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Episode Date: January 16, 2026

Wonderful talk with raconteur, bon vivant and celebrated journalist TAKI THEODORACOPULUS, his memoir THE LAST ALPHA MALE - The Amorous Pursuits and High Life of a Poor Little Greek Boy. D62 quiz and more open phones follow to wrap up the week.

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It's not often I actually feel nervous going into, an interview, but when you have someone of Taki Theodora Copulus's stature, I'm feeling kind of like an underachiever. I guess that's the way I would put it. And he is an amazing man, and he has written a memoir of his incredible life. Here's the last alpha male, the amorous pursuits in high life of a poor little Greek boy. So I nervously welcome you to the show, Taki. It's a pleasure. Good morning. Thank you, Bill. Thank you, Bill, but I think you've overdone that.

I'm no, nothing like you described me. It was fun writing the book because, you know, I'm 89 years old, and I'm looking back this last 50 years. By the way, do you have, you're all in Oregon, you have the only football team. We have the Seattle Seahawks, don't you? Well, that's in, that's the next state over, Washington. I know.

Yeah. It's in Washington, but you're the closest, because you have a big game coming up this weekend. Yeah. Actually, most of our people, I think, are more about the 49ers. But there we go. They are more about it. Yeah, no, I love the 49. I like all those three teams are very good.

And, you know, I'm here in Switzerland, up in the mountains in Stard. and we actually get it we get American football and I think it's great I'm glad to hear this I have always wanted to to talk I've read you off and on for years and I would I would read your material Taki mag of course is is what I like to like to read and I guess Taki Taki my impression of you when I would see pictures of you I see who you with I'm looking at the pictures in the book. I find the book just absolutely fascinating, but are you familiar with the, are you familiar with the old advertising campaign for Dos Echese beer, the most interesting man in the world? Do you remember that? No, I'm not. Okay, well, it was this, well, it was an older gentleman,

and, and of course, they were making fun of it. He's the most interesting man in the world, but I thought that you were actually the living embodiment of one of those kind of people. Kind of the Renaissance man. Is that a fair assessment? Well, Bill. No, but you know, I was very lucky because I was born, privileged. My father was a shipowner and an industrialist, and I came to America as a very young man, having lived through the German occupation and the Civil War in Greece. And of course, after the war, everybody, especially in Europe and in America, wanted to have fun. And I hit my stride.

I went to Lawrenceville Prep School in New Jersey and then to University of Virginia. And then I went to Paris. I was a tennis player. And I played for Greece. And every city was rebuilding and everybody wanted to have fun. And it was a hell of a lot of South Americans who had come over full of. of money, of course, because they hadn't taken part of the war. It was just a very good time to be 18, 20 years old. So I was lucky to have lived through that period. And, you know,

I met a lot of people, and I was lucky. I was given a job by William Buckley and was skewed with him every day for 40 years, hearing start. So I had a, you know, I think, again, I put it all in luck because I think today people are much too. serious and, you know, career-oriented. And back then, after the war, everybody just wanted to have fun. I wonder if... And you even describe in the book here talking about what is like as a young boy and watching your father's...

what the father's factory or the father's business burning to the ground. And was this the communist uprising that occurred? Yes, exactly. And, you know, it made me a very rapid anti-communist because, you know, when you're 10, 10 years old and the communists, what they did, they couldn't get to us because we lived in a rich section of town. What they did was they killed all my father's workers. How can you kill a poor man who can hardly make ends meat to feed his family? And you kill him because he worked for a capitalist. You have to kill a capitalist. You have to kill a capitalist. listen. And never, so I remember when coming to America and being very, very anti-communist, and people were not in those days, because communism were our allies, actually, almost. And people couldn't understand my anti-communism, what Bill Buckley did, of course, but when I explained to them what they did, well, they had that in Greece, they hardly believed me. I remember saying, are you sure about that? Well, I was sure, you know, they killed people

because my father took care of their families, of course, afterwards, but it was just terrible. Anyway, I've had a very good life, and I've had a very lucky life, and I'll just tell you very briefly how simple life was. There was no mass tourism back then, and when I arrived in Paris, the third week there, I got an invitation to countess, I'm sorry, which is La Roque, a revolutionary, a French general who fought with Washington. And I went there and I was dressed up all in black tie, and I met Countess. And I said to her, how come you invited me in French? She said, well, I heard you were nice looking. You had good manners.

And by the way, my name, I was born Sheila McIntosh in Kentucky. It was wonderful. So in three weeks, I knew everybody in Paris, she introduced me to everybody in, and that was it. It was very simple. And now things are much more difficult. You know, mass tourism has killed cities, but, of course, we have much more competition now, and it's much fair. And back in those days, you know, the Riviera was just the most divine place in the world, just a few boats and a few houses.

You knew everybody and all, everybody wanted to have fun. Now things are more serious, as there should be. But otherwise, that's about all I have to say. I've had a very fun and good life, and how a lot of Bill Buckley who will help me start writing, and that's it. I wanted to talk more about Bill Buckley in a moment here, but Taki Theodore Coppoulos is with me,

the author of The Last Alpha Male, The Amorous Pursuits and High Life of a Poor Little Greek Boy. And, of course, as a man who has had not nearly the excitement of your amorous pursuits, I mean, that fills a book just on its own. But, you know, I'm wondering, you know, going back to everybody post-World War II wanted to have fun. And I wonder if this is representative of the relief that people were feeling. we survived, we made it through. There was so much death you talked about there being around, you know, in grace at that time, you know, fighting back with just piles of bodies and the stink and things like that.

And that reminds me of how people came back or soldiers came back to the United States. And they wanted to become hot rods and experimenters and going out and just throwing caution to the wind. I think it's kind of a reaction to that, Taki. Would you agree on that? Exactly. Absolutely. Even here in Stard, which is a small skiing resort, now it's become terrible because everybody is, all the rich have come and bought everything. But back then in the 50s, I remember it was full of American, young Americans, and I can say Jimmy Ray was one of my closest friends. I said, Jimmy, what are you doing in Stad? He said, well, he was a flyer. He was shot. They were bombing Stuttgart, which is the German, Detroit and they were hit.

So they knew what to do. They would cross over Switzerland, bailout and the Swiss would intern them but very freely, very near Stard. So he came up here and he saw this place. It was dirt cheap and he bought land, built a chalet.

And of course they sold it for millions after, you know, when Stard became chic, it was ruined when Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor came here. But, you know, I remember there was so many Americans who had fought in the war and had found this place, this divine little village up in the mountains,

and they said, this isn't, you know, it was dirt cheap, and they bought places here, so it was, you know, and all they wanted to do was have fun. They didn't want to go back home and go to work. They wanted to stay here, and, you know, chase farmers' daughters. So you're absolutely right. And you have chased your share of farmers' daughters over the years, too, I would have. imagine. Well, yes, we just lost one of them, Brigitte. Bardo. She was a friend of mine, poor thing. And she had a good life and good endings. She died at 92 last month. And, yeah, I went out with

some clamor girls at the time. But I've never, you know, you never talk about it. You say you went out and that's it. Now they go into gory details, which sort of ruins it. But anyway. I want to ask you kind of to that point, Tucky, and this has to do with you have a big part of this book, the last alpha male. You have a big part of it is focused on honor. And that seems to be something missing in our culture today. And how do you define honor when you say honor? Why is that so important? And why would it be great to reestablish that?

I think, yeah, I think it was drilled into me because, you know, in great. Greece, especially back in those days when I was born in 13th. The first thing you learn, you read the classic, the Trojan War, and honor was everything, not to lose face, stand up. My mother was a famous Spartan clan. And so, you know, Leonidas of Sparta, the 300, his Hermopoli, Achilles, Honor, you know, he kills Hector, and all that. It was so much drilled into us, and I believe very much, you can do anything in life.

You know, of course, I've been happily married for 53 years, but I've always chased women, because I like women. It's as simple as that. I mean, I'm not going to apologize for it, but you have to be honorable. You cannot cheat or lie. You know, you see it. I mean, you cheat when you chase other women, but that's about it. I believe very much to live an honorable life, not to lie, to take responsibility when you do something. And I think I've done that, you know, whenever I've gotten into trouble, I've never denied it or never blamed somebody else.

And I've made many mistakes. But I think it makes you feel much better afterwards. once you admit you mistake or when you act honorably you never have a sick feeling and and I think, you know, it sounds pompous now, but I think honor is important, especially in men. But I think there was another aspect of it you brought up, especially when it comes to relationships and close relationships, is that nobody can ever be or shouldn't be really completely and totally honest. In fact, I think you brought up, that's a fault of the American character to a certain extent in which we're going to tell you everything.

I tell you. Yes. Yes. I know what you mean. In other words, I once wrote an article, I remember for Esquire, which I was criticized in defense of lying, you lie in order to have better manners. In other words, when you see somebody, an ugly woman, you speak how well-dressed she is or something. You know, when you go to someone's house and they serve your awful food, you praise how wonderful their houses and how warm their hospitality. You don't say I have never eaten such bad food since I've been in prison. I mean, that is, I think that is part of being a bit honorable. I mean, maybe it's not, it's my sense, but I think it's part of good manners. And good manners are part of being honorable, too. You have to have good manners. As you just showed me,

You made me feel very much. I was nervous about calling. I don't know how to do this anymore. You were nervous about calling me? Really? Well, you know, you never know how to write a book, The Last Alpha Mail. I must tell you how the title came about. The publisher's wife read the first page.

And she said, oh, you must call this book, The Last Alpha Mail. And very quickly, I got a telephone call at 5.30 in the morning when I was living in London from an English woman saying to me, I've had an accident in Greece, and I cannot understand what the Greeks are saying. Could you please speak to them? And I said, of course. And I spoke to them, and I took the husband, which was as bad as she thought. And everything was fine. in the meantime, just before she passed me on to the Greeks, she said to me, by the way, we've met at the spectator a couple of times.

And I said at 5.30 the morning, oh, really, have we made love? And she said, oh, no, no, no. I said, why not? Why not? She says, I'm 47 years old. I said, hang up the phone at once. And she did. So I started a book like that.

No, of course, no. I started a book like that to establish the fact that I'm a horrible man because it gives me too, a good reason to say, what a horrible man, but of course I would never do a thing like that. But I thought it was quite funny to make itself seem like a terrible S-H-I-T. And because the publisher kept it in, although, of course, I did nothing of this story. Well, I thought it was hilarious. I understood where you were coming from, but such a different man than what the man is of today, Tucky. And so my question here, you came from a... from a high testosterone time.

And America, I would say, arguably, is a very low-t nation at the moment. Would you agree with me on that? And what could be done to solve it? Well, I would agree with you for the moment, but at the same time, my dear Bill, I'll tell you, it's funny. I can't get angry with me, too, although so many people have been unjustly accused, because we were doing it to them for so long, starting with Hollywood, all those horrible fat producers,

having to sleep with them to get a role and things like that. So things will even out at the end. And, of course, the entertainment industry has turned any red-blooded man into a monster. You know, that's why I like Dave Vance in his book, because, you know, it's normal to be what I went to University of Virginia. we went every night to Sweetbriar. We drove all night to see pretty girls.

We maybe got a kiss and that's about it. And drove back, went to class, back against Sportal afternoon. And it was normal. We chased girls because they were wonderful. And now if you do that, you sort of, there's something wrong with you. Well, I don't know what to do about that, but I really don't care. But I do agree with you. Yes.

I don't know how are you going to turn it around, because now, I have a liking, excessively liking a woman, it makes you sort of a white supremacist pig, which it's neither here nor there. It's absolutely wrong. But anyway, that's why I say I was lucky to have been born when I was and to have grown up at the time I was because it was different days. Indeed. The last alpha meal. It's fabulous book. I'm having such fun reading it. I'm only just scratching the surface at this point. But I have to ask you before you take off talking, and this has to do with when you got together with Bill Buckley at National Review at this point, and you're building your journalism chops. The story about the dealings with the 12-year-old son just had me laughing out loud.

Yes. Could you share that, please? Of course, Bill. And I'm very sweet. I'm very happily surprised that you read it. But Christopher became, he was best man when I married Alexander. You know, he gave me a job because I was taking photographs, but I didn't know how to write because, you know, I'm in Virginia. I just took geology to get enough points so I could stay on the tennis team and the boxing team. So Christopher, at 12 years old, you know, he was reading The Odyssey.

and he used to fix my copy at night, and I would submit all these stories to build, fixed by his own son secretly, and of course, eventually I learned how to write by myself, but Christopher really helped me out in the beginning, because, you know, I didn't even know what it was, dangling parties. I thought it was a sex story, but anyway. talking i read that i'm thinking to myself so your early articles for national review were corrected and rewritten by a 12 year old and you know buckley saw it just cracked me up yeah because like i said you were new to the english language and then writing for it yeah but uh it just uh well i guess faked it a little bit until you make it as the as the saying goes yeah as i say well i just I'm heard of to say, Tour de Force on this one, and just absolutely fabulous. It's the last alpha male. And like I said, we're just scratching surfaces here, folks.

There's so much more. In fact, I have to read the rest of it this weekend. And the subtitle is The Amorous Pursuits in High Life of a poor little Greek boy, who obviously did pretty well after that. Taki, one of an honor talking to you, and I'm glad we had a chance to meet. Thank you. My dear Bill, I thank you. You've been the most gracious host, and all the best to you.

If you ever come to New York or in Switzerland, I'm in the book under the last hour. Thank you. I'll look you up there, all right? Thank you very much for having. Please do. And I really mean that. Thank you very much for having me. Thank you, Tucky.

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770 KMED. Hello, Lynn. How you doing? Welcome to the show. A little bit of open phone time here to wrap up. Morning. Morning. Yeah, that interview was just so delightful.

He's so funny, and I loved everything about it. And he reminded me of my Greek male roommate. Oh, by the way, let me remind for those. to just join us here, Lynn, okay, because they may have just joined in. Taki, okay, gosh, I always mess up his name here. Taki, Theodora Culpulus, and it's the author of the last Alpha Mail. That's the book he wrote, and interesting stuff. So there we go, please. Yeah, well, summer of 81, I just graduated from Wellesley College, and a friend of mine, we both decided to spend the summer in Cambridge, and we rented a couple of bedrooms in a apartment.

and the other roommate was a guy named Christos Cassandris. He was a Greek guy who was getting his Ph.D. at Harvard. And he was so much fun. But we would get into these big debates and arguments because he would insist that in marriage, you know, the man has to be the boss. And, of course, we were, you know, graduated from feminist Wellesley, Hillary Clinton's alma mater. So we would get into these big arguments with him, you know, all in good fun. But they ended up getting married, and they've been married to this day.

But I just loved what he was talking about, just, you know, real men and that concept of just being an unashamed man. I don't approve of him catting around. No, I don't either. I see why women liked him. He's just so much fun. Oh, and he talked about it. Well, the other thing he also talked about, impeccable manners. It was all, he was very big on that.

and and and there's a there's a part of the book the last alpha male which i uh remembered in which um he took a passage from romeo and juliet i forget exactly what it was but uh he was trying to uh to date the daughter of another uh shipping magnate i believe you know at that time and he was just totally totally uh besotten with that and And if I recall you, I think it was in his early 20s at that point. And he wrote this big old flowery sort of thing, taking quotes from Shakespeare and all the rest of it. And it's like you'd never hear somebody doing something like that today. But the lady was incredibly impressed.

And it's just there just aren't many guys like him. And it reminded me of people that I have known in the past, too. That generation, that generation, I think the post. World War II generation were the ones that fought or grew up during that. It was a different world then for them. And I think they were, like I said, so happy to be alive that they were living more, I think, than many of us today. Would that be a fair assessment? Yeah, and I, absolutely. It certainly was the time in history that they lived, but it was also the education they got. He talked about, you know, studying the ancient Greeks and the wars and everything. And this

is a foundation of classical education, which, you know, we've had over 100 years now a progressive education that's wiped all that great history and literature out. And it's created what C.S. Lewis called men without chests, where, you know, you castrate the gilding and bid him be fruitful, is another line from that book, where just the masculation of men by just the destruction of the values of Christian and classical civilization. And it's coming back. And so I'm encouraged for the future. I think the Gen Z men are returning to church in big numbers, and a classical education movement is exploding.

That's the education that created Western civilization. Anyway, he was just so much fun. I'm glad you enjoyed it. A big part of the book, though, is that, you know, he's very insistent that men and women were created differently for a reason and that they are complementary to one another. Right. And both are so necessary. And like I said, a man's man.

But like I said, every time I would be reading his stories, it was like I was reading, well, this is the most interesting man in the world, you know? Just like that Do Sackie's like, he's the real deal, except he doesn't think of himself that way. But that's funny. And that's what makes him so fun because he's got a certain amount of humility and humor about himself. It's great. Thank you so much. I appreciate your call, as always, Lynn. 770K-MED.

Good morning. Hi, this is Bill. Who's this? Hey, this is Bob out in beautiful Applegate Valley. Hey, Bob. How is life in the AV right now, huh? Yeah, it's good. I apologize for changing the subject on you.

I couldn't call in earlier when you were talking about the Chinese guy with the baby role there. Oh, yes, yes. There was this Chinese billionaire, I think his last name is Bo, I believe, Xi Bo. And he has 20 children that he has fathered with a surrogate. and in the United States, and the story is that he's trying to build essentially a Chinese family that are American citizens to take over his business that he wants to build in the United States, and courts are kind of looking askance at that, you know, that birthright citizenship. So what did you think about that, Bob?

Well, I thought that was unusual, but it brought to mine back in early, I want to say early 2001, maybe 2002, while I was still reading The Chronicle every once in a while, they had this big article on the front page about this hotel in San Francisco that they sent their pregnant Chinese women to this hotel, and they had their babies, and then they were citizens, right? That's right. That's right. I don't hope they ever did anything about it.

Come to find out later on, my sister-in-law who was living in Boston at the time, said Lebanese people and other people were doing the same thing back east. just bringing the pregnant women over and having the baby and they're a citizen, the way you go. Yeah, I have a feeling that it'll be really interesting, though, to see what the Supreme Court says about the challenge, of course, to this, you know, accepted practice that has been going on for quite some time. And if birthright citizenship will be going away. Bob, I appreciate to share the story. Thank you for that. 7705-633-770K-M-E-D.

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I would love to give you a $20 gift certificate from Diner 62. But you have to answer the question. By the way, Brian, what did you bring? What did you bring? It's the pork chop special.

I got the pork chop special. You got the pork chop special. I've always wanted to try that. Yeah. You just told Randy, I don't know if you ever gave Bill the pork chop special, so I think he's going to be pretty stoked about it. Oh, I'm going to be very,

I love pork jobs. Yeah. So enjoy. Okay. I sure will. See, Brian is the person who not only writes the quiz questions, he also delivers the Friday breakfast. All right. But you can get one of these two.

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C-delivered details expires 116.26. You're here in the Bill Myers Show on 1063, KMED. All right, Diner 62. Real American Quiz. By the way, I took a look at that. It's not only a pork chop. It's a great-looking pork chop breakfast that I have, which, of course, is on special right now.

Today's Clam Chowder Friday, too. So good, you'll think you're on the Oregon Coast with sunshine. Right? And they also have the hot, open-faced sandwiches, on the menu. Hot roast sandwich served with mashed potatoes and brown gravy or the hot turkey sandwich with mashed potatoes, gravy, and cranberry sauce, all your hearty breakfast and lunch favorites too. Let's go to Dawn. Don is first up. Hello, Dawn. Morning. Good morning, Bill. Don, we're talking about something that went on in history this coming Sunday, January 18th, but it was

back in 1803. President Jefferson requested money for the Lewis and Clark, expedition. This is a pretty big deal. So he asked for the financing and Jefferson sought to claim more territory for the U.S. eliminate foreign competition. And the other thing he also wanted to do is convert those beastly Indians to Christianity. Okay. But, you know, hey, it was 1803. We got to remember, right? Viewing westward expansion is a way for the nation to keep its agrarian values and to ward off the same political perils. Now, the question is, how much money did President Thomas Jefferson asked for for the Lewis and Clark expedition. We have five choices. It's either A, $2,500, B, $10,000, C, $25,000, D, $50,000, or was it E, $100,000? What do you say?

Oh, my goodness. What were the first, $2,500, what was the one after that? Yeah, $2,000, $25,000, $50,000, or $100,000. $100,000. 25. You're going to say 25,000 or 2500? 25,000. 25,000 right there in the middle. I'm sorry, Dawn, I was pulling for you. I'm always pulling for whoever's there. So we know it's not 25. It's either lower or higher. Hi, Jerry. How are you doing? Good morning, Bill. How are you? Okay, we're going to play a game of high, low here. 25,000 is right there in the middle. How much did it cost or how much money did he ask for for Lewis and Clark? 2500, 10,000, 50,000. thousand or a hundred thousand bucks let's go less at 10,000 let's go less at 10,000 is it less than 10,000

oh I'm sorry oh I was pulling for you here we got Phil hello Phil morning good morning bill all right 2550,000 or a hundred thousand dollars how much for the lewis and clark expedition well that was quite a while ago I'll say 2500 you'll say 2500 yeah you got it He officially asked for $2,500, although, you know the funny thing about this, Phil? Is that ultimately, sources are saying that it ended up costing $50,000 by the time it ended up being finished. So it's like so typical, cost overruns in government projects, right? Like today. Yeah, exactly.

Some things haven't changed much. Now, Jefferson first proposed this expedition even before Napoleon offered to sell France the territory. which would become known as the Louisiana purchase to the U.S. And he had authorization from Congress to launch a survey of the area. When news of Napoleon's offer to sell reached Washington. In a stroke of luck for the U.S., Napoleon had abandoned plans to establish the French foothold on American southern flank, and he sold the land to the U.S. to subsidize his conquest of Europe. So he got it all pretty cheap here for that matter.

So, Phil, hold on. We're going to send you to Diner-S.62, and I know you will enjoy that greatly. and I'll get your name and all that sort of good stuff. If you got anything else in your mind, give you a call. 770, KM.E. Harper, what should we highlight in our Gerson's home commercial? Milk coming out of my nose. How's that?

That's my Easter Seals. Make it yours. Join us at Easterseals.com. This is Randall with Advanced Air, and I'm on KMED. 852-70KMED 77056633. And happy to take your calls. I also have some emails of the day where they get to some good thinking going on. Hi, good morning. Who's this?

Hey, this is Daniel. Hi, Daniel. What's on your mind today? I was just wondering if you've heard about what they're planning on doing in downtown Medford, the new Main Street. I know that the city council, is it next week? I think it may be next week in which they make the final decision on what will be done, whether to reverse the destruction that was done thanks to a prior city council ruling, or if they will follow the will of the people.

I think it's the 21st that they're going to make that decision, that final decision, because the polling or the survey results were pretty much the way they, that at least we expected it here. They wanted to put back to the way it was before. but the city is still looking most favorably at having buffered bike lanes. And I think the idea is that they don't want to have to pay back the grant. If they put it back to the way it was before, the city would then have to repay the grant. Does that make sense?

Right. I wish they would put it back the way it was before. I mean, I don't mind bike lanes, but I own a business downtown, and it pretty much almost killed a lot of the customers that come in for parking. I'm a big fan of stop being punitive to motorists in downtown Medford, and arguably the gang green agenda has been part of this. And I love how they seem to insist that somehow Main Street, Main Street has to have bike lanes. When there are like 20 other streets going in the same direction, that would be perfectly adequate. You know, we have truck routes, right?

We've had situations in which certain roads are designated truck routes. Why not do the same thing for bicycles? I never quite understood this slavish devotion to it. How about you? I agree. I mean, 4th Street would probably be way better for bike lanes. And Main Street, I still see bikers on the sidewalk. Yeah.

They don't want to use the bike lane. I know. Even though it's buffered in supposedly their luxury bike lane right now. So I think we'll find out next week. It'll be really curious to see, you know, what happens. I hope I'm right on that. And if I got the week wrong, let me know, folks. 770 5633.

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it writes me about the talkie interview about a half hour ago. Says Bill, that interview made my heart sing as a 76-year-old woman. I remember real men, especially from my years living in Paris in the 1970s. You really are a terrific interviewer and to have such interesting people come out of my radio in the morning. Sublime. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. That's very kind of you, Robin. I appreciate that. George writes it about this too. Sent from my iPhone, boy, oh boy, I'd short trade talkie for my neighbors. He sounds exactly like me. I've lived a life well. And it's color too, and a touch more poor and a touch more alpha than he. I seek a world full of the likes of him. I even try to Lucerne Austria in the Alps, but it was far too expensive for me. Thanks a ton for

having him. Yeah, that was a lot of fun. I found it interesting, by the way, George and Robin, that he was nervous about coming on my show, and I was nervous about interviewing him because I looked at him as such a high-level statute. He was a great journalist, and anybody who was ever anyone, that was talkie. I mean, he knew him.

And there was even this one part of the book, well, he ended up getting busted for cocaine in an airport, I think in 1984, is when he got busted for, that. And so he ended up getting past that and it was a legal problem. Cocaine, of course, not unusual for the wealthy and well-connected back in the day. But there's a letter from Richard Nixon, former President Nixon, in there that he put in the book talking about, I'm really hoping that my friend Taki ends up, you know, getting back and getting over these troubles. But

that was certainly the day. Michael writes me about the talent library case. We were talking about that earlier this morning. DA is not going to charge anything. They can't find anything illegal. I mean, you know, it's really creepy, you know, the way we see this registered sex offender watching videos and, you know, but they were like parenting videos. So technically not considered of a sexual nature. But Michael writes in about this, you know, Bill, letting the perp go because what he was

viewing wasn't meant for sexual stimulation is kind of like letting a murderer go because he used a golf club instead of a gun. And Dale writes me this morning. Morning, Bill. The Air Force Base you were talking about in Greenland is pronounced Tully. I said Thule. Okay, I wasn't sure, but thank you for the correction there. I was stationed there in 67 to 68.

At that time, there was also a base in Greenland, which was much further south. It was the longest fjord in the world. We also had a Coast Guard post just south of Tully Air Force Base. At that time, there was also a post name Alert. on Ellesmere Island, which is about as far inside the 80th parallel as Tully was outside it. I was there when we had a B-52 crash on the bay, covered in ice, just about a week further in January than we are now. Great story. Thanks for sharing that one. Email Bill at Billmyershow.com. K-4-Vin-2-722 MSRP 24-185. Tailuride, VIN 707-450-0 MSRP 437770-350.