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March 29, 2022
Shining Shores Of SteveThere is a saying, “One Man’s Trash is Another Man’s Treasure,” and mostly that comes down to one thing. The beholder has no concept of the value of that which lies in their possession. In mid-2015, I arrived in Nashville to program the Way-FM ...
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January 5, 2022
KTU's Lulu & Lala On The Amazing RaceIt was a TV host reel of then Univision Radio hosts Lulu and Lala which first got my attention in 2012 because they were maximizing their screen time with celebrities, allowing them to plug their projects like every other host on the row, while going toe-to-toe with them ...
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September 22, 2021
The Atomic Habits of BlippiWho could have conceived that a little movie about some dead baseball players and a father- son relationship could have spawned a real baseball game 30+ years later, just adjacent to the very corn fields of dreams that the movie was filmed on in Iowa? There’s an ...
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August 3, 2021
Abraham Lincoln, Simone Biles and Lauren DaigleMyKayla Skinner is a name you may have never known. She was already enroute back to America as an alternate gymnast when she got a call saying, “Come back, we need you.” Her efforts were good as gold and earned her the silver medal as the last-minute replacement to ...
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June 29, 2021
Jeeps, Clubs and Rubber Ducks!Even as I’ve aged to half of a century, one thing remains with my heart and soul. I still want to belong. I still want purpose and I still want to make a difference. At the end of 2020, my wife and I bought her dream car, a 2021 Jeep Wrangler. Within hours of posting ...
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April 20, 2021
When Life Gave Jenn Bostic LemonsShe was only 10 years old, unassuming, on her way to school, a typical day for young Jenn Bostic whose dad was at the wheel. Nobody could have known that mere car lengths ahead in the upcoming intersection, life would let go like a truckload of lemons whose pallets gave ...
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February 9, 2021
Corey McGriff, A Life that Mattered
DJ Megatron Fondly RememberedIt’s hard to believe that this year will make ten years that have passed since NYC’s DJ Megatron, Corey McGriff was gunned down in a senseless crime near his apartment on Staten Island in March of 2011. A month had passed since his tragic murder and my desk phone ...
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October 20, 2020
How Many RIGHTS Until You’re In the Wrong!?There have been words and phrases that have simmered on the outside of the mainstream, until those words gain enough saturation to reach critical mass; and usually critical mass isn’t reached until those words have made their way through the broadcast industry. There ...
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September 29, 2020
Ellen Said IF, A Word So PowerfulSincerity is that thing that most people’s intuition will pick up on. Sometimes a person who has been mind-screwed over many situations in life, like a child whose parents weren’t forthcoming, or the most common, a wife whose man cheats or lies, and successfully ...
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August 27, 2020
Police Squeeze Bad CompanyWe’re in the absolute, most sensitive time in society. When President Trump held a Bible in his hands for a photo op, I wrote a simple post on Facebook. “Don’t be fooled or impressed by a man because he holds a Bible, but instead, be the man who holds the WORD on ...