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Garry welcomes guest Karen Conti, a prominent Chicago lawyer, legal analyst, and media personality with years of experience in national and local radio and television too. In her decades-long legal career, Karen has handled numerous high-profile cases, including the death row appeals for Chicago serial killer John Wayne Gacy. Karen and Garry will discuss her book, “Killing Time with John Wayne Gacy: Defending America’s Most Evil Serial Killer on Death Row”. This episode of the show will also include lots of its usual assortment of yappetizers and nonsense, along with an added bonus: Todd Pickering, who regularly appears in the pre-recorded openings of the Cocktail Hour LIVE, will also join us LIVE, LIVE, LIVE!
There are lots of podcasts out there about serial killers, and The Garry Meier Show Cocktail Hour LIVE, this Friday, April 19, 2024, will be one of them too (well, for this episode, anyway). Streaming live at 6 p.m. Eastern Daylight Saving Time/5 Central, as always, on this episode, Garry welcomes guest Karen Conti, a prominent Chicago lawyer, legal analyst, and media personality with years of experience in national and local radio and television too. In her decades-long legal career, Karen has handled numerous high-profile cases, including the death row appeals for Chicago serial killer John Wayne Gacy. Karen and Garry will discuss her book, “Killing Time with John Wayne Gacy: Defending America’s Most Evil Serial Killer on Death Row”.
This episode of the show will also include lots of its usual assortment of yappetizers and nonsense, along with an added bonus: Todd Pickering, who regularly appears in the pre-recorded openings of the Cocktail Hour LIVE, will also join us LIVE, LIVE, LIVE!
Garry discusses his upcoming guest and past serial killers. Plus, two half marathon runners let another competitor win the race.
Leave It to Beaver matters. If you’ve listened to my show for a while you know I start the day with back to back viewings of the Beaver on MeTV. Initially it was to just recall a warm fuzzy time from my youth but in the past few years it has become a necessary elixir. As wars continue to sprout up around the globe, climate change ebbs and flows “literally,” crime rises, and politicians get more and more witchy, the Beav is now a wall where nonsense is held at bay. Here’s when the show became a very necessary cleanse. In preparation for a guest, Karen Conti on my Cocktail Show, I started reading her book: Killing Time with John Wayne Gacy. Gacy as you may know is one of the worst serial killers ever in the U.S. who was put to death 30 years ago in Illinois. Karen was part of Gacy’s legal time to get him off death row, she is anti-death penalty which is why Karen and her late husband’s legal expertise got involved with this monster. I started reading the book at a pretty good clip, however, as the details became more and more grizzly I found myself only able to read a few pages at a time and needed a breather of some sort before I would go back to the book. Enter Leave It to Beaver. The show ran from 1957 to 1963 and I’m sure heinous stuff was going on then too but June, Ward, Wally and the Beav sanitized it all for our protection. Rotary dial phones, big cabinet televisions, large fin autos and newspapers the size of tablecloths are well represented and capture the era perfectly. June wearing earrings, pearls and high heels while vacuuming and Ward sitting in his suit with his tie still tightly cinched after work reading the paper, not so much. However, when you’re reading about a psycho who killed 33 men and boys and buried most of them in his crawlspace you need to find something to pull you back to normal and that’s why a little black and white tv show from over 60 years ago is the ticket. Karen also does brief bios on other death row inmates of Gacy’s who pop into view. THANK GOD THERE ARE PRISONS. So part of my happy idiot demeanor will always use Jerry Mathers as my shield, and lo and behold 5 months after LITB ended its run Kennedy was assassinated. Where’s my Beaver and bourbon!
Gunga, galunga
Garry
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Garry Meier was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in November, 2013. Meier has won five A.I.R. Awards for Best Afternoon Show in Chicago and was awarded the National Radio and Records Award for Best Local Afternoon Talk Show Host in America. His segments have appeared on local and national television including World News Tonight. Garry has also been recognized multiple years by Talkers Magazine as one of the "100 Most Influential Talk Show Hosts in America".
