Weekly Scramble: United Healthcare CEO assassinated, Mike thinks Biden should've pardoned Trump, and a great hardware store idea
Garage Logic
Gamut Podcast Network
4.7 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
United Healthcare CEO assassinated, Mike thinks Biden should've pardoned Trump, and a great hardware store idea
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | This is the weekly scramble, a place where we chat about life over a cold one, or two. |
| 0:11.8 | It's time to belly up to the pod with Mike Fratellone and your host, Chris Revers. |
| 0:18.4 | That's right. It's time for the weekly scramble. My name is Chris |
| 0:20.8 | Revers and by my side. Well, not technically by my side, but with me today is my buddy Mike |
| 0:25.4 | Fred Alone. Michael, how are you, sir? I'm doing Grave Revers. How about you? Well, I'm doing good. |
| 0:31.9 | There's a story that we touched on on G.L. Well, we spent a, we spent a decent amount of time earlier today on GL, but we didn't really go down |
| 0:38.8 | the road with this story that I thought that we might, the road we might travel down. |
| 0:43.3 | And again, this is one of those stories where, you know, you got to wait as Joe says, 72 hours |
| 0:47.0 | for all the facts to really come out. But a tragic and horrific story that surfaced earlier |
| 0:52.4 | today out of Manhattan, the CEO of United Healthcare was fatally shot in what police are now saying appears to be a premeditated, pre-planned, targeted attack outside the New York Hilton Hotel in Midtown Manhattan Wednesday morning. |
| 1:08.5 | Brian Thompson, 50 years old, was on his way to speak at United Health |
| 1:12.4 | Group's investor conference when the gunman approached him from behind and fired several rounds. |
| 1:17.8 | Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said at a news conference, he was struck at least once in the |
| 1:23.2 | back and at least once in the right calf, Tish said, adding that the suspect was lying in wait for |
| 1:29.4 | several minutes. Many people pass the suspect, but he appeared to wait for his intended |
| 1:33.7 | target, she said. Security footage of the shooting shows Thompson dressed in a blue suit |
| 1:39.5 | walking down the fairly quiet street. The gunman approaches him from behind and opens fire. |
| 1:44.8 | The video shows Thompson stumbles forward as a witness runs to safety. |
| 1:49.1 | The gunman continues to fire as Thompson falls to the ground. |
| 1:51.7 | The footage shows. |
| 1:53.0 | Chief of Detective's Joseph Kenny said the suspect arrived at the scene about five minutes before the shooting and fired a shot at Thompson's back. |
| 2:01.6 | The shooter then walks toward the victim and continues to shoot. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Gamut Podcast Network, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Gamut Podcast Network and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

