Charlie Minor told me that even though label owners were wrong, 90% of the time, they’re still multi-millionaires.
“As someone once said,” Tom Hoyt remarked, “It’s easier to drink like Hemingway than to write like him.” Now, I ain’t suggesting that you are writing like him….but we both drink a bit like him, and you write better than I do!
Yes, that one will be on my Facebook page soon. Now, it’s not plagiarism if I give you credit, is it, George?
Jim Quail told me he fell off his chair while listening to an American talk show, and a first-time caller said, “I’m calling you from a place you’ve probably never heard of, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The host immediately said, “Of course, I’ve heard of Winnipeg; it’s where the Guess Who, BTO, Neil Young, and one of America’s most successful radio consultants, George Johns, is from.
They changed my life, and I will forever owe them for any success I have enjoyed…Proudly their friend.
Terry Kenny of The Jury commented; George, your story about The Jury was great…I loved the entire history, although I remember some of it differently. That could be because my history began with the ChorduRoys, which was an excellent experience until the Phantoms/The Jury. What a heartwarming legacy!
Bruce Murdock commented: Sensei, thought-provoking questions, as always. Doing my retired guy show prep, I looked up CDC death figures for 2020/2019/2018 only had 48 weeks of 2020 on the books, but it looks like, for whatever reason, 48 weeks of 2020 had 200,000+ more deaths than all of 2019 and 400,000+ more than all of 2018.
At breakfast one day,
However, luckily, after hearing Dion’s record, they decided not to help him because, as they said to his Father, “Your son sounds like he’s singing through a dish rag.”
Gary Miles told me after I spoke at the Rogers management conference in Toronto, “George, even though we didn’t pay you, I still feel like we overpaid.
Gar Vidler wrote, the older you get, the smarter you become. It’s starting to get scary, Geo. Great stuff!
Doug Herman wrote, “Speaking of wealth, there is a huge difference between being rich and being wealthy.” Chris Rock explained this phenomenon a few years ago, “Shaq is rich. The guy who writes his paycheck is wealthy.”
Bill Johnson posted; Yancey bull-shitted you – he never offered my sales team a 35% raise if they’d work Saturdays – we were so greedy, we all would have been there. Also, I think most of the sales staff at NAP worked weekends anyway – entertaining clients.
Below is a video I recently posted on Facebook which they took down for being too sexual and are punishing me. What!!!
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