The Voice (new blog for Easter and the week of April 06/15)

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Attention all Air Talent! Go get a pen and paper, watch “The Voice” Monday and Tueday, write down what the coaches said, do what they advised on the radio everyday, become rich & famous.

I had a lot of great Easters with my kids Candis and Curt and then I got to do it all again with Cami(see picture) but the Easter I remember the most though was my first one in America. In Canada Good Friday is a very sacred so you even needed a permit to keep your business open.
Imagine my disbelief when my boss Jim Hilliard dropped me off at home the night before and said see you in the morning and shocked I said, but Jim it’s Good Friday and he said I know, welcome to America boy!

It’s not about who likes you it’s all about who you like.
 
According to the stats your best shot at a good marriage is to marry someone you went to college with.
 
The toughest club in the world to become a member of is the lucky sperm club.
 
I never understood why America lived in so much fear of Communism which allowed scum bags like J Edger Hoover and Joe McCarthy to have the power to destroy so many peoples lives. In Canada the Communists were so nothing that they even let them run for office to no avail.
 
The bad times seem to understand the trickle down theory but not the good.
 
As long as I’ve been in radio all I’ve ever heard is how tough it is now to sell radio because of the economy and a slew of other factors. I’ve been in radio since the late mid 60’s so I figure when it was easier to sell must have been before that.
 
When I was Jim Hilliard’s PD Jim used to say that anybody can sell great ratings so with that in mind he said … Johns, just get me some f**king ratings then get out of the way and go play racquetball or something cuz I got the rest.
 
Some of the best things I’ve ever done in my life I did while being scared to death.
 
Anybody can say no but only the powerful can say yes.
 
Stephen Hawking claims he has a pretty good handle on all the mysteries of the universe except one … Women!
 
Just because we have been raised to never ever hit females doesn’t mean we don’t want to.
 
The folks who love change the most are those who are making them.
 
The old staff hates changes, the new ones love them.
 
23% of car accidents are alcoholic related which means most accidents are cause by people who are not drinking which is very scary.
 
I’m not sure if it’s the word no or all the reasons why it is no that’s wearing me out, all I know is I’m exhausted.
 
Most people who fit in with the crowd generally don’t sound very good on the radio.
 
The truth is always much easier to remember than a lie.
 
Seeing as only 9.2 percent of our oil comes from the mideast I’m confused why our gas prices go up every time they sneeze over there.
 
Things are how they are not how we wish them to be but if we don’t continue to work on our wish list we are destined to go round and round in a never ending circle.
 
Everyone usually has a plan “B” if we fail but very few have a plan for after we succeed.
 
Only artistic people understand that there is something in between fast & slow, up & down, loud & soft, mellow & intense, happy & sad, etc.
 
It may be time to stop worrying about all the new technology and start worrying about how to come up with some content to put on it.
 
Joe Montana recently said … Everybody gets a trophy! Really.
 
Have you ever noticed that there is not a lot of statues made for nor hi ways or bridges named for Mr. Businessman. I wonder what he did wrong.
 
Someone enthusiastically telling us over and over again how good they are only leads most of us to believe that you like us suspect that you’re not near as good as you claim to be.
 
Back in the day you could always figure out what stations were unsuccessful by how much power the Chief Engineer had. I wonder who that person is today.
 
Nothing has changed, the Democrats and Republicans are spending a way too much time taking care of the rich and the poor at the expense of the middle class.
 
Women who love you are the most loyal friend a man can ever have.
 
Folks who talk on the radio always like to feel comfortable while they are on the air but I have found that they sound better if they are not.
 
The smartest person in the room is the person who is surrounded by people smarter than them.
 
Are you a little nervous about the fact that a lot of the people who sent us to Nam still have a lot of power.
 
Of all the buzz words that come and go isn’t it awesome that awesome is still around.

A few weeks ago I took my Daughter Cami for her orientation at USF in Tampa but now she says that she needs me to come and pick her up because her Freshman year is over. How can that be!

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8 thoughts on “The Voice (new blog for Easter and the week of April 06/15)

  1. When I was a kid, the schools had a choral competition for 6th graders only. Everyone, whether you could sing or not, had to participate. Miss Fredrickson (great legs, even as an 11 year old I could see that) worked us to death. Hours and hours of rehearsal, she worked our butts off and pulled the music out of us. We won and it was a great feeling, it was every bit as good as winning the Midget A hockey championship a month before. My Mom said after, “see, practice makes perfect.” As usual, Mom was right.

  2. Ready for a real scary statistic? It’s estimated that by 8AM as many as 10% of those on the road are already too drunk to drive.

  3. If you want to know what’s going on in a radio station, ask the engineer. They’re always around sticking a screwdriver into something, running a wire, being ignored – but listening or overhearing…

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