The Jim Reith Show Unleashed

On this edition of UNLEASHED!!!! Jim talks to Syracuse Mayoral Candidate and Deputy Mayor Sharon Owens on her victory in the city Democratic primary. https://www.owensforsyracuse.com/ and we talk to THE AXE MAN!!!!! Brent Axe joins us to talk all things SU sports!! https://www.facebook.com/BrentAxeMedia/ To ask Jim a question or to join our conversation email us at JimReithUnleashed@gmail.com Make...

Back at it with a packed UNLEASHED!!!!! 81 Project Director and worldwide musician, Joe Driscoll, joins us to talk about 81 and the funding the city will be losing from President Trump's cuts. https://www.joedriscollmusic.com/about https://www.facebook.com/joedriscollpolitics/  CNY based musician, Mark Macri, is the local spotlight this week! Mark takes us on a journey throughout his career and te...

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...

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!!!! To ask Jim a questi...

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, documen...

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/p...

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 To ask Jim a question or to join our conversation email us at JimReithUnleashed@gmail....

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...

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-eve...

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 Candi...

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 Robinso...

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.  To ask Jim a question or to join our conversation email us at JimReithUnleashed@gmail.com Make sure you are connected to us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/JimReithUnleashed/ And for your JR merch: TheJimReithShowUnleashed....

On today's program we talk to Grant Reeher, a Professor of Political Science at Syracuse University. He talks about the student visa's being revoked and the political climate on the college campus. https://www.maxwell.syr.edu/directory/grant-reeher We talk to Rome, NY Mayor, Jeffery Lanigan, on the new billion dollar Chobani plant on it's way to Rome. https://mayorlanigan.com/ and we go "back in t...

On today's program we talk to Syracuse Mayoral candidates Pat Hogan and Thomas Babilon. Jim talks with them on what their major concerns are for the city and what they would like to do if elected. Also Jim and Producer Bill talk about spring break, the YAYHOO of the week and the mighty METALLICA!!!! To ask Jim a question or to join our conversation email us at JimReithUnleashed@gmail.com Make sure...

On this edition of the podcast Jim & Producer Bill talk about his vacation that he is on as we speak. We check in and go "back in the day" with Onondaga County Legislator and former journalist, Julie Abbot. https://www.onondagarlcc.com/julie-abbott-district-6   and we check in with local author, Jeff Kramer, about his new book "Mud Season" https://jeffmkramer.com/book-1 To ask Jim a question o...

HUGE program this week!!! Frank Malfitano announces the 2025 Syracuse International Jazz Fest!!! https://syracusejazzfest.com/ And we go back to back with the Onondaga County Executive, Ryan McMahon and Syracuse City Mayor, Ben Walsh. Jim discusses Micron, the aquarium and DestiNY with C.E. McMahon and Jim talks about the Syracuse Housing Authority, Maria Regina College and we get a preview of the...

This week Jim goes "back in the day' with NBC 3 anchor Matt Mulcahy https://cnycentral.com/station/people/matt-mulcahy and we talk to the President of the MOST, Lauren Kochen, and catch up with what's new at the museum!! https://www.most.org/   To ask Jim a question or to join our conversation email us at JimReithUnleashed@gmail.com   Make sure you are connected to us on Facebook https://www.faceb...

On today's program, Syracuse Mets General Manager Jason Smorol gives us a preview of the 2025 season at beautiful NBT Bank Stadium which opens April 1. https://www.milb.com/syracuse   and Janice McKenna joins us to talk about a fund raiser for monuments to honor fallen CNY Law Enforcement Officers Lt. Hoosock and Officer Jensen. https://www.tipphill.org/officer-memorial   Also Jim & Bill discu...

After a week hiatus the program is back!!!    Long time Syracuse sports journalist Brent Axe joins the program to talk about the abysmal Syracuse Basketball season and what to look forward to in Fran Brown's sophomore season as head Syracuse Football coach. https://www.facebook.com/BrentAxeMedia/   and we go "back in the day" with Chris Trapper!!! Chris was a performer for the "Jim Reith Show Chri...

On today's program we go "back in the day" with Oswego State Professor and author Maggie Simone. She talks about the difficulties of being an educator in this political climate. https://a.co/d/hQsGAUK   We also talk to Chow Downey about the 20 year anniversary and final St. Baldrick's event at Kitty Hoynes in Downtown Syracuse. https://www.stbaldricks.org/events/mypage/848/2025   To ask Jim a ques...

On today's episode Jim talks to his daughter, Mary Reith, about her health blog that she came up with to help combat poor college eating habits. maryreith.wixsite.com/my-site-1 https://www.instagram.com/healthwmaryreith/ Also we go "Back in the day" with former Producer David Crider, now Dr. David Crider from SUNY Oswego. To for information on Producer Bill's run for NSCSD School Board: https://ww...

On this episode of UNLEASHED we talk to Meteorologist Mike Brookins about the crazy weather we have been experiencing. Onondaga County Legislator Mo Brown talks about his dislike for the county aquarium project and Rob Stacey from Goliathcon joins Jim to talk about what’s hot in the collectible world and his upcoming convention this weekend at the CNY Family Sports Center.   Tickets and more info...

Another PACKED edition of The Jim Reith Show UNLEASHED!!!!!! Syracuse City School District Superintendent, Anthony Davis joins us on a discussion about cell phones in class and the possible changes with the Department of Education and we go "back in the day" with a news media roundtable with Dave Bullard, Christie Casiano and Dan Cummings.  To ask Jim a question or to join our conversation email u...

On this episode we delve into some of the Executive Orders given by our President with SU Professor Grant Reeher and we go "back in the day" with our good friend and Syracuse Jazz Fest Director, Frank Malfitano.   To ask Jim a question or to join our conversation email us at JimReithUnleashed@gmail.com   Make sure you are connected to us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/JimReithUnleashed/   An...

On this episode of the podcast we have a long conversation with freshman Congressman John Mannion. He gives us the inside on what it's like in the first weeks of his term.  Want to ask Jim a question - JimReithUnleashed@gmail.com Check out the merch store - TheJimReithShowUnleashed.com