Wright Thompson

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994 appearances 3 recordings 2 series first heard Jun 2025 last heard 17 Sep

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The Bulwark Daily · Wright Thompson: The Ghosts of Mississippi · 16 Jan 2026 podcast

Although there is a graduate hotel there that has like that's very cool.

So we'll see about that.

I think Starkville's, you know, restaurant, Tyler.

I don't know.

I like Starkville.

Yeah, my Oxford meal would be a cheeseburger at Handy Andy or a muffaletta up at the bar at the City Grocery.

Go up there and see those guys.

That's a good bar.

I mean, it's like one of the great bars in America.

I heard a story recently about him cutting his feet up.

He was playing tennis barefoot on mushrooms, which makes me smile, like down in Mexico or somewhere.

I think he really fucked his feet up.

I spent a little time sort of inside the Thunderdome because I made a documentary with Mickey Hart.

And they were all really nice.

And they were like people's grandpas.

And they kept faith with each other in a really beautiful way.

I mean, that much money, that many years, that many drugs, that much ego.

Like, I love that thing Bruce Springsteen said when he inducted the E Street Band into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

And he said, to stay together, you have to be accepting of your friends' fallibilities and they of yours.

And you hurt each other in big and small ways.

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