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Bill Thompson

Bill Thompson

American radio personality and voice actor

Sep 7, 2026

Lesley Stahl
Lesley StahlCORRESPONDENT
17:19
Bill Thompson says he had mentioned the thought to Dexter 30 years ago.
17:24
What we had been taught in high school was that when they... freed the slaves, they just took the last name of the person that was there, which was Miller.
17:32
I just had told Dexter, Dexter, it's a good chance that your ancestors came off of this farm.

6 MINS LATER

Lesley Stahl
Lesley StahlCORRESPONDENT
23:22
He shared the news with Bill Thompson, who had had that hunch all those years ago.
23:28
I look at it that I've been a servant to this farm and this house my whole life.
23:33
And for the Miller family to come back home to my home, our home.
23:41
Our home, absolutely.
23:43
It's great.
13:04
Mm-hmm.
13:04
So you'll do, like, a target profile.
13:07
You'll, you'll-- You know, your commander or whoever you work for will state a goal.
13:12
We want access to, you know, X information at, you know, X organization, whatever that might be.
13:18
And then you'll get a bunch of people l- like myself and from other disciplines.
13:22
There's, there's multiple-- There's many modes of intelligence, especially within the DoD.
13:26
There's, uh, MASINT, there's FISINT, there's ELINT, there's COMINT, there's, um, cyber, there's open source intelligence.

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69:36
Fuck me.
12:47
Size of that egg shape, like how big are the downs?
12:50
It depends on where, like out here it's much larger.
12:54
But as they get older, it can shrink and those areas that they really start to trust can get smaller.
13:00
And then in agricultural country, it's smaller yet.
13:03
It really depends on the distribution, the amount of mass.
13:12
Again, it's based on the area and the time of season.
13:18
And with bachelor groups, they'll be following the most dominant or oldest buck around when they're in these bachelor groups, kind of learning everything from the old guy.

11 MINS LATER

speaker_9UNKNOWN
23:58
... as it gets older?
31:42
[laughs]
31:42
Um, if you're being sponsored by Amazon, feel free to edit this bit out.
31:46
Um, the point is that if you've got to... a whole load of lorries delivering a whole load of stuff to a whole load of addresses, doing it efficiently matters.
31:53
It matters to the planet and not to anything else, frankly.
31:56
And solving that problem, the traveling salesman problem, is really, really hard.
32:01
Right? So if you can have a...
32:02
use a quantum computer to do it, that could be really helpful.
36:14
So back to the young ones with the carrot and the tomato talking to each other in the fridge.
speaker_11HOST
127:18
I don't.
127:18
So the Seventeenth Ame- So when the founders...
127:20
When you read "The Federalist Papers," and "The Federalist Papers," I really love reading "The Federalist Papers." I love reading how they informed the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, um, the Declaration even.
127:31
Um, John Jay, James Madison wrote these documents explaining the framework and the Seventeenth Amendment, essentially how the SenateThe Senate, right? The 50 people there that are supposed to be representing us, was originally constructed was a state would have legislatures, and the state legislatures and the governor would appoint the senator.
127:49
The reason that the founders did that was because they've- the state governments had to give power to the federal government to exist.
127:57
The w- back with the articles of, uh, w- um, articles of confederation.
128:02
Confederation, is that right? Articles of...
speaker_12HOST
131:57
Right.
13:17
You guys didn't, decided not to do that and why not at least try? I don't understand that.
13:23
Well, I, and I, I understand what you're saying.
13:26
And, and I certainly understand and hear from, uh, the families and members of the public, uh, who will always have the question, "Why?" Uh, as we viewed this and looking at the circumstances of this case, it was our conclusion, and ultimately my conclusion, I'll take responsibility.
13:44
I'm the elected prosecutor, so it stops with me.
13:47
Um, but it was our, our team's decision that getting the guilty pleas, straight-up factual guilty pleas, uh, was going to be the best legal way to approach this.
13:58
I think that there were concerns that somebody like this particular defendant, uh, if he was trying to allocute in a specific factual fashion, he could actually undermine the basis for his plea and the judge would not have as solid of a foundation to uphold the plea.
14:16
So, we, we analyzed this really from a pretty strict legal factual point of view.
16:33
Is it true that you are personally opposed to the death penalty?

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