Reg&Geo’s Most Excellent Adventure. 6/18/22

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Saturday, June 18
Geo leaves West Palm Beach @ 8:00 am on American Airlines and arrives in Toronto @ 2:20 PM.
Reg arrives from Ottawa at 2:29 PM
Staying at the Royal York Hotel and meeting some radio and record folks at the lobby bar around 6:00 PM.
Sunday, June 19George & Reg board “The Canadian” bound for Winnipeg @9:45 AM.

Monday, June 20
Reg&Geo arrive in Winnipeg @ 7:30 PM (probably later)
Staying at the Fort Garry Hotel for 3 nights.
Meeting family and friends at the bar each evening.
Breakfast with Jim Quail @ 9:00-9:30 and maybe a few of the famous Transcona Nationals.
Renting a car for day trips to Transcona to revisit our roots.

Thursday, June 23
Geo&Reg leave Winnipeg on “The Canadian” bound for Vancouver @9:30 PM (probably later) (see photo on top)

Sunday, June 26th
Reg&Geo arrive in Vancouver @8:00 AM (probably much later) Staying at the Executive Hotel Soleil.
Meeting friends at the bar.

Monday, June 27
Reg&Geo leave for San Francisco at 12:35 on West Jet.
Arrive at SFO @3.00 PM.
Dinner with the Hilliards and Smiths.

Thursday, June 30th
Geo leaves for Oxnard Ca. @10:26 AM on Amtrak to visit with Bob&Jan in Camarillo.
Arrival in Oxnard @7:20 PM

Sunday, July 03
Geo leaves Camarillo @10:09 AM on Amtrak and arrives in Burbank @11:14 AM.

Dinner with Candis, Charlie, and Prince Nathaniel.

Monday, July 04
Geo leaves LAX @12:08 on American and arrives back in West Palm Beach @10:32 PM.

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#6 Radio Geo’s Media Blog (The 1% Club) 7/18/22

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The other night I watched a few episodes of David Letterman’s new show on Netflix called “My Next Guest Needs No Introduction.”
It didn’t take me long to notice that not only has he become even more arrogant than ever, but all of his guests seem to be as liberal as he is.

I rather enjoyed his smart-ass approach on “Late Night” because it came in tolerable short bursts.
The only time Democrat Dave is not arrogant or smart-assed is when his guest is black, which comes off to me like a lot of reverse racism.

I haven’t watched all of the episodes and doubt I will, but I must admit that I enjoyed the ones featuring Jerry Seinfeld, Howard Stern, and Lewis Hamilton.

Of the four I watched, the one that amazed me the most was when Dave’s guest was Barack Obama.
Unfortunately, what got in the way was how Dave fawned over him as Justine Trudeau (Prime Minister of Canada) did when he first met Obama. Both of them looked like they were about to go down on him any minute.

I’m not a big fan of Obama’s politics, but I am a big fan of how he presents himself.
During the interview, Dave tried to goad him into bashing Trump, but Obama had too much class to go there.

One of the things that surprised me during the Obama interview was when Barack said that one of the worst things about America is the gap between the well-to-do’s and the rest of us is widening.
However, he neglected to mention the fact that he and Dave were both members of the 1% club.

As I said, I’m not sure if I’ll watch any more of Dave’s show because even though his guest list is rather interesting, I don’t care to hear about their one-sided politics.
I’ve heard most of the same stuff from all of Dave’s previous guests and can only wonder if even the studio audience, like the guests, have to be card-carrying Democrats?

No wonder Dave’s Late Night ratings paled in comparison to Johnny Carson’s, Johnny’s show was about us and the stuff we liked, whereas Dave’s was and continues to be about Dave.

RADIO GEO’S LIFE-LINERS

Most brilliant endings began with an unstructured beginning.

Everybody is a different person and should be treated as such.

Athletes today may be bigger and better, but I’m not sure that they’re more intelligent?

Most great people were obsessive about what they specialized in and were in the right place at the right time.


It amazes me that even though Biden botched the withdrawal from Afghanistan and shut down the pipeline, gas prices have soared, interest rates also started climbing, the economy is shrinking, and there are shortages everywhere; the Democrats still love him. Go figure!

Not reading what you signed is not an excuse.

To be successful, one must constantly be in pursuit of it.

Wow, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers are now 6 – 0. Go Big Blue!

COMMENTS

Wendy: No worries, George! I’m a women’s libber from the ’60s, and I will remain one till the day I’m no longer on this earth. Can you imagine my attitude in the great beyond?? I’m sure I’ll rattle a few bones, pun intended!! Yikes! (Fairbanks Management Conferences)
Geo: You Go, Girl!

Jed Duval: George: I don’t know if you heard this, as I believe you arrived from CFTR-AM, Toronto, later in the week, but I started at WIBC on Monday, May 14th, 1973, the day after I graduated from Indiana University, Bloomington. Jim Hilliard hired me as a go-for intern, assigned to Gary Todd, with the proviso that I was essentially was also “on-call” for any assignments Jim, Gary, and someone yet-to-be-named (you) had for me.
I was very intimidated by Jim, you after you arrived from Canada to occupy the office across from Gary’s, Fred Heckman, Cris Conner, Mike Griffin, Chuck Riley, Dick Smart, Mr. Fairbanks, of course, Mr. Fairbanks’ majordomo Alice Bayne, and the wheeler-dealers from both WIBC’s and WNAP’s sales department. Most intimidating were Dick Yancey, WNAP’s sales manager Dave Spence, and WIBC sales savage John Kilcoyne.
On my second day at the two-brick (2835 North Illinois Street), I was coming down the hallway off the lobby past engineering when coming the other way was an intense, well-dressed man briskly marching past the coffee machine (10-cents-a-cup, if the cup fell first before the coffee, tea or hot chocolate started streaming). The man glared at me as we passed each other, then he grabbed my shoulders, turned me around, and slammed me against the pale green cinder block walls of the hallway. Now Dick Yancey is about the same height as I am (five-foot, six inches). He lifts me by my neck, puts his face close to mine, sneering, “Are you happy in your work ?”! I am about to do No. 1 and No. 2 in my pants! Slowly, the sneer breaks into a huge grin as he lets me collapse onto the linoleum floor and says, “Welcome aboard !” I am a quivering mess as other 2835 staffers stare at me in a heap on the floor against the wall.
As the months and years passed, I found Dick to be demanding but generous. He may be one of the finest sales motivators ever. But to his credit, you, Jim, and Dick (and later, Jerry Bobo) gave the sales staffs ways to generate revenue beyond just the advertiser/agency “cost-per-thousand” metric, like huge events (WNAP 50 % Off Free Fair”, “The Magic Ticket” and “The Prize Catalog.”
When I was hired by Jim, he asked me a question that, at first, I did not know how to answer: “What is more important, the accomplishment of the mission or the welfare of the men ?” In my mind, being a producer/programming sort of guy, I always thought, well, of course, it’s the welfare of the men. Now I know you cannot do what’s best for your employees if you do not accomplish the mission. Jim has always known that to accomplish the mission, you have to march to the garbage can every morning! (Fairbanks Management Conferences)

Geo: Jed, every General knows that it’s the accomplishment of the mission, but they can’t afford to say it out loud because it would ruin their career.

Eugene Ferraro: George. Thanks for your reply…In my e-mail, I did mean Phil Gardner, not Bill, who, by the way, I have contacted by e-mail about some old WFIL and WIBG questions I had for him, which he has always kindly asked answered for me. Phil Gardner spent most of his career at WGAR In Cleveland and only worked at WIBG for a short time. Since my last e-mail, I did find out that Phil has retired from his radio career…at the end of August of last year…he was using his real name–Phil Reaser, on the air at his Fort Wayne gig, which he began in 1996. (The Great Gift)
Geo: I thought I knew all the Gardners, Eugene, brothers Bill, Al, and Andre, but I guess I missed Phil.

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