers lineup. Toronto leads
the series three to two. As they go back to Toronto.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Mark Thompson sitting in on this Wednesday night. Dodgers a
rough one, just dominant pitching your savage with a record
twelve strikeouts. I think that was a record for a
rookie in a World Series game, so impressive. Six to
one the final. Now Toronto leads that World Series three
to two. They'll go back on Friday night is the
(09:12):
next game, and Dodgers have to get it done on
the road and they can. So all of you who
are leaving Dodger Stadium downcast, angry, bummed. It was kind
of a slow death tonight. I mean, Dodgers pitching just
being dominated Dodgers hitting, I should say, being dominated by
(09:33):
Toronto pitching. And I still feel fundamentally the Dodgers have
this murderer's row of hitters and with a day's rest
and a road trip to Toronto, they could get right
back in it. I'd love to see a seventh game,
but they'll need to win Friday night for us to
see a seventh game again. The final six to one,
(09:56):
it was real domination by the Blue Jays tonight at
out your Stadium. The scandal racking the sports world hits
the NBA. It's the betting scandal. It involved both betting
on props, you know, propositions where you're betting over or
under how an athlete on the floor will perform, you know,
(10:21):
twenty points over or under, and there was suggestion that
they're well, there's more than a suggestion they've got they're
charging people on this, and the reality is it might
just be the beginning of what is a much wider
scandal when it comes to manipulating outcomes, not so much
of games, although that's being suggested as well, but being
(10:46):
part of a manipulation of the game within the game.
That is to say, on the props over under props
that alongside the scandal of the illegal poker games that
are fixed, they involved Chauncey Billips, It's also suggested maybe
their other high profile NBA personalities that brought people into
(11:08):
these games that are fixed. So the fish, regardless of
how good they are, they could be pros. Everybody becomes
a fish when the outcome of the game is manipulated.
What about these controversies and these illegalities that are racking
the NBA. It's an out and out betting scandal.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
Here's Colin Cowhard, the gambling scandal heard around the NBA.
I want to remind people of this. You go back
to the nineteen ninety three NBA Finals Phoenix Suns, Michael
Jordan and the Bulls. Bulls won, and then Michael went
to baseball after the headline of that series wasn't mj
against Barkley. Headline of that series was Michael Jordan and
gambling talk. And the NBA survived. In eighteen seventy six,
(11:56):
the National League was formed in baseball. Do you know
the first betting scandal. One year later, eighteen seventy seven,
baseball's doing fine. You know, people say it's the tip
of the iceberg, and sometimes the tip of the iceberg
is an ice cube. I think the NBA will survive.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Yeah, well, I mean I think the NBA survived too.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
I don't think it's the end of the NBA, but
I think it could definitely affect the future of the
NBA in terms of the way you view the way
in which players on the floor are somehow compromised. Just
to put it that way, I think you can also
say that this might just be the beginning of and
(12:38):
this is the ironic part of the NBA having embraced gambling.
I mean, in all the sports we've talked about gambling,
it was done in the shadows, it was done with
offshore betting, all of this sort of thing. NBA said,
let's get it out there, let's actually embrace what is
a massive revenue source for the league.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
And you can bet on an NBA game at an
NBA game.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
In a lot of arenas, not in California because it's
not illegal, but if you go to Georgia, you go
to I think even Washington d C. If you go
to Washington d C. Bet against the Wizards would be
my advice. Yeah, if you're at the arena. But my
point is simply it's ironic that this league that was
(13:24):
first to the party when it comes to gambling and
legalizing it around their league, that they are racked by scandal. Now,
the other scandal that lurks around the NBA is associated
with NBA referees. And again, you know the referee that
was nailed said I wasn't the only one in on this.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Look.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
There have been many documentaries about this. There's an HBO
did a series on this. I think it's worth a watch.
But similarly, you could look at this that we're seeing
as you know Roseier in this case, who is the
NBA player who was accused of manipulating the outcome, pulling
himself out of the game early so that he wouldn't
(14:08):
hit the number. So when Better's bet on him going
over a certain number of points within the game, he
pulled himself out. He also seemed to be you know,
really off on his shots, turned the ball over a
bunch that he's not the only one, so the minute
that happens and these questions become a part of the conversation,
(14:29):
you end up with a league that begins to be compromised.
So there really have to be consequences for these people
associated with this. Otherwise the league begins to compromise itself
just based on the fact that it's not handling the
situation and the controversy and the scandal in the way
it should. And I think that is what's happening. I mean,
(14:50):
it's really you know, I don't see how Chauncey Billets meant.
I don't understand the arithmetic. You're making good money. What
are you doing? I mean, I it's not worth it, man,
it's not worth it. You like to play poker, okay, great,
I like to play poker, and you say, yeah, but
I lose a lot in poker, and this helps me.
(15:10):
I lose a lot in poker.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Are you kidding? I'm a loser. I enjoy it.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
If somebody said to me, hey, I got a way
that we can kind of tell you what the hands
are and we can kind of I get dude, you
know what, that's not that now I'm not having fun anymore.
I mean, part of it is trying to figure out
what the hands are in certain situations. Really, that is
the game of poker. So anyway NBA continues to wrestle
(15:34):
with this, will it, you know, destroy the NBA reputation. No,
but it could it could hurt it, especially if this
is just the beginning and others may be in on
a similar deal. I mean, last thing I'll say is
this isn't just NBA players having sort of colluded on
their own. There's organized crime associated with this, you know,
the cozen Nostra. Those are the words they used as
(15:56):
those who are party to all of this. So this
is more than just. And the Dodgers drop a tough one,
six to one tonight at Dodger Stadium. They'll need to
win in Toronto in order to win this World Series
dominating pitching tonight from the Blue Jays at Dodger Stadium
(16:17):
a tough one. We'll keep you posted on traffic if
you're leaving Dodger Stadium. It's a slow drive after a
loss like this.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
We know. Thank you for being with us tonight.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Mark Thompson's sitting in on this Wednesday night and Uh,
a rough night for the Dodgers, who dropped to the
Blue Jays six to one. The final at Dodger Stadium.
Such a tough one because the Dodgers just never really
got going. I mean, twelve strikeouts from the rookie pitcher
for Toronto shut down the Dodgers lineup pretty much. So
(16:57):
now it's back to Toronto and you'll have to win
Game six. You'll not have to win Friday night. But
as I say, Dodgers can do it. That is a
formidable team and Dodger fans I wouldn't get too down.
(17:17):
I get it in a short series, anything can happen.
But the Dodgers are an amazing baseball team and they
have every bit of firepower to bring this series to
Game seven and to win this series. Speaking of firepower,
did you see this announcement from President Trump? I mean,
(17:39):
this is weird because he's on this diplomatic tour and
he is posting on social media that he wants to
resume nuclear testing for the first time in thirty three years.
I mean, this is minutes before he was scheduled to
meet President she from China. Trump said because of other
(18:06):
countries testing programs. He posted this on his social feed
because of other countries testing programs, I've instructed the Department
of War to start testing our nuclear weapons on an
equal basis. The process will begin immediately. I mean, China
is expanding its stockpile of nukes, but it hasn't tested
(18:29):
a nuclear weapons since nineteen ninety six. I mean, this
is really where over this stuff? Man, We're over this.
Russia hasn't conducted a confirmed test since nineteen ninety Now,
Putin said that Russia had successfully tested a nuclear powered
and nuclear capable cruise missile and then separately, a nuclear torpedo.
(18:51):
Putin made that announcement. The torpedo is supposed to travel,
you know, under the Pacific from Russia's east coast to
hit the America and west coast. But that saber rattling
that Putin is doing. After there was a plan for
a summit. Remember Trump and Putin were supposed to get
(19:11):
together for the second time, and that didn't happen. But
there were no nuclear weapons detonated. They were testing the
delivery vehicles, the torpedoes, these cruise missiles, but they didn't
actually test any nuclear weapons. I mean, this is really
an escalation and a scary one at that. Because of
(19:38):
the tremendous destructive power. Donald Trump wrote, during his first
term in office, I didn't test anything.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
He said.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
He actually said, the United States has more nuclear weapons
than any other country.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
This is a direct quote. I'm just reading from the
social media.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
This was accomplished, including a complete update and renovation of
existing weapons, during my first term in office because of
the tremendous destructive power. I hated in capital letters to
do it, but had no choice. Russia is second, and
China is a distant third, but will be even within
five years because of other countries testing programs. I've instructed
(20:19):
the Department of War to start testing our nuclear weapons
on an equal basis. That process will begin immediately. Thank
you for your attention to this matter. And in capital letters,
President Donald J. Trump, Again, that would represent a departure
from what is an understood agreement that even though there's
(20:41):
an expansion of nuclear stockpiles, there hasn't been a weapons
test that actually involved detonating a nuclear weapon since the
nineties China in nineteen ninety six and Russia in nineteen ninety.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
So again, when.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
You see or hear that they're testing a torpedo they're
testing a nuclear capable cruise missile. They're testing the delivery system.
But Trump may be upping the addy on that. The
government shutdown is coming for your airport. VIP security lane
(21:27):
Delta one customers at JFK and LAX are inactive in
that security line. They have to jump on with everybody else.
Those are exclusive screening lanes for Delta one. There've been
staffing shortages at air traffic control facilities, thousands of flight delays.
As you know, America and the United Airlines they say
(21:51):
there's been no impact on their concierge services. This is
for you higher end travelers. An AI tool is being
used increasingly to figure out where there are delays. But
what's happening is first class passengers are flying out of
New York and LA and all of a sudden they're
(22:11):
getting treatment not like they're in first class, but like
they're in coach. This is all because of the government shutdown.
So all the screening lanes associated with first class travel
Delta one. These lanes allow passengers who you know, buy
expensive tickets to bypass that long line.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Now they'll wait with everybody else.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
These tickets are like four thousand dollars apiece. You can
fly from JFK to Paris. The Delta one service is
four k. And now you know you're online with everybody else.
As I told you before, if I'm the US government,
(22:54):
I make sure that I don't force anybody to work
who's not also going to get paid to me. It's
just it's an abomination. You can declare people essential workers,
make them show up as TSA agents, and you don't
pay them. What kind of crap is that? Same is
true of those people that are working the National Weather Surface.
(23:15):
Same is true of those people that are working in
the control power tower at Burbank or lax or anywhere else.
If you're going to compel them to work, then you
are compelled to pay them. So the mess that is
rippling through the aviation system in America will only get worse.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
In all of this.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Look, I'm leaving out the fact that SNAP runs out.
The food stamp program runs out of money November first,
but that's the latest there. Regardless, First class coach, we're
all in the same boat. Now, how the FED cut
rate will affect your finances. The rate was lowered by
(23:57):
twenty five basis points. Today it will have a ripple
effect of its own on borrowing and savings rates that
consumers see every day. Will get into some of that
as we continue again. Dodgers drop a heartbreaker after that
eighteen inning marathon win, two back to back losses to Toronto,
(24:21):
this one a dominating performance by a rookie pitcher. Twelve
strikeouts tonight, six to one the final. Mark Thompson sitting
in here on KFI AM six forty, glad you could
be with us. Sorry about the Dodgers. It's a slow
drive out of Dodgers Stadium after a loss like this.
It's really a heartbreaker, but we appreciate you being with
(24:42):
us here tonight.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Mark Thompson on the Wednesday night, A slow drive out
of Dodgers Stadium. Brutal heartbreak, the dominating pitching performance from
a rookie pitcher, twelve strikeouts tonight, Dodgers drop at six
to one on to Toronto. Will get it done there,
Doctor Phil say it ain't so sweet, Doctor Phil. Taking
(25:09):
time out of writing Shotgun with ice agents arresting those
who have overstayed their visas to show up in court
where a Northern Texas judge ruled that doctor Phil McGraw's
media company, Merritt Street Media, is going to have to
(25:34):
undergo a Chapter seven liquidation. I'll remind you if you've
lost track of your bankruptcy chapters. Chapter eleven is reorganization,
chapter seven is liquidation. They're both ations, but Chapter seven
(25:54):
is a worseation than Chapter eleven. Chapter seven liquid means
that Phil McGraw's company is going away. But this isn't
just a liquidation because of financial problems. There are serious
allegations yet another ation about doctor Phil's legitimacy in paying
(26:23):
back those he owed money to. The US Bankruptcy Judge
Scott Everett ruled that this is all because the Chapter
seven liquidation forced the end of this media empire that
doctor Phil was building. It's because there is suspicion about
(26:45):
doctor Phil McGraw's improper filing for bankruptcy following incriminating text messages.
These text messages suggest that, and this is again all
in court documents, that doctor Phil was making what they
were calling gangster moves, trying to avoid paying certain creditors
(27:09):
through the Chapter eleven route. So you're taking care of,
if you will, certain people or entities you owe money to,
and others that you owe money to who should be paid.
Sometimes in these situations they're paid ahead of others. It's
actually specified as to where they are in the pecking
(27:30):
order being paid. Doctor Phil ignored that is what's being
alleged and took care of some people denying payout to others.
This was a real huge network that was backed by
big money. The Christian group Trinity Broadcasting had seventy percent
(27:52):
of this Merritt Street Media. They launched it in twenty
twenty three. Thirty percent was owned by McGraw's production company.
And it is suggested again by this judge, the US
bankruptcy judge, that McGraw, Phil McGraw, good old doctor Phil,
(28:14):
intended to pay his own company while opting out of
paying unfavored creditors like Trinity. He also was in business
with and had gotten a lot of money from a
professional bull riding network and sports grew. So you've got
the Trinity Broadcasters, those are the Christian broadcasters, and the
(28:34):
Sports group the professional bull riders who were also in
for a little bit. But McGraw was running an end
around all of them. So the idea was he's paying
his own company while denying his partners the moneies that
they are entitled to. And again these are in private messages.
And again this all came out in court. McGraw described
(29:00):
a gangster move to make Trinity a passive minority investor
through a Chapter eleven bankruptcy McGraw planned on. This is
again these are quotes from the court records, taking the
money and running instead of following through on his end
of the bargain. This is a ten year agreement originally
(29:22):
worth five hundred million dollars, so we're talking about a
lot of money here. Trinity would offer production and distribution
services while Doctor Phil's company would produce new content one
hundred and sixty episodes of the talk show. But they
didn't get viewership numbers that were sufficient, and Trinity wasn't
(29:44):
able to get the advertising revenues and product integrations that
were promised because the viewership numbers weren't there. So the
network sued Trinity saying it was a breach of contract,
essentially saying, you know, you're the controlling shareholder. And in
this litigation, Trinity counter sued Doctor Phil and the professional
(30:09):
bull Riders. They're the third parties to all this. They
filed an emergency motion wanting to seek documents to determine
whether doctor Phil was operating in good faith when he
filed the bankruptcy. In other words, did this, dude, doctor Phil,
just file the bankruptcy because you wanted to get out
(30:30):
of paying these creditors and partners that he owed money
to or was it legitimate? So without getting any more
into the weeds, because I know we're already way into
the weeds, doctor Phil, and the bankruptcy judge agrees with
these people who are suing doctor Phil. Doctor Phil is accused,
and it's alleged that he was pulling some ganks to
(30:52):
stuff to again change the legal obligation he had to
pay his partners. Of course, this will come as no
surprise to you. He denies this, and he's denying any wrongdoing,
and he says, I'm doing everything I can to keep
my company up and running. This theory that this was
(31:14):
all a ploy to set them up is absurd, and
the judge indicated quote McGraw believed he was calling the
shots candor to the court is critical. The judge is
not crazy for doctor Phil. And the way this whole
thing has gone down, And now because of these deleted texts,
(31:36):
which seem to expose doctor Phil as maybe not being
completely on the level, Doctor Phil's media company appears to
be closing up. That's the latest on Doctor Phil. I
know it's tough to hear when your favorite therapist is
not what you thought he was.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
The judge has to say it to him, and you
know what I'm talking about. How's that working out working
out for you?
Speaker 3 (32:04):
I didn't see it anywhere, but maybe it's hidden in
there somewhere. Mark Thompson. It's Wednesday Night on KFI A
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