Too Stupid ! (new Blog for June 06/16)

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Before my daughter Candis (pictured above at the Roxy) became a Supermom she was a singer/songwriter who performed all over the LA area including the Whiskey and the Roxy. (click on picture below to hear a sample of her work) 
One day she said to me, Dad I live in the record capital of the world, I work for a record company so you’d think that I’d have a record deal by now. Not only am I not signed but I can’t even get any of the record folks to come out to see us. Hey you lived in Transcona which is in the middle of nowhere yet you released four records, how did you do that. So I told her the truth … I was too stupid to know I couldn’t honey.

OTHER OBSERVATIONS ABOUT SEVERAL OTHER THINGS…

I bet people who live paycheck to paycheck must really hate those 31 day months.
 
When you’re asleep and dreaming about reading a book who wrote the words?
 
White people are the only people in America that you can still legally discriminate against.
 
Without action no dream ever becomes a reality.
 
How people treat you is who they really are.
 
Just because you didn’t see anybody watching doesn’t mean that they didn’t see you.
 
Constructive criticism needs more than the help of a spoonful of sugar to help it go down.
 
Thomas Jefferson once said that peace was that glorious moment when everybody was reloading.
 
You lose all the rights your country gave you the moment you enter the work place.
 
Success is really measured by what you did after doing what you were expected to do.
 
The weaker your signal the stronger your programming must be.
 
Before you put anything on the radio it must be 5 sensed first.
 
When you open the mic you have 4 seconds to get a woman’s attention, there are 5 subjects that will hold her interest and she has 6 emotional buttons that need to pushed. Good luck!
 
Law & Order does all of the above every show.
 
When Ron Chapman winged his show on in Dallas he was paid 25 thou a year but when he prepared it we had to pay him over a million.
 
One of the best ways to get someone’s attention on the radio is to have an exaggerated emotional outburst about something special.
 
There is no such thing as a quiet drunk.
 
There are two distinct types of people, those who make promises and those who keep them.
 
When things get bad the only thing you can count on is that they may get worse. 
 
Is a Zebra black with white stripes or white with black stripes?
 
I’ve been a grandfather for over 11 years now and both of my daughters are still waiting for me to act like it.
 
One of the scariest things you’ll ever hear from a woman is “We Need To Talk.”
 
When in doubt about a legendary story, always go with the legend.
 
What day is there not a mattress sale going on.

Wow Canadian legend Bobby Curtola has just died.

I loved Yogi Berra’s saying “I didn’t say all the things I said.”

How come intelligent people think they know very little where as stupid ones think they know it all.

Tom Skinner told me that he once had a book that told you what questions you should ask prospective employees. He said that he used that book for years until he discovered another which told you how to answer all those questions.

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Younger Women! (new Blog for May 30/16)

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J-Robert-Wood

Meanwhile back in the Motherland, J Robert Wood whom I’ve known for a very long time just received a well deserved lifetime achievement award in Toronto. Bob and I actually go way back to the the time when he was John Wood the dance promoter from Teulon and I was a band leader from Transcona. Unbeknownst to us we both got into radio around the same time and even ended up working at CKY together.
J Robert later went on to do some outstanding work for the CHUM organisation while I moved to America to join Jim Hilliard at Fairbanks. Since working against each other in Toronto we haven’t communicated much over the years so I was anxious to read the interview he gave after receiving his award. During the interview he said a lot of interesting stuff but he also said some puzzling things like when talked at length about his on going battle with CFTR. He claimed that CHUM won most of the battles because of its programming expertise and never once mention CHUM’s superior signal at the time. However when my brother Reg showed up as the new PD of CFTR and kicked CHUM’s ass so hard it ended the war, Wood claimed it was because CFTR had the superior signal then. Color me confused but I’m sure Warren Cosford will clear it all up for me in his usual unbiased manner.
However though when J Robert started to hand out accolades to some of my favorite people like Jim Hilliard, Dougie Thompson, Duke Roberts, Keith Dancy, Ted Randal, Bill McDonald, Chuck McCoy, and Mark Parr … That I did understand. Then when he raved about all the great writers, board ops, jocks and news folks he worked with over the years I finally remembered just how huge Chum’s staff was back then. I can only wonder if guys like Jim Hilliard, Buzz Bennett, Jack McCoy, Tracy Johnson, Jim Harper, Bobby Cole or even Bill Drake had big staffs like his, what their stations would have sounded like.
 
SOME OTHER STUFF THAT I’VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT….
 
It matters not what you’re looking at but what you see.
 
Without sperm there is nothing, nothing at all, so where the hell is our government funding!
 

Imperfections not only make a person interesting but also perfect.

If I received a dollar beginning each morning at dawn from every woman who found me unappealing, by sunset I’d become very attractive.

Everybody understands positive stuff it’s the negatives that confuse folks.
 
My folks weren’t much into philosophy but I sure am and can only hope my kids are too. Cami though complains that our philosophical chats just gives her a headache.
 
Why is it than whenever you read something on Facebook that you totally agree with automatically makes it the absolute truth.
 
What did Adam and Eve use their belly buttons for.
 
When I’m asked why I date younger women I say it’s because I believe I can. When I looked around one day and saw a bunch of them on the arms of short fat bald guys, I asked why not me!
 
Women will give up “eye candy” in a nano second for an intellectual man. Men on the other hand aren’t so smart.
 
Falling in love will be the best and worse thing you’ll ever do.
 
Husbands never brag about their wives prowess in bed in fact it’s quite the opposite.
 
I don’t know many men who are looking for wives.
 
It is said that if you treat a lady like a whore and a whore like a lady you’ll do real well with women. The trick is knowing which is which.
 
There’s no sense learning something new if you ain’t using what you learned.
 
The DMV and the Post Office prove that great benefits don’t work.
 
People who have a financial interest in something always seem to be the last to know that it was evil all along.
 
My father never told me what kind of a man he was he just showed me. I pale in comparison.
 
The reason there are so many malpractice suits is because most Most Doctors never graduated anywhere near the near the top of their class.
 
Politicians must agree with our opinions of them because they never seem insulted by them.
 
A ton of lawyers need to be investigated but seeing as most politicians are lawyers, ain’t gonna happen.
 
How can you trust the rich folk in congress to come up with a fair tax plan for the rich.
 
You’re usually real good at doing the things that you love.
 
Until all the geeks get our computers to run as well as our cars there is no need for new stuff.
 
He who controls the language controls the budget. For example we don’t bing or yahoo it.
 
If you wanna make money in radio you’ve got to get the folks to listen to it, not just hear it.
 
If you can dream it you can do it … But the dreaming part is the hard part.
Bummer ending to the 500 as rookie Alexander Rossi kinda just peddled his way to the finish
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