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Episode Date: October 2, 2025

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The Bill Myers Show podcast is sponsored by Klausur drilling. They've been leading the way in Southern Oregon well drilling for over 50 years. Find out more about them at Klausor drilling.com. KMED and Grants Pass on 1059, K290AF, Rogue River, in South Jackson County on 1067 K294A.S. Ashland. Great to have former federal prosecutor, former U.S. Marine in 2024, GOP, Massachusetts, U.S. Senate nominee John Dieton on the program. John, it is a pleasure having you back.

Been a few weeks since we last talked, and how are you doing today, sir? I'm doing great. The pleasure's all mine. Yeah, I'm glad to hear that. By the way, how can people find out more about everything about you? Is it still about your law firm that you founded a number of years ago, or how do people find out more? Well, they can go to John E. Deaton 1, the number one, John E. Deaton on X. And they want to know everything about me.

They can read Food Stamp Warrior, the book. about my life, Food Stamp Warrior. It's on Amazon. Food Stamp Warrior. Could you give me a thumbnail sketch of that before we dig into the Quadigo meeting of the other day? Yeah, a single mom of welfare and food stamps overcoming, you know, basically went through some trauma and didn't deal with it, dealt with it later in life. And it's really about the American dream. And if you keep fighting for the life you deserve, you can have it in this great country of us. And it's really about kind of your life story here because you grew up, it was a pretty tough time growing up, wasn't it? And you ended up being really an overachiever, you know, coming out of that neighborhood.

Fair enough? Yeah, I grew up in one of the worst neighborhoods in America, Highland Park, Detroit, and it was a high school dropout because I had a gun shoved in my mouth the first day of high school. Yikes. And a tiny Catholic high school coach of principal gave me a shot, and I worked my way through high school, and here I am talking to you and your fine audience. Okay. I appreciate that. And I ran, I ran against Elizabeth Warren last year. I would love you to... Only in America, because someone like that.

Do you think she could be removed from office? Do you think that they're willing to actually entertain a chain there, a change, rather, there? Yeah, I listen, Massachusetts is the second-best state President Trump improved. I was the first, I was a no-name candidate for the first time, and I got

1.3 million votes over 40% first time in 30 years. And so, you know, Massachusetts is tough if you're Republican, but they went so far left in the state that they've offended center-left people and people are waking up. Yeah, boy, that's pretty bad when you're offending the center left, really, at this point, sure. Hey, I wanted to, what was your overall impression, by the way, of that Quantico meeting? And I'm trying to figure out who the meeting was really for, and I'm not so sure it was necessarily for the brass there, but maybe I'm wrong because I'm thinking that what was talked about, especially those speeches from the president and with J.D. Vance, I'm not J.D. Vance, I'm sorry, with the Secretary of

War, Pete Hegseth, that a lot of that could have been handled, I guess, you know, in meetings, not necessarily televised to the public. What was the purpose of that, you think, overall? Well, I think it was the administration basically very publicly declaring war on what they view as a woke ideology and the politicization of the military lowering of standards, even for combat infantry-type positions. And so you're right. I mean, there's been a lot of criticism. I think the most valid criticism that one could have is, you know, did you need to bring, you know, 800-some generals and admirals? Couldn't that have been done via video message, you know, via email privately? But I think it's more of, you know, publicly saying this woke ideology that they believe infected the military.

Those days are over and face-to-face telling generals and admirals, if you don't like what we're saying, If you disagree with this new approach or returning to an older approach, then resign. And I think that's really what. And this was laying down the gauntlet or throwing out a gauntlet, so to speak, drawing the red line saying, hey, this is it. This is where we're coming from, the old Army, the old Marine, the old Air Force. It ain't the way it's happening anymore, right? Right.

I mean, listen, it wasn't that controversial to me. When I was on active duty, you know, you had to take a physical fitness. twice a year. You had strict white, height, weight requirements. You know, even if you were, you know, if you were 6'2 and weighed 215 pounds, you know, you'd have to get a waiver,

even if you were a rock solid, you know, muscular, you'd get a waiver because you were over the weight limit. And so those things to me are positive. You know, if you're going to be in combat, you know, I'm in the Marine Corps, no Marines, has ever left behind, and you have to be able to execute a fireman's carry of a fellow Marine who's been injured in combat. If you can't put them over your shoulder and carry them 100 yards, then maybe you, you know,

shouldn't be in the Marines. And so, you know, those kind of standards, I think, are good. You know, now the delivery, you know, everybody can take issue with maybe the, or some people with the delivery, but the substance of, you know, no more. dudes in dresses on active duty. Yeah, no more beardos, too, was the other thing. That's a interesting takeaway, no more beardos. By the way, what is a beardo for those that don't know?

I'm kind of curious. You know what that is? Well, you know, I have a go-tee myself now, so I sort of laugh. And I was like, I guess I wouldn't, you know, does my go-tee, a beardo? I think it's these long beards, you know, that are excessively long that you see sometimes. Oh, it's kind of like the Duck Dynasty beards. you're kind of seeing a lot of it right that kind of thing all right that makes it so that they're they're cutting that out so it's really about uh straightening up flying right uh you know

that that old saying is is really what you were talking about i did appreciate though finally that they they had to go to combat reality which the physical standards are going to be the male only standard and this is to your point about you have to be able to pick somebody up in a fireman's carry and and get them out of danger if the case might be and unfortunately, that's not necessarily easy to do for many women that would be in the service. Would that be a fair assessment? What's going on? But that they changed the standards to accommodate that.

It is a fair statement. Listen, and that doesn't mean all combat roles. I mean, obviously, fighter jets, B-2 bombers, those are all combat-related roles, and we've got some of the best women, you know, pilots who happen to be women in those roles. but when you're talking about close, you know, infantry combat on the ground, yes, a lot of, there are physical differences. You know, I train with women. I mean, there are physical differences when I was on active duty. We would hump. That means hike 20 miles in training.

The women would stop at 15 miles, and it was because they would start getting hip fractures, hairline fractures, you know, carrying 30, 40, 50, 60 pounds on their back. And so there are physical differences. But as Pete HECS said, it's not just women might be excluded in some of those combat roles, but, you know, men will also be excluded if they don't meet those standards. Is this kind of a shot across the bow of the idea that the military was somehow supposed to be a, I don't know, a jobs program? You know, kind of an equal opportunity jobs program here, John? Isn't that really what we're looking at?

I think that's on target. Listen, everyone has to remember our military is a completely voluntary force, and recruitment was an issue for many of the branches under the previous administration. And, you know, that old saying one of the few, one of the proud, not everyone can get through the train. Not everyone can meet those requirements, and I think you're going to see more recruitment is already improved, but people want to belong and think they're exceptional. Not everyone can do this, but I can.

I think that that is an effective attitude, and you need that if you're going to depend on a voluntary force. The one thing that struck me at watching that meeting the other day, John. John Deaton, by the way, is with me this morning, former U.S. Marine. Well, actually, there's no such thing as a former U.S. Marine. You're just retired, but you're always a Marine in spirit. No doubt about that. Uh-huh. Yeah.

But the part that struck me watching that meeting, though, you were talking about 800 generals and admirals and senior enlisted leaders. And the question that's running through my mind is, do we need 800 generals, admirals, and senior enlisted leaders? And it just, it looks awfully top-heavy on brass. Now, maybe I don't understand how this works. Do you have any thoughts about that? I'm just curious.

No, I think that is also part of it of bringing them and publicly doing this. Pete Hexthus, you know, himself said that they want to be more. more lean at the top heavy, and so they have already started instituting a reduction at the star level, you know, the general or admiral level. And so it's a valid point. Yeah. It seems like we have a lot of, you know, a lot of chiefs, but what we really need, you know, I just don't know if you need that many chiefs to do what gets done. I could be wrong. That's all.

Yeah. No, and I think that when Pete Hickbest said, you know, it's unacceptable. both to have fat generals and admirals walking around the Pentagon. He was, you know, meaning to lean out both figuratively and metaphorically. Oh, okay. Very, very interesting. What is your overall impression? Was it a good event to do? In fact, was it almost designed to embarrass those that didn't quite measure up

and maybe get them to voluntarily doge themselves? I'm wondering if maybe that's what we're looking at here, the purpose of this meeting? Yeah, I think it was absolutely meant to lean out folks who disagree with, you know, this approach. If you believe that trans individuals should be allowed in the military, then it's time for you to get out of the military because that attitude's not going to be acceptable. So if you disagree with, you know, holding combat-related roles on infantry to the highest male standards that we've had, then it's time for you to get out of the military. That's really what they, in my opinion, what they're saying.

And I think you're going to get, you know, overall, I think it's going to be welcomed. Again, people could say, you know, I'm sure there's a general there that had a lot of responsibility it flew around the world to this meeting who might think, well, you know, this could have been done, you know, in a different manner. Yeah. But, but, but, but, um, but yeah, it's, it's leaning out. It's basically saying, you know, we're going to return to the highest of all standards. And, um, this woke ideology that they believe has infected our military from previous

administrations, they, they want to identify them and get rid of them. I was told by some way in the service. is that this actually started longer ago than we thought. Would you concur with that? I don't know when you ended up retiring. Maybe you could comment on that. This has been going on a lot longer than we thought. Yeah, it has.

I mean, I remember hearing that in the Air Force during training, I was still on active duty, that recruits could hold up a blue stress card during basic training that sort of that being yelled at or whatever exercise they were doing, it was stressful, and they needed a timeout. And, you know, I remember scratching my head saying, oh, that didn't, I can't imagine if I did a timeout symbol to one of my drill instructors would have happened to me. Yeah, it would have been, get up, John, you know, anyway.

No, there's no doubt about it. So, yeah, I think, I think it's, listen, I, we have the greatest fighting force holding people to high stands. When I was on active duty, the Marine Corps was a shining example of meritocracy, people of different races, different religions, different backgrounds, you know, got promoted based on performance and seniority and all of that. And I encourage returning to that kind of system. I hope you're right. I hope that's where this ends up going. I think it's a positive development. It really is. And like I know, I know some people a couple of years ago, there's a local family around here that was telling me how their son was not going to reenlist because it just

went so woke, bat guano crazy that they just couldn't handle it. And he was not going to go back in. He says, nope, I'm just getting out. And they were begging him with money and all sorts of inducements to try to stay. And maybe he's gone back in now. Maybe he's gone back in now. Maybe he would feel comfortable about that. John, before you take off, I wanted to discuss a little bit, a little bit about your personal background here, because when you left the Marines, I was reading that you ended up founding a law firm, you had your own law firm, and you were representing mesothelioma and cancer victims against major companies here, and you ended up having, in other words,

you were really going about asbestos contamination in kids projects and various other things. And how are we doing right now on that? Do you keep a price of that these days? Is that law firm still going, or have you pretty much been mission accomplished when it comes to the asbestos issue? No, listen, a lot of people, you know, asbestos was outlawed in insulation, you know, in pipe covering in 1976. But asbestos was incorporated in over 5,000 products, cosmetics, and what we ended up finding, and my law firm is still operational. is that you just would end up finding new products that had asbestos. You know, 20 years ago, you had a female with mesothelioma.

You wouldn't even ask about makeup. But then we learned that the makeup has talc in it, and talc is found on the ground, contaminated by asbestos, and that was causing it. Johnson & Johnson baby powder was contaminated for over 100 years, you know, with asbestos. And so, you know, we've gotten better at identification. identifying, mesothelioma, very rare form of cancer, only caused by asbestos. We're sorted down from the peak now, but still about 3,000 people a year get diagnosed with it. So it's very rare.

But, no, it's been one of the best things I'm proud of in my life is representing regular people against major corporations that knew that asbestos was harmful but hid the dangers from regular people. So that's really interesting I'll give you a personal example that I had tucked away some supplies in the pantry for you know just because and I realized that I bought two or three

bottles of or not yours but yeah a bottle of of talcum powder no talcum powder and didn't think too much about it and then I noticed that the body powder that I may have been used in five years ago which had talcum powder in it now has corn

starch and various other things so it's because of those lawsuits that the formulations have been changed. They're not using talcum powder anymore. Has that been banned? Do you know? Yeah. Yeah. It hasn't been banned outright, but yes, Johnson.

Johnson is went to an alternative that you're talking about. And same with the shaved talc that the companies were using. And, you know, talc is found in the ground. And basically, it fragrance has put in it, maybe some dye. and if it's raw as it can be, and so it's contaminated with asbestos often, which is also found on the ground next to talc. So they co-exist then. If you find talc, you'll normally find asbestos and vice versa, that kind of thing, right?

Right. Absolutely. And the companies didn't necessarily have a screening process to, like, get the asbestos out of the talc, and so it would end up in those bottles. And so you're right, but the lawsuits that we've done and uncovered have caused them to go with alternatives. But, you know, it was in children's makeup. You go to those Clare stores, those little accessory for children, like, pretend makeup,

and that had talc in it, and therefore it had a specimen as well. Yikes. In fact, you ended up by causing recalls of products at Clare's, from what I understand, right? Yes. Yes, we, you know, I did that at Colbono. I just, listen, I said, take it off the shelves, and, you know, we don't have to, like, do a class action, and then they took it off the shelf, and we got some of the laws changed, and, you know, children aren't getting contaminated as much. I like it. Great story. John Deaton, you have a great story there, too. I appreciate you. I'm going to put all your information up there. Thanks for having joined the show

and shared a little bit of your thoughts on those Quantico meetings, too. Thanks so much. I'll have you back. Be well. I appreciate it. Thank you. It's 830. This is KMED and KBXG on the Bill Meyers show. Glad you're waking up here. For 95 years, PAR has been the Pacific Northwest trusted source for building home. Welcome to the Bill Myers Show on 1063 KMED.

Give Bill a call at 541-770-5633. That's 720 KMED. You know, when I have Billy Squire on the bumper, it's like I get the white guy overbite. You know, you kind of doing that, you know, Playing the drums and the guitar and everything. I can't help myself. By the way, I was reading. I was reading how Billy Squire still regrets that he destroyed his career

because he actually was dancing in Rock Me Tonight or one of the later videos. And it was just horrid. And, of course, you're pansy! And then, you know, he kind of lost his career, but still a good guy. He's a great guitarist, in my opinion. All right, it is Conspiracy Theory Thursday. I don't know. these are conspiracy theory Thursday calls, but it does happen to be that day of the week.

Hi, good morning. You're on the Bill Myers Show. Who's this? Hello. Hello. Oh, Lucrezia. It cannot be conspiracy theory Thursday without Lucretia. Lucretia, I'm glad you're here. No, wrong, wrong bumper. There we go. There we go. Get the right song for you. Now then. What's on your mind, huh? Well, yesterday you thought the Chicago, you were talking about Trump and bringing in troops, and you're totally for that. And I was looking up the Chicago, you know, big protests, just huge.

And very fascinating. They have this, you know, no Trump, no troops, right? Big science. But it was huge. And, of course, on the display, they show this bent thumb, which is classic Freemasonry. Okay. Okay, get off the Freemasonry stuff, please, Lucretia. Well, wait a minute.

No, it's just, and then on top of that is the butterfly, and the butterfly is CIA mind control. And so it's really interesting to me that it looks like this was a totally government-created, sponsored, just like Antifa. How did they get to walk around with no masks, all these blacks and, you know, protesting against all the slavery, which we whites got, we're slaves, too, you know. Okay, hold on, hold on, hold on. do you know how many people, especially how many women, have, what do they call it, colloquially, the tramp stamp of the butterfly on them? Are you implying that they are all CIA mind-controlled dupes? Of course not.

A lot of them don't know the deeper meanings of all these different symbols. But Peggy Hall has been doing an incredible job researching this, and I've listened to people before, like Freeman Fly or Gordon Maxwell, everything's in symbols for them. The pyramid that not only Trump and others, you know, to Hitler and the bent thumb when they're talking, that is a total sign to the elite because they know the signs. So we're all just, we're all this little meat robots being programmed by butterfly tramp stamps. You know, the symbols do affect our subconscious. As you know, there's a lot to the subconscious that we don't even realize. But it's fascinating to me. Okay.

So who is your favorite mind control technique then based on the symbols that you were just talking about? Who would you go to? Who was that name again? Oh, Piggy Hall. She's done an incredible job of looking at all the symbols that show this was totally a fake shooting and all planned event. It's to drive us to war and to also have all the chaos within America. Albert Pike, this guy created the Ku Klux Klan, Albert Pike. He was behind that.

He got President Wilson to endorse the movies that was totally fraudulent about all the total botanic worship. above the blacks, you know, back then. And they were the most moral. That's why Johnson had to get the men out of the house and pay women more if they didn't have any men in the house so that the boys could go to the gangs for leadership, for manlyhood. Hell of a theory. Lucretia. Thanks for the call. It's a lot of theories all tied together. It's conspiracy theory Thursday. Good morning. Hi. Who's this?

Bill, it's your friend, Brad. Good morning. Hello, Brad. So, Chuck Schumer is a modern-day Cleveland Little. So you remember the movie Blazing Saddles? Yes, I do. Yes, and Cleon-Little takes out his pistol, points to bed at his head, and says, nobody move or I'm going to shoot this person. Yeah, well, he said it, it's a, he said a little differently, but yeah, we follow you. Yeah, yes, yes, I'm going to shoot this person.

So, so here you got, you know, Chuck, Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, you know, they're Their home place is New York, and they pick a guy that knew this New York better than anybody else. On the first day of the shutdown, what does Trump do? He shuts down $18 billion with a B dollars in infrastructure dollars saying, well, gosh, you know, I guess we're going to have to look at this thing now. Can you imagine how dumb these two guys are looking to their constituents in their own home crib? It would be like me saying, you know what, I want to pick a fight with the most conservative radio, talk show host in Southern Oregon, and I'm going to do it right in his own studio. I'm going to come to his studio. He would cut me to ribbons. Well, I honestly think that even today, those on the

left still, you know, when it comes right down to it, President Trump, let me just say it here, he fights like a Democrat, okay? He does. He does. And that, of course, probably really irritates the Democrats. Because he essentially fights for him. He can't be counted. And frankly, he doesn't care what they think. And so that, I think, is why he is probably the right president for this particular time in history. He fights with money better than anybody we've ever seen. He fights with money like a ninja. Yep. Appreciate the call. Thank you, Brad. 7705-633. Let me grab another call here. It is CTT. Hi, who's this? Hello. That would be you. Hey, it's Matt.

Hey, Matt. Hey, I actually called to talk about a conversion from socialism to capitalism and capitalism of socialism. But I wanted to say something. I did not serve it. But I want to say this. If I was going into boot camp, I would want them to kick my, you know what, so that I stay alive and make it home. For the life of me, I don't understand at all why anybody joins the military. If you're going to be on the ground in a position where you're fighting, that you're,

We would not want to be in the best shape possible. Because, first of all, you can't fight if you're not alive. No. Secondly, you want to get home. Everybody I've talked to served in the military. They're like, we want to get home. We're out there. We're thinking about home.

We're thinking about getting home. Yeah, and we also want to get our buddies home. That's also, you're also fighting for your buddies next to you. Yeah. So why wouldn't you want in boot camp and every day to be training professional athletes want to win championships? But this is what I was talking with John Deaton about, though. The military, over a number of decades, has been turned into a jobs program rather than a, you know, blowing up and destroying things kind of force. And that's what happened.

You know, the jobs program side of it, I think, ended up holding sway over the, are we getting the best people? Bill, okay, I wasn't going to go on this road here, but just for a second. I was at the Wyoming State playing basketball, this couple years before COVID. and one of the guys who was playing was like six foot three, we get to talking. He's a recruiter. He was here in town. He moves all over the country. But he was here in town for, I think, six months.

And I actually thanked him for his service, not knowing he was a recruiter or what his job was. I just said, hey, the guy's serving, you know, hat tips. He says, ah, you know, I'm so uncomfortable when people say that. I go, oh, really? Well, I like that, modesty. And he goes, well, he didn't even like the military. He's a recruiter. He was there because of the benefit and because.

of the pay, and because he got the travel, and it was the only way he could afford to do that. He didn't even like the military, but he was in there getting a check, and Benny, I didn't know that kind of thing existed, but after hearing you have this interview a minute ago, yeah, it's been going on for much longer than even when I met this guy, but I have to say, I was kind of ticked. I was like, well, you're telling people they should enlist, and you don't even like it. Like, I couldn't sell something I didn't believe in. Something tells me that those kind of people are the ones they're hoping to encourage to leave.

Yeah. Well, okay, so one other thing I want to say on this topic was just this. I know as a coach that before you have a tough conversation with your team, oftentimes you meet with your best players first. You have a, you know, five-minute, eight-minute thing before practice starts. And you have talked to say, listen, I'm about to light these guys up. They're not hustling and practice. They're letting the rest of the team down.

I'm not including you guys in this, but you're going to be sitting there nodding your head the whole time. Okay. But I just want to let you know where I'm at with you guys, but these other people are not pulling their weight and I'm going to let them have it. It would not surprise me at all. If HECS had conversations over the last month with all of the higher-ups who were their top-notch guys and said, listen, we're going to have this meeting. We're going to light it up. we want China to see this, we want Iran to see it, we want Russia to see it, and that's why it's out front here. But I want you guys to know, I believe in you, you guys are doing a great job.

So that makes sense to me. That was kind of my impression that maybe the audience wasn't really the audience we were thinking it was at first. Absolutely not. He wasn't showing guys out to embarrass him in front of the rest of the nation and the world. Believe me, I can't imagine there's a world where he didn't have a conversation ahead of time. Well, okay, so the reason I actually really wanted to call, I'm sorry to take so much time. If you think from transitioning from socialism to capitalism and then capitalism to socialism, just look at what's going on in Argentina right now. Socialism was killing that country and has for decades. And then Malay gets in there because they were so

desperate. Inflation was 2,000 percent. It was unbelievable. But here's what always happened. when you go from socialism to capitalism, it's hard because you go from having things handed to you, even if you're in misery to having to work for things. And if your muscles aren't trained to work for the thing, if it doesn't happen immediately, then people want to quit and go back to the other thing. This is the reason it's so difficult to go from socialism to capitalism because you have to get people to buy in and then do the work. And if they won't do the work, I don't know how you get there. And Malay is now struggling politically in Argentina just because of this reason. Because the work ethic, the work muscles are atrophied. Through generations, Bill.

Generations, they get that way. And that's, you know, the old joke is you can vote your way into socialism, but you actually shoot your way out. I hope we don't have to shoot our way out. I really do. No, no. And so from my perspective is, I don't know what happens in Europe. I've just been watching that develop over the last couple of years, and I don't know how they get back.

Europe is dead man walking. It has been for quite some time, and I don't think, you know, when you have people being arrested on the streets, I think this happened in the UK the other day. There was a elderly woman who was out there protesting, just holding up a sign about abortion, and she was just trying to encourage people not to abort, and they arrest her and throw her. in prison. We got a problem. We got a problem here.

I want the U.K. cops rip a flag out of a teenager. The Union Jack rip a flag out of her hand. Because the U.K. is now being turned into a country for the Muslims apparently. It's what it's looking like. Yeah. Hey, I appreciate your call. And I know it went

a little bit longer, but as always, but very thoughtful as always. Appreciate it. Let me go to another one here. And then we're going to have the Diner-62 Real American Quiz. So if you're wanting to play that, why did you jump on, okay? 770563-3-3-7-0-K-M-E-D. Hello, caller, who's this? What's your name? It is, Todd. I'm responding to what Matt said. It reminded me of a conversation I had with my cousin who served in Vietnam. He was a Marine. He drew a low number, so he said, you know what,

I'm going to volunteer for the Marines. And it was just shy of what was in the movie, full metal jacket, his experience. He said it was absolutely brutal. But when he went to Vietnam, he saw harsh combat. He got malaria. He got sprayed with Agent Orange, just vicious conditions. And after he got back, he said they were tough on us because they wanted us to survive. Yeah. Because you had to be tough to survive those conditions. And the last thing I remember him telling me was he'll never volunteer for anything ever again. Don't blame him on that one. Todd, appreciate the call. Thanks for making it. All right.

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The Phil Myers Show on 1063 KMED. Diner 62's Real American Quiz, and we have four real Americans who are all lined up here. We lost Chad. Chad, I don't know what happened to you, but maybe can get you back on another one. We'll start with Chris, though. Hello, Chris. How are you doing today? Welcome.

Hello, Chris. I'm here. Okay, Chris, glad to have you here. It was October 1st yesterday, 1962. Johnny Carson takes over from Jack Parr. That's why we were playing the Tonight Show theme there. He's the host of the Late Night Talk Program, Tonight Show. He went on to host it for three decades, as we all know.

Now then, Johnny grew up in Norfolk, Nebraska, served in the U.S. Navy, attended the University of Nebraska. By the early 1950s, he was living in California, working at radio and television. Later moved to New York City became the host of the game show, Who Do You Trust? and then in the late 1950s he appeared on the Tonight Show as a substitute for Jack Parr. And anyway, the program moved to TV in 56, Jack Parr replaced Steve Allen. Carson takes over permanent hosting duties October 1st, 1962. Now, the question for the win this morning, Chris,

who of these five did not appear on Johnny Carson's very first show? So we're talking about Johnny's very first show in 1961, A 62, rather. We're looking for the one who wasn't there. Was it A, Tony Bennett, was it B, Joan Crawford, was it C, Mel Brooks, was it D, Groucho Marx, or was it E? Bert Lancaster. I had no idea. I had to take a guess. Maybe you can take a guess, too, but one of those five weren't there.

Melbrook. Mel Brooks? Nope. Mel Brooks was there. I'm sorry, Chris. let me go to Rob Hello Rob

How are you doing Good, how are you? Great Now, which one wasn't there? Tony Bennett, Joan Crawford Groucho Marx or Bert Lancaster First Tonight Show with Johnny Carson 1962

We're going to go Groucho Marx No, Croucho was there He was there that night It was a pretty big show from the sounds of it Let me go to Brother Louis. Brother Louis. How are you doing?

Hey, okay. All right. I'm lucky. So we now have Tony Bennett, Joan Crawford, or Bert Lancaster. One of those three was not on that first show. I'll go with Bert. Bert Lancaster? You're a winner.

Yeah, buddy. You're right. Yeah, the first guest, Joan Crawford, Mel Brooks, Tony Bennett. Rudy Valley was also there, too. you know, the silent picture star. And there was also an introduction by Groucho Marx, too. So amazing stuff. But yeah, that's it.

That was the very first Johnny Carson tonight show with him as the full-time host. So hang on, Brother Louis. We're going to get you all taken care of. And, you know, it's been making the rounds after what happened with the Jimmy Kimmel fiasco. We had Mike Wallace back 1979 talking to Johnny about this. the time and you know about getting it politicized if you haven't heard it it's worth hearing again i'll just play that now you get sensitive about the fact that people say you'll never take a serious controversy well i have an answer to that i said now tell me the last time that jack benny

red skeleton uh benny comedian used his show to do serious issues that's not what i'm there for can't they see that but you're neither do they think that just because as you have a tonight show that you must deal in serious issues. That's a danger. It's a real danger. Once you start that, you start to get that self-important feeling that what you say has great import. And, you know, strangely enough, you could use that show as a forum. You could sway people. And I don't think you should as an entertainer. Yep. Johnny Carson, 1979 interview, 60 Minutes. And he told the truth. It is 853.

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The girls loved him. Rudolph Valentino was the silent movie star. That's who I was thinking of when I read that name off, and you're right. And he was long dead before Johnny Carson. I think he might have. Johnny Carson, I don't know. I don't know if he would have been born about the same time Valentino dies. or a little later.

Yeah, I think it was pretty close because Valentino was what, the 19-teens, the early 1900s, is when he died, and it caused just a, you know, insane reaction. Just crazy. He over-eat and died of whatever it is or something ruptures in your gut. Oh, wow. Yeah, I forget what that's called, where you get the paraton, you know, where the stuff in your body goes into the body cavity, you know, it's not supposed to be there, supposed to stay with it. Yeah, sepsis. You get sepsis from it, right? Yeah. Yeah. Hey, I appreciate the call

and thank you for the correction. Do I have time for something on the military or we are out of time? I'll give you time. Go ahead. Fantastic. Just a comment. Okay. When I went to basic training, you know, shine shoes and March and hair cut, clean-shaven and inspections and blah, blah, blah, okay? I guess that's normal. But they didn't want wrinkled uniforms and stuff. So you do exercise, and then you get in trouble because your uniform was wrinkled, you know, right? Like, you know, you didn't have gym clothes. It was what you're marching around is. As soon as you got into the, away from boot camp, it was like, yeah, a day at the office.

I really think if the military wants to be what we've been talking about, what we think in our mind, you need to kind of keep that standard throughout the military after boot camp. It's sort of like what you were talking about, where once you go one way, it's hard to get, put the genie back in the bottle. Sure. If guys are always shining in the shoes and they're always like, they got to be on, walk on egg shells a little bit, well, then you got a military. After that, it's like, hey, if you do the GOMR Pile thing, it really, it's really not really the right way to. the right way to do things. So I just wanted to mention that. Okay. So are you then pleased with what happened at Quantico the other day? You thought the right tone was struck? Because some people

were criticizing the messaging and they were thinking like it was anti-woman. I didn't interpret it that way, but although some could. What do you think? Well, here's what I can say is my first command, there was a guy. He was a optical technician. So he's one of those guys that you probably would never even see. You wouldn't even think about him. And he'd been in the Navy for years and probably went in just after Korea in the mid-50s. And he was getting ready to retire. He was a lifer forever and never and ever. And definitely, he was definitely overweight. But he was up in an obstacle shop, you know, fixing. Yeah. Yeah. Can you give me a quick wrap up? I only got about 20 seconds. And he said, he said what's going to ruin the Navy is women on ships. And we

We had women. Some of the ships were called loveboats, and they were getting pregnant, and there was fights among guys because out at sea, you know, they want the young guys, you know, and they're – if the girl's semi-good-looking, you know, and not looking like a bull. Well, it has definitely been a problem, and I would agree with you on that. I got a roll, but thanks. We'll talk again Friday, okay? Thank you very much, David. KMED, Medford, KMED, H-T-1, Medford. And let me try this again.

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