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The Conspiracy Show with Richard Syrett

TV Legend John Barbour

The Conspiracy Show with Richard Syrett

Zoomer Podcast Network

News

4.31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2020

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

John Barbour will share some stories from his remarkable career in show business including his appearances on The Tonight Show, and The Merv Griffin Show, his friendships with Lenny Bruce, Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra, and his creation of the very first reality TV show, Real People, a weekly primetime newsmagazine that profiled funny, human interest stories. GUEST: John Barbour Canadian high school dropout at 15, and deported at 17, John Barbour is recognized as ‘The Godfather Of Reality TV’ as the creator-Producer,Co-Host, and Writer of the trend setting hit ‘Real People.’ He won the first of his 5 Emmys as the original Host of ‘AM LA’ in 1970 where he interviewed controversial anti-war guests like Mohammed Ali, Cesar Chavez and Jane Fonda. He was the first in America to do film reviews on the News, winning 3 more consecutive Emmys as KNBC’s ‘Critic-At-Large.’ And ten years as Los Angeles Magazine’s most widely read and quoted controversial critic. Prior to that he was a successful topical stand-up comedian, appearing on ‘The Dean Martin Show,’ ‘The Tonight Show,’ and others; and in Las Vegas opening for Robert Goulet and Bobby Darin. Comedian-activist Dick Gregory did the liner notes for his first album, ‘It’s Tough To Be white,’ and Play-write Neil Simon did them for his second album, ‘I Met A Man I Didn’t Like!’ In 1992 he wrote and Directed the award-winning ‘The Garrison Tapes,’ which Director Oliver Stone heralded as ‘The perfect companion piece to my movie ‘JFK.’ 25 years later, in 2017 he wrote and Directed Part 2 called: ‘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’..which plagues America to this day. John said, ‘I am not a conspiracy theorist. Just a storyteller. John Barbour changed the face of American television as the creator, producer, principal writer, and co-host of Real People, television’s first reality show. He is a five-time Emmy award winner, a storied actor and performer, a joke and script writer, and entertainment professional across genres.

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This Podcast is proudly produced and presented by the Zoomer Podcast Network,

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home of great podcasts, like Marilyn Lightstone Reed's,

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Idea City on the air, and The Garden Show.

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You're listening to an exclusive podcast of The Conspiracy Show

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with Richard Serrat.

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Heard every Sunday night from 11 p.m. to 1 a.m.

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on Zoomer radio, the new AM 740. Oh, oh, oh, oh, you conspiracy show with Richard Serrin from Zuma Radio, AM 740.

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And welcome to the audio imaginarium. Come on in weary traveler. Hang your

1:27.2

cloak on a peg. Grab a stool and come gather around the fire. There are stories to be told and you are among friends.

1:37.2

Happy Easter for those who celebrated today. Holy week for 300 million of us Orthodox Christians begins Monday.

1:45.0

What is this week for the quarantine? Is this four weeks of lockdown? I've lost track.

1:51.0

I do find it interesting that we can safely line up outside grocery stores and

1:57.8

wait our turn to go in and buy food but we can't line up outside our places of worship to receive the most

2:04.9

important food, Holy Communion. Have you seen this video of the man who was

2:11.0

violently pulled off a bus in Philadelphia by let's call them over zealous over

2:16.6

officious police officers he wasn't wearing a mask okay so I get it big deal give him a mask. Okay, so I get it. Big deal.

2:23.0

Give him a mask.

2:24.7

Would that have solved the problem?

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Just simply give the man a mask.

2:29.0

Did they really have to pull him off the bus so violently? You know, what I've come to realize is when in the

2:36.2

interest of slowing the spread of this virus, violent criminals are being

2:42.1

released from prison and priests are being

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