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There was this business card I needed to design but...It seemed to be so COMPLICATED! And I thought and thought...and finally called her while on-the-air one day... Terri Sterling Donovan is an expert communicator and anti-procrastinator. Soon....  Th...

Shopping is easy for millennials and Generation Z. But many Boomers are left out. So says Jorge del Cario who runs a website called FAR OUT...that’s designed to make businesses Boomer friendly. Jorge del Carpio Far Out Founder Farout.store The WDBX Mad...

Mark Twain allegedly said that history doesn’t repeat itself but DOES rhyme. Our Bob Smith has an interview with then Us Congressman Paul Simon...recorded in 1975. What about that interview rhymes with the events of today? Let's talk Food Desert, or wo...

Robert Rickman What happens when the kids have left the nest, and neither the wife nor husband is working? And they are sitting on the couch looking at each-other and thinking... "Who the hell are you? Jill Graskewicz. who runs a local senior center, t...

Jill Graskewicz Director of Club 60 in Marion, Il. While Boomers don’t have a sterling reputation dealing with all things electronic...many of us are willing to trade a hardcover for an eBook. Librarian Amber Filbeck though not a Boomer, has some insig...

Bob Baer is on the left of the SIU Astronomy team. There is this little college town in the southern Midwest which is 15-miles from the nearest interstate. This little town will be the center of National attention on April 8, 2024, because at 2:01 in t...

This month temperatures in many places nationwide are soaring into the 90’s and `100’s. And one person is afraid that seniors may skimp on the air conditioning. Becky Salazar will talk about Boomers, heat and confusion. And, we’ll check the nation’s we...

Do you know someone who has moved to another city...or state because of politics? Economics Professor John Jackson of the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute doesn’t expect this tribalism to end soon. But professor Jackson does offer a possible solution...

A few weeks ago, I spotted a woman curled-up next to a plastic box of her things. I think she was homeless. And though I couldn’t see her face, she might have been a Boomer, because too many Boomers are retiring…to the streets. Percussionist Kevin Luca...

Two years ago I visited a Senior Citizens Center for the first time. Why? Because at 68 I didn’t think I was old. It turns out other Boomers feel the same way according to Jill Graskowitzwho talks about her parents. Jill runs a local senior center that...

OK Gang. Think about this. Some regulars at a local senior center weren’t seen for a while; they couldn't afford to pay for a meal. And we’re talking about a $4 meal ticket. Jill at Club 60 talks about an epidemic among seniors called “Food Insecurity....

OK Gang…. Here’s a sobering thought. There are more senior citizens living this country than ever before, but funding for senior programs continues to drop…Janet Melvin from the Wit and Wisdom Senior Center talks about what she has seen during her deca...

Let’s go back and think about our teenage years….when we went to the sock hop at the Junior High, or the teen center. But imagine what it be like to return to the that special place 60 years later. Sandi Bullar is the person we're talking about and the...

We’ll start out maybe...with you, a fellow Boomer. Are listening to me by yourself, and spend most of your time that way? By yourself? Well, the Surgeon General recognizes this as a major problem in our country. We'll hear from Surgeon General Vivek H....

I was always contemptuous of shooting pool as a legitimate exercise. But I changed my mind after visiting a pool room in a senior citizens' center, where I learned that shooting pool, or Billiards is a first-rate exercise! Besides, shooting pool can di...

This is an EF4 tornado that hit a suburb of Nashville, TN in 2009 I was on the air at a Nashville news station with continuous coverage of the disaster most of the next day. It was horrible! But as Mark Twain allegedly said, "History doesn't repeat its...

On this week's program... A spilled cup of coffee during the broadcast resulted in fifteen exciting and unpredictable minutes on-the-air! Also, the combined trust funds of Social Security are expected to run out by 2035, and Boomers are understandably ...

Some of us OK Boomers are asking people tooooooo….speak up. That’s because aging and hearing loss go together. But that's not the case for everyone because when the power goes out Diane Hardt pricks-up her ears. We’ll talk with Diane about how noisy it...

In this episode, we will hear from a Boomer...a first responder who came upon a scene of incredible death and destruction when he was in his twenties. And he stuffed this horrible memory for decades until...well the tragedy started in the air over San ...

Mark Twain once allegedly said that history doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme… Phil Bredesen, the governor of Tennessee 14-years ago, predicted the shift of Tornado Alley to the east. You’ll hear what this shift did to a suburb of Nashville, TN....

You're with your 35-year-old daughter at the drugstore, and the clerk ignores you and only talks to your daughter. It's called "Ageism" and Becky Salazar, director of a local area on aging has some thoughts about how to STOP it. And as we heard last ti...

Some Baby Boomers are retiring to their Alma Maters. Well, not the college but the town. And with university enrollments down nationwide, This college town is offering incentives for people to move there. We’ll hear from city planner Ashley Gibson. Man...

What happens when a Boomer gives up? You know, when they spend most of their watching TV, eating, and maybe smoking? We'll talk to a person who's seen it happen. And how do you stop this downward slide? Stay active... like you did when you were a kid. ...

The income tax deadline is a little less than 6 weeks away, and if you qualify your local college or university may help you. We'll talk to the dean of a local business school. Walking on a treadmill and texting on your Smartphone? Yuck! But what about...

Taking a course online? Is it hard to get personal (live human) help? The Dean of A business school at a major university says his online program is different, with personal mentoring, a graduation ceremony, and more….all online! Reading habits have ch...