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A Local Defense Attorney Explains Why His Kids Won’t Talk to Him
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Shep Thompson just wants to be loved by his children, but when he finds himself defending the "enemy," things start to dramatically fall apart. In this episode of 87.9 KWHO, Glenn talks to Shep about why his family life is in shambles, despite their cushy life in a bougie part of Minneapolis. Tune in for this fully improvised episode of...
- Why Shep will defend Skeletor but not the mayor
- Shep's strong hatred of the Packers
- The reason Shep hates public transportation (including bicycles)
Produced by Propellant Films
Starring: MJ Matheson as Glenn Sheen and Toussaint Morrison as Shep Thompson.
Glenn, I'm gonna I'm gonna tell you something about the culture where I come from, okay? We don't several things we don't talk about, okay? Okay. We don't talk about how much money we make.
SPEAKER_02Okay, you kind of have.
SPEAKER_01Don't ever ask about that. I didn't give you a number now. We don't talk about who we voted for.
SPEAKER_02You kind of have told me.
SPEAKER_01I told you what's on the ballot. And I told you what's not on the ballot is A Cab F twelve and whatever the solidarity thing is they're talking about. I don't know who these people are. And the third thing that we don't talk about. The third thing we don't talk about is the Green Bay Packers.
SPEAKER_00Those are the three things.
SPEAKER_03Okay, yeah. Ooh, it's 87.9 K Who Radio. You're hearing the dulcet tones of Glen Sheen. That's right. That's me. I'm Dulcet. I don't know what the word means, but I'm it. And next to me here in the studio, so happy to have him here, I've got Shep Thompson. Shep, welcome to the show. Thanks for having me. I appreciate being here. I I appreciate you being here. Yeah. It's a delight to have you here. So go ahead and tell our listeners a little bit about yourself. Shep, what brings you uh what brings you on the air today?
SPEAKER_01I'm not gonna just uh you know dance around it right now. I'm I'm here because I need to send a message to my kids.
SPEAKER_03Oh uh Oh, okay. You to this is this you're here to talk to the kids. Because our station and this show and myself are very popular with with the youths.
SPEAKER_01You know, and and that's that's that's why I'm here. Because I'm apparently not so popular with them. You know, I mean So I wanted uh I just wanted to get here to send a message to them. Okay. Two out of the three aren't talking to me right now, Glenn.
SPEAKER_03I'm so sorry to hear that. Yeah. So you have three kids.
SPEAKER_01I got three kids.
SPEAKER_03And two of them zero communication. Zero communication. Wild. Okay. That's a trend I think I've heard about recently.
SPEAKER_01It's been going on. It's been going on. It's it's it's a thing. Um I was called a fascist this past February. Oh my. And I'm just here to clear the air, Glenn. Okay, good clear the air. I just I just I just but a little bit about you. No, no, hold on, hold on a gosh, darn second. Then the Hooten Nanny, hold on. Now, I um I'm the about me. You want to know about me? It uh you just had a soundboard fall down. I'm I'm sure that's okay. It's totally normal here. Oh but uh yeah, the whole studio is falling apart. Hey, hey, you know, th that happens sometimes, you know, a little bit like uh like the twins, you know, they fall apart.
SPEAKER_03The twins, are these your children are twins? No, no, no, the Minnesota twins.
SPEAKER_01Sorry. Okay. Can we can we can we talk? I would love to. Can we talk? Yeah. Can I talk? Yes. Oh, let's do it. So what I'm saying is uh a little bit about me, um, born and raised, Minneapolis, okay? Wow. Now that's not I'm not talking Plymouth, I'm not talking Richfield, I'm talking right gosh darn here in Minneapolis, okay? SmackDab. SmackDab. I'm a family man.
SPEAKER_03I gather that, yeah.
SPEAKER_01And when uh the family starts falling apart, you know, I gotta put it back together. You know, kind of like that that that sound, whatever that thing is on there. That little Lego piece you got on there.
SPEAKER_03Whenever things fall off, they uh tend to go back up eventually.
SPEAKER_01You know, you one would think with the Minnesota twins, but where are we at? You seem to be really focused on the twins. Well, you know, it's in a lifelong family value of ours. And Okay.
SPEAKER_03Can I ask this? Um you said family and maybe falling apart. Um did and you and you have children, so there was a there was a woman involved at some point. There's still a woman involved. Oh sorry. I just I'm recently divorced. Oh, you are? Yeah, yeah. Oh, good. Well, she left me two years ago, but I just just kind of got it recently. What a uh cart before the horse, what happened there? Oh, I was the cart. Yeah. She was a horse, and she was probably like, I'm really tired of carrying you around. Yeah. What kind of horse are we talking, Glenn? Oh, just the most beautiful. Um just like a really, really, really beautiful horse. Uh just stunning, wild. Um I would, yeah. It's a so you get it. Sometimes a wild horse has got to run free.
SPEAKER_01Yes.
SPEAKER_03And and sometimes a cart's just gotta sit there full of stuff.
SPEAKER_01You know, sometimes a wild horse has got to run in the street. You know, yeah. I don't know. You know, maybe maybe, maybe that, maybe uh she's for the streets. I d that my kids say this sometime. I don't know what it means.
SPEAKER_03I I think that's a good thing.
SPEAKER_01Okay, okay. Um, because um she's you know, I'm thinking street smart more than book smart. Well, it depends on which streets as well. Let me tell you a little something about me. Yeah. Yeah, lay it on me, Shah. You know, this is a little part of my life. Uh I do a lot of work in my community, okay? Yeah. I haven't been north of 42nd Avenue since this interview.
SPEAKER_03What why why is that?
SPEAKER_01Well, you know, uh Glenn, it it the city, it it turned into a different thing than what we originally imagined as a family coming here. Uh when that started to get a little bit out of hand and the Flim Flam started flying, um, you know, we just we figured it was safest to stay south of 42nd and uh, you know, as some call Easty Dinah uh in Linden Hills. So we just we keep our we keep our pocket right there. But this is a kind of a DEF CON 5 or or 1, if you if you know what I'm talking about with this family situation. So I felt I I had to cross the I had to cross the line.
SPEAKER_03And what and you've mentioned Flim Flam?
SPEAKER_01Well Flim Flam is just, you know, it's um you know, it's it's like uh how do I say it? It's uh unnecessary. It's arbitrary things, you know? Sure. Like it's a little bit like, you know, in the wind, if I may.
SPEAKER_03Okay, I'm gonna use that. I'm gonna let you know Flim Flim Flam. And those are not the names of your two kids that are not talking to them.
SPEAKER_01Well, although it's a little bit what the the twins have been putting on the mound lately. It's a lot of flim flam.
SPEAKER_03I do actually know what you're saying now. Oh god.
SPEAKER_01I'm sorry, I just started thinking about Garden Hire and you know how that all went. But anyway, so uh I noticed your name, Glenn Sheen. Yeah. Like the mansion in Duluth.
SPEAKER_03You know, I people say that, I don't get it.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, a lot of people don't.
SPEAKER_03My name is G-L-E-N-N. People often pronounce mispronounce that.
SPEAKER_01You got another thing that just fell off there.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, it's just gonna keep happening.
SPEAKER_01Okay. I'm just I'm wondering now if I stepped into an ambush by one of my kids, like if I'm soon gonna be what the heck's gonna go on here.
SPEAKER_03No, we have a strict no kids allowed in the studio policy.
SPEAKER_01Okay. I just want to make sure. I just want to make a lot of things.
SPEAKER_03Well, we had a we had a a raccoon outbreak. Well, it wasn't an outbreak. The the raccoons were actually like brought in and they had all been convicted of rabies and rapes.
SPEAKER_01Okay. Well, yeah, they're gonna be convicted by my slugster, okay, when they come into the Linden Hills. Slugst, slugster. This is where things get tricky. You know, I'm a I'm an American, okay? I'm also I'm I'm a family man, like I said earlier, but you know, you get these you get these rodents and creatures running around Linden Hills. You see, the city limits have been just you know, a lot of things have been going on. We've been seeing deer, some foxes, even some some gosh darn coyotes. Yeah, and you know, um, you know, Jeff, I feel I need to protect my family. Yeah, I gotta take them out. It's you or me. I gotta tell you, buddy. Oh, yeah, I gotta tell you. I you are going down. Yeah, you are going down. I believe you. Yeah, I will not hesitate, okay? I will not hesitate. I can tell. Yeah. But anyways, hey, you know, we we have cookouts and everything, and people are welcome. Yeah. It's Lyndon Hills.
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SPEAKER_03It sounds great.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Um, so uh uh what what what there's we a lot to unpack here. Uh but um um but you know, uh we'll unpack the cart. Um what what so what is it that you do uh for for a living? What's your what's your Glenn I'm gonna tell you a little bit about my story here? Yeah, you yeah, please do.
SPEAKER_011991. Good year. Ken Herbeck. Okay. October 30th. They get an out uh get a fly ball out to left field, catch it, throws it in. Ron Gantt is running back for the Atlanta Braves to the first base, okay? Kent Herbeck is playing first base. Now, you know, the the the the the ball comes in real fast because the twins are moving at that point, okay? It was a real team then. It was a real team. This is the twins. Yeah, this is the twins making it. This wasn't some farm club that we whatever we're seeing today. Um, but he throws it back, and Ron Gantt, you know, he trips off the base and you know, it was what it was. And Kent Herbeck caught a lot of flack, he caught a lot of hoo-ha for that. And I I saw that as Flim Flam. Little Flim Flam. There you go. Okay, you taught me that. I gotta use it. There you go. Yeah, you gotta do it now. And he caught a lot of flack for it, and I just said to myself, you know, I don't like that. I don't like that at all. I I I I think the truth, it's not trendy, you know? Sure. It doesn't got a hashtag. You know, the truth is the truth. And so I decided from then on to just be a defense attorney because I want to defend the truth.
SPEAKER_03You're oh wow. Wait. What defend the truth? You saw a baseball game and were like, I'm gonna be a defense attorney someday.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I saw Kent Herbeck get treated uh a certain way after Ron Gantt slipped off that base, and they said he pulled him off the base, and he just caught a lot of flim flam online, a lot of flack, uh, you know, and it was unnecessary. And I figure I need to defend the people that that are out there, you know, doing it for us. This is why I don't understand these accusations from my kids, you know.
SPEAKER_03You keep bringing that up, man. Do you want to like talk about it? Okay, well, you know.
SPEAKER_01You don't have to, but we had some things go on here six years ago in Minneapolis. It was a little bit of a harumph, you know. It was it was, you know, a whole situation. Now we're talking that cultural issue. What no, there was some other stuff going on. Now the kid was too young to really understand what was happening. Now, old Shep, still doing my job, okay? And I'm a defense attorney, okay? So I sure I defend some guys that make Tom Petters look like Denny Hecker, you know. So I just it's a few people that have done some things and you know, done some things to employees and let them go for no reason, maybe replaced them with QR codes. I don't know, Glenn. You know, I'm just doing my job out here, okay? I'm trying to defend the truth.
SPEAKER_03And I was your kids aren't talking to you because you're defending people who they think have been doing wrong, yeah.
SPEAKER_01They think, but I, you know, according to like unions and like even Skeletor needs a defense attorney, you know? What are we doing here? Wow. So you you've defended people who maybe most people think are, you know, criminals? Yeah, now my kid is calling me a fascist for that, okay? Hey, what's what's this? What's the problem with the billionaires? Hey, you know, they got they got the money. You know, like what what what are we just all of a sudden making it illegal to make money around here? What what the heck is going on? I'm just trying to tell my kids I don't think it's a crime for me to do my job. As a defense attorney, I get it. All right, you know, I gotta defend some people that aren't so, you know, celebrated. Sure. You know, and some of them, you know, they might be millionaires, they might be billionaires. They that they might be cops, Glenn. I don't know, you know. Oh, I can't. I just did it now. I take the role that I can, you know, and I defend the people that really nobody wants to defend, you know. Okay. I can see why your kids don't like you. Uh help me out, but put the fish and line in the pond. What's going on here?
SPEAKER_03Oh well, okay. Um I think there's a lot of social change happening right now. Okay. Um, especially here. Uh and I think the kids are a big part of that. Okay. I think the future generation is kind of seeing how maybe we and older generations have just kind of messed up or accepted what was, you know, happening for far too long and it's become systemic and kind of like evil. And the people who are fighting to keep it the way it is and was, to them are now their, you know, kind of their enemy.
SPEAKER_01You know, Glenn, you play you play a great possum. You play a really good possum because you acted like you didn't know anything about this. And now you know the whole thing. Well, I would I like this. I like this though. This is helping me. This is helping me.
SPEAKER_03I I can't play possum. I I I I actually live in a house with a lot of ferrets.
SPEAKER_01Oh, okay. And it's a whole thing. Now, did the ferrets come after the wife left or before the wife left? Definitely after. Okay, all right. You know, you gotta fill the space, you gotta fill that void.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I didn't, it wasn't my choice. Yeah. Not my first choice. Okay. Okay. But Shep, no, I don't mean to come uh uh uh uh at you. I I just meant um felt like it a little bit. No, it's okay. No, uh you asked me to explain how maybe that could be true. It's all right, all right.
SPEAKER_01I'm gonna open book. The kid is already telling me I'm not A Cab enough or F-12 enough. And I say, look, I I don't know this A CAB or F12, right? That's not on the that's not on the uh, you know, that's not on the ballot, okay? I see Republican, Democrat, and then I see, you know, r Ross Perot, you know, and I just vote for one of the three, okay?
SPEAKER_03Wait, you how many times have you voted for Ross Perot in the last like because he hasn't ran since the 90s?
SPEAKER_01I'm gonna tell you something about the culture where I come from, okay? We don't several things we don't talk about, okay? Okay. We don't talk about how much money we make.
SPEAKER_02Okay, you kind of have.
SPEAKER_01Don't ever ask about that. I didn't give you a number, no. We don't talk about who we voted for.
SPEAKER_02You kind of have told me.
SPEAKER_01I told you what's on the ballot, and I told you what's not on the ballot is ACAB F12 and whatever the solidarity thing is they're talking about. I don't know who these people are. And the third thing that we don't talk about.
SPEAKER_00The third thing we don't talk about is the Green Bay Packers. Those are the three things.
SPEAKER_03Okay. Yeah. I mean, I could I'm guessing you're a diehard Vikings fan.
SPEAKER_01Glenn, you're gonna I believe purple. Okay? You know what I'm saying? Yeah, that's how you laugh. Well, you know, that's good to hear. It is it's the way everybody laughs, isn't it?
SPEAKER_03No, I don't mean to call it out. It was nice to hear you laugh. You seem like a very serious person. No problem. No problem. And I and I I'm sorry if I offended you because uh, you know you did. You gotta you can you can be kind of scary.
SPEAKER_01Look, hey, hey, I'm I'm I'm a Lyndon Hills man. Okay, I'm as harmless as it gets. Okay, all right. You know, it unless you're a raccoon or a ferret running around my yard, yeah. You got you got no qualms with me. I'll stay far away from your own. Yeah, as long as you stay in the front yard, maybe on the sidewalk, the boulevard, even. You know, you're just you're just not in my backyard. No, that's that's all. Yeah, you heard you you heard it here, folks.
SPEAKER_03Hey, uh, speaking of uh uh hanging out in the backyard, hey listeners, why don't you chill and uh crack open uh whatever you drink in the cool barbecue stuff. I'm I'm going to an ad break, is what I'm trying to say. Uh if you want sticking around, Shep, we'd love to keep talking with you. Yeah, and we'll go ahead and for a client, but yeah, we'll get this going. We'll yeah, we'll get them going as well, too. So hey, uh fans out there, keep listening to the ads. Here they come right now. It's gonna be quick. I promise you it'll be over before you think. Just turn it up all the way, listen to the ad all the way through. Please, please, please, please, please. Woo! Okay, we got a couple minutes, man. How are you how how are you how are you how's how you how how get it out, Glenn? You got it.
SPEAKER_01Well, uh what there are so many uh Did we get to did we get to all of them? Uh I think Deshant emailed you the things.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Um yeah.
SPEAKER_01Uh uh like you got it. You got it, baby. You got it. Come on. How do I like uh I don't I don't if there were um are you okay? I'm absolutely fine. Okay. I'm doing great. Okay. Easy breezy here, baby.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, yeah. I feel I I feel that. I just um I see a lot of myself in you.
SPEAKER_01Oh my goodness. What are you seeing?
SPEAKER_03Um it seems like you have it all together. But maybe deep down you're terrified of losing everything and you need to keep up for someone else that maybe doesn't even exist.
SPEAKER_01Sometimes you're you're hanging on just by a thin thread. I know that feeling that's what I mean. I feel that all the time, man. Yeah. Yeah, that's real. That's real. You just gotta you gotta feel that. Gotta make some space for it. And then you build a bunker. Okay? And that thread just goes away. What doomsday barracks. So, you know, honestly. What? You have a doomsday barracks? Of course. What do you think? But um the the doomsday barracks, you know, where I'm at, uh huh, you know, we we saw the way that the government was going. And we said to ourselves, you know, I don't think we want to have to deal with this if it comes down to it. I sleep like a baby. Okay. Wow. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03I I sleep like a baby, but it's mostly just because I uh I usually just have like one sheet over me and I usually wake up crying.
SPEAKER_01Okay. I thought you were gonna say you wet your pants too. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03No, I I sleep naked.
SPEAKER_01Okay. Well, you can wet the bed, I should say.
SPEAKER_03I it that's why the air mattress is rubber.
SPEAKER_01That'd be weird if you slept with your pants on, wouldn't it, Glenn?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, it'd be strange. Hey, Shep, thanks for breaking it down for me. I was just making sure we're good. I no, no problem, no problem.
SPEAKER_01Thanks for thanks for having me. Are we?
SPEAKER_03Oh no, oh yeah, because I'm coming back from the ad break right now, and then I just got a couple more questions here quick for you. Still ready to rock and roll? Absolutely. Yeah, let's go. Okay, cool. Thanks for being you. That's right. 87.9 K who radio. Thanks for sticking around. Hey, get yourself a slice of Mrs. Pittner's pies. Mrs. Pittner's pies. Where are they from? Doesn't matter because we know where they're going. I'm in the studio today with Shep Thompson, defense attorney and family man and Lyndon Hills man. If you're uh a billionaire or even a millionaire, and maybe you've done something horrible or shady, um, hit up Shep Thompson if you wanna you want to get some good uh uh defense uh attorneying.
SPEAKER_01I don't know if that's the right way to say it, but you know, we actually got a call from the mayor for his legal defense fund, and I said, I don't know if I can defend this guy. Sure if I can do it. With the mayor of Minneapolis. Mayor of Minneapolis. You know, my my my kids, they say, you know, this is crazy, this crazy kid in town. He's he's going to the to the to the to the daycares. And I looked at the videos, I said, is that the gosh darn mayor? They said, no, it's Nick Shirley. I said, Well, I I don't I can't tell these kids apart. You know, they're going out here pointing fingers at people, you know. It's just like that I that's why I don't go north of 42nd. I just don't do it, Glenn.
SPEAKER_03Okay, you know, I'm I hear you.
SPEAKER_01You know what they say, that nothing good happens after 10 p.m. I say, nothing good happens after sundown. And that was actually literally that would happen in Edina back in the 80s, maybe early 90s. But yeah, yeah, yeah. Hey, so what's next for you? You know, I I'm I'm gonna try to strike up a convo with the kiddo. You know, we we we have him in some sports. Um, you know, we got some some some neighborhood association meetings come up that I think you might like to stop by, maybe talk, you know, have a chance to say something. I don't know. You know, and I'm I'm a big proponent of the neighborhood association. It all starts there. Okay. It really does start there. You seem very passionate about your neighborhood, yeah. Yeah, yeah. And and that's that's really where we can put the veto and the stymie on these bike lanes. I just I can't have a we you it they're too dangerous, Glenn. Oh, they wouldn't want to stop bike lanes. Yeah. Okay, okay, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We really don't, we we can't have these here. It's very dangerous. You know, when I drive my car, uh huh, I'm not driving with a helmet, Glenn. I'm not driving with elbow pads or anything. I'm hey, the car is safe. I never thought about it that way. Think about that. Keep the buses and the bikes out of Linden Hills. That's what I say. Oh, you want the get it all out of here.
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SPEAKER_01The buses can go around Lyndon Hills. They can go wherever they need to go. They just don't come through our neighborhood. Have you been?
SPEAKER_03Have you ever been called like kind of like an isolationist?
SPEAKER_01No, no, I've been I've been called, well, like I told you, Glenn, I've been called a fascist. That checks. By my by myself.
SPEAKER_03I mean that that I could see why someone would say that. Yeah. Okay, okay. Uh hey, so speaking of um um definitions and ways we define ourselves, uh, we're coming to the end of the interview here, Shep, but I have a quick uh Kehu questionnaire, if you don't mind. A couple of shoot from the hips questions. You just go ahead and answer as fast and as fun as you want.
SPEAKER_01Shoot from the hip or shoot from the slugster. I'll tell you what.
SPEAKER_03Gosh, I really hope it's the hip. Yeah. Um, all right. Shep, what's your favorite type of muffin?
SPEAKER_01Oh, goodness. I gotta tell you anything from Sarah Jane. Okay. Wow. I have it hubbed over because I tell you, I'm not going north of that 42nd. Yeah. Anything from Sarah Jane. Okay. You gotta love it. You gotta love it.
SPEAKER_03I love that. Yeah. Uh no, Shep, if there's one thing you could say to future generations out there, what would it be?
SPEAKER_01That's a great question. Thanks. Great question, Glenn.
SPEAKER_03I um wrote it down. I didn't write it, but I wrote it down.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_03Repeat it one more time for me. If you could say anything to future generations, what would it be? What would your message be?
SPEAKER_01I would say you know, love Wisconsin. Hate the Packers. You know, there's there's plenty of great people in that state. You know, but the Packers fans I've I've The last time me and my brother spoke, you know, was in a bar fight out of Hubert's. And uh we really we had to show these people, you know, uh where they were. You know, they're they're they're in Vikings territory. And I just would say, you know, love that neighbor, um unless they're a Packers fan.
SPEAKER_03Why do you hate the Packers so much?
SPEAKER_01Why would you ask me that question? Because you you seem really Glenn, I just don't think I'm legally allowed in that state ever again. So I d I don't I can't really go into too many details as a defense attorney. It's a mystery now.
SPEAKER_03I love that. I mean, I also feel like the common denominator in all of these fights were, you know, you.
SPEAKER_01Glenn, I said we don't talk about the packers for a reason. You keep pressing, you're pushing the buddy, you're pushing right now. You're very you know, people have you know some some skeletons in the past and whatnot. And I you I'm actually getting a call from a client right now. Okay, fair. Yeah, it's somebody who did something. It like I like I told you, this guy makes Tom Petters look like Denny Hecker, actually. I don't know who those guys are, but this is bad. Okay. This is pretty bad. Hey, I gotta I gotta float to E Dinah now. Thanks so much.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, thank you. Thank you for being in the studio today, Shep. We super appreciate you being here. Thank you so much. Totally happy to see you go whenever you need to go.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah, yeah. Stop on by the galleria. We'll be at Barnes and Nobles. Hell yeah. Okay.
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