The Jim Gearhart Show

As the governors of Mississippi and Texas took a lot of heat for dropping their mask mandates and reopening most everything back to normal, Jim Gearhart wondered why do states like New Jersey keep theirs in place for nearly a year?

Jim Gearhart agrees with President Donald Trump that the $1 trillion coronavirus stimulus and relief package proposed by Congress does not include a large enough direct payment to individuals.

President Donald Trump should be considered for several Nobel peace prizes for his many accomplishments in the Middle East, according to Jim Gearhart.

As the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine is approved for use, Jim Gearhart says he is working through a decision on whether or not he will take the shot and when. Jim and Bob Williams also discuss ordering from Amazon, term limits for politicians and the investigation of Hunter Biden.

Between politics and the pandemic some people don

Joe Biden will not be nearly as radical as some first believed when he takes office in January because of how close the election results, Jim Gearhart suggests in the latest weekly Jim Gearhart podcast and Facebook Live show, presented every Thursday at 10:30 a.m. at Facebook.com/NJ1015.

Gov. Phil Murphy

The president's continuing challenges to election results have led Jim Gearhart to turn where he always has for relief

Jim Gearhart says he doubts the Democrats expected it to be this close. Does Biden really have a mandate, and will the Republicans hound him for years? Jim asks all of that in the latest weekly Jim Gearhart podcast and Facebook Live show, presented every Thursday at 10:30 a.m. at Facebook.com/NJ1015.

The allegations about Democrat Joe Biden

Mail-in ballots found in a West Orange dumpster, 40,000 missing primary ballots in Pennsylvania and arguments about the number of county drop boxes in Texas are all early signs of a potentially bleak post-election season according to Jim Gearhart in his latest weekly podcast and Facebook Live show, presented every Thursday at 10:30 a.m. at Facebook.com/NJ1015. Jim wonders: How many other dumped ballots are out there only to be found when it

Jim Gearhart says the presidential campaign comes down to just one issue in his latest weekly Jim Gearhart podcast and Facebook Live show, presented every Thursday at 10:30 a.m. at Facebook.com/NJ1015.

Not crazy about the candidates looking to become president of the United States? Jim Gearhart says he has a "considerably less than lukewarm personal enthusiasm for the two candidates at the top of the ticket." Instead, he says, he is voting for the U.S. Constitution.

When Jim Gearhart and Bob Williams spoke last week, Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg hadn't yet died. The debate over whether to fill her seat during President Donald Trump's current term hadn't begun. But the court was on Jim's mind, as he predicted the winner of the presidential election would determine the direction of the U.S. Supreme Court in his latest weekly Jim Gearhart podcast and Facebook Live show, presented every Thursday at 10:30 a.m. at Facebook.com/NJ1015. Jim talked about the court's direction two days before Ginsburg's death, recording an episode early this week, on Sept. 18.

Jim Gearhart takes a break from politics and COVID-19 to welcome special guest Uncle Floyd in his latest weekly Jim Gearhart podcast and Facebook Live show, presented every Thursday at 10:30 a.m. at Facebook.com/NJ1015.

Don't want to vote by mail? Too bad Jim Gearhart says in his latest weekly podcast and Facebook Live show, presented every Thursday at 10:30 a.m.

There controversy around funding for the U.S. Postal Service and its ability to handle the volume of ballots that will be mailed by New Jersey voters can be tied back TO the pension that must be funded every year, Jim Gearhart says in his latest weekly Jim Gearhart podcast and Facebook Live show, presented every Thursday at 10:30 a.m. at Facebook.com/NJ1015.

The choice of Sen. Kamela Harris as Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden

These are trying times. But Jim Gearhart, on this week's show, has what he's calling a "a handy guide to coping with the chaos to come." Jim and Bob are live every Thursday at 10:30 a.m. on Facebook, at Facebook.com/NJ1015. Ask them your questions in the chat.

Jim Gearhart says progressives in the United States are trying to push it to socialism

As New Jersey is looking likely to end use of the term

As the late Yogi Berra once said, "It was d

With statues coming down, school names being replaced, are we losing our history? Or is the side winning the culture war just getting to decide what our history is? That's the question Jim Gearhart tackles in his weekly Jim Gearhart Show podcast

Jim Gearhart wonders: With protests, civil unrest, disease, calls to defund the police ... is democracy at a breaking point? That's what he asks in his weekly Jim Gearhart Show podcast

Jim Gearhart isn't quite so cynical that he thinks power-hungry Democrats engineered the coronavirus crisis ... but they sure haven't let it go to waste, he says the latest edition of the weekly Jim Gearhart Show podcast

Jim Gearhart isn't quite so cynical that he thinks power-hungry Democrats engineered the coronavirus crisis ... but they sure haven't let it go to waste, he says the latest edition of the weekly Jim Gearhart Show podcast

New Jersey has some of the highest property taxes in the nation. Jim Gearhart has always marveled that people keep voting for politicians who don't do much about it, even as some are forced out of their homes. But he thinks he's got a solution. Jim explores that risk in the latest edition of the weekly Jim Gearhart Show podcast

Jim Gearhart recently came across a discussion about how vulnerable our electrical grid is. Can you imagine if many of us lost power for a long time in the coronavirus crisis? No texting. No zoom calls. For some, no groceries, no goods. How would we get by? Jim explores that risk in the latest edition of the weekly Jim Gearhart Show podcast

Jim Gearhart says in the latest edition of the weekly Jim Gearhart Show podcast

There's something almost automatic, almost reflexive about the way we criticize our leaders. And Jim Gearhart wonders, with a little retrospective empathy, if maybe group-think and reflective anger at the system are to blame. Get the Jim Gearhart Show podcast on the New Jersey 101.5 app. ... iTunes https://goo.gl/hF855A ... and Google Play: https://goo.gl/7GnJzZ

Jim Gearhart, in his 80s, has the strength and stamina of a much younger man -- so much so, that he bounced back from a serious fall down his stairs and traumatic brain injury just a few years ago.

"I hate to think that I am prophetic," Jim Gearhart says in the latest edition of the

Jim Gearhart, safe at home and speaking by Skype to Bob Williams, asks: "Can the most spoiled, frantically self-indulgent, self-absorbed population on the earth morph into self-sacrificing, self-disciplined, responsible, socially concerned population?" "I think it can," Jim says. Here why in a special remote edition of the

Jim Gearhart, an octogenarian, has seen a lot, but he's never seen anything like the novel coronavirus, he says in the latest edition of the weekly Jim Gearhart Show podcast

Jim Gearhart is wholly behind effort to ban single-use plastic bags in New Jersey. But he asks ... why wait 18 months? Get the Jim Gearhart Show podcast on the New Jersey 101.5 app. ... iTunes https://goo.gl/hF855A ... and Google Play: https://goo.gl/7GnJzZ

From 2010 through 2018, New Jersey lost about 443,000 due to outmigration, a Rutgers study finds. And it makes the case that without enough people moving in -- including immigrants -- our economy and way of life could be in rough shape. Jim Gearhart asks: Why don't we just try to keep those 443,000 people around? Get the Jim Gearhart Show podcast on the New Jersey 101.5 app. ... iTunes https://goo.gl/hF855A ... and Google Play: https://goo.gl/7GnJzZ

Get ready for Gov. Phil Murphy

A Toms River, New Jersey teacher came under fire this month for a lesson in which, according to some students, he had children impersonating slaves. Some said he made whip sounds and made students lay on the floor, pretending to be on a slave ship. But, Jim Gearhart asks ... what's so wrong with that? Watch Jim on Facebook Live :

ICE recently rounded up more than 100 people in New Jersey who were suspected of being in the country illegally. The list included "everything but jaywalking and sabbath-breaking," Jim Gearhart says. Watch Jim on Facebook Live :

This week, the Republican-controlled U.S. Senate is almost surely going to vote to acquit President Donald Trump, closing out his impeachment trial. The vote will down party lines or awfully close to it. But, Jim Gearhart says in his weekly Facebook Live show and podcast, the real battle isn't for the presidency. It's for a position with much more lasting power. Watch Jim on Facebook Live:

First of all, an apology from those of us here at New Jersey 101.5. We're a bit belated in getting you this podcast edition of

Jim Gearhart has a lot of sympathy for parents worried about mandatory vaccines. Protesting parents

If you've been on the Internet this week -- heck, if you've listened to the radio, turned on the TV or even left the house this week

If there's one thing that offends Jim Gearhart, it's how easily some people get offended. The Jersey City Board of Education is operating in the wake of two scandals. In one, its president has been accused of corruption by state officials. And in another, board member Joan Terrell-Paige has been roundly criticized for a Facebook group in which she referred to some religious Jews

As the decade comes to a close, Jim Gearhart wonders: What in the last 10 years has New Jersey government done to make your life better? "I could be wrong, but I cannot thing of anything that has been done in the last 10 years that really changed anything significantly," Jim says in this week's episode of his weekly Facebook Live show and podcast. The last time he can remember government that made a difference was under Gov. Jim McGreevey, who resigned amid a scandal in 20015. See Jim's full episode on Facebook. Get the Jim Gearhart Show podcast on the New Jersey 101.5 app. ... iTunes https://goo.gl/hF855A ... and Google Play: https://goo.gl/7GnJzZ