The Jim Gearhart Show
The Jim Gearhart Show
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 JerseyFollow the podcast:
The winner of the culture war gets to write history
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 po…
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Can we close Pandora's Box?
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/…
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Defunding the police 'the dumbest idea I ever heard'
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 1…
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Is this all just a power grab?
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 1…
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What would it take for a property tax revolt?
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 …
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What if the power went out in the coronavirus crisis?
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 edi…
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How you'll know if Gov. Phil Murphy cares about us
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. ... …
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Maybe, just maybe, we're too hard on Trump and Murphy
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. ... iTune…
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Your best defense against the coronavirus
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 an…
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Could the coronavirus mean a reset for our society?
"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…
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