The Edge with Mark Thompson The Edge Show

Nothing says it’s the holidays like our podcast tradition of a visit with comedian, BOBBY SLAYTON.
Bobby talks about coming up as a club comic with Dana Carvey and Robin Williams...Looking back at his early days in comedy clubs...His life in Vegas anchoring a showroom.
Bobby describes opening for famous musicians and how that help create his aggressive manner on stage...
He hits on the proliferation of podcasts...celebrity dinner parties...and how early in the day you can crack a bottle of wine.


Bobby tells us what's going on now and how he became the voice of SKECHERS...
Bobby tells Mark about how last new year's eve, performing in Hawaii (with Bill Maher, Sarah Silverman, Joe Walsh, Sean Penn and Eddie Vedder), may have been the best ever.
Happy holidays and enjoy, “The Pit Bull of Comedy”, Bobby Slayton.
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Author, journalist and professor, Jared Yates Sexton, joins Mark Thompson to talk about his latest, enormously compelling and intensely researched book, American Rule: How a Nation Conquered the World but Failed Its People
Jared goes way beyond the myth of American exceptionalism with which most are familiar and looks to the start of the nation and the "founding fathers".   He continues the trip through history with discussions that include the Reagan years and legacy and extend to even the latest election.
The show starts with political commentator, Michael Shure and comedian/documentary filmmaker, J Elvis Weinstein, doing a post-mortem on the Presidential election and a look at the future in which Donald Trump may be very much relevant.
00:00-1:50 Mark welcome
1:50- 25:08 J Elvis, Michael Shure and Mark
25:08-49:41 Jared Yates Sexton and Mark
 
 
 
 

Guest, Billy Ray, is an award winning director and writer who has brought (among others) THE HUNGER GAMES, CAPTAIN PHILLIPS, RICHARD JEWELL and SHATTERED GLASS to the screen.
Billy's latest chronicles the narrative and controversy around former FBI Director James Comey and his, ulitrmately doomed, relationship with Donald Trump.
The two part television event, THE COMEY RULE, airs on Showtime and VOD.
The show begins with political correspondent, Michael Shure, surveying the Presidential race and the current political landscape.
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00-01:15  Mark welcom
1:15-15:30 Michael Shure politics
15:30-1:01:00  Director/Writer Billy Ray

Forbes Senior Editor, Dan Alexander, has a new book called, White House Inc.: How Donald Trump Turned the Presidency Into a Business
The book details President Trump’s efforts to make money off of politics, taking us inside his exclusive clubs, luxury hotels, overseas partnerships, commercial properties, and personal mansions.
Dan tracks hundreds of millions of dollars flowing freely between big businesses and President Trump. He explains, in plain language, how Trump tried to translate power into profit, from the 2016 campaign to the ramp-up to the 2020 campaign.  
But, just because there's all that money washing back and forth DOESN'T mean that Trump has made it profitable.  He hasn't.
First, political analyst and correspondent, Michael Shure talks with Mark Thompson and J. Elvis Weinstein about Trump getting COVID-19 and the last debate forum in Cleveland (from which he's just returned).
Also, Trump's COVID situation and how it changes a political  landscape already being readied for legal challenges to the outcome and for cyber attack among other things.
00-2:00 Mark welcome...
2:00-20:00 Debate mess and Trump gets Covid.--J Elvis Weinstein and Michael Shure
20:00-51:00 Dan Alexander --White House Inc.
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Columnist, lecturer and political strategist, Richard Greene, takes us through the likely strategy the GOP and Donald Trump will use to win a second term, no matter how big Trump's popular vote loss may be.
Here's the link to Richard Greene's latest piece in Medium which lists the 12 ways Trump can, and likely will, win.
First, J. Elvis Weinstein and Michael Shure react to the final night of the Republican Convention.
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00:00-01:35 Mark welcome
01:50-14:51  J Elvis Weinstein and Michael Shure
14:51-47:04 Richard Greene --Trump route to winning

Mark Thompson welcomes back comedian and documentary filmmaker, J. Elvis Weinstein, and the two speak with political analyst, Michael Shure about the Democratic National Convention.
Then, after Michael, award winning former journalist and media executive, Joe Ferullo, joins the two and talks about how the use of media in this time of COVID-19 transformed essential media aspects of that convention.
Lastly, why one of the biggest stories of the week involving Russian collusion and corruption is getting so little play.
00:00-01:25 Mark hello
01:25-16:46 Michael Shure
16:46-34:16 Joe Ferullo
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