1 00:00:04,120 --> 00:00:09,600 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, luck and loud. 2 00:00:11,440 --> 00:00:14,120 Speaker 2: So Michael Verie Show is on the air. 3 00:00:14,560 --> 00:00:19,960 Speaker 3: What we've got here is failure, Milky. 4 00:00:20,280 --> 00:00:23,520 Speaker 4: Most of the people covering that campaign were not particularly 5 00:00:24,160 --> 00:00:29,160 Speaker 4: knowledgeable about the past, and didn't you know, may may 6 00:00:29,160 --> 00:00:32,640 Speaker 4: not have even known that. You know, America firsters pac 7 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:36,360 Speaker 4: Madison Square Garden in nineteen thirty nine and a pro 8 00:00:36,560 --> 00:00:38,720 Speaker 4: Nazi Germany. 9 00:00:38,280 --> 00:00:41,640 Speaker 3: Rally, you said over the weekend referring to it, there's 10 00:00:41,680 --> 00:00:43,960 Speaker 3: a direct parallel to a big rally that happened in 11 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:46,120 Speaker 3: the mid nineteen thirties on Madison Square Garden. 12 00:00:46,200 --> 00:00:47,599 Speaker 2: So I know what I saw, and I'll just leave 13 00:00:47,600 --> 00:00:50,440 Speaker 2: it at that. Do you think Donald Trump is a fascist? 14 00:00:50,520 --> 00:00:50,680 Speaker 4: Yes? 15 00:00:50,720 --> 00:00:52,519 Speaker 5: I do, Yes, I do. 16 00:00:53,520 --> 00:01:00,320 Speaker 4: The races, sex, is homophobic, xenophobic, islamophobic, you name it. 17 00:01:00,400 --> 00:01:03,800 Speaker 2: The only garbage I see floating down there is his supporters. 18 00:01:03,880 --> 00:01:08,400 Speaker 6: His his his demonizational scene is unconscionable, and it's on America. 19 00:01:08,800 --> 00:01:11,920 Speaker 4: You could put half of Trump's supporters into what I 20 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:13,479 Speaker 4: call the basket of deplorable. 21 00:01:13,600 --> 00:01:18,200 Speaker 5: Look at the thing with leading, look at the beer with. 22 00:01:20,440 --> 00:01:25,400 Speaker 7: Look at the life, we leading the way with bows, 23 00:01:25,560 --> 00:01:26,520 Speaker 7: dumb the fall. 24 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:30,360 Speaker 2: You know, that's a little bit old. 25 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:32,040 Speaker 8: That chart that charts a couple. 26 00:01:31,920 --> 00:01:34,880 Speaker 2: Of months old. And if you want to really see. 27 00:01:34,680 --> 00:01:45,280 Speaker 8: Something that said, take a look at what happened. 28 00:01:43,840 --> 00:01:53,200 Speaker 2: You're the dwelling manage. 29 00:02:01,160 --> 00:02:16,639 Speaker 7: Even we bled the same blood, we share the same home, 30 00:02:17,520 --> 00:02:23,919 Speaker 7: and we salute the same great American flag. We are 31 00:02:23,960 --> 00:02:30,240 Speaker 7: one people, one family, and one glorious nation under God. 32 00:02:31,040 --> 00:02:35,359 Speaker 9: So Jews and Muslims and Catholics and Evangelicals and Mormons, 33 00:02:35,400 --> 00:02:40,440 Speaker 9: and they're all joining our colors and large numbers, larger than. 34 00:02:40,280 --> 00:02:42,160 Speaker 7: Anyone has ever seen in. 35 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:46,520 Speaker 9: This country before, larger than they've ever seen in any country. 36 00:02:46,880 --> 00:02:52,000 Speaker 9: And the Republican Party has really become the party of inclusion, 37 00:02:52,120 --> 00:02:53,840 Speaker 9: and that's something very nice about that. 38 00:03:08,040 --> 00:03:14,000 Speaker 6: Several years ago, we were talking about our schools and 39 00:03:14,160 --> 00:03:18,239 Speaker 6: the fact that good people need to run for office, 40 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:21,320 Speaker 6: and we all say, yes, that's a great idea, but 41 00:03:21,440 --> 00:03:25,840 Speaker 6: nobody wants to do it. It's a burden, it's a hassle. 42 00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:32,040 Speaker 6: And then you remember what William F. Buckley said when 43 00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:37,520 Speaker 6: having run for mayor of New York City at the 44 00:03:37,520 --> 00:03:41,520 Speaker 6: age of twenty seven. They said, Mayor, what's the first 45 00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:45,040 Speaker 6: thing you'll do if you win the election? And he said, 46 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:49,640 Speaker 6: demand a recount. The only thing worse than running for, say, 47 00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:53,880 Speaker 6: your local school board, would be winning, because now, what 48 00:03:53,880 --> 00:03:58,480 Speaker 6: do you do? You ever watched municipal TV? Trust My 49 00:03:58,520 --> 00:04:02,240 Speaker 6: wife crazy because my idea of a good time. When 50 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:05,200 Speaker 6: we settle into a hotel, she's getting all her stuff out, 51 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:07,960 Speaker 6: I will immediately turn the to wherever we are in America, 52 00:04:07,960 --> 00:04:09,400 Speaker 6: I would turn the TV on and I would watch 53 00:04:09,440 --> 00:04:10,120 Speaker 6: municipal TV. 54 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:11,640 Speaker 2: It's like Wayne's World. 55 00:04:11,720 --> 00:04:15,920 Speaker 6: It's hilarious to me, especially if they're having a municipal 56 00:04:16,160 --> 00:04:20,480 Speaker 6: city council meeting or school board meeting. Oh the nonsense 57 00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:23,799 Speaker 6: that is carried on there. So there was a fellow 58 00:04:23,839 --> 00:04:27,479 Speaker 6: that's the last guy you would ever expect to run 59 00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:32,520 Speaker 6: for the school board named Victor Perez. And Victor didn't 60 00:04:32,520 --> 00:04:36,279 Speaker 6: even have kids in Katie ID it had grand kids there, 61 00:04:37,160 --> 00:04:40,840 Speaker 6: successful businessman, and it was one of those things. I've 62 00:04:40,880 --> 00:04:44,520 Speaker 6: watched cannis like this run and they're great guys, and 63 00:04:44,560 --> 00:04:48,839 Speaker 6: they should run and they should win because they would 64 00:04:48,839 --> 00:04:50,840 Speaker 6: do a good job for all the right reasons, and 65 00:04:50,880 --> 00:04:53,560 Speaker 6: they're not setting themselves up for a future political run. 66 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:57,599 Speaker 6: They genuinely want to give back and they always lose 67 00:04:58,520 --> 00:05:02,960 Speaker 6: because they don't play the game. But Victor just outworked them, 68 00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:05,359 Speaker 6: and the people of Katie said we want change on 69 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:09,200 Speaker 6: our school board, and he did it, and he became 70 00:05:09,240 --> 00:05:12,599 Speaker 6: the point of the spear in KDISD for what was 71 00:05:12,600 --> 00:05:16,320 Speaker 6: happening there. Well, I know you may be thinking, Michael, 72 00:05:16,560 --> 00:05:18,720 Speaker 6: please don't bring up another election. I just got through 73 00:05:18,760 --> 00:05:23,599 Speaker 6: the last one. Unfortunately, a democratic republic is not a 74 00:05:23,640 --> 00:05:25,960 Speaker 6: set it and forget it. You have to stay on 75 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:27,919 Speaker 6: top of it. You don't just hire somebody at your 76 00:05:27,960 --> 00:05:29,880 Speaker 6: company and say do your job. I'm going on vacation. 77 00:05:30,080 --> 00:05:32,640 Speaker 6: You have to manage them. You have to lead them, 78 00:05:32,680 --> 00:05:36,640 Speaker 6: you have to oversee them, you have to evaluate them. Well, 79 00:05:36,760 --> 00:05:40,960 Speaker 6: that time is coming. April twenty second will be early voting. 80 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:43,920 Speaker 6: We're going to talk about the KDISD election, but this 81 00:05:43,960 --> 00:05:45,960 Speaker 6: is a lot of your local school boards. An election 82 00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:48,880 Speaker 6: day is May third, although we hope you'll vote early. 83 00:05:49,920 --> 00:05:53,479 Speaker 6: So Victor Perez, the president of KD KTSD, is getting 84 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:56,320 Speaker 6: a lot of attention for doing the sorts of Trump 85 00:05:56,520 --> 00:06:01,680 Speaker 6: like dosee like things that you want to see in 86 00:06:01,720 --> 00:06:06,000 Speaker 6: your schools, giving us hope maybe you can take. 87 00:06:05,839 --> 00:06:07,719 Speaker 2: Your school back. 88 00:06:08,760 --> 00:06:11,640 Speaker 6: Maybe it because personnel's everything, it's Jimmy's and Joe's not 89 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:12,360 Speaker 6: x'es and o's. 90 00:06:12,760 --> 00:06:14,360 Speaker 2: It matters who the people are. 91 00:06:14,839 --> 00:06:18,000 Speaker 6: Trump proves that how many Republicans told us this couldn't 92 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:20,000 Speaker 6: be done, and that couldn't be done, and Trump got elected. 93 00:06:20,200 --> 00:06:22,360 Speaker 2: Yeah, can stroke of my pen. Watch this, I'll close 94 00:06:22,400 --> 00:06:23,800 Speaker 2: the border in five minutes. He did it. 95 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:30,760 Speaker 6: So Victor Perez, conservative grandfather runs for office and wins. Well, 96 00:06:30,760 --> 00:06:35,720 Speaker 6: there are organizations Soros funded, Soros backed. They've got muscle, 97 00:06:35,960 --> 00:06:40,599 Speaker 6: they've got money, they've got organization. These people across the 98 00:06:40,640 --> 00:06:43,240 Speaker 6: country are set to destroy this country. I'll give you 99 00:06:43,240 --> 00:06:46,919 Speaker 6: an example. So Victor Perez is up for reelection. There's 100 00:06:46,960 --> 00:06:53,680 Speaker 6: a group called Indivisible Katie Huddle. They're indivisible. You cannot 101 00:06:53,920 --> 00:06:59,039 Speaker 6: divide them, and they are a self proclaimed quote unquote 102 00:06:59,279 --> 00:07:03,560 Speaker 6: sister organization of the KD Area Democrats. Let me tell 103 00:07:03,600 --> 00:07:06,800 Speaker 6: you something, when you find Democrats in a Republican stronghold, 104 00:07:07,360 --> 00:07:10,440 Speaker 6: they're never just Democrats because if you're just a Democrat, 105 00:07:10,480 --> 00:07:14,200 Speaker 6: you sit quietly. What it means is their socialist, communist, 106 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:20,840 Speaker 6: crazy nut jobs. Well, this is the group individual Indivisible 107 00:07:20,960 --> 00:07:27,160 Speaker 6: Katie Huddle that recently protested outside the Tesla dealership, a 108 00:07:27,200 --> 00:07:31,600 Speaker 6: local Tesla leadership with signs that said, impeach Trump. They 109 00:07:31,600 --> 00:07:33,840 Speaker 6: also have all sorts of other nutty stuff. But anyway, 110 00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:37,560 Speaker 6: so what they've done, and it's quite brilliant, is they 111 00:07:37,680 --> 00:07:40,120 Speaker 6: put two candidates against Victor Pereess so they can take 112 00:07:40,160 --> 00:07:43,680 Speaker 6: back to kdeid kdie school board. One of them who 113 00:07:43,680 --> 00:07:47,600 Speaker 6: calls himself a conservative, he's not talk about that, and 114 00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:51,520 Speaker 6: another one who calls herself a Democrat socialist. They were 115 00:07:51,560 --> 00:07:55,600 Speaker 6: both endorsed by the Katy Area Democrats. So the one 116 00:07:55,600 --> 00:07:59,720 Speaker 6: guy's running around town, you know, hey, I'm the conservative here, 117 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:02,200 Speaker 6: but you were just endorsed by the Katy Area of 118 00:08:02,240 --> 00:08:06,280 Speaker 6: whack job Democrats and the socialist. So what they're trying 119 00:08:06,320 --> 00:08:08,120 Speaker 6: to do is get on both sides of Victor Perez 120 00:08:08,440 --> 00:08:10,840 Speaker 6: and defeat him. 121 00:08:10,880 --> 00:08:15,440 Speaker 2: We will talk to him in just a moment. Nasty 122 00:08:15,520 --> 00:08:19,360 Speaker 2: things going on locally. Keep your eyes held, folks. You 123 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:26,080 Speaker 2: gotta pay attention. Captain some ting wong. Well, something must 124 00:08:26,080 --> 00:08:31,000 Speaker 2: be right. You're listening to Michael Berry and no one wants. 125 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:31,280 Speaker 3: Of the hood wink? 126 00:08:31,360 --> 00:08:33,200 Speaker 2: Does I mean you stop thinking? You'll think you're looking 127 00:08:34,280 --> 00:08:37,160 Speaker 2: summon fish to the dish though like the sushi, because 128 00:08:38,440 --> 00:08:42,040 Speaker 2: am I the only one. 129 00:08:40,920 --> 00:08:45,280 Speaker 6: Notices a similarity between them and Blues traver John Popper. 130 00:08:47,040 --> 00:08:51,480 Speaker 2: John Poppers is first man. Yeah, I think it's big boy. 131 00:08:51,640 --> 00:08:54,720 Speaker 6: Victor Perez is the president of the Katie I SD 132 00:08:54,920 --> 00:08:55,680 Speaker 6: school Board. 133 00:08:55,880 --> 00:08:57,720 Speaker 2: And what is your job by day, Victor? 134 00:08:59,800 --> 00:09:04,600 Speaker 5: Uh, I am retired. I was a four more energy 135 00:09:04,840 --> 00:09:09,720 Speaker 5: industry CFO and I retired three or four years ago. 136 00:09:09,920 --> 00:09:14,120 Speaker 5: So I'm retired and I'm now as you as you said, 137 00:09:14,160 --> 00:09:16,720 Speaker 5: you know, on the Katie school Board and president of 138 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:17,280 Speaker 5: school board. 139 00:09:18,160 --> 00:09:20,720 Speaker 2: And how long have you? I mean, I lose track 140 00:09:20,760 --> 00:09:21,760 Speaker 2: of Time's been four years. 141 00:09:23,320 --> 00:09:26,320 Speaker 5: So I was elected in May of twenty two. These 142 00:09:26,360 --> 00:09:28,760 Speaker 5: are three year terms, so I'm up now in May 143 00:09:28,760 --> 00:09:29,920 Speaker 5: of twenty five. 144 00:09:30,520 --> 00:09:36,079 Speaker 6: Okay, let's talk about your time there before we talk 145 00:09:36,160 --> 00:09:40,960 Speaker 6: about this election. Is it harder, easier, or about the 146 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:43,400 Speaker 6: same as you thought to get things done? 147 00:09:46,880 --> 00:09:50,880 Speaker 5: I'd say it's it's probably harder to get things done. 148 00:09:52,160 --> 00:09:55,240 Speaker 5: It's I mean, there is a lot of work involved. 149 00:09:55,920 --> 00:10:00,120 Speaker 5: But and it's also a lot more political than I 150 00:10:00,160 --> 00:10:05,120 Speaker 5: ever expected, you know, at the school board level, more politics, 151 00:10:05,160 --> 00:10:11,120 Speaker 5: more you know, just attacks and just you know, just 152 00:10:11,120 --> 00:10:15,600 Speaker 5: just the more intense intense that I expected. You know, 153 00:10:15,640 --> 00:10:20,040 Speaker 5: I expected to be working to of course, and I 154 00:10:20,160 --> 00:10:22,480 Speaker 5: do you know, to make kat I s D better. 155 00:10:24,240 --> 00:10:24,640 Speaker 1: Uh. 156 00:10:24,720 --> 00:10:27,040 Speaker 5: And but it's there's a lot of distractions and a 157 00:10:27,040 --> 00:10:30,640 Speaker 5: lot of you know, it's just more political and demanding. 158 00:10:30,920 --> 00:10:31,319 Speaker 8: Uh. 159 00:10:31,679 --> 00:10:37,679 Speaker 5: Definitely more anxiety and bothe on my family and myself. 160 00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:41,280 Speaker 6: So I will tell you, you know, it's Victor pres is 161 00:10:41,280 --> 00:10:44,120 Speaker 6: our guest president of the Kati SD School Board. I 162 00:10:44,120 --> 00:10:47,240 Speaker 6: will tell you Victor, and I don't say this lightly. 163 00:10:48,360 --> 00:10:53,960 Speaker 6: I'm not sure that the lefties that try to control 164 00:10:54,240 --> 00:10:57,720 Speaker 6: Kitty Independent School District, I'm not sure they're not worse 165 00:10:58,440 --> 00:11:04,839 Speaker 6: than the Hi s D lefties. The HISD problem is 166 00:11:05,559 --> 00:11:08,480 Speaker 6: driven by a racial agenda. There's there are a group 167 00:11:08,520 --> 00:11:12,000 Speaker 6: of people under the control of one boss for the 168 00:11:12,040 --> 00:11:16,400 Speaker 6: region and who's the boss of Harris County everything but 169 00:11:16,440 --> 00:11:19,520 Speaker 6: the city of Houston now and and he keeps his 170 00:11:19,679 --> 00:11:23,480 Speaker 6: people as you know, president of the school board. In fact, 171 00:11:24,080 --> 00:11:27,040 Speaker 6: did I see hold on just a second victory? 172 00:11:27,440 --> 00:11:27,960 Speaker 2: I believe. 173 00:11:28,080 --> 00:11:31,400 Speaker 6: Yesterday the federal trial began for the former his D 174 00:11:31,600 --> 00:11:36,080 Speaker 6: chief operating officer Brian Busby, who's facing charge is a bribery, wirefraud, 175 00:11:36,120 --> 00:11:40,720 Speaker 6: tax fraud, and witness tampering, and former HISD board president 176 00:11:40,840 --> 00:11:44,360 Speaker 6: Ronda Skiller and Jones, along with four former HISD employees 177 00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:47,520 Speaker 6: are going to testify against him. I mean, this massive 178 00:11:47,559 --> 00:11:51,160 Speaker 6: scheme to steal money. I mean, this is the school board. 179 00:11:51,160 --> 00:11:54,000 Speaker 6: I mean, this is this is perverse, this is sack, 180 00:11:54,320 --> 00:11:55,480 Speaker 6: this is sacriligious. 181 00:11:55,520 --> 00:11:56,079 Speaker 2: It's awful. 182 00:11:56,440 --> 00:11:59,840 Speaker 6: But I have noticed the lefties that the elements out 183 00:11:59,880 --> 00:12:03,640 Speaker 6: there like this Indivisible Haiti huddle in these groups. They're 184 00:12:03,760 --> 00:12:07,640 Speaker 6: really because they're white liberals, and it's a whole different level. 185 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:10,120 Speaker 2: Of nastiness. 186 00:12:12,800 --> 00:12:14,960 Speaker 5: Yeah, and I never I was never aware of this 187 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:19,400 Speaker 5: group until just recently. Apparently they've been around for a while, 188 00:12:19,520 --> 00:12:23,920 Speaker 5: and uh uh so I'm just just surprising to see 189 00:12:24,559 --> 00:12:27,880 Speaker 5: them getting involved and uh, you know, endorsing in a 190 00:12:28,160 --> 00:12:29,000 Speaker 5: school board election. 191 00:12:29,920 --> 00:12:30,800 Speaker 2: Well let's talk about that. 192 00:12:30,840 --> 00:12:31,560 Speaker 5: And they've endorsed. 193 00:12:31,760 --> 00:12:34,920 Speaker 6: So you've got not one, but two candidates. Somebody thought 194 00:12:34,960 --> 00:12:35,640 Speaker 6: they were very. 195 00:12:37,640 --> 00:12:40,760 Speaker 5: Well, uh the one there was one person that you 196 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:44,319 Speaker 5: that you've alluded to, that actually is running in another position, 197 00:12:44,400 --> 00:12:45,280 Speaker 5: in the other position. 198 00:12:45,679 --> 00:12:47,679 Speaker 2: Oh I'm sorry, can you read is in position too? 199 00:12:47,760 --> 00:12:49,360 Speaker 2: I say, yeah, okay, I didn't see that. 200 00:12:49,400 --> 00:12:54,480 Speaker 5: Okay, yes, And so I have one, I have one opponent, 201 00:12:54,920 --> 00:12:57,720 Speaker 5: but they all the three, the three, the three seemed 202 00:12:57,760 --> 00:13:03,040 Speaker 5: to be aligned against me. So, for example, the the 203 00:13:03,240 --> 00:13:07,920 Speaker 5: other person in a position two, along with my opponent, 204 00:13:08,040 --> 00:13:12,160 Speaker 5: are aligned against me. Plus it seems like Tama Reid 205 00:13:12,240 --> 00:13:14,839 Speaker 5: and my opponent are aligned against me as well. So 206 00:13:14,880 --> 00:13:16,920 Speaker 5: I'm sort of like it's sort of like more of 207 00:13:16,920 --> 00:13:17,920 Speaker 5: a three against one. 208 00:13:18,800 --> 00:13:19,359 Speaker 2: Yeah. 209 00:13:19,400 --> 00:13:24,120 Speaker 6: And so your opponent, James Cross claims to be a 210 00:13:24,160 --> 00:13:26,480 Speaker 6: conservative because that's what he needs to claim to win 211 00:13:26,640 --> 00:13:31,120 Speaker 6: in Katie, claims to be a conservative or portrays himself 212 00:13:31,120 --> 00:13:34,120 Speaker 6: that way. And Tammy Reid, who's running a position two, 213 00:13:34,520 --> 00:13:38,719 Speaker 6: calls herself a Democrat socialist. Those two candidates both got 214 00:13:39,120 --> 00:13:43,280 Speaker 6: the Democrat the Katie Area of Democrats endorsement. I hope 215 00:13:43,320 --> 00:13:46,080 Speaker 6: everybody in Katie understands that, because that seems to be 216 00:13:46,200 --> 00:13:48,400 Speaker 6: important to how people are going to cast their vote. 217 00:13:49,920 --> 00:13:55,439 Speaker 5: They got the endorsement of the Indivisible Katie Tidle, which 218 00:13:55,480 --> 00:13:56,960 Speaker 5: is the group that you mentioned earlier. 219 00:13:58,679 --> 00:14:01,320 Speaker 6: And it strikes me that that doesn't seem like so 220 00:14:01,480 --> 00:14:04,840 Speaker 6: much of a conservative position. He's telling people what they 221 00:14:04,880 --> 00:14:06,920 Speaker 6: need to know or what they need to believe, what 222 00:14:06,920 --> 00:14:09,320 Speaker 6: they want to believe, what he wants them to believe. 223 00:14:09,640 --> 00:14:12,880 Speaker 6: With these little these little push push people out there 224 00:14:12,920 --> 00:14:17,000 Speaker 6: just whispering, you know, their little lives It reminds me 225 00:14:17,040 --> 00:14:21,120 Speaker 6: of this group. The last election that had one or 226 00:14:21,120 --> 00:14:24,640 Speaker 6: two of the candidates was a former teacher and boy, 227 00:14:24,720 --> 00:14:25,360 Speaker 6: they were. 228 00:14:25,200 --> 00:14:27,440 Speaker 2: A nasty group of women. 229 00:14:28,120 --> 00:14:30,000 Speaker 6: It was I can't remember their names, but one of 230 00:14:30,040 --> 00:14:33,320 Speaker 6: them was a former school school teacher and uh, and 231 00:14:33,400 --> 00:14:35,840 Speaker 6: she wrote some very nasty things about me. How dare 232 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:39,560 Speaker 6: I try to influence the Katie I SD school board 233 00:14:39,640 --> 00:14:46,000 Speaker 6: race because she is a teacher and I'm not, so I. 234 00:14:45,920 --> 00:14:49,600 Speaker 5: Think What's What's what's striving some of his opposition against me, 235 00:14:49,680 --> 00:14:52,880 Speaker 5: it has been for the last couple of years is 236 00:14:52,920 --> 00:14:57,280 Speaker 5: the fact that I've been strong on upholding parental rights, 237 00:14:57,360 --> 00:15:07,160 Speaker 5: parental rights and also conservative values, conservative really conservative Katie values. 238 00:15:07,960 --> 00:15:12,160 Speaker 5: And that's you know, we've implemented with a very slim 239 00:15:12,400 --> 00:15:16,120 Speaker 5: conservative majority. That I'm trying to protect by running again 240 00:15:17,280 --> 00:15:23,080 Speaker 5: is to you know, protect uh, you know, the students 241 00:15:23,120 --> 00:15:29,440 Speaker 5: from for example, sexually explicit materials and libraries, protecting students 242 00:15:29,560 --> 00:15:34,560 Speaker 5: and and uh and the schools from liberal gender ideology 243 00:15:34,800 --> 00:15:38,240 Speaker 5: creeping into the schools, you know some and and also 244 00:15:39,120 --> 00:15:42,640 Speaker 5: keep books out of the libraries that promote or adopt 245 00:15:44,200 --> 00:15:47,400 Speaker 5: gender fluidity. So those are some of the policies that 246 00:15:47,440 --> 00:15:52,440 Speaker 5: we've been able to enact and uh, it's really it's 247 00:15:52,480 --> 00:15:56,920 Speaker 5: it's been amazing to watch some of the opposition against 248 00:15:57,080 --> 00:16:00,320 Speaker 5: us in terms of enacting some of those policy these 249 00:16:00,560 --> 00:16:04,640 Speaker 5: you know, common sense policies and keep educationally on suitable 250 00:16:04,680 --> 00:16:05,920 Speaker 5: materials out of the schools. 251 00:16:06,160 --> 00:16:08,800 Speaker 6: But it's also been amazing to see the wins you've 252 00:16:08,880 --> 00:16:12,640 Speaker 6: racked up. I know you don't want to spike the football, 253 00:16:12,840 --> 00:16:15,720 Speaker 6: but your win has made a difference there with with 254 00:16:15,880 --> 00:16:18,280 Speaker 6: your majority that you have. Now, we will be talking 255 00:16:18,520 --> 00:16:22,240 Speaker 6: to Victor Perez uh the four of the elections again. 256 00:16:22,320 --> 00:16:24,440 Speaker 6: But I encourage you folks, if you're and Katie email me. 257 00:16:24,480 --> 00:16:26,800 Speaker 6: I'll connect you with him. Get involved in your local 258 00:16:26,880 --> 00:16:27,680 Speaker 6: school board race. 259 00:16:30,040 --> 00:16:37,880 Speaker 1: This is Mark Chestnut and jar Bizar of talk radio. 260 00:16:35,440 --> 00:16:40,480 Speaker 3: To the Radio States, and we were to damp tread 261 00:16:40,960 --> 00:16:55,040 Speaker 3: won't be inside you could hear about that. 262 00:17:00,200 --> 00:17:04,600 Speaker 10: Sergio Sanchez is a friend of mine who lives in 263 00:17:04,680 --> 00:17:08,960 Speaker 10: McCallen and he runs a station called News Talk seventy 264 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:10,200 Speaker 10: ten ku r V. 265 00:17:10,720 --> 00:17:16,320 Speaker 6: It's a powerhouse station in South Texas and he's also 266 00:17:16,359 --> 00:17:22,760 Speaker 6: involved as a very influential conservative in political circles there. 267 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:30,160 Speaker 6: He knows every elected official, precinct chairman, regional official business 268 00:17:30,200 --> 00:17:34,560 Speaker 6: official in that area in the valley, and more importantly, 269 00:17:34,560 --> 00:17:37,479 Speaker 6: they all know him because he's an important guy to know. 270 00:17:38,359 --> 00:17:40,400 Speaker 2: He sent me an email this morning. 271 00:17:40,119 --> 00:17:44,320 Speaker 6: And he says, zar happy birthday to KTRH, the station 272 00:17:44,440 --> 00:17:52,720 Speaker 6: I grew up with. It's the ninety fifth birthday of KTRH. 273 00:17:52,840 --> 00:17:56,360 Speaker 6: Come to the Rice Hotel. And you know, we live 274 00:17:56,760 --> 00:17:59,840 Speaker 6: in a moment. We all do very Kamala Harris State, 275 00:18:00,320 --> 00:18:01,840 Speaker 6: but we live in a moment that will be gone. 276 00:18:02,680 --> 00:18:08,960 Speaker 6: And at this moment, right now, we can remember the 277 00:18:09,040 --> 00:18:12,160 Speaker 6: times in the course of our lives that we listened 278 00:18:12,640 --> 00:18:16,800 Speaker 6: to kat r H and made a memory. Maybe it 279 00:18:17,080 --> 00:18:22,159 Speaker 6: was Randy Lemon, maybe it was Dewey, Maybe it was 280 00:18:22,200 --> 00:18:26,240 Speaker 6: Chris Baker, Maybe it was Rush Limbaugh, could have been 281 00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:34,560 Speaker 6: Tom Martine. It could have been any number of voices 282 00:18:35,640 --> 00:18:39,480 Speaker 6: that came through that signal. Before you could get it 283 00:18:39,520 --> 00:18:42,320 Speaker 6: on your phone, in your computer, before you could on 284 00:18:42,520 --> 00:18:48,440 Speaker 6: demand at any time listen to it as a podcast. 285 00:18:49,160 --> 00:18:52,199 Speaker 6: You just listened on a radio in your car, or 286 00:18:52,240 --> 00:18:54,399 Speaker 6: the little box you carried around, or the box you 287 00:18:54,440 --> 00:19:00,080 Speaker 6: had next to your bed. Such an intimate media medium, 288 00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:05,240 Speaker 6: an intimate medium, and I think how many this is 289 00:19:05,280 --> 00:19:09,280 Speaker 6: the longest I've ever done anything, I get bored. I've 290 00:19:09,320 --> 00:19:12,159 Speaker 6: done a lot of different things, but this I have 291 00:19:12,240 --> 00:19:16,520 Speaker 6: fallen in love with. And it's the opportunity to create. 292 00:19:17,520 --> 00:19:21,159 Speaker 6: It's the opportunity to work with people I love, care for, 293 00:19:21,440 --> 00:19:26,840 Speaker 6: respect admire, enjoy their company, and it's the opportunity to 294 00:19:26,960 --> 00:19:32,160 Speaker 6: engage with really cool people. Every day I get emails 295 00:19:32,320 --> 00:19:36,080 Speaker 6: from people maybe talking about wiping their elderly mom's butt 296 00:19:36,280 --> 00:19:38,800 Speaker 6: and realizing that that's an act of great love and 297 00:19:38,840 --> 00:19:41,240 Speaker 6: they can't believe that that's what it's come to because 298 00:19:41,280 --> 00:19:43,239 Speaker 6: this was the mother that wiped their butt when they 299 00:19:43,280 --> 00:19:45,840 Speaker 6: were a little bit and it's come full circle and 300 00:19:45,920 --> 00:19:47,960 Speaker 6: they know that the days of wiping the butt won't 301 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:52,359 Speaker 6: last much longer, so they use that to psyche themselves 302 00:19:52,440 --> 00:19:54,439 Speaker 6: up every day. Or it could be a guy who's 303 00:19:54,480 --> 00:19:59,800 Speaker 6: just restored a vehicle. Vinnie Tortorella just sent me U 304 00:20:00,040 --> 00:20:04,160 Speaker 6: picture of three Cadillacs, I mean three corvettes, sixty threes 305 00:20:04,200 --> 00:20:06,760 Speaker 6: and sixty fours I think it was, and said, I 306 00:20:06,880 --> 00:20:09,160 Speaker 6: just put these just finished, these three projects. 307 00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:13,119 Speaker 2: Take a look at this. All the types of people. 308 00:20:13,600 --> 00:20:18,800 Speaker 6: Our sponsors are also listeners, and our listeners are also investors. 309 00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:22,639 Speaker 6: Because the investment in the show is the spend on 310 00:20:22,800 --> 00:20:27,639 Speaker 6: the sponsor. And so many times when I'm out and about, 311 00:20:27,680 --> 00:20:31,880 Speaker 6: someone will come up and share a memory of could 312 00:20:31,920 --> 00:20:35,840 Speaker 6: be our show. It could be another show that aired 313 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:41,080 Speaker 6: over all those years, and it's a glorious thing that 314 00:20:41,119 --> 00:20:44,840 Speaker 6: we've been able to be a part of. Media will 315 00:20:44,880 --> 00:20:47,400 Speaker 6: not be in five years what it is today. These 316 00:20:47,440 --> 00:20:50,520 Speaker 6: will be times we will look back on and say, oh, 317 00:20:50,520 --> 00:20:53,520 Speaker 6: well that was interesting because you will consume your media 318 00:20:53,520 --> 00:20:56,639 Speaker 6: differently through different instruments, and maybe that media will look different. 319 00:20:57,720 --> 00:21:02,640 Speaker 6: That's just the nature of change is it is constant. 320 00:21:03,440 --> 00:21:10,640 Speaker 6: This is an early kt RH morning broadcast. This this yeah, 321 00:21:10,680 --> 00:21:12,760 Speaker 6: go ahead, good morning. 322 00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:16,639 Speaker 11: This is kPr eight in histon the Houston Chronicles Sason, 323 00:21:16,720 --> 00:21:20,200 Speaker 11: the newspaper with the largest daily circulation in TEXTU k 324 00:21:20,440 --> 00:21:23,159 Speaker 11: is in King Key is in Thomas, r is in 325 00:21:23,320 --> 00:21:25,040 Speaker 11: Robert h as in Henry. 326 00:21:25,560 --> 00:21:28,080 Speaker 12: kPr eight in Houston is owned and operated by the 327 00:21:28,160 --> 00:21:32,119 Speaker 12: kPr eight Broadcasting Company at pripitiary of the Houston Chronicle 328 00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:35,679 Speaker 12: Publishing Company and broadcast on the federal air sign fre 329 00:21:36,240 --> 00:21:40,040 Speaker 12: thirteen hundred pty kilos Siffle. Their eirly morning broadcast is 330 00:21:40,080 --> 00:21:42,520 Speaker 12: presented once eight months in accordance with. 331 00:21:42,440 --> 00:21:45,639 Speaker 11: The intructions of the Federal Communications Commission in order that 332 00:21:45,640 --> 00:21:48,840 Speaker 11: the frequency monitoring activities of that organization. 333 00:21:48,720 --> 00:21:53,560 Speaker 2: May be carried out. The Jones family founded the station. 334 00:21:54,640 --> 00:21:56,439 Speaker 2: This is John T. 335 00:21:56,720 --> 00:22:01,800 Speaker 6: Jones talking about the early history of the legendary as 336 00:22:01,880 --> 00:22:04,200 Speaker 6: Chris Baker would call it, fifty thousand blowtorch. 337 00:22:04,880 --> 00:22:11,200 Speaker 2: Do you like apples? I like that apples. No, that 338 00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:15,440 Speaker 2: that's not John T. Jones. That's from the archives as well. Okay, 339 00:22:15,480 --> 00:22:17,120 Speaker 2: well that's good to know. But could you just play that. 340 00:22:18,880 --> 00:22:22,760 Speaker 3: Originally it started broadcasting? 341 00:22:21,400 --> 00:22:24,800 Speaker 6: Is you know, it won't hold out for a second 342 00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:26,480 Speaker 6: because we won't have a chance to get the whole 343 00:22:26,480 --> 00:22:31,120 Speaker 6: broadcast in at with the hardbreak coming up. 344 00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:33,239 Speaker 2: But I tell what I'd like to do. 345 00:22:34,680 --> 00:22:37,000 Speaker 6: I would like to hear from you what may take 346 00:22:37,040 --> 00:22:40,240 Speaker 6: maybe a segment to do this, get right to your point. 347 00:22:40,680 --> 00:22:43,720 Speaker 6: You got about fifteen to twenty seconds. We'll do it 348 00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:46,600 Speaker 6: kind of almost as a lightning round or maybe maybe 349 00:22:47,119 --> 00:22:52,960 Speaker 6: maybe even a full blown, full blown, commissioned what's sanctioned 350 00:22:53,240 --> 00:22:58,520 Speaker 6: lightning round? And that is a KTRH memory. Now that 351 00:22:58,560 --> 00:23:01,960 Speaker 6: does not go I used getting my drug. It means 352 00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:07,119 Speaker 6: a name or a show, if you know around the 353 00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:10,080 Speaker 6: age the time. If it was nineteen sixty five or 354 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:13,760 Speaker 6: nineteen eighty nine or two thousand and six, just pick 355 00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:16,680 Speaker 6: a date from the you know, two thousand and six ish, 356 00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:19,760 Speaker 6: you know, I'd say ish, and the show or the 357 00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:21,520 Speaker 6: personality or the segment. 358 00:23:22,680 --> 00:23:23,560 Speaker 2: I got to tell you. 359 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:26,879 Speaker 6: Here we are twenty twenty five, and we're two days 360 00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:33,639 Speaker 6: from opening day of the Astros, and I still find 361 00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:36,720 Speaker 6: radio of baseball. 362 00:23:36,240 --> 00:23:38,720 Speaker 2: On the radio to be a special thing. 363 00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:43,719 Speaker 6: If I'm out and about after our evening show and 364 00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:47,400 Speaker 6: there's an Astros game on, I still. 365 00:23:47,160 --> 00:23:49,720 Speaker 2: Find it to be a very enjoyable thing. 366 00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:54,360 Speaker 6: To listen to baseball on the radio just just feels right. 367 00:23:54,560 --> 00:23:56,840 Speaker 6: And think of all the legends that were radio broadcast 368 00:23:56,920 --> 00:23:59,240 Speaker 6: all right, seven one three nine nine nine, one thousand. 369 00:23:59,280 --> 00:24:05,159 Speaker 6: It's a lightning one three, one thousand. 370 00:24:05,280 --> 00:24:09,760 Speaker 1: That's why I had so my guitar probably out of tune. 371 00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:11,080 Speaker 2: Now you might have to edit that. 372 00:24:11,359 --> 00:24:18,200 Speaker 1: This is Mark Chestnut and Jar Bizaar of Talk radio. 373 00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:25,639 Speaker 2: You can have fun with the fairy radio now. 374 00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:27,600 Speaker 7: You know you love the Michael Ferries Show. 375 00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:31,119 Speaker 8: Because the mainstream media always all those with no. 376 00:24:31,200 --> 00:24:32,720 Speaker 7: Conservatism is undead. 377 00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:35,119 Speaker 9: It's time to put that whole darn fairy tale straight 378 00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:36,760 Speaker 9: too and want. 379 00:24:36,480 --> 00:24:38,040 Speaker 13: To get down in the cool way. 380 00:24:38,119 --> 00:24:40,600 Speaker 7: There's only one thing that will wait your tay. 381 00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:44,600 Speaker 12: Cc Rada means he's only a turn off the TV. 382 00:24:44,440 --> 00:24:47,639 Speaker 1: And put away the CD player though you're listening to 383 00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:51,160 Speaker 1: the truth Michael Fair Radio, Fair Radio. 384 00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:56,119 Speaker 6: You can on the ninety fifth birthday of at R 385 00:24:56,520 --> 00:24:59,920 Speaker 6: H out of Houston, fifty thousand blow tour. 386 00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:05,280 Speaker 2: You know you talk about the the changing of the 387 00:25:05,359 --> 00:25:07,680 Speaker 2: times radio. 388 00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:14,160 Speaker 6: I believe it was nineteen seventy three, sorry, nineteen seventy two. 389 00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:16,879 Speaker 6: A study was done it's called in the radio business 390 00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:21,840 Speaker 6: called cuming the dial. That means you listen, you register 391 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:25,880 Speaker 6: as a listener. Back then it was diary and it 392 00:25:25,960 --> 00:25:28,879 Speaker 6: was nineteen seventy two. It was ninety three percent of 393 00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:34,040 Speaker 6: Americans cumed the radio dial. And they did the same 394 00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:38,880 Speaker 6: study in twenty twenty three. It might have been twenty 395 00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:45,040 Speaker 6: twenty four and the number was ninety three percent. I 396 00:25:45,119 --> 00:25:48,760 Speaker 6: know it's hard to believe people say that, but you 397 00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:53,200 Speaker 6: have to realize you're exposed to radio. Sometimes when you 398 00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:56,600 Speaker 6: don't realize it, you walk into a store and they 399 00:25:56,640 --> 00:26:02,359 Speaker 6: have it on. You're also listening at times when you 400 00:26:02,359 --> 00:26:04,600 Speaker 6: don't think much about it because you're trying to get 401 00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:08,040 Speaker 6: some traffic information. You're trying to get a little hit, 402 00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:10,920 Speaker 6: you know, during three minutes that you drive from here 403 00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:12,560 Speaker 6: to there and you turn it on just maybe just 404 00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:16,359 Speaker 6: to see what's on the radio. The demise of radio 405 00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:19,199 Speaker 6: has been predicted for far longer than I've been in it, 406 00:26:19,359 --> 00:26:22,479 Speaker 6: and I got involved in two thousand and five. But 407 00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:26,400 Speaker 6: people outside of radio would tell me that radio is dead, 408 00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:29,600 Speaker 6: just as they said that the AM dial was dead. 409 00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:31,040 Speaker 6: Because of the FM dial. 410 00:26:31,560 --> 00:26:35,840 Speaker 2: It was such a thicker sounds, richer, fuller sound. It 411 00:26:35,840 --> 00:26:39,159 Speaker 2: would squeeze out the AM dial. It squeeze out the 412 00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:43,440 Speaker 2: AM shows. And it did, it did for years. 413 00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:48,000 Speaker 6: It did, and were it not for Rush Limbaugh, I 414 00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:50,000 Speaker 6: don't believe the AM dial would be around. There are 415 00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:52,280 Speaker 6: a lot of radio stations, small radio stations. In fact, 416 00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:54,360 Speaker 6: the station I grew up listening to, I begged him 417 00:26:54,400 --> 00:27:00,000 Speaker 6: not to do it. Gary Stelly sent back the signal. 418 00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:04,040 Speaker 6: He now runs a website only kogt dot com, and 419 00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:06,840 Speaker 6: he's he's the unofficial mayor of Orangey. He's the one 420 00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:08,719 Speaker 6: that promotes the school teams. He's the one that promotes 421 00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:10,760 Speaker 6: the canned food drive. He's the one that gives you 422 00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:13,040 Speaker 6: the police news. He's the one that gives you the tea, 423 00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:16,040 Speaker 6: as the kids say on you know the gossip. But 424 00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:17,680 Speaker 6: he gave back the signal because it didn't make sense 425 00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:19,600 Speaker 6: to run the station anymore. And a lot of stations 426 00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:23,600 Speaker 6: have gone away. But as with every other industry, sometimes 427 00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:27,399 Speaker 6: when you when you when you push out. You know, 428 00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:29,359 Speaker 6: there were a lot of mortgage companies that were thriving 429 00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:33,320 Speaker 6: when we had insanely low interest rates, and then once 430 00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:37,080 Speaker 6: that changed and the interest rates went up, a lot 431 00:27:37,080 --> 00:27:38,760 Speaker 6: of folks got out of real estate and got out 432 00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:41,000 Speaker 6: of the mortgage business that really had no business being 433 00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:42,560 Speaker 6: in it before. They could only be there when when 434 00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:45,080 Speaker 6: a rising tide was lifting all boats. I think that 435 00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:47,600 Speaker 6: what's happened is with a lot of those stations going away, 436 00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:51,800 Speaker 6: it has consolidated the listener to fewer stations and maybe 437 00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:54,879 Speaker 6: increased how robust those stations have become. 438 00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:55,879 Speaker 2: Just my theory. 439 00:27:56,600 --> 00:27:59,440 Speaker 6: It's a lightning realm seven one three, nine, nine, nine 440 00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:01,080 Speaker 6: one thousands lightning round game. 441 00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:01,800 Speaker 2: By the night. 442 00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:11,640 Speaker 6: Your kt r H memory on this the ninety fifth birthday, 443 00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:12,280 Speaker 6: coach Nate? 444 00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:16,399 Speaker 2: What is yours? H? 445 00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:17,399 Speaker 5: Michael? 446 00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:18,680 Speaker 13: Coaches are not good? 447 00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:21,240 Speaker 4: Saturday morning? 448 00:28:21,359 --> 00:28:26,960 Speaker 2: Was I got that all right, that Can you try 449 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:32,040 Speaker 2: me again and sit still? Oh I'm sorry, No, that's okay. 450 00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:41,360 Speaker 13: Uh Saturday morning? Uh yeah I did, It's I'm. 451 00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:42,160 Speaker 4: Driving, that's right. 452 00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:43,680 Speaker 2: Can you turn your radio up? 453 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:46,280 Speaker 7: Sorry? 454 00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:49,440 Speaker 2: Uh yeah, okay. 455 00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:49,560 Speaker 5: Go ahead. 456 00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:54,680 Speaker 13: Hey listened to Red in Liberals Saturday morning? Because coaches 457 00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:55,880 Speaker 13: are not good. Hold of coaches? 458 00:28:57,120 --> 00:28:58,200 Speaker 2: But were you trying to be. 459 00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:01,280 Speaker 13: A fine hard as I could? 460 00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:01,480 Speaker 5: Man? 461 00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:02,000 Speaker 11: That guy. 462 00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:05,560 Speaker 13: I met him at the very center you know are 463 00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:08,200 Speaker 13: doing when I was back when I was working in 464 00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:13,120 Speaker 13: the school district. Man, he was a walking encyclopedia of 465 00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:16,080 Speaker 13: what to do in a fly bed for me, you know, 466 00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:17,480 Speaker 13: just valuable. 467 00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:21,000 Speaker 2: Ramon used to work with him producing his show. 468 00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:25,360 Speaker 14: Well really, yep, yep, Well I sure liked him, you know, 469 00:29:25,640 --> 00:29:28,760 Speaker 14: I used to I used to tell Randy you got 470 00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:31,280 Speaker 14: the best gig in all of radio because you just 471 00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:34,240 Speaker 14: work on Saturday and Sunday mornings. 472 00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:37,440 Speaker 2: And he would say, yeah, but do you want to 473 00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:38,240 Speaker 2: give up your weekend? 474 00:29:38,280 --> 00:29:40,520 Speaker 6: Nobody wants to go hang out on Wednesday and I 475 00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:42,960 Speaker 6: have all day Wednesday off, But do you want to 476 00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:43,280 Speaker 6: do that? 477 00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:47,000 Speaker 2: You know, Randy, I didn't listen to the. 478 00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:51,080 Speaker 6: Show that came before him, but Randy built that show 479 00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:57,760 Speaker 6: with a rather loyal following and sponsors that loved him 480 00:29:57,800 --> 00:30:01,840 Speaker 6: and got results, and a listening base that made their 481 00:30:01,880 --> 00:30:06,080 Speaker 6: decisions based on what Randy talked about. And his top 482 00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:08,920 Speaker 6: salesman was one of the two top salesmen of our show. 483 00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:12,720 Speaker 6: But he's the number one seller of live endorsements. Grasshoppers 484 00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:15,120 Speaker 6: trying to catch him, but it's a big lead. Is 485 00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:18,240 Speaker 6: a guy named Robert Reese. And Robert would go out. 486 00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:20,520 Speaker 6: I remember I'd call him on Saturday mornings just to 487 00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:22,040 Speaker 6: see what he was doing. And he was out at 488 00:30:22,080 --> 00:30:24,400 Speaker 6: a live remote where Randy was out at Plants for 489 00:30:24,440 --> 00:30:25,400 Speaker 6: All Seasons was a big one. 490 00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:26,760 Speaker 2: Our show sponsored vict Flaarerity. 491 00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:31,840 Speaker 6: In fact, Victor Flaherty's daughter, who was raised in the business. 492 00:30:33,040 --> 00:30:35,280 Speaker 6: Let's see Victor started Plans for All Seasons I think 493 00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:37,640 Speaker 6: in nineteen seventy two. He was a kid back then, 494 00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:41,000 Speaker 6: and I think his daughter was born a year or 495 00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:44,880 Speaker 6: two later if I remember correctly, so she's literally been 496 00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:47,080 Speaker 6: raised at Plans for All Seasons. She was a fill 497 00:30:47,120 --> 00:30:53,520 Speaker 6: in host when Randy passed unexpectedly. It through the the show. 498 00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:55,600 Speaker 6: And when I say the show, I mean the community 499 00:30:55,800 --> 00:30:57,960 Speaker 6: into turmoil. There are people who set their watch by 500 00:30:58,200 --> 00:31:02,200 Speaker 6: Saturday morning, they get up in garden with with Randy Belinda, 501 00:31:02,520 --> 00:31:04,000 Speaker 6: You're on Michael Berry Show, go ahead. 502 00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:08,720 Speaker 15: Him, Michael. For me, it was Paul Harvey back in 503 00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:12,920 Speaker 15: the late seventies, and I was going back and forth 504 00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:17,280 Speaker 15: to n M and actually my dad, you know, it 505 00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:19,680 Speaker 15: was the baseball and I've heard it all my life, 506 00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:21,600 Speaker 15: but I just loved Paul. 507 00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:24,560 Speaker 2: Harvey me too. 508 00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:28,680 Speaker 6: When I took over the stations in five the AM stations, 509 00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:34,760 Speaker 6: we ran Paul Harvey at five forty five to six 510 00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:38,120 Speaker 6: and seven forty five to eight because the idea was 511 00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:39,920 Speaker 6: the audience had cycle by then, so you could play 512 00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:43,400 Speaker 6: it again the Paul Harvey of the day, and we 513 00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:45,640 Speaker 6: were still in diaries, were just switching over to meters, 514 00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:48,440 Speaker 6: but it stayed consistent. Paul Harvey was the most popular 515 00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:52,000 Speaker 6: part of the day, even bigger than Rushling Ball. And 516 00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:55,920 Speaker 6: it wasn't even close. Paul Harvey was the most listened 517 00:31:55,920 --> 00:31:59,840 Speaker 6: to thing on KTRH in two thousand and five. 518 00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:03,520 Speaker 2: Of the entire day. And I mean when I say 519 00:32:03,560 --> 00:32:05,719 Speaker 2: it wasn't even close, it was. 520 00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:08,080 Speaker 6: There were people that at five forty five or seven 521 00:32:08,120 --> 00:32:10,800 Speaker 6: forty five would turn on the radio to hear Paul 522 00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:13,960 Speaker 6: Harvey and turn it back off, or would switch from 523 00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:16,400 Speaker 6: another station, another show to which they might have been 524 00:32:16,440 --> 00:32:17,120 Speaker 6: loyal to. 525 00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:18,960 Speaker 2: Hear Paul Harvey, that's how big. 526 00:32:19,080 --> 00:32:21,400 Speaker 6: In fact, Randy Lemon told me he was in the 527 00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:26,239 Speaker 6: audience where Paul Harvey gave the speech the Farmer. It 528 00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:30,320 Speaker 6: was a farm convention event. I forget what it was, 529 00:32:30,760 --> 00:32:32,760 Speaker 6: but Randy was there. I don't know if he was 530 00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:34,680 Speaker 6: at A and M at the time, or if he. 531 00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:38,160 Speaker 2: Was out of A and M and early in his career, 532 00:32:39,280 --> 00:32:42,160 Speaker 2: but he said, I said, did you realize at that 533 00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:44,560 Speaker 2: time how big that speech was going to? You know 534 00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:47,240 Speaker 2: that the farmer like he did the policeman, the fire 535 00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:49,640 Speaker 2: And he said, you knew something special. 536 00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:51,760 Speaker 6: I don't know if we realized how big that was 537 00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:53,479 Speaker 6: going to get. All Right, more of your casts coming up.