TrineDay’s The Journey Podcast 164. John Barbour, Part Two: Harris, Trump, and The Debate
Publisher R. A. “Kris” Millegan speaks with John Barbour, actor, comic, veteran of THE TONIGHT SHOW and Las Vegas,
“The Godfather of Reality TV,” creator, co-host and writer of the hit show, REAL PEOPLE, five-time Emmy-winner, celebrated movie critic for years in L.A.,
Writer and director of the award-winning THE GARRISON TAPES, which Oliver Stone called, “The perfect companion piece to my movie JFK,”
Writer and director of THE AMERICAN MEDIA AND THE 2ND ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY, which leading researchers applaud as “The definitive film on JFK and the rise of Fake News,”
Co-creator with Len Osanic of the film, GREATEST PIECE OF INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM IN 75 YEARS: Barbour & Osanic's Tribute to Wm. F. Pepper,
And the author of YOUR MOTHER’S NOT A VIRGIN! The bumpy life and times of the Canadian dropout who changed the face of American TV!, his delightful autobiography available at TrineDay.com and the usual sellers.
John’s films, books, and more can be found at JohnBarboursWorld.com.
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John lost a national TV show because he tried to tell the story of Jim Garrison’s late 1960s investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. “I was getting $30,000 an hour from 1979 to 1982. I lost it all.” He doesn’t care. He made the two definitive films on the murder of JFK. They can’t be topped because “I have the real Jim Garrison.”
Recently he made, with Len Osanic, the film, GREATEST PIECE OF INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM IN 75 YEARS: Barbour & Osanic's Tribute to Wm. F. Pepper, who not only solved the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr. – he had lunch with the Memphis cop who shot him.
John’s recent broken rib, he told his doctors, was from laughing at Trump during the debate. “Trump and Vance are the Laurel and Hardy of American politics. Another fine mess!” The majority of John’s Facebook friends are not voting for Kamala. They are voting against Trump. If he loses, “he’ll be like a flock of [bucking] flies at a picnic that just won’t go away.”
John distains American politics. The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is the spelling. He’s on Facebook only to inform people about his films and his books.
His wife recently had a bout of edema. She’s home now, doing fine, but was still in a wheelchair when she watched the debate with John after not watching television for months. Ten minutes in, she jumped up and said, “Is he kidding? How did he get this far?” Though Trump’s performance was a disaster, “At least for a moment, he helped Sarita’s recovery!”
Trump was dead meat from the start. He ignored Harris and went to his lectern. But she came to him to introduce herself, as confident, paraphrasing Mark Twain, “as a Christian holding four aces.” Trump instantly became a cornered sheep. She sliced him up into little pieces. He did nothing but talk about himself, while Harris talked about you, and me, and America, three things that Trump is totally unfamiliar with.
John knows several really smart businessmen who are going to vote for Trump – even though they admit they would never hire him for anything.
John will probably make a couple of new documentaries, like his Jim Garrison and William F. Pepper films.
He describes his movie review of DEEP THROAT in LOS ANGELES MAGAZINE and its effect on the jury and when the judge insisted that he say the last line, which he omitted when he read the review on TV.
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