Crime Time TV: Whatchu Talking ’bout, Willis?
Mathew says:
On the “Tranny and the Professor” post, Deb commented: “Some people still do not believe the Ramsey’s were involved in JonBenet’s death.” She kind of slapped Tricia around a bit.
Gregg says:
And some people believe that OJ didn’t julienne Nicole and Ron.
Mathew says:
Good point.
Gregg says:
Park Karr for a moment. What’s going on? Good holiday weekend?
Mathew says:
Was okay. Rained here mostly. Hey, you catch that Diff’rent Strokes thing last night on TV?
Gregg says:
Yeah. Me, Todd Bridges and Gary Coleman. Maybe one or two other people.
Mathew says:
Were they sexually abused or something, was that the gist of the movie? I didn’t see it—I don’t watch trash TV. I was watching Emeril. Then that ‘70s countdown show on VH-1, along with filling up on the latest Croc Hunter info.
Gregg says:
Sexually abused? I guess I missed that part. I’ve only been concerned about how TV viewers have been abused by watching that “behind the scenes” crap. Trash TV? You watch Fat TV, the Food Channel.
Mathew says:
Isn’t Gary Coleman a security guard now at Target? Wasn’t he, or was it Todd Bridges, involved in the Surreal Life on VH-1? Or was it Mini Me I’m thinking about?
Gregg says:
Last I heard, Coleman’s a Wal-Mart greeter. Mini Me is hawking insurance now.
Mathew says:
What about Dana Plato? They must have really taken a poke at her.
Gregg says:
I’m uncomfortable with the word poke. Anyway, my favorite line from the movie was when Dana Plato’s character talked about her mother’s cancer. Dana: “Cancer sucks. It takes away the people you love.”
Mathew says:
That’s deep. But she’s dead. So don’t trash the dead, Kid, OK? Anyway, did you see that Nancy Grace is still running with the Karr story.
Gregg says:
What is Nan yelling indignantly about now?
Mathew says:
John Michael Karr … STILL. Can you believe it. She’s still going on about Tape Worm Wendy and Karr’s laptop.
Gregg says:
Did she mention her fiancé was murdered again?
Mathew says:
Every night. He’s dead, though, so stop trashing dead people, gees!
Gregg says:
Hey, I know some bloggers that have declared their sites Karr-free zones. But I’m not ready to let go of the wheel yet.
Mathew says:
That’s ridiculous. It’s trying to take the high road after getting mud smeared on your face. You know how it is. We’ve been in this biz, between us, what, about 40 years (although your end of that is MUCH higher). What is the one golden rule regarding coverage of a story?
Gregg says:
You made us sound ancient. Which, I am.
Mathew says:
You are archaic. Big difference. But you age well. I read, too, that you are comfortable with your baldness. And that you got sick of spending money on Rogaine. I think you’ve seen too many Chiapet commercials.
Gregg says:
The reporter made it sound like I once had a Bo Bice-do. It was more Ashton Kutcher on That 70s Show.
Mathew says:
Focus. Golden rule.
Gregg says:
See, I am old. I forgot to respond to your question. What is the golden rule, Mr. Hotshot?
Mathew says:
The one thing I want to see—and I will pay—is that photo of you from High School—the one where you had hair! Now that would worth posting. And there are plenty of ladies that dig the bald thing.
Gregg says:
At least I’m not short.
Mathew says:
Back to the golden rule—which is: Squeeze a damn story like a bar rag for all it’s worth until your readers tell you they’ve had enough. Let them decide. Didn’t Greta run with Aruba for like three months in a row? Look where it got her!
Gregg says:
Golden Rule or not, you’re short.
Mathew says:
I’m 5′9″, that’s the new 6′4″!
Gregg says:
“The plane! The plane!”
Mathew says:
You bastard.
Gregg says:
Take this stone from my hand, little Grasshopper.
Mathew says:
Us standing together side by side, I guess it would look like Fantasy Island. You’re 6’8”, right? Kareem-like. That’s freakish.
Gregg says:
Side by side on an island? That sounded gay.
Mathew says:
Speaking of which … aren’t we close to completing our exclusive on Mr. American Idol, Clay Aiken.
Gregg says:
Close. Yes.
Mathew says:
Can we dish a little now on that—maybe a teaser…?
Gregg says:
Not yet. I don’t want to tip off his Claymates. BTW, “dish” sounds gaykin, too. Back to Crime Rant fodder. I can’t wait for LDS prophet Warren Jeffs to make his court appearance. I miss Big Love.
Mathew says:
I have a Jeffs post coming together. Waiting on a call from someone on that.
Gregg says:
Someone from above?
Mathew says:
No, someone from below, actually.
Love BIG LOVE. This Jeffs case and Colorado City in general is so close to that HBO storyline it’s scary. Here’s a question about those people: What do you do with them? Where do you put them?
Gregg says:
Buy all the women new calico prairie skirts and hustle them over to HBO.
Mathew says:
Consultants! Got it.
Gregg says:
Everyone needs to consult.
Mathew says:
How ’bout this football coach, Cory Petero, running after a kid who tackled his kid during a 13-year-old football game. He decked the kid and, of course, they have it on video.
Gregg says:
This is what’s wrong with your generation? My parents let us loose in the neighborhood and didn’t care where we were. Your generation can’t let kids to do anything on their own. Everyone has to be a winner – or else!
Mathew says:
Petero’s being billed as, obviously, “The Football Dad.” Don’t you just love it? There was the Hockey dad; the Baseball dad; and now we have the Football dad.
Gregg says:
The all time great media tag was the “Texas Cheerleader Murdering Mom.”
Mathew says:
Bestseller, that book.
Gregg says:
Wanda Holloway, that’s her name.
Mathew says:
Beth’s sister-in-law, right?
Gregg says:
Google it just in case. In the TC Nation, everything leads back to Aruba.
Mathew says:
Later, Kareem.
Gregg says:
Much, Herve.
September 5th, 2006 at 3:09 pm
Gregg, you’re 6′8? Are you serious? No wonder you’re bald. You outgrew your hair….
At that height most people can’t see the top of your head anyway.
Bald is good.
September 5th, 2006 at 3:15 pm
LOL! I’m 6-4, but next to Matt, that makes me a giant in the industry.
September 5th, 2006 at 4:14 pm
Gregg and Matt said, “Gregg says:
And some people believe that OJ didn’t julienne Nicole and Ron.”
great visual… and funny as hell (which you two always are). I think we may be mental-twins in a past life (just go ask the shadow people lol)
Hey Gregg…it is okay if you are going bald. Just because you loose your fur doesn’t mean you lose ‘Mr. Johnson’.
Why is it that men always are doing stuff with Mr. J anyhow? LOL. My little neighbor boy (who is FOUR) has already named his unit ELMO. (hope this doesn’t carry over into puberty 
And Matt…you are short…but have your hair. that is great.. you will never have to use “just for men gel” (remember that commercial?) I had a male roommate at Kent State (where I spent the best seven years of my life) who purchsed a product in the late 80’s called “hair in a can”. Let me just say that I refused to take a shower after ‘rick’. The hair product was kind of like silly-string (that cheese that you can shoot out LOL). It stuck more to the walls than to Ricks big ass head. (not to mention that when anyone else took a shower they had fragments of the damn stuff everywhere)! Rick also used other ‘natural’ methods to fill in the hair gaps. One of them was growing his hair out ( only the back of it grew!). Must I mention there was a huge 2 foot chunk of hair at the back of his head…and nothing ono top. IT WAS SICK MAN! lol
Speaking more of your hair, Gregg (all in good fun
…., I found your Bo Bice plug freaking hillarious! Take that BB comment and run with it. When someone accuses you of a mullet that is a whole different story 
MOving on (you guys are so freaking funny I had to just address all the awesome banter..)
So…you guys have spotted Gary Coleman at wal mart and target? Too funny (I am blonde…but yes, I know you were kidding:-)
You guys made my day with your humor!!!!
September 5th, 2006 at 4:51 pm
LOL, I love your IM’s. Since the average American woman (on the east coast, we dont have much scandinavian influence here) is 5′4, I am a bit above average at 5′5. So 5′9 isnt short. I really dont like 4 inch heals.
And Becky. Where does the ELMO fit in here? Even though it made me laugh, being apparently a fellow perverted thinking type
September 5th, 2006 at 7:09 pm
I think Greta stretched out Aruba for about that time period. My favorite clip was when she and Natalee’s mom (forgot her name) were scoping out Van Hinga-dinga-dergen’s (forgot his name too) home – he crawled out of the bushes and invited them in and Greta had such a look of entitlement on her face as she busted through the gate with Mrs. Natalee’s Mom.
Yesterday’s guest poster – I happen to be a member of websleuths, think I joined when I was looking up information on a local missing person. Sure, your trouble-makers are there as they are on any public forum, but it’s a good source of quick information for both high profile and local missing persons cases. I don’t think I’ve ever ventured out of the “Missing” section.
Well, I had something to ask but I forgot. Thanks for another daily chuckle
September 5th, 2006 at 8:47 pm
Ingredients for murder
While some are making an entertaining hey day of the recent media Karrnival, and a person who purports to be Wendy Hutchens’ father appears to be speaking to… well… himself—does this man not realize that his incoherent posts only go to further s…
September 6th, 2006 at 7:14 am
You two CRACK me up!!! Are you sure you don’t want to do a comedy routine for HBO or something? I guess you guys really need some laughs with all of the horror you deal with. Anyway, I’m 5′1, and my husband is 6′6….. he still has his hair… so do I.
September 6th, 2006 at 7:30 am
I agree with Kathy, you should do stand-up, both of you! You make me howl at the most awful things (such as Nicole and Ron being “julienned”!)Love you both! Fiz. xxx
September 6th, 2006 at 7:35 am
Heh…Gregg and Matt the Penn & Teller of True Crime. HBO would eat it up.
September 6th, 2006 at 11:51 am
Hey guys – great post!
Here’s something I’d like you to rant about:
Last night Greta “Thetan” Van Susteren interviewed Noreen Gosch, mother of kidnap victim Johnny Gosch, along with a private investigator on the case. Very bizarre and disjointed interview.
Ms. Gosch claims that someone recently left 24 year-old photos of Johnny on her doorstep. Sounded very mysterious and sinister. Then Greta threw out some questions, and the P.I. (the ‘I’ apparently stands for “Idiot”) started babbling about how they’d been “expecting the photos” (??) and the person who left them was “very courageous.” Huh?
I was starting to get a really odd feeling about these two folks — something’s not right. They even showed the photos: 1) Johnny, bound & gagged on a bed 2) Johnny and two other (currently unidentified) boys, bound and gagged on the bed.
I was surprised they showed the photos in the first place, but the feeling I had (especially regarding the second photo) was that they looked staged.
Then Greta asked “I understand that you believe you saw Johnny a few years ago…” My first thought was that the mother believed she saw Johnny in a crowd at the mall, or from a distance on the street.
Here’s where it gets REALLY weird: She claims that Johnny showed up at her door in the middle of the night in 1997. They “talked for a few hours” and then he left. (!!) Greta asked “Why did you let him slip away from you again?” Ms. Gosch replied “Greta, I don’t think that’s a fair question. He was 6′3″ and a grown man!” (NOT A FAIR QUESTION??)
She also claimed that Johnny wouldn’t let her call the cops or he’d leave that moment (he was afraid of being killed by people “in the network”), but he gave her some names and asked for her help.
My question: What’s UP with this story? Noreen Gosch seems extremely flaky (interestingly, she reminds me of a trailer park version of Patsy Ramsey). In some other stories I’ve read about the case, she claimed Johnny “contacted” her, but wouldn’t say where he was. In another, it says Johnny showed up at her house with a man. Other stories are saying she didn’t call the cops until two days after she found the photos on her doorstep.
Odd that these photos appear only a week after the Karr fiasco. Everyone’s coming out of the woodwork with new developments on old cases. (Didn’t Beth Twitty claim last week that there was some new info in Natalee’s case?)
What’s going on?! Talk amongst yourselves.
Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Gosch
http://tinyurl.com/rurzl (FoxNews story)
http://tinyurl.com/ryesl (YouTube video about story)
September 6th, 2006 at 12:06 pm
Mathew says:I read, too, that you are comfortable with your baldness. And that you got sick of spending money on Rogaine. I think you’ve seen too many Chiapet commercials.
Gregg says:
The reporter made it sound like I once had a Bo Bice-do. It was more Ashton Kutcher on That 70s Show.
Gregg says:
Golden Rule or not, you’re short.
Mathew says:
I’m 5′9″, that’s the new 6′4″!
Gregg says:
“The plane! The plane!”
Mathew says:
You bastard.
Gregg says:
Take this stone from my hand, little Grasshopper.
Mathew says:
Us standing together side by side, I guess it would look like Fantasy Island. You’re 6’8”, right? Kareem-like. That’s freakish.
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ROTFLMAO!!!!
You two sound like MY KIND OF GUYS…GIGGLE.
For the record; I think Gregg and his bald-6′8″ frame is VERY sexy, and I love short guys who call people “Kid” too.
Cricket
September 6th, 2006 at 12:34 pm
[the other] Melissa says: Last night Greta “Thetan” Van Susteren interviewed Noreen Gosch, mother of kidnap victim Johnny Gosch, along with a private investigator on the case. Very bizarre and disjointed interview.
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I saw that..one of my rare moments of being awake due to two newborn kittens I’m fostering…being fed.
I also remember when little Johnny Gosch went missing too, back in the 70’s.
The story is beyond bizarre and almost freakish in a made-for-tv-movie-way.
Especially the part where she claims he came to see her around 2 am back in the 90’s, unannounced and claimed he told her names of the people involved in this ring of what-evers.
Made me instantly think of that illness where people send threatening letters to themselves and report it to police for the attention and sympathy it gets them, forget what it’s called but I think it’s the “look-at-me” sickness.
Anyway; I wonder if SHE hasn’t always had those photos and claims someone dropped them on her doorstep just recently?
Also the photo of the three boys bound together and laying side by side on a bed errily reminds me of that picture found in a parking lot of a drug store in Texas back in the late 90’s too. It was of that young girl who was kidnapped and never seen again…but later the picture falls out of a brown cargo van driven by a man who attempted to kidnap another young girl, but the girl fought and screamed and rescuers came to her aid saving her, but the perp got away before police arrived.
Witnesses discribed him as looking like the old “Unabomber” pics….she too was laying on a bed, bound, and posed sideways-the same way/direction the boys in this picture were too….strange…
So strange, it might just be true.
Weirder things have happened and what better way to dis-credit or cast doubt on someone then to plan such a freak show of details and occasions that no one SANE would want to get involved or even believe her. Just a thought.
Final word; Saw the TWIT-Greta back peddle and apologize too, to Ms. Gosch.
An apology wasn’t needed [imo], but LOVED the look and stumbling that the TWIT-G did and the smerk on the idiot PI’s face too, as TWIT-G fell all over her idiot self….LOL.
Cricket
September 6th, 2006 at 6:49 pm
Short and hair, tall and bald…doesn’t matter…
I think you both are “hot” and would take either of you any day, however I must hold myself back since you both are married. Sigh.
You two really do have a comic streak to you too.
September 6th, 2006 at 7:34 pm
Cricket – I agree. The apology wasn’t required. But I could tell the Gretster felt she *had* to apologize in order to smooth things over to keep the almost derailed choo-choo on the tracks. She actually apologized three times, didn’t she? (As they say, it takes a lot of sugar to hold the all the nuts together).
But I wish she’d pulled a Nancy Grace on her ass: “Whuuuut? Excuse me? Did you just say HE SHOWED UP. AT. YOUR. DOORSTEP? And you LET. HIM. LEAVE? HeLLL-O! If that were MAH SON, I would’ve cold cocked him with a bottle of Southern Comfort and then STAPLED. His Feet. To. The Floor. Especially if he’d been missing since 1982 and babbled about getting killed by the people ‘in the network.’ I. For One. DO NOT. Tolerate. Crazy Talk. Goodnight Noreen. thankyouforyourtime. For those just tuning in: Tonight. On Nancy Grace. We’re kicking the kooks outta the cat house. And debating the fate of mah production assistant, Shelly. Stay. Tuned.”
(off-camera): “Sheeeellllllleeee! Get yer Yankee ass. In. Mah. Dressin’ room. Pron-TO! And don’t you DARE. FORGET. The Tab & SoCo.”
September 7th, 2006 at 11:41 am
I knew I shouldn’t have come here when I was SUPPOSED to be working. Thanks for the laugh.
September 7th, 2006 at 1:13 pm
Gregg and Matt ARE hysterical, but some of the comments here have me nearly falling off my chair with laughter.You all are too much
September 8th, 2006 at 1:24 pm
Gregg says:
Did she mention her fiancé was murdered again?
Mathew says:
Every night. He’s dead, though, so stop trashing dead people, gees
I thought that since my youngest is now completely potty trained, I wouldn’t have to buy diapers anymore. Now, I need to buy Depends for myself, whenever I read your blog. Gotta love ya.
September 8th, 2006 at 1:31 pm
The other Melissa – “But I wish she’d pulled a Nancy Grace on her ass: “Whuuuut? Excuse me? Did you just say HE SHOWED UP. AT. YOUR. DOORSTEP? And you LET. HIM. LEAVE? HeLLL-O! If that were MAH SON, I would’ve cold cocked him with a bottle of Southern Comfort and then STAPLED. His Feet. To. The Floor. Especially if he’d been missing since 1982 and babbled about getting killed by the people ‘in the network.’ I. For One. DO NOT. Tolerate. Crazy Talk. Goodnight Noreen. thankyouforyourtime. ”
Bwahahahaha …..excellent NG impersonation!
September 8th, 2006 at 3:11 pm
hey rant-people……there is a whole Johnny Gosch thread over at Steve Huff’s house. It is just not enough to talk about the pictures. Since I am already getting spammed here (most likely for my too-long posts….sorry Gregg and Matt…I am a windbag
) I will keep it short. Steve did a great job in synopsizing the Gosch case and there were great debates at his http://www.crimeblog.us site
September 9th, 2006 at 8:00 am
HALO ASKEW says:(off-camera): “Sheeeellllllleeee! Get yer Yankee ass. In. Mah. Dressin’ room. Pron-TO! And don’t you DARE. FORGET. The Tab & SoCo.”
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DOUBLE ROTFLMAO!!!
soobs…PASS THE Depends will ya!
Haaaaaaahaaaaa! OOPS! …excuse me while I change. [wink, wink]
Cricket
December 29th, 2009 at 3:13 pm
You made some good points there. I did a search on the topic and found most people will agree with your blog.