George
I’ve been told that a lotta people don’t “get me” Joe Amaturo claims he got me right away when he figured out I was logical not mystical.
Jo Myers asked when her new book “Good To Go” came out, could I get her hooked up with Delilah and would she have to make a sordid deal with me to get that done.
I told her I was taking Sordids up front now because of all the collection problems I was having.
Tim Moore recently wrote that after Lou Holtz had complained to his old friend Bobby Bowden in a midfield meeting about why Bobby had left in his starters and ran up the score, which embarrassed Lou. Bobby replied I can only coach one way and one team at a time. I suggest that you just need to get better players and to coach them better so something like this doesn’t happen again.
Radio used to be just like that. When did they get so brilliant that they now can coach a whole bunch of stations all at the same time.
Damn I’ve just been informed that my old English teacher from TCI, Mr Deering just passed way at 101 years of age.
Had I known he was still alive this long I would have begged him help me with all this writing thing. I think it’s becoming fairly obvious that I didn’t listen to anything he said in his English class.
I was telling Candis my oldest Daughter about a beautiful exciting woman I just met. But when she found out how much younger than me she was Candis didn’t seem nearly as excited about it all as I was. She just wanted to make sure I wasn’t dating her.
I guess she probably wont buy into the formula either that we men use to calculate if a woman is too young for us or not … 1/2 my age + 7
I just love the word yes it usually leads to all my dreams and fantasies coming true.
Brent Farris told me with a frustrated tone to his voice, that the willingness to accept average is the enemy of greatness
The most popular music has always been when a white person sounded like a black person or a black person sounded like a white person or a boy sounded like a girl. The Beatles took it to a new level when they as white English men sounded like black girls from Detroit.
Giff told me he is getting ready to do what he thinks will be his best work ever. He thinks it may be his swan song so he wants it to be real special.
Even though the project doesn’t start until sometime in January, he is already working night and day on it.
Jerry Del Colliano says the Beasley radio group is going back to a PD for each each one of it’s radio stations. Can some real good programming be that far behind.
Tom Hoyt told me it’s time to not look foolish again and he claims he is really up for it.
I think the saddest day of all for radio is still ahead of us. I dont know why it will happen I just know it will. That sad day will occur when these clowns who are currently running radio, get elected to the radio hall of fame.
How come special days are called by their name’s like Valentines day, Veterans day, New Years Day, Boxing Day,(for the Canadians) Presidents Day, April Fools, Cinco De Mayo, Memorial Day, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Election Day, Thanks Giving, Martin Luther King Day but Christmas is referred to as Happy Holiday and goes nameless ?
Betsy Cameron told me that shortly after having she first met me, she confronted me with fact that she felt I was ignoring her and she definitely wasn’t used to that kind of behaviour from men. Her claim is my response was … It’s just my way of hitting on ya baby!
I have always wondered why sales people have always spent so much time trying to do what the clients want and driving the rest of us crazy with the stupid requests. I figure if the clients knew what they wanted they would already be doing it.
When I was the National PD for for Fairbanks Broadcasting I would always do a pre book visit to all our stations.
Ron Chapman in Dallas loved these little visits because I always came with gifts that I would use to try and entice entice him to give more than the 110% he was already giving.
On this book tour I ended up in Boston where the night jock the day before the book started said he wasn’t going on without a huge pay raise. I asked him to step out of the office for a moment while I called my boss back in Indy, Jim Hilliard.
Jim said he has us over the barrel George your going to have to pay the ransom, give him whatever he wants but you know what to do. On the last day of the rating book guess who was back there waiting to see him right after he got off the air?
In the movies the good guy always gets the girl, but in real life it’s tough to get the girl unless you don’t want the girl You can get a bunch of those girls they’re easy, but the one you want is very hard to get. There’s a lesson somewhere in all of that.
If it doesn’t change your life style it’s not important enough to worry about.
I’ve never understood why sales people are always trying to figure out what the client wants to do. I figure if the client knew what they wanted to do they would already be doing it.
When you watch pro football it’s pretty easy to figure out not many of the coaches of players ever went to any classes in college.
There is no such thing as a Rock & Roll Christmas.
Holding on to what you have keeps you from having what you want.
Russ Morley told me that his ex father in law said to him when they were once driving on a long journey together … Ya know Russ all women are exactly the same, they just look different. Then he drifted back to sleep and left Russ to ponder that as he drove on through the night.
Years ago a friend of mine was involved in meeting at USA TODAY where founder AL Neuharth was ranting and raving at the gathered staff about the pending doom of USA TODAY.
His claim was the paper had no chance because he was surrounded by morons.
How are we ever going to make this paper successful was his question as he held up a copy of that days paper.
Look at this story it’s wonderful ,it’s what the public wants. “All American Girl Wins National Cheer leading Competition”
Look how beautiful she looks. There is just one huge problem with the story. YOU IDIOTS PUT HER TITS BELOW THE FOLD !
Barry O’ Brien is going to be very proud of me because I think I have cut way back on the “!” word. (Barry this wasn’t good enough to go above the fold)
I wrote story about my remembrance of recording my first record over 40 years ago with The Jury.
The story turned out pretty good I thought, so I sent it to Jamie Gold who works at the the LA Times. I wanted her to give me some tips on how I could make appear like a real writer wrote it.
She said it was interesting but a little disjointed and a way too long. I tied it all together a little better and even pulled out a bunch of good stuff from the story in an attempt to shorten it and sent it to her again.
It’s even longer was her reply, who do you think is going to have enough time to read this. You have got to Edit Edit Edit.
Back at it again I go, editing, pulling, squeezing, reshaping, smaller words. Her reply was … Your not listening to me, I told you it has to be shorter, a lot shorter.
Now I finally know what it must have been like for all that air talent who had to go to all those sessions with me over the years. Pay back is a bitch!
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