The Jim Reith Show Unleashed

The Jim Reith Show UNLEASHED Episode 38 - 7/7/25

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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The Jim Reith Show UNLEASHED Episode 37 - 6/26/25

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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The Jim Reith Show UNLEASHED Episode 36 - 6/19/25

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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The Jim Reith Show UNLEASHED Episode 35 - 6/12/25

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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The Jim Reith Show UNLEASHED Episode 34 - 6/5/25

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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The Jim Reith Show UNLEASHED Episode 33 - 5/29/25

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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The Jim Reith Show UNLEASHED Episode 32 - 5/22/25

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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The Jim Reith Show UNLEASHED Episode 31 - 5/15/25

HUGE PROGRAM TODAY!!!!
We start off with Onondaga County Executive, Bill Fitzpatrick, and he explains the charges for the Westhill lacrosse students and new information on the Robert Brooks corrections case.
https://da.ongov.net/bio/
We go "back in the day" with long time journalist, Sean Kirst, and his new endeavor Central Currant
https://centralcurrent.org/
and we talk to Syracuse Mayorial Candidate, Chol Majok on his ideas for the City of Syracuse.
https://www.cholmajok.com/
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The Jim Reith Show UNLEASHED Episode 30 - 5/8/25

On this weeks program we talk to Royale Scudari, executive director of the CNY Lime & Tick Born Disease Alliance about how to prevent tick bites and what to do if you do have a tick on you and your pets!
https://cnylymealliance.org/
 
and we go "back in the day" with the one and only George Kilpatrick! We talk about his career and pay homage to 2 long time collogues Ken Jackson and Van Robinson.  
https://inspirationforthenation.com/
 
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BONUS SYRACUSE MAYOR ELECTION EPISODE - The Jim Reith Show Unleashed - Episode 29B - 5/5/25

Here it is!!! The special Syracuse City Mayor Election Bonus Special with interviews from Democrats Pat Hogan and Deputy Mayor Sharon Owens and Republican Thomas Babilon. 
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