Steve Kay's Variety Show.

I was in a dark moment in my life, when the wise words from a Taxi Driver helped to change my outlook, and I still think of it occasionally. The guests are coming in, we had a few, have a few more lined up, and we are getting some great interviews here.

NIMBY= Not in my backyard. You may have heard of the term. It is when a community voices it's concerns and opposition to the opening of a particular residence or business in their neighborhood for various reasons. Every one in this world needs help at one point, and personally I do care about those who are less fortunate. But the question is, those who really need help are so mixed in there su...

If you are old enough, you will remember where you were and what you were doing during on 9/11/01. It is probable, as it affected us all, we were in shock. There were two global crises (yes I call 911 global as people all over the world were affected by it) in which the world that we knew seemed to have temporarily stopped, and that was 911, and the pandemic of 2020.

Originally from Philadelphia, Richard Blank studied Spanish at a young age. While in college, he lived abroad in Spain and immersed himself in the language. Upon his return to the USA, he interned for Telemundo, and eventually made the bold step of relocating to Costa Rica at age 25 to help out a friend, working in a call center. There, he met his wife, and built his own call center from the groun...

Today we had the pleasure of speaking with Fabian Farina and Mariano Mattei. Two lifelong friends from Philadelphia, who started out in a rock band together, and about 8 years ago, started wrtiting and producing films together. Four Olives is a an independent film co based in Philadephia, they have produced three full length feature films and nine distinct short films. They have earned awards incl...

Deric Gilliard is a journalist, a retired civil servant who worked at the Dept of Health and Human Services for 25 years in public affairs and community engagement. He also worked as a communications director for Dr. King's organization for four years prior to working for the federal government Deric is an author as well. Here is a link to his website: Deric Gilliard | Explore, Learn, Engage

Garnett Rogers is a musician, poet and author. He published a book called "Transitions" which is available (e book) for 99 cents on Lulu. We had a great conversation, about gratitude, learning from our losses, and finding solutions, rather than dwelling on problems. Thank you all for watching. And thank you, Garnett, for joining us today.

The Trumpet of the Swan,is a novel written by EB White, about a trumpeter swan who was born mute. He did not have a voice. And so his father got him a trumpet, and the trumpet became his voice. How many of you feel that you do not have a voice in this world? What outlet serves as a voice for you? so that you feel that you are being heard?

I was an unsuccessful telemarketer, back in the 1990's, before there was caller ID, the internet, and cell phones. I forgot to mention that I also set up appts for a Janitorial Services Company, which I got fired from after a few weeks. But I still have the memories, the experiences of cold calling strangers on the phone, strangers who wanted to get rid of me as soon as possible. Coupled with...

Not all of us are good listeners, some are. I was not always a good listener, sometimes I am now but sometimes I find myself tuning out or thinking about what I want to say. I think that is human nature, part of our natural inclination to be self absorbed. But once one realizes their errs, then the road is paved for self improvement.

Many of you are familiar with Superman, the movie. Jor-El knows that he will be killed soon, so he makes these recordings for baby superman to listen to in the capsule. My error, in the recording, I said Jackie Mason was in movie, it was a different Jackie, he played the editor, and actor had been in the Little Rascals, I know his first name was Jackie. Anyway, I recovered my own Jor-el tapes and...

The great pandemic of 2020, we all remember that, it was not too long ago. Yet it was five years ago, that means this decade is halfway over. We all were affected in some way by COVID. Personally, I lost a relative and I knew a lot of people whom passed from the disease. I also had a different life before COVID, as it coincided in my life along with some major life changes, this causing a rift if...

Many of you have gotten a little taste of the above dilemnas, and they are no laughing matter. Time consuming, all consuming because you feel so debilitated that you cannot seem to function until the issue is alleviated. Imagine all the suffering our aging action heroes are going now for the punishment that they inflicted on to their own bodies.

Have any of you out there ever experienced that? Trust me, the more circles you do around the sun in this life, the sooner or later someone younger is going to make an insensitive comment about your age. How you react, and how you digest it, is within your control. Sometimes it gets to me, other times I try to redirect myself or just understand why they said it. Or sometimes I just accept, hey, I...

You have all heard them, I believe the most popular one is "babe", ("babe, are you there?"), followed by "baby", "honey" "pookie" "honey bear" "sweetie", "pooksie" etc. What names, if any do you and your partner have for one another? I often feel like a detached Sociologist, or human behavior analyst, critiquing and in...

Unless you are visually impaired, chances are that you have a relationship with the man or the woman in the mirror. However, that mirror can be very deceptive, as we see it several times a day, so we do not know how much we have aged, or how we present ourselves to others.

We lost one of the greats two days ago, Gene Hackman, along with his wife, and his dog, passed away. He was one of my favorite actors, I was impacted greatly by his movies. He played villans equally as well as good people. Prayers to him, and his family, and animal family as well. Rest in Peace Gene Hackman, thank you for all your performances.

The latest of the new brand names to address one another, is "Bro" I really detest being addressed that way, especially with perfect strangers whom I exchange shallow pleasantries with, or people whom I have known only a week, maybe a month. I am not your brother, do not call me that. Oh, and "brother from another mother" no, our mothers did not know each other, and we are not...

Anxiety, how many of you suffer from it? It's far worse than allergies, in my opinion. How bad is yours? and how does it make you feel? I can remember my anxiety going back most of my adult life, or a good chunk of it, and I remember the gradual increase over the years as the attacks grew more frequent.

Good morning all, Today we had guest Cindy Mich on the show. Cindy is a journalist, media personality, film producer, and an on air radio host (Cins Chat Corner) with 205,000 listeners. Cindy is based in Milwaukee, however she spends a good deal of time in New York where she collaborates, networks, and creates productions with various artists. You can find Cindy on Facebook, Instagram, and Linkd i...

Do you have a load that you are carrying? What is your method of unloading? is it all at once? or periodically? how do you work off your load? Many of us carry a load, whatever it is. Many songs are attributed to carrying heavy shoulders.

Until about 20 years ago, you talked on a telephone line. Today, it is more like talking on the cellular airwaves, but regardless, I am talking about telephone useage here. Everyone is different, some people are talk- a -holics, others only use their phones when necessary. Just comparing different types of people and talking about myself and my own telephone useage.

Looking back at my life, I feel that my comedic side hatched around age 5 in Kindergarten class, when I was more interested in acting silly than I was in learning. Although I did not formally start doing comedy until I was 40 years old, I had a long history with spurts of acting silly and laughing until I was basically told by those in authority to act serious and stop clowning around, and long pe...

Fabio Sementelli was a celebrity hair stylist, originally from Toronto but relocated to LA. He was found murdered in his backyard in January, 2017. 5 months later, Robert Louis Baker, a raquetball instructor, and Fabio's wife Monica, were arrested and charged with his murder. In July, 2023 Robert Baker pleaded no contest and was sentenced to life without parole, he maintains that Monica had no...

One of my little rants, on the subject of motorists, handicapped permit users, and people with support dogs. In that order, and all over the place. You get eleven minutes of it.