Alice Cooper was the original Shock Rock act. Borrowing from Vaudville acts, movies, TV and Barbie Dolls, the group and the man formed the much copied, but never surpassed Shock, Glam, Metal genre. Although his life has gone from alcoholic to born again Christian, his act has stayed the same. Enjoy!

Frequent JSS Podcast Guest Jerome Koenigsfeld backpacked the world in the last 60's-early 70's. In 1971, he spent time in Laos. Yes, there was a war going on. Jerome avoided it, sort of. His Vientiane to Luang Prabang to Huay Xai on foot and on the backs of trucks sounds like a novel, but is reality in the first person. You will enjoy Jerome's musings from another world and another time.

SVB has failed, the Dow is down, inflation won't go away, God is dead and the war's begun. Stop it! If it bleeds it leads has always been the montra for news, and most news sources don't even resemble journalism. Why the doom and gloom about the economy isn't warranted.

Henry Mancini was one of the most prolific score writter arranger of all times. Never heard of him? Yes you have. He wrote mucic for The Pink Panther, Charade, Breakfast at Tiffiny's and hundreds of others. Yes, hundreds! Enjoy this essay featuring this remarkable man.

ATL is a fast growing, modern city. Kind of like LA was once upon a time. Strong discusses the good bad and ugly of the star of the Southeast. Oh yeah, UFOs and stick shift cars are discussed too.

The world has lost it's mind. Getting feelings hurt is the new American past time. How do I escape? Via automobiles. Strong starts and ends the podcast discussing cars, a smiling topic, whilst in the middle of the podcast, discusses some of the antics of butt hurt nation. Seems like you can't say anything without someone getting offended. Well, maybe Land Rover. Enjoy.

Utah, Arizona, Southern California and Tijuana in one week. How are things in the wild wild west? Changing. For the better? Hard to tell. Listen to the Strongman's take on money, manners and makeup of the west of the rockies life.

Balloons tanks and cars are top news stories today. The Chinese spy balloon, Western tanks going to Ukraine and the high price of automobiles. Strong discusses these three topics and waxes eloquently about what you can do to affect their effect. Or not.

Strong's adverture number one for 2023 was a trip to Puerto Rico. Sunny and 85 is always wonderful compared to the Midwestern US. What makes Puerto a great winter destination? That's discussed, along with the bad and the ugly of a second world country (territory).

Dolly Parton is much more than a big busted Country singer. She won hundreds of awards, written thousands of songs and earned hundreds of millions of dollars. She has crossed over from Country to pop, music to movies, entertainment to business. Scandals...none. Marrages, one. Listen here for more.