Random Thoughts At The Moment

Posted: December 18, 2013 | Author: | Filed under: EXPERIENCE | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

So here we are at the end of yet another year. As of this writing, there are only a mere 13 days left.

What better way to end it all with just some random thoughts from this year:

I am writing a book about my nearly 5 years on the Internet. I will be covering my experiences as well as what being a host has done for me personally in my mid-life years. Not sure of the title but it may mirror the title of this blog.

The NFR leaving Las Vegas after 2014 to Orlando: Are you kidding me?! I am sure the adults who follow the NFR will get tired of Disney World every year. Then they will want to come back to Las Vegas.

Brittany Spears performing in Las Vegas: Is she good for Vegas? Has she turned a new page in her life and left the bad girl image behind? How will she be received in Las Vegas? Only time will tell as to how the chapter will be written.

High Profile Court Cases: Zimmerman/Martin, Jody Arias, Aaron Hernandez, etc. Why is our society so hell-bent on wanting to view these things? Does it make us feel better about ourselves when we see others in trouble? Your comments are always welcome.

Reality TV Shows: I have to admit that I do watch some namely SURVIVOR, PAWN STARS, GHOST HUNTERS AND GHOST ADVENTURES just to name a few. But….who can explain HONEY BOO BOO, TODDLERS AND TIARAS, HOUSEWIVES OF (INSERT ANY CITY NAME), DUCK DYNASTY, SWAMP PEOPLE, and so much more. I guess Hollywood really has run out of ideas.

Some Celebrity Deaths This Year: Paul Walker, James Gandolfini, Cory Monteith, Jean Stapleton, Bonnie Franklin, Slim Whitman, Jonathan Winters, Nelson Mandela, Roger Ebert, George Jones, Dennis Farina and so many more. If you look at the entire list of those famous people who passed this year, you may be shocked at the number of them who took their own lives. Were things REALLY THAT BAD for them? I can’t imagine. Yet our military and everyday heroes, die every day, don’t get that kind of recognition.

Some of Vegas Unwrapped Internet Radio Highlights: Moved to Vegas AllNet Radio in April of this year. Great staff, great facility, great engineer in Mike “Bobcat” Fox, red carpet events, hosting beauty pageants and they actually want us to return next year, a new management company to take us to the next level in 2014, a 3rd hour every week starting January 2014, helping non-profit organizations get their message out to the world, and entire show dedicated to bullying awareness, remote shows on location, Ricky Cash being able to host the show when I was in the hospital, THE POOLE PARTY: A SOIREE OF MADNESS hit the airwaves, and so much more. Here is a link to our show page so you can listen to any show you want to and get caught up on our “info-tainment”: http://www.vegasallnetradio.com/Shows/Vegas-Unwrapped.html

Some of the Guests This Year on Vegas Unwrapped: Amy C Hanley, Wendy Mazaros, Bella Capo, Tomirae Brown, Cheryl Prater, Nicci Lease, MMA Fighter Rodrigo Botti, Brian “Red Skelton” Hoffman, Las Vegas Wrangler Coach Mike Madill, Author Denise Michaels, Info-Mercials, Alyson Sinai, Mary Jo Buttafuoco, Catherine “REDNECK WEDDINGS TV” Natale and Peter “LATE BLOOMERS” Papageorgiou and so much more.

Well that about wraps things up for 2013. I guess resolutions may be in order but I made a resolution not to make any more resolutions!

As Cash & I say at the end of every show: “BE KIND TO EACH OTHER. WHY? BECAUSE WE ARE ALL WE GOT!”

Have a Happy Holiday and Prosperous 2014. See you on the other side.

Until next time……..

Time Sure Flies When…..

Posted: March 4, 2013 | Author: | Filed under: EXPERIENCE | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

I can’t believe how much time goes by between my posts.

This lag between writings is not good for my followers. But hey, I’m trying.

Let me catch you up to date on a few things. First of all we had one of our best shows last week when Amy C. Hanley & Cheryl Prater were the in studio guests. If you missed the show LIVE please go to http://www.vegasunwrapped.net and click on the “podcast” link and you will be re-directed to the podcast page so you can catch up. We are planning on doing a special show in the coming weeks with Amy and her Mom, Wenday Mazaros who is better known as the “Vegas Rag Doll”. That should be a great followup show to what Cash & I did a few years back with a bunch of the “goodfellas”.

I started co-hosting with a veteran radio guy, Tony Lynn on Sundays from 3-4 PM PST, on a new talk show called “SUNDAY CHAT WITH TONY & AARON”. We broadcast from the beautiful Greenspun Communications Building on the campus of UNLV. It is more of a topical show based on the news of the week. I use this show as another avenue for exposure for Vegas Unwrapped. I can plug the show as well as any guests we have coming up. Besides, who knows where it may lead to.

SUNDAY CHAT also has the distinction of being the first show of any kind that I have been involved with over the last 6 years where I had to miss a show due to illness. It killed me to have to miss it but I was just so sick I had no choice. Then in the middle of all of that, I was packing to move to a new home on March 2nd. I am downsizing which is alot like having a size 13 foot squeeeeeezzzeed into a size 7 shoe. And I threw stuff out in the garbage too. I went from a 2500sf home to a 1550sf townhouse.

Vegas Unwrapped is coming up on its 4 year anniversary on March 13th. Talk about time flying by!! It all started when Ricky Cash asked me about doing a show together based on sports. I had just completed a year on The Sports Zoo and wanted to do something different. Ricky & I were in the timeshare industry together for a number of years so he countered with the idea about a show about Las Vegas using all the knowledge we have about the things in Vegas that make it unique but do not necessarily include The Strip. The Strip gets enough press! I won’t share too many of the things we have “unwrapped” over the years as we will share many of them on the 13th as we celebrate, but it is mind-boggling what we have done in the 4 years.

But we couldn’t have done it without our followers both on Facebook and of course our listeners each and every Wednesday night. Some exciting things are on the horizon for Vegas Unwrapped as we continue to “unwrap” the best that Vegas has to offer.

Hopefully, I won’t take as long for my next posting. Please become a fan of our Facebook Fan page at http://www.facebook.com/vegasunwrappedinternetradio so you can stay on top of all the news as it becomes public. Be sure to also visit our website at http://www.vegasunwrapped.net for a behind the scenes look at the people we have met and places we have been to.

It’s baseball season again which usually means only 1 thing: HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL!

Until next time…..