AM Show Hr 3 | 95 Years of KTRH: Memories, Milestones & Listener Love

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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 on the ninety

(00:41):
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 says, zar, my earliest memory of k t r
H was I advertised with Bill Zach and John Burrows

(01:03):
on the Gardening Show. That was a long time ago,
and I said, well, when would that have been? Said?
Best of my memory, it was 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

(01:23):
he said, I worked with John Burrows, John Burrows and
Randy Lemon. So Randy. So when Bill stepped down, Randy
stepped in. 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

(01:45):
they weren't replacing a co host. Huh, that's very interesting.
I can't maybe because 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

(02:06):
someone else. Yeah, anyway, all right to the phone lines
that we go. Your ktr H memory, Johnny, you're up,
go ahead.

Speaker 2 (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

(02:36):
a warm and says he feeling it does dupicated.

Speaker 1 (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. His timing was impeccable.
As all the greats are 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

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I spent the most time studying. And then I then
I moved to comedians because comedians 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

(03:47):
said to me when one day I was bragging on him,
he was, he was, he was. He really made it
big at this point. He really launched into not just
being a comedian, but being a household name. And I said, man,
it's amazing. You get up there with no piano, no backing,
no sidekick, no and you get up there by yourself

(04:11):
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 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

(04:32):
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
just didn't want to do the third segment of the
six o'clock Hour for eight minutes we replayed something from

(04:53):
the morning that got great reviews. You don't dare do that?
That is so I'll get eat listeners? Who will? Ema
just be lazy?

Speaker 3 (05:00):
Are you crazy? You do you do?

Speaker 1 (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 coussi.

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 2 (06:27):
It.

Speaker 4 (06:27):
Wasn't paid, it was just a youth soccer organzation. 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.

Speaker 5 (06:41):
Richard.

Speaker 4 (06:42):
But I was like, Dad, I'm on the sideline. But
you know, it's always somehow my.

Speaker 1 (06:45):
Yeah, yeah, Well, isn't that amazing how that works. Let's
go to Julie, because the ladies have not been weighing
in on their KTRH memory. 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

(07:18):
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

(07:38):
just a little tidbit.

Speaker 1 (07:40):
Well, that's interesting. 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 had markers within his segment that

(08:04):
you almost need, like you craved them.

Speaker 7 (08:07):
It was he.

Speaker 8 (08:07):
Created this was not so rich and famous are as.

Speaker 1 (08:12):
I call it the Michael Barry Shows.

Speaker 3 (09:02):
And what's yon.

Speaker 1 (09:05):
Ramone used to host a show fifteen years ago or
so called Radio Gaga. It was on Saturday Night and
not a lie. It was voted the dumbest show on
Houston Radio by me. That's what I That's what I
named it. Ramone. All Ramone ever wanted to be. It's

(09:28):
like my brother. All my brother ever wanted to be
was a cop. 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

(09:49):
about being in radio. 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.

(10:10):
You work overnights on the weekend because you can't find
people to work for peanuts overnights on the weekend. And
there he was overnights on the weekend, and then in
time you build up to primetime during the week But
he had always produced well. First he had been the

(10:30):
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. And then eventually he became a producer,
which is where I met him. He was producing Sam
Alone show when Sam had left FM, when he left
Susquehanna KRBE and came to KTRH. He would eventually land

(10:53):
on ninety six point five, but for six months he
couldn't be on an FM rival, but he could do
a talk show, so he was doing talk on kkr H.
Never Duncan was if you remember that time, 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

(11:14):
because I didn't know what I was doing, and so
he became my unofficial side hustle producer. I think the
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,

(11:37):
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
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.

(11:59):
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
and it was Saturday nights and to his credit, he
won a lone Star Award for the program. It's very
good programs called Radio Gaga. 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 9 (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 10 (12:38):
Then?

Speaker 5 (12:38):
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 (12:50):
A story Dean.

Speaker 5 (12:55):
Best cantilopes and we had them for years until the
farm got sold.

Speaker 1 (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 and
different Now. 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

(13:22):
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, 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

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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 of kkr H.

Speaker 7 (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 1 (14:21):
Crash, That's correct. I just got an email from a
fellow named John somewhere and he says Zar. Here's my
memory of kJ H. In the seventies, on the 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. That's funny, Phil, What

(14:49):
is your kJ H memory? Man?

Speaker 11 (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 1 (15:01):
And you know Mike Scott. Mike Scott's like my buddy
Michael Robinson, the Aggie plumber. Uh, he'd 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. I interrupted, You go ahead, no.

Speaker 4 (15:24):
But yeah, let's split figure fastball with something else.

Speaker 11 (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 1 (15:44):
My car and collar and yeah, that was twenty two,
I believe. So the next time they won the World Series, yeah,
twenty two.

Speaker 5 (15:53):
You know.

Speaker 1 (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 and you're you're just wondering if he can
keep it. It gets He's so good, he's so smart, he's
a knuckleball.

Speaker 3 (16:11):
Is I love that.

Speaker 1 (16:24):
It's the ninety fifth birthday of our flag ship Station
k Trrah. 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

(16:46):
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,

(17:08):
The Paul Harvey Story by Paul Batura, and he says
that that's not true. The reasoning behind the page two
was as follows quote. This dates 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

(17:28):
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, 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

(17:50):
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 than most of the
news that was Paul Harvey in his own work. Let's
start with Randall. Randall, what is your.

Speaker 12 (18:02):
Memory about nineteen eighty seven eighty eight living in Crystal
Beach Sunday nights starting at nine o'clock.

Speaker 13 (18:13):
They had the classic radio. Theater had about nine to five,
the whistler would come on. Anyways, they had like gun
smoke and other things. But anyways, as a junior high
kid who I was just fascinated with it, I loved it.

Speaker 1 (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. Come at that good memory. Karen wrightes,
my dad used to listen to Dewey Compton in the
early sixties. If he mentioned a new product, we were

(18:52):
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? Do you know Ramon? You don't
know her? It's not them, okay, Joe writes, zor I

(19:15):
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. They were not swingers. You're stupid, that's sacrilege.
Kyle Finch writes, we traveled to Oklahoma a lot in
the seventies and eighties, and I remember listening to Paul

(19:36):
Harvey and Tradio. Laurie writes, I was a rock listener.
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

(19:58):
I told and who switched over. We'd even eat 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

(20:18):
they were aging began to sort of fulfill the 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

(20:41):
some stations around the country that they flipped 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 two hours four.

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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. When

(21:27):
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 14 (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 12 (22:12):
His mom would what having on.

Speaker 14 (22:14):
We were eat breakfast, going into getting ready to go
to school.

Speaker 1 (22:17):
But good time. 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,

(22:40):
Richard Carter, 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,

(23:01):
the 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 b 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.
And he said, I need. 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

(23:44):
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. It's okay.
My wife will tell you, I start FeH when I'm
away from from the air, I start fishing. I got

(24:04):
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 to offshore. He just goes
sit at a pond. There's two groups of people that

(24:26):
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 a minute,
just long enough. And you know who else does It's
Kenny Allen. He posts pictures of his age is proper.

Speaker 3 (24:47):
He loves On.

Speaker 1 (25:02):
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 of way, anywhere,

(25:26):
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, or how
they consume it, or when they consume it. If it's good.

(25:50):
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 going to follow you.
If you leave the medium, then you don't deserve a job.

(26:14):
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. We'll get you
off the field. 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

(26:36):
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 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

(27:01):
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 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

(27:21):
he would go around town and he was all mister
nice guy. But my understanding is he wasn't so nice
before that. He was very 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. That the time Jerry

(27:44):
Klarer's I think he's in New York.

Speaker 8 (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 all of our artists. It's our responsibility

(28:10):
to make sure that they have a good room.

Speaker 9 (28:12):
Where's your room?

Speaker 5 (28:12):
All right?

Speaker 8 (28:13):
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 don't you to know you done got up in
high cotton when you pay a dollar and a half
a slice of candle load. And I said, you know,

(28:37):
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 crops you a ground slide load up?

Speaker 14 (28:56):
Ed?

Speaker 1 (28:56):
What's your kt R? It's memory.

Speaker 10 (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 3 (29:46):
Do you keep up with him?

Speaker 13 (29:48):
Uh?

Speaker 10 (29:49):
Not as much as I used to. 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 10 (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 10 (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 1 (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 out there. Hey,
that's one of the old timers. Now, what is your
last name?

Speaker 10 (30:32):
Ed Hamilton?

Speaker 1 (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 Good Company

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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 he'd during the During the day,
Rod would say, hey, you want to go for beer
and buck? We call it beer and Buck. 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,

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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 we ever have
a good time. But I will tell you something, uh
Eddie Martine's loyalty to Rod Wyndham. I think we will

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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. 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

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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.
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

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come out of the studio needing, craving approval, and he.

Speaker 3 (33:50):
Would say, well, that was good.

Speaker 1 (33:51):
Last week was good, but you're getting better. I'll tell
you something, little compliment, little encouragement, goes a long way.