new BB rules SUCK!

Umps with TOO much power

...I’m angry for two reasons right now.

First, is the unbelievable realization that we in this country are going to go from the Obama’s to the Clintons (again!)

If Hilly runs...and it seems she will as there’s no other Democratic candidate who can best her...she’ll win.  She’ll get all the brain-numed voters who put Obama in for two terms.

So why waste time and money on an election?  Just give it to her.  It will be interesting to see what SHE does about Obamacare since her health plan, while Bill was President, got “snuffed”.

As bad as things are under Obama...I can’t see her setting the world on fire with “greatness”.  Although compared to Obama she may be another Jefferson!

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The other thing that disgusts me is the Umpires in Major League baseball and their new pretty stupid rules for deciding calls on controversial plays.

Tonight they stole a probable win from the Marlins allowing Cincinnati to score a couple of more runs in a tight game in the eighth inning. They had no rhyme or reason to overturn a home plate “out”

...and it took them FOREVER to do it....we were waiting what seemed hours for them to get the word from some nud-nick in New York looking at tv replay monitors on a play which was basically a simple out and that should have been it.

But no...they've got to stick their nose in where it isn’t needed and overturn the ruling with little or NO evidence for doing that.

Our Manager Mike Redmond went ballistic and you can’t blame him.  Of course he got kicked out but at least he spoke for all of us letting the umps know they were full of crap.

  This stupidity really made my day!
Here's more....click below:

http://awfulannouncing.com/2014/marlins-manager-ejected-after-terrible-call-announcers-revolt.html

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the CLINTONS

...regarding JFK’s ghostly visit in my sleep a couple of days ago...when he wanted me to tell Hilly to bite the bullet and split with Billy Bob and his zipper.

Now one tabloid has it that they’ve actually separated already...but who can tell.

You want to get all the Clinton news nobody can stand...go to "Google News” and in the search simply put:

“The Clintons”.

You’ll get pages and pages on them...enough already.

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The big baseball trade day has come and gone and the Miami Marlins didn’t do much...just got a pitcher nobody ever heard of from the Houston Astros and that’s not making big headlines.  Most down here were routing for the Rays David Price to come on down but he went to crappie Detroit. ugh...a fate worse than death.  

Mike Hill the General Manager(?) said he wanted to get a “controllable” pitcher.  What the hell is a “controllable” pitcher anyway.  I’ve never heard the term but he’s used it several times.

Anyway...Stanton’s hitting homers again...two the past two nights...so that’s the good news.  We just need the keep “stealing them signs” right Fredi!

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Everyone including Matt Drudge (who’s weather obsessive) is very happy that we haven’t had any hurricanes in Florida for a long time.

But you gotta believe me when I say we are getting enough rain to make you think you’re in that kind of storm.  

Enough rain dammit...this is the “Sunshine State”!

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I didn't make it here!(in talk)

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My Barry Farber fill-in.....

...didn’t last long!

    After leaving WWDB-FM Philly I took a week in New York City to fill in on WMCA for Barry Farber in afternoon drive.

    This was not long after the infamous “subway vigilante” incident on a New York subway train.

    As could be expected New Yorkers wanted to talk about that so we did....at least for a couple of days.

    Then...I was told by management at WMCA that my fill in days had ended. Seems they disagreed with my then popular position that shooter Bernhard Goetz had taken acceptable action under the conditions so far described.

    It was interesting to actually get on the air at WMCA.  The owner manager was...the same guy who years earlier had ask me to fly in from Chicago to meet with him and when I did...he wouldn’t see me!  Another weird management type.  

    Same thing happened in St. Louis at the big KMOX.  There..I did meet with the big boss man who seemed impressed with me...enough that he pointed out places nearby where I should check apartments.    

    A few days later he wouldn’t take my calls.

    Such is our radio business.

    I’ve been in hiring positions several times and have NEVER acted so impolite or discourteous as not to talk to a person I’ve showed interest in.  I still can’t believe either incidents.

    Luckily for me...life goes on and better things did happen.

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after ghost, JFK special!

There is a special presentation below this post.  

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the ghost of Nixon returns...with a friend!

The ghost of Nixon came back again...last night as I was sleeping.

  He brought a friend!

        “Mr. Major...I have a friend for you.  Mr. Kennedy meet Mr Major.”

        “ahh glad to know you”

        “Mr. Major, I just dropped in to ask a favor.”

        “What’s that Mr. Kennedy?”

        “Will you convey a message to Hillary Clinton for me?”

        “Sure...what is it?”

        “Tell her to “cut the cord.”

        “If she wants to be President...she’ll have to divorce Bill.   He’s just too much!”

       “OK Mr. Kennedy...I got it.  Anything else?”

        JFK thought for a moment the replied..."did they ever find out who really shot me?”

       “Nope....not really.”

 ...and with that both ghosts disappeared.

 I went back to sleep.
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now...click below and listen!

https://soundcloud.com/stan-major-radio/abe-martin-john-special

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Wag the dog Obama!

...Headline: “Obama ramps up sanctions against Russia”.

        otherwise known as  “Wag The Dog” time at the White House.

Did you ever see the movie “Wag The Dog” with THE De Niro and Dustin Hoffman?

Plot is:  A President running for reelection messes with a Girl Scout in the Oval (not an intern)...and to deflect scandal they hire this hot shot De Niro to come in and start a war or something and it works(almost).

Well...Obama has a real problem with the dissolving of our Southern border and thousands are walking into our country with nothing but trouble.

So how does he “Wag The Dog?”

He uses Putin of course...North Korea and Castro aren’t in the game anymore. 

And he couldn’t blame Canada!

So keep your eyes on this one...

and Vlad...relax...this guy doesn’t have the “balls” or brains to fight you square!      However...look out...our military badly needs something “waggish” too!

...and as long as I brought up the “military”  have you seen “Seven Days In May” lately?  You know unlike that movie...he who controls the internet now...controls the country.  Think about it.

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You all know I’m a Miami Marlins baseball fan.  It’s been fun the past month watching these guys play hard and win...yes...win.  They just beat the Atlanta Braves three straight and that was IN Atlanta!  Cry baby Fredi the Atlanta manager who charged us with stealing his signs hasn’t said a thing about that!

Now...the league leading Washington Nationals are in town...and have LOST the first two to the Fish.  They’ll probably lose to us again today.

I lived thru the excitement back in 1997 and 2003..when we won the World Series twice!  This season seems to be falling that way.  And this in the midst of a terrible slump by our big guy GC Stanton!  God...if he breaks out of it about now and quits swinging at the low outside curve balls....we WILL be unstoppable.  Just keep stealing them signs... guys!

JUST IN:  STANTON HOMERS (first in a long time) but we lose 4-3.  You can't win em all...right crybaby Fredi!

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Glad to help..if she looks like this!

 ...Ok...I’ll help out.  

Send me the first one who looks like

                      SELENA GOMEZ!

click here...make $7,000 a month!

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-Texas/2014/07/29/Collect-More-Than-7-2-k-Per-Month-for-Fostering-Adult-Illegal-Aliens

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and still another weird radio story: (From Tom Taylor's NOW newsletter)

The Name Game - Syndicated host Stan Major says "Back in 1959-1960 when I was rocking away every afternoon on Chicago's WJJD, I was quite popular. 

Well, it was way before WLS and our only competition was WIND, with a signal that might get to La Grange, but we were heard all the way to Boston. 

Some creep in the thief business decided he would pose as me and approach the teen cashiers at local businesses and pull the fast-change scam. It appeared to work. 

He said he was 'Stan Major' and 'on the radio,' and the cashiers got a bit flustered. He gave them a $5 bill, then claimed it had been a $20. He pulled this off for awhile without getting caught. 

Someone at a store called me and told me what was going on. I never heard anything from any police department, but I do know that one stores he hit was in Mt. Prospect, the suburb where our home was. 

It all faded away when I left Chicago, and I’ve never mentioned it until now." 

More stories from Stan's career click below

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my first radio job!

me in 1950's

...some of the crazy things that happen in radio.

...My first job was at our one and only station...WCRA Effingham, Illinois 1952-53 while still in high school.

My first “hero” for on the air work was a guy named Curt Bradley.  

He had a great voice when he talked normally but like so many broadcasters when he went on the air it was very effected.  Like day and night you might say.

Good thing I never tried to emulate him in that.

Curt was messing with a very pretty preacher’s wife...which caught my attention.  I think attractiveness to women probably was one of the prime motivators in me doing radio work rather than riding the back of a blacktop machine which my Dad suggested.

I worked everyday including Sunday mornings.   

On Sundays...we had big plastic discs with religious programs and I’d put one on the air and head for the drugstore across the street to get my coffee and doughnuts.  One time I was waiting for my goodies when I heard the needle stick on the disc. (they always had the station on their speaker system).  I rushed back to the studio and up the stairs and into the control room and faded the pot on the minister who was stuck on one word and picked the needle up and put it down just a bit further on the disc and all was well.

The boss...great guy named Don Grantham...never said a thing about all that so I guess he wasn’t listening.  Thank goodness!

We had a LIVE country band come in every Saturday morning to do a show and they often let me sing along with them.  That was fun.

So my job was to “sign on” the station at 6AM each day...play big disc programs and some records and do some news.  Then I would head to high school for my daily classes and about 4PM I’d be back to “ride the board’ on more recorded progams...until our required “sign off” which was at sundown.

Then before I left I had to empty the wastebaskets...sweep the floor...and a couple of others thing before locking up.

I did that seven days a week and was paid about $25.00 a week!

Cheap slave labor but I loved it.

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Legal scam & Don Johnson calls!

the Stan Major Show in Tampa

THE LINK AT THE BOTTOM IS MY WINZ MIAMI SHOW WHILE MIAMI VICE WAS FILMING HERE AND MY SHOW WAS ON IN THE "GRIP" TRUCK ON THE SET EVERY AFTERNOON.
THIS SHOW ASKED THE QUESTION: 
                          "SHOULD DON JOHNSON GET A HAIRCUT?"
IT WAS A POLL...I ANSWERED THE CALLS AND JOHNSON HIMSELF CALLED IN ABOUT A MINUTE OR SO INTO THE POLL!

Lawyers scamming all movie & tv producers!

...In the talk radio business some years back corporate lawyers tried to pad their fees with what turned out to be stupid “warnings” or advice. We were told by management to use special “disclaimers” not holding the network or station responsible for anything we’d say.

But most of us in the talk radio business didn’t buy it and eventually the lawyers backed off.  

But always looking for more fees...what the scare monger attorneys did then did is move to the film and tv studios and producers who bought the warnings idea...and so ever since...you have these asinine “disclaimers” at the beginning of a movie or show and what do the disclaimers say:

“The producers are not responsible for anything said by the cast or anyone else under the sun about this or any other things they’ve ever uttered.”

Or something that stupid.

It’s meaningless but everytime you see those opening disclaimers...give it a laugh or a smirk...and send the lawyers their ill begotten fees for all that great advice.

Let’s see....”Russell Crowe said what about who”?

The thing the really makes no sense is IF SOMEONE SUES A FILM MAKER FOR SOMETHING A STAR SAID IN AN INTERVIEW...GUESS WHO MAKES THE BREAD ON THAT!

THE LAWYERS...OF COURSE.

So one could say the attorney’s giving the warnings about using the disclaimers were actually cutting their own throats.

Pretty funny, huh?
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...click below to hear the Don Johnson haircut poll!

https://soundcloud.com/stan-major-radio/should-don-johnson-get-a-haircut

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Bobby Darin grows up!

FROM TODAY’S NOW RADIO NEWSLETTER...by Tom Taylor:

More stars in the studio - Veteran radio personality Stan Major says “Bobby Darin came to Peoria in early 1959 to do one of those bunny-hop shows that featured about half dozen artists in one-night stands. I was doing my afternoon show on WIRL, expecting him to drop in, and he did. He walked into the control room while I was playing his big hit 'Dream Lover,' waving a huge disk, and he said 'Get that thing off there, play this.' I took the disc with no label and cued it up. 'What is it, Bob?' 'Just play it,” he responded. Out of the speakers came a semi-light rock beat, with full orchestra. It was way different from Darin's usual. I gave him a quizzical look, wondering why he had done something so un-Darin, and forced it on me and my listeners. After a few minutes the song faded and Bobby sat down for the interview. 'What did you think of that one?' 'Well it’s different,” I replied. He said 'That’s the next number one record in the world.' I shrugged and said Okay. I wasn’t impressed. We went on with his interview. The song was 'Mack The Knife.' Shows what I knew about music back then.” Historical note – “Mack The Knife” was #1 for nine weeks in the U.S., was the Grammy Record of the year in 1960 and is enshrined in the Grammy Hall of Fame.

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US Army Germany 1955

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On a courier mission from Nurenburg to Stuttgart I dropped off my package and went into downtown Stuttgart to see the city a bit.  I met up with another soldier and we walked around chatting about this and that...then we spotted a really good looking female walking town us.

She smiled and we said hello and we all started talking.  After about ten minutes she startled us by asking if we had a room.  She didn’t seem a prostitute and hadn’t come on like that.

We said he had the find a hotel...so we did and got into the room and she confided that her young years were taken up by “servicing” SS officers for the German Army.  And...she said she missed doing that! 

We enjoyed the encounter!

Out of interest of what she said I did some internet searching but came up with nothing about this kind of “service” there during the war.  It might be interesting because little is known about this but good luck trying to lock it down.

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Some of my buddies at AFN decided to go for a ride in a new Ford one just purchased.  This was a popular move by those who could afford it...buying a car and shipping it back to the states. It was a known fact that one could save thousands of dollars doing this.

One guy with us in the car was Air Force and based in Wiesbaden but loaned out to AFN.

He told us to drive to Wiesbaden to eat...he knew a good place to eat.

We arrived in the city and drove near the big airbase when we saw what appeared to be a “hooker” standing on the street corner.  As a joke more than anything else we stopped and she got into the car.  We drove  a few blocks and she startled us by saying she was a hooker...but also in the U.S. Air Force!  She said she “worked” the corner to make some extra cash...none of us were getting rich in the military!  

We decided to drop her off where we picked her up but we all chipped in with a some bills to help her out!

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Selena's nude fakes & spy kids

....In the Dollar Tree store where I shop about everyday...I happened to see a black kit about spying!  That’s right...in the toy area they have not one but about three different “spy” kits for kids.

One is for fingerprinting. "everything a young detective needs to dust for fingerprints”...parents should love that one...another for “analyzing a crime scene” also a “criminal profiling kit”...you can see if your friend’s parents should be in jail, I guess, and “color code message kit.”  That could work with your texting maybe?

Weird stuff and it’s selling on ebay and amazon for a lot more than the buck each at the dollar store.

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Fake “nude” pics on the internet.

I’m not into this stuff but occasionally just for my own information (of course) I drop the “safe search” on Google images and pop in the name of some girls just to see what comes off(sorry about that).

So I did it with my new interest...Selena Gomez and can you believe about a billion photos come up...none of which are actually her.  Now I don’t believe in censorship in any way...but this stuff is just plain ridiculous.  The weird part is the fakes (and they all are) look so well done you would believe it’s actually Selena. Someone even made up a Playboy Magazine spread of Selena...looking real...but of course she’s never done one.

I guess I’m posting this for a purpose(?)  Just don’t be mislead by these photos (if you ever go looking).  They will fool you though.  They are really of no use...unless her publicity agent is counting the pages of them everyday to see if her client is still “making the grade” as a star.

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here’s the Nixon/Sinatra "MY WAY" I used to play on my show all the time.  
click below:

https://soundcloud.com/stan-major-radio/nixon-sinatra-my-way

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Kate(again) & MIAMI VICE SHOW

MIAMI VICE'S Michael Talbot guests with Stan Major on WINZ Miami.  click at bottom

Wow...Kate Middleton has her own magazine!  

Ok Mag put it out to make some more money. They charge almost $7.00 US!  You believe that?

Lot’s of pics and these interesting notes:

(* means MY comment)

Find Out Why British People Are Furious That Kate Middleton Twirled Her Hair In Public.

*say what?

Whoops! Kate Middleton Has a Minor Wardrobe Malfunction on a Windy Day.  

*Oh yes...we’ve seen that one!

OK! Investigates: All the Ways Kate Middleton Has Imitated Diana (So Far!)

*What’s the “so far” mean?

OK! News: Watch Kate Middleton Play Volleyball In Heels

*That sounds interesting!  Was it windy that day?

want more...click here:

http://okmagazine.com/celebrity/kate-middleton/

P.S. No sign of the Kate “double” I talked with here in my supermarket parking lot.  I’ll keep my eyes open though. Gotta get a pic of her for you!

Plus...here's a sound cloud cut of Miami Vice's Michael Talbot on my WINZ Maimi Show.

https://soundcloud.com/stan-major-radio/winz-elvis-jr-call-with

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Music & Rum...never gone!

New Orleans (2)                                                                                updated

The tragic gay nightclub fire took place while I was there. 32 persons were killed in the Upstairs Lounge.
    I went on my show the next night and raised some money to help out. Gave it to Rev.Troy Perry...gay leader.  Nice guy.

Attorney John Voltz.

John and I became friends when he was working with Jim Garrison in the New Orleans District Attorney’s office.  John basically took over all the regular cases while Garrison investigated the local connection to the Kennedy assassination resulting in the arrest and trial of  businessman Clay Shaw.

John approached the whole Kennedy thing with a shrug and basically never thought his boss had a thing.  He wouldn’t voice that publicly though...he remained close to Garrison and was later the U.S. Attorney for that area.  

Then...one of the people John brought to trial (not connected with JFK) was mobster Carlos Marcello. Another was former governor Edwin Edwards.  John died in 2011 at age 74.  He was a good guy!

I found a couple of things that were pure New Orleans that I loved.  Community Coffee (where Oswald use to work)...and Bunny Bread.  

The city was also interesting in that the Super Dome was just being completed near the quarter and our station had a early tour set up for some bigwigs with food and drinks.  

One guy I met was Tom O’brien of ABC News.  He headed up the radio division. I would see him again when I came back from Vietnam in 1970 for NBC News and he would try to persuade me to return for ABC News.  I turned him down (remembering Cambodia!) but I did thank him for his public comments that my NBC News stuff was “killing them” from over there.  My boss at NBC News, Russ Tornabene got wind of that and passed it on while I was still in Nam.

Finally...I had a nice apartment near a big pleasure boat dock on Lake Ponchatrain.  The complex had a rec room with a pool table and guess who I played friendly pool with almost every night after my show. None other than Peter Starr...head of Starr Broadcasting (bunch of music stations...no talk) who admitted he was a fan of my show.  Starr had an apartment there and a huge yacht parked in the water across the street. This was William F. Buckley’s brother despite their different last names. 

I hate to say this and don’t want to offend anyone in New Orleans...but almost every weekend I would hop in the car and drive to Destin, Fl. in the panhandle to take in the beautiful beach.  I’ve lived in South Florida for years now and still think Destin is one of the best...right up there with the Gulf Coast beaches of Marco Island and Naples.  (Robert “Bourne” Ludlum told me to keep quite about those last two places cause he lived there and didn’t want anyone to find out how beautiful they were)  

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My guest: Jim Garrison!

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New Orleans the City of Dreams...1973

What an interesting city we have here.  First and foremost of course, is the French Quarter.  The radio station WGSO...was actually located in the French Quarter. 

If you ever watch that great movie HOTEL you will see Rod Taylor walk up a flight of stairs and into an office.  That was the back entrance to our radio station in the Quarter.  What a way to get to work.  Parking a few blocks away and walking into the Quarter each day with the multitude of tourists and past the great shops.  They were in the process of moving the station into a big bank building out of the quarter...which was a disappointment.

I did a nighttime talk show and had great guests.  Everyone with a name hit New Orleans for obvious reasons.  

Mort Sahl came to town and joined former District Attorney Jim Garrison for a couple of dynamite hours in the studio to talk about the Kennedy assassination.

The next day I was in my office and I got a mysterious call.  It was a young guy who refused to give his name.  He said he had all the answers to what really happened and who was involved and about Lee Harvey Oswald’s time in New Orleans.  He said he’d call me again.  He didn’t and I left the city on my radio “merry-go-round”  a few months later.  Was he a crank?  I have a good sense about these kind of things and I don’t think he was.  We’ll never know.

  

Another great guest in New Orleans was classic western actor Chill Wills.  I asked him about the movie GIANT and about James Dean, Rock Hudson and Liz Taylor. He said he didn’t think Dean bathed the whole few weeks they were filming in Marfa, Texas!  I found that hard to believe as rumor had it Liz Taylor took Jimmy under her wings during that time.

The tragic gay nightclub fire took place while I was there. 32 persons were killed at the Upstairs Lounge...June 24, 1973.

  I went on my show the next night and raised some money to help out....without being asked to do that.

The city was also interesting in that the Super Dome was just being completed near the quarter and our station had a early tour set up for some bigwigs with food and drinks.  One guy from New York was Tom O’brien of ABC News head of the radio division. I would see him again when I returned from Vietnam in 1970 and he would try to persuade me to return for ABC News.  I turned him down but I did thank him for his public comments that my NBC News stuff was “killing them” from over there.  My boss at NBC News, Russ Tornabene got wind of that and passed it on while I was still in Nam.

Finally...I had a nice apartment near a big pleasure boat dock on Lake Ponchatrain.  The complex had a rec room with a pool table and guess who I played friendly pool with almost every night after my show. None other than Peter Starr...head of Starr Broadcasting (bunch of music stations...no talk) who admitted he was a fan of my show.  Starr had an apartment there and a huge yacht parked in the water across the street. This was William F. Buckley’s brother despite their different last names. 

 
     I hate to say this and don’t want to offend anyone in New Orleans...but almost every weekend I would hop in the car and drive to Destin, Fl. in the panhandle to take in the beautiful beach.  I’ve lived in South Florida for years now and still think Destin is one of the best...right up there with the Gulf coast beaches of Marco Island and Naples.  (Robert “Bourne” Ludlum told me to keep quite about those last two places cause he lived there and didn’t want anyone to find out how beautiful they were)  
    
(end New Orleans part 1)

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