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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time, time, time, time, Luck and load. The
Michael Verie Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
On the ninety fifth birthday of k t r H,
our flagship station. Your calls on your kt r H memory.
Lewis Florey, the Tree whisperer of Ability Tree Experts, sent
me an email, Sizar, My earliest memory of k t
r H was I advertised with Bill Zach and John
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Burrows on the Gardening Show. That was a long time ago,
and I said, well, when would that have been?
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Said? Best of my memory, it was.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
The mid eighties, maybe mid eighties to late eighties, with
Bill Zach and John Burrows on ktr H and Bob
Flagg and Betty O'Dell on KPRC. So I read that
out to Ramone and he said, I worked with John Burrows,
John Burrows and Randy Lemon.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
So Randy. So when Bill stepped down, Randy stepped in.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Is that how that worked? So it was it was
Randy and John Burrows, and then when John Burrows went away,
it was just Randy. It had always been two before that,
had it not? Yeah, it was, And so he was
taking the whole show over and they weren't replacing a
co host. Huh, that's very interesting. I can't maybe because
(01:51):
I never heard it that way, but I never I
can't imagine Randy with a co host. It just doesn't
I mean, it's Randy Lemon, you know, it's I mean,
it was this much to Randy Lemon show as it
was Garden Line for me. So I just I can't
imagine how he would play off of someone else.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Yeah, anyway, all right to the phone.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Lines that we go. Your ktr H memory, Johnny, you're up,
go ahead.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Yeah. I don't remember kt r H on this story,
but I remember Paul Harvey. This was back in fifty nine.
I was in the in kindergarten, and I remember my
dad would come in from work at lunch and him
and my mom sitting and listening to Paul Harvey. And
I still remember that soothing voice. It just gives you
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a warm and says he feeling it does dupicated.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
It's it's very much a cigarette induced kind of raspy baritone. Uh,
that that he had perfect control on. And and I
think one of the things that's that's uh, it's over
looked was the delivery style, the pacing of the delivery
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and the use of the pause.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
His timing was impeccable. As all the greats are.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Comedians, singers, radio broadcasters, his timing was impeccable. I spent
a lot of time listening to him when I committed
to getting better at doing what I do, and it
was him and Rush that I spent the most time studying.
And then I then I moved to comedians because comedians
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tend to have better timing than talk show hosts. And
the reason is because they're conscious of their timing, and
they also Jim Gaffigan said to me when one day
I was bragging on him, he was, he was, he was.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
He really made it big at this point.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
He really launched into not just being a comedian, but
being a household name.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
And I said, man, it's amazing.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
You get up there with no piano, no backing, no sidekick,
no and you get up there by yourself with the
microphone and entertain people for forty minutes to an hour.
And he said, yeah. And I've worked on that set
for months, and I do the same set every night
for a year of a tour. You do five hours
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of unique radio every single day, he said, I would
lose my mind. I felt so good about myself. I've
told that story to Ramon one hundred times. Don't forget
what Jim Gaffigan said about how difficult what we do
is because we don't get to do the same set,
and God forbid we do something in the morning that
we think is really good and replay it in the evening.
You would think I am the laziest person ever. We
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just didn't want to do the third segment of the
six o'clock Hour for eight minutes we replayed something from
the morning that got great reviews.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
You don't dare do that? That is so I'll get
eat listeners? Who will? Ema just be lazy? Are you crazy?
You do you do?
Speaker 2 (05:03):
We strike you as lazy that we could get away
with so much less than we do. We love what
we do. Richard, You're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, sir, Yeah,
my COSSI.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
The early memory was my dad was my soccer coach
from seventy five to eighty three, and riding in the
back seat of a seventy three Chevelle Laguna, my mom
in the front seat with him and him listening to
some ka ti H maybe a home improvement show or
the garden Line. Him yelling at my friend and I
to shut up, and leaning back over the bench seat
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to try to slap us to shut us up, which
good luck it didn't work. But that's my earliest earliest memory.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
You were playing soccer seventy five to eighty three.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Oh yeah, yeah, I was.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
That was back when white kids didn't play soccer.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
No, well, my dad was. My mom and dad were
the founders of the Timberline Soccer Youth Association here in
far North to hisstitution, they were the founders of it.
So for some reason, he had an infinity for soccer
and was my coach from Worley from.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
First grade all the way through high school.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
And he kept even when I was out of high
school and went high school and played on the high
school team. He coached a team in that organization through
another five years.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
And was that his full time job or was that
just a side hustle?
Speaker 4 (06:24):
No, that was just a side That's the way he did.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
It.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Wasn't paid, it was just a youth soccer organization. She
just enjoyed doing it. And he was a good coach,
but he was a tough coach. Every time I'd be
on the sideline and something would go wrong on the field.
He'd get mad and he'd say, g D Richard. But
I was like, Dad, I'm on the sideline. But you know,
it's always somehow my.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Yeah, yeah, Isn't that amazing how that works.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Let's go to Julie, because the ladies have not been
weighing in on their KTRH memory.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Julie, what is yours?
Speaker 5 (06:55):
Well?
Speaker 6 (06:56):
I was going to weigh in on Paul Harvey. I'm
seventy one, now seventy one. My dad was really interested
in personalities and his background was with media and everything,
and I'm one of five. He introduced us all to
Paul Harvey when we were young. But the timing on
Paul Harvey Harvey, according to my dad was he was
not a good reader when he had to do this
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started doing this, and that's why he read the words
page two. That was one of his signature comment and
he would read through, but he would say page two.
And that came from when he first started, and he
was a poor reader. He got better at it, but
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just a little tidbit.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Well, that's interesting.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
He really understood the concept of in the middle of
setting an appointment, which is what you do in radio.
I'm going to go listen to Clay and Buck at eleven.
I'm gonna go to listen to Rush at eleven. Hopefully
you said listen to the Michael Berry Show eight. He
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had markers within his segment that you almost need, like
you craved them.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
It was he created this.
Speaker 7 (08:08):
Was not so rich and famous are as.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
I call it the Michael Barry Shows. And what's yon
(09:05):
Ramone used to host a show fifteen years ago or
so called Radio Gaga.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
It was on Saturday Night and not a lie. It
was voted the dumbest show on Houston Radio by me.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
That's what I That's what I named it.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Ramone. All Ramone ever wanted to be. It's like my brother.
All my brother ever wanted to.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Be was a cop.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Like there wasn't a number two teacher, Lady, why do
I have to learn about signs? I'm just going to
be a cop for Ramone. He wanted to be in radio.
And he's got stories of you know, like his mom
tells the sort of him pooping behind the TV. But
he was pooping behind the TV thinking about being in radio.
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It's just probably one of those TVs where it had
the console and you lift up one of the sides
of the top of the TV, and there was the
radio in there, and then and on the other side
was the record player. It's all he ever wanted to do.
And so he started the way everybody starts. The lowest
man on the totem pole. You work overnights on the
weekend because you can't find people to work for peanuts
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overnights on the weekend. And there he was overnights on
the weekend, and then in time you build up to
primetime during the week.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
But he had always produced well.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
First he had been the board operator, which is a
person pushing the button getting you into commercials out of commercials,
you know, all the things that go with that, traffic,
amber alerts, all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
And then eventually he became a producer, which is where
I met him.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
He was producing Sam Alone show when Sam had left FM,
when he left Susquehanna KRBE and came to KTRH. He
would eventually land on ninety six point five, but for
six months he couldn't be on an FM rival, but.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
He could do a talk show, so he was doing
talk on kkr H. Never Duncan was if you remember
that time.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
So it was so he was producing for Sam Maloon
and Chris Baker, and then I hired him under the
table to whatever he was producing for them just hand
it to me because I didn't know what I was doing,
and so he became my unofficial side hustle producer.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
I think the.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Statute of limitations has run out on that, so I
can tell that story now. And we had these offices
down in this little tucked away cubicle where there'd be
David Armstrong with the engineers and different people would be
down there. So we'd be down there, we'd get bored,
and so we'd pull off our keyfob, and you know,
the Keith fob is kind of like a hard credit
card and it would be around a lanyard, and so
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I would institute this game where I would walk up
on him and I would whip him with my key fob.
One time it hurt, you'd have we'd have streaks down
their back. But then he would get to do it
to me. And we filmed it at one point and posted.
It was very sophomore with a lot of fun. Anyway,
so all he ever wanted to do was radio, and
it was the first time he came out from behind
the other side of the glass and hosted a show
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and it was Saturday nights and to his credit, he
won a lone Star Award for the program.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
It's very good programs called Radio Gaga.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Dean, what is your KTRH memory.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
Hey, Michael, I have a couple of memories. One is
when I was a kid growing up, my granddaddy had.
Speaker 8 (12:26):
A farm and Tomball and he planted candlope and the
only seeds that were the only way that seeds were
identified was kt RH radio cantlope seeds.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Is that right?
Speaker 5 (12:38):
Then? The other one that's correct? Yeah, he got them
from garden Line. I don't know who had garden Line
at that time. This was back in the sixties, so
they were giving out seeds. It might have been Dewey Compton.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
But a story Dean.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
Best cantilopes and we had them for years until the
farm got sold.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
You know, when I was a kid, I didn't I
didn't like gourds or melons or anything of the sort.
And now I absolutely love them. I love cantalopes.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
And different Now.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
I did enjoy water Moon, but I didn't eat squash
or any of that stuff. Now I still don't really
like eggplant I don't like. We went by Frederal American
Grill yesterday afternoon and had to smoke out on the
patio and Wayne was cooking for a big event they
were hosting last night, and I asked him the menu,
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and one of the items was an eggplant. That eggplant
with kind of a crumble over the top of it,
and I think the crumble has to be there for
you to like it. I just I don't understand the
fascination with eggplant and beats. And my wife is in India,
so I can say this. She loves eggplant and she
loves beats, and I just I don't understand that. Larry,
what's your KTRH memory on this the ninety fifth birthday
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of kkr H.
Speaker 9 (13:57):
Well, I guess it must have been in late six
he's maybe early seventies. My dad, so consequently myself. He
was a big fan of the Farm and the Garden
Show with Dewey Compton, and I think Ben Oldagg, maybe
Bill Zach. But the thing I specifically remember was that
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Dewey Compton was killed in a plane.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Crash, That's correct. I just got an email from a
fellow named John somewhere and he says Zar.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Here's my memory of kJ H. In the seventies, on the.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Way to the Deer Lease before daylight, my dad would
turn on the radio to listen to Dewey Compton's Garden Show.
It seemed like, no matter what problem you had, spectracide
was the answer every single time.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
That's funny, Phil, What is your kJ H memory? Man?
Speaker 10 (14:53):
Is Milo Hamilton calling Mike Scott no hitter in nineteen
eighty six?
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Oh? Man, a year then?
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (15:01):
And you know Mike Scott. Mike Scott's like my buddy
Michael Robinson, the aggie plumber.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
He pull that He'd pull that cap off, constantly, pull
that cap off, and then he was bald up there
and you had no idea because he was bald through
the middle of a hair on the side. Mike Scott
was so good in the mid eighties, it is easy
to forget how legendary that fellow was.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
I interrupted, You go ahead.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
No, but yeah, let's split figure fastball with something else.
Speaker 10 (15:27):
And then the other one was Robert Ford calling Jordan's
walk off grand Slam against the Mariners in twenty two.
You know, I was on my way home on the
loop and I think the people around me and behind
me probably thought I lost my mind because I was
beating the roof of.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
My car and collar and yeah, that was twenty two,
I believe so time they won the World Series.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Yeah, twenty two.
Speaker 5 (15:53):
You know.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
I'll tell you one of my all time favorite can't
Your Age memories? It is a series of them, is
when Sparky goes down in the locker room after a
playoff win.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
And you're you're just wondering if he can keep it.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
It gets He's so good, he's so smart, he's a knuckleball.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Is I love that.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
It's the ninety fifth birthday of our flagship station k
t rhen. We were taking your calls of memories over
the years. John writes, Ramon used to poop behind the TV.
I used to do that too, but mine was in
my pants. I had a bunch of issues as a kid.
I peed the bed till I was eleven. I was
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sent to a military academy at that age, and it
helped me stop peeing the bed, and I also quit
pooping my pants. It's hard being little sometimes the ungest
form of society. Chad said that ladies call about Paul
and the page two and having trouble reading was not true.
He said he had read the book Good Day, Good Day,
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The Paul Harvey Story by Paul Batura, and he says
that that's not true.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
The reasoning behind the page two was as follows. Quote.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
This states, back, of course, to the years when almost
everyone did his own everybody did his own commercials. I
guess I'm the last of the news people allowed to
do it. We walk kind of a tightrope to be
sure that journalism doesn't get mixed up with the others.
So I always say page one, page two, page three,
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and the listeners over the years learn where the news
leaves off and the commercial begins. But sometimes the best
part of a broadcast might be in the essence of
a commercial. There really is a battery that will last
the life of your car, and there really is a
way you can keep your natural teeth from here to hereafter.
I'm not sure that some of the commercials aren't more significant.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Than most of the news. That was Paul Harvey in
his own work. Let's start with Randall. Randall, what is
your memory.
Speaker 11 (18:06):
About nineteen eighty seven eighty eight Living in Crystal Beach,
Sunday nights starting at nine o'clock. They had the classic radio.
Theater had about nine to five.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
The whistler would come on.
Speaker 11 (18:22):
Anyways, they had like gun smoke and other things. But anyways,
as a junior high kid, I.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Was just fascinated with it. I loved it.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Ramon just informed me that he was working the board
on those Sunday night shows. That's what one of his jobs.
He remembers it very well. He was getting paid to
listen to the radio.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Come at that good memory.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Karen wrightes, my dad used to listen to Dewey Compton
in the early sixties. If he mentioned a new product,
we were off to the feed store to get it.
Dad was from West Texas, so gardening in the Gulf
Coast was new to him. Dewey was his guide. Kenson writes,
was it katrh that had the xylophone bump that played
before the news recaps that?
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Do you know Ramon? You don't know her? It's not them, okay, Joe.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Writes, zor I read a biography of Paul Harvey and
his wife, who he referred to as his Angel, was
really the brains behind the sequencing of the news and
the rest of the story stories.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
They were not swingers you're stupid, that's sacrilege.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Kyle Finch writes, we traveled to Oklahoma a lot in
the seventies and eighties, and I remember listening to Paul
Harvey and Tradio.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Laurie writes, I was a rock listener.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
One oh one or ninety seven or ninety three point seven,
my dad heard Rush Limbaugh on the day he did
the Farting Report. My dad thought it was hilarious and
called to tell me. I tuned in the next day,
and every day after that had coworkers and friends who
I told and who switched over.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
We'd even eat.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Lunch from eleven to noon so we could listen together.
I wonder if the popularity of Rush contributed to the
downfall of rock stations. Perhaps, but I think what happened
was that people who had been heavy into music radio
as they were aging began to sort of fulfill the
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Churchill quote. They began looking for information and engagement on
issues of the day, and Rush provided that there wasn't
other compelling talk that was providing that on the dial,
and we didn't have podcasts yet, so Rush was that
opportunity on some stations around the country that they flipped
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to talk. They first just put Rush on. They would
take off the Consumer Advocate or the farm show, or
the gardening show or home improvement show. That AM radio
during the week, during prime time was a dumping ground
for whatever they could sell that show that hour or
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two hours four. So it might be an insurance agent,
it might be a real tour, it might be a
home improvement show. And that's what it became because you know,
most of those were independent owners and before deregulation, you
could only own two stations in a market, so there
was no opportunity to, you know, to build kind of
a syndicated type show that made any sense at that point.
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When that changed, Clear Channel immediately stepped into the breach
and began buying up as many stations as they could.
There were still limitations on how mean they could own
in a market, but that was when you saw the
rise of Rush Limbaugh. That was August first, nineteen eighty eight.
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Rush went into national syndication with fifty six stations, and
of course it just grew from there. Let's go to John,
You're on the Michael Berry Show. What's your KTRH memory?
Speaker 11 (22:01):
Oh, I remember growing up the fifties and sixties, listened
to Charlie Dewey Compton every morning and you know, welted
we'd have it on the radio.
Speaker 5 (22:12):
His mom would what having on?
Speaker 11 (22:14):
We were eat breakfast, going into uh, getting ready to
go to school.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
But good time.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
So we didn't listen to kt as growing up, and
I don't know why, maybe just because we were so
you know, our world began and ended in Orange, and
we listened to KOGT. And the big personality on KOGT
was BBRC. We stood for a big boy, Richard Corter,
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and he was a big boy, big man. He had
two sons. I went to school with Craig Quarter and
Bark Corter. Both of them are all state offensive linemen
and they were about two sixty to two seventy five
as high school seniors, and in the late eighties that
was a big deal. They were big boys. But the
nicest guy you ever wanted to me Craig Corded, the
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younger who was a year older than me. I follow
him on the Facebook machine and all he posts is
pictures of him fishing, and at one point he's at
I think Dan Bee or Talda Ben or Sam Raver,
one of them. He's out there and he said, and
he's going out there for a week, and he said,
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seven straight days of fishing by myself. And he's set
up a GoPro and he kind of speeds it up,
so he he every time he's catching a fish, and
he'll show you that. But the rest of the time,
it's just kind of him moving around the boat and casting.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
And he said, I need.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
He'll say things like, you know, I needed this time
alone to clear my head. And I think to myself,
I wish I had something I love to do like that,
that would calm me down like that, that would that
I just you know, look, I actually love coming in
and doing this. I know that sounds silly or probably
sounds like pandering.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
It's okay. My wife will tell you. I start.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
When I'm away from from the air, I start fishing.
I got to get back to my team, to the
show to you. This is my happy place. And I
h but I wish I could love fishing. You know,
Jim loves to fish. Jim Mudd loves to fish. Somebody
wants to take Jim fishing, you'd be doing us a
favor because he loves I don't know if he likes
the offshore he just goes sit at a pond. There's
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two groups of people that love to go to a pond,
poor white trash and poor black people. And it's one
place that white people in black poor whites and poor
blacks get along. Is if there's a good fishing hole
on the side of the freeway. They'll pull up and
they'll fish next to each other, not bother each just
just for.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
A minute, just long enough. And you know who else
does It's Kenny Allen. He posts pictures of his age
is proper.
Speaker 9 (24:47):
He loves.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
On the ninety fifth birthday of KTRH. We share our
memories of our connection to that thing that at the
time was either on a shelf or a bedstand or
in our truck. Now you can consume content any kind
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of way, anywhere, at any time. The industry was so
scared about two thousand and seven of podcasts and other
people on radio would tell me a podcast is going
to put us out of business. Yes it is if
you're not any good. But if you're good, content is king.
You don't need to be worried about where people consume it,
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or how they consume it, or when they consume it.
If it's good, but if the only thing you can
say as to why you have a job and why
you have an audience is because you're on the FCC
regulated limited number of sticks and nobody else is there.
You do realize you can be fired if they're not
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going to follow you. If you leave the medium, then
you don't deserve a job. You know, and people are
uncomfortable with this kind of talk, But you don't want
a crappy player on your team who makes an error
every game and strikes out every time you get him
off the field.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
We'll get you off the field.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
But if your content is good, people will follow you
wherever you go. They will go anywhere and stay with
you for as long as you have a connection to them.
Karen writes, I remember all the shows you're talking about today.
What I can't remember is the name of the guy
who was on during the seventies who argued and brought
up controversial topics. Maybe Alvin might not have been kt
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r H, but he was entertaining good memories. That was
Alvin van Black. The funny thing is, by the time
I came on to the scene, Alvin van Black was
this heavy set, rushing from black tie party to black
taie party and he would come rushing in with his
camera and the lights on the camera, and he was
we're here at the Joanne Herring event where they're raising
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money for Charlie Wilsoner Testicular Cancer or Heart Association, and
we're here at Jack Blanton's home and he's holding a
fundraiser for this, and we're here, and he would go
around town and he was all mister nice guy. But
my understanding is he wasn't so nice before that.
Speaker 5 (27:27):
He was very.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Combative and bombastic and awesome and in every possible way.
We were talking about cantalopes earlier and I cut the
bit down, but you talk about good storytelling on the air.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
That the time.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Jerry Klarer's I think he's in New York.
Speaker 7 (27:48):
Drove on downtown and they let me out in front
of the Plaza Hotel. That was my accommodations for the evening.
Next morning, they picked me up, he came over to
the studio to do the TV show and a big
long car again, and this little lady was trembling all
over Humble. I'm so uptight, I'm so worthy that your
accommodations wasn't proper.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
All of our artists.
Speaker 7 (28:08):
It's our responsibility to make sure that they have a
good Room's your room, all right, I said, Darling, it
is fine. And I said, I don't eat breakfast at
the cafe here this morning in New York City. And
I done paid a dollar and a half for a
slice of candle loap. And I said, I do want
you to know you done got up in high cotton
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when you pay a dollar and a half a slice
of candle load. And I said, you know, when I
was a young and growing up, we hauled ground slide
loads of candle loaps to the hogs. And if I know,
y'allers getting a dollar and a half a slice car
propped you a ground slide load up?
Speaker 11 (28:56):
Ed?
Speaker 1 (28:56):
What's your kt R? It's memory.
Speaker 12 (29:00):
So I used to work for clear Channel in the
late nineties when for the Texas A and M Sports Network,
and we were housed over at the Loved location for
that thing, and that's where I met Randy Lemon and
Pat Gray and all those guys, and they kind of
helped me figure out how to sell and how to
deal with clients. But then when y'all moved over to
Sant Felipe, we moved across the street. And that's when
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I met mister Rod Windham, and all kinds of things
changed in my life when I met that man. From
helping me to figure out what kind of career I wanted,
what kind of mistakes to make, what kind of not
to make in the radio business. And then when we
go out to have a drink or two, he's the
kind of guy that opened his wallet. He looked at
all his money said all right, boys, this is all
we got. And well he was ranked all that money
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in his wallet every night.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Do you keep up with him?
Speaker 9 (29:48):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (29:49):
Not as much as I used to.
Speaker 12 (29:50):
I haven't seen it. You know, she's I've probably seen
like four or five years. But you see me now.
Every now and then some of the old you know
guys get together, like the Rob Logan's, you know, some
of those guys that you know where the old school
kind of clear channel get together.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
But you know, Rob Logan stopped drinking.
Speaker 12 (30:06):
I know he's lost a ton of weight.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
No, I'm just kidding. There's no way he quit drinking.
Are you serious? I was joking.
Speaker 12 (30:12):
He yeah, Well he well, maybe quits the wrong word.
Let's just say lightened up. Well, because I see I
remind so I see him.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
If I ever went out with Rob Logan and he
didn't throw down twenty beers, I wouldn't feel like it
was Rob Logan. That's a funny dude right there. Hey,
that's one of the old timers. Now, what is your
last name?
Speaker 12 (30:32):
Ed Hamilton?
Speaker 2 (30:35):
I will I will tell for those of you who
don't know Rod Wyndham. When I started in radio, I
was doing a weekend show from ten to eleven am.
It was a real estate show and it was ten
to eleven am on Sunday morning, and we had a
place out in Carmen next to Round Top, so I'd
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have to get up every Sunday morning and come blowing
in to do this stupid show, which was terrible, but
it was just to get into radio and see if
I liked it or not. And Rod Wyndham was put
in charge by Eddie Martini as because he's one of
Eddie's lieutenants, and he was put in charge of kind
of holding my hand and making sure I didn't screw
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it up. And Ramon makes fun because Levi Good's a
good friend of mine and he would give me good
company pecom pies in those beautiful boxes to give away
on the air. So I would give those away on
the air, and Ramone ridicules me about that to this day,
twenty years later, and it hurts my feelings. It doesn't
make me feel good about myself. I sometimes crying in
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my pillow. But he thinks it's the funniest thing in
the world to ridicule Old Michael about when he started
a radio and didn't know what he was doing. But
Rod Windham would come over there every Sunday morning and
he would sit while I did this stupid, boring show.
And at the end of it, he and I would
load up and we would go over to.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Good Company.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Takorea at West Park and Kirby and I would have
the either that I'd have the Migas, the Chilichi les
or I'd have the Border Quail and we'd drink beers,
and then we took to We got We took on.
We got on so well that he and I and
a friend of mine named Patrick Pacheco at the time,
would meet over at Kay's Lounge, which our buddy Marshall,
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which our buddy Dwayne Hefley owned at the time, and
we'd go over there for.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
He'd during the during the day.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
Rod would say, Hey, you want to go for beer
and buck?
Speaker 1 (32:33):
We call it beer and buck.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
And we would go over to uh Kay's lounge on
Bisonette and we would put buck Owens on, and Levi
I Good would come join us, and Roger Craigor would
come join us, and Cory Morrow would come join us,
and we would we would sit over there and uh
and listen to mostly buck Owens and drink beer and
tell stories and eat their pizza, and uh boy, did
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we ever have a good time. But I will tell
you something, Uh Eddie Martine's loyalty to Rod Wyndham. I
think we will all be laid off, Paul Lambert, Greg Elverton,
Bo Brown, Angie Sylvia, we will all be laid off.
And the last one standing when the apocalypse come is Eddie.
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The last one to be laid off will be Rod Wyndham.
And for those of you who don't know him, Rod
Wyndham knew Jerry Klower In fact played football. He played
football at Mississippi State. Did Rod Wyndham. He went to Vietnam,
where he's got stories. He served in combat, and he's
been in radio. See he's one hundred and twenty three
years old, so he's been in radio like eighty years.
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He's one of my favorite people. He was one of
the very first people I met in radio, and he
took me under his wing. I didn't know what I
was doing, and at the end of the show, I'd
come out of the studio needing, craving approval, and he.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Would say, well, that was good. Last week was good,
but you're getting better.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
I'll tell you something, little compliment, little encouragement, goes a
long way.
It's that time, time, time, time, Luck and load. The
Michael Verie Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
On the ninety fifth birthday of k t r H,
our flagship station. Your calls on your kt r H memory.
Lewis Florey, the Tree whisperer of Ability Tree Experts, sent
me an email, Sizar, My earliest memory of k t
r H was I advertised with Bill Zach and John
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Burrows on the Gardening Show. That was a long time ago,
and I said, well, when would that have been?
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Said? Best of my memory, it was.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
The mid eighties, maybe mid eighties to late eighties, with
Bill Zach and John Burrows on ktr H and Bob
Flagg and Betty O'Dell on KPRC. So I read that
out to Ramone and he said, I worked with John Burrows,
John Burrows and Randy Lemon.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
So Randy. So when Bill stepped down, Randy stepped in.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Is that how that worked? So it was it was
Randy and John Burrows, and then when John Burrows went away,
it was just Randy. It had always been two before that,
had it not? Yeah, it was, And so he was
taking the whole show over and they weren't replacing a
co host. Huh, that's very interesting. I can't maybe because
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I never heard it that way, but I never I
can't imagine Randy with a co host. It just doesn't
I mean, it's Randy Lemon, you know, it's I mean,
it was this much to Randy Lemon show as it
was Garden Line for me. So I just I can't
imagine how he would play off of someone else.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Yeah, anyway, all right to the phone.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Lines that we go. Your ktr H memory, Johnny, you're up,
go ahead.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Yeah. I don't remember kt r H on this story,
but I remember Paul Harvey. This was back in fifty nine.
I was in the in kindergarten, and I remember my
dad would come in from work at lunch and him
and my mom sitting and listening to Paul Harvey. And
I still remember that soothing voice. It just gives you
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a warm and says he feeling it does dupicated.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
It's it's very much a cigarette induced kind of raspy baritone. Uh,
that that he had perfect control on. And and I
think one of the things that's that's uh, it's over
looked was the delivery style, the pacing of the delivery
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and the use of the pause.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
His timing was impeccable. As all the greats are.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Comedians, singers, radio broadcasters, his timing was impeccable. I spent
a lot of time listening to him when I committed
to getting better at doing what I do, and it
was him and Rush that I spent the most time studying.
And then I then I moved to comedians because comedians
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tend to have better timing than talk show hosts. And
the reason is because they're conscious of their timing, and
they also Jim Gaffigan said to me when one day
I was bragging on him, he was, he was, he was.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
He really made it big at this point.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
He really launched into not just being a comedian, but
being a household name.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
And I said, man, it's amazing.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
You get up there with no piano, no backing, no sidekick,
no and you get up there by yourself with the
microphone and entertain people for forty minutes to an hour.
And he said, yeah. And I've worked on that set
for months, and I do the same set every night
for a year of a tour. You do five hours
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of unique radio every single day, he said, I would
lose my mind. I felt so good about myself. I've
told that story to Ramon one hundred times. Don't forget
what Jim Gaffigan said about how difficult what we do
is because we don't get to do the same set,
and God forbid we do something in the morning that
we think is really good and replay it in the evening.
You would think I am the laziest person ever. We
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just didn't want to do the third segment of the
six o'clock Hour for eight minutes we replayed something from
the morning that got great reviews.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
You don't dare do that? That is so I'll get
eat listeners? Who will? Ema just be lazy? Are you crazy?
You do you do?
Speaker 2 (05:03):
We strike you as lazy that we could get away
with so much less than we do. We love what
we do. Richard, You're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, sir, Yeah,
my COSSI.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
The early memory was my dad was my soccer coach
from seventy five to eighty three, and riding in the
back seat of a seventy three Chevelle Laguna, my mom
in the front seat with him and him listening to
some ka ti H maybe a home improvement show or
the garden Line. Him yelling at my friend and I
to shut up, and leaning back over the bench seat
(05:36):
to try to slap us to shut us up, which
good luck it didn't work. But that's my earliest earliest memory.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
You were playing soccer seventy five to eighty three.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Oh yeah, yeah, I was.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
That was back when white kids didn't play soccer.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
No, well, my dad was. My mom and dad were
the founders of the Timberline Soccer Youth Association here in
far North to hisstitution, they were the founders of it.
So for some reason, he had an infinity for soccer
and was my coach from Worley from.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
First grade all the way through high school.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
And he kept even when I was out of high
school and went high school and played on the high
school team. He coached a team in that organization through
another five years.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
And was that his full time job or was that
just a side hustle?
Speaker 4 (06:24):
No, that was just a side That's the way he did.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
It.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Wasn't paid, it was just a youth soccer organization. She
just enjoyed doing it. And he was a good coach,
but he was a tough coach. Every time I'd be
on the sideline and something would go wrong on the field.
He'd get mad and he'd say, g D Richard. But
I was like, Dad, I'm on the sideline. But you know,
it's always somehow my.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Yeah, yeah, Isn't that amazing how that works.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Let's go to Julie, because the ladies have not been
weighing in on their KTRH memory.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Julie, what is yours?
Speaker 5 (06:55):
Well?
Speaker 6 (06:56):
I was going to weigh in on Paul Harvey. I'm
seventy one, now seventy one. My dad was really interested
in personalities and his background was with media and everything,
and I'm one of five. He introduced us all to
Paul Harvey when we were young. But the timing on
Paul Harvey Harvey, according to my dad was he was
not a good reader when he had to do this
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started doing this, and that's why he read the words
page two. That was one of his signature comment and
he would read through, but he would say page two.
And that came from when he first started, and he
was a poor reader. He got better at it, but
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just a little tidbit.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Well, that's interesting.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
He really understood the concept of in the middle of
setting an appointment, which is what you do in radio.
I'm going to go listen to Clay and Buck at eleven.
I'm gonna go to listen to Rush at eleven. Hopefully
you said listen to the Michael Berry Show eight. He
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had markers within his segment that you almost need, like
you craved them.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
It was he created this.
Speaker 7 (08:08):
Was not so rich and famous are as.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
I call it the Michael Barry Shows. And what's yon
(09:05):
Ramone used to host a show fifteen years ago or
so called Radio Gaga.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
It was on Saturday Night and not a lie. It
was voted the dumbest show on Houston Radio by me.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
That's what I That's what I named it.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Ramone. All Ramone ever wanted to be. It's like my brother.
All my brother ever wanted to.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Be was a cop.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Like there wasn't a number two teacher, Lady, why do
I have to learn about signs? I'm just going to
be a cop for Ramone. He wanted to be in radio.
And he's got stories of you know, like his mom
tells the sort of him pooping behind the TV. But
he was pooping behind the TV thinking about being in radio.
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It's just probably one of those TVs where it had
the console and you lift up one of the sides
of the top of the TV, and there was the
radio in there, and then and on the other side
was the record player. It's all he ever wanted to do.
And so he started the way everybody starts. The lowest
man on the totem pole. You work overnights on the
weekend because you can't find people to work for peanuts
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overnights on the weekend. And there he was overnights on
the weekend, and then in time you build up to
primetime during the week.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
But he had always produced well.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
First he had been the board operator, which is a
person pushing the button getting you into commercials out of commercials,
you know, all the things that go with that, traffic,
amber alerts, all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
And then eventually he became a producer, which is where
I met him.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
He was producing Sam Alone show when Sam had left FM,
when he left Susquehanna KRBE and came to KTRH. He
would eventually land on ninety six point five, but for
six months he couldn't be on an FM rival, but.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
He could do a talk show, so he was doing
talk on kkr H. Never Duncan was if you remember
that time.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
So it was so he was producing for Sam Maloon
and Chris Baker, and then I hired him under the
table to whatever he was producing for them just hand
it to me because I didn't know what I was doing,
and so he became my unofficial side hustle producer.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
I think the.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Statute of limitations has run out on that, so I
can tell that story now. And we had these offices
down in this little tucked away cubicle where there'd be
David Armstrong with the engineers and different people would be
down there. So we'd be down there, we'd get bored,
and so we'd pull off our keyfob, and you know,
the Keith fob is kind of like a hard credit
card and it would be around a lanyard, and so
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I would institute this game where I would walk up
on him and I would whip him with my key fob.
One time it hurt, you'd have we'd have streaks down
their back. But then he would get to do it
to me. And we filmed it at one point and posted.
It was very sophomore with a lot of fun. Anyway,
so all he ever wanted to do was radio, and
it was the first time he came out from behind
the other side of the glass and hosted a show
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and it was Saturday nights and to his credit, he
won a lone Star Award for the program.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
It's very good programs called Radio Gaga.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Dean, what is your KTRH memory.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
Hey, Michael, I have a couple of memories. One is
when I was a kid growing up, my granddaddy had.
Speaker 8 (12:26):
A farm and Tomball and he planted candlope and the
only seeds that were the only way that seeds were
identified was kt RH radio cantlope seeds.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Is that right?
Speaker 5 (12:38):
Then? The other one that's correct? Yeah, he got them
from garden Line. I don't know who had garden Line
at that time. This was back in the sixties, so
they were giving out seeds. It might have been Dewey Compton.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
But a story Dean.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
Best cantilopes and we had them for years until the
farm got sold.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
You know, when I was a kid, I didn't I
didn't like gourds or melons or anything of the sort.
And now I absolutely love them. I love cantalopes.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
And different Now.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
I did enjoy water Moon, but I didn't eat squash
or any of that stuff. Now I still don't really
like eggplant I don't like. We went by Frederal American
Grill yesterday afternoon and had to smoke out on the
patio and Wayne was cooking for a big event they
were hosting last night, and I asked him the menu,
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and one of the items was an eggplant. That eggplant
with kind of a crumble over the top of it,
and I think the crumble has to be there for
you to like it. I just I don't understand the
fascination with eggplant and beats. And my wife is in India,
so I can say this. She loves eggplant and she
loves beats, and I just I don't understand that. Larry,
what's your KTRH memory on this the ninety fifth birthday
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of kkr H.
Speaker 9 (13:57):
Well, I guess it must have been in late six
he's maybe early seventies. My dad, so consequently myself. He
was a big fan of the Farm and the Garden
Show with Dewey Compton, and I think Ben Oldagg, maybe
Bill Zach. But the thing I specifically remember was that
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Dewey Compton was killed in a plane.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Crash, That's correct. I just got an email from a
fellow named John somewhere and he says Zar.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Here's my memory of kJ H. In the seventies, on the.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Way to the Deer Lease before daylight, my dad would
turn on the radio to listen to Dewey Compton's Garden Show.
It seemed like, no matter what problem you had, spectracide
was the answer every single time.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
That's funny, Phil, What is your kJ H memory? Man?
Speaker 10 (14:53):
Is Milo Hamilton calling Mike Scott no hitter in nineteen
eighty six?
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Oh? Man, a year then?
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (15:01):
And you know Mike Scott. Mike Scott's like my buddy
Michael Robinson, the aggie plumber.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
He pull that He'd pull that cap off, constantly, pull
that cap off, and then he was bald up there
and you had no idea because he was bald through
the middle of a hair on the side. Mike Scott
was so good in the mid eighties, it is easy
to forget how legendary that fellow was.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
I interrupted, You go ahead.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
No, but yeah, let's split figure fastball with something else.
Speaker 10 (15:27):
And then the other one was Robert Ford calling Jordan's
walk off grand Slam against the Mariners in twenty two.
You know, I was on my way home on the
loop and I think the people around me and behind
me probably thought I lost my mind because I was
beating the roof of.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
My car and collar and yeah, that was twenty two,
I believe so time they won the World Series.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Yeah, twenty two.
Speaker 5 (15:53):
You know.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
I'll tell you one of my all time favorite can't
Your Age memories? It is a series of them, is
when Sparky goes down in the locker room after a
playoff win.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
And you're you're just wondering if he can keep it.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
It gets He's so good, he's so smart, he's a knuckleball.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Is I love that.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
It's the ninety fifth birthday of our flagship station k
t rhen. We were taking your calls of memories over
the years. John writes, Ramon used to poop behind the TV.
I used to do that too, but mine was in
my pants. I had a bunch of issues as a kid.
I peed the bed till I was eleven. I was
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sent to a military academy at that age, and it
helped me stop peeing the bed, and I also quit
pooping my pants. It's hard being little sometimes the ungest
form of society. Chad said that ladies call about Paul
and the page two and having trouble reading was not true.
He said he had read the book Good Day, Good Day,
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The Paul Harvey Story by Paul Batura, and he says
that that's not true.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
The reasoning behind the page two was as follows. Quote.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
This states, back, of course, to the years when almost
everyone did his own everybody did his own commercials. I
guess I'm the last of the news people allowed to
do it. We walk kind of a tightrope to be
sure that journalism doesn't get mixed up with the others.
So I always say page one, page two, page three,
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and the listeners over the years learn where the news
leaves off and the commercial begins. But sometimes the best
part of a broadcast might be in the essence of
a commercial. There really is a battery that will last
the life of your car, and there really is a
way you can keep your natural teeth from here to hereafter.
I'm not sure that some of the commercials aren't more significant.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Than most of the news. That was Paul Harvey in
his own work. Let's start with Randall. Randall, what is
your memory.
Speaker 11 (18:06):
About nineteen eighty seven eighty eight Living in Crystal Beach,
Sunday nights starting at nine o'clock. They had the classic radio.
Theater had about nine to five.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
The whistler would come on.
Speaker 11 (18:22):
Anyways, they had like gun smoke and other things. But anyways,
as a junior high kid, I.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Was just fascinated with it. I loved it.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Ramon just informed me that he was working the board
on those Sunday night shows. That's what one of his jobs.
He remembers it very well. He was getting paid to
listen to the radio.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Come at that good memory.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Karen wrightes, my dad used to listen to Dewey Compton
in the early sixties. If he mentioned a new product,
we were off to the feed store to get it.
Dad was from West Texas, so gardening in the Gulf
Coast was new to him. Dewey was his guide. Kenson writes,
was it katrh that had the xylophone bump that played
before the news recaps that?
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Do you know Ramon? You don't know her? It's not them, okay, Joe.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Writes, zor I read a biography of Paul Harvey and
his wife, who he referred to as his Angel, was
really the brains behind the sequencing of the news and
the rest of the story stories.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
They were not swingers you're stupid, that's sacrilege.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Kyle Finch writes, we traveled to Oklahoma a lot in
the seventies and eighties, and I remember listening to Paul
Harvey and Tradio.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Laurie writes, I was a rock listener.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
One oh one or ninety seven or ninety three point seven,
my dad heard Rush Limbaugh on the day he did
the Farting Report. My dad thought it was hilarious and
called to tell me. I tuned in the next day,
and every day after that had coworkers and friends who
I told and who switched over.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
We'd even eat.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Lunch from eleven to noon so we could listen together.
I wonder if the popularity of Rush contributed to the
downfall of rock stations. Perhaps, but I think what happened
was that people who had been heavy into music radio
as they were aging began to sort of fulfill the
(20:22):
Churchill quote. They began looking for information and engagement on
issues of the day, and Rush provided that there wasn't
other compelling talk that was providing that on the dial,
and we didn't have podcasts yet, so Rush was that
opportunity on some stations around the country that they flipped
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to talk. They first just put Rush on. They would
take off the Consumer Advocate or the farm show, or
the gardening show or home improvement show. That AM radio
during the week, during prime time was a dumping ground
for whatever they could sell that show that hour or
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two hours four. So it might be an insurance agent,
it might be a real tour, it might be a
home improvement show. And that's what it became because you know,
most of those were independent owners and before deregulation, you
could only own two stations in a market, so there
was no opportunity to, you know, to build kind of
a syndicated type show that made any sense at that point.
(21:27):
When that changed, Clear Channel immediately stepped into the breach
and began buying up as many stations as they could.
There were still limitations on how mean they could own
in a market, but that was when you saw the
rise of Rush Limbaugh. That was August first, nineteen eighty eight.
(21:48):
Rush went into national syndication with fifty six stations, and
of course it just grew from there. Let's go to John,
You're on the Michael Berry Show. What's your KTRH memory?
Speaker 11 (22:01):
Oh, I remember growing up the fifties and sixties, listened
to Charlie Dewey Compton every morning and you know, welted
we'd have it on the radio.
Speaker 5 (22:12):
His mom would what having on?
Speaker 11 (22:14):
We were eat breakfast, going into uh, getting ready to
go to school.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
But good time.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
So we didn't listen to kt as growing up, and
I don't know why, maybe just because we were so
you know, our world began and ended in Orange, and
we listened to KOGT. And the big personality on KOGT
was BBRC. We stood for a big boy, Richard Corter,
(22:40):
and he was a big boy, big man. He had
two sons. I went to school with Craig Quarter and
Bark Corter. Both of them are all state offensive linemen
and they were about two sixty to two seventy five
as high school seniors, and in the late eighties that
was a big deal. They were big boys. But the
nicest guy you ever wanted to me Craig Corded, the
(23:01):
younger who was a year older than me. I follow
him on the Facebook machine and all he posts is
pictures of him fishing, and at one point he's at
I think Dan Bee or Talda Ben or Sam Raver,
one of them. He's out there and he said, and
he's going out there for a week, and he said,
(23:22):
seven straight days of fishing by myself. And he's set
up a GoPro and he kind of speeds it up,
so he he every time he's catching a fish, and
he'll show you that. But the rest of the time,
it's just kind of him moving around the boat and casting.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
And he said, I need.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
He'll say things like, you know, I needed this time
alone to clear my head. And I think to myself,
I wish I had something I love to do like that,
that would calm me down like that, that would that
I just you know, look, I actually love coming in
and doing this. I know that sounds silly or probably
sounds like pandering.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
It's okay. My wife will tell you. I start.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
When I'm away from from the air, I start fishing.
I got to get back to my team, to the
show to you. This is my happy place. And I
h but I wish I could love fishing. You know,
Jim loves to fish. Jim Mudd loves to fish. Somebody
wants to take Jim fishing, you'd be doing us a
favor because he loves I don't know if he likes
the offshore he just goes sit at a pond. There's
(24:24):
two groups of people that love to go to a pond,
poor white trash and poor black people. And it's one
place that white people in black poor whites and poor
blacks get along. Is if there's a good fishing hole
on the side of the freeway. They'll pull up and
they'll fish next to each other, not bother each just
just for.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
A minute, just long enough. And you know who else
does It's Kenny Allen. He posts pictures of his age
is proper.
Speaker 9 (24:47):
He loves.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
On the ninety fifth birthday of KTRH. We share our
memories of our connection to that thing that at the
time was either on a shelf or a bedstand or
in our truck. Now you can consume content any kind
(25:23):
of way, anywhere, at any time. The industry was so
scared about two thousand and seven of podcasts and other
people on radio would tell me a podcast is going
to put us out of business. Yes it is if
you're not any good. But if you're good, content is king.
You don't need to be worried about where people consume it,
(25:45):
or how they consume it, or when they consume it.
If it's good, but if the only thing you can
say as to why you have a job and why
you have an audience is because you're on the FCC
regulated limited number of sticks and nobody else is there.
You do realize you can be fired if they're not
(26:08):
going to follow you. If you leave the medium, then
you don't deserve a job. You know, and people are
uncomfortable with this kind of talk, But you don't want
a crappy player on your team who makes an error
every game and strikes out every time you get him
off the field.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
We'll get you off the field.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
But if your content is good, people will follow you
wherever you go. They will go anywhere and stay with
you for as long as you have a connection to them.
Karen writes, I remember all the shows you're talking about today.
What I can't remember is the name of the guy
who was on during the seventies who argued and brought
up controversial topics. Maybe Alvin might not have been kt
(26:49):
r H, but he was entertaining good memories. That was
Alvin van Black. The funny thing is, by the time
I came on to the scene, Alvin van Black was
this heavy set, rushing from black tie party to black
taie party and he would come rushing in with his
camera and the lights on the camera, and he was
we're here at the Joanne Herring event where they're raising
(27:11):
money for Charlie Wilsoner Testicular Cancer or Heart Association, and
we're here at Jack Blanton's home and he's holding a
fundraiser for this, and we're here, and he would go
around town and he was all mister nice guy. But
my understanding is he wasn't so nice before that.
Speaker 5 (27:27):
He was very.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Combative and bombastic and awesome and in every possible way.
We were talking about cantalopes earlier and I cut the
bit down, but you talk about good storytelling on the air.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
That the time.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Jerry Klarer's I think he's in New York.
Speaker 7 (27:48):
Drove on downtown and they let me out in front
of the Plaza Hotel. That was my accommodations for the evening.
Next morning, they picked me up, he came over to
the studio to do the TV show and a big
long car again, and this little lady was trembling all
over Humble. I'm so uptight, I'm so worthy that your
accommodations wasn't proper.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
All of our artists.
Speaker 7 (28:08):
It's our responsibility to make sure that they have a
good Room's your room, all right, I said, Darling, it
is fine. And I said, I don't eat breakfast at
the cafe here this morning in New York City. And
I done paid a dollar and a half for a
slice of candle loap. And I said, I do want
you to know you done got up in high cotton
(28:31):
when you pay a dollar and a half a slice
of candle load. And I said, you know, when I
was a young and growing up, we hauled ground slide
loads of candle loaps to the hogs. And if I know,
y'allers getting a dollar and a half a slice car
propped you a ground slide load up?
Speaker 11 (28:56):
Ed?
Speaker 1 (28:56):
What's your kt R? It's memory.
Speaker 12 (29:00):
So I used to work for clear Channel in the
late nineties when for the Texas A and M Sports Network,
and we were housed over at the Loved location for
that thing, and that's where I met Randy Lemon and
Pat Gray and all those guys, and they kind of
helped me figure out how to sell and how to
deal with clients. But then when y'all moved over to
Sant Felipe, we moved across the street. And that's when
(29:22):
I met mister Rod Windham, and all kinds of things
changed in my life when I met that man. From
helping me to figure out what kind of career I wanted,
what kind of mistakes to make, what kind of not
to make in the radio business. And then when we
go out to have a drink or two, he's the
kind of guy that opened his wallet. He looked at
all his money said all right, boys, this is all
we got. And well he was ranked all that money
(29:43):
in his wallet every night.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Do you keep up with him?
Speaker 9 (29:48):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (29:49):
Not as much as I used to.
Speaker 12 (29:50):
I haven't seen it. You know, she's I've probably seen
like four or five years. But you see me now.
Every now and then some of the old you know
guys get together, like the Rob Logan's, you know, some
of those guys that you know where the old school
kind of clear channel get together.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
But you know, Rob Logan stopped drinking.
Speaker 12 (30:06):
I know he's lost a ton of weight.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
No, I'm just kidding. There's no way he quit drinking.
Are you serious? I was joking.
Speaker 12 (30:12):
He yeah, Well he well, maybe quits the wrong word.
Let's just say lightened up. Well, because I see I
remind so I see him.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
If I ever went out with Rob Logan and he
didn't throw down twenty beers, I wouldn't feel like it
was Rob Logan. That's a funny dude right there. Hey,
that's one of the old timers. Now, what is your
last name?
Speaker 12 (30:32):
Ed Hamilton?
Speaker 2 (30:35):
I will I will tell for those of you who
don't know Rod Wyndham. When I started in radio, I
was doing a weekend show from ten to eleven am.
It was a real estate show and it was ten
to eleven am on Sunday morning, and we had a
place out in Carmen next to Round Top, so I'd
(30:55):
have to get up every Sunday morning and come blowing
in to do this stupid show, which was terrible, but
it was just to get into radio and see if
I liked it or not. And Rod Wyndham was put
in charge by Eddie Martini as because he's one of
Eddie's lieutenants, and he was put in charge of kind
of holding my hand and making sure I didn't screw
(31:17):
it up. And Ramon makes fun because Levi Good's a
good friend of mine and he would give me good
company pecom pies in those beautiful boxes to give away
on the air. So I would give those away on
the air, and Ramone ridicules me about that to this day,
twenty years later, and it hurts my feelings. It doesn't
make me feel good about myself. I sometimes crying in
(31:39):
my pillow. But he thinks it's the funniest thing in
the world to ridicule Old Michael about when he started
a radio and didn't know what he was doing. But
Rod Windham would come over there every Sunday morning and
he would sit while I did this stupid, boring show.
And at the end of it, he and I would
load up and we would go over to.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Good Company.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Takorea at West Park and Kirby and I would have
the either that I'd have the Migas, the Chilichi les
or I'd have the Border Quail and we'd drink beers,
and then we took to We got We took on.
We got on so well that he and I and
a friend of mine named Patrick Pacheco at the time,
would meet over at Kay's Lounge, which our buddy Marshall,
(32:24):
which our buddy Dwayne Hefley owned at the time, and
we'd go over there for.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
He'd during the during the day.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
Rod would say, Hey, you want to go for beer
and buck?
Speaker 1 (32:33):
We call it beer and buck.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
And we would go over to uh Kay's lounge on
Bisonette and we would put buck Owens on, and Levi
I Good would come join us, and Roger Craigor would
come join us, and Cory Morrow would come join us,
and we would we would sit over there and uh
and listen to mostly buck Owens and drink beer and
tell stories and eat their pizza, and uh boy, did
(32:56):
we ever have a good time. But I will tell
you something, Uh Eddie Martine's loyalty to Rod Wyndham. I
think we will all be laid off, Paul Lambert, Greg Elverton,
Bo Brown, Angie Sylvia, we will all be laid off.
And the last one standing when the apocalypse come is Eddie.
(33:16):
The last one to be laid off will be Rod Wyndham.
And for those of you who don't know him, Rod
Wyndham knew Jerry Klower In fact played football. He played
football at Mississippi State. Did Rod Wyndham. He went to Vietnam,
where he's got stories. He served in combat, and he's
been in radio. See he's one hundred and twenty three
years old, so he's been in radio like eighty years.
(33:38):
He's one of my favorite people. He was one of
the very first people I met in radio, and he
took me under his wing. I didn't know what I
was doing, and at the end of the show, I'd
come out of the studio needing, craving approval, and he.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Would say, well, that was good. Last week was good,
but you're getting better.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
I'll tell you something, little compliment, little encouragement, goes a
long way.
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