Just when you thought Radio didn’t have anymore to give over 200 people were let go this week. I wonder if Bill Clinton had any idea back in 1996 what a mess he was generating when he hastily signed the Telecom Act into law. I presume he was trying to prevent Ma Bell from staying the monopoly it was but all he accomplished was turning Radio and the FCC into a joke. Oh and have you noticed your phone bill lately. I for one wish Bill had spent a little more quality time with Monica.

Speaking of Monica, what ever happened to her BFF Linda Tripp.

How about them Come Back Cards!

If it’s snowing in New York what the hell is it doing in Winnipeg.

I wonder why they call it Satellite Radio there’s nothing Radio about it. It’s simply audio for rent.

The only people who read USA Today are out of towners and Dee Jays.

My Mother always told me I shouldn’t spend too much time alone because I tend to have Hermit tendencies. HELLO, HELLO, is anybody here ???

I don’t think Republicans nor Democrats can fix the mess they both created. They are all so old school and yesterday it’s got be time for something new. I don’t see any of them coming up with the answers we need. I don’t think any of these guys could even get an interview let alone a job with Apple as their new CEO.

I find it interesting in Canada that the Quebec government pays for special treatments so women can become pregnant but neighboring Ontario does not. I have my theories on why of course but they would not be politically correct.

I wonder why the governments in America and Canada think they have the right to give away our money to other countries even though both are near bankruptcy. How many politicians do you suppose we will have to blow out before they’ll stop.

Now that most of us all have computers wouldn’t it be fun if the government sent us a list of everything they spend money on and let us make the cuts. No lobbyists could afford to get to all of us so we would have the budget balanced in no time.

How long do you suppose it will be until when I google my name I wont see … Did you mean:  George Jones

How would you ever field a radio station baseball team these days. Who the hell would come out to watch a bunch of sales folks play ball.

I hear production on the movie The Lone Ranger starring Johnny Depp as Tonto has been halted due to it being a way over budget. I mean how much could it cost to have a couple of guys riding around on horses for 90 minutes. Maybe they should use fake silver bullets.

Spell check wont give up. It still claims I’m spelling Cami & Candis incorrectly.

There isn’t a Recording Artist alive who doesn’t remember hearing their record on the radio for the first time. You Tube doesn’t even come close to supplying that kind of excitement.

If you wonder why the people who overpaid for radio stations and also overpay themselves are now firing everybody. It’s for the same reason dogs lick their !!!!

After leaving school and working for a while I decided I was no longer interested in listening to anybody telling me what to do or when and how to do it. That decision cost me millions but I’m happy guy and can sleep at night. Now I’m starting to re think  the whole thing though because I need some more cool stuff. Hey happiness ain’t everything and sleep is way over rated.

Steve Jobs told the students at Stanford University a few years ago that seeing as you are going to spend most of your life working you better find something you like to do.

Very seldom have I ever had an on air talent tell me how good they think another air talent is. I hear quite the opposite though.

Once again I ask … So the good thing about consolidation is ???

Moto says the real problem in America is 50% of Congress are Millionaires and 99% of America is not.

Joe Amaturo finally must be a happy man. His favorite word is “specificity” and if Radio is anything today it is sure that. But the quest for specifics takes a lot of meetings and at those meetings a lot of systems are created in order to implement those specifics. When the systems don’t work out as well as they did on paper and they never do, its back to the old drawing board and of course back to more meetings in order to come up with more and more specifics. Its never ending! Radio has forgotten how to dream and it sure sounds like it.

To be truly happy one must be balanced Financially, Spiritually, Physically and Intellectually equally. But I will tell you this, if someone in the family isn’t out of balance and a little obsessive about the financial side you can just forget about good schools for the kids, eating out in fancy restaurants, fine wines, big homes, exotic vacations and very sexy fast cars. Hey everybody in the family doesn’t need to be happy right!

In the past the slogan used to be … Better Dead Than Red! I wonder what they are using now to keep us from starting a brand new revolution.

How about that Tebow!

In 1965 CEOs made 24 times as much as the average worker. Today its 262 times. I wonder if they are really surprised by all the people who are camped out on Wall Street. They should start worrying about whether or not the campers are going to head to their building.

I’m old enough to remember when GMs actually worked in Radio before they became GM’s.

The strangest Birthday party ever has to be the one Brent Farris threw for himself. He did it at a Funeral Home because he wanted to hear all the good s**t they were going to say about him while he was still alive.

Steve Jobs said Apple never worried about the numbers in the market place they preferred to always keep the spotlight fully focused on the product.

Speaking of Steve Jobs he recently completed writing a book which he wrote for his children so they would know what he was doing all the times he wasn’t with them. I find that rather sad.

Why do I have the scary feeling that when Obama says he is going to raise the taxes on the Rich he is really talking about us. Even we look rich to the poor folk.

The inside word coming out of Dallas is Billy Bob Harris is working on a very exciting new project.

Socrates, Walt Disney, and Steve Jobs all believed that what was above the bottom line that created the bottom line. Do today’s radio executives actually think they are smarter than those guys.

I think most Jocks do their shows for other Jocks as Football Coaches must do it for other Coaches. I was at a Sports bar called Duffy’s watching the unranked Vanderbilt playing 2 nd ranked Bama. Mimi (pictured above) had the heavy pour on so so far I was pretty happy. In the early going Vanderbilt was in the red zone twice but just tried two field goals. I remember thinking to myself … Does this fool think he is going to beat Alabama with field goals. Mimi I think I’ll switch to Whisky!

Speaking of Duffy’s I eat there a lot. At 3 of their locations the ladies behind the bar all know my name, what red wine I like to drink and how I like my Turkey Burger prepared which probably doesn’t speak well of my somewhat narrow life style. The upside though is because I am there so often they rewarded me with some great seats to see the Winnipeg Jets play the Florida Panthers I’m even thinking of getting a Jets Jersey or would that be too dangerous. It’s lucky I live in Florida because in Winnipeg you can’t even buy a ticket.

I think Aaron Rodgers and Drew Brees are the classiest guys playing in the NFL right now.

While we’re talkin’ football, did the Miami Dolphin Cheerleaders get their identical looking decolletage from the same surgeon.

Isn’t weird when you read that somebody has resigned from a radio station but they still claim they love the Management and Staff they are leaving behind. The Management and Staff also say they love them too. It is all so touching it almost makes me weep. I for one yearn for the real story.

At my recent birthday party I got caught up with my old friend Gary Russell. Gary was the first air talent I ever hired and when Management used to ask me why I tolerated his hair being so long I told them it was because it made him sound better.

I once asked Mark Hubbard why he never hired Hank Williams Jr. when he was running Jamboree In The Hills. He said because Hank’s fans come with guns and knives.

The big difference between raising Cami than Candis is when Candis and her Mom were fighting I never knew about it. When Cami and her Mom fight I’m drawn into it. The only way I know when the fight is over is when they both get mad at me for interfering.

If our leaders in industry and government had to down size their personal life style in any way they would fix the economy because their family’s wouldn’t tolerate it.

The only people who like good byes are Dee Jays.

What I cant figure out is why the Republicans are huge supporters of Israel when the Jews in America don’t even vote for them.

I think every young female should see the movie “Taken” so they realize their Father’s are probably not ex CIA agents. It’s scary out there

The wonderful thing about daughters is that as feminine as they may be I think they would tear the throat out of anyone who dared say something bad about their Dads.

Are you good at something because it’s easy for you to do or do you become good at it because you like doing it.

I don’t think good content can save a bad talent but a good talent can save bad content.

Why don’t women think other women are very precious. Do they know something we don’t.

Why do guys wearing leather and riding a Harley always appear happier than you.

I wonder in the NFL if there would be fewer injuries if when you came off the field you had to stay out the whole game.

Nobody in America cares much about what the people in Palm Beach Florida think but unfortunately all of our past present and future Presidents sure do.

It is real tough to stay positive when the only thing that is newsworthy are negatives.

Dan Patrick is much better on the radio than he is on TV.

If you’re an older Dude hitting on younger women you better be able to dance like you’re a Boy Toy.

A while back I published what some may have considered to be a somewhat controversial Blog which was about 3 friends of mine who it turned out suffered from depression. Most people though claimed it was one of my more sensitive Blogs and very unlike most of my usual egotistical rants but either way I received more comments about this Blog than any other I have ever written. Also I received a surprise e mail which inspired me to revisit the subject.
Up until a few years ago I’d only heard rumors about the existence of depression because of it being so well hidden. I was surprised by a few comments like the one that came from my good friend Gary Russell. Gary’s Father was a very successful businessman but according to Gary suffered from depression for most of his career and finally had to retire at an early age. Some how though found the strength to fight his way through it and even started a whole new career again when he moved to British Columbia. Gary’s story made me think back about what it was like growing up around my Father and I never realized until now that he too may have been suffering from depression. Back then whatever he had was referred to as some kind of nervous disorder that was treated with something called nerve pills. All I know is that whatever he had caused a lot of fun plans to be cancelled because he would be too sick to participate in them. The memories I have of my Father are unfortunately mostly ones of disappointment like proudly flying home for Christmas one year shortly after becoming a Program Director for the first time and very excited about the fact that my Dad was picking me up and I could share with him the good news that I had recieved my first raise already. When we landed there to greet me was my brother in law Ronnie who explained my Dad was once again not feeling well so he couldn’t pick me up. Those kinds of things happened so often that still to this day I don’t have much sympathy for sickness of any kind but I wish I had known back then what he was going through because maybe we would have had a much better relationship. My Mother used to tell us that Dad would be feeling much.
My Father lived a Jekyll and Hyde existence which my Brother Reg claimed became even worse after I had left home. My friend Jim Quail would often say to me,”It must be great living at your place” because out in public Sandy Johns (pictured) had him and others rolling in the aisles with all the jokes he used to tell. My answer to Jim was … Yeah Right!
Jed Duval commented that our long time production whiz at WIBC TJ Byers also suffered from depression for most of his life and eventually took his own life. After reading many sad comments like that I’ve figured out that maybe a lot of our radio brothers who we thought of as strange at the time, may have been in fact suffering from depression and I believe the more we talk about it, write about it, and bring it out into the open, the more chances there may be that some skilled and qualified people will find a better way to deal with it.