Avoiding the obvious

Posted by Corey Charette on Apr 18, 2010 in Life, money

I’ve seen this commercial a few times on the local TV stations and there is one thing that is glaring me in the eyes that they avoid talking about.

The mother in the commercial talks about “making ends meat is a struggle” and goes on to complain how the (New York) governor wants to add new taxes on juice, sports drinks and sodas.

Of course this commercial is against that, but the one thing I can’t figure out – if you are struggling to make ends meat why in the hell are you buying all these unhealthy drinks?!!?

The first thing you would cut out is the luxuries. Buying high calorie, sugar flooded drinks are not something that any child should have in excess, and by not buying it encourages them to drink less of it.

I look at this woman and see that she can save a few bucks by not buying that crap. This commercial doesn’t make the governor look bad for taxing something that we shouldn’t be drinking a lot of, it makes it look like that people are stupid and don’t know how to handle their finances.

Tags: cash, commercial, governor, juice, money, New York, soda, tax

Gotta Love America

Posted by Corey Charette on Mar 9, 2010 in Uncategorized

I got this in the mail today. And it really shouldn’t have surprised me.

Tags: America, Census, government, Mail, money, taxes, Time, waste

2 the Fifth Power

Posted by Corey Charette on Jan 16, 2010 in podcast

With 2010 upon us and the Average Joe Show going live online (at http://www.averagejoeshow.com/live Fridays 9pm Eastern) and a lot of new people joining us on the show I would like to get the word out for more people to join us, in some capacity, at the show.

I call this “2 the Fifth Power”.

I’ve been hearing a lot of good things about the show in various ways, now I want everyone who enjoys it to spread the word. Everyone who enjoys the podcast go out and tell five people about it. (When I say “tell five people” I mean mention it personally to five of your friends, either in person, via email, whatever. ) Tell them everything about the show and why you like it. Make sure to remind them about the website and when we stream online. Then, go back about a week later and ask them if they listened to it yet. If they did and they like it tell them about “2 the Fifth Power” and direct them to this website, http://www.coreycharette.com/2-the-fifth-power. Explain to them that they should tell five of their friends about the podcast to help spread the word about it.

So, since you’ve read this post, right now I want you to pick 5 of your friends and tell them about the show. (You can tell Internet “celebrities” also and posting on social websites, but please don’t count them in your group of 5.)

Tags: 2 the Fifth Power, 5th, power

Average Joe Show in 2010

Posted by Corey Charette on Dec 21, 2009 in Average Joe Show, podcast

It’s hard to believe that another year is almost over, and ever since we started the Average Joe Show nearly 2 years ago we had big plans for the show.

Well, between time off from the show and ‘comings-and-goings’ on the show things have been put on hold.

We hope to make 2010 a year of changes for the podcast.

The first change that you will notice on the show is comments and emails being read on the show. We want to have more audience participation on the show and this is the first step into doing that.

The next thing we want to bring to the show is link suggestions. If you listened to episode 60 of the show you will have noticed that it’s the first time that we had stories given to us to mention on the show. There are a lot of great stories out there that we don’t get a chance to get to and with your help we can bring some of them to the show. (If you have any stories that you want us to consider for the show send them in an email to talk@averagejoeshow.com.)

The last thing that we want to have happen to the show is to have it stream live on the web. Hopefully, you will have caught our live show (December 23 @ 9pm Eastern). Unfortunately, with the resources we have it might be a long time before we can do this again. This show is done on a shoe string budget and if you would like us to be able to stream weekly please help out by donating to the show. By streaming the show we can real time interaction from out fans. We hope that we can have this implemented on a regular basis by the end of the year.

We want 2010 to be a new year for the podcast. With your help we know that we can get it to where everyone wants it to be.

Tags: AJS, average joe show, comments, donate, emails, links, Live, podcast, stories, stream, suggestions

Christmas Spirit No More?

Posted by Corey Charette on Dec 17, 2009 in Uncategorized

I had a conversation earlier this week and it seems like the spirit of Christmas is dying.

Every year I try to get my son (who is 6) to sit down and watch the classic Christmas shows with me. I get so excited when I see Rudolph showing up on TV and can’t wait to sit there and watch it. When I try to get my son to sit there with me he gets bored within minutes and wants to flip the channel to Spongebob or some other Nickelodeon show.

And I have to blame the networks, on some level, for this.

Years ago, when I was growing up there was only three major networks. If you wanted to watch any shows you were stuck between those networks and didn’t have much else on. The Christmas shows only appeared on these channels. And all the shows were made in the ’60’s. The early ’80’s we didn’t have any new holiday shows to choose from.

Now fast forward to today. There are dozens on channels out there that creates there own programming. I have nothing against this, but the problem is that we have over saturation. ABC Family does the 25 days of Christmas and shows a huge amount of Christmas related shows. The quality of all these shows aren’t the best, but they do have to fill up a lot of air time with holiday shows. ABC Family also likes to make their own movies too. I don’t really want to see some weak storylined movie with some C-list actor in it. Kids have too much Christmas stuff to choose from and pay less attention to what we grew up with.

The second reason kids don’t like the classics is because of technology.

Nowadays, kids have all these computer generated movies, HD television, and video games. They have too much technology out there.

Who wants to sit there for 30 minutes and watch some hand created standard definition movie that doesn’t have explosions, silly voices, or where the story ends before the commercial break.

The third reason is availability.

Growing up, we didn’t have VCRs and if you missed a show on TV – you missed it! Now you can buy all the Christmas shows on DVD and watch them anytime you want. This takes away from the anticipation of waiting for that one night a year that your favorite holiday show is on.

If my son doesn’t get to appreciate these shows, what will happen to them in the future? Will the major networks eventually stop showing them and they will only become a memory to those who grew up with them?

Radio Corey 004: Pickle Money

Posted by Corey Charette on Oct 28, 2009 in podcast