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

And just this idea that these guys made it through this together.

and never lost faith with each other, that's just the best of humanity.

I mean, in addition to the fact that I love the music and I love going to the shows and all that, but these guys, the fact that they never turned on each other through all of this and suffered all this loss together, that was really moving.

And I remember so clearly when Jerry Garcia died, because it felt like the end of youth

And I think that Bob's death is symbolic, too, just in a very different way, because I think those of us who've spent an irrational amount of time and money traveling around the country for longer than I care to admit, I think that makes us stop and ask questions about our own mortality and death.

I got to know his wife a little and his daughters were always around.

I don't think people realize the degree to which the Grateful Dead enterprise is still very much a mom and pop thing.

I mean, Mickey Hart's longtime assistant was introduced to him in like 1967 by Jerry Garcia.

Like all the same people are there.

I mean, this is real mom and pop and it's very much like a big, weird family.

And so there are a lot of broken hearts out there.

right now.

I mean, I don't love the grief junkie thing on the internet.

You know what I mean?

My joke was like every motherfucker in the world who ever had their picture with Bob Weir is posted in the last 48 hours.

And like, uh, like if your name is not Natasha Monet or Chloe or Mickey or Billy or Bruce Hornsby or John Mayer, Jeff O'Teele or Jay, maybe you should shut the fuck up.

Like, and let the family mourn.

But like, you know, in typical, I guess, narcissist journalist fashion, I mean, my whole thoughts were like, oh, what does this say about me?

Mainly that I'm old.

But like, you know what?

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