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My way or the highway never works long term. The unflexable find themselves alone. We have countless problems in our world today. All solvable. All requiring compromise. The minority need to realize that the majority may accept their views, but will never embrace them. Politics. Religion. Race relations. Gender choices. When the lunitic fringe demands compliance along with acceptance, the result is chaos. Listen to professor Strong's recipe for success.

We love our sports. Sports is an escape that allows us to take a break from our hectic lives. But watching said events is about to became very expensive. Sports will soon be seen only by streaming pay per view. This may also be the death knell for cable TV. Oh yeah, and another UFO has been spotted over a ScCal Military base. Cheers!

Gordon Lightfoot's career spanned eight decades, as a writter and performer. Eight months before his death at age 84, he was still performing. What drives a person to work until death? Listen and see.

Did you know that Americans spend more money betting on sports than attending them? A lot more. Ballys, a gaming company, broadcasts the games. The XFL is owned by the WWE, a league that plans the outcome of the wrestling match. In Cincinnati, you place sports bets at the place where the Reds play. Is the fix in? Listen and decide.

In 1996, the city of Varginha in Brazil was the location of one of the most documented UFO encounters ever, a true Close Encounter of the Third Kind, where creature contact is made. Why are we just now learning about this? In 1996, Brazil was a third world country coming off of a brutal military rule. The military hushed it up. No one fought back. But there were stories then, and now. Strong discusses this bizarre encounter.

Fact, the cost of living is going up. But are we defenceless in battling higher costs? If you live in the first world, absoultly not. Most of the items we buy are want, not need. We need food, shelter, heat. We don't need cable TV, car washes, storage units and doggie day care. Strong segragates the need from the wants with a true tool to beat inflation.

Strong discusses still another adventure in Death Valley. Sure, it's similar to the others, but unique as usual. Interested in desret camping, hiking, mountain climbing? Listen here.

The 1951 Jaguar MKVII is finally back into Strong's shop and ready to reassemble. What's been done and what is yet to be done on this classic car? Photos on Strong's facebook page. Also, another desert adventure begins this week. Guess the topic of next week's podcast!

Alice Cooper was the original Shock Rock act. Borrowing from Vaudville acts, movies, TV and Barbie Dolls, the group and the man formed the much copied, but never surpassed Shock, Glam, Metal genre. Although his life has gone from alcoholic to born again Christian, his act has stayed the same. Enjoy!

Frequent JSS Podcast Guest Jerome Koenigsfeld backpacked the world in the last 60's-early 70's. In 1971, he spent time in Laos. Yes, there was a war going on. Jerome avoided it, sort of. His Vientiane to Luang Prabang to Huay Xai on foot and on the backs of trucks sounds like a novel, but is reality in the first person. You will enjoy Jerome's musings from another world and another time.

SVB has failed, the Dow is down, inflation won't go away, God is dead and the war's begun. Stop it! If it bleeds it leads has always been the montra for news, and most news sources don't even resemble journalism. Why the doom and gloom about the economy isn't warranted.

Henry Mancini was one of the most prolific score writter arranger of all times. Never heard of him? Yes you have. He wrote mucic for The Pink Panther, Charade, Breakfast at Tiffiny's and hundreds of others. Yes, hundreds! Enjoy this essay featuring this remarkable man.

ATL is a fast growing, modern city. Kind of like LA was once upon a time. Strong discusses the good bad and ugly of the star of the Southeast. Oh yeah, UFOs and stick shift cars are discussed too.

The world has lost it's mind. Getting feelings hurt is the new American past time. How do I escape? Via automobiles. Strong starts and ends the podcast discussing cars, a smiling topic, whilst in the middle of the podcast, discusses some of the antics of butt hurt nation. Seems like you can't say anything without someone getting offended. Well, maybe Land Rover. Enjoy.

Utah, Arizona, Southern California and Tijuana in one week. How are things in the wild wild west? Changing. For the better? Hard to tell. Listen to the Strongman's take on money, manners and makeup of the west of the rockies life.

Balloons tanks and cars are top news stories today. The Chinese spy balloon, Western tanks going to Ukraine and the high price of automobiles. Strong discusses these three topics and waxes eloquently about what you can do to affect their effect. Or not.

Strong's adverture number one for 2023 was a trip to Puerto Rico. Sunny and 85 is always wonderful compared to the Midwestern US. What makes Puerto a great winter destination? That's discussed, along with the bad and the ugly of a second world country (territory).

Dolly Parton is much more than a big busted Country singer. She won hundreds of awards, written thousands of songs and earned hundreds of millions of dollars. She has crossed over from Country to pop, music to movies, entertainment to business. Scandals...none. Marrages, one. Listen here for more.

50 year radio veteran Brad Hildebrand discusses his new podcast radio concept, Podcastrr. It's talk radio with a podcast format. Radio is dead? WRONG! Radio is changing. Brad and Strong discuss those changes, what has happened and what is happening now. Hear it hear and on podcastrr.com.

I was able to bob and weave for two years, but the Covid finally got me. Where did I get it? How bad was it? What was the wonder drug prescribed by my doctor that took me from zombieland to fixing the dishwasher in 24 hours? Tune in here.