Jim Carlyle

Those of you tuned-in last week may have caught Randy Edwards' calling the J and J Midday show from his home studio with some GREAT news!  Even as Randy's "Turntable Trainwrecks" has ended it's run in our noon hour, a feature we've had for probably around a decade, Randy is putting his efforts into expanding "Edwards' Archives" heard weekends on WION. Randy tells us that he'll be expanding the program […]

A/K/A "AREN'T YOU GLAD YOUR CAR ISN'T AN E-V TODAY?" We try to mention on days when it's (continuously) above 90 or flirting with 90 degrees to be "conservative" in electric use.  It could be coincidence, it could be overusage of the local grid, but the "outage roulette" has begun this afternoon.   Parts of our listening area in town are without power. Please check on your elderly neighbors and any […]

If you've followed the 'AM in (new) car issue, you know that Ford Motor Company recently reversed their direction and agreed to "install" AM in their new digital dashboards with an "over the air" software update.  Thus, it's not that tough to INCLUDE AM in cars coming off today's assembly lines.   That was ONE victory, but there are still other manufacturers doing business in the United States that need to […]

From yesterday's "Win on Wednesday" during the J and J Midday show, our trivia had a near record amount of texts. The question was: Stored on 500 gigabyte hard drives, and STACKED, this would be over 8 times taller than Mount Everest. What is the DATA that is being stored in "said" drives? The answer:  (from "Business Insider) They (Amazon) have 1.5 billion items listed for sale and 200 million […]

Tonight in the 7PM WOOD-TV news, WION radio will be part of a report on how automakers are, in some cases, removing AM radio from vehicles, especially the EV's the government is pushing down our throats. Joe LaFurgey and his cameraman joined the J and J midday show today and took some footage of how WE do things, and the main story was handled by our good friend and "Sister […]