The Jim Reith Show Unleashed
Jim and Producer Bill are BACK!!!!!!!
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Thursday Jul 24, 2025
Thursday Jul 24, 2025
News changes fast these days and upon hearing the about the death of Pro Wrestling Superstar Hulk Hogan, Producer Bill starts the show remembering the sports entertainment giant.
"Also on this episode we go "Back in the Day" with United Way's Ray Manassa who roamed the sacred halls of Clear Channel radio along with Jim and Bill. He talks about United Way's Day of Caring and explains the beautiful mural that will be done in Downtown Syracuse.
https://unitedway-cny.org/
https://www.volunteercny.org/portal/landing/
and we go to The Jim Reith Unleashed Podcast Official Political Analyst - Grant Reeher from Syracuse University to talk about "The Big Beautiful Bill"
https://www.maxwell.syr.edu/directory/grant-reeher
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Friday Jul 18, 2025
Friday Jul 18, 2025
On this edition of UNLEASHED!!!!
Jim talks to Syracuse Mayoral Candidate and Deputy Mayor Sharon Owens on her victory in the city Democratic primary.
https://www.owensforsyracuse.com/
and we talk to THE AXE MAN!!!!! Brent Axe joins us to talk all things SU sports!!
https://www.facebook.com/BrentAxeMedia/
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Monday Jul 14, 2025
Monday Jul 14, 2025
Back at it with a packed UNLEASHED!!!!!
81 Project Director and worldwide musician, Joe Driscoll, joins us to talk about 81 and the funding the city will be losing from President Trump's cuts.
https://www.joedriscollmusic.com/about
https://www.facebook.com/joedriscollpolitics/
CNY based musician, Mark Macri, is the local spotlight this week! Mark takes us on a journey throughout his career and tells the story of a found family member.
https://www.markmacri.com/
and we check in with the Mayor of Syracuse, Ben Walsh!!!
https://www.syr.gov/Government/City-Mayor
All that and some shenanigans from Jim and Producer Bill.
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Monday Jul 07, 2025
Monday Jul 07, 2025
WE'RE HERE!!!!!!
Great show this week!!!
Onondaga County Executive Ryan McMahon updates Jim on MICRON.
http://ongov.net/executive/
This week's local music highlight is Jess Novak!!! She talks to Jim and Bill about the music life and being a new parent.
https://www.jessrocknovak.com/
and Jim and Bill talk to their former boss - Jim "The Manchild" Lerch - The host of The Manchild show. Jim Lerch is retiring from terrestrial radio and heading into the podcast world.
https://www.youtube.com/@MCShowDigital
Here is the link of The Manchild" version of "We Didn't Start The Fire" sung by Producer Bill.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FEifKgbcZs Go in 56:30 for the song
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Friday Jun 27, 2025
Friday Jun 27, 2025
Incredible edition of UNLEASHED!!!!
CNY Radio legend Rick Gary joins us for 1 of 2 back in the day segments. Jim and Rick recall the early days of "Rick & Ron and how Rick's career started!
https://sunnysyracuse.com/djs/rick-gary
Also Jim's childhood friend and a media guy himself, Mark Turcotte, joins us and we find out some things from Jim's childhood you don't know!!!!
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Thursday Jun 19, 2025
Thursday Jun 19, 2025
The USMC Angry Vet, Matt Gordon, is on the program today. Matt, a Marine Corp vet, has almost a half of a million subscribers on his TikTok alone where he explains his disappointment in the current administration. Matt was also detained for 10 hours after protesting on the Capitol steps on June 14th. He tells his story.
https://linktr.ee/usmcangryveteran
Also Jim and Bill discuss baseball, documentaries on Netflix and what is coming soon on the podcast!
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Thursday Jun 12, 2025
Thursday Jun 12, 2025
Another great slate of guests on UNLEASHED!!!
We start off "back in the day" with CNY Central's Brandon Roth. Brandon tells us his story on how he landed in CNY from being a Californian. He also talks about his family and what famous venue his father ran. That Roth name .. it sounds rock n roll... He also talks about his cousin, the one and only, David Lee Roth.
https://cnycentral.com/station/people/brandon-roth
and unfortunately we talk to Onondaga County Sheriff, Toby Shelly. The Onondaga County Sheriff's arrested Ryan Pontello who allegedly lured a 5 year old child into the woods and abused her. He was arrested in 2011 for similar crimes and the Sheriff's department is looking for anyone in the time span that may have been a victim to Pontello.
https://www.syracuse.com/crime/2025/06/central-ny-man-sexually-abuses-two-young-girls-lured-one-into-woods-with-candy-sheriff-says.html
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Friday Jun 06, 2025
Friday Jun 06, 2025
On this episode we talk TV!!! With SU professor Bob Thompson!!! Back in the day on the terrestrial radio show we had "Thompson on TV" and we are resurrecting it for the podcast. Bob talks about how we consume TV, his students view on TV and and what's to come.
https://newhouse.syracuse.edu/people/robert-thompson
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Friday May 30, 2025
Friday May 30, 2025
Today... we talk music!!
We star off with CNY radio legend, Dave Frisina. He and Jim go "back in the day" and discuss Dave's new home in CNY!!!
https://www.facebook.com/soulshineradio/
and we talk music with none other then Syracuse sports writer, Brent Axe!! Brent gives us the lowdown on Syracuse lacrosse and breaking SU basketball news. Then gives us his review of the Dave Matthews Band concert at the Amphitheater!
https://www.facebook.com/BrentAxeMedia/
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Friday May 23, 2025
Friday May 23, 2025
On this episode we go "back in the day" with CNY radio legend Glenn "Gomez" Adams. Jim and Gomez go way back as colleagues and have some great stories to tell.
https://tk99.net/djs/gomez-adams/
Also we talk to Onondaga County Democratic Voting Commissioner, Dustin Czarny, to talk about the change in voting years in Onondaga County.
https://www.syracuse.com/news/2025/05/appellate-court-says-nys-even-year-election-law-is-constitutional-reversing-lower-court.html
https://dustinczarny.com/
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