Hackettstown

Well, it's not huge, but there's a smaller post office by me.

But our mail comes from the Hackettstown post office, not the Alamucci post office.

So I happened to be in town, so I needed to drop some letters in the post office in the morning before they opened up.

And for some reason, one of the mail carriers there, I couldn't see who it was.

And if you do have a problem with something, let's say you bought a used piece of equipment, a used tractor, you're having, you're having some sort of issue with something, all right, then there, there are balance shops that specialize in balancing almost anything.

So, and usually what they do is they ca- it's called industrial balance, um, the, the type of business.

You know, Ray's Industrial Balance or Ray's in, you know, Joe's Industrial Balance or Hackettstown Balancing, Industrial Balance, and you'll be able to take something and you'll be able to get that balanced.

And then when you do get that balance and invest and speak to the person, don't just throw it there or send it in the mail.

But the reality being is that when I live in Realville, They're in Realville right now.

Well, Hackettstown, but I live in Realville because I look at things for what they really are.

So in essence, there's two, first of all, why is it called a multimeter? Because originally the meters were called years ago, about 40 years ago, volt-ohm meters, because they only read volts and ohms, okay? And then what happened, they may have been digital or they may have been analog, okay? And then what happened is that with the digital circuit technology, the industry was very easily and inexpensively allowed them to integrate other features.

So, for instance, like amperage, which is current draw, a circuit tester, a diode tester, a bunch of different functions.

Temperatures across the Garden State are rising fast.

Wildwood is sixty-six, Mount Holly sixty-three, Hackettstown is fifty-nine.

Breaking news whenever it happens.

Now back to the conversation with Bill Spadea on New Jersey 101.5.

He was a kid from New Jersey with a cheap guitar, a head full of songs, and an idea of a life that probably didn't make much sense to anyone else.

Growing up in Hackettstown, there wasn't much of a music scene, so he and his friends made one.

They rented Elks lodges and American Legion halls and put on their own shows.

Later came the New Brunswick music scene, and construction jobs to pay the bills, and tours where whatever money you made went right back into gas, tolls, and getting to the next town.

Yeah.

So let's take us to the beginning.

You were born in Red Bank, but you spent a big part of your childhood in, uh, Hackettstown.

Yeah.

I think it's fantastic.

Now, when you moved from Red Bank to, uh, Hackettstown as a boy-

Yeah

... you described it as going from the beach and a Ferris wheel to, uh, cows and fields and nothing.

There was cabs.

There was this, that.

And when, and in Hackettstown, when we went there, you know, there was nothing.

There wasn't, there wasn't that stuff.

Alamoochee Township, Warren County, New Jersey.

Mail coming out of Hackettstown.

I tell you that all the time.

I don't know why.

But then you get back to the government mandates of fuel economy, which I'm a Christian.

I'm for fuel economy.

And then the public's demand for a very large vehicle with a lot of amenities in it, and a lot of weight and a lot of aerodynamic resistance because everybody in Hackettstown's got a big kind of four-wheel drive pickup truck, half-done pickup truck, big heavy truck from the factory, nice fancy big tires, pushing about a wind.

The guy never tore anything in his life.