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The Jim Gearhart Show

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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 Jersey. Jim and cohost Bob Williams record The Jim Gearhart Show live every Thursday morning at 10:30 a.m. at Facebook.com/NJ1015. The Jim Gearhart Show is a New Jersey 101.5 production.
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”Just Upstage of Downtown” brings you behind the scenes at Music Mountain Theatre in Lambertville, New Jersey, which opened in 2017 near the site of the former Lambertville Music Circus. MMT is now in its sixth season entertaining the communities of Hunterdon and Mercer counties in NJ, and Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Host Patrick Lavery is a member of MMT’s Resident Company, and was a news anchor and reporter for 10 years at New Jersey 101.5 FM.
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Heroin Uncut is a blunt, honest look at the opioid crisis. Recovering drug addict Jay Lassiter believes truth is a powerful tool — and one we need to fight back against the political interests, social pressures and lack of understanding that make this crisis worse every day. Heroin Uncut is a special project of NJ1015.com and Townsquare Media. New full episodes every Monday. Get more information — and resources — at HeroinUncut.com. Follow HeroinUncut on Twitter and Facebook @HeroinUncut.
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As Music Mountain Theatre celebrates Pride Month, "Just Upstage of Downtown" discusses issues related to acceptance, inclusivity, gender nonconformity, and progress within the theatrical world. Joining the podcast for this episode are MMT co-artistic directors Jordan Brennan and Louis Palena and performers John Dwyer, Olivia Frankenbach, Grace Paul…
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Have you ever been "bitten by the bug?" Did it happen as a kid or as an adult? In this episode of "Just Upstage of Downtown," stand-up comedian and bestselling author Aidan Park talks about his journey to "make it" as a professional musical theatre actor, a quest he set aside almost a decade ago -- before a cross-country engagement to play Leo Bloo…
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In May 2022, a COVID-19 outbreak knocked out nearly one-fifth of the cast and some of the crew of Music Mountain Theatre's production of "The Producers." Almost exactly one year later, "Just Upstage of Downtown" reunites several of those cast members to discuss how an already chaotic run was thrown into sudden mayhem -- including a Saturday night p…
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Whether you have appeared onstage at Music Mountain Theatre, been an audience member, or a little of both, you have probably wondered: How is a musical actually written? In this episode of "Just Upstage of Downtown," host Patrick Lavery and MMT performer Jason Kohn reflect on when they met in high school, a friendship which resulted in the 2005 pro…
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As Music Mountain Theatre prepares to present its annual "By Popular Demand" concert this Sunday, co-artistic directors Jordan Brennan and Louis Palena tell "Just Upstage of Downtown" about the upcoming "fishbowl" fundraiser and how it relates to the process of planning an entire MMT season -- from guaranteeing enough opportunities for all performe…
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CW: sexual/anatomical references, including sexual assault To celebrate Women's History Month, "Just Upstage of Downtown" interviewed 12 veteran Music Mountain Theatre performers about their experiences in the all-female casts of MMT's productions of "Jesus Christ Superstar" (2018), "Steel Magnolias" (2019), and "The Vagina Monologues" (2022), and …
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On the three-year anniversary of Music Mountain Theatre shutting down due to the COVID-19 pandemic, MMT co-artistic directors Jordan Brennan and Louis Palena and producing director Ginny Brennan reveal the discussions that led to that decision being made only several hours before a performance of "Into the Woods," the creative ways in which the the…
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As Black History Month draws to a close, "Just Upstage of Downtown" speaks with the cast of the first production of Music Mountain Theatre's 2023 season, "Ain't Misbehavin'." In a revealing discussion, performers Tia Brown, Justin Derry, Siiyara Nelson, Jazzy Thomas, and Shan Williams II share their thoughts on bringing this revue to the MMT stage,…
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In the premiere episode of "Just Upstage of Downtown," Music Mountain Theatre co-founder and producing director Ginny Brennan shares the history of how MMT came to be: from her son Jordan getting involved in theatre as a child to her years running the children's program at the Bucks County Playhouse, leading to the formation of Downtown Performing …
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Between politics and the pandemic some people dont know how to process to everything that is going on in the world. Jim thinks the daily uncertainty of recent life will cause an increase in the number of people who seek therapy in order to cope with events that go against how the brain is wired. Among them, the changing executive orders from Gov. P…
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Mail-in ballots found in a West Orange dumpster, 40,000 missing primary ballots in Pennsylvania and arguments about the number of county drop boxes in Texas are all early signs of a potentially bleak post-election season according to Jim Gearhart in his latest weekly podcast and Facebook Live show, presented every Thursday at 10:30 a.m. at Facebook…
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When Jim Gearhart and Bob Williams spoke last week, Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg hadn't yet died. The debate over whether to fill her seat during President Donald Trump's current term hadn't begun.But the court was on Jim's mind, as he predicted the winner of the presidential election would determine the direction of the U.S.…
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Don't want to vote by mail? Too bad Jim Gearhart says in his latest weekly podcast and Facebook Live show, presented every Thursday at 10:30 a.m.athttp://Facebook.com/NJ1015If you want to vote the Democrats have arranged that if you dont have a mail-in ballot they will come out and give you one in an enema. Ultimately this is whats going to happen …
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There controversy around funding for the U.S. Postal Service and its ability to handle the volume of ballots that will be mailed by New Jersey voters can be tied back TO the pension that must be funded every year, Jim Gearhart says in his latest weekly Jim Gearhart podcast and Facebook Live show, presented every Thursday at 10:30 a.m. at Facebook.c…
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As New Jersey is looking likely to end use of the term freeholder because of its ties to the slavery era. And yet, county officials aren't the only ones using a variant of the term so are Freehold Township and Freehold BoroughThat got Jim Gearhart wondering what else needs changing during the latest weekly Jim Gearhart podcast and Facebook Live sho…
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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 podcastand Facebook Live show.Get the Jim Gearhart Show podcast on the New Jersey 101.5 app.... iTunes https://g…
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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 podcastand Facebook Live show.Get the Jim Gearhart Show podcast on the New Jersey 101.5 app.... iTunes https://goo.gl/hF855A... and Google Play: https://goo.gl/7GnJzZ…
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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 podcastand Facebook Live show.Get the Jim Gearhart Show podcast on the New Jersey 101.5 app.... iTunes https://goo.gl/hF855A... and Googl…
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