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We've all had that dream that we're in a car chase and just narrowly escape.

Times Union Blogger Brian Huba wrote a scathing article about the state of Albany radio for his blog "The Cat's Pajamas" a few weeks ago and I was offended!  So I did the only logical thing, I invite the A-hole who wrote it to come in and be a guest on my awesome web series, Baking with Bethany...

It's hard to believe any good news can come from such a huge tragedy. Yet, in every tragedy, especially natural disasters it seems that sometimes amid all the sadness we can find reason for joy. Sometimes it's just at the response and feeling of a true community of humans revealing itself as others come to aid, other times like this one, it's a story of the tenacity of the human spirit and a perso

UPDATE: This post was written earlier today and the "ticket deal" was stated to be good Tomorrow (Tuesday). The original news source that was used to get the information has since changed and updated their information and I have leaned that the deal was indeed for TODAY (Monday) only. While many got the deal , and others who tried did not, as their seemed to be a bit of mass confusion on

Sorry,Brian,  but I had to do it.  It's my job, Brian!

Listen , I can't make this stuff up! Honestly, I wish I did. Apparently in Toms River, New jersey a youth football coach had just announced to the team after a game that he was going to cancel the rest of the season due to bad attitudes and poor sportsmanship, he even told the kids to turn in their equipment.

I suppose there are a lot of us who would like to throw a politician in a dumpster. Heck, lots of times I'd like to throw them all away and start over. But we never actually do it. I guess that is not the way it works in Ukraine.

Diane Sawyer signed off as anchor of ABC's "World News" last night.  She told viewers that it has been wonderful to be the "home port" of the network's news team each weeknight. She will be replaced next week by David Muir. On Wednesday's newscast, she chatted briefly on the set with Muir and took viewers on a behind-the-scenes tour pointing out people who worked at "World

There seems to be too many stories about people leaving their kids in the car while they do amazingly irresponsible things, sometimes for hours. This one may be the worst, or best, depending on how you look at it.

If you were listening to the show early this morning we talked about this story. A 14 year old girl for some reason decided to Tweet to American Airlines a fake terrorist threat. The girl, Sarah wrote, "My name's Ibrahim and I'm from Afghanistan. I'm part of Al Qaida and on June 1st I'm gonna do something really big. Bye." Why she thought that this was OK to post to the airline , no one

No matter what your job is, you've probably seen some technical difficulties.  Being in radio, I know that we are almost always at the mercy of a machine! Just the other day, for absolutely no reason at all, 2 songs and a WGNA jingle played on the air at the same time...

I've seen this video on a few of my Facebook Friend's walls today. I am not sure how old it is, it looks to be from 2012, but I know I had not seen it yet so I think it is safe to assume many of you have not either.