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The Jim Gearhart Show

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Jim Gearhart, New Jersey's No. 1 morning radio talk show host for more than 25 years, returns — turning his his acerbic wit and blunt insight to the state of affairs in New Jersey. Jim and cohost Bob Williams record The Jim Gearhart Show live every Thursday morning at 10:30 a.m. at Facebook.com/NJ1015. The Jim Gearhart Show is a New Jersey 101.5 production.
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Between politics and the pandemic some people don’t know how to process to everything that is going on in the world. Jim thinks the daily uncertainty of recent life will cause an increase in the number of people who seek therapy in order to cope with events that go against how the brain is wired. Among them, the changing executive orders from Gov. …
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The allegations about Democrat Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden could be another reason that he doesn’t last very long as president if elected, Jim Gearhart speculates in his latest weekly Jim Gearhart podcast and Facebook Live show, presented every Thursday at 10:30 a.m. at Facebook.com/NJ1015.Autor: WKXW-FM
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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…
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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.…
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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. at http://Facebook.com/NJ1015“If you want to vote the Democrats have arranged that if you don’t have a mail-in ballot they will come out and give you one in an enema. Ultimately this is what’s going to ha…
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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.c…
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As New Jersey is looking likely to end use of the term “freeholder” because of its ties to the slavery era. And yet, county officials aren't the only ones using a variant of the term — so are Freehold Township and Freehold BoroughThat got Jim Gearhart wondering what else needs changing during the latest weekly Jim Gearhart podcast and Facebook Live…
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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 and Facebook Live show.Get the Jim Gearhart Show podcast on the New Jersey 101.5 app.... iTunes https://…
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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 and Facebook Live show.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…
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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 and Facebook Live show.Get the Jim Gearhart Show podcast on the New Jersey 101.5 app.... iTunes https://goo.gl/hF855A... and Goog…
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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 and Facebook Live show.Get the Jim Gearhart Show podcast on the New Jersey 101.5 app.... iTunes https://goo.gl/hF855A... and Goog…
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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 and Facebook Live show…
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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 and Face…
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Jim Gearhart says in the latest edition of the weekly Jim Gearhart Show podcast and Facebook Live show that there's one way we'll know if Murphy truly cares about the people of New Jersey -- and it all comes down to property taxes.Get the Jim Gearhart Show podcast on the New Jersey 101.5 app.... iTunes https://goo.gl/hF855A... and Google Play: http…
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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://go…
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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. And as Jim notes many of those being ravaged by the novel coronavirus have underlying conditions and complications, he has a plea: Take care of yourself…
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"I hate to think that I am prophetic," Jim Gearhart says in the latest edition of the weekly Jim Gearhart Show podcast and Facebook Live show.But for years, Jim has been warning that American society could be nearing a breaking point. He's seen "self interest, materialism on steroids to the point of a frenzy in this culture," Jim says.And he's long…
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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 weekly Jim Gearhart Show po…
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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 and Facebook Live show.Speaking with the New Jersey 101.5 audience, he took a comment from a user who said she doesn't think President Donald Trump in his address last week did…
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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 …
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Get ready for Gov. Phil Murphy to propose a millionaire's tax ... again.Opponents say it'll push job-makers and big taxpayers out of New Jersey, leaving the rest of us on the hook. But does the math really work out?Get the Jim Gearhart Show podcast on the New Jersey 101.5 app.... iTunes https://goo.gl/hF855A... and Google Play: https://goo.gl/7GnJz…
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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 : https://www.facebook…
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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 : https://nj1015.com/what-kind-of-a-sanctuary-state-is-this-opinion/Get the Jim Gearhart Show podcast on the New Jersey 101.…
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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 l…
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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's Jan. 23 Facebook Live show.We were a little short-handed, and had an awfully busy week.But as they say, what's old is new again, with the unusually warm weather we've seen over the last few days getting pushe…
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Jim Gearhart has a lot of sympathy for parents worried about mandatory vaccines.Protesting parents managed to get the state Senate to punt on a bill that would have removed religious exemptions to vaccine requirements for public school students -- a get-out-of-shots card legislative leaders say was being abused by people with no real religious obje…
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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 -- you've heard a lot about vaccines.Protesting parents scored a major victory this week, convincing enough state senators not to support a bill that would have eliminated a religious exemption to the state's requirem…
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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 r…
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