1 00:00:04,080 --> 00:00:11,479 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, Luck and load. The 2 00:00:11,680 --> 00:00:41,960 Speaker 1: Michael Verie Show is on the air on the ninety 3 00:00:41,960 --> 00:00:44,840 Speaker 1: fifth birthday of k t r H, our flagship station. 4 00:00:46,040 --> 00:00:51,440 Speaker 1: Your calls on your kt r H memory. Lewis Florey, 5 00:00:51,640 --> 00:00:55,480 Speaker 1: the Tree whisperer of Ability Tree Experts, sent me an 6 00:00:55,480 --> 00:00:58,640 Speaker 1: email says, zar, my earliest memory of k t r 7 00:00:58,880 --> 00:01:02,840 Speaker 1: H was I advertised with Bill Zach and John Burrows 8 00:01:03,160 --> 00:01:05,959 Speaker 1: on the Gardening Show. That was a long time ago, 9 00:01:06,840 --> 00:01:09,280 Speaker 1: and I said, well, when would that have been? Said? 10 00:01:09,280 --> 00:01:11,680 Speaker 1: Best of my memory, it was the mid eighties, maybe 11 00:01:11,840 --> 00:01:15,520 Speaker 1: mid eighties to late eighties, with Bill Zach and John 12 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:18,680 Speaker 1: Burrows on ktr H and Bob Flagg and Betty O'Dell 13 00:01:18,959 --> 00:01:23,759 Speaker 1: on KPRC. So I read that out to Ramone and 14 00:01:23,800 --> 00:01:27,120 Speaker 1: he said, I worked with John Burrows, John Burrows and 15 00:01:27,240 --> 00:01:30,360 Speaker 1: Randy Lemon. So Randy. So when Bill stepped down, Randy 16 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:32,120 Speaker 1: stepped in. Is that how that worked? So it was 17 00:01:32,200 --> 00:01:34,840 Speaker 1: it was Randy and John Burrows, and then when John 18 00:01:34,880 --> 00:01:38,199 Speaker 1: Burrows went away, it was just Randy. It had always 19 00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:42,319 Speaker 1: been two before that, had it not? Yeah, it was, 20 00:01:42,880 --> 00:01:45,080 Speaker 1: And so he was taking the whole show over and 21 00:01:45,120 --> 00:01:49,840 Speaker 1: they weren't replacing a co host. Huh, that's very interesting. 22 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:52,600 Speaker 1: I can't maybe because I never heard it that way, 23 00:01:52,640 --> 00:01:55,840 Speaker 1: but I never I can't imagine Randy with a co host. 24 00:01:55,960 --> 00:01:58,320 Speaker 1: It just doesn't I mean, it's Randy Lemon, you know, 25 00:01:58,880 --> 00:02:00,840 Speaker 1: it's I mean, it was this much to Randy Lemon 26 00:02:00,880 --> 00:02:04,480 Speaker 1: show as it was Garden Line for me. So I 27 00:02:04,560 --> 00:02:06,720 Speaker 1: just I can't imagine how he would play off of 28 00:02:06,800 --> 00:02:10,240 Speaker 1: someone else. Yeah, anyway, all right to the phone lines 29 00:02:10,240 --> 00:02:13,600 Speaker 1: that we go. Your ktr H memory, Johnny, you're up, 30 00:02:13,639 --> 00:02:14,000 Speaker 1: go ahead. 31 00:02:16,160 --> 00:02:19,600 Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't remember kt r H on this story, 32 00:02:19,639 --> 00:02:23,120 Speaker 2: but I remember Paul Harvey. This was back in fifty nine. 33 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:27,600 Speaker 2: I was in the in kindergarten, and I remember my 34 00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:30,840 Speaker 2: dad would come in from work at lunch and him 35 00:02:30,840 --> 00:02:33,120 Speaker 2: and my mom sitting and listening to Paul Harvey. And 36 00:02:33,160 --> 00:02:36,760 Speaker 2: I still remember that soothing voice. It just gives you 37 00:02:36,760 --> 00:02:40,200 Speaker 2: a warm and says he feeling it does dupicated. 38 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:49,440 Speaker 1: It's it's very much a cigarette induced kind of raspy baritone. Uh, 39 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:54,840 Speaker 1: that that he had perfect control on. And and I 40 00:02:54,880 --> 00:02:59,760 Speaker 1: think one of the things that's that's uh, it's over 41 00:03:00,040 --> 00:03:05,560 Speaker 1: looked was the delivery style, the pacing of the delivery 42 00:03:06,040 --> 00:03:10,119 Speaker 1: and the use of the pause. His timing was impeccable. 43 00:03:10,160 --> 00:03:14,920 Speaker 1: As all the greats are comedians, singers, radio broadcasters, his 44 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:20,480 Speaker 1: timing was impeccable. I spent a lot of time listening 45 00:03:20,480 --> 00:03:23,480 Speaker 1: to him when I committed to getting better at doing 46 00:03:23,520 --> 00:03:27,000 Speaker 1: what I do, and it was him and Rush that 47 00:03:27,040 --> 00:03:30,520 Speaker 1: I spent the most time studying. And then I then 48 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:37,280 Speaker 1: I moved to comedians because comedians tend to have better 49 00:03:37,320 --> 00:03:42,280 Speaker 1: timing than talk show hosts. And the reason is because 50 00:03:42,280 --> 00:03:47,600 Speaker 1: they're conscious of their timing, and they also Jim Gaffigan 51 00:03:47,640 --> 00:03:52,400 Speaker 1: said to me when one day I was bragging on him, 52 00:03:52,760 --> 00:03:55,760 Speaker 1: he was, he was, he was. He really made it 53 00:03:55,800 --> 00:03:59,240 Speaker 1: big at this point. He really launched into not just 54 00:03:59,280 --> 00:04:03,120 Speaker 1: being a comedian, but being a household name. And I said, man, 55 00:04:03,120 --> 00:04:07,000 Speaker 1: it's amazing. You get up there with no piano, no backing, 56 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:11,320 Speaker 1: no sidekick, no and you get up there by yourself 57 00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:14,240 Speaker 1: with the microphone and entertain people for forty minutes to 58 00:04:14,280 --> 00:04:18,040 Speaker 1: an hour. And he said, yeah. And I've worked on 59 00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:20,680 Speaker 1: that set for months, and I do the same set 60 00:04:20,839 --> 00:04:23,520 Speaker 1: every night for a year of a tour. You do 61 00:04:23,720 --> 00:04:27,320 Speaker 1: five hours of unique radio every single day, he said, 62 00:04:27,360 --> 00:04:30,520 Speaker 1: I would lose my mind. I felt so good about myself. 63 00:04:31,040 --> 00:04:32,920 Speaker 1: I've told that story to Ramon one hundred times. Don't 64 00:04:32,920 --> 00:04:35,200 Speaker 1: forget what Jim Gaffigan said about how difficult what we 65 00:04:35,279 --> 00:04:38,119 Speaker 1: do is because we don't get to do the same set, 66 00:04:38,320 --> 00:04:41,479 Speaker 1: and God forbid we do something in the morning that 67 00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:43,560 Speaker 1: we think is really good and replay it in the evening. 68 00:04:44,120 --> 00:04:47,359 Speaker 1: You would think I am the laziest person ever. We 69 00:04:47,520 --> 00:04:49,919 Speaker 1: just didn't want to do the third segment of the 70 00:04:49,960 --> 00:04:53,520 Speaker 1: six o'clock Hour for eight minutes we replayed something from 71 00:04:53,600 --> 00:04:56,960 Speaker 1: the morning that got great reviews. You don't dare do that? 72 00:04:56,960 --> 00:04:58,840 Speaker 1: That is so I'll get eat listeners? Who will? Ema 73 00:04:59,240 --> 00:05:00,120 Speaker 1: just be lazy? 74 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:03,360 Speaker 3: Are you crazy? You do you do? 75 00:05:03,800 --> 00:05:06,200 Speaker 1: We strike you as lazy that we could get away 76 00:05:06,240 --> 00:05:08,960 Speaker 1: with so much less than we do. We love what 77 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:14,960 Speaker 1: we do. Richard, You're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, sir, Yeah, 78 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:15,520 Speaker 1: my coussi. 79 00:05:15,640 --> 00:05:18,599 Speaker 4: The early memory was my dad was my soccer coach 80 00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:21,320 Speaker 4: from seventy five to eighty three, and riding in the 81 00:05:21,320 --> 00:05:26,120 Speaker 4: back seat of a seventy three Chevelle Laguna, my mom 82 00:05:26,160 --> 00:05:28,200 Speaker 4: in the front seat with him and him listening to 83 00:05:28,240 --> 00:05:30,760 Speaker 4: some ka TI H maybe a home improvement show or 84 00:05:30,839 --> 00:05:33,680 Speaker 4: the garden Line. Him yelling at my friend and I 85 00:05:33,760 --> 00:05:36,520 Speaker 4: to shut up and leaning back over the bench seat 86 00:05:36,560 --> 00:05:39,640 Speaker 4: to try to slap us to shut us up, which 87 00:05:39,760 --> 00:05:43,400 Speaker 4: good luck it didn't work. But that's my earliest earliest memory. 88 00:05:44,120 --> 00:05:46,200 Speaker 1: You were playing soccer seventy five to eighty three. 89 00:05:48,040 --> 00:05:49,359 Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, I was. 90 00:05:49,480 --> 00:05:51,479 Speaker 1: That was back when white kids didn't play soccer. 91 00:05:53,120 --> 00:05:55,240 Speaker 4: No, well, my dad was. My mom and dad were 92 00:05:55,279 --> 00:05:59,600 Speaker 4: the founders of the Timberline Soccer Youth Association here in 93 00:05:59,680 --> 00:06:01,560 Speaker 4: far North to hisstitution, they were the founders of it. 94 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:05,160 Speaker 4: So for some reason, he had an infinity for soccer 95 00:06:05,160 --> 00:06:07,120 Speaker 4: and was my coach from Worley from. 96 00:06:08,680 --> 00:06:10,880 Speaker 1: First grade all the way through high school. 97 00:06:10,880 --> 00:06:12,839 Speaker 4: And he kept even when I was out of high 98 00:06:12,839 --> 00:06:14,520 Speaker 4: school and went high school and played on the high 99 00:06:14,520 --> 00:06:18,400 Speaker 4: school team. He coached a team in that organization through 100 00:06:18,440 --> 00:06:19,760 Speaker 4: another five years. 101 00:06:20,920 --> 00:06:22,640 Speaker 1: And was that his full time job or was that 102 00:06:22,760 --> 00:06:23,720 Speaker 1: just a side hustle? 103 00:06:24,400 --> 00:06:26,760 Speaker 4: No, that was just a side That's the way he did. 104 00:06:27,279 --> 00:06:27,400 Speaker 2: It. 105 00:06:27,440 --> 00:06:29,960 Speaker 4: Wasn't paid, it was just a youth soccer organzation. She 106 00:06:30,080 --> 00:06:33,440 Speaker 4: just enjoyed doing it. And he was a good coach, 107 00:06:33,440 --> 00:06:35,720 Speaker 4: but he was a tough coach. Every time I'd be 108 00:06:35,760 --> 00:06:37,520 Speaker 4: on the sideline and something would go wrong on the field, 109 00:06:37,560 --> 00:06:41,080 Speaker 4: he'd get mad and he'd say, g D. 110 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:41,960 Speaker 5: Richard. 111 00:06:42,320 --> 00:06:43,960 Speaker 4: But I was like, Dad, I'm on the sideline. But 112 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:45,039 Speaker 4: you know, it's always somehow my. 113 00:06:45,440 --> 00:06:48,680 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Well, isn't that amazing how that works. Let's 114 00:06:48,720 --> 00:06:51,080 Speaker 1: go to Julie, because the ladies have not been weighing 115 00:06:51,080 --> 00:06:54,200 Speaker 1: in on their KTRH memory. Julie, what is yours? 116 00:06:55,680 --> 00:06:55,920 Speaker 5: Well? 117 00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:58,960 Speaker 6: I was going to weigh in on Paul Harvey. I'm 118 00:06:59,040 --> 00:07:02,800 Speaker 6: seventy one, now seventy one. My dad was really interested 119 00:07:02,800 --> 00:07:07,239 Speaker 6: in personalities and his background was with media and everything, 120 00:07:07,240 --> 00:07:09,400 Speaker 6: and I'm one of five. He introduced us all to 121 00:07:09,640 --> 00:07:12,840 Speaker 6: Paul Harvey when we were young. But the timing on 122 00:07:12,920 --> 00:07:15,920 Speaker 6: Paul Harvey Harvey, according to my dad was he was 123 00:07:15,960 --> 00:07:18,040 Speaker 6: not a good reader when he had to do this 124 00:07:18,200 --> 00:07:21,480 Speaker 6: started doing this, and that's why he read the words 125 00:07:21,560 --> 00:07:29,240 Speaker 6: page two. That was one of his signature comment and 126 00:07:29,280 --> 00:07:32,000 Speaker 6: he would read through, but he would say page two. 127 00:07:32,480 --> 00:07:35,040 Speaker 6: And that came from when he first started, and he 128 00:07:35,200 --> 00:07:37,480 Speaker 6: was a poor reader. He got better at it, but 129 00:07:38,920 --> 00:07:39,800 Speaker 6: just a little tidbit. 130 00:07:40,080 --> 00:07:49,640 Speaker 1: Well, that's interesting. He really understood the concept of in 131 00:07:49,680 --> 00:07:51,720 Speaker 1: the middle of setting an appointment, which is what you 132 00:07:51,800 --> 00:07:54,520 Speaker 1: do in radio, I'm going to go listen to Clay 133 00:07:54,560 --> 00:07:56,280 Speaker 1: and Buck at eleven. I'm gonna go to listen to 134 00:07:56,400 --> 00:07:59,240 Speaker 1: Rush at eleven. Hopefully you said listen to the Michael 135 00:07:59,280 --> 00:08:04,640 Speaker 1: Berry Show eight. He had markers within his segment that 136 00:08:04,720 --> 00:08:06,920 Speaker 1: you almost need, like you craved them. 137 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:07,640 Speaker 7: It was he. 138 00:08:07,640 --> 00:08:12,440 Speaker 8: Created this was not so rich and famous are as. 139 00:08:12,480 --> 00:08:14,679 Speaker 1: I call it the Michael Barry Shows. 140 00:09:02,679 --> 00:09:03,760 Speaker 3: And what's yon. 141 00:09:05,559 --> 00:09:08,080 Speaker 1: Ramone used to host a show fifteen years ago or 142 00:09:08,120 --> 00:09:14,160 Speaker 1: so called Radio Gaga. It was on Saturday Night and 143 00:09:14,280 --> 00:09:17,880 Speaker 1: not a lie. It was voted the dumbest show on 144 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:21,960 Speaker 1: Houston Radio by me. That's what I That's what I 145 00:09:22,040 --> 00:09:28,480 Speaker 1: named it. Ramone. All Ramone ever wanted to be. It's 146 00:09:28,520 --> 00:09:30,200 Speaker 1: like my brother. All my brother ever wanted to be 147 00:09:30,280 --> 00:09:35,040 Speaker 1: was a cop. Like there wasn't a number two teacher, Lady, 148 00:09:35,040 --> 00:09:36,760 Speaker 1: Why do I have to learn about signs? I'm just 149 00:09:36,800 --> 00:09:40,360 Speaker 1: going to be a cop for Ramone. He wanted to 150 00:09:40,360 --> 00:09:43,280 Speaker 1: be in radio. And he's got stories of you know, 151 00:09:44,559 --> 00:09:46,360 Speaker 1: like his mom tells the sort of him pooping behind 152 00:09:46,360 --> 00:09:49,640 Speaker 1: the TV. But he was pooping behind the TV thinking 153 00:09:49,640 --> 00:09:52,839 Speaker 1: about being in radio. It's just probably one of those 154 00:09:52,880 --> 00:09:55,880 Speaker 1: TVs where it had the console and you lift up 155 00:09:55,880 --> 00:09:57,679 Speaker 1: one of the sides of the top of the TV 156 00:09:57,800 --> 00:10:00,040 Speaker 1: and there was the radio in there, and then and 157 00:10:00,440 --> 00:10:04,600 Speaker 1: on the other side was the record player. It's all 158 00:10:04,640 --> 00:10:07,199 Speaker 1: he ever wanted to do. And so he started the 159 00:10:07,240 --> 00:10:09,960 Speaker 1: way everybody starts. The lowest man on the totem pole. 160 00:10:10,120 --> 00:10:13,120 Speaker 1: You work overnights on the weekend because you can't find 161 00:10:13,160 --> 00:10:19,080 Speaker 1: people to work for peanuts overnights on the weekend. And 162 00:10:18,360 --> 00:10:21,920 Speaker 1: there he was overnights on the weekend, and then in 163 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:27,720 Speaker 1: time you build up to primetime during the week But 164 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:30,720 Speaker 1: he had always produced well. First he had been the 165 00:10:30,720 --> 00:10:33,000 Speaker 1: board operator, which is a person pushing the button getting 166 00:10:33,040 --> 00:10:35,200 Speaker 1: you into commercials out of commercials, you know, all the 167 00:10:35,240 --> 00:10:38,120 Speaker 1: things that go with that, traffic, amber alerts, all that 168 00:10:38,160 --> 00:10:40,680 Speaker 1: sort of stuff. And then eventually he became a producer, 169 00:10:40,720 --> 00:10:43,080 Speaker 1: which is where I met him. He was producing Sam 170 00:10:43,080 --> 00:10:47,200 Speaker 1: Alone show when Sam had left FM, when he left 171 00:10:47,640 --> 00:10:53,280 Speaker 1: Susquehanna KRBE and came to KTRH. He would eventually land 172 00:10:53,320 --> 00:10:55,360 Speaker 1: on ninety six point five, but for six months he 173 00:10:55,360 --> 00:10:58,400 Speaker 1: couldn't be on an FM rival, but he could do 174 00:10:58,440 --> 00:11:02,040 Speaker 1: a talk show, so he was doing talk on kkr H. 175 00:11:02,080 --> 00:11:04,760 Speaker 1: Never Duncan was if you remember that time, So it was, 176 00:11:05,240 --> 00:11:08,559 Speaker 1: so he was producing for Sam Maloon and Chris Baker, 177 00:11:09,280 --> 00:11:13,160 Speaker 1: and then I hired him under the table to whatever 178 00:11:13,160 --> 00:11:14,760 Speaker 1: he was producing for them just hand it to me 179 00:11:14,800 --> 00:11:17,600 Speaker 1: because I didn't know what I was doing, and so 180 00:11:17,800 --> 00:11:22,640 Speaker 1: he became my unofficial side hustle producer. I think the 181 00:11:22,679 --> 00:11:24,559 Speaker 1: statute of limitations has run out on that, so I 182 00:11:24,600 --> 00:11:27,840 Speaker 1: can tell that story now. And we had these offices 183 00:11:27,840 --> 00:11:31,640 Speaker 1: down in this little tucked away cubicle where there'd be 184 00:11:31,760 --> 00:11:34,200 Speaker 1: David Armstrong with the engineers and different people would be 185 00:11:34,200 --> 00:11:37,200 Speaker 1: down there. So we'd be down there, we'd get bored, 186 00:11:37,679 --> 00:11:40,600 Speaker 1: and so we'd pull off our keyfob, and you know, 187 00:11:40,640 --> 00:11:42,240 Speaker 1: the Keith fob is kind of like a hard credit 188 00:11:42,280 --> 00:11:47,040 Speaker 1: card and it would be around a lanyard, and so 189 00:11:47,360 --> 00:11:50,280 Speaker 1: I would institute this game where I would walk up 190 00:11:50,320 --> 00:11:52,400 Speaker 1: on him and I would whip him with my key fob. 191 00:11:52,480 --> 00:11:54,800 Speaker 1: One time it hurt, you'd have we'd have streaks down 192 00:11:54,880 --> 00:11:56,560 Speaker 1: their back. But then he would get to do it 193 00:11:56,559 --> 00:11:59,640 Speaker 1: to me. And we filmed it at one point and posted. 194 00:11:59,679 --> 00:12:02,240 Speaker 1: It was very sophomore with a lot of fun. Anyway, 195 00:12:02,280 --> 00:12:04,240 Speaker 1: so all he ever wanted to do was radio, and 196 00:12:04,280 --> 00:12:06,040 Speaker 1: it was the first time he came out from behind 197 00:12:06,080 --> 00:12:08,280 Speaker 1: the other side of the glass and hosted a show 198 00:12:08,400 --> 00:12:11,040 Speaker 1: and it was Saturday nights and to his credit, he 199 00:12:11,040 --> 00:12:12,800 Speaker 1: won a lone Star Award for the program. It's very 200 00:12:12,800 --> 00:12:22,480 Speaker 1: good programs called Radio Gaga. Dean, what is your KTRH memory. 201 00:12:20,520 --> 00:12:23,560 Speaker 5: Hey, Michael, I have a couple of memories. One is 202 00:12:23,640 --> 00:12:26,840 Speaker 5: when I was a kid growing up, my granddaddy had. 203 00:12:26,640 --> 00:12:29,720 Speaker 9: A farm and Tomball and he planted candlope and the 204 00:12:29,760 --> 00:12:32,200 Speaker 9: only seeds that were the only way that seeds were 205 00:12:32,240 --> 00:12:36,960 Speaker 9: identified was kt RH radio cantlope seeds. 206 00:12:37,280 --> 00:12:37,880 Speaker 1: Is that right? 207 00:12:38,160 --> 00:12:38,319 Speaker 10: Then? 208 00:12:38,360 --> 00:12:41,199 Speaker 5: The other one that's correct, Yeah, he got them from 209 00:12:41,200 --> 00:12:43,080 Speaker 5: garden line. I don't know who had garden Line at 210 00:12:43,080 --> 00:12:46,920 Speaker 5: that time. This was back in the sixties, so they 211 00:12:46,960 --> 00:12:50,040 Speaker 5: were giving out seeds. It might have been Dewey Compton. 212 00:12:50,400 --> 00:12:53,839 Speaker 1: A story Dean. 213 00:12:55,679 --> 00:12:57,959 Speaker 5: Best cantilopes and we had them for years until the 214 00:12:58,640 --> 00:12:59,480 Speaker 5: farm got sold. 215 00:13:00,320 --> 00:13:01,760 Speaker 1: You know, when I was a kid, I didn't I 216 00:13:01,800 --> 00:13:06,000 Speaker 1: didn't like gourds or melons or anything of the sort. 217 00:13:06,200 --> 00:13:12,080 Speaker 1: And now I absolutely love them. I love cantalopes and 218 00:13:12,120 --> 00:13:15,640 Speaker 1: different Now. I did enjoy water Moon, but I didn't 219 00:13:15,679 --> 00:13:18,320 Speaker 1: eat squash or any of that stuff. Now I still 220 00:13:18,320 --> 00:13:21,800 Speaker 1: don't really like eggplant I don't like. We went by 221 00:13:22,160 --> 00:13:25,079 Speaker 1: Frederal American Grill yesterday afternoon and had to smoke out 222 00:13:25,120 --> 00:13:28,679 Speaker 1: on the patio and Wayne was cooking for a big 223 00:13:28,720 --> 00:13:31,880 Speaker 1: event they were hosting last night, and I asked him 224 00:13:31,920 --> 00:13:34,640 Speaker 1: the menu, and one of the items was an eggplant. 225 00:13:34,920 --> 00:13:37,440 Speaker 1: That eggplant with kind of a crumble over the top 226 00:13:37,480 --> 00:13:38,800 Speaker 1: of it, and I think the crumble has to be 227 00:13:38,800 --> 00:13:40,920 Speaker 1: there for you to like it. I just I don't 228 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:45,280 Speaker 1: understand the fascination with eggplant and beats. And my wife 229 00:13:45,360 --> 00:13:47,000 Speaker 1: is in India, so I can say this. She loves 230 00:13:47,040 --> 00:13:50,200 Speaker 1: eggplant and she loves beats, and I just I don't 231 00:13:50,280 --> 00:13:53,520 Speaker 1: understand that. Larry, what's your KTRH memory on this the 232 00:13:53,600 --> 00:13:55,360 Speaker 1: ninety fifth birthday of kkr H. 233 00:13:57,480 --> 00:14:00,160 Speaker 7: Well, I guess it must have been in late six 234 00:14:00,280 --> 00:14:06,760 Speaker 7: he's maybe early seventies. My dad, so consequently myself. He 235 00:14:06,800 --> 00:14:09,160 Speaker 7: was a big fan of the Farm and the Garden 236 00:14:09,280 --> 00:14:13,760 Speaker 7: Show with Dewey Compton, and I think Ben Oldagg, maybe 237 00:14:13,960 --> 00:14:18,319 Speaker 7: Bill Zach. But the thing I specifically remember was that 238 00:14:19,920 --> 00:14:22,000 Speaker 7: Dewey Compton was killed in a plane. 239 00:14:21,680 --> 00:14:25,560 Speaker 1: Crash, That's correct. I just got an email from a 240 00:14:25,560 --> 00:14:29,240 Speaker 1: fellow named John somewhere and he says Zar. Here's my 241 00:14:29,360 --> 00:14:32,040 Speaker 1: memory of kJ H. In the seventies, on the way 242 00:14:32,080 --> 00:14:35,120 Speaker 1: to the Deer Lease before daylight, my dad would turn 243 00:14:35,120 --> 00:14:37,280 Speaker 1: on the radio to listen to Dewey Compton's Garden Show. 244 00:14:37,880 --> 00:14:41,200 Speaker 1: It seemed like, no matter what problem you had, spectracide 245 00:14:41,320 --> 00:14:49,160 Speaker 1: was the answer every single time. That's funny, Phil, What 246 00:14:49,280 --> 00:14:53,200 Speaker 1: is your kJ H memory? Man? 247 00:14:53,360 --> 00:14:57,240 Speaker 11: Is Milo Hamilton calling Mike Scott no hitter in nineteen 248 00:14:57,240 --> 00:14:57,720 Speaker 11: eighty six? 249 00:14:57,960 --> 00:15:00,800 Speaker 1: Oh? Man, a year then? 250 00:15:00,960 --> 00:15:01,280 Speaker 5: Uh? 251 00:15:01,440 --> 00:15:03,720 Speaker 1: And you know Mike Scott. Mike Scott's like my buddy 252 00:15:03,720 --> 00:15:07,120 Speaker 1: Michael Robinson, the Aggie plumber. Uh, he'd pull that He'd 253 00:15:07,120 --> 00:15:09,960 Speaker 1: pull that cap off, constantly, pull that cap off, and 254 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:11,400 Speaker 1: then he was bald up there and you had no 255 00:15:11,440 --> 00:15:12,840 Speaker 1: idea because he was bald through the middle of a 256 00:15:12,880 --> 00:15:16,040 Speaker 1: hair on the side. Mike Scott was so good in 257 00:15:16,080 --> 00:15:20,200 Speaker 1: the mid eighties, it is easy to forget how legendary 258 00:15:20,680 --> 00:15:24,440 Speaker 1: that fellow was. I interrupted, You go ahead, no. 259 00:15:24,840 --> 00:15:26,920 Speaker 4: But yeah, let's split figure fastball with something else. 260 00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:31,960 Speaker 11: And then the other one was Robert Ford calling Jordan's 261 00:15:32,640 --> 00:15:35,120 Speaker 11: walk off Grand Slam against the Mariners in twenty two. 262 00:15:36,800 --> 00:15:39,160 Speaker 11: You know, I was on my way home on the 263 00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:41,640 Speaker 11: loop and I think the people around me and behind 264 00:15:41,640 --> 00:15:43,400 Speaker 11: me probably thought I lost my mind because I was 265 00:15:43,440 --> 00:15:44,240 Speaker 11: beating the roof of. 266 00:15:44,200 --> 00:15:47,800 Speaker 1: My car and collar and yeah, that was twenty two, 267 00:15:49,600 --> 00:15:52,240 Speaker 1: I believe. So the next time they won the World Series, yeah, 268 00:15:52,320 --> 00:15:52,760 Speaker 1: twenty two. 269 00:15:53,320 --> 00:15:53,520 Speaker 5: You know. 270 00:15:54,120 --> 00:15:56,400 Speaker 1: I'll tell you one of my all time favorite can't 271 00:15:56,440 --> 00:15:59,760 Speaker 1: Your Age memories, It is a series of them, is 272 00:15:59,800 --> 00:16:03,560 Speaker 1: when Sparky goes down in the locker room after a 273 00:16:03,560 --> 00:16:06,080 Speaker 1: playoff win and you're you're just wondering if he can 274 00:16:06,160 --> 00:16:09,480 Speaker 1: keep it. It gets He's so good, he's so smart, he's 275 00:16:09,520 --> 00:16:10,240 Speaker 1: a knuckleball. 276 00:16:11,520 --> 00:16:28,360 Speaker 3: Is I love that. 277 00:16:24,280 --> 00:16:28,200 Speaker 1: It's the ninety fifth birthday of our flag ship Station 278 00:16:28,360 --> 00:16:33,240 Speaker 1: k Trrah. We were taking your calls of memories over 279 00:16:33,280 --> 00:16:37,560 Speaker 1: the years. John writes, Ramon used to poop behind the TV. 280 00:16:38,480 --> 00:16:41,000 Speaker 1: I used to do that too, but mine was in 281 00:16:41,040 --> 00:16:43,760 Speaker 1: my pants. I had a bunch of issues as a kid. 282 00:16:44,240 --> 00:16:46,560 Speaker 1: I peed the bed till I was eleven. I was 283 00:16:46,600 --> 00:16:48,480 Speaker 1: sent to a military academy at that age, and it 284 00:16:48,520 --> 00:16:51,040 Speaker 1: helped me stop peeing the bed, and I also quit 285 00:16:51,080 --> 00:16:55,520 Speaker 1: pooping my pants. It's hard being little sometimes the ungest 286 00:16:55,600 --> 00:16:59,840 Speaker 1: form of society. Chad said that ladies call about Paul 287 00:17:00,360 --> 00:17:02,720 Speaker 1: and the page two and having trouble reading was not true. 288 00:17:03,680 --> 00:17:07,480 Speaker 1: He said he had read the book Good Day, Good Day, 289 00:17:08,119 --> 00:17:11,840 Speaker 1: The Paul Harvey Story by Paul Batura, and he says 290 00:17:11,880 --> 00:17:14,560 Speaker 1: that that's not true. The reasoning behind the page two 291 00:17:14,680 --> 00:17:18,760 Speaker 1: was as follows quote. This dates back, of course, to 292 00:17:18,800 --> 00:17:22,679 Speaker 1: the years when almost everyone did his own everybody did 293 00:17:22,680 --> 00:17:25,199 Speaker 1: his own commercials. I guess I'm the last of the 294 00:17:25,200 --> 00:17:28,560 Speaker 1: news people allowed to do it. We walk kind of 295 00:17:28,560 --> 00:17:32,080 Speaker 1: a tightrope to be sure that journalism doesn't get mixed 296 00:17:32,119 --> 00:17:36,360 Speaker 1: up with the others. So I always say page one, 297 00:17:36,400 --> 00:17:40,160 Speaker 1: page two, page three, and the listeners over the years 298 00:17:40,240 --> 00:17:42,920 Speaker 1: learn where the news leaves off and the commercial begins. 299 00:17:43,600 --> 00:17:45,720 Speaker 1: But sometimes the best part of a broadcast might be 300 00:17:45,760 --> 00:17:48,119 Speaker 1: in the essence of a commercial. There really is a 301 00:17:48,119 --> 00:17:50,080 Speaker 1: battery that will last the life of your car, and 302 00:17:50,119 --> 00:17:52,040 Speaker 1: there really is a way you can keep your natural 303 00:17:52,080 --> 00:17:54,720 Speaker 1: teeth from here to hereafter. I'm not sure that some 304 00:17:54,760 --> 00:17:57,639 Speaker 1: of the commercials aren't more significant than most of the 305 00:17:57,680 --> 00:18:01,000 Speaker 1: news that was Paul Harvey in his own work. Let's 306 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:03,080 Speaker 1: start with Randall. Randall, what is your. 307 00:18:02,960 --> 00:18:09,880 Speaker 12: Memory about nineteen eighty seven eighty eight living in Crystal 308 00:18:09,920 --> 00:18:13,440 Speaker 12: Beach Sunday nights starting at nine o'clock. 309 00:18:13,560 --> 00:18:19,400 Speaker 13: They had the classic radio. Theater had about nine to five, 310 00:18:20,800 --> 00:18:23,520 Speaker 13: the whistler would come on. Anyways, they had like gun 311 00:18:23,560 --> 00:18:26,760 Speaker 13: smoke and other things. But anyways, as a junior high 312 00:18:26,840 --> 00:18:29,080 Speaker 13: kid who I was just fascinated with it, I loved it. 313 00:18:29,480 --> 00:18:32,480 Speaker 1: Ramon just informed me that he was working the board 314 00:18:33,200 --> 00:18:36,200 Speaker 1: on those Sunday night shows. That's what one of his jobs. 315 00:18:36,480 --> 00:18:39,520 Speaker 1: He remembers it very well. He was getting paid to 316 00:18:39,560 --> 00:18:46,679 Speaker 1: listen to the radio. Come at that good memory. Karen wrightes, 317 00:18:46,680 --> 00:18:49,080 Speaker 1: my dad used to listen to Dewey Compton in the 318 00:18:49,160 --> 00:18:52,720 Speaker 1: early sixties. If he mentioned a new product, we were 319 00:18:52,920 --> 00:18:55,280 Speaker 1: off to the feed store to get it. Dad was 320 00:18:55,320 --> 00:18:57,520 Speaker 1: from West Texas, so gardening in the Gulf Coast was 321 00:18:57,560 --> 00:19:03,000 Speaker 1: new to him. Dewey was his guide. Kenson writes, was 322 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:06,320 Speaker 1: it katrh that had the xylophone bump that played before 323 00:19:06,359 --> 00:19:09,760 Speaker 1: the news recaps that? Do you know Ramon? You don't 324 00:19:09,800 --> 00:19:15,159 Speaker 1: know her? It's not them, okay, Joe writes, zor I 325 00:19:15,200 --> 00:19:18,440 Speaker 1: read a biography of Paul Harvey and his wife, who 326 00:19:18,480 --> 00:19:22,640 Speaker 1: he referred to as his angel, was really the brains 327 00:19:22,680 --> 00:19:24,679 Speaker 1: behind the sequencing of the news and the rest of 328 00:19:24,680 --> 00:19:30,760 Speaker 1: the story stories. They were not swingers. You're stupid, that's sacrilege. 329 00:19:31,800 --> 00:19:34,800 Speaker 1: Kyle Finch writes, we traveled to Oklahoma a lot in 330 00:19:34,800 --> 00:19:36,720 Speaker 1: the seventies and eighties, and I remember listening to Paul 331 00:19:36,720 --> 00:19:42,120 Speaker 1: Harvey and Tradio. Laurie writes, I was a rock listener. 332 00:19:42,280 --> 00:19:44,879 Speaker 1: One oh one or ninety seven or ninety three point seven, 333 00:19:45,640 --> 00:19:48,120 Speaker 1: my dad heard Rush Limbaugh on the day he did 334 00:19:48,160 --> 00:19:52,880 Speaker 1: the Farting Report. My dad thought it was hilarious and 335 00:19:52,920 --> 00:19:55,320 Speaker 1: called to tell me. I tuned in the next day, 336 00:19:55,320 --> 00:19:58,399 Speaker 1: and every day after that had coworkers and friends who 337 00:19:58,480 --> 00:20:01,280 Speaker 1: I told and who switched over. We'd even eat lunch 338 00:20:01,280 --> 00:20:04,199 Speaker 1: from eleven to noon so we could listen together. I 339 00:20:04,240 --> 00:20:06,960 Speaker 1: wonder if the popularity of Rush contributed to the downfall 340 00:20:06,960 --> 00:20:11,239 Speaker 1: of rock stations. Perhaps, but I think what happened was 341 00:20:12,400 --> 00:20:18,680 Speaker 1: that people who had been heavy into music radio as 342 00:20:18,720 --> 00:20:23,280 Speaker 1: they were aging began to sort of fulfill the Churchill quote. 343 00:20:23,600 --> 00:20:27,520 Speaker 1: They began looking for information and engagement on issues of 344 00:20:27,560 --> 00:20:32,160 Speaker 1: the day, and Rush provided that there wasn't other compelling 345 00:20:32,359 --> 00:20:37,080 Speaker 1: talk that was providing that on the dial, and we 346 00:20:37,119 --> 00:20:41,159 Speaker 1: didn't have podcasts yet, so Rush was that opportunity on 347 00:20:41,200 --> 00:20:44,439 Speaker 1: some stations around the country that they flipped to talk. 348 00:20:45,119 --> 00:20:47,879 Speaker 1: They first just put Rush on. They would take off 349 00:20:47,920 --> 00:20:51,680 Speaker 1: the Consumer Advocate or the farm show, or the gardening 350 00:20:51,720 --> 00:20:57,600 Speaker 1: show or home improvement show. That AM radio during the week, 351 00:20:57,720 --> 00:21:00,840 Speaker 1: during prime time was a dumping ground for whatever they 352 00:21:00,880 --> 00:21:05,560 Speaker 1: could sell that show that hour or two hours four. 353 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:07,720 Speaker 1: So it might be an insurance agent, it might be 354 00:21:07,720 --> 00:21:09,760 Speaker 1: a real tour, it might be a home improvement show. 355 00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:13,280 Speaker 1: And that's what it became because you know, most of 356 00:21:13,280 --> 00:21:17,680 Speaker 1: those were independent owners, and before deregulation, you could only 357 00:21:17,720 --> 00:21:20,080 Speaker 1: own two stations in a market, so there was no 358 00:21:20,240 --> 00:21:23,960 Speaker 1: opportunity to, you know, to build kind of a syndicated 359 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:27,560 Speaker 1: type show that made any sense at that point. When 360 00:21:27,600 --> 00:21:34,040 Speaker 1: that changed, Clear Channel immediately stepped into the breach and 361 00:21:34,119 --> 00:21:36,520 Speaker 1: began buying up as many stations as they could. There 362 00:21:36,520 --> 00:21:38,960 Speaker 1: were still limitations on how mean they could own in 363 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:41,680 Speaker 1: a market, but that was when you saw the rise 364 00:21:41,840 --> 00:21:47,720 Speaker 1: of Rush Limbaugh. That was August first, nineteen eighty eight. 365 00:21:48,520 --> 00:21:52,439 Speaker 1: Rush went into national syndication with fifty six stations, and 366 00:21:52,520 --> 00:21:56,359 Speaker 1: of course it just grew from there. Let's go to John, 367 00:21:56,680 --> 00:22:00,119 Speaker 1: You're on the Michael Berry Show. What's your KTRH memory? 368 00:22:01,520 --> 00:22:05,840 Speaker 14: Oh, I remember growing up the fifties and sixties. Listened 369 00:22:05,880 --> 00:22:10,439 Speaker 14: to Charlie Dewey Compton every morning and you know, welted 370 00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:11,960 Speaker 14: we'd have it on the radio. 371 00:22:12,080 --> 00:22:14,119 Speaker 12: His mom would what having on. 372 00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:16,919 Speaker 14: We were eat breakfast, going into getting ready to go 373 00:22:16,960 --> 00:22:17,439 Speaker 14: to school. 374 00:22:17,720 --> 00:22:23,240 Speaker 1: But good time. So we didn't listen to kt as 375 00:22:23,240 --> 00:22:25,879 Speaker 1: growing up, and I don't know why, maybe just because 376 00:22:25,920 --> 00:22:28,560 Speaker 1: we were so you know, our world began and ended 377 00:22:28,560 --> 00:22:35,040 Speaker 1: in Orange, and we listened to KOGT. And the big 378 00:22:35,119 --> 00:22:39,880 Speaker 1: personality on KOGT was BBRC. We stood for a big boy, 379 00:22:40,119 --> 00:22:42,560 Speaker 1: Richard Carter, and he was a big boy, big man. 380 00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:45,080 Speaker 1: He had two sons. I went to school with Craig 381 00:22:45,160 --> 00:22:47,720 Speaker 1: Quarter and Bark Corter. Both of them are all state 382 00:22:47,840 --> 00:22:51,640 Speaker 1: offensive linemen, and they were about two sixty to two 383 00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:54,080 Speaker 1: seventy five as high school seniors, and in the late 384 00:22:54,119 --> 00:22:57,800 Speaker 1: eighties that was a big deal. They were big boys. 385 00:22:57,880 --> 00:23:01,600 Speaker 1: But the nicest guy you ever wanted to me Craig Corded, 386 00:23:01,640 --> 00:23:04,879 Speaker 1: the younger who was a year older than me. I 387 00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:08,200 Speaker 1: follow him on the Facebook machine and all he posts 388 00:23:08,760 --> 00:23:12,720 Speaker 1: is pictures of him fishing, and at one point he's 389 00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:15,520 Speaker 1: at I think Dan b or Talda Ben or Sam Raver, 390 00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:18,359 Speaker 1: one of them. He's out there and he said, and 391 00:23:18,440 --> 00:23:21,560 Speaker 1: he's going out there for a week, and he said, 392 00:23:22,840 --> 00:23:26,160 Speaker 1: seven straight days of fishing by myself. And he's set 393 00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:28,280 Speaker 1: up a GoPro and he kind of speeds it up, 394 00:23:28,359 --> 00:23:31,040 Speaker 1: so he he every time he's catching a fish, and 395 00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:32,480 Speaker 1: he'll show you that. But the rest of the time, 396 00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:35,120 Speaker 1: it's just kind of him moving around the boat and casting. 397 00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:37,679 Speaker 1: And he said, I need. He'll say things like, you know, 398 00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:40,479 Speaker 1: I needed this time alone to clear my head. And 399 00:23:40,520 --> 00:23:44,239 Speaker 1: I think to myself, I wish I had something I 400 00:23:44,359 --> 00:23:47,879 Speaker 1: love to do like that, that would calm me down 401 00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:51,720 Speaker 1: like that, that would that I just you know, look, 402 00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:54,679 Speaker 1: I actually love coming in and doing this. I know 403 00:23:54,760 --> 00:23:57,679 Speaker 1: that sounds silly or probably sounds like pandering. It's okay. 404 00:23:58,680 --> 00:24:02,040 Speaker 1: My wife will tell you, I start FeH when I'm 405 00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:04,520 Speaker 1: away from from the air, I start fishing. I got 406 00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:07,080 Speaker 1: to get back to my team, to the show to you. 407 00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:10,959 Speaker 1: This is my happy place. And I h but I 408 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:13,639 Speaker 1: wish I could love fishing. You know, Jim loves to fish. 409 00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:17,679 Speaker 1: Jim Mudd loves to fish. Somebody wants to take Jim fishing, 410 00:24:17,760 --> 00:24:20,440 Speaker 1: you'd be doing us a favor because he loves I 411 00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:22,320 Speaker 1: don't know if he likes to offshore. He just goes 412 00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:26,159 Speaker 1: sit at a pond. There's two groups of people that 413 00:24:26,240 --> 00:24:28,639 Speaker 1: love to go to a pond, poor white trash and 414 00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:31,760 Speaker 1: poor black people. And it's one place that white people 415 00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:34,480 Speaker 1: in black poor whites and poor blacks get along is 416 00:24:34,520 --> 00:24:36,199 Speaker 1: if there's a good fishing hole on the side of 417 00:24:36,240 --> 00:24:39,199 Speaker 1: the freeway. They'll pull up and they'll fish next to 418 00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:41,800 Speaker 1: each other, not bother each just just for a minute, 419 00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:44,320 Speaker 1: just long enough. And you know who else does It's 420 00:24:44,359 --> 00:24:47,399 Speaker 1: Kenny Allen. He posts pictures of his age is proper. 421 00:24:47,520 --> 00:25:02,440 Speaker 3: He loves On. 422 00:25:02,359 --> 00:25:10,280 Speaker 1: The ninety fifth birthday of KTRH, we share our memories 423 00:25:10,840 --> 00:25:14,080 Speaker 1: of our connection to that thing that at the time 424 00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:17,199 Speaker 1: was either on a shelf or a bedstand or in 425 00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:25,679 Speaker 1: our truck. Now you can consume content any kind of way, anywhere, 426 00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:30,760 Speaker 1: at any time. The industry was so scared about two 427 00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:34,680 Speaker 1: thousand and seven of podcasts and other people on radio 428 00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:36,240 Speaker 1: would tell me a podcast is going to put us 429 00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:39,560 Speaker 1: out of business. Yes it is if you're not any good. 430 00:25:40,600 --> 00:25:43,480 Speaker 1: But if you're good, content is king. You don't need 431 00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:46,240 Speaker 1: to be worried about where people consume it, or how 432 00:25:46,280 --> 00:25:49,480 Speaker 1: they consume it, or when they consume it. If it's good. 433 00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:52,520 Speaker 1: But if the only thing you can say as to 434 00:25:52,560 --> 00:25:55,359 Speaker 1: why you have a job and why you have an 435 00:25:55,400 --> 00:26:01,040 Speaker 1: audience is because you're on the FCC regulated limited number 436 00:26:01,119 --> 00:26:05,680 Speaker 1: of sticks and nobody else is there. You do realize 437 00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:09,200 Speaker 1: you can be fired if they're not going to follow you. 438 00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:13,520 Speaker 1: If you leave the medium, then you don't deserve a job. 439 00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:17,200 Speaker 1: You know, and people are uncomfortable with this kind of talk. 440 00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:19,200 Speaker 1: But you don't want a crappy player on your team 441 00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:23,000 Speaker 1: who makes an error every game and strikes out every 442 00:26:23,040 --> 00:26:24,760 Speaker 1: time you get him off the field. We'll get you 443 00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:28,600 Speaker 1: off the field. But if your content is good, people 444 00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:32,240 Speaker 1: will follow you wherever you go. They will go anywhere 445 00:26:33,040 --> 00:26:36,679 Speaker 1: and stay with you for as long as you have 446 00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:40,879 Speaker 1: a connection to them. Karen writes, I remember all the 447 00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:43,280 Speaker 1: shows you're talking about today. What I can't remember is 448 00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:44,639 Speaker 1: the name of the guy who was on during the 449 00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:48,520 Speaker 1: seventies who argued and brought up controversial topics. Maybe Alvin 450 00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:50,600 Speaker 1: might not have been kt r H, but he was 451 00:26:50,760 --> 00:26:53,840 Speaker 1: entertaining good memories. That was Alvin van Black. The funny 452 00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:56,520 Speaker 1: thing is, by the time I came on to the scene, 453 00:26:56,560 --> 00:27:01,560 Speaker 1: Alvin van Black was this heavy set rushing from Black 454 00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:04,520 Speaker 1: tie party to black Taie party, and he would come 455 00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:07,040 Speaker 1: rushing in with his camera and the lights on the camera, 456 00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:10,560 Speaker 1: and he was we're here at the Joanne Herring event 457 00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:14,639 Speaker 1: where they're raising money for Charlie Wilsoner Testicular Cancer or 458 00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:18,920 Speaker 1: Heart Association, and we're here at Jack Blanton's home and 459 00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:21,840 Speaker 1: he's holding a fundraiser for this and we're here. And 460 00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:23,520 Speaker 1: he would go around town and he was all mister 461 00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:26,640 Speaker 1: nice guy. But my understanding is he wasn't so nice 462 00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:30,600 Speaker 1: before that. He was very combative and bombastic and awesome 463 00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:35,119 Speaker 1: and in every possible way. We were talking about cantalopes 464 00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:39,640 Speaker 1: earlier and I cut the bit down, but you talk 465 00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:44,640 Speaker 1: about good storytelling on the air. That the time Jerry 466 00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:46,280 Speaker 1: Klarer's I think he's in New York. 467 00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:50,960 Speaker 8: Drove on downtown and they let me out in front 468 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:55,400 Speaker 8: of the Plaza Hotel. That was my accommodations for the evening. 469 00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:58,159 Speaker 8: Next morning, they picked me up, he came over to 470 00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:00,160 Speaker 8: the studio to do the TV show and a big 471 00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:02,760 Speaker 8: long car again, and this little lady was trembling all 472 00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:05,800 Speaker 8: over Humble. I'm so uptight, I'm so worthy that your 473 00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:10,040 Speaker 8: accommodations wasn't proper all of our artists. It's our responsibility 474 00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:12,080 Speaker 8: to make sure that they have a good room. 475 00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:12,760 Speaker 9: Where's your room? 476 00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:13,240 Speaker 5: All right? 477 00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:16,600 Speaker 8: I said, Darling, it is fine. And I said, I 478 00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:20,040 Speaker 8: don't eat breakfast at the cafe here this morning in 479 00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:23,240 Speaker 8: New York City. And I done paid a dollar and 480 00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:28,160 Speaker 8: a half for a slice of candle loap. And I said, 481 00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:29,960 Speaker 8: I don't you to know you done got up in 482 00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:33,480 Speaker 8: high cotton when you pay a dollar and a half 483 00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:37,040 Speaker 8: a slice of candle load. And I said, you know, 484 00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:39,160 Speaker 8: when I was a young and growing up, we hauled 485 00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:45,680 Speaker 8: ground slide loads of candle loaps to the hogs. And 486 00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:47,880 Speaker 8: if I know, y'allers getting a dollar and a half 487 00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:51,479 Speaker 8: a slice car crops you a ground slide load up? 488 00:28:56,440 --> 00:28:56,480 Speaker 14: Ed? 489 00:28:56,520 --> 00:28:57,880 Speaker 1: What's your kt R? It's memory. 490 00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:03,480 Speaker 10: So I used to work for clear Channel in the 491 00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:06,479 Speaker 10: late nineties when for the Texas A and M Sports Network, 492 00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:09,480 Speaker 10: and we were housed over at the Loved location for 493 00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:13,280 Speaker 10: that thing, and that's where I met Randy Lemon and 494 00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:14,920 Speaker 10: Pat Gray and all those guys, and they kind of 495 00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:16,360 Speaker 10: helped me figure out how to sell and how to 496 00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:19,000 Speaker 10: deal with clients. But then when y'all moved over to 497 00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:22,040 Speaker 10: Sant Felipe, we moved across the street, and that's when 498 00:29:22,040 --> 00:29:26,600 Speaker 10: I met mister Rod Windham, and all kinds of things 499 00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:29,080 Speaker 10: changed in my life when I met that man. From 500 00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:31,560 Speaker 10: helping me to figure out what kind of career I wanted, 501 00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:33,200 Speaker 10: what kind of mistakes to make, what kind of not 502 00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:36,200 Speaker 10: to make in the radio business, And then when we 503 00:29:36,360 --> 00:29:37,800 Speaker 10: go out to have a drink or two, he's the 504 00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:39,840 Speaker 10: kind of guy that opened his wallet. He looked at 505 00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:41,239 Speaker 10: all his money said, all right, boys, this is all 506 00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:43,680 Speaker 10: we got. And well he was ranked all that money 507 00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:44,480 Speaker 10: in his wallet every night. 508 00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:47,200 Speaker 3: Do you keep up with him? 509 00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:49,040 Speaker 13: Uh? 510 00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:50,840 Speaker 10: Not as much as I used to. I haven't seen it. 511 00:29:51,120 --> 00:29:53,760 Speaker 10: You know, she's I've probably seen like four or five years. 512 00:29:54,080 --> 00:29:55,560 Speaker 10: But you see me now. Every now and then, some 513 00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:57,600 Speaker 10: of the old you know guys get together, like the 514 00:29:57,680 --> 00:30:00,520 Speaker 10: Rob Logan's, you know, some of those guys that you 515 00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:02,880 Speaker 10: know where the old school kind of clear channel get together. 516 00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:05,000 Speaker 1: But you know, Rob Logan stopped drinking. 517 00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:07,880 Speaker 10: I know he's lost a ton of weight. 518 00:30:08,040 --> 00:30:10,160 Speaker 1: No, I'm just kidding. There's no way he quit drinking. 519 00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:11,840 Speaker 1: Are you serious? I was joking. 520 00:30:12,080 --> 00:30:15,960 Speaker 10: He yeah, Well he well, maybe quits the wrong word. 521 00:30:16,040 --> 00:30:18,840 Speaker 10: Let's just say lightened up. Well, because I see, I 522 00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:21,280 Speaker 10: remind so I see him. 523 00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:23,160 Speaker 1: If I ever went out with Rob Logan and he 524 00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:25,000 Speaker 1: didn't throw down twenty beers, I wouldn't feel like it 525 00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:28,760 Speaker 1: was Rob Logan. That's a funny dude out there. Hey, 526 00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:31,520 Speaker 1: that's one of the old timers. Now, what is your 527 00:30:31,560 --> 00:30:32,000 Speaker 1: last name? 528 00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:34,040 Speaker 10: Ed Hamilton? 529 00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:38,120 Speaker 1: I will I will tell for those of you who 530 00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:41,880 Speaker 1: don't know Rod Wyndham. When I started in radio, I 531 00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:44,719 Speaker 1: was doing a weekend show from ten to eleven am. 532 00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:47,680 Speaker 1: It was a real estate show and it was ten 533 00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:51,000 Speaker 1: to eleven am on Sunday morning, and we had a 534 00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:55,320 Speaker 1: place out in Carmen next to Round Top, so I'd 535 00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:57,960 Speaker 1: have to get up every Sunday morning and come blowing 536 00:30:58,040 --> 00:31:02,240 Speaker 1: in to do this stupid show, which was terrible, but 537 00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:04,560 Speaker 1: it was just to get into radio and see if 538 00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:07,680 Speaker 1: I liked it or not. And Rod Wyndham was put 539 00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:11,680 Speaker 1: in charge by Eddie Martini as because he's one of 540 00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:14,960 Speaker 1: Eddie's lieutenants, and he was put in charge of kind 541 00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:17,000 Speaker 1: of holding my hand and making sure I didn't screw 542 00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:20,960 Speaker 1: it up. And Ramon makes fun because Levi Good's a 543 00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:23,400 Speaker 1: good friend of mine and he would give me good 544 00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:26,600 Speaker 1: company pecom pies in those beautiful boxes to give away 545 00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:28,720 Speaker 1: on the air, So I would give those away on 546 00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:32,600 Speaker 1: the air, and Ramone ridicules me about that to this day, 547 00:31:32,760 --> 00:31:35,480 Speaker 1: twenty years later, and it hurts my feelings. It doesn't 548 00:31:35,520 --> 00:31:38,920 Speaker 1: make me feel good about myself. I sometimes crying in 549 00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:41,840 Speaker 1: my pillow. But he thinks it's the funniest thing in 550 00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:44,080 Speaker 1: the world to ridicule old Michael about when he started 551 00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:45,920 Speaker 1: a radio and didn't know what he was doing. But 552 00:31:46,120 --> 00:31:48,880 Speaker 1: Rod Windham would come over there every Sunday morning and 553 00:31:48,920 --> 00:31:52,920 Speaker 1: he would sit while I did this stupid, boring show. 554 00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:56,360 Speaker 1: And at the end of it, he and I would 555 00:31:56,360 --> 00:32:00,400 Speaker 1: load up and we would go over to Good Company 556 00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:05,880 Speaker 1: Takorea at West Park, and Kirby and I would have 557 00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:10,600 Speaker 1: the either that I'd have the Migas, the Chilichi les 558 00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:14,160 Speaker 1: or I'd have the Border Quail and we'd drink beers, 559 00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:16,280 Speaker 1: and then we took to We got We took on. 560 00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:19,040 Speaker 1: We got on so well that he and I and 561 00:32:19,080 --> 00:32:21,040 Speaker 1: a friend of mine named Patrick Pacheco at the time, 562 00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:24,360 Speaker 1: would meet over at Kay's Lounge, which our buddy Marshall, 563 00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:27,560 Speaker 1: which our buddy Dwayne Hefley owned at the time, and 564 00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:30,760 Speaker 1: we'd go over there for he'd during the During the day, 565 00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:32,720 Speaker 1: Rod would say, hey, you want to go for beer 566 00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:34,720 Speaker 1: and buck? We call it beer and Buck. And we 567 00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:39,719 Speaker 1: would go over to uh Kay's lounge on Bisonette and 568 00:32:39,760 --> 00:32:41,960 Speaker 1: we would put buck Owens on, and Levi I Good 569 00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:44,560 Speaker 1: would come join us, and Roger Craigor would come join us, 570 00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:46,440 Speaker 1: and Cory Morrow would come join us, and we would 571 00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:49,240 Speaker 1: we would sit over there and uh and listen to 572 00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:53,560 Speaker 1: mostly buck Owens and drink beer and tell stories and 573 00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:57,160 Speaker 1: eat their pizza, and uh boy, did we ever have 574 00:32:57,200 --> 00:33:00,000 Speaker 1: a good time. But I will tell you something, uh 575 00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:05,680 Speaker 1: Eddie Martine's loyalty to Rod Wyndham. I think we will 576 00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:09,640 Speaker 1: all be laid off. Paul Lambert, Greg Elverton, Bo Brown, 577 00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:12,320 Speaker 1: Angie Sylvia, we will all be laid off. And the 578 00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:16,960 Speaker 1: last one standing when the apocalypse come is Eddie. The 579 00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:19,680 Speaker 1: last one to be laid off will be Rod Wyndham. 580 00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:21,800 Speaker 1: And for those of you who don't know him, Rod 581 00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:25,880 Speaker 1: Wyndham knew Jerry Klower In fact played football. He played 582 00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:29,240 Speaker 1: football at Mississippi State. Did Rod Wyndham. He went to Vietnam, 583 00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:33,400 Speaker 1: where he's got stories. He served in combat, and he's 584 00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:36,400 Speaker 1: been in radio. See he's one hundred and twenty three 585 00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:38,720 Speaker 1: years old, so he's been in radio like eighty years. 586 00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:41,280 Speaker 1: He's one of my favorite people. He was one of 587 00:33:41,320 --> 00:33:43,479 Speaker 1: the very first people I met in radio, and he 588 00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:45,040 Speaker 1: took me under his wing. I didn't know what I 589 00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:46,960 Speaker 1: was doing, and at the end of the show, I'd 590 00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:50,400 Speaker 1: come out of the studio needing, craving approval, and he. 591 00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:51,720 Speaker 3: Would say, well, that was good. 592 00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:54,320 Speaker 1: Last week was good, but you're getting better. I'll tell 593 00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:58,120 Speaker 1: you something, little compliment, little encouragement, goes a long way.