Women Will Almost Do Anything! (new for Nov 09/15)

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When Todd Wallace, Kevin Metheny, Tom Birch, E. Alvin Davis and Bob Pitman first started doing music research we hired Kevin to not only PD WIBG but to also set up our own research at the Fairbanks stations and I’ll never forget the WIBC jock meeting I called to announce our plans.
I explained to Gary Todd, Chuck Riley, Orly Knutson, Pete Sullivan, Jerry Baker, Bob Lamey, Nat Humphries, and Jed Duval that we were hiring a bank of intern type people who would calling folks all over Indianapolis to get their opinions about the music we play. The plan was to have them listen to hooks of songs and then rate them which would determine what music we should be played on WIBC. Once the grumbling began I interrupted it by sarcastically saying that they were absolutely right, this was our radio station why would we let the people dictate to us what to play, we’ll f**king play anything we feel like playing because we have the power to do so … F**k them! 
It was the first standing ovation I ever received at a radio station

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What a weekend!
My daughter Cami turned 20 on Friday so she decided to take the train home home to West Palm Beach from USF to celebrate leaving her teens behind. Amtrak though it appears had other plans. When she got up Friday morning she was informed that her train would be an hour late which they added to with small increments every 15 minutes or so throughout the day and evening. Cami originally was scheduled to arrive in West Palm at 4:45 in the afternoon but didn’t get here until 1:15 AM so of course her birthday plans were ruined. It wasn’t over yet though because when I finally got her to her mother’s house she was devastated to learn that her beautiful dog Buster (pictured) had passed.
Needless to say I am having very creative thoughts about Amtrak.

MORE THOUGHTS ABOUT OTHER STUFF I’VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT…
 
The more my Daughters lives appear to be in jeopardy the more prejudice and racist I become.
 
Muslim women claim they dress like they do so as not to attract men.
 
Men are into how things are whereas women are into why they are.
 
Bill Belichik must look pissed off all the time because he’s thinking about all the taxes he pays out of his enormous salary. I sure can’t think of any other reason.
 
I think the FCC should make the owner of the last placed radio station give up his license.
 
Where the hell did all the radio station engineers go.
 
Why do most of the ideas you come up with behind the walls of a radio station seem to suck when presented elsewhere.
 
As easy as this sounds it’s not done on most radio stations … Simply do more of what people like and less of what they don’t like.
 
Justice unfortunately is only a concept.
 
If you’re ambitious America is the only place to be, but if you just wanna “hang out” Canada should be your choice.
 
Have you ever noticed that the people who whine about the economy the most are the ones whose lifestyle affected the least by it.
 
There are no rain checks for missed opportunities.
 
I love cleaning up sales promotions even before they finish coming out of the mouths of the sales folks.
 
I drove by a hospital the other day which was for women and children exclusively, I wonder where the one for men is.
 
75% of Tattoo removals are done on women.
 
Most women are up for almost anything as long as they don’t have to discuss it the next day.
 
A good woman is the woman who loves listening to her man tell her stories about his life but the moment he hears … You already told me that story, he immediately starts searching for fresh young ears.
 
Women are not afraid of beautiful women, they’re afraid of young women.
 
Is there anything more distracting than a beautiful woman entering a room where a very serious business meeting is going on.
 
Where would Michael Jordan be if there was no NBA, Paris Hilton if there was no sex, Tom Cruise with no movies, or Taylor Swift without a recording contract, which just proves that “The Bard” was right all along when he claimed … The Plays The Thing.
 
The intent of the law is the only thing that counts, the law itself is for lawyers to argue over so they can make money.
 
Because a person is powerful does not make them right.
 
Back in the day Jim Hilliard used to give us enough rope to either hang ourselves or get him some great ratings but it was always our choice.
 
If you just live for today and today is not a good day, what the hell do you do then.
 
Your past only exists when you think about it.
 
You have to learn how to resist fear because nobody is born courageous.
 
Old age and treachery trumps youth and skills every time.
 
Sometimes all ya gotta do is dream bigger.
 
It’s much easier to teach a gifted person how to do it right than teach a person who does it right how to be gifted.
 
Imagination is what you use to take a peek at the future.
 

Once again the only people doing better this year are the rich and the poor.

If you think it’s about the players and not the coaches, check out the 49ers this year.

When I was growing up in Canada the saying was … Go west young Man go west but I discovered that by going south, life turned out much better for me.

Maybe now that Cami is no longer a teen, maybe just maybe PB Teen will stop sending me e mails about their exciting new sale.

For some sneak peeks at new stuff go to GeorgeJohns.com on Twitter @GeoOfTheRadio
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

10 thoughts on “Women Will Almost Do Anything! (new for Nov 09/15)

  1. The few Muslim women of which I am acquainted as co-workers, all of whom wear the traditional garb, fear more about the daughters and sisters of their families back in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East, than they do about men in America, although the level of urban violence in America is becoming a worry. At least we don’t have to worry about that huge influx of undocumented Canadians streaming across the border into North Dakota and Minnesota !

  2. George…. One of my favorite research stories was when I was hired at PD/Mornings at K-101 San Francisco in 1985. Our General Manager told me we had a research department headed by a lady with a college degree in research (might have been from Stanford), and a staff of about five callers who worked feverishly every night from our basement below our studios across the street from the Transamerica Pyramid. He said we were investing about 50K a year on the team. “Whether we continue doing research will be your call. You might want to drop by and say hello some evening.,” said Jack. So I drive down about 7:30 one evening from my place in Half Moon Bay. When I walk downstairs, I see our research leader and her staff, all with their feet up on the desks, passing around a joint. In front of them were empty sheets of paper with nothing written.

    Needless to say, I told our GM I believe we could better invest that 50K elsewhere toward our success. 🙂

    • Bill I’m sure a lot of that went on but what did them in for me was when I looked at all the research from all our markets it was the same list. Music is mostly national but jock content sure ain’t.

  3. I have a feeling that Michael Jordan, Tom Cruise and Taylor Swift would have found success elsewhere had it not been for their chosen fields. Each is too charismatic to fail. You may have it right regarding Paris Hilton but she will inherit success someday. There are plenty of disc jockeys I could name who were fortunate to have discovered that they could goof off our – I mean their – entire careers and do pretty well for ourselves – I mean themselves – in the radio business. Not sure what “The Bard” would have become had it not been for his writing skills: disc jockey on a classical music station? Talk host on Fox News? Nah, way too clever for that.

    • Well one thing I know for sure Kenny is that you sure didn’t goof off when we worked together for over 20 years. But you’re right radio attracted a lot of lazy people because they could hide just like a bunch of pedophiles his in the Catholic Church.

  4. The best Metheny story ever was when he was so richly introduced to the WNAP staff, and after he’d thoroughly explained his job and position, Smash looked at him and said; “Now, exactly what is it that you do?”

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