MUCH MORE TALK (Part IV)

Download PDF

Radio taught me that there was life after “The Jury”.

Cami claimed I may be the hippest Dad in the world but I was certainly not the hippest person in the world.

Radio station owner Ed Shadek once said to one of his GM’s … If George Johns or one of his people don’t like a certain Radio commercial either do the Shadeks.

My Niece Christina showed me when you mix English and Scotch together with Korean and Italian you end up with something very beautiful!

Ryan Seacrest showed me that Plato was right, once famous you can be a person of huge influence even if you can’t sing or dance.

The airlines showed me how you can get those carts down the aisle quicker. Just charge for everything on it.

The disciples figured out early that claiming Jesus was the son of God moved the needle much faster than saying I’m the son of God.

Dave Charles told me the rest of the world used to wait for the new radio format to come from America but that may no longer be true.

Walt Disney was the one who taught me that you can turn fame into fortune.

Shakespeare claimed “the play’s the thing” not the client.

Lee Abrams told me if you want the ratings to go up you’ve got to play more Superstar music.

Rich guys showed me that they all love to share the downside with you but not the upside, that’s theirs exclusively.

Sales folks taught me over and over that if they missed out on a buy it was always because of ratings but when they got one it was because of their ability to sell.

Tim Reever once told me he was pretty sure he could sell the squeal of a pig if somebody could hold it.

Tom Hicks once told me I was exactly what his brother needed.

Speaking of Hicks, Steve once said to me … We just went number 1 in Arbitron.  How can that be true!

Reid Reker asked me many times, why can’t we have it all.

Russ Morley convinced me that having too much stuff took away your freedom.

I convinced myself that surrounding yourself with people smarter than you made you the smartest person in the room.

My Mother taught me that reading was the real “great escape”.

Cris Conner showed me that the observation of life with your twisted comments about it is the real definition of Art.

I learned that attitude is an hourly thing and may need an adjustment or two as we move through the day.

Arbitron taught me that some listeners lie and others have no idea they are even listening to the Radio.

I figured out you can’t use logic to figure Women out you have to love them before they make any sense.

Victor Gold explained to me most communication is done with the eyes.

Brent Farris reminded me that a consultant was just like a expert about women they advise you about them even without having one.

Tom Skinner convinced me I should learn how to run “Client Run”

Ted Rogers advised me that sometimes you have to leave the people behind who got you to where you are in order to rise even further.Gordon Zlot says he is sticking with the ones who brought him to the dance.

A lot of people told and taught me a lot of things and I’m mostly grateful for it except for the stuff I didn’t want to know.

Valerie Geller said there is no such thing as a boring news story there are only boring story tellers.

“Talking” (part III)

Download PDF

Chris Rock said, The main difference between Men and Women is Women will never go backwards in their life style and Men will never go backwards sexually.

Bob Christy told me many times that he was going to just sit at a bar and market himself.

Termite often said, lets get drunk and be somebody,  we often did.

Jim Quail said if he could just get back all that money he spent on Hotel rooms for all those afternoon delights he would be a rich man right now.

Jim Hilliard when I asked him what he wanted me to do the Radio Stations when I first came to work for him told me if he knew he wouldn’t have hired me.

Ric Hindes after meeting Randy Bachman said he sure didn’t act like a Rock Star. I told him that Randy was just being very Canadian.(polite)

Tim Reever told me it takes longer to tell the story of the first race he won than it did to run it.

Ron Chapman told the sales department many times that if they needed a quick answer on something the answer was always going to be no. He always got extra time.

When I heard Woody Cooper say … Between the eyes and ears lies the sound of Simon and Garfunkel, I had to hire him.

Al Mair told me the reason he came all the way from Toronto to Saskatoon to buy me dinner was because he suspected I wouldn’t be there for long and he wanted me to remember that dinner. Obviously I still do Al.

Victoria told me her secret was Men are always welcome in the dressing rooms but learning her secret gets expensive!

Sid Rosenberg confirmed on air what I already suspected which was there is a hell of a lot more to him than just sports.

J2 said his sex life is just like his Ferrari and I responded with … Jim you don’t have a Ferrari.  He said that’s right!

Buzz Barnett told me that when beauty and brains are combined they are worthy of a lot more respect and Laura agrees.

Steve Lapa says when you do News Radio you have to start each day knowing what the monster story is. Tough duty for a news person to come up with, much easier for others.

My Father tried to convince me to stay away from the bad girls, I think He may have failed.

Laura Neville claims age is just a number.

Paul Ski showed a bunch of us that it was a lot smarter to go to night school instead of going partying with the rest of us Radio types.

Too many years ago Kevin Metheny told me the only way to find out what tunes the folks were tired of was to do this new thing called “Music Research”

Most of my teachers tried to convince me I was wasting time in school and they were right.

Kari Summerfield claimed I wasn’t very deep or I was hiding it well.Barbara Hilliard keeps trying to convince me there is more to life than sex.

Jan Hall claimed I wouldn’t last two minutes with her.

Betsy Cameron told me she is a very serious person and the only reason I don’t realize that is because I always make her laugh.

Joe Amaturo told me “Use, Becomes Abuse, Becomes Law”Keith Elshaw claimed that the people who worked for George Johns loved him but the people George worked for were afraid of him. Surely that’s not true.

Reid Reker says that the reason he never use the words I think he should use when presenting a concept is because even as good as they sound people start hitting him when he uses them

Ann McMartin admitted to me under duress that Women already had the bridesmaids dresses picked out at 11 years of age and spends years looking for the right guy to play the part of the groom.

Tracy Johnson claimed there are only two tempos to music it’s up or it isn’t.

My Son Curtis said the reason he didn’t want to work hard, he just wanted to be happy. He claimed I worked hard but I didn’t appear too happy.

Everybody’s Talking At Me!

Download PDF

The late Magic Christian told me his idea of the ideal vacation was to spend it in an Iron Lung so he didn’t even have to breathe.

Don Bleu proved to me you could transfer TV fame to Radio.

Morning Man Jim Harper and a few others only became PD’s to protect their morning shows from PD’s.

I heard Bobby Cole do Pop Radio intellectually.

Brent Farris proved by working smarter you could go from where the station drags you along to where you are dragging the station

Robert Murphy told me he turned down a high paying gig in Dallas because there was no way he could love that city as much as Chapman did.

Mr. Fairbanks told me when you have a “Yes” leave the room because the only thing that can happen next is for “No” to show up.

Delliah showed Radio in general that not sounding Radio could be turned into million dollar bills.

Peter Proskurnik convinced me you could actually make a living from playing music.

George Derenchuk told me if I would give him 20 minutes of attention every day he would give me an “A”

Candis told me the real reason he gave me an “A” was because he was the only one of my teachers smart enough to do so.

Bill Taylor recently asked if I ever get tired of talking about myself.

 
Jim Hilliard told me he was giving me the right to be wrong but he didn’t give me the right to live with my mistakes.
 

Linda Stein told me … Never listen to anyone else about your romance, listen to your partner.

Embree McDermid proves a Woman can be sexy at any age.

Ken singer told me the way to happiness was to have a new Wife every decade.

Martin Milner at the last minute confessed he couldn’t go on the air with out a script.

Rick Moranis told me he couldn’t be the morning man on the Satellite show I was creating because he was now Bankable.

Randy Bachman told me he could teach me the music when he recruited me for The Guess Who but it was that other stuff I do that they really needed.

Gary Russell said there is only one way to get more billing, more sales people.

Randy Michaels told me when we met for the first time that he heard it was my Brother who was the smart Johns. I agreed with him but he recently told me that was just his poor attempt at humor.

Frank Osborn said a GM gets two PD’s a PD gets two books.

Hugh Heller said you don’t need to learn how to do a lot of things just do one thing really well and you can be very successful

Jim West told me not to let those sand dollars get in my eyes when I moved out to California. Hell the damn things almost blinded me.

My Daughter Candis convinced me the Art is just exaggerated emotion.

Jack McCoy claimed if you control the language you will control the budget.

 Buzz Bennett convinced me that if a record didn’t make it into the top 10 nobody would ever remember it.

Mr. Fairbanks told me he was selling KVIL because the bubble was going to burst. He was right but his timing was off a tad it happened 20 years later.

J. Robert Wood told me you have to demand ownership nobody was ever going to offer it to you.

Ted Russetti told me Women in their 30’s start to lose their appetite for new music.

My Daughter Cami kept me from becoming as old as I really am.

Barry Smith says sales has never been about the rate.

Mark Hubbard said you only have 3 shots at being successful … Be First, Be Best or Be Different!