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Mike Pesca (1:24)
It's Tuesday, February 3rd, 2026. From Peach Fish Productions, it's the Gist. I'm Mike Pe. You hear that Jill Biden's first husband allegedly killed his current wife? Well, I would say current, but the woman he was married to at the.
Interviewer (1:40)
Time of the alleged murder.
Mike Pesca (1:42)
No, I didn't hear that. I also didn't hear or had never heard before. Someone told me that fact that Jill Biden had a first husband. But I guess she does. New Castle county authorities indicted 77 year old William Stevenson, former first husband of former first lady Jill Biden, on first degree murder charges. I guess there is three firsts for everything. His wife Linda had died and now is allegedly a murder victim and that dates back to December 28th. So perhaps they've been building the case for a while. This news item goes on say a couple odd things that Fox News host Greg Kelly, who knows Stevenson, expressed strong doubt about his guilt. Okay, maybe Greg Kelly, whose dad is a legendary was legendary NYPD chief, maybe he should have expressed instead of strong doubts that that's not the bill I know, or I'm shocked to hear it, but okay, you want to be expressing doubt, maybe that would sully the reputation of Fox News. If only. I'll stop there. But the other thing that I never knew about. This guy I never knew about is that he is, according to this news squib, once owner of the famed Stone Balloon nightclub. The Stone Balloon. So I looked into it, yes, this article from 1975, the Morning News of Wilmington, Delaware, Bill Stevenson, fair weather for Stone Balloon. Mostly it talks about how bad he was at business and if the business weren't booming, his loans would all be coming due. But apparently the Stone Balloon, which he had bought a few years earlier, was booking a lot of acts. Here is, here are some of the prominent acts in 1975 that this Wilmington newspaper lists. The idea was to offer entertainment as well as drink. Stevenson set out to hire rock bands from all over the East Coast. Some of the balloons featured performers have been Tiny Tim, Chubby Checker. Now at this point, just going by the naming algorithm, Freddie Fender, you know, he's books the alliterative east coast rock acts. But instead the acts are listed as I hope not in order of importance. Tiny Tim, Chubby Checker and Bruce Springsteen. Bruce Springsteen once played the Stone Balloon. Nowhere in this article does it say if the Stone Balloon name was a Riffon or inspired by Led Zeppelin. You know, I guess both were said to go over like a Led Zeppelin, like a Stone Balloon. I don't know if one. Well, Led Zeppelin was named prior, but I don't know what was going on in Bill Stevenson's head when he named the Stone Balloon, when he booked such luminaries as Tiny Tim, Chubby Checker or, or Bruce Springsteen or when he allegedly killed his then current wife.
