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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Vari show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
It's a genocide that's second place that you people don't
want to write about, but it's a terrible thing that's
taking place.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
And farmers are being killed. They happen to be white.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
But whether they're white or black makes no difference to me.
But white farmers are being brutally killed and their land
is being confiscated in South Africa.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
With the dramatic scene in the Oval Office today, the
tense confrontation President Trump ambushing the President of South Africa.
Speaker 5 (00:45):
Next another Oval office meltdown, President Trump ambushing the President
of South Africa.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
President Trump is being accused of conducting something of a
diplomatic ambush a South Africa's president in the Oval Office.
Speaker 6 (00:56):
To be with you, I'm Katie, sir, President Trump orchestrated
another Oval Office ambush.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Today is today Donald Trump meeting with the President of
South Africa and attempting to ambush and humiliate that leader.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
Zelenski territory where essentially he was a bit ambushed inside
the Oval Office.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Felt like an ambush in there, kind of like the
President's Lensky meeting in the Oval office.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
This was an ambush. It was orchestrated.
Speaker 7 (01:23):
Brought his best diplomatic self to this meeting, but nothing
could have prepared him for this multimedia ambush.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
What started as to some degree in ambush, Well, Katie,
I mean it wasn't ambushed, ambush, ambushed, ambush and ambushed.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
Ambushing, ambush and ambushed inside the Oval office.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
They when fire.
Speaker 6 (01:58):
The Partei system ended and they reformed their constitution under
the great leader of Nelson Mandela, and that allowed for
a racial reconciliation, one that this country has yet to do.
If there was actually a genocide happening like there is
in other places in Sudan and the Congo, would I'm
not opposed for Congolese and for the Sunnese to come
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to Africa, just like I'm not opposed to Venezuelans and
South America's coming to America if they are fleeing and
looking for asylum. I am what I am against.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
It's not about being against them.
Speaker 6 (02:29):
What I am against is that they are being given
special statement when there is not a genocide happening in
South Africa and they just don't.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Like the law of the land.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Whether you call it a genocide or not. The facts
are white farmers in South Africa have been murdered.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
A lot of people have tried to cover this up.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
A lot of people in I think media in the
United States have tried to cover it up. Obviously, the
South African government doesn't want to talk about it. So
it was kind of a boss move for Donald Trump
to roll that television in there today. And I think
even the agriculture minister in the Oval Office confirmed that
these people are in fact being murdered. So my question is,
if it's not a genocide today, how many do we
want to let get murdered so that people around here
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can be satisfied. Okay, now it's a genocide.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Well, major news out of DC as President Trump's One Big,
Beautiful Bill has passed. It was an extension of the
twenty seventeen Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which came to
be known as the TCJA. This would permanently extend that Act,
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but would also work to eliminate taxes on tips and overtime.
We're gonna play some music. I'm having a little problem
with my computer system here. I need about thirty seconds,
just one say, we're.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Going to be changing the name of the Gulf of
Mexico to the golf of with the Michael Berry, which
is a beautiful.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
W close your rise and drink me going on a
trip through history. I won't see society.
Speaker 8 (04:31):
Day and we'll go back when time's young and you
learn the trigger of gun.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Maybe six feet on the way, when the.
Speaker 8 (04:42):
Mountains closed about the side and the rivers killed.
Speaker 6 (04:46):
Mine's cried to.
Speaker 8 (04:48):
Was a year forty nine. Hey those days. I'm not
gone and didn't wish I could see the li find
from the cowboys. I I'm on good time trad I'm
very hard.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
I had a glitch. I'm on the power to my
box that broadcasts no nothing in dangerous. It's a little disconcerting.
It just decided to start happening while I was right
in the middle of talking. But anyway, the bill has passed,
which is no small feat for President Trump, and this
is a big win for Mike Johnson as Speaker of
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the House. The bill passed two fifteen to two fourteen,
every Democrat voting against it. Thomas Massey, Republican from Kentucky
voting voting against it. And I believe it was Warren
Davidson from Ohio who ended up being the other holdout
and the head of the Freedom Caucus, whose last name
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is Harris, I forget his first name, Andy Harris from Maryland,
voted present. But the margins it matter. The bill passed.
That's a big win for Trump. Is it a perfect bill. No,
it's not anywhere near a perfect bill. Is it what
I would like? No, it's not anywhere near what I
would like. But if you're assessing what it means to
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the Trump presidency, this was a domestic accomplishment at a
time when he did not want a need to see
a break in his line of successes, both foreign and domestic.
So consider it you can. You can chalk this one
up as a win for Trump and delivering on no
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tax on tips, no tax on overtime. If that makes
it through the final process of reconciliation, that's going to
be That's going to be a huge feather in his cap.
It's going to be a promise made that I think
a lot of people believe he could not accomplish, and
darned if he didn't do it.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
That is the big news in Washington, d C. At
this very moment.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Congress will be in recess next week, so this needed
to get done and as of early this morning it did,
so I can tell you they are popping the corks
of champagne at the White House as we speak. That
was a very, very difficult process, wrangling two hundred and
fifteen votes to two hundred fourteen. My understanding with the
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Andy Harris deal is that he voted present because if
he voted against it, it would tie and up pass.
So by staying out, he affected the number of votes
needed to get a majority, and you weren't going to
get Davidson or Massey. They pulled in several votes the
last possible minute, but by voting present, he allowed them
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to win with a two fifteen to two fourteen majority.
And as you remember, there's actually four hundred thirty five congressman,
so you've got a few folks missing. We've had six
Democrat congressmen back die and just looking it up like
a last ten months, two of them being Turner and
she lived.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Actually not the Longhorn theme song or the Aggie wore him,
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but I will tell you it's uh. It is the
school fight.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Song of the number one college basketball program in the
state of Texas and could end up being in the country.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
And there is great news for fellow Cougar's.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Head basketball coach Kelvin Sampson has signed a new four
year contract that will run through the twenty eight to
twenty nine season, which is great news for UH because
it locks up what I would argue is the best
coach in college basketball today.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
He has a two.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Hundred and ninety nine wins eighty four loss record during
his eleven seasons at Houston. Funny, it doesn't feel like
eleven seasons. It's hard to believe, isn't it interesting When
a coach is winning, you don't realize how long they've
been there. When they're losing, it feels like it's been forever.
Every year we hear the rumors that other schools are
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trying to poach Kelvin, and he stays true every year.
I hope this is where he ends his career. I
really really do. He's in a great spot. He's seventy,
he'll be seventy in October. The university loves him. Tilman
is obviously off in Italy as he ambassador, but the
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board loves him. The university loves him. The football program
is not where you'd like it to be, but the
basketball program is bringing great honor to the school and
he's a major part of that. And you know, obviously
UH wants to win a national championship.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
That's the goal. You get that close, that's the goal.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
And rankings have them at number one in recruiting for
next season again with not one five star recruit or commit,
not two five star commits, but three five star commits.
And whether you're a Cougar or not, whether you want
to see great basketball on the college level in Houston
or not, who wouldn't want to root for Kelvin Samsony's
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like Mike Leech, just a great quote master.
Speaker 7 (10:49):
Don't advice I would give people to people that follow
this team is and this is as honest and as
true as that you can possibly be. Your team's now
as good as you think it is, it's neighbor, as
bad as you think it is.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
No one ever loses the daty thing.
Speaker 7 (11:05):
As long as you don't quit, tell you you quit,
I don't care it you've lost.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
No, it's the same thing. I mean, nerve.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
I don't think they've made a three yet either, we
haven't made it three.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
It's nerves. It's about his championship night. Is that in the.
Speaker 7 (11:18):
Melody of Janguary against as what state it is not
as your championship never gonna be nerved.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
So the founder of the Texas Renaissance Festival Festival Rest
has died at eighty seven. Weirdo George Coolum as he
has been described, or King George. Now let me say
before we begin this discussion, I never went to Renfest.
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I didn't know George. I may be mispronouncing his name.
I know that there are people who love him and
there are a lot of people who hate him. There's
a whole different group of people who don't really know him.
But there was the I think it was an HBO series.
It made him out to be a creepers jeepers, inappropriate
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with the ladies, and just an all around bad guy.
I don't know if any of that is true or not.
I can tell you stories on Sheila Jackson, Lee and
Sylvester Turner. I don't know about the King George or
George Coolam. I don't know if it's Kulim or Kulam.
I'm gonna say Coolim until somebody corrects me. But so
when we start this conversation, just no, I don't speak
from any authority. I'm just telling you what I hear
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about it. So Texas Renaissance Festival is a big deal.
It's a big regional deal. I think it got to be,
if not the biggest of its type in the country
when it started and when it grew, certainly one of,
if not, as I said, the biggest. I've seen reports
that it was the largest festival of this kind in
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the country, and I know a lot of people who've
been there, including Ramon who was arrested there, and we'll
get to that in a moment. So there's been this
contentious back and forth between George and these buyers groups
that wanted to buy him out, and he would go
into the contract and then come out. Last week I
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read that the deal was finally done and he's not
able to I think when he backed out, they took
him to court because at some point people were being
induced into a contract and then he would pull out
of it, and they were spending money on that. So,
in what was described by one person as the Willy
Wonka of the Renaissance affairs, there's a lot of drama involved.
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So he's found dead. Cause of death currently listed as unknown.
This is two weeks after a Grimes County judge ruled
against him, forcing the sale of the festival to new owners,
and it was expected that he would not be appealing
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this judgment.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
He owed twenty two million dollars.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
In damages to those folks and another million dollars in
lawyers fees, which was going to come off the top
of the value of the sale.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
As I said.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
The HBO document series, which I've not seen, followed what
was described as the very toxic and often creepy life
of Kulham, who was sued multiple times for sexually assaulting employees.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Where does one part?
Speaker 1 (14:19):
I Steed write, Ramone, is it time for.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Another old rock and roll segment?
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Folks are fascinated by the Middle Ages and a festival.
I'm not a festival person. My problem with festivals is
there's people there and they're never normal. They're never normal.
So that brings us to Ramone's story of being arrested.
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It's one of my favorite stories.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
The year was about. Let's see two eight or nine.
Ramone was.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Assistant program director of KPRC, which just turned one hundred
years old. That's nine to fifty, just down the dow
and I was the operations manager over the three AM stations.
Seven ninety the sports station seven forty what you're listening
to now? In nine to fifty, so, Ramon worked on
my show, but I also wanted to promote him to
program director of this station nine fifty.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
So I I.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Say, I'd like to move him. I'd like to promote
him to this position. And our HR director, who was
also the controller at the time, was very controlling and
she said, no, we can't do that. He's he's got
a record. I said, what, he's got a record? He
was arrested for what a DW I mean, what pott?
Speaker 2 (15:47):
What was he arrested for?
Speaker 1 (15:49):
And she said it was a company infringement. It's in
his HR file. You have got to be kidding me,
m So she went back to his HR file, which
had one document in it, which was that in two thousand,
Ramon had taken the free tickets that any iHeart than
cleartail employee did and was selling them for five dollars
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at the gate and got arrested for it.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
And she said, no, he can't have the job because
of that. Well he got the job, dude. The Michael
Berry Show.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
President Trump hosted the President of South Africa yesterday in
the White House and he said, hey, your people are
committing genocide against white farmers.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Let me show you.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
And he has them rolling the TV and turned the
lights down, and it was like when you were in
second grade and you had a substitute teacher and the
lights go down and Uncle Smiley comes on and you're
looking and they're in the White House sitting in half dark,
watching the viciousness. And that guy, he didn't know what
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to think. I just came here for some cash and
now I gotta So you want to know how corrupt
the media is. Jim Mudd put together our opener today.
You heard all the references to ambush People Magazine. I'll
give you the headlines. People Trump ambush's South African president
on live TV with videos of debunked white persecution.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
They're not debunked. Let's see The Telegraph.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Trump ambushes South African president with footage of white persecution.
Axios Trump ambush's South African's president with video footage in
oval office. Yahoo Trump ambush's South African president with video
claiming to show white genocide. Daily News Trump ambush's South
African president with video of attacks on white people. The Times,
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Trump ambushes Ramafosa with video of racial violence as it happened.
Let's see NPR Trump ambush's South Africa's president with false
claims of white genocide.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
The New York Times.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Trump lectures South African president in televised oval office ambush.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
You don't.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Accidentally coincidentally use the same word that often.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Across multiple.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Journalists and headline writers unless it is coordinated. If there's
one thing that comes out of the book original sinate
should be that there is evil that is done, that
is well understood what they're doing, and they do it anyway,
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They do it anyway, and nobody cares. So I got
a bunch of emails during the break about Ramon being arrested,
and so I was up against a break and I
had a couple of I had a couple of glitches
in the matrix. So I was off my game. But
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here's what happened. So when you work at a radio station,
and we don't do this anymore because it's not done
like that anymore. But back in the day, Ramone's been
in radio for a long time. He didn't get his watch.
At twenty or twenty five years, he still saw over it.
But this was about a year two thousand and part
of working in a radio, everybody would get fat because
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food would be delivered every day. Shipley Donuts would send
donuts every morning, and on the programming floor there was
not a full kitchen, but there was a pass through
kitchen to two sides of the hallways, and there was
a vending machine, a refrigerator and a long counter, and
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there was always somebody bringing food. And the hope being
if we put our food in there, they'll eat it.
They'll go right back on the air and say, wow,
we just had Shipley Donuts and it was great. So
there was always food in there. I made it a
practice that I never ate it, because I knew that
if I gave in one time.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
That would be the end to me. I would eat
it every time.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
But anyway, one of the perks was that there would
sometimes be gift cards to restaurants, so the sales reps
would have gift cards. If you did a solid for
a sales rep, Robert Reese would hand you a gift
card and you could go and eat. Because you didn't
make any money, especially on the programming floor. The promotions department,
led by a woman named Melissa Presner, who was there
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how long was Breas there almost thirty years. Bres had
all the power because all the events went through Breas.
Everybody loved Breas. Brez always looked tired because everybody was
always pestering her for tickets.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
So Brez's job was to.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Coordinate all the events through our stations and the AM event.
The AM stations didn't do hardly any events a sports
station did. But really the big events back in those
days and probably still are were buzz ninety four point
five rod Ryan Station and so like Buzzfest, which either
just happened or is about to happen, huge event, And
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I had to hide during that time because people would
ask you for Busfest tickets. Everybody wanted to go to
Busfest because it would be all these bands that I
don't know, but you would know that, you know, just
one after the other. And why wouldn't they You're on
the biggest alternative rock station in the fourth largest city.
Yeah you're gonna play that festival. So one of the
big perks was tickets to stuff. And when you first
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started in radio, you would brag to people that you
could get tickets to stuff, and you would figure out
within a month that was the dumbest thing I ever did.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Because now people don't even really care.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
To go to a concert, but they got a buddy
who's got tickets, and they're gonna ask for tickets, not
just for themselves but for the because now when they're
at a party like well, i'd trure like to go
to Busfest, I can get you tickets. You can't give
me tickets, impossible. They go on sale and they're gone
within three minutes. I got a hook up over there.
So now you have this chain of people who are
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promising down the chain that they'll get you Busfest tickets.
So Texas Renaissance Festival probably would have advertised right ramon.
They probably they probably would have had some sort of
partnership with our stations, and that would have gone onto
the ams as well as the fms, And because it's
kind of one of those things that everybody goes to
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just despite the regardless of age, and so part of
that is they would have sent over a packet of
these are tickets that your people can use, and probably
some tickets for some giveaways. So for whatever reason, at
the last minute, there were tickets there. And Tim Collins,
who ran seven ninety the sports station at the time,
says to Ramone, he's technically Ramone's boss at that point,
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and Ramone's a board up.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
You're board up at that time, right, Okay, So Ramone's
a board.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Oup, which I mean, I would say there's a lower
position on the totem pole in the business, and that
would be the janitor, except technically the janitor work for
the building and she brought to Molly's, so it's pretty
much the lowest position on there. You're not making any money.
But Ramone is a lifer for radio. All he's ever
wanted to do was make radio. So Tim Collins says, hey, uh,
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we got these tickets. It's busfest tomorrow. We're not going
to give them away. Why don't you take them. You
can halk them at the front. They have no value
printed on them. You can halk them their general admission,
get five bucks apiece for some beer money.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Moon's like, I could do that, So he takes his tickets. Good,
don't go, don't go. Don't give me some baby elephants run.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
He goes rolling up outside Texas Renaissance Festival. He's got
his free tickets. He doesn't think he's doing anything wrong.
So there he goes, Hey, ticket. He's not like those
black guys standing outside the Toileta Center that are real aggressive,
but like their scalping tickets. You're like, is he gonna
mug me or sell me tickets? And there's Ramon, He's
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just harmless. Ramon, don't go, don't he's got his tickets
for sale.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Cop comes up.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Cop comes up and says, I'm arresting. It is illegal
what you're doing your scalping tickets. Technically, I think the
scalp tickets you.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Have to sell them. Well, anyway, we'll get to that moment.
So Ramon says, I didn't even know I wasn't allowed
to do that.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
And guy says, one thing I hate worse than a thief,
it's a.
Speaker 8 (24:36):
Liar yellow putting fops prosen putting on a stake.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
The Michael Berry Show Jello brand pudding pops made with
the goodness of real Jello pudding.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
As relates to the founder of Texas Renaissance Fair. If
I'm mispronouncing his name some how, do you email me
and tell me George culam co o U l A
M unless it was Koulamb, but I'm assuming it's Kulim
And that's what I'm saying till somebody corrects.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Men. I did not know the guy, but I'm getting
reports at.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Channel two is saying that the death is being investigated
as a suicide. If it's being investigated as a suicide,
then there's a good chance it is a suicide because
that means there was something amiss when they showed up.
You know, if there is a pistol in the person's
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hand and you know they're laying there and there's blood
splatter on the wall, this is probably not a natural
death sort of thing. If there are pills around, It's
almost always the case when you hear it being reported
that it is being investigated as a suicide.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
That means law enforcement didn't want.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
To say it was a suicide because they wanted to
do an investigation first. But if they've begun an investigation,
then it is one hundred percent it is most likely
a suicide.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
That's that is going to be the case, not right.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Now, but in a few minutes, because we have an
interview coming up at nine o'clock. I want you to
think about your best ticket scalping story. So either you
bought a ticket from a scalper and it was fake,
and you showed you boobies and still got in, or
because women can do that. Dudes, you know, we don't
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have tickets, we're out. We're just like, that's just it.
But girls, and I've seen it. I've seen it in
my own eyes. Girls can flutter there. We can't get
out of tickets either. Yeah, y'all got some things going
for you. Of course we don't have dudes pastornis if
we're sitting at the bar, whereas y'all can't really enjoy yourself.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
So I guess it all balances out. I guess it
all balances out.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
In any case, I want you to think about your
best ticket scalp story, or it can be how you
went backstage, but I want to first focus on ticket
scalping stories. Be thinking about your story, but don't call
in yet. I'll open the lines for that probably at
about nine point fifteen ish. So just be kind of
working through your story and massaging it in your head
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and practicing your presentation so that it is amazing, amazing,
Joe writes Renfest. That would explain the goings on after
hours at the campground, which I've been told by a
couple who used to go that it was a modern
day sodom and gomora all night long. I guess I'm
a little bit surprised how many people are shocked that
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this HBO docu series. I didn't watch it about the
Texas Renaissance Festival. I have heard that it shows a
Texas Renaissance Festival when people aren't there to be one
big drug fest, one big orgy, filth and vile, and
I don't mean just im morality. I mean filth and
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vile and nastiness. I'll be completely honest and maybe make
some of you angry. I've never been around anyone who
likes to dress like Obelix in the cartoons That wasn't
stinky and dirty and filthy and probably four felonies.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
I mean, I'm just being honest. I've never met anyone
like that. What was that cartoon ramon?
Speaker 1 (28:33):
My wife got me. It was a Belgian cartoon. Obelix
was in it. He but I don't think that was
the name of the cartoon. But you know those people
that wear like the Viking hats and all that sort, Well,
I guess that's not true because Rico Rico's kind of
in that cap Rico's about the cleanest version of a
Renfest person you can meet, right because he's got like
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wild hair that could have you know, insects or bugs
or snakes or stuff in it, and he might have
a snake in his pocket at any time. And then
he's got brass knuckles that are not brass, they're stirling silver.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
And he's got tattoos everywhere.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
And you know, he's wearing a duster in the summer,
so you don't know what all is is. You know,
up up in there, he might have lunch for a week,
you don't know.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
But Rico is adorable.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
So he's probably the cleanest of those people I've ever met,
but a lot of them, I mean, what.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Would you expect. I'm not in any way.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Surprised, knowing what I know and having seen pictures that
those people are all screwing each other and using crazy drugs.
It's next you're gonna tell me burning Man is crazy
or that Woodstock was crazy. That is a certain lifestyle.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
I think.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
It's why I don't. I don't care for it. Did
you Oh, I guess you got arrested had you ever
gone inside Renaissance Festival. We'm all you know the amount
of gas you burned to get up there. When I
was growing up, gas was more expensive, obviously, But when
I was growing up, it was a big deal. If
we had to drive, you'd say I had to burn
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my gas to go. If a woman and a man
broke up, she'd say, I burned my gas to go
pick up his kids. You don't ever hear people maybe
just maybe I'm not around people that say that anymore.
But that used to be a thing. You I had
to burn my gas because you were paying hard cash
to drive somewhere. It was a really, really big deal. Well,
you got any more ticket stories that you want to
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share with us? Okay, kids will never know what it's
like to camp outside folies. Did you camp outside polies? Okay?
Is this the story I'm gonna want to hear? Is
this a Renfest story? Oh it's for you two tickets?
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Oh by the way, real quick, please listen carefully so
you don't mess up on this. Don't email me yet.
But we got final approval from mar a Lago. We
got final approval on our hotel rooms, which are not
at mar Lago. They cannot accommodate a group decide. We
got final approval on the private planes, so we have
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enough things in place that our event, which will be
the last weekend of October, is now going to happen.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
We are committed to.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
It, so if you are interested in the email with
the details, send me an email through the website. And please,
if you are that person, which is usually a woman
who gets hysterical, I gotta know, I gotta know, em,
I gotta please, don't because we will block you and
kick We don't need one hundred different people spiraling out
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of control.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Why haven't I heard my? Why haven't I heard back?
Speaker 1 (31:41):
It's a relaxed, good time and everybody that goes has
a great time. But you might need a couple of
zan access because we don't do well with highly strung
people that need a bunch of answers to money. But anyway,
if you are interested, we are finally able to say
the trip is a go. It's the it's the Thursday
through Sunday, the last weekend of October. Just send us
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an email that you want more information and you'll be
on the list and those will go out by Tuesday,
maybe before
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Vari show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
It's a genocide that's second place that you people don't
want to write about, but it's a terrible thing that's
taking place.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
And farmers are being killed. They happen to be white.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
But whether they're white or black makes no difference to me.
But white farmers are being brutally killed and their land
is being confiscated in South Africa.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
With the dramatic scene in the Oval Office today, the
tense confrontation President Trump ambushing the President of South Africa.
Speaker 5 (00:45):
Next another Oval office meltdown, President Trump ambushing the President
of South Africa.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
President Trump is being accused of conducting something of a
diplomatic ambush a South Africa's president in the Oval Office.
Speaker 6 (00:56):
To be with you, I'm Katie, sir, President Trump orchestrated
another Oval Office ambush.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Today is today Donald Trump meeting with the President of
South Africa and attempting to ambush and humiliate that leader.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
Zelenski territory where essentially he was a bit ambushed inside
the Oval Office.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Felt like an ambush in there, kind of like the
President's Lensky meeting in the Oval office.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
This was an ambush. It was orchestrated.
Speaker 7 (01:23):
Brought his best diplomatic self to this meeting, but nothing
could have prepared him for this multimedia ambush.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
What started as to some degree in ambush, Well, Katie,
I mean it wasn't ambushed, ambush, ambushed, ambush and ambushed.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
Ambushing, ambush and ambushed inside the Oval office.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
They when fire.
Speaker 6 (01:58):
The Partei system ended and they reformed their constitution under
the great leader of Nelson Mandela, and that allowed for
a racial reconciliation, one that this country has yet to do.
If there was actually a genocide happening like there is
in other places in Sudan and the Congo, would I'm
not opposed for Congolese and for the Sunnese to come
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to Africa, just like I'm not opposed to Venezuelans and
South America's coming to America if they are fleeing and
looking for asylum. I am what I am against.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
It's not about being against them.
Speaker 6 (02:29):
What I am against is that they are being given
special statement when there is not a genocide happening in
South Africa and they just don't.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Like the law of the land.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Whether you call it a genocide or not. The facts
are white farmers in South Africa have been murdered.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
A lot of people have tried to cover this up.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
A lot of people in I think media in the
United States have tried to cover it up. Obviously, the
South African government doesn't want to talk about it. So
it was kind of a boss move for Donald Trump
to roll that television in there today. And I think
even the agriculture minister in the Oval Office confirmed that
these people are in fact being murdered. So my question is,
if it's not a genocide today, how many do we
want to let get murdered so that people around here
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can be satisfied. Okay, now it's a genocide.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Well, major news out of DC as President Trump's One Big,
Beautiful Bill has passed. It was an extension of the
twenty seventeen Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which came to
be known as the TCJA. This would permanently extend that Act,
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but would also work to eliminate taxes on tips and overtime.
We're gonna play some music. I'm having a little problem
with my computer system here. I need about thirty seconds,
just one say, we're.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Going to be changing the name of the Gulf of
Mexico to the golf of with the Michael Berry, which
is a beautiful.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
W close your rise and drink me going on a
trip through history. I won't see society.
Speaker 8 (04:31):
Day and we'll go back when time's young and you
learn the trigger of gun.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Maybe six feet on the way, when the.
Speaker 8 (04:42):
Mountains closed about the side and the rivers killed.
Speaker 6 (04:46):
Mine's cried to.
Speaker 8 (04:48):
Was a year forty nine. Hey those days. I'm not
gone and didn't wish I could see the li find
from the cowboys. I I'm on good time trad I'm
very hard.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
I had a glitch. I'm on the power to my
box that broadcasts no nothing in dangerous. It's a little disconcerting.
It just decided to start happening while I was right
in the middle of talking. But anyway, the bill has passed,
which is no small feat for President Trump, and this
is a big win for Mike Johnson as Speaker of
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the House. The bill passed two fifteen to two fourteen,
every Democrat voting against it. Thomas Massey, Republican from Kentucky
voting voting against it. And I believe it was Warren
Davidson from Ohio who ended up being the other holdout
and the head of the Freedom Caucus, whose last name
(05:53):
is Harris, I forget his first name, Andy Harris from Maryland,
voted present. But the margins it matter. The bill passed.
That's a big win for Trump. Is it a perfect bill. No,
it's not anywhere near a perfect bill. Is it what
I would like? No, it's not anywhere near what I
would like. But if you're assessing what it means to
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the Trump presidency, this was a domestic accomplishment at a
time when he did not want a need to see
a break in his line of successes, both foreign and domestic.
So consider it you can. You can chalk this one
up as a win for Trump and delivering on no
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tax on tips, no tax on overtime. If that makes
it through the final process of reconciliation, that's going to
be That's going to be a huge feather in his cap.
It's going to be a promise made that I think
a lot of people believe he could not accomplish, and
darned if he didn't do it.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
That is the big news in Washington, d C. At
this very moment.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Congress will be in recess next week, so this needed
to get done and as of early this morning it did,
so I can tell you they are popping the corks
of champagne at the White House as we speak. That
was a very, very difficult process, wrangling two hundred and
fifteen votes to two hundred fourteen. My understanding with the
(07:27):
Andy Harris deal is that he voted present because if
he voted against it, it would tie and up pass.
So by staying out, he affected the number of votes
needed to get a majority, and you weren't going to
get Davidson or Massey. They pulled in several votes the
last possible minute, but by voting present, he allowed them
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to win with a two fifteen to two fourteen majority.
And as you remember, there's actually four hundred thirty five congressman,
so you've got a few folks missing. We've had six
Democrat congressmen back die and just looking it up like
a last ten months, two of them being Turner and
she lived.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Actually not the Longhorn theme song or the Aggie wore him,
(08:42):
but I will tell you it's uh. It is the
school fight.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Song of the number one college basketball program in the
state of Texas and could end up being in the country.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
And there is great news for fellow Cougar's.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Head basketball coach Kelvin Sampson has signed a new four
year contract that will run through the twenty eight to
twenty nine season, which is great news for UH because
it locks up what I would argue is the best
coach in college basketball today.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
He has a two.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Hundred and ninety nine wins eighty four loss record during
his eleven seasons at Houston. Funny, it doesn't feel like
eleven seasons. It's hard to believe, isn't it interesting When
a coach is winning, you don't realize how long they've
been there. When they're losing, it feels like it's been forever.
Every year we hear the rumors that other schools are
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trying to poach Kelvin, and he stays true every year.
I hope this is where he ends his career. I
really really do. He's in a great spot. He's seventy,
he'll be seventy in October. The university loves him. Tilman
is obviously off in Italy as he ambassador, but the
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board loves him. The university loves him. The football program
is not where you'd like it to be, but the
basketball program is bringing great honor to the school and
he's a major part of that. And you know, obviously
UH wants to win a national championship.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
That's the goal. You get that close, that's the goal.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
And rankings have them at number one in recruiting for
next season again with not one five star recruit or commit,
not two five star commits, but three five star commits.
And whether you're a Cougar or not, whether you want
to see great basketball on the college level in Houston
or not, who wouldn't want to root for Kelvin Samsony's
(10:45):
like Mike Leech, just a great quote master.
Speaker 7 (10:49):
Don't advice I would give people to people that follow
this team is and this is as honest and as
true as that you can possibly be. Your team's now
as good as you think it is, it's neighbor, as
bad as you think it is.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
No one ever loses the daty thing.
Speaker 7 (11:05):
As long as you don't quit, tell you you quit,
I don't care it you've lost.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
No, it's the same thing. I mean, nerve.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
I don't think they've made a three yet either, we
haven't made it three.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
It's nerves. It's about his championship night. Is that in the.
Speaker 7 (11:18):
Melody of Janguary against as what state it is not
as your championship never gonna be nerved.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
So the founder of the Texas Renaissance Festival Festival Rest
has died at eighty seven. Weirdo George Coolum as he
has been described, or King George. Now let me say
before we begin this discussion, I never went to Renfest.
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I didn't know George. I may be mispronouncing his name.
I know that there are people who love him and
there are a lot of people who hate him. There's
a whole different group of people who don't really know him.
But there was the I think it was an HBO series.
It made him out to be a creepers jeepers, inappropriate
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with the ladies, and just an all around bad guy.
I don't know if any of that is true or not.
I can tell you stories on Sheila Jackson, Lee and
Sylvester Turner. I don't know about the King George or
George Coolam. I don't know if it's Kulim or Kulam.
I'm gonna say Coolim until somebody corrects me. But so
when we start this conversation, just no, I don't speak
from any authority. I'm just telling you what I hear
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about it. So Texas Renaissance Festival is a big deal.
It's a big regional deal. I think it got to be,
if not the biggest of its type in the country
when it started and when it grew, certainly one of,
if not, as I said, the biggest. I've seen reports
that it was the largest festival of this kind in
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the country, and I know a lot of people who've
been there, including Ramon who was arrested there, and we'll
get to that in a moment. So there's been this
contentious back and forth between George and these buyers groups
that wanted to buy him out, and he would go
into the contract and then come out. Last week I
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read that the deal was finally done and he's not
able to I think when he backed out, they took
him to court because at some point people were being
induced into a contract and then he would pull out
of it, and they were spending money on that. So,
in what was described by one person as the Willy
Wonka of the Renaissance affairs, there's a lot of drama involved.
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So he's found dead. Cause of death currently listed as unknown.
This is two weeks after a Grimes County judge ruled
against him, forcing the sale of the festival to new owners,
and it was expected that he would not be appealing
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this judgment.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
He owed twenty two million dollars.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
In damages to those folks and another million dollars in
lawyers fees, which was going to come off the top
of the value of the sale.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
As I said.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
The HBO document series, which I've not seen, followed what
was described as the very toxic and often creepy life
of Kulham, who was sued multiple times for sexually assaulting employees.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Where does one part?
Speaker 1 (14:19):
I Steed write, Ramone, is it time for.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Another old rock and roll segment?
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Folks are fascinated by the Middle Ages and a festival.
I'm not a festival person. My problem with festivals is
there's people there and they're never normal. They're never normal.
So that brings us to Ramone's story of being arrested.
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It's one of my favorite stories.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
The year was about. Let's see two eight or nine.
Ramone was.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Assistant program director of KPRC, which just turned one hundred
years old. That's nine to fifty, just down the dow
and I was the operations manager over the three AM stations.
Seven ninety the sports station seven forty what you're listening
to now? In nine to fifty, so, Ramon worked on
my show, but I also wanted to promote him to
program director of this station nine fifty.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
So I I.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Say, I'd like to move him. I'd like to promote
him to this position. And our HR director, who was
also the controller at the time, was very controlling and
she said, no, we can't do that. He's he's got
a record. I said, what, he's got a record? He
was arrested for what a DW I mean, what pott?
Speaker 2 (15:47):
What was he arrested for?
Speaker 1 (15:49):
And she said it was a company infringement. It's in
his HR file. You have got to be kidding me,
m So she went back to his HR file, which
had one document in it, which was that in two thousand,
Ramon had taken the free tickets that any iHeart than
cleartail employee did and was selling them for five dollars
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at the gate and got arrested for it.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
And she said, no, he can't have the job because
of that. Well he got the job, dude. The Michael
Berry Show.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
President Trump hosted the President of South Africa yesterday in
the White House and he said, hey, your people are
committing genocide against white farmers.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Let me show you.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
And he has them rolling the TV and turned the
lights down, and it was like when you were in
second grade and you had a substitute teacher and the
lights go down and Uncle Smiley comes on and you're
looking and they're in the White House sitting in half dark,
watching the viciousness. And that guy, he didn't know what
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to think. I just came here for some cash and
now I gotta So you want to know how corrupt
the media is. Jim Mudd put together our opener today.
You heard all the references to ambush People Magazine. I'll
give you the headlines. People Trump ambush's South African president
on live TV with videos of debunked white persecution.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
They're not debunked. Let's see The Telegraph.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Trump ambushes South African president with footage of white persecution.
Axios Trump ambush's South African's president with video footage in
oval office. Yahoo Trump ambush's South African president with video
claiming to show white genocide. Daily News Trump ambush's South
African president with video of attacks on white people. The Times,
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Trump ambushes Ramafosa with video of racial violence as it happened.
Let's see NPR Trump ambush's South Africa's president with false
claims of white genocide.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
The New York Times.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Trump lectures South African president in televised oval office ambush.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
You don't.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Accidentally coincidentally use the same word that often.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Across multiple.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Journalists and headline writers unless it is coordinated. If there's
one thing that comes out of the book original sinate
should be that there is evil that is done, that
is well understood what they're doing, and they do it anyway,
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They do it anyway, and nobody cares. So I got
a bunch of emails during the break about Ramon being arrested,
and so I was up against a break and I
had a couple of I had a couple of glitches
in the matrix. So I was off my game. But
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here's what happened. So when you work at a radio station,
and we don't do this anymore because it's not done
like that anymore. But back in the day, Ramone's been
in radio for a long time. He didn't get his watch.
At twenty or twenty five years, he still saw over it.
But this was about a year two thousand and part
of working in a radio, everybody would get fat because
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food would be delivered every day. Shipley Donuts would send
donuts every morning, and on the programming floor there was
not a full kitchen, but there was a pass through
kitchen to two sides of the hallways, and there was
a vending machine, a refrigerator and a long counter, and
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there was always somebody bringing food. And the hope being
if we put our food in there, they'll eat it.
They'll go right back on the air and say, wow,
we just had Shipley Donuts and it was great. So
there was always food in there. I made it a
practice that I never ate it, because I knew that
if I gave in one time.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
That would be the end to me. I would eat
it every time.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
But anyway, one of the perks was that there would
sometimes be gift cards to restaurants, so the sales reps
would have gift cards. If you did a solid for
a sales rep, Robert Reese would hand you a gift
card and you could go and eat. Because you didn't
make any money, especially on the programming floor. The promotions department,
led by a woman named Melissa Presner, who was there
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how long was Breas there almost thirty years. Bres had
all the power because all the events went through Breas.
Everybody loved Breas. Brez always looked tired because everybody was
always pestering her for tickets.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
So Brez's job was to.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Coordinate all the events through our stations and the AM event.
The AM stations didn't do hardly any events a sports
station did. But really the big events back in those
days and probably still are were buzz ninety four point
five rod Ryan Station and so like Buzzfest, which either
just happened or is about to happen, huge event, And
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I had to hide during that time because people would
ask you for Busfest tickets. Everybody wanted to go to
Busfest because it would be all these bands that I
don't know, but you would know that, you know, just
one after the other. And why wouldn't they You're on
the biggest alternative rock station in the fourth largest city.
Yeah you're gonna play that festival. So one of the
big perks was tickets to stuff. And when you first
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started in radio, you would brag to people that you
could get tickets to stuff, and you would figure out
within a month that was the dumbest thing I ever did.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Because now people don't even really care.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
To go to a concert, but they got a buddy
who's got tickets, and they're gonna ask for tickets, not
just for themselves but for the because now when they're
at a party like well, i'd trure like to go
to Busfest, I can get you tickets. You can't give
me tickets, impossible. They go on sale and they're gone
within three minutes. I got a hook up over there.
So now you have this chain of people who are
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promising down the chain that they'll get you Busfest tickets.
So Texas Renaissance Festival probably would have advertised right ramon.
They probably they probably would have had some sort of
partnership with our stations, and that would have gone onto
the ams as well as the fms, And because it's
kind of one of those things that everybody goes to
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just despite the regardless of age, and so part of
that is they would have sent over a packet of
these are tickets that your people can use, and probably
some tickets for some giveaways. So for whatever reason, at
the last minute, there were tickets there. And Tim Collins,
who ran seven ninety the sports station at the time,
says to Ramone, he's technically Ramone's boss at that point,
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and Ramone's a board up.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
You're board up at that time, right, Okay, So Ramone's
a board.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Oup, which I mean, I would say there's a lower
position on the totem pole in the business, and that
would be the janitor, except technically the janitor work for
the building and she brought to Molly's, so it's pretty
much the lowest position on there. You're not making any money.
But Ramone is a lifer for radio. All he's ever
wanted to do was make radio. So Tim Collins says, hey, uh,
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we got these tickets. It's busfest tomorrow. We're not going
to give them away. Why don't you take them. You
can halk them at the front. They have no value
printed on them. You can halk them their general admission,
get five bucks apiece for some beer money.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Moon's like, I could do that, So he takes his tickets. Good,
don't go, don't go. Don't give me some baby elephants run.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
He goes rolling up outside Texas Renaissance Festival. He's got
his free tickets. He doesn't think he's doing anything wrong.
So there he goes, Hey, ticket. He's not like those
black guys standing outside the Toileta Center that are real aggressive,
but like their scalping tickets. You're like, is he gonna
mug me or sell me tickets? And there's Ramon, He's
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just harmless. Ramon, don't go, don't he's got his tickets
for sale.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Cop comes up.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Cop comes up and says, I'm arresting. It is illegal
what you're doing your scalping tickets. Technically, I think the
scalp tickets you.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Have to sell them. Well, anyway, we'll get to that moment.
So Ramon says, I didn't even know I wasn't allowed
to do that.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
And guy says, one thing I hate worse than a thief,
it's a.
Speaker 8 (24:36):
Liar yellow putting fops prosen putting on a stake.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
The Michael Berry Show Jello brand pudding pops made with
the goodness of real Jello pudding.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
As relates to the founder of Texas Renaissance Fair. If
I'm mispronouncing his name some how, do you email me
and tell me George culam co o U l A
M unless it was Koulamb, but I'm assuming it's Kulim
And that's what I'm saying till somebody corrects.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Men. I did not know the guy, but I'm getting
reports at.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Channel two is saying that the death is being investigated
as a suicide. If it's being investigated as a suicide,
then there's a good chance it is a suicide because
that means there was something amiss when they showed up.
You know, if there is a pistol in the person's
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hand and you know they're laying there and there's blood
splatter on the wall, this is probably not a natural
death sort of thing. If there are pills around, It's
almost always the case when you hear it being reported
that it is being investigated as a suicide.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
That means law enforcement didn't want.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
To say it was a suicide because they wanted to
do an investigation first. But if they've begun an investigation,
then it is one hundred percent it is most likely
a suicide.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
That's that is going to be the case, not right.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Now, but in a few minutes, because we have an
interview coming up at nine o'clock. I want you to
think about your best ticket scalping story. So either you
bought a ticket from a scalper and it was fake,
and you showed you boobies and still got in, or
because women can do that. Dudes, you know, we don't
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have tickets, we're out. We're just like, that's just it.
But girls, and I've seen it. I've seen it in
my own eyes. Girls can flutter there. We can't get
out of tickets either. Yeah, y'all got some things going
for you. Of course we don't have dudes pastornis if
we're sitting at the bar, whereas y'all can't really enjoy yourself.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
So I guess it all balances out. I guess it
all balances out.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
In any case, I want you to think about your
best ticket scalp story, or it can be how you
went backstage, but I want to first focus on ticket
scalping stories. Be thinking about your story, but don't call
in yet. I'll open the lines for that probably at
about nine point fifteen ish. So just be kind of
working through your story and massaging it in your head
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and practicing your presentation so that it is amazing, amazing,
Joe writes Renfest. That would explain the goings on after
hours at the campground, which I've been told by a
couple who used to go that it was a modern
day sodom and gomora all night long. I guess I'm
a little bit surprised how many people are shocked that
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this HBO docu series. I didn't watch it about the
Texas Renaissance Festival. I have heard that it shows a
Texas Renaissance Festival when people aren't there to be one
big drug fest, one big orgy, filth and vile, and
I don't mean just im morality. I mean filth and
(28:08):
vile and nastiness. I'll be completely honest and maybe make
some of you angry. I've never been around anyone who
likes to dress like Obelix in the cartoons That wasn't
stinky and dirty and filthy and probably four felonies.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
I mean, I'm just being honest. I've never met anyone
like that. What was that cartoon ramon?
Speaker 1 (28:33):
My wife got me. It was a Belgian cartoon. Obelix
was in it. He but I don't think that was
the name of the cartoon. But you know those people
that wear like the Viking hats and all that sort, Well,
I guess that's not true because Rico Rico's kind of
in that cap Rico's about the cleanest version of a
Renfest person you can meet, right because he's got like
(28:55):
wild hair that could have you know, insects or bugs
or snakes or stuff in it, and he might have
a snake in his pocket at any time. And then
he's got brass knuckles that are not brass, they're stirling silver.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
And he's got tattoos everywhere.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
And you know, he's wearing a duster in the summer,
so you don't know what all is is. You know,
up up in there, he might have lunch for a week,
you don't know.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
But Rico is adorable.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
So he's probably the cleanest of those people I've ever met,
but a lot of them, I mean, what.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Would you expect. I'm not in any way.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Surprised, knowing what I know and having seen pictures that
those people are all screwing each other and using crazy drugs.
It's next you're gonna tell me burning Man is crazy
or that Woodstock was crazy. That is a certain lifestyle.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
I think.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
It's why I don't. I don't care for it. Did
you Oh, I guess you got arrested had you ever
gone inside Renaissance Festival. We'm all you know the amount
of gas you burned to get up there. When I
was growing up, gas was more expensive, obviously, But when
I was growing up, it was a big deal. If
we had to drive, you'd say I had to burn
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my gas to go. If a woman and a man
broke up, she'd say, I burned my gas to go
pick up his kids. You don't ever hear people maybe
just maybe I'm not around people that say that anymore.
But that used to be a thing. You I had
to burn my gas because you were paying hard cash
to drive somewhere. It was a really, really big deal. Well,
you got any more ticket stories that you want to
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share with us? Okay, kids will never know what it's
like to camp outside folies. Did you camp outside polies? Okay?
Is this the story I'm gonna want to hear? Is
this a Renfest story? Oh it's for you two tickets?
(30:47):
Oh by the way, real quick, please listen carefully so
you don't mess up on this. Don't email me yet.
But we got final approval from mar a Lago. We
got final approval on our hotel rooms, which are not
at mar Lago. They cannot accommodate a group decide. We
got final approval on the private planes, so we have
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enough things in place that our event, which will be
the last weekend of October, is now going to happen.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
We are committed to.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
It, so if you are interested in the email with
the details, send me an email through the website. And please,
if you are that person, which is usually a woman
who gets hysterical, I gotta know, I gotta know, em,
I gotta please, don't because we will block you and
kick We don't need one hundred different people spiraling out
(31:38):
of control.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Why haven't I heard my? Why haven't I heard back?
Speaker 1 (31:41):
It's a relaxed, good time and everybody that goes has
a great time. But you might need a couple of
zan access because we don't do well with highly strung
people that need a bunch of answers to money. But anyway,
if you are interested, we are finally able to say
the trip is a go. It's the it's the Thursday
through Sunday, the last weekend of October. Just send us
(32:04):
an email that you want more information and you'll be
on the list and those will go out by Tuesday,
maybe before
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