James Strong Show Podcast

The mañana mentality has never worked for me. If it's important, if it needs to get done, do it now, because tomorrow never comes. This goes for the enjoyable things in life as well as the necessary. A missed opportunity could cost you money, but you can make more money. If a missed opportunity costs you a unique life experence, that may never be repeated. Today's essay notes examples. 

Route 66, The American West, Miami Beach (South Beach) are all changing as we live and breathe. You need to do what you can the see as much as you can before you can't. When it's gone, you must rely on the musings and recollections of others, which may not be 100% accurate. 

Making good money doesn't always require a college degree. The path to success is simple, but requires hard work. Interested in making $100k a year? Listen here.

Have you ever been to Sacramento and Lake Tahoe? Virginia City? Well, we just returned with lots of tales. Riverboats, baseball, microbrews, nature and ghost towns all within a two hour drive. Curious? Listen here.

Pope Francis dies on Easter Monday aged 88. He had been in poor health for years, so this was not suprising. Francis got a bad rap as being a Liberal Pope. Many in the Church and in secular circles misrepresented or simply lied about his stances and policies. Listen here to see what I'm talking about. You may be suprised. 

Opinions based in fact have value. Today's essay features three of my recent opinions that ring true. Cars, motorcycles and baseball. I love it when I'm right! Also, my recent camping trip revisited. Enjoy! 

Manufacturing for profit is difficult. Elon Musk says its the most difficult thing he does. Specialization is a key to success. Special vendors add cost and value, a "value added" benefit. This is why most all manufactures job out processes of components. Can tariffs bring these items back to America? Let's discuss!  

Bossa Nova music has been around for over 60 years and is enjoying a resurgence. Especially with me. I've fallen in love with the beat, swing and lyrics (Portuguese language). You say you aren't familiar with Bossa Nova? Yes you are. You just don't know it. Listen here to discover this unique and magical music.

When going on a driving vacation, I usually rent a car. I have four cars already. Why would I rent another? During our recent driving trip to Hot Springs, i rented a car. Why? Listen to find out. Also, I give a review on the wonderful town of Hot Springs, Arkansas. 

Capitalism is about making money. Capitalism is necessary for a sound society. But short term profits at the expense of long term success is short sighted. If so, then why is Major League Baseball and Southwest Airlines playing the short game at the expense of the long? Listen here.

When is the last time you attended a class where you learned a useful skill? I do it all the time. The school is Youtube. The class is whatever you need to know about fixing or repairing almost anything. If it can be fixed or repaired, someone had made a video of the process. Recently I've fixed cars and a dishwasher after watching videos of the process. Could I have done it without watching the videos? Maybe, but certainly not with efficiency. Check it out!

Ever flown on a budget airline? I'm not talking Southwest, but Spirit, Frontier or Allegiant. Well I recently flew Spirit. How was it? Less than half the price of Southwest. Was it worth it? Maybe. Listen here for the details. it will help you decide. 

Government Waste has been here since government began. And waste is a part of it. Everyone agrees it needs to be stopped. No one does anything to stop it. Is Elon Musk and DOGE about to change everything? Today's essay discusses. 

Recent studies say alcohol is bad for you. Wasn't that obvious? Some are not saying even one drink can cause damage. Strong relates firsthand the effects of imbibing. Both good and bad. Where do you stand on this new epiphany? Listen here.

Conflict from today and thousands of years ago. How are they related? Why should we care? Hand wringing over the unknown and undesirable is a human nature that remains a constant throughout history. Also, sports betting and the Jaguar runs! 

Cars are expensive, right? So if you are paying more, you should expect seamless, predictable service, right? Strong discusses the trials and tribulations of buying a new car in 2025. Spending a lot of money shouldn't be hard, but it is. Listen here. Also LA fire talk and will drinking really kill you? 

Returning from a trip to Southern California, Strong discusses the fake news involving the weather and LA fires. Midwest USA has no monopoly on weather stories anymore, or the exaggerated aftermath extreme weather brings. Did LA really cut the fire department $17m? Did Mayor Bass really holiday in Ghana while LA burned? Does the City of St. louis now refuse to plow snow from the streets? Listen here.

The New Year means new happenings. Be it better or worse, there will be changes. Strong takes a look at some of those changes and discusses what they mean for you. Listen here!

Before movies about Superman and Batman and Spiderman, there was Bond. James Bond. Bond is the original larger than life superhero that supersedes all the rest. Now a creative impasse between the franchise owners (Barbara Broccoli) and the studio (MGM / Amazon) have put all new projects on hold. Amazon wants to expand and update (monetize) the franchise and Broccoli won't have it. Also, we discuss the new Aston Martin Vantage. Of course we do! 

What can we believe today? Everyone from ad men to government officials tell us what to believe. Drones are just planes. My car is the best. My ED medicine will let you wow the girls. We tend to be gullible, but is it really our fault? is there a way around it. Maybe. Listen here.

One day we will all be driving electric cars. One day we will have colonies on Mars. Neither is happening any time soon. Low profits, governments struggling to balance budgets, lack of charging stations and low range are the reasons. Car companies, Tesla excluded, can't turn a profit. Today's podcast lists the reason why most of us will be driving ICE cars for a long time. Also, we discuss baseball's proposed Golden Bat rule. 

The way to make good money today is simple, but the implementation isn't easy. It takes hard work, education, relocation and or determination. Strong gives examples of several jobs that are in high demand and pay outstanding money. Curious? Listen here.   

In 1953 Donald Keyhoe coined the Phrase "UFOs Are Real". Luis Elizondo said UAP are real in last week's government UAP (UFO) hearings. More military officials with more strong testimony, and still no disclosure. Why? What are they hiding? Or do they really have no idea what these phenomena are? Listen here.

Why did Trump win the 2024 election? Why did the GOP win the Senate and as of November 10, probably the House? Superior candidates? The right message at the right time? probably not. Why we did what we did on November 5 from an independent perspective.

Strong discusses his latest trip to the Florida Panhandle, then waxes eloquently about Elon Musk, Lithium, Saudi Slavery and why Starbucks can't get the cream in your coffee right. Don't see the relationship here? Then listenup. 

Today's twin spin is about the new kings of the economy and my recent adventure in Colorado. Facts, finance and fun all on the Strong Show. 

Florida is our Germany, home to the oddball free spirits. We discuss one thing Floridians get right (electric power), and one they get wrong (living on a beach in hurricane country). Batting .500 isn't bad, depending on the outcome. Listen here.

Major League Baseball has changed over the past 10-15 years. Batting average, RBI, Pitcher wins really don't matter. OPS, and wiff rate matter. Good or bad, its a fact. Has the change made the game a better product? Attendance is up. Listen here.

The only son of Frank Sinatra, Jr. was a singer, musician, composer and conductor who took his material from The Great American Songbook. Some thought he simply rode the old man's coat tails. Not True! Sinatra Jr. as hard working and determined as his old man. He ran the show for his father as his health and confidence waned. Listen here for the story of one of the least appreciated singers of the modern era.

The White Mountain Wilderness is difficult to access, so few people go there. I did. Number three son and I explored the wilderness, camped in the wilderness and undertook a climb of 14252 feet. The travel and acclimation process is a challenge in itself. The assent? Listen here.  

Of all the plants and animals on earth, we humans are the most adaptable. Change forces adaptability. The result of failure is extinction. We are prospering, in spite of poor governments and constant change. Listen here for the details.

Individualism is a bellwether of America. But the fine line between confidence and arrogance has widened exponentially. Politicians, Captains of Industry, even common folk looking for a bit of help are morphing from cutting edge leaders to clueless asses. Strong notes 5 cases where the "do as I say" statement doesn't ring true. Maybe we should care how people see us, at least a little. 

Utopian New Zealand has hit hard times. It's natural beauty is worthless if it's citizens can't pay the bills, so they are emigrating in droves. So is it really always about the money? Kind of...yes. Strong explains.

What designates a bad economy? No food? No home? Your vacation is cut short? Hardship today for many of us first world residents isn't like it was once upon a time. What designates a bad economy? Listen here. 

On July 31 Strong walked away from the day job. The one that earned the money, not the podcast. Call it retired if you like, but the Strongman is moving onto the next adventure. What will it be? How is the podcast affected? Listen here.

Many tell us many things. Some True (Dow Jones up 1% today). Some hyped (our product is the best). Some Lies (most political ads). Strong discusses several items told to us or others that perhaps expected one reaction, but received another. Southwest Air's recent decision to assign seats is one. Relax and listen to the spin doctors smile and lie!

Strong asks the the pop culture question, "How Long Will We Live". Some scientists say 150 years will be commonplace. Others, not so much. While most will live longer, none will surpass certain boundaries. The oldest person died in 1997. She was 122. No one has surpassed her. It's been nearly thirty years. Have we hit the limit? do we really want to pass it? And some UFO talk as well!  

News of the day, second page. That's been the topic of this show for the past 20+ years, be it on terrestrial radio or via podcast. Strong links these three unrelated topics and melds them into a web of the times, where everyone thinks they have the answers, but many don't have a clue. Intrigued? Enjoy.

We're all getting older, even the youngest among us. After 30, things get tougher. After 60, really tougher. I'm planning another 14,000 foot mountain climb now that my foot has healed. What was wrong? How did I fix it? Surgery? New age medicine? Not quite. Simple, but not easy ways to do more with an older body.  

Who says Ufo's are real? More and more former military and government workers who were involved in the investigations. Retired Colonels and Admirals, Pentagon officials, website publishers who have had their homes raided to name a few. Where there's smoke, there's fire? Yes indeed.   

Climate change is a real thing. It always has been. You can wring your hands and cry about it, or you can accept it and adapt to the new reality. From cars to coffee, Strong discusses the way prudent thinkers are adapting to the new normal. You can too!

Japanese academic Kohei Saito has suggested that Degrowth Communism will solve the climate change problem. How? Everyone cuts way back and government manages who gets to use the little bit of energy that is doled out. Undoable? Ridiculous? But it's an idea proposed by an academic. Strong discusses this silly man's pipe dream.  

AI is here to stay. It bolsters productivity, performs long mundane tasks more efficiently, and will make life better, for most. Will it steal your intellectual property? US laws say no. Strong discusses how things are and proposes how things will be in today's podcast. 

Today's headlines are so crazy that UFO talk actually sounds reasonable. Especially when newly released documents show that Senators Schumer, Rubio, McCain, Reid and Lieberman say captured UFOs actually exist and are (were) trying to get reverse engineering funding. UFO talk today on The Strong Show!

There's a battle going on between the economy and the ecology. Two types of green. Extremists on both sides say it's one or the other. It can, and should, include both. We don't need to trash the earth and we don't need to return to being hunter-gatherers. The world economy is set to skyrocket with the US leading the way via increased productivity. This takes electric energy. Strong discusses how we can indeed have our cake and eat it too.

Each cause results in an effect. Each effect happens due to causes. Today's essay discusses three interesting topics, The Rich Chinese Exodus, EV Setbacks and the most recent UFO sightings. All explained as the result of specific causes. Life is like a trigonometry problem. If you have enough information you can solve for the angle or line. Listen here. 

Times are changing, as they always have. A new Industrial Revolution is underway spurred by record oil production. Blue collar and management positions that pay six figures can't be done from home, but don't require a college education, are being staffed by the younger generation. They aren't "afraid to work" and are acquiring wealth and security boomers never imagined. Listen here to discover more. 

Once again, the US Government has officially denied ET aircraft, or at least our capture and reverse engineering of ET aircraft. The explanation is that those who say we are don't know the full story. But they don't disclose the full story either. Nifty! If there are no "Little Green Men" Then we must have authentic Little Men in Black. Right? Listen here for details.

Death Valley has had rain. Lots of rain. So where the roads aren't washed out one can witness flowers, lakes and amazing sights not seen for decades. Strong chronicles another Death Valley adventure different from the others. Check it out here. 

LA Dodger star Shohei Ohtani had a $4.5 million dollar withdraw from his bank account to a bookie named Matthew Bowyer. First it was said Ohtani meant for it to be payment for his interpeter and friend Ippei Mizuhara's gambling debt. Then Mizuhara said he did it himself without Ohtani's knowledge. They a spokesman said Muzuhara just stole it from Ohtani. MLB doesn't allow players to bet on baseball. California law doesn't allow sports betting at all. If Ohtani is guilty as suspected, he could and should be done in MLB. And unless there's a clause in his $700 million contract, the Dodgers are on the hook to pay Ohtani for not playing. Just like Trevor Bauer. Will the spin continue?     

A society it difined by its laws (rules) and the public's acceptance of said laws. Don't like them, change them. Today, many just ignore them, with no consequence. Parking rules, speed limits, auto tags, minimum auto insurance all seem to be a suggestion rather than a law. Strong discusses.