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From the streets of Union City to your nighttime radio, Steve Treble keeps you in the Jersey from 7 till 11 local and line Steve 101.5 week night Steve's loud Golden call at 1 800283101.5. Ah, welcome to Monday night in New Jersey. Steve Trebleise, you and me till 11:00 tonight. Talking all things Jersey, most things Jersey. We'll be talking John Lennon tonight at 9:00. Uh, 45 years ago tonight, we lost John Lennon. Time of death 10:36. I was there. I wasn't there. I was on the air. Uh, one of the worst nights of my broadcasting life, one of the longest nights of my broadcasting life. And I'll tell you the story and we'll talk about John Lennon. We'll celebrate John Lennon uh, 9:00 tonight at 1 800 283101.5. We'll also talk about imagine you're driving and you have a medical episode happened in New Jersey. And I'm going to tell you what happened as the result of it and we'll talk about your experience with that later as well. And the malls, they don't know what to do with the malls. They running out of ideas trying to save them. And a lot of stores, a lot of the great stores that we grew up with at the mall are no longer there. We'll talk about the mall stores, you remember, among lots of other stuff. But um when I was on Thursday night, we talked about this uh this presentation that was going on in Colts Neck. Uh the history rocks initiative uh stop. It was the US Department of Education. and Linda McMahon was coming to Colts Neck Cedar Drive Middle School. And there's a parental bill of rights at the Colts Neck Cedar Drive Middle School, which so states uh parents have the right to be informed in advance about any guest speakers, presentations, or school assemblies, especially those addressing health, sexuality, or other sensitive topics. They may request information about qualifications of teachers and guest presenters who interact with students. Okay. So, they've got this agreement right now. The Constitution uh the the teaching of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence uh was coming. I don't see why there'd be a problem letting the parents in to witness this. They had been uh I don't know uh what's the word I'm looking for? Uh some people will not say worried but maybe uncomfortable with the fact that some of the groups that were tied in with History Rocks were right-wing groups like uh Turning Point, which by the way there's the Turning Point chapter at Rutgers and it was Linda McMahon who showed up. She's the secretary of education. So uh Ms. Now was the first to report. The parents were told, you know, they could come and check it out, but when they got there, it was going to be a 7:45 a.m. board of education meeting. When they got there, they were turned away. According to the meeting notice, their purpose was a board discussion with the US Secretary of Education on topics generally related to public education. No other action would be taken at the meeting. Members of the board were seated in the front row during McMahon's presentation. Uh but the parents and former board of education member Allison Denoya and this is from Dan Alexander in NJ1015.com said a Coltsneck police officer told her that no one was allowed in the building. No reason was offered. There were also people outside the school protesting McMahon according to Denoya. Why you would protest the secretary of education coming in to sign I mean to talk about the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. I'm a little foggy on. If you can call and explain that to me, I'd love to know. But uh some parents were told uh that on Tuesday about the visit, they were concerned the presentation would have a right-wing lean. Okay, get that. So, they invoked the school's parental bill of rights. You have to let us in. And then they didn't get in. And I don't understand why they didn't get in. And I'd like to know from you if you were there, uh, what happened? If you were in Colts Neck, you know, that morning and you tried to get in. If your children went to Colts Neck, what was the presentation like? Uh, was there anything offensive in it? Anything that you found offensive? And why wouldn't the school just open it up to the parents? Here's a chance to unify a situation. Here's a chance to let everyone who has a question, who has a doubt, into the building to see what the presentation was and then pass their own judgment. Was it down the middle? Was it fair? Was it political? Were they trying to brainwash your kids? Or was it a simple history lesson? Was it a simple assembly outside of class? You get you get to miss class for a day because you're sitting in the auditorium watching a history rocks presentation. I don't know how they put it together or what they did about the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Here's a chance to unify a situation. Here's a chance to bring the parents together in with the children. And if there is any questions, they could have even sent the kids back to class and done a Q&A. And you could have turned a negative into a positive. 1 800 283101.5. Let's get Rich in Syville. Rich, what are you thinking? Hey. Hey. What are you thinking? Answering your own phone tonight. Ooh, super. I'm multitasking. multitasking, I tell you. Well, that's why you get paid the big bucks. Oh, yeah. Records on Saturdays. Yeah, I get it. I know, right? I'm sure I know. Pretty soon, I'm going to be sweeping this place. And EJ, the CEO. Yeah, that'll be it. That'll be the day. All right. So, tell me, what do you think of this? I think the school didn't let him in only because they didn't want confrontation with the kids. I mean, look, the woman's uh a head of the education department, I bet you the school principal, whoever looked at what she was going to, you know, show or discuss. And look, if you already have protesters outside and parents are all up in arms because they don't want their kids being told about the Declaration of Independence, something's wrong. And I think they would have just went in there and caused a big scene and nothing would have been accomplished. But you've also got police. I mean, he's going to do that. You know, they don't, you know, do you really want to have your parents taken out by the police in school? You know, I I just think the school did the right thing and stopped a major confrontation and the kids heard what they had to hear and that's all there is to it. You know what? They could have put the I don't know if they did this, but they should have filmed the whole thing and put it up online, put it on the website. Yeah. Well, hey, you they uh they filmed council member uh board meetings all the time in every uh in every town. they could have did this. And then, you know, again, if that's all it was was her talking about, you know, the de the the declaration and they put that out there, that just goes to show that, hey, you were wrong. They were right. Leave them alone. Yeah. I mean, go ahead. Yeah. I I you know and that if she's going to do 50 states and do this like like I heard well this this is the first one. Well, put it out there for them. Put it out there for all these crazy people that don't want to hear anything about the Declaration of Independence. The best the best piece of paper put down by any nation by far. Absolutely. Rich, thanks for the call to New Jersey 101.5. 1 800 283101.5. I don't know. I don't think that there would have been violence. I I would hope not in a in a middle school in Colts neck, you know, upper middle class Colts neck. I would say upper class Colts neck that they would go in and want to start a fight over a presentation on the signing of the Declaration of Independence put on by the Secretary of Education. But what do you think? 1800 28310145. John's got a lot to say. Please hang on, John. I want to give you a lot of time. Same with Peter. And I got room for you. Very basic question. Should they have allowed the parents to come in where they have a bill of rights, parental bill of rights? You got to let us in. Parents show up, school doesn't let them in. Here's a chance to bring everybody together. And instead, a wedge was driven. 1 800 283 101.5. I'm Steve Treval East. Here's New Jersey 101.5. Fast traffic. [Applause] uh the evening rush. It's concluding now stealies on New Jersey 101.5. They had uh presentation in Colts history rocks the parental bill of rights the school has basically saying the parents need to know what's going on. They have the right to know what's going on and then the school wouldn't let them in to see what was going on. And it was Friday. Secretary of Education presenting the signing of the Declaration of Independence as we approach a 250th anniversary. John is in upstate New York. They should have let him in. Right, John? Absolutely. And uh my son goes to Lebanon Township and Hunter County, so I'm not directly affected by it. Right. But had they had, you know, a speaker come and I'm more right leaning uh voter, but it doesn't it doesn't matter. You know, I just imagine how the the Democrat voting parents must feel having a Republican administration, someone coming from his administration coming in to speak and, you know, not allowed to come in. Had it been like a Democrat mayor or congressman or anything like that coming into my son's school and they wouldn't let us um come in to listen to see what they were being told, I mean, I would just be absolutely furious. Either way, I mean, I just the optics of this is just terrible in my opinion. you know, I just don't see a reason why. It's just, you know, I don't care what what what way the the the person coming in to speak, right or left, it doesn't matter. Anything political like that, parents should be able to come in and listen to make sure so that they can go back if they disagree with something that's said, they can go back to their kids and say, "Look, you know, that's that this is my view on it. This is how we think about it." And and it's just that's terrible optics. Well, you know what? The only thing I could think of, and I think of it while you're saying it, maybe they were afraid that the parents would start interrupting or heckling the Secretary of Education, but you know, then then there are rules set in the room that if you do this, we're going to escort you out. Yeah. Get them out. Get them out if they start causing issues. Yeah. But you know, they had a chance to bring everybody together, John. They could have unified the room. Here's what it's about. Everybody's welcome to watch. We're going to celebrate this 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, and we're going to show these middle school students, uh, what it was about, what this country is about, and instead they shut the parents out, like you said, driving a wedge. Ridiculous. Yeah. The secretive nature of it is just just I don't get it. No, I'm with you. Mike is in Woodbine. Mike, what are you thinking? Yeah, Steve, they're not no right-wing and leftwing people are not going to get together by this thing and sing kumbaya. You know what I'm saying? the left wing a lot of times people you know Trump is a lightning rod his secretary of education comes in there the left wing is going to come out they do make it very boisterous I mean so what I think they should have done is kept have the parents not come and just have a zoom have a zoom ability to you know to see what's going on and have a question and answer period with the secretary of education this way you keep the noise level down and everyone's able to hear what's coming off and everyone you know it would I think that would have been fine that would have accommodated everybody you know what I'm as long as they would have got access. You know, here's what it's about. I don't know. I don't know if it's online. Rob, see if this meeting if this presentation is online at the Cedar Middle School in Colts Neck, uh, Cedar Drive Middle School, but I haven't seen it, you know, and if that's the case, if you're making it available for everybody, then no judgment, you know what I mean? You're giving everyone a chance to weigh their opinion. Why would you call a meeting for 7:45, require everybody be there, and then when they show up, tell them they can't get in? It It's absurd. It It wasn't done with too much thought. Not at all. Mike, thank I'm sorry, Mike. I didn't cut you off. Peter is in Lawrence. Peter, what are you thinking? I was thinking that if it was open to the public, the parents had the right to go. Yeah. To be there to counsel or wasn't open to the public. Yeah. Then it was open to the kids. But they have a parental bill of rights in the school which quotes, "Parents have the right to be informed in advance about any guest speakers, presentations, or school assemblies, especially those addressing health, sexuality, or other sensitive topics." Cuz some schools, they just force this stuff on you. They have different, you know, groups of different sexuality show up. Uh they may request information about the qualifications of teachers and guest presenters who interact with students. And that's only fair. I think they dropped the ball in this one. I think they made a terrible mistake. There was a film called 776. They should have showed the film then let McMahon talk and then let the parents sit with the children and then interact with the secretary of education in a normal mature attitude. Yeah, that's the way you land the plane. Thanks for the call to New Jersey 101.5. Also, we have the app chat if there's anything uh you want to, you know, you can also get us through the app chat as well. 1 800283101.5. Rob Brown, what we got? So, you can't can't see the presentation of Linda McMahon. The only thing I've really seen is a 23 second video that looks like a parent did for a little bit. Put the thing up there right now. You solve all problems. Now you solve all arguments. Here's what it is. And if any other school across the country, any school that this is coming to, any parent has a problem. This is what we did in Colts Neck. Is there a problem? And also, I'd love to know 1800 283101.5. If any parent of any student uh you know who went to the Colts Neck Cedar Drive Middle School, uh saw the presentation has a problem with the presentation, give me a call 1800 283101.5. I'm Steve Jeal. It's 7:30. [Music] I'll make the time. I do it for you. Steve Trevalise 1800 283 101.5. Some are getting ready for the uh Eagles Chargers game of which there will be a lot of complaining. God forbid the Eagles lose that game. As in if my prayers are answered. I give up. I give up. Okay. I I got a beef with someone on this radio station and uh an on- air personality who's going to call in at 7:52 and discuss it cuz I heard something on the radio that completely completely just took me back. And not only was I insulted, but my producer Rob Brown was insulted as well. And the two of us sitting here like two ya and we'll we'll discuss this at 750 7:52 when when the person calls in. But in the meantime, I couldn't believe this. Can you imagine driving down the road and you have a medical episode? Has it ever happened to you? I mean, this is uh Berkeley Township Police say the driver of a Dodge Ram crossed the intersection of uh Jamaica Boulevard and St. Catherine Boulevard just before 300 p.m. hitting a 1969 VW Beetle and a hot water heater before coming to a stop in the living room. No one was injured. The driver was entrapped and one was released and taken to Jersey Shore Medical Center for treatment. Now, could you imagine that? Uh, basically the New Jersey driver hits a classic car, plows through a garage, hits a water heater, and ended up in a living room. Uh, officers found the pickup truck had breached a home, according to authorities, on Jamaica Boulevard. Truck crossed the intersection, hit the parked 69 Volkswagen Beetle before driving through a garage, hitting a hot water heater, ending up in the living room of the house. The crash caused a natural gas leak, and the driver was trapped in the vehicle. driver was eventually extracted from the truck, taken to Jersey Shore Medical Center. None of the residents inside the home were injured, and it turns out investigators believe the motorist suffered a serious medical episode causing the incident. Now, I get to those extremes, but have you ever been in a situation, ever been driving and had a medical episode? I knew a guy um I knew about Ray Dinger was talking about this. He was driving and he realized while he was driving he was having a heart attack and he drove himself to the hospital and basically saved his own life. But has anything like that ever happened to you? Have you ever driven down the road and had some kind of an attack or driven with someone who was having some kind of an attack? How did you handle it? You know, there's a story uh that uh Governor Elect told on Co Bear where they were taking her to the hospital to have the baby and she ended up having the baby uh in the cab because of traffic, New York traffic, but I can't imagine the the the fear that here you are, you know, if you're driving, you're on the road, and you feel whatever's happening to you happened to you, and you're in a situation where you can't stop or you got to pull over. 1 800283101.5. Has anything like that ever happened to you or someone you know? You ever been in that situation? You know, you know the signs of certain things. You know, you have a heart if you're feeling like pain in your arm, you're feeling pain in your jaw, you know the signs that a heart attack could be coming. you know, or maybe something else, an epileptic episode, seizure or something like that. They don't say what this medical episode was, but I remember uh an episode of SVU which started out like that and you thought the person was high and the person, you know, plows through the city street, hits the light post, the typical typical television, you know, crash. But if anything like that has happened to you or someone you know, I'd love to hear your story. 1 800 283101.5. We also have the app chat. And uh you want to talk about the Colts neck situation, I'll definitely take calls on that. I cannot believe the school would not allow parents in after all the back and forth that went on over a presentation of the Declaration of the signing of the Declaration of Independence 250 years later. that people would be upset that the history rocks presentation was connected with Turning Point. And Turning Point has a chapter at Ruters. Turning Point has what, a couple hundred thousand people have signed up. It's gotten people more into religion. But I'm not here to sell Turning Point. I'm just here to sell the idea that this school could have instead of driven a wedge created peace. Could have easily said, "Look, here's what it is. Anybody got a problem? And if there are problems, take the problems and deal with them. Parental bill of rights, get it all out in the open. Let everybody talk about how they feel. The only way we can get anywhere is to talk to each other, to talk about how we feel. And it's the last thing anybody seems to want to do. They'll talk to themselves, both sides. They'll talk, you know, to themselves. They'll talk to like-minded people. But the idea of talking to everybody, this was a chance for, you know, the Cedar Drive school talk to everybody. All right, Rich in Freehold. Imagine this, having a heart attack while driving a bus. What happened, Rich? Well, I went down to uh clean my buses out and it was a Saturday. It was a day after Thanksgiving a year ago. And while I was down there working for about two hours, right? Uh because I had a ride the next day, so I wanted to make sure the bus was clean. My left arm started hurting. But my left arm was hurting for about six weeks prior. And I didn't think anything of it. I thought maybe I strained it. Well, that day it was a lot worse. So I jumped in the car. I figured, let me go home. I got home. I said to the wife, I don't feel too good. And I went in my office and bingo, it the chest just started hurting real bad. I came out and I said, "I think I'm having a heart attack." Well, she said, "Let's go. I'll call emergency B." I said, "We don't have the time." So, she drove me to Jersey Shore. Within 40 minutes, I was on the table. I had two blockages, 95%. I had that that stent put in that day and then had to wait three days because my heart was so weak that uh I think it was Tuesday morning they brought me in to do the other one. But now I'm doing a lot better. But the doctor said I was 10 minutes away from biting the dust. You know the thing with the left arm, you don't know it. It doesn't let you know it takes a while for you to really not only figure it out or think about it but believe it. Oh, I worked out today. Maybe I picked something up. It can't be that. And then it keeps going and the longer it takes, you know, the worse it gets. You're very lucky to have survived, you know. God bless you. I thought I was strong as a bull and you wouldn't think it would be you. But at 69, anything can happen, you know, and now I don't take anything for granted. Little little bit of chest pain. I'm I'm at the hospital. Good move by you. Thanks for the call to New Jersey Auto 1.5. Doug is in brick. Doug, what do you think about the Colt's next situation? I mean regardless of uh you know political affiliation I I don't think that um the school would have let those should let those parents in. You got to think about how many presentations the school the school has throughout the you know the school year and all of a sudden now we're going to make an exception. Um so and just logistically I mean how many parents are we talking here? I mean we we got to be able to cram in there um you know certain safety procedures and things of that nature. they're just, you know, playing devil's advocate, just letting them all in. Um I I I think that the district made a good stand there on um you know, keeping them out. And obviously even even if they were, you always run that risk of the the presentation could have been, you know, nonbiased, but um parents could have been out of line just just because of the fact of the political affiliation. Well, it says that they they have a what they call the parental bill of rights at this Colts neck school. It says parents have the right to be informed in advance. Parents have the right to be informed in advance about any guest speakers, presentations or school assemblies, especially those addressing health, sexuality or other sensitive topics. They may request information about the qualifications of the teachers and guest presenters who interact with the students. Now, there's that. Now there was a meeting uh according to a meeting notice the purpose was a board discussion with the US secretary of on topics uh generally related to public education. No other action would be taken at the meeting. Members of the board were seated in the front row during McMahon's presentation. Uh they were told they could attend this history rocks event if they came to the board meeting at 7:45. So, according to MS Now, uh they report parents were told they could attend. So, now they show up at a quarter 8 in the morning only to find out they can't attend. Okay. Yeah, that's uh if they're they're told that they're allowed to attend and all of a sudden they show up, obviously that's a different issue. Um but just from an educational standpoint, um I probably wouldn't have let those parents come in there just for the fact of um you know, Well, let me ask you this. You know, anything going sideways on there just disrupting the actual message of the the presentation. Well, here's the thing. Let me ask you this. You're thinking about, first of all, you're talking about a middle school in Colts neck, you know, not exactly a real tough neighborhood. This is a very peaceful upper middle class community. Uh, now let's say you've got you got police there. You have a police presence, you know, for the kids. These are middle school kids 12 and 13. And if the parents want to come in, the the parents, you're talking about the parents of the students. So, how many students would be in the room? And I I really if it went sideways, the police would be there. And I think that if you brought them in and let them see what was going on and they realized nothing was going on that maybe you could have brought both sides together and landed the plane without any kind of you know uh 100% conflict like we've got now. Yeah. I I I think a lot of it from from the whole situation is how is the process of all this at this point? I think just like you said if it was put out there possibly and this was and this transition was done more seamlessly as the parents were giving longer notification and that opportunity was available for them. Yeah. I I think you could have uh stopped you know um a lot of conflict. You could have avoided the conflict 100%. Maybe bring people together and you know what here's the other thing Doug. They should have filmed the whole thing and put it up online. Yeah, I know. They do that for the board minutes. Yeah. No, film the whole presentation of the Declaration of Here's Here's Linda McMahon, Secretary of Education. Here's the presentation. We're going to put it up online so that not only can our students benefit, but everybody can benefit. And then all the other states, all the other 50 states that are going to have this presentation can see what's going on as well. Doug, thanks for the call to New Jersey 101.5. I 1800 283101.5. And I got a beef. I got a beef with a personality here. And I'm going to So I'm going to settle this conflict on the air. I'm going to set him. I'm going to I'm not going to go and not let him into the meeting or anything. I'm like doing Colts neck. I'm going to hold up all night long. You stay up. That's uh Ringo's brother Joe Walsh from Summit, New Jersey. By the way, we'll be talking about Ringo's other brother, John Lennon, in about an hour. But first, I want to talk about my brother. I want to talk about my my radio brother, a a man who who I have been friends with for so long, hired him for my DJ company. He hired me at this radio station. Maybe wait 10 years to get here, but I hold no grudges. And and then I listen every morning to my pal EJ and because because I know he's on the air, you know. And this morning I I get on my bike, I'm riding, I'm all set to find out what we're going to talk about today. who stole what from what porch. And this is what I hear. Well, the thief was just uh avoiding the middleman. Went directly to the source and took the food. And maybe it isn't stealing. Maybe it was somebody that could truly really use the food. I guess. I guess. Who else would steal food? Well, other than the people that work here at night. I think it's besides besides those losers. The people who work here at night. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome EJ to the show. Hello, my friend. Hi, Trav. How are you? I'm wonderful. How are you? Good. So, here's my question for you. Yeah. When you played that clip back Yeah. Did you hear Did you hear the words Steve Trevalis at all? I'm the only guy that works here at night. That means it's me. Ah. Oh, Rob Brown. Oh, look. I didn't realize you insulting Rob. In that case, go watch the game. Well, let me let me Well, I am going to go watch the game in a few minutes. Uhhuh. Thanks. I listen to your show, but go watch the game. That's okay. I don't need listeners. I'm not here to to make waves. I know I'm the new guy. You're the old new guy. Well, yeah. So, but you know, I left for seven years, but there were, you know, I've been associated with that station for 26 years. Uhhuh. And you can't say in those 26 years, there wasn't one person on the night crew that took day crew food out of the refrigerator. There is, first of all, this guy, I'll give you an example. A couple of weeks ago, uh there was Mozadel left in there from Brian the Cheese Man, who obviously forgets his nighttime friends. And I saw it and it was unattended. And I actually texted Kyle Forscini asking him if it was okay if I took one and he said go ahead because I ask permission. See you guys in the morning they they get a big spread here. Pete from the E-wing diner sends all this food and then you guys eat. In the afternoon guys eat and then the cleaning lady takes it all home. I I bring Oreos for the newsroom. One day I'm sitting in the lunchroom with an Oreo. Across from me is a mouse with a breakfast burrito that he got from the morning shop. We get nothing. Yes. You've always been very generous with food. I've been to your home countless times. The Italian food is the best anywhere in New Jersey. When your dad When your dad was around, I mean, it was like top-notch. He was making the food. Considered you like a son, by the way. Like a son. He considered you. Okay. But what I'm bringing up is as having been the manager there for many years, I had people come to me saying I left my lunch bag in here in the afternoon and the next day it was gone. So I So this is an old problem. I shouldn't have brought up a I should have stayed within this era. I love listening to him squirm. Isn't this fun? I am squirming, but I you know that was probably unfair, Trev, and and I apologize to both you and Rob. No, that's okay. That's okay. But I was, well, listen, this is what I told talk show host as program director. It's not good to generalize groups of people, but we've done it the whole time the station's been around. So, I guess I was guilty of breaking my own rule. I was generalizing. And and for that, Trev, I apologize. That's okay. No problem. You know, I love you. I mean, there was a time when they had a Christmas party here, big place, spread food all over the place. I come in and there's nothing here because the cleaning people loaded it up at five at 6:30, put it all in the car and we're walking around going, "Anything for us? Excuse me, please. Can I have more?" So, let me ask you about this. There was a mozzarella in there and it said Kyle on it. So, did you actually go the extra step further and label it for Kyle? No, no, no. This was You know what? Brian the cheese guy never brings me anything. I just apparently you guys get regotta and all kinds of stuff in there. I don't know where it came alone is off the hook. It's awesome. There's I think there should still be some ricotta in there right now. And if it's still there, please help yourself. Oh, see, you got to let me know. I need permission cuz like I said, there's by the time we get in here, there's nothing to eat. I mean, like literally nothing to eat. So, I mean, when I heard that like we were taking food, I'm like, I'd love to know where it is. I would actually take the food, but we never get anything. But listen, listen. Here's the real reason I called you. All right. I I got a promo for you guys. Tell me what you think. All right. You always have an idea, Trev. I I know. This is an idea. This is This is perfect for you guys. You ready? It's the All right. Ready? Here we go. It's the EJ and Judy show. They don't know what the they're doing. Featuring Kyle Forsini. I'm a loser. I'm a loser. On New Jersey 101.5. Y. What do you think? I I actually I'm not that impressed. No. Well, in that case, they don't know what the they're doing. Hey, go watch the game, pal. I love you. Go birds. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Shut up. 283 101.5. See what I got to deal with, Levon? They're telling us we're stealing food at night. We don't even have any food at night. I'm coming to get an Oreo. Oh, I got to raise your pot. There we go. Okay, here we go. By the way, you got to turn the teletype off when you're done. Before I was talking and I was I I thought it was Walter Kronite. It's eight o'clock. Oh yeah. [Applause] Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Steve Travel talking to you and stealing food at 1800283101.5. Imagine that. Listening to my favorite midday radio program. And what do I hear? My pal accusing me of stealing food like there ever is any food around. Believe me, if it were, we would steal it. Brown is on the other side of the glass, very, very hungry. Andrew in Flemington, you have no problem with stealing food, right? No, not the problem at all. No, I don't have a problem with that. It's not even stealing. If they wanted to keep that, but I appreciate you taking my call, Steve. Always, Andrew. Hey, man. If they really I'm not just saying this cuz we're almost friends, but I'm saying if they don't put their name on it and they wanted it the next day, they should have brought it home. You don't leave fresh mozzarella mozzarella in the in the fridge. If I had known there was fresh mozzarella in the fridge. See, that's the thing. You asked. You asked. Yeah, I did. When I when I saw that, then I said, "Wait, there's something wrong here." So, I texted Kyle and I said, you know, "What's the deal?" And he said, "No, take it. That's good." I mean, you know, I'm just breaking the stones, you know, but but I heard that I'm like I'm like, "Wait a minute. There never is any food to take in this place. The cleaning lady gets it like the goalie. Whatever's left over, she takes home at night. What do you got for I got something? I I was watching Benny the ball a half an hour ago." Oh, yeah. And he was trying to He was trying to wake up Top Cat, you know, he's banging on the garbage can. Uhhuh. Come on, TC. Wake up. Wake up. It's time to wake up. And he would he was snoring. And the garbage lid would rise up and fall back down. He's got the blinders. What do you think you're doing waking me up from my slumber? He says, "Good morning, Officer Dibble." And Officer Dibble says, "Topcat, Topcat, I know you're up to something." They should bring that show back. That was one of the Hannah Barbara classics. That was great, Andrew. Thanks for the call. That was uh when was that? It was sometime in the 60s, right? That was a good show. They had those these, you know, now they have animation again. And now it's animation domination on Sunday nights, right? You get Bob's Burger. 38 years of The Simpsons. How about that? That is the classic American family. Cuz it's been 38 years and those kids are still living at home. That is the classic American family. American Dad, that's not on anymore, right? And there's some other one. What's the one I forget the name of it, but it basically takes place in like South Jersey. Uh I can't anybody knows. All right. 1-800 283 101.5. So, uh, the gas tax is going up again. It's going to go up like four cents next year. What else is new? They promised we used to have this really low gas price in New Jersey and then Governor Christie changed all that in 2017 for our own good. Make sure you vote that the tax can only be used to fix the roads. So, and Spadia said, "If you do that, they're going to borrow against it and do other things, you know." Oh, no, Bill. They would never do that. Well, guess what? So, it's going up another 4 cents a gallon in 2026. And uh my thought here, couldn't we get something out of this? And if it were possible, and I know we've had this discussion many times before, but every time this happens, I think about it, what if you had the option, the option of pumping your own gas where it would be mandated, and there's a bill uh that was put up by Senator Deano, Scandal, Scandlin, among others, that would mandate someone always be there to pump your gas if you wanted, but you had the option to go over and put your credit card in and fill your tank. Be it in the overnight when there's nobody there, be it in uh or the convenience store or whatever. Be it in the uh you know at times when off hours, you're in a rush. You got someplace to go. You don't want to get in line. It's a hot day. It's a cold day. Maybe the person doesn't want to get out of their nice warm little box between the pumps. and they got to talk themselves into it. But you got things to do, places to go, people to see. So you say, "Don't worry, stay there. I got it." Maybe you just want to be a nice guy. Don't worry, stay there. I got it. You get out, put your card in, get your gas, you're on your way. Why would that Why is that such a problem in New Jersey? The only state in the union that doesn't allow it to happen. 1 800 283101.5. Not even about the money, although it's been documented by Salvado when he was the u head of the gasoline convenience workers association. Uh basically saying that gas could go down as much as uh 23 cents a gallon if they didn't have to pay the people to pump it. What would happen to those people? Oh my god, they lose their jobs. Maybe they get jobs that don't involve carbon monoxide, inhaling gas fumes. Maybe they live longer, happier, more fulfilled lives. There are jobs to be had in New Jersey, by the way. Lots of them, especially this time of year. But or maybe they bring them in to uh the convenience store, let them work inside. 1 800 283 101.5. But how do you feel about the idea? You know, the biggest argument I get, well, it's going to make the insurance. No, the insurance has nothing to do with it. I spoke to S, the executive director of the New Jersey Gasoline Retailers and Convenience Association, and he said the insurance wouldn't make a difference, but for some reason, if you bring it up, people get offended. They get twisted about it. And we're not saying making a decision for everyone, you know, we're making the decision or we're giving everyone the option to make their own decision. 1 800283101.5 Paulie's in Pence. What's up, Ben? Paulie. Hey, how you doing, brother? Good. How about you? I wanted to man, you guys were just talking about in public gas. I just told the guy I'm 44 and I've been driving a long time, right? Uh, and you never could in Jersey and now they're letting us do it. You pull up the Waw Wa and uh, same exact thing. You tell him he's in the booth. He's lazy. He's on his phone. Say, "I got it." You put it card in the pump. Pump your own gas. I love it. And then, but then he But it's a fine for the gas station. I mean, it's really still against the law. This guy's being good to you. Don't rat him out. You're kidding me. In Jersey, they're doing it all Waw Wa now, which is, you know, huge. Really? If they because you know what they should. I pulled up to a Waw Wa once about two o'clock in the morning and there was nobody out there. I'm waiting forever. Finally, the guy came out. I had to go in and ask, but they actually have on the thing. Here's how you do it. But apparently in Jersey, you're not allowed to do it. But I'm, you know, if if that's the case, Paulie, thanks for the call. If if Wawa is letting you do it, please give me a call. 1 800283101.5. But shouldn't everyone allow you to do it? If anyone has a problem, tell me why you have a problem if someone else pumps their own gas. Dan is on the Parkway. Dan, your thoughts? I just pump my own gas tonight. And where were you? I was at home though. Did anybody stop? No, the guy was didn't come out for 10 minutes. So, how did you do it? Did you walk? Don't you need You have to put your credit card in. Yeah, I just pulled my credit card up to the machine, grabbed the pump and started going and he didn't say anything. No, nobody even came out. Wow. I'm telling you, they could get in trouble. You're not allowed to do it. Don't you wish you shouldn't you be able to do it everywhere? Yeah, I don't see why not. Makes no sense to me. Now, have you been able to do it anywhere else in New Jersey? Yeah, quite a few times. You've been able to just pull up to any gas pump? Yeah. I I work I work on the road every day. Every every day. Uhhuh. And I've had people not show up when it's raining, when it's cold outside, hot outside. I've waited for people at several different gas stations. How about that? You shouldn't have to. You should be able to pump your own. I'm glad they're letting you. Dan, thanks for the call to New Jersey 101.5. All right. Anybody else able to pump their own gas in New Jersey? Because from what I understand, you're not allowed to. But if you are, I want to know about it. And where are you able? No. No. I don't write I don't want to rat anybody out. Get anybody in trouble. But 18023101.5 gas tax is going up now. 4 cents a gallon. The new tax rate will be 49.1 cent on each gallon of gasoline, 56.1 cent on each gallon of diesel, up 44.9 cents and 51.9 cents, respectively. That is ridiculous. Given the option, would you like to be able to pump your own gas in New Jersey? 1-800 283101.5. I'm Steve Travel in New Jersey 101.5. Fast traffic. [Music] Ah, yes. The night shift till 11:00 tonight. Steve Trouble, I hope you're having a good one. You deserve it. It's only Monday. We're almost there, right? Should you be able to pump your own gas in New Jersey? How do you know when Christmas is coming if you start hearing about how the gas price is going to go up again because of this freaking tax that uh Governor Christie uh imposed on us in 2017? H make sure you use it to fix the roads. The roads are so great in New Jersey with the money they're getting from the gas tax. Every road should be paved with gold. It should be like Oz New Jersey. Scott is in Jackson. Scott, should we be able to pump our own gas? Yeah. Um, I don't have nothing against that. Um, I was going to tell you about the thing with Wawa. Uh, if you have the app on your phone, right? I'm looking at the app right now, it says in if you go to the fuel section, it has activate pump and app. So, you if you hit that and you tell it what pump, there's a number next to the pump that you're at. really you put that number you put that number in and you tell them to pump me you have Apple Pay or whatever option you pay with on your phone right it'll it'll go through and then the it literally once that payment goes through it'll activate the pump you can get out of your car put the nozzle in your car and do it yourself I've done it before how about in New Jersey yeah if you look in the app if you have the Waw Wa app look at it'll say activate pump an app. I had no idea exactly what it Yeah, it's crazy. Yeah. No, that's great. But sometimes But sometimes it's easier to do that than waiting for people when they're taking their time. That's the thing. You know, people worry about the money and it's not a money thing. It's just a convenience thing. You got places to go. You got stuff to do. So, if you're going to get in line, why wait in line if you don't have to? It's so simple to do it. When the convenience turns into an inconvenience waiting. Mhm. Absolutely. Scott, thanks for the call to New Jersey 101.5. We got the app chat. What do we got on the app chat? Rob Jim from Oldbridge. I always pump my own gas at Waw Wa. Out of multiple different Wawa, I've only had an issue once, so I don't go to that Waw Wa anymore. Really? How about this, Greg and Freehole? Should we pump our own gas? Absolutely. We should pump our own gas. It's been We're the only state in the country. You can't pump your own gas. There's no logical reason for it, right? every other state you can do it. Cold weather states, warm weather states, it's just interference in the free markets and people have just become accustomed to it. And you know, maybe if we could pump our own gas that the cost of gas would come down by 40 cents a gallon because station owners wouldn't have to hire so many people to pump gas. And people say that, oh well, that would be a loss of jobs. And that's true. But any job that exists because of a law is not a job at all. It's a tax. And moreover, yeah, and moreover, the the as it relates to the gas tax and the road construction, we spend 1.1 million to pave a single mile of road. West Virginia spends 21,000. New York State spends 373,000. We spend 1.1 million and we have among the worst roads in the country. Yeah. So, why is it so expensive for us, right? Why is because politicians the New Jersey Democrats have set the uh prevailing wage and project labor agreements to pay off the road construction crews to keep them voting Democrat. They have a strangle hold on the Democrats, these road construction unions and all the other people who have their hands in this road construction uh pot of money and it's outrageous. But it's never going to stop. And that's why Steve, this this state is a fiscal lost cause. I've sent my daughters to college in the Carolinas with orders never to return and I'm here just as soon as I can get out of here. Save yourself, Greg. Thanks for the call. The New Jersey 101.5. Greg's the voice of reason. All right, what else we got? Pam, she says, "I had a 2001 Blazer that had a vapor lock." Vapor lock. Yeah. Okay, cool. Yeah, cuz when it comes to cars, uh, but a vapor lock, if gas wasn't pumped a certain way, the guys at Wawwa would let me pump my gas as it's such a hassle for them. It's such a hassle for them. Yeah, it was a hassle. That's what they get paid to do, right? You know, if it gets you out of uh, you know, to get you pump your own gas, I I would say may as well. I think that I didn't realize that it's on the Waw Wa app. I had no idea either. No. And if you could just pull up to the because I I figure because it's a national thing. So all the other states like Pennsylvania where Wawwa is from media uh would probably pump your own gas, but it just makes more sense that for your own, you know, we could have the money argument, which we've had. It just makes it makes total sense that if you don't have to pay someone to pump the gas, the gas would be cheaper. But apparently we fight over is there going to be insurance on that. There he is. Joe, what's going on, my friend? I just want to add something in the mix. We were in Vermont and I'm waiting to pump my own gas and the woman in front of me is at the gas pump. She pumps her gas and I don't know if she had to go into the store to pay, but she left her car at the gas pump. Therefore, I couldn't get gas. Uhhuh. And I don't know what she was doing in the store, but then she came out with lottery tickets and we had to wait all that time. God, no. So, I don't know why she didn't pull her car from the pump, go park in front of the store, and then go in and pay or whatever she had to do. Like I said, she came out with lottery tickets. I have no idea. I That would be the considerate thing to do. That's what I'm talking. That's why I'm calling in. That would be the cons. How you doing, every I know you, you know, you lost your son. I'm so sorry about that. How you holding up? Thank you very much, Dave. We're doing the best that we can. My son had a little issue uh to be honest with you. and he was fighting the demons. He he he was in a car crash. He he took opioids to and uh he was good and then he really went bad for the past two years. It was a living hell. What was his name? So he my son's name was Joseph III. Joseph the third. Salute Joseph the third. Thank you. You going to be a pizza bowl? I'm going to be a pizza bowl. You and me. We'll have a drink for Joseph. We will. We definitely will. You got it, pal. All right. 180 283 101.5. I'm Steve Trevalis. Wouldn't you like to be able to pump your own gas? You know you would. 8:30. [Music] Ah, tonight Steve Trevalis with you tonight till 11:00 at 1 800 283101.5. 45 years ago. Tonight, tonight we lost John Lennon and I was on the radio a while was happening. I will talk about that at 9:00. Uh what I want to talk about now though, 1 800283 101.5. Uh it's an old topic familiar in New Jersey, but uh it must be talked about and it looks like it's starting to happen. It looks like the the ice is breaking on the gas line, which means that uh people maybe are pumping their own gas in New Jersey. Is this happening? You know, I for years since 1949, we're not allowed to pump our own gas in New Jersey. 49 other states will let you pump your own gas, but not here. Uh started off as a competitive thing. Uh there was one I forget the story, but there's one station that had a whole lot of pumps and the other stations got upset about it. So, they passed the Gasoline Safety Act, which said you can't pump your own gas. It's too dangerous. Not in 49 other states, but here in New Jersey with the gas tax about to uh hit us with another four and a half cents a gallon in 2026. What if it were just a perk? What if you were if you had the option? Let's say it's not going to save you any money. I think it will. It would make sense that it would save you money because you don't have to pay the guy pumping the gas and maybe that guy could come inside and work a job that's a little more safe, but for the convenience factor, for the ability factor, just the able that you're able to do it, if you given the choice, would you be able to pump your would you like to be able to pump your own gas in New Jersey? It's been floated so many times. I don't even know like did I know Chidarelli wouldn't address it. He wasn't going to change it. I'm not sure what Mikey Cheryl is going to do, but I imagine if she were going to change it, we'd know about it right now. But here we are. 1 800283101.5. We have the app chat and you could always weigh in on the app chat uh with your thoughts. Frankie from Hoboken. Uh I've been getting my gas pump for 40 years. It's part of the Jersey experience. You start making people pump their own gas. Next thing you know, we're Oregon. No thanks. Well, Oregon has legal marijuana, too. Right. Oregon ain't so bad, right? Smells like a skunk in Oregon. What's the problem? Uh Janelle in Cherry Hill. I'm a mom with two kids in the back seat. Yes. Let me pump my own gas. I don't want to wait in line 10 cars deep cuz we got one attendant who looks like he'd rather be anywhere else. Thing about I don't want to get down on the attendance. You know, it's it's not the greatest job in the world to have. You're not getting your choice for a lot of Harvard graduates that want to go in there and pump gas. But on the other hand, there should be certain responsibilities that you have when you're on the job, such as like you don't need to be on your phone while you're doing your job. Do you get that? Not only at the gas pump, but other places as well. just job etiquette where it would be nice if you would just kind of pay attention to the employee and to the customer. Look like you gave a damn that the customer was there, but you wouldn't have to deal with it. They wouldn't have to deal with it if you could just pull up to the pump, put the nozzle in, and pump your own gas. Get in, get out, no problem. Jersey girls don't pump their own gas. Fine. Then you have somebody there for the Jersey girl. You know, pumping Miss Daisy. You can have a little towel around his arm. Madame, may I pump your gas? No problem. 1800283101.5. Would you like to be able to pump your own gas? Uh, we got Tara in Princeton. I travel to Pennsylvania for work. Pumping gas isn't bad. New Jersey acts like it's rocket science. Just let us. Agreed. Eric and Scotch Plains. What do you think? Hey, Steve. So, this is just a smoke and mirrors thing to make the consumer feel like, oh yeah, we're going to save you money on gas. This is the solution. But with everything else that happens, and I've seen this happen a lot in local municipalities with things, they siphon off it to as a different charge. So now they're saving money on employee employees, but they're going to end up charging you whatever they were going to charge you for the gas at the end of the day anyway. Maybe for the first month it'll go down a dime, but then it'll all go back up to where it would have been. But what about the free marketplace? What about competition? What about like if we all get to lower our if I lower my gas, you're going to get it from me? You know, here's another question. Do you like do you drive out of your way because there's a gas station that has cheaper gas? Um, not usually, but as as long as I'm not getting ripped off. And I'll tell you where the big problem is with the ripoff of gas is premium. All right. A lot, you know, it used to be premium was just a little bit more than regular. now because they know so many cars take premium that sometimes I see the premium gas like like like a dollar more than regular and you just got to kind of scratch your head and and you go look they get you into the gas station with the signs of the cheaper gas but then when you pull in at the pump the gas is like a$110 more for the super and uh I No, I go in for the cheap stuff. Well, my car does too, but you know it there are people I know that have cars that take the premium, right? And um I personally feel that there should be a limit, right? If you're going to sell premium, which is just an extra additive rate added to the regular gas. If you're going to sell that, there should be a cap at how much percent more over the regular price you advertise, unless you plan to advertise the super price because it's kind of a bait and switch. They get you in there with the regular price, but if your car only takes premium, now you got to pay a$120 more for your premium. You're assuming that it's cheaper all the way around. And yeah, then you get in there and you realize it's not. Eric, thanks for the call to New Jersey 101.5. But you know, there's another question though. Do you go out of your way? Like as crazy as this seems, it's funny because like the difference in gas in South Jersey I found to be cheaper than North Jersey. There's there are stations in my area that are as much as 10 cents cheaper than other stations in my area. You get that too? And you drive around. So now here's the question. So, was is it worth it to drive across town to get the cheaper gas? Whereas, is the gas that you're using going to use up the savings? You know what I'm saying? 1800283 101.5. But here we go. You know, we're just we're just victims in Jersey. We have no chance. All we do, they find more and more ways to get us for money. ways that you haven't even thought of, they have already thought of. Right. Big Eddie is from Trenton. If I wanted to stand outside in the freezing cold gripping a gas nozzle, I'd move to North Dakota. Keep the attendance. Yeah. And I'm not saying get rid of the attendance. I'm saying keep the attendance, but also allow the option that you could pump it yourself. That's the way God intended. 1800 283101.5. How do you feel, though? Would you like the option? Would you like the option of pumping your own gas? And here's another thing, too. And do you go out of your way to get the cheaper gas to get a cheaper gas station? And if you know of any cheap gas stations, give us a call and let us know where they are. 1 800283101.5. Here's another thing, too. You have to remember that you have a fair market. You have competition. All the other businesses in New Jersey are allowed the option of selfs serve. Right? If you go to the Walmart, you can go to the checkout yourself. You go to CVS checkout yourself. Gas, forget it. You have no choice. It's not fair to the owner of the gas station. Why should they have to have somebody in the building? Why should they have to have somebody pumping the gas when the stores don't? That's not fair, you know. I mean, are all business owners entitled to have self- serve or only some business owners entitled to have self-s serve? I would fight it on that. The idea that and the idea too if I'm paying more money, can I have the convenience of doing it myself? You know, even if you know, do I what I don't know. I'm thinking like is it worth if you say let me be certified next thing you know they'll make you buy a gas pumping license which is ridiculous but 1 800 283 101.5 Michelle's in Westfield. Hi Michelle. Hey Steve, how you doing tonight? I'm good. How about you? Good, thank you. Um I I absolutely don't want to pump my gas. I'm very appreciative to the people that do it. I do live in South Jersey and I agree with you that gas is the cheapest down here. Um, anywhere between Westville and Turnerville, it's it's very cheap. Um, and I will tell you that I was on 130 going to this one gas station that was a little shady, Steve. Right. And I realized it wasn't it wasn't worth the 15 cents. 15 cents. Yep. I was much better off going to Walmart. I mean, Waw Wa instead. Like, I'd bring a gun mug. Michelle, is it really worth the 15 cents? I'm like, you're right. When I when I calculated it wasn't worth it, Steve, I don't know. I I I'd bring a baseball bat in the back. I would get a I'd dress a dummy up like Bruce Lee and sit next to me. Yeah. I want gas. You got a problem with that? And they they're pumping it for you anyway. So, what are you worried about? You have to get out of the car. Well, and and that's the other reason why I would say I I like them pumping my gas because some of the some of the stations down here are are a little shady. All right, Michelle, thanks for calling. New Jersey 101.5. 180 to 283 101.5. Gas tax is upon us. It's going to go up another 4 cents next year. How do you know it's Christmas when the gas tax starts coming up? All right. Would you like the option to be able to pump your own gas? 1800 283101.5. Hit me up on the app chat. Here's Fastrack. That's what we do. State of Trevalisio and me 11 o'clock tonight. New Jersey runner 1.5. All right, we got Trevia on Wednesday night. Jerseys opening lines on Thursday night. Lots going on this week. As soon as I figure it out, I'll let you know. What a great night we had at uh Sloppy Joe's Comedy Club Saturday night. Vince August cracking the room up hysterically. Jeff Evestein, special guest, was there pots. All right. Should you be able to pump your own gas in New Jersey? Brad in Springfield weighing in. What do you got, Brad? Absolutely. But first, let me tell you about the differential and gas prices. I took the car over. I'm by the way, I'm up in Springfield north for you guys, I reckon. And took it to the place right near me. 293 for regular about a week ago, right? Pulled right out of there. Went to the other side of town, which is about 2 and a half miles, no big deal. Went to a place, it was 267. Wow. And as of today, it was down to 261. I mean, I I easily save four or five bucks from that one turnaround. How about that? I keep hearing about how bad we're doing in this economy and gas is down to like 267. You know, it it's amazing if you go, like you said, one side of town to the other and it's that much cheaper. So, is it worth driving there like making a special trip to that G? Yeah, me too. I'm the same way. There are two gas stations uh on 33 by me that are like about 15 to 20 cents cheaper than everybody else and I'll drive there because in the end you save a couple bucks and and if you do that consistently over the course of a year and then you you know you project that out I I can confidently say that my wife and I over the last 15 years by doing that have saved at least a thousand bucks. Yeah. I know that sounds crazy but if you really do the math and you stay with it It does. It does pay. But all right, so let's talk about self-pumping, right? Gosh darn it. Absolutely. Long overdue. About darn time. Why can't I have the right to pump my own gas if and when I want to? You know, no. And it's not like again a lot of I know it's a a right of passage. It's a badge of honor for all these New Jersey raised gals and women. Oh, I don't have to ever pump my own gas. Fine. You know why? Don't do it. I don't care. But that doesn't mean I can't have my own option for self-s serve as you said. I mean, come on. And how many times How many times have we got stuck waiting at the pump for the one attendant to get to us to put the gas in and then having to wait again when it's done because he's dealing with how many other cars? I don't want to have to do that if I don't have to. Let me do it myself. I totally agree, Brad. Thanks for the call to New Jersey 101.5. Really? And again, it's not fair to the business owner. All the other children, Walmart, Home Depot, CVS, they get to have self-s serve, but not right. The the ice cream place, self-s serve, but not the gas station. Real pain in the ass. So, what do you think, Rob? What do we got there? Paul from Crossville, Tennessee. Pumping your own gas will be less hazardous for attendants who breathe fumes all day long. Dems will like this angle about cancer risk and health issues. They don't care. They don't care. You know what? They'll find some story of some poor guest attendant who lost his job and his whole family. But I mean, you know, it's crazy. But what I don't get is, you know, it's 49 other states. How do you even make the argument anymore? How do you even make the argument anymore that you should not be allowed to pump your own gas? Obviously in New Jersey, you're too stupid to pump your own gas. 49 other states could pull it off, but not you guys. It's ridiculous. And all you can do, you could pay for your own gas another 4.6 cents a gallon starting 2026. And if you were to not have to, you know, if you were able to pump your own gas, they wouldn't have to pay as many attendants. Or the gas station owners, how about this? the gas station owners, if they can't have somebody there pumping their own gas, they can't open. So now you get a lot of gas stations that have to close because they can't get anybody to work for them because pumping gas is not the number one job that people in New Jersey are seeking. Well, have you ever seen this before? At Wawa, I see this all the time where they'll put because there's only one person pumping gas, they'll put a cone. Yeah, the orange cone. Yeah. I I hate that. The orange cone doesn't make you any money. No. That's what I mean. If you're the wow, you got this giant wow and they all have like eight billion gas pumps and like two guys. So, you take all the cones away and you pull in, pull up to any pump you want. And you fill it and you're on your way. Put your own credit card in, you hit the app, whatever. You're on your way and you're done. And you don't have to deal with anybody. You don't have to go inside. Maybe I don't want to deal with the gas station attendant. Maybe I'm in the car doing stuff and I don't need the guy banging on my window, you know. Maybe I don't Maybe I don't want to deal with it. I just want to pull up, get my own thing, you know, pump my own gas and get out of there. And you can do it, you know. You know, like if you're uh you know, if you're on the run, you're a fugitive from justice. You don't really want to be seen. You want to get my gas, get out of here right now. You know, and it isn't like the guy's dying to serve you anyway. Pretty good. is slowly making his way over to you. Oh, he's got stuff to do. He's either he's either inundated with customers or he just doesn't want to get out. There's a gas station. I play a game of chicken with pull up and you know and he's in the he's in the in the window in the office with the desk and I could see him and he's looking at me and he looks down and he's looking at me and he looks down and I mean you miserable. You're going to you know honk the horn. Then we then we do like the the Wild West staredown, you know, he doesn't want Yeah. Really? [Laughter] Doesn't want to come out. And uh then after a while, sometimes I get so disgusted I'll pull away. All right. 1800 283 101.5 Steve Treval. 45 years ago tonight, we lost John Lennon. and we'll talk about it after we hear from Le. [Music] All right. All right. It's all right. All right. Steve Travel. This was one very tough night to get through 45 years ago. Uh and at that time, I was actually on the radio uh at a place in a land in a far away land known as WPST, which is now right across the hall. But back then uh it was at uh 221 Witherspoon Street in beautiful Princeton, New Jersey. And on December 8th, 1980, I was driving into work. I did the overnight shift, midnight to 6. And uh Dave He was on 8 to Midnight. and I'm driving to work and I hear that uh they were featuring the Doors because uh it was Jim Morrison's birthday so they were featuring the the featured artist was the Doors. I'm driving in and um when I get there we we would do production before we would go on the air and I'm working on my production. Ira Rap was our news guy. He comes in and tells me that John Lennon has been shot. Now, I am a huge, always have been a huge John Lennin fan. And you don't realize how life prepares you for certain things, but the very first night, the very first time I ever went on the radio was in 1977, I think it was, at Brookdale Community College. And I'm about to do my very right got out of announcing school about to do my first ever, you know, newscast and 30 seconds before I'm about to go on and do my very first newscast. The phone rings into the hotline studio and it's my mother and I'm like, "What are you doing? I'm going to go on in 30 seconds. Why are you calling me here?" And my mother being the wonderful woman that she was, says into the phone, "Your grandmother's dead." bangs the phone and I'm like, "Hey, wait, what?" And uh then the news jingle starts and I go on and I do a flawless newscast and I'm out of there and now I got to drive from Brookdale College in Lindra to Malber, New Jersey where we lived and both my grandmothers when I got to work or alive. Now what do you do? Which one you know who do you mourn? You go, "Please open this one." But but if I hope it's not this one, it means I hope it's that one. No, no, no. I don't want to do that either. I love them both. I get home and I find out that it was my grandmother on my father's side. And my grandmother and my was my father was very attached to his mother. So my mother says to me, I got to go to Union City, tell your father. Me tell my father. So I had to break the news to my father that his mother died. And that was I never saw my father cry like that. I never in my my father was a rock. So that's the preparation for this night because when I saw a Beatle double feature one night babysitting in Malra, I head headstrong went into the Beatles. Uh read every book I could. Uh just a huge John Lennon fan. I I could tell him his life story and I find out on this night that John Lennon's been shot. I go in the bathroom, pray, cry, worry. Um, and then we find out at 10:36 he passed away. He was shot coming out of the Dakota. He had uh during that day he had uh did an interview with a San Francisco radio station. He comes down the elevator. He's about to leave. He gets in a van with them. And the guy who would later kill him asks him to sign an album, which he does. Uh, as he's driving away in a van, Larry Kane told me this from Channel 6, the fifth Beatle. This guy is waving the album at him, screaming, "This is the last one." Later that night, Lenin, after coming back from the recording studio where he was mixing his wife's song, Walking on Thin Ice, is gunned down five times by this guy in the back. He's crawling uh trying to stay alive and he ends up uh you know, he passes away. They they get him to the hospital. Roosevelt Hospital. And it turns out that at Roosevelt Hospital was an ABC News um not a reporter, I think an engineer or something. I forget. He worked for ABC News and he was he was in a motorcycle accident and he's in the emergency room and he sees Lennin come in with Yoko and everything. So he calls ABC News and that's how they got it. So, this is all going on. Meanwhile, I'm at WPST and we get the news. Uh, they used to have the AP machine in those days. The AP machine was a ticker taker dut kind of like what we do underneath the newscast. Exactly like what we do underneath the newscast. So, when there'd be a bulletin, bells would go off and then we heard the bells. Dave He's on the radio playing Stevie Wonders Master Blaster. It's a quarter to 12. I'm in the studio ready to come on in midnight. And while this is happening, uh, you know, we're like in the room, what do we do? And Dave fades down the record and breaks the news. Uh, at the same time I called my friends Kevin and Fred who had an apartment up in u New York in Brooklyn and they're watching Monday Night Football and I told him I said you know I said Fred you better sit down and I give him the news and he's like don't even mess with me don't don't do that don't don't even mess around like that and then this comes over the TV is on the line and I don't care what's on the line Howard you have got to say but we know him to Yes, we have to say it. Remember, this is just a football game. No matter who wins or loses, an unspeakable tragedy confirmed to us by ABC News in New York City. John Lennon outside of his apartment building on the west side of New York City. The most famous perhaps of all of the Beatles. Shot twice in the back, rushed to Roosevelt Hospital, dead on arrival. hard to go back to the game after that news flash which in duty found we had to take Frank and the backstory of that is when they got the news Cassell didn't want to tell him Cassell didn't want to break the story because he was afraid that first of all he didn't think it was an important enough story and secondly he uh didn't want people to tune out of the game to go find out what happened so meanwhile back at PST Hey, Tom Taylor is our program director. The great Tom Taylor uh calls me and you know calms me down and for the first time we became a talk station. You think New Jersey 101.5 was the first talk station? No. No. December 8th, 1980, WPST, we went talk as I took calls from listeners. Played Beatles all night long. Callers. Beatles. Callers. Beatles and uh it was it was like the Twilight Zone because every time, every 3 minutes, every six minutes having to go on the air and break the news to someone who had never heard it before, uh Groundhog Day and about 4:00 in the morning, um the top of the hour, you know, we do a newscast. So in top and bottom of the news, we had ABC News piped in to keep us suppressed of what was going on. And then after the news, phone rings and I get this call, why you playing so much Beatle music? And I'm like living like cuz John Lennon's dead. And then all of a sudden they hear the crying and I'm like, oh no, but you got to remember. And it was a night that I'll never forget. So I want to know from you. 1 800283101.5. 45 years ago. I could cry right now. It feels like yesterday. How do you feel about John Lennin? Are there any John Lennin fans still left? If you want to talk about John Lennin, I would love to hear from you. If you want to talk about the Beatles, I would love to hear from you. There's uh the anthology is on right now on ABC and they took the one from 1991 and 1995 and they reworked it and it's amazing. They put in more stories. 30 years after they did that, they decide to put in more stories and you still can't get enough. It's like going back in time. It's like going back to not only their youth, but your youth. If you grew up a Beetle fan and here we are 45 years after the fact. What does John Lennin mean to you? If I say John, my son is named Lennon. What does John Lennin mean to you? Are you a Lenin fan? 1 800283101.5 or a Beetle fan. Here's the Jersey 101.5 Fast Traffic. [Music] All right, one 283 101.5 Steve Treble. 45 years ago tonight, John Lennon was murdered on the streets of New York. Uh, are there any John Lennin fans left? Beetle fans left. You know, it's amazing. They're 45 years after the fact. Uh, here we go. Christmas is coming and you're never far from the Beatles at Christmas time. The anthology is on the Disney Channel. I'm watching. Uh, it's amazing watching it because these guys were together for less than 10 years. 63 to 70, right? 62 to 70. And in that time, here we are, you know, 45 years, 55 years after the fact, and people are still watching. You know, Disney wouldn't put it on if people were still watching. There was a when I first auditioned for this job back in 2004, cover of Entertainment Weekly. Are the Beatles still relevant? Well, here we are this much later. Are there Are you a Beatle fan? And if you are, are you watching the uh the anthology? They reworked the new songs, uh, Real Love, uh, the ones they got back together and did. Amazing the way they did it. And they show you how they do it in the, you know, the episodes. But if I say John Lennin, what does John Lennin mean to you? How do you remember John Lennin? Were you a John Lennin fan? Are you a John Lennin fan? 1800283101.5. Andrew in Flemington. Give me some celebrities that shook you to your core. Yeah. Oh, thank you, Steve, for taking my call. Um, I had two of them. Now I got four of them. Okay. Who you got for me? Uh, Tom Petty, right? Robin Williams, Kobe Bryant. Yeah. Each one has their own story. It's like they be like, "You got to be kidding. He died." And I'm like, "What?" Yeah. Well, which one? In the late 70 in the late 70s. Uhhuh. He he had a great song, John Lennon. Okay. It wasn't like a number one, I don't think. But it was might have been called somebody. Nobody told me there'd be days like these. 1984 they released it. It was done for the Double Fantasy album. Oh, it was it came out after he died. Yeah. What they did was Double F Double Fantasy was No, it's not your bed at all. That's when it came out. Double Fantasy was a double album and what they Yeah. They re they he did a track, she did a track, but they ended up doing uh one song. They ended up doing releasing one album and then they were going to go on tour and then they released the second album. Uh so what they did was they released the second album. I think it was 1984 and the single from that album was called Nobody Told Me to Be Days Like This. Imagine was an amazing song. Yeah. I still hear that today occasionally. Have you ever seen Imagine on the YouTube and you had a guest once was a a friend of John Lennon's lady May Pang? Yeah. I asked her if she produced that video and I think she said no. No, no, no. Yoko had done that one. She worked on the video because she was an assistant at the time. So, you know, it was great talking with her. That was like an honor, you know. Oh, man. She told story after story after story. Oh my god, Andrew, thanks for calling. New Jersey 101.5283101.5. Are there any John Look at I can't believe not one this Eagle game is going crazy, too. I can't believe not one John Lennin fan. I want to know are you a Beatle fan? Are you a John Lennin fan? And uh do you think do you still think about Lennon on a day like today? I know it's been a long time, but I can't think of any other bands that, and we did this once, too, like 40, 55 years after the fact, who's been out today, think of someone out today from say 10 years ago that broke 10 years ago that will be remembered this strongly 55 years from now. It's just not going to happen. 1 800283101.5 is the number. But I mean there's something about the thing about the Beatles is when you go back you remember your youth because you know I mean I became a Beatle fan. They really were before my time. I became a Beetle fan in the 70s. But when you go back and you watch all of a sudden you're a kid again. all of a sudden all those memories and I had read so many books and I had uh immersed myself so far in them that when you sit there and you're watching you know I'm watching the anthology uh was it 10 episodes and each one it's like you know going back in time because I remember reading about all these stories when I was a kid and here we are now you know with uh the John Lennin the making of the onetoone concert is now out where they were doing u the concert for the Willowbrook. Uh there was these kids getting abused at Willowbrook and John and Yoko did a free concert for him uh back in Madison Square Garden in the early '7s. Now that's on HBO. Then he got the anthology on the Disney Channel and they released a box set. Believe me, you know, a hundred years from now they'll still be putting out Beatles stuff. Amazing for a band that was uh together less than 10 years. 1800 283 101.5 of Steve Travel 9:30 is the night. [Applause] All right. 1800283 101.5 Steve remembering John Lennon. Whose death whose celebrity death shook you the most? Who did you really hit your knees when you heard they were gone? You know the the stunning feeling like a gut punch. I can't believe like for me that was my first one on the air and there would be so many others. Whitney Houston, James Gandalfini, Freddy Mercury. Uh what do you got in the app chat? So we have League from Lawrenceville. The night John Lennon died, my friends and I were at Trenton State College in the pub watching the football game. The news broke on TSR where my friend had a job as a disc jockey. You know, the thing is so many disc jockeyies uh changed format that night that no matter what I was sitting in a studio when they redid the MMR studios back in uh mid late 90s. I was working I was a traffic program director for Shadow and Pierre is sitting there and Pier next to Pierre is his producer and it's the brand new studios with the antiseptic white walls and the uh it's all on the hard drive now there are no more albums there are no more turntables and we were talking about like you know how much we missed the liner notes and putting out the album and reading the line you know and talking about the music which you know radio had evolved from that and I said to Pierre I said what would you do right now if news broke that John if John Lennin died he goes I would throw this thing out the window go home and get my albums because that's what it was about there any others no that was it let's get Joe and Belleville on what's up Joey Steve I have a John Lennin story let's go back to Thanksgiving evening 1974 right Elton John is performing at Madison Square Garden I was there you were Elton John introduced uces this a special guest. You can see it on YouTube. John Lennon appears on stage. Yeah. I believe they had a bet that if the song would Well, you always playing whatever gets you through the night. Yeah. Didn't they have a bet that if it went number one on the charts, John Lennon would appear on stage with Elton John? That was the bet. May Pang was in the studio and she was talking about how he got the idea for that song listening to Reverend Ike and Reverend Ike would give the sermon at night and uh Reverend Ike was his old reverend who screamed out whatever it's whatever gets you through the night. So, John writes the song and Elton came in to work on the song and uh he needed some horns on it, whatever. And then uh Elton says to him, "This is going to be a number one song." And John's like, "No, it's not." Uh and then she says, he goes, "Oh, yeah, it is." And they make a bet that if you know, if it goes number one, will you play it live? And he's like, "Yeah, yeah, fine. Okay, whatever." Figuring it's never going to happen. And then it happens. And then John honors the bed. Uh, so Madison Square Garden, they had gone, she said they had gone to Boston. I could have grabbed that sound from when May was in here telling the story how like, you know, they had gone up to Boston to watch to watch Elton and he was nervous backstage and he said, you know, you got to be where I could see you. So May was sitting by the edge of the speakers and he came out, performed the song and then he did uh did four songs, right? They do whatever you get through the night. I saw her standing there, Lucy in the Sky and maybe one other, but it was And they did three at Madison Square Garden. Yeah, they did three. They did three and you never that you mentioned. Yes. Yeah. And that that would be the last time he would ever perform live. We went crazy, Steve. Like I said, it's on YouTube. If you if people out there want to see it, if they type in Elton John, John John Lennon Thanksgiving Evening 1974 Madison Square Garden, they could watch the clips in black and white, I believe. Yeah. And later that night, Yoko was waiting backstage for him and they ended up reconciling. Joe, thanks for the call to New Jersey 101.5283 101.5. If not, John Lennon, give me a celebrity death that could be a politician, could be a musician, singer. We do this every so often. You know, you want to remember people, you know, you nobody wants their legacy to go away. I had Gunnar Nelson on, Vicky Nelson's son. And he said, you know, Swedish custom is, you know, you die twice, once when you die, and again the last time someone talks about you. So, it's always important that we talk and we remember people. So, if I asked you, you know, give me a celebrity that you, you know, that really hit you when they left, when they went away, when they died. Tomorrow night, Nene Grace is going to be in here, by the way, doing psychic readings and stuff. So, if there's anyone you want to contact, make sure you're around for that. Uh, but is there anybody I can't believe like I remember when Robin Williams died, Don Tandler was my producer. And in those days, I was just starting out. They had a whole bunch of albums and you not albums, a whole bunch of like you know notes and stuff to come in and talk about and I hear Don oh look Robin Williams died okay we're done and the entire show 4 hours of Robin Williams and you know he for so many you know and he's definitely worthy of it you know was a turning point for people same thing Whitney Houston you know there were people when Whitney Houston died uh we spent a couple of days on that and Governor Christie lowered the flag for Whitney Houston. But is there anybody in your life that their death really shook you? You never, you know, when they're young, it's harder because like John Lennon, the way we lost him, he was ripped away from us in a most violent way. A man of peace was ripped away, murdered in the street in front of his wife for no reason at all. I remember the Dakota and the famous scene when you see all the people outside, the mourers crying and somebody's holding up a big sign with a picture of his face and underneath it it says why with a big question mark. Penny's in Brooklyn. Hi Penny. Hi. How are you? I'm good. How are you? Good. Good. Well, of course, John Lennon is my person. However, after him, Scott Mun, I don't know if anybody remembers him from W. WFM. When he passed away, I felt like my whole childhood just collapsed. You know, it just broke it broke my heart. How about that? You know what, Scott Mun? He was on ABC when the Beatles landed. He was one of those jocks. And then he goes and puts basically put progressive rock on WNEW. Uh he ushered in the progressive rock. He was the father what was called album oriented rock. It was all rock albums and he did that thing things from England. Uh such yeah an iconic figure in rock and Yeah. You talk about you see your whole childhood go away. I could see that because he took the next generation like you had the Beatle generation, you had like the you had the 50s jocks and you had like the cousin Brucey the 60s jocks. MUN ushered in the progressive rock jocks that that staff of Pete Fornetell and Scott Mun and Dan and Richard Near and Meg Griffin and who else? Um, Vin El Dennis Elsa's Vince Skelsa. Pam Merley, one of my best friends. Uh, yeah, I love her. She was She was great. Pammy, she went to work for WSP. Right. I used to love when she would cover for Dave Herman and she would say, "Good just merly morning." Ah, there you go. There you go. Instead of good just barely morning. Anyway, and you know what's cool about that? Those guys, you in those days they went in and picked their own albums. You'd put an album, you put a record on, and you'd listen to it and it would tell you what to play next, and they would create these incredible music sets. They had such freedom. Yeah. Yes. Yes. Oh, Penny, time's gone by. Yep. Absolutely. Great stuff. Thanks for calling New Jersey 101.5. 1 800 283101.5. Is there a celebrity death? somebody famous or somebody famous in your life that when they left it really hurt you. It really hit you. You know, there was so many Princess Diana, you know, it's harder when they're younger because it's unexpected. But, you know, either way, when an iconic figure goes, 1 800 283101.5. Like I said, you know, there were those that'll say Kennedy, there were those that'll say um, you know, Kennedy's going all the way back because in the 60s, imagine like Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy Jr., you know, then the early like in the early 80s when Lenin died, you had Lenon, and then there was an assassination attempt made on President Reagan, um, Patrick Hinckley, and then there was the assassination attempt made on the Pope, and it was this little pocket of like 1980 that this stuff was happening with. But who would you say is yours? 1 800 283101.5. It's 45 years. And like I said, it still seems like yesterday. You still can't believe it. And then like it really brings it home when they're running the anthology now. And here you see it's amazing because of this. These guys never age. you know, as long as they be they'll run Beetle anthologies every year. My son Albert was funny when he was growing up. We used to show him all the Beatles films, you know, and you know, my kid was like five, six, seven, eight years old and couldn't understand how Paul McCartney's young in one video, old in the other video. Dad, what's going on here? John in Somerset County, who you got for me? I got Neil Bird Rush and Jimmy Buffett. Oh man, Neil Pier. What a tragedy. What a freaking tragedy. It was. Yeah. Tell me about what what made you love Neil Pierce so much. We were down in St. Barts. You know, Jimmy Buffett hangs out down there. As I said, why don't we do a free concert? Mhm. So, Pink Floyd gave away two drum kits. That's what I was playing right all the time. And I said, "Oh, no drum kit." that I said about I said, "Hey, call me up, tell them to put a little just a little something together, right?" And we'll have him down here. So, they put he put together that big jump angels and um he went free concert. How about that? Jimmy Buffet. Neil Beard and Jimmy Buffett did a free concert. Yep. Bush and Jimmy Buffet. Yeah. St. Bart. Wow. In St. Bart. How about that? John, thanks for the call to New Jersey 101.5. Steve Trevalis, 18283101.5. Give me a celebrity whose death shook you. How do you feel about John Lennon? Any thoughts? 45 years on the anniversary of his pass. [Music] Oh yeah. [Music] All right. 18283 101.5. Do yourself a favor. If you got the Disney Channel, go on, watch the Beatles anthology. Watch the Beatles get back. Watch Magic Being Made. The way they wrote, the way they they created the whole image, the whole thing. They'll never ever ever be another band like uh 45 years ago tonight, Time of Death 10:36, we lost John Lennon. Whose death affected you the most? Who did you know you knew where you were when John Lennin passed away? Jim in East Brunswick. Hi, Jim. Hey, Steve. Well, it might have to be also John. Uh, we spoke before on the air about Beatles and things. Uh, before that, I got to say that what hit me uh in the same week personally was the loss of Elvis and in the same week Groucho Marks. They were two of my heroes and John was the third. Wait, it wasn't the same week. Elvis died in August, right? Elvis and Groucho Marks died within three days of each other. Did they? Yes. I was in California at Groman's Chinese Theater when we lost Elvis. Shock. I was home back in Jersey by that Friday and someone uh had mentioned about Groucho. I just had to get drunk. I said, "What's next?" honestly. But with John, John was personal. I had met him through a friend that the press conference he gave the first mention of his deportation. Mhm. And uh we went up to the Apple offices, which was only a couple of blocks from the immigration office in Manhattan. This is in April of 72. And John and Yoko followed us into the elevator. I had their books with me to be autographed. Jo uh John's in his own right. Yoko's grapefruit book and I felt that the seriousness at that uh deportation issue, it wasn't the place to pull out and start asking for autographs. I was only 16, right? But uh the night of his death, I was at the Springsteen concert uh at the Spectrum in Philly. Oh man. And it was so haunting because the uh girl that I worked with at the time at a record store, she was exhausted. So, we did not listen to the radio on the way home, but I heard I Feel Fine being played in the parking lot of the Spectrum, and I thought, "Oh, that's pretty cool." And I I think if we had listened to the radio home back to Jersey from Philadelphia, I think I don't know if I could have driven because the next day I couldn't go to work. I couldn't go into a record store after Lennon's murder. And I got together with a friend who I was in a band with in the 70s that played all British invasion. Retro before the word retro was used. Yeah. And it was painful. The next morning I didn't go to bed at all. And we put on the morning news. There was Charles Carroll. It was the lead. The Today Show then had Tom Broco and Jane Paulie uh on Good Morning America. David Hartman had Murray the K. It was It's painful now to talk about this thing, you know. I know. Yeah. What did he meant? You know how many times I cried today for I'm thinking why 45 year and and you still you think about it, you break up and now like this past week I've been watching the anttology. So it's kind of like you you're reliving it all anyway. And he was a fun guy. He was a fun guy. Passionate. The talk then they were John and Yoko were ready to do Radio City Music Hall and go back on the road. And I was at the onetoone concert. you were. There's a shot of me in the audience, right, with my sunglasses. There's also film of me standing next to John at that immigration uh press conference out in the street that was on um he was interviewed by uh Oh, thank you, Haraldo. That's where they were going in the upper floors of Apple to be interviewed that day. And um now did you you know it did you see the one to1 on HBO the making of the one to1 concert? It's on now. Oh I've seen that. I have a copy of the original ABC air that's never been repeated that showed Stevie Wonder and Robera Flack and Sha. How about that? And of course now the whole show. But you know I guess you've heard the box set which I haven't picked up yet that is all surrounding 1972 home tapes and things. They are removing of course the controversial single woman is the n-word of the world. Yeah. And uh people are saying why historically is that being removed and I can just understand. And that's what I thought when we lost John that night. I wasn't thinking about hard days night or she stadium. I thought about Julian and Sha. Seriously when my I came home my mother told me what happened. You know she said it's terrible news. And so that's who I first thought of his sons. So I think that I I think Sean removed that for the betterment. When you listen to uh Beautiful Boy, then you just you just lose it. You know, when you listen to Beautiful Boy, you and then you know, you remember how how completely senseless this whole thing was. Uh but you know what? 45 years later and here we are still feeling the way we do. Jim, man, thanks so much for calling. Great stuff. 1 800283101.5. Steve Trevalis, we got problems in the malls. We got stores going away. Uh they don't know what the hell to do to get you to stay, to get you to come back. So, we'll talk about some of that coming up. It is 10:00. We get it almost every night. And when that moon gets big and bright, it's super delight [Music] because that's what we do. 1 800 283101.5 Steve Shreles and you. All right. Tomorrow night, Nene Grace going to be coming in 7 o'clock telling you our fortune. She does mediumship readings. She does psychic readings. And then Jay Black's going to be coming in tomorrow night at 9:30. A good time shall be had by all. Uh also we got uh we got Tommy Lynch with a with a Christmas song. Tommy with the Eddie Testa Band. So, uh, good things are going to be happening. Uh, for tonight, uh, NJ.com did this story about malls and the problems that they're having here in New Jersey, and a lot of them don't know what, you know, what to do. As a matter of fact, I think uh, if President Trump were to comment, he may say, "They don't know what the they're doing." I don't know. But these depressing New Jersey malls are basically dead. Shoppers say, "Can anything save them?" They're talking about the Hamilton Mall and the Livingston Mall were once great prominent malls. Um, where are you on malls? Are you do you do you still go to malls or have you spend more time shopping online? Do you spend more time uh going to mom and pop stores? Do you avoid the malls? Do you think they're too crowded? Do you think they're overpriced? some of the stores. I mean, there's a store in the Freelo Raceway Mall called Primark, which is amazing as far as inexpensive. The only problem is the lines are forever because I mean, when you go to pay for something, you're going to be in line for a while, but they're really well done and the you get some great deals there. But, you know, there are a lot of the stores from back in the day. They're not around anymore. And I'm going to ask you like what's your favorite mall story? Like first of all, do you still go to the mall? And if not, why? What keeps you out, you know, or why do you go? What's your favorite mall store? What's the store like the ones from back in the day? Like malls are so different back then. The one thing about the mall that was the big draw was the arcade. Every kid wanted to go hang in the arcade. That's where you made friends. That was your meetup place. Kids had money. They'd go to the mall. I would get I mean we got money, you know. It was funny because my two best friends, Glenn Stewart from the B Street Band, Jerry Depill, whenever we got cash, we'd go to the mall and like whoever had the cash didn't matter. We'd walk into like Harmony Hut in East Brunswick, you know, buy an pick out an album, buy an album. uh all about that Music Den or the great record store in the uh what was then the Steinbeck Mall in Manalapen. Um so many of the great malls have disappeared too or gotten bigger. But what are some of the stores that you remember uh mall stores from back in the day? Or what are the mall stores that you miss or that you frequented and haven't gone to in a long time? Do you remember even the restaurants like Ruby Tuesday was great? Um what's the one that begins with the B? Benigans, right? Benigans was a great place. They would all be attached in the malls at East Brunswick. There was a place called Frell's Ice Cream. And Frell's Ice Cream, uh, they'd walk in, they'd all be dressed like the gay9s. And back then, the gay 90s were just that. They were happy '9s. Um, and they'd be dressed in these outfits and if it was your birth, we go in, tell them was your birthday, they'd bring out the cake, they'd sing to you, uh, with the little, you know, uh, banos and stuff. It was pretty cool. You don't get that much anymore. I know like in Freehold they got the big carousel. We take the kids on that. But 1800 283 101.5. Do you still go to the mall? What's your go-to mall? And what's your favorite mall store whether it's there or not? You know what was your favorite mall store? What is your favorite mall store? I mean there was remember Sun Coast. Sun Coast was really cool because they sold when there are no more videos. You know, part of the fun of, you know, the video stores are really cool, but there are no more videos. There are no more DVDs, but they I would get the movie posters from Sun Coast. You know, Jill gives me that one. Laurelai gives me I love the shop at the Livingston Mall in the 70s, but today every store there is closed except Macy's. It's actually a deserted mall. Why you think that happens? remember RadioShack, a Tandy company. I had no idea what that was, but every time they say Radio Shack, a Tandy company. Like, uh, we should know of all these other great Tandy companies. Now, we don't even know the Radio Shack. What was great about RadioShack was you can get everything you wanted in there to do with stereo equipment that you couldn't get any place else. Now, you got to go online to try to find it. And how much has online cut into the mall? Like as we come up now on uh the holiday shopping season are you just saying you know part of the fun like my wife wants to do a thing where you know we get the kids and we go have lunch in the mall and not at a food court but at a restaurant and then we walk the mall and we go shopping. Shopping is fun, but when you go online, it's not that much fun because all you do, you sit at the computer, bring it up. Okay, bye. When you walk around the mall, you've got options. You you see things that you may not have seen anywhere else. And a lot of things that you'll buy, you know, you'll get there because you can, you know, maybe stuff you never even thought of, you could get there. So, if I were to ask you, you know, are you a mall person or are you an online person? What would you tell me? And what are the great stores? Mall stores that aren't there anymore? Jersey stores, Spaceport. Remember Spaceport? Remember being a kid with Spaceport? Corvettes, EJ Corvettes. They had the best deals. EJ Corvettes. They were amazing. Everything in there was cheaper, you know. Uh, what else we got here? I'm looking that I'm looking that I put it up on my social media, right? Ellen gives me the Ponderosa steakhouse in the Woodbridge Mall. And the Ponderosa was that like the pre-formed meat where they would put the meat into like a mold or the uh wild pair, the shoe store, hickory farms. This is the kind of stuff you'd walk around the mall and they'd all be there. Cherry Hill Mall was a great mall. Where's your go-to mall? Or what's this? Remember Chess King? Chess King was a really cool men's shop. I don't think they're around either. All right. A shop called East. Bought my US bongs there. Okay. Mike gives me Orange Julius, Spencer, and McCroy's. Now, Spencers is still there, right? Spencer is where you get the wacky gifts. 1800 283 101.5, right? Cowdor is another one, right? There was Caldor EJ Corvettes. Uh Wil Wo, was that another one? How about this? It's the 579 store 1 800 283101.5. Give me your mall go-to store, whether it's there or not, but the one that you loved. And you know what? I don't know. Like, if you were going to if you were going to take over a mall, what would you do to get people back in there? I mean, now I'm seeing places like Freehole, they put Dave and Busters in there, so they replaced the arcade with like a Dave and Busters, you know. Peter, what Peter, what was your favorite mall store? Cricket W Mall. Yeah. What was your f What's your favorite store in the mall? Cricket Mall, we had Macy's, J Penney. Well, they were everywhere. Beers. Yeah. Um, you had the spaceport. The spaceport. You had the movie theater. Yeah. You had And the arcade was next to the movie theater. Correct. And the food was next to the arcade on the second floor. I think it was called the Coliseum, right? You had um Rogers Clothes, right? See, I like the Sears because they had a good clearance part in in the Quaker Ridge Mall. Yes, they did. Mhm. Or what was the shirt place? What was a clothing place? Joseph a clothing place was Rogers Clothes. Rogers Clothes. Okay. And then at Lauren Shopping Center was Eetons. Eon I remember Eton. There's another one. There's another one. And then you had the English shop in Princeton. Uhhuh. And each each area of Mercer County had something special. Why do you think the malls are dying? because there's not there's too much um fear of going to the mall and having rowdy kids at the mall. You think so? Well, you go into Cricketbridge Mall now and there's hardly anyone there. I know. You know, there was a restaurant called um Rio. Mhm. And it didn't last long. No. It used to be that would used to be the place you'd want to go. And now, forget it. 1800283101.5. Why do you think people are not going to malls? And uh what could save the mall? And when you did go to the mall, what was your favorite mall store? I don't care if it's there or not. Here's Fast Track. [Music] Ah, tonight Steve Trevalis. All right. Talking about the malls. What do we do to save them? Are they dying right in front of our eyes? Are we one day no longer going to have the mall experience? 1800283101.5. What's your go-to mall? Your go-to jersey mall. The store you love when you go there. Stores you loved when you were a kid. The stores you love to go to now. Have they changed much? Sally is in Somerset. Hi, Sally. Hey, how are you Steve? I'm good. How about you? Thanks for taking my call. anytime. What's your store? So, well, it's not like it was a favorite store, but growing up, um, we would always go to the Livingston Mall. I heard someone mention that. Yeah. And when you needed to buy shoes, you went to Tom McCann's. Wow. And then we went And then we went to Nathan's to get something to eat. Yeah. You got Did Now, what did you get? Because I love the hamburger. I love the fry. I love the hot dogs. I'm a big Nathan's guy. I don't know why Nathan's isn't bigger than it is. Um, I don't really remember what I got. I just remember eating the French fries, but I'm sure we got whatever else. Yeah, the fries were Yeah, good. Now people go to um, where is it that people go to to get the shoes? That's how long it's been since I bought a pair of shoes. Well, they go to uh, what is it? They go to Pay Less. They go the Pay Less. That's where they go to. That's where they go to. Yeah. Do you remember Toms or you don't remember Tom? When I lived in Union City, there was Atomic Hanss on 32nd Street. And when I moved to Malboro, there was Atomic Hanss in the Manalapin Mall. And didn't they sell Buster Brown shoes? Buster Browns. I got to Google and see if there's atomic like what they say for Toms. I'm sure it's out of business. It's got to be. But you know what I what I loved about Tom McCann's because I you know back then I was playing sports and they used to have these really cool like high socks like white socks with like colored stripes on top and we would get those to look cool walking around. Yeah. And they had great sneakers too. And Kyle we used to get the cons there. The Chuck Taylor Converse. The Converse. Remember them? I guess you can you can still get the Converse at Pay Less I think. Right. Yeah. But when I got to Commerce, they were $13 a pair. Now, a little bit more. John is in Cherry Hill. Hi, John. John, you there? Yes, I'm here. How you doing? I'm good. How are you, pal? I'm good. I'm sorry. Let me turn this radio off. Yeah. Would you? Yeah. Sorry about that. That's okay. But yeah, I was gonna say I don't think there really any malls anymore or people really going in there shopping. Yeah, but you don't get the experience online that you get in the mall. Wait, John, can you pick Are you on a speaker phone or something? You sound very distant. Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah, I was saying that uh I believe that, you know, these grown-ups, there's nothing really fun for grown-ups anymore. So, they're trying to save money. As for the kids, me, I used to go for the video games. They don't have that anymore, you know? You know what's funny? Like, they were so paranoid like I don't know. There wasn't I remember going to malls. kids would be at malls and there wasn't really I mean it's much worse today with flash mobs and stuff like that at the mall but like back then all the kids wanted to do is hang out and play games and they drove the kids out and I think when they drove the kids out they drove the parents out as well because now nobody's there yeah the kids gave them a pulse like when you were playing in the arcade you know all of a sudden the mall was a cool place to be exactly yeah what was your favorite Sure. Uh, it's got to be something with movies, I want to say. Oh, actually, I'm sorry. GameStop. Oh, GameStop. Yeah. Yeah, GameStop, man. Big one. My kids as well. John, thanks for the call. Anything on the appjack? Oh, absolutely. Edgar from Kendall Park. I used to love going to Two Guys. That was one of the best stores ever. They had everything or came restaurant just everything inside. You know what was great about two guys? There was a two guys the very first time I shoplifted there was a two guys uh on 15th Street in Bergen Line and Kennedy Boulevard in Union City. And now today you go into the Walmart you wouldn't even think of this you know this was you today Walmart is like huge. Two guys would be the garage at the Walmart, but back then, two guys was enormous. When you were, you know, a kid growing up in Union City, you walked in and they would have the snack bar would be downstairs. They would have uh upstairs would be the sport. He goes, "The escalators would be right there. When you saw a back to school, you immediately got a lump in your throat because it'd be July." Uh, but everything came from two guys. Um, and it it was it's you know what it's funny because like I said it's today going in it's so small but back in the day it was so big and they sold one appliance Vornnado. Everything was Vornnado. And I can tell you stories about two guys but it was uh it was just it was just a really cool store. And there was Valley Fair was a great store. Great Eastern Mills was a great store. Uh none of them are around anymore. Corvettes was one. Um, Modell's was another one. Before Modell's became the big sporting goods store, there was one in Loi. And back in the day, you know, football jerseys weren't as vast and plentiful as they are now. You had to go find them. Modell's had them. Uh, but that's a good one. 1800 283 101.5. What else we got on the chat? Oh, we got Dojo from Burlington. The rowdy jerk kids in the same old plain stores are what killed the malls. And look what happened. They did kill them all because they should have left them there. And when you really think about it, would you rather have the rowdy kids and have the stores open and people coming to shop? Those kids did spend money. So they drove them out and now look what they got. You know, it's just a boring I I don't remember there being if anyone worked at the mall, give me a call. If it was really that bad back in the day when the arcades were there and the kids were having fun. And part of the problem too is that you know there are no more arcades because the kids have it all in their house. Yep. So when you had to go put quarters in the machine, you went to the mall for you. Excellent news. Now it's time for headlines and Trevlines. [Music] Doctor as Steve comments on the headlines of New Jersey. Brace yourself folks for mindblowing news as only Steve can. What the hell's going on out here? All right, I'll bite. What is going on out here? A grandfather was going to New York City to celebrate his granddaughter's 21st birthday when he had a mishap with the New Jersey Transit. What happened? So, he bought tickets to the wrong station, Bloomfield, 50 miles out of the way. Oh, yep. Buys new tickets and tries to get a refund. and they weren't giving him a refund. Do you know what I say to that? What do you say to that? Why is a grandparent celebrating the 21st birthday with somebody? Because they can. You're going out drinking. You're bringing grandpa along with you as well. Who do you think is paying for the drinks? Ooh, I did not think of that. Oh, I did not think of that, guys. because now you got plenty of time to go drinking after grandpa leaves. Although grandma's going to stay what? Well, let's say let's say what time do you think they're going to meet? 7:00. By 8:30, grandpa's Meanwhile, you got half a load on and and you're ready to go party. You've been you've been pregamed. That's brilliant to me. Okay, now you're making me think this different because at first I was like, "Oh, thank God." like to to her friends like, "Oh, thank God. Grandpa's not coming. We We going to pay up the damn." Now you're making me think grandpa's not coming. It's It's not You see like It skips a generation. Grandpa are cool. Dads are the pain in the ass. I mean, right? You know, your father, you know, well, I'm well, you know, as you get older, you know this idea that, you know, well, I got to be my son's friend. I'm also I'm my son's friend, but I'm also their dad. And there are times when, you know, dad's got to take the rule. But now, my dad was not looking to be my friend. My dad had enough friends. He didn't need me. He didn't need to add me to that list. But, um, but we got along, but we were cool and everything, you know. I don't mean imply anything else, but it wasn't like, "Hey, little guy, you know, no." Uh, but all right. So, so that was the problem. Yeah. He he and they wouldn't give him the refund. They weren't given, which means he couldn't buy more drinks, which means he will not be invited to the party. 20 22nd birthday party. Grandpa's a little scenile now. He thinks he's going Hey, he ends up 50 miles out of the way. I got it. We should take away his train tickets. All right, what else we got? Hear me out about this. Now, we're going all the way down to a three-year-old who is the youngest chess player to earn an official rating on the Sports International governing body. Yes, there is a professional three-year-old chess player. Three-year-old chess player. Do you imagine that? Can you imagine a guy that lost to a three-year-old? That's what I'm saying. Do you imagine that? Like, you're you're trying to have like, "All right, I got to get ready. I I got this big important chess game and you have the kid come up in a stroller and he's coming up to you and he's like, "What's your favorite TV show?" And you're like, "This kid is mentally getting to me." This is Brian Delage. What's going Wait a wait a minute. You got to get up pretty early in the morning to fool me. I uh used to I worked at Great Adventure and one of my many jobs at Great Adventure was to be the um I was the announcer for the Diving and Dolphin shows. I was the producer. Oh, and a guy named Tom Brady, not that one, was the announcer. Rich Bars was another announcer. And I was like the backup guys, you know. So, um the goal part of the job is you the show lasted 20 minutes. So, and it would be like 15 minutes to see people. So, for 30 minutes every day, I got to go in the water and swim with the dolphins. And uh the first time was a little dangerous because dolphins dolphins are bisexual, shall we say. Get away from me. Uh but uh but anyway, uh at the last day, we would go in, bring our cameras, and take pictures. And they would like, you know, with the big fountain in front of Great Adventure, we would pour soap in the fountain and throw everybody in. Everybody's all sudsed up and everything. But with the dolphins, I had the dolph my picture. I had I bought this giant chess set. Do you know what the fool's mate is? The four move checkmate. I think so. Yeah. All right. There's a four move checkmate. Um and what I did was I set the board up with the four move checkmate and the dolphin was beed. So it's like I got to find I got it in my phone. I'll show it to you. But the uh the you see the dolphin on one side of the board and he basically pulled the four move checkm made on me and then you see me looking at the camera going great shot beaten by a dolphin. But uh I can imagine do you play chess? I do not. No, it's a cool game. It's It looks really cool. I just need to sit down and just get used to it because I am the perfect person to play against for chess. And once you do, you love it. Uh Ringo learned to play chess making Sergeant Pepper really. He said it was so boring. He ended up he go they hated he hated Sergeant Pepper. He goes, you know, cuz they were doing so much with the experimentation and all that they weren't really playing much rock and roll. So they loved he loved the white album. Why? We're just a band again. We're just playing music. Ross and Pepper. They were getting so deep in there. He's like, "I like to play chess. I was so bored in the studio." What else we got? Speaking of animals, there was a bear in California that moved into a home's crawl space. Was he an Armenian captive bear or just a regular bear? A bear moved into the crawl space? Yes, he is a regular bear and he is not moving. So, he has been there for weeks. Is he waiting for a picnic basket? Pretty much because now like the the boo boo. We're not getting out of the basement. The dad and the cat are like terrified. The dad and the cat. Yeah, the cat is And the cat in the hat. What's he eating there? Green eggs and ham. This bear is 550 lbs. Trev, do you imagine a bear just sitting there in the crawl space? May as well just give him the Wi-Fi password while you're at it if he's just going to sit there. Yeah. Really? Well, you know what? He's great for security. You put a You leave the house, you put a sign on a door, bear in the crawl space. There's no bear in the crawl space. [Music] [Laughter] Uh, what else we got? Hugh Jackman surprised a group of Wisconsin choir students recent. Is that the photo? This is the photo. Oh, here. Come here. Reach over and take it. Checking this thing out. You got to check out this photo. This is a photo. I I could tweet this out. Uh, this is a photo. Come around. Come around. This is a photo of me playing chess with the dolphin. And the dolphins got me. See the dolphin? There's the dolphin. There's There's the chessboard. And there's There's me. Look at that hair. I know, right? I was pretty hot back then. All right. 1823. Why am I giving out the phone though? You guys aren't going to call. All right. So, what else is going on? We got the Armenian Cat of Bears hanging in the basement. But Hugh Jackman made a surprise. He's hiding in the basement, too. So, yes, pretty much. He is tell he's hiding in the Milwaukee High School of Arts. And my favorite, he was there to promote his um his new movie that's coming out that is called Song Blue. Oh, the Neil Diamond. He's doing Neil Diamond. Yes. I I He's playing Neil Diamond. I don't believe he's playing Neil Diamond. He's not. I don't because if he is the song s song song song song song song song song song song song song song song song song song song song song song blue b blue about Neil Diamond I think so maybe but they were singing a song from the greatest showman from him because he was in the greatest showman and favorite quote from this is when he says to them you're my inspiration he says to who high school choir he told the high school choir yeah you're my inspiration sure you are you guys here that's like going to Someone at the popcorn stand at Metife Stadium when the Jets are losing and it's 30° out. They Oh my god. You know what it is about Neil Diamond that All right. Song Blue. Is he playing him? No, he's playing you Jackman and Kate Hudson as Mike and Claire Sardana who Sardina who perform as a Neil Diamond tribute band. Uh, Lightning and Thunder. How about that? And you know what? is another Neil Diamond movie. Uh, Being Neil Diamond, Finding Neil Diamond. Uh, what the hell was the name of it? It was a big one. I'm looking it up, too. Neil Diamond movie. Hold on. There was the Neil Not Hello again. Not the Not the Dustin or movie about Neil Diamond. Saving Silverman. Saving Silverman. Right. Uh, I thought it was that. Uh, basically, you ever heard of Saving Silverman? No. All right. Uh, it was basically, uh, it starred, it was directed by Dennis Dugan, who played Richie Brockman in the Rockford Files, starring Jason Big, Steve Zhan, Jack Black, and Amanda Peele. Jack Black. Yeah. Neil Diamond is a cameo role playing himself in the film. Uh Darren Silverman, Wayne Fazier, and J D McNugan, best friends since the fifth grade, and Neil Diamond fans throughout. Former Neil Diamond tribute band called The Diamonds in the Rough. And there's a chance encounter at a local bar after a band gig. He meets Junice Fesbler, a beautiful doineering psychiatrist who shows signs of being a god blah blah. You got the idea. Two different movies about Neil Diamond tribute bands. I like how Neil Diamond I didn't even know there was a Neil Diamond tribute. Actually, we had a Neil Diamond tribute guy on once. Uh, yeah. How about that? I do like how Neil Diamond puts himself in the movie like he's Stan Lee. No, but Neil Diamond's pretty cool. Have you ever He's all I mean Neil Diamond was a cool guy. You ever heard If you listen to his music, you won't you'd be surprised how many songs you know. I'm surprised no one's done the Neil Diamond the Neil Diamond story. Well, that could be the third movie. Another Neil Diamond tribute. You know what it used to be? Whitney, he likes cuts to the chase. We're not going to do a movie about me. Do a movie about a tribute band about me. I kind of like that. It is uh 10:40. [Music] Oh yeah. Is the night shift, the headlines and tread lines segment of the night shift. Tomorrow night you get your uh your fortune hold. You get your future picked out. Nene Grace will be here. Soul healer Nene Grace and their uncle who brings great empanadas from Latin Bites. All right. Then uh Wednesday night we're going to have the boys will be back in town. Gemini Chris Johnston. Uh but right now Rob Brown, what else is happening? So I did bring this up last week about McDonald's Grinch meal happening. The Grinch meal? Yes. So, the Grinch meal is you can either get a Big Mac or you can get a 10piece. And with that, you can get a very uh with the fries, Grinch salt, which is dill pickle seasoning. Grinch salt. Yes. Grinch salt, which is seasoning. Dill pickle. I didn't know that. That's not a bad idea that they make dill pickle seasoning. Well, you as you're saying that Mhm. They are running out of supplies because that's how much people are loving it. Really? Yes. There was So, they're going to start putting it out. I I hope so. But McDonald's staff members have posted about how it's very stressful to make these because it's such high demand, which what do you got to milk the dill? How can you make the deal? I know. I mean, I guess they just don't have Oh, you mean that to make the fries? I guess so. like the supply of it because you have to come with It comes with socks. It comes with the seasoning. Socks. Yes. That's why I bought them because I got Grinch. Oh, you got one? Oh, I got the 10 piece. Oh, it didn't come with the dill pickle Grinch salt, which I'm kind of fine with because I wasn't going to use it. But I just imagine people working back there and going, you know, McDonald, I take your order. And they're like, let me guess. The Grinch meal. Yes. You're the mean one, Mr. Green. Yeah, exactly. Do you imagine playing that now while you're working? Well, if I find it in about 2 seconds, you your imagination might come true. You know, my McDonald's manager voice. Just want to remind you guys to keep the GCA theme songs on the entire time when you're doing the one never knows. Look at this. I don't see anyone. Here we go. Let's see if this is Hold on. Ready? Here we go. Oh, you're a mean one. There we go. Ronald McDonald, we got the shots on. Are he as cuddly as a cactus? You're as charming as an eel, Mr. Grinch. Comes with a Big Mac. All right. Where do we get the uh Yeah. Where do we get the socks? Well, you can get them at McDonald's by ordering a Grinch meal. meal if they still have it. Okay. While they last. While they last. Yes. All right. What else we got going on? So, Paramount, there is a huge bidding war going on with Warner Brothers. Netflix drops a Netflix bought them. That's what you think? No. Paramount launched another bid, which because Netflix was a $72 billion deal, which uh you know, their share would be $25 per share. But Paramount launched a $30 per share bid. So this is huge to me that everybody is just bidding so that every single show can end with Porky the Pig going if that's all folks. I thought the deal was done. No, it's not done yet. It's not This was just released because I had heard that uh here we go. Uh no, no, no. the stocks dipped after Netflix announced it would acquire Warner Brothers and that theatrical windows would evolve. Uh basically saying that we're not going to hold the movies in the theaters very long. Oh, in other words, what they're saying, right, major movie theater stock, including AMC and IMAX, dipped after falling at least 2% after Netflix announced it will acquire Warner Brothers and that theatrical windows for movies will evolve. He suggested that the uh Ted Sarandos Sar Serend Sarandos, yeah, uh suggested shorter theater release windows are better for consumers. Oh, you know what that means? No more movie theaters. No. Well, what it means is they're not going to be in the movie theater very long. Oh. So, in other words, instead of putting the movie put in the movies for a couple of weeks and then it goes away for a couple of weeks and it shows up in your cable for a couple of weeks. Yeah. It's going to go in the movies for a much long shorter period. But then again, this is Netflix. Their move their business is to not be in the theater. Exactly. So, doesn't that make sense? Yes. But then again, you know, we got Jay's coming in tomorrow night. Jay writes movies for Lifetime Channel and Hallmark. Uh he's a director, he's a writer, he's an actor. Don't tell him. Uh but you know, but anyway, uh we're going to talk about this tomorrow night because how how often do you how often do you go to the movies? I go couple of times a year. A year? Yes. Used to be people went a couple of times a week. I know. Cuz like now people only go weekends and probably Tuesdays for the specials that movie theaters do on Tuesdays because they're so damn expensive. I know. And the food is even more. Yeah, I know. I heard that if you recline your seat, it's an extra 50ents. Great job by you. We do this tomorrow night. Absolutely. All right. Nene Grace and Jay Black will be here. [Music]