Podcasts about 97.1

On this Bobby Bonilla day we explore people and organizations that have so much money, they can throw it away. But what if they didn't? Listen here.

People use statistics to justify their stance of an issue. Sometimes, the figures don't add up. Our trade deficit is one of those things. Physical items are counted, but not technology. Widgets, not intelectual property. Also, many exporting from an international location are US companies. Chrysler is owned by Stellantis (French). Before that, Italian. Before that, German. See where I'm coming from. A candid look at the US trade imbalance. 

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. 

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.

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!  

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.

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. 

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.  

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. 

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.  

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.

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. 

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. 

The market is up. Wages are up. So is inflation. It seems that everyone is getting paid, but how can you spend it smartly? Strong discussed who's getting paid and how everyone can make the buck last longer without cutting out the fun factor.

Bob Heil was a giant in the recording industry. He innovated the Heil Talk Box, quadrophonic sound and the RCA DirectTV system among others. I use Heil Sound microphones here in the studio. How big was Bob Heil? Listen here.

"Money makes the world go 'round" said Bob Fosse. He's not wrong. While money isn't everything, it does make most everything easier if you have enough, or more difficult if you do not. Some Ideas and stories on how some spend, earn and perceive money. Hint, young and old don't always agree.

Roberto comes on to put the guys through a game of "Who Said It", with this being the final time Jim Costa partakes before his move to the morning show on 97.1.

Once upon a time, China was a whisker away from overtaking the US as the world's biggest economy. With four times the population, I agreed it was a forgone conclusion. Not anymore. As Xi doubles down on privatization, sable rattling, sentencing opponents to death and hamstringing the economy, China is regressing, big time. Why? What's the solution to fix it? Listen here.

This podcast is about my recent vacation to sunny tropical Puerto Rico, not annexation. I just stole the phrase from the movie Little Giants. Highlights, lowlights advantages and disadvantages of going to Puerto Rico when it's cold in to Midwest US. Also, other travel tips discussed.

Ohio State basketball beat reporter Adam Jardy speaks with special guest Tim Hall, host of The Buckeye Show on 97.1 on the latest episode of the BuckeyeXtra Basketball podcast. During this edition we recap where things sit with the Buckeyes currently and look ahead to what this upcoming season might have in store for them.