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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and loud.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Verie Show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
What we've got here is failure, Milky.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
Most of the people covering that campaign were not particularly
knowledgeable about the past, and didn't you know, may may
not have even known that. You know, America firsters pac
Madison Square Garden in nineteen thirty nine and a pro
Nazi Germany.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Rally, you said over the weekend referring to it, there's
a direct parallel to a big rally that happened in
the mid nineteen thirties on Madison Square Garden.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
So I know what I saw, and I'll just leave
it at that. Do you think Donald Trump is a fascist?
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (00:50):
I do, Yes, I do.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
The races, sex, is homophobic, xenophobic, islamophobic, you name it.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
The only garbage I see floating down there is his supporters.
Speaker 6 (01:03):
His his his demonizational scene is unconscionable, and it's on America.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
You could put half of Trump's supporters into what I
call the basket of deplorable.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
Look at the thing with leading, look at the beer with.
Speaker 7 (01:20):
Look at the life, we leading the way with bows,
dumb the fall.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
You know, that's a little bit old.
Speaker 8 (01:30):
That chart that charts a couple.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Of months old. And if you want to really see.
Speaker 8 (01:34):
Something that said, take a look at what happened.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
You're the dwelling manage.
Speaker 7 (02:01):
Even we bled the same blood, we share the same home,
and we salute the same great American flag. We are
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one people, one family, and one glorious nation under God.
Speaker 9 (02:31):
So Jews and Muslims and Catholics and Evangelicals and Mormons,
and they're all joining our colors and large numbers, larger than.
Speaker 7 (02:40):
Anyone has ever seen in.
Speaker 9 (02:42):
This country before, larger than they've ever seen in any country.
And the Republican Party has really become the party of inclusion,
and that's something very nice about that.
Speaker 6 (03:08):
Several years ago, we were talking about our schools and
the fact that good people need to run for office,
and we all say, yes, that's a great idea, but
nobody wants to do it. It's a burden, it's a hassle.
And then you remember what William F. Buckley said when
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having run for mayor of New York City at the
age of twenty seven. They said, Mayor, what's the first
thing you'll do if you win the election? And he said,
demand a recount. The only thing worse than running for, say,
your local school board, would be winning, because now, what
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do you do? You ever watched municipal TV? Trust My
wife crazy because my idea of a good time. When
we settle into a hotel, she's getting all her stuff out,
I will immediately turn the to wherever we are in America,
I would turn the TV on and I would watch
municipal TV.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
It's like Wayne's World.
Speaker 6 (04:11):
It's hilarious to me, especially if they're having a municipal
city council meeting or school board meeting. Oh the nonsense
that is carried on there. So there was a fellow
that's the last guy you would ever expect to run
for the school board named Victor Perez. And Victor didn't
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even have kids in Katie ID it had grand kids there,
successful businessman, and it was one of those things. I've
watched cannis like this run and they're great guys, and
they should run and they should win because they would
do a good job for all the right reasons, and
they're not setting themselves up for a future political run.
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They genuinely want to give back and they always lose
because they don't play the game. But Victor just outworked them,
and the people of Katie said we want change on
our school board, and he did it, and he became
the point of the spear in KDISD for what was
happening there. Well, I know you may be thinking, Michael,
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please don't bring up another election. I just got through
the last one. Unfortunately, a democratic republic is not a
set it and forget it. You have to stay on
top of it. You don't just hire somebody at your
company and say do your job. I'm going on vacation.
You have to manage them. You have to lead them,
you have to oversee them, you have to evaluate them. Well,
(05:36):
that time is coming. April twenty second will be early voting.
We're going to talk about the KDISD election, but this
is a lot of your local school boards. An election
day is May third, although we hope you'll vote early.
So Victor Perez, the president of KD KTSD, is getting
a lot of attention for doing the sorts of Trump
like dosee like things that you want to see in
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your schools, giving us hope maybe you can take.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Your school back.
Speaker 6 (06:08):
Maybe it because personnel's everything, it's Jimmy's and Joe's not
x'es and o's.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
It matters who the people are.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
Trump proves that how many Republicans told us this couldn't
be done, and that couldn't be done, and Trump got elected.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Yeah, can stroke of my pen. Watch this, I'll close
the border in five minutes. He did it.
Speaker 6 (06:25):
So Victor Perez, conservative grandfather runs for office and wins. Well,
there are organizations Soros funded, Soros backed. They've got muscle,
they've got money, they've got organization. These people across the
country are set to destroy this country. I'll give you
an example. So Victor Perez is up for reelection. There's
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a group called Indivisible Katie Huddle. They're indivisible. You cannot
divide them, and they are a self proclaimed quote unquote
sister organization of the KD Area Democrats. Let me tell
you something, when you find Democrats in a Republican stronghold,
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they're never just Democrats because if you're just a Democrat,
you sit quietly. What it means is their socialist, communist,
crazy nut jobs. Well, this is the group individual Indivisible
Katie Huddle that recently protested outside the Tesla dealership, a
local Tesla leadership with signs that said, impeach Trump. They
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also have all sorts of other nutty stuff. But anyway,
so what they've done, and it's quite brilliant, is they
put two candidates against Victor Pereess so they can take
back to kdeid kdie school board. One of them who
calls himself a conservative, he's not talk about that, and
another one who calls herself a Democrat socialist. They were
both endorsed by the Katy Area Democrats. So the one
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guy's running around town, you know, hey, I'm the conservative here,
but you were just endorsed by the Katy Area of
whack job Democrats and the socialist. So what they're trying
to do is get on both sides of Victor Perez
and defeat him.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
We will talk to him in just a moment. Nasty
things going on locally. Keep your eyes held, folks. You
gotta pay attention. Captain some ting wong. Well, something must
be right. You're listening to Michael Berry and no one wants.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Of the hood wink?
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Does I mean you stop thinking? You'll think you're looking
summon fish to the dish though like the sushi, because
am I the only one.
Speaker 6 (08:40):
Notices a similarity between them and Blues traver John Popper.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
John Poppers is first man. Yeah, I think it's big boy.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
Victor Perez is the president of the Katie I SD
school Board.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
And what is your job by day, Victor?
Speaker 5 (08:59):
Uh, I am retired. I was a four more energy
industry CFO and I retired three or four years ago.
So I'm retired and I'm now as you as you said,
you know, on the Katie school Board and president of
school board.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
And how long have you? I mean, I lose track
of Time's been four years.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
So I was elected in May of twenty two. These
are three year terms, so I'm up now in May
of twenty five.
Speaker 6 (09:30):
Okay, let's talk about your time there before we talk
about this election. Is it harder, easier, or about the
same as you thought to get things done?
Speaker 5 (09:46):
I'd say it's it's probably harder to get things done.
It's I mean, there is a lot of work involved.
But and it's also a lot more political than I
ever expected, you know, at the school board level, more politics,
more you know, just attacks and just you know, just
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just the more intense intense that I expected. You know,
I expected to be working to of course, and I
do you know, to make kat I s D better.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
And but it's there's a lot of distractions and a
lot of you know, it's just more political and demanding.
Speaker 8 (10:30):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
Definitely more anxiety and bothe on my family and myself.
Speaker 6 (10:37):
So I will tell you, you know, it's Victor pres is
our guest president of the Kati SD School Board. I
will tell you Victor, and I don't say this lightly.
I'm not sure that the lefties that try to control
Kitty Independent School District, I'm not sure they're not worse
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than the Hi s D lefties. The HISD problem is
driven by a racial agenda. There's there are a group
of people under the control of one boss for the
region and who's the boss of Harris County everything but
the city of Houston now and and he keeps his
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people as you know, president of the school board. In fact,
did I see hold on just a second victory?
Speaker 2 (11:27):
I believe.
Speaker 6 (11:28):
Yesterday the federal trial began for the former his D
chief operating officer Brian Busby, who's facing charge is a bribery, wirefraud,
tax fraud, and witness tampering, and former HISD board president
Ronda Skiller and Jones, along with four former HISD employees
are going to testify against him. I mean, this massive
scheme to steal money. I mean, this is the school board.
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I mean, this is this is perverse, this is sack,
this is sacriligious.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
It's awful.
Speaker 6 (11:56):
But I have noticed the lefties that the elements out
there like this Indivisible Haiti huddle in these groups. They're
really because they're white liberals, and it's a whole different level.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Of nastiness.
Speaker 5 (12:12):
Yeah, and I never I was never aware of this
group until just recently. Apparently they've been around for a while,
and uh uh so I'm just just surprising to see
them getting involved and uh, you know, endorsing in a
school board election.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Well let's talk about that.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
And they've endorsed.
Speaker 6 (12:31):
So you've got not one, but two candidates. Somebody thought
they were very.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
Well, uh the one there was one person that you
that you've alluded to, that actually is running in another position,
in the other position.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Oh I'm sorry, can you read is in position too?
I say, yeah, okay, I didn't see that.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
Okay, yes, And so I have one, I have one opponent,
but they all the three, the three, the three seemed
to be aligned against me. So, for example, the the
other person in a position two, along with my opponent,
are aligned against me. Plus it seems like Tama Reid
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and my opponent are aligned against me as well. So
I'm sort of like it's sort of like more of
a three against one.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (13:19):
And so your opponent, James Cross claims to be a
conservative because that's what he needs to claim to win
in Katie, claims to be a conservative or portrays himself
that way. And Tammy Reid, who's running a position two,
calls herself a Democrat socialist. Those two candidates both got
the Democrat the Katie Area of Democrats endorsement. I hope
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everybody in Katie understands that, because that seems to be
important to how people are going to cast their vote.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
They got the endorsement of the Indivisible Katie Tidle, which
is the group that you mentioned earlier.
Speaker 6 (13:58):
And it strikes me that that doesn't seem like so
much of a conservative position. He's telling people what they
need to know or what they need to believe, what
they want to believe, what he wants them to believe.
With these little these little push push people out there
just whispering, you know, their little lives It reminds me
of this group. The last election that had one or
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two of the candidates was a former teacher and boy,
they were.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
A nasty group of women.
Speaker 6 (14:28):
It was I can't remember their names, but one of
them was a former school school teacher and uh, and
she wrote some very nasty things about me. How dare
I try to influence the Katie I SD school board
race because she is a teacher and I'm not, so I.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
Think What's What's what's striving some of his opposition against me,
it has been for the last couple of years is
the fact that I've been strong on upholding parental rights,
parental rights and also conservative values, conservative really conservative Katie values.
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And that's you know, we've implemented with a very slim
conservative majority. That I'm trying to protect by running again
is to you know, protect uh, you know, the students
from for example, sexually explicit materials and libraries, protecting students
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and and uh and the schools from liberal gender ideology
creeping into the schools, you know some and and also
keep books out of the libraries that promote or adopt
gender fluidity. So those are some of the policies that
we've been able to enact and uh, it's really it's
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it's been amazing to watch some of the opposition against
us in terms of enacting some of those policy these
you know, common sense policies and keep educationally on suitable
materials out of the schools.
Speaker 6 (16:06):
But it's also been amazing to see the wins you've
racked up. I know you don't want to spike the football,
but your win has made a difference there with with
your majority that you have. Now, we will be talking
to Victor Perez uh the four of the elections again.
But I encourage you folks, if you're and Katie email me.
I'll connect you with him. Get involved in your local
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school board race.
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This is Mark Chestnut and jar Bizar of talk radio.
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To the Radio States, and we were to damp tread
won't be inside you could hear about that.
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Sergio Sanchez is a friend of mine who lives in
McCallen and he runs a station called News Talk seventy
ten ku r V.
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It's a powerhouse station in South Texas and he's also
involved as a very influential conservative in political circles there.
He knows every elected official, precinct chairman, regional official business
official in that area in the valley, and more importantly,
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they all know him because he's an important guy to know.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
He sent me an email this morning.
Speaker 6 (17:40):
And he says, zar happy birthday to KTRH, the station
I grew up with. It's the ninety fifth birthday of KTRH.
Come to the Rice Hotel. And you know, we live
in a moment. We all do very Kamala Harris State,
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but we live in a moment that will be gone.
And at this moment, right now, we can remember the
times in the course of our lives that we listened
to kat r H and made a memory. Maybe it
was Randy Lemon, maybe it was Dewey, Maybe it was
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Chris Baker, Maybe it was Rush Limbaugh, could have been
Tom Martine. It could have been any number of voices
that came through that signal. Before you could get it
on your phone, in your computer, before you could on
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demand at any time listen to it as a podcast.
You just listened on a radio in your car, or
the little box you carried around, or the box you
had next to your bed. Such an intimate media medium,
an intimate medium, and I think how many this is
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the longest I've ever done anything, I get bored. I've
done a lot of different things, but this I have
fallen in love with. And it's the opportunity to create.
It's the opportunity to work with people I love, care for,
respect admire, enjoy their company, and it's the opportunity to
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engage with really cool people. Every day I get emails
from people maybe talking about wiping their elderly mom's butt
and realizing that that's an act of great love and
they can't believe that that's what it's come to because
this was the mother that wiped their butt when they
were a little bit and it's come full circle and
they know that the days of wiping the butt won't
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last much longer, so they use that to psyche themselves
up every day. Or it could be a guy who's
just restored a vehicle. Vinnie Tortorella just sent me U
picture of three Cadillacs, I mean three corvettes, sixty threes
and sixty fours I think it was, and said, I
just put these just finished, these three projects.
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Take a look at this. All the types of people.
Speaker 6 (20:13):
Our sponsors are also listeners, and our listeners are also investors.
Because the investment in the show is the spend on
the sponsor. And so many times when I'm out and about,
someone will come up and share a memory of could
be our show. It could be another show that aired
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over all those years, and it's a glorious thing that
we've been able to be a part of. Media will
not be in five years what it is today. These
will be times we will look back on and say, oh,
well that was interesting because you will consume your media
differently through different instruments, and maybe that media will look different.
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That's just the nature of change is it is constant.
This is an early kt RH morning broadcast. This this yeah,
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May be carried out. The Jones family founded the station.
This is John T.
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Jones talking about the early history of the legendary as
Chris Baker would call it, fifty thousand blowtorch.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Do you like apples? I like that apples. No, that
that's not John T. Jones. That's from the archives as well. Okay,
well that's good to know. But could you just play that.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Originally it started broadcasting?
Speaker 6 (22:21):
Is you know, it won't hold out for a second
because we won't have a chance to get the whole
broadcast in at with the hardbreak coming up.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
But I tell what I'd like to do.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
I would like to hear from you what may take
maybe a segment to do this, get right to your point.
You got about fifteen to twenty seconds. We'll do it
kind of almost as a lightning round or maybe maybe
maybe even a full blown, full blown, commissioned what's sanctioned
lightning round? And that is a KTRH memory. Now that
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does not go I used getting my drug. It means
a name or a show, if you know around the
age the time. If it was nineteen sixty five or
nineteen eighty nine or two thousand and six, just pick
a date from the you know, two thousand and six ish,
you know, I'd say ish, and the show or the
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personality or the segment.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
I got to tell you.
Speaker 6 (23:24):
Here we are twenty twenty five, and we're two days
from opening day of the Astros, and I still find
radio of baseball.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
On the radio to be a special thing.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
If I'm out and about after our evening show and
there's an Astros game on, I still.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Find it to be a very enjoyable thing.
Speaker 6 (23:50):
To listen to baseball on the radio just just feels right.
And think of all the legends that were radio broadcast
all right, seven one three nine nine nine, one thousand.
It's a lightning one three, one thousand.
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That's why I had so my guitar probably out of tune.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Now you might have to edit that.
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This is Mark Chestnut and Jar Bizaar of Talk radio.
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You can have fun with the fairy radio now.
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You know you love the Michael Ferries Show.
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Because the mainstream media always all those with no.
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Conservatism is undead.
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It's time to put that whole darn fairy tale straight
too and want.
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To get down in the cool way.
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There's only one thing that will wait your tay.
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Cc Rada means he's only a turn off the TV.
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And put away the CD player though you're listening to
the truth Michael Fair Radio, Fair Radio.
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You can on the ninety fifth birthday of at R
H out of Houston, fifty thousand blow tour.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
You know you talk about the the changing of the
times radio.
Speaker 6 (25:09):
I believe it was nineteen seventy three, sorry, nineteen seventy two.
A study was done it's called in the radio business
called cuming the dial. That means you listen, you register
as a listener. Back then it was diary and it
was nineteen seventy two. It was ninety three percent of
Americans cumed the radio dial. And they did the same
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study in twenty twenty three. It might have been twenty
twenty four and the number was ninety three percent. I
know it's hard to believe people say that, but you
have to realize you're exposed to radio. Sometimes when you
don't realize it, you walk into a store and they
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have it on. You're also listening at times when you
don't think much about it because you're trying to get
some traffic information. You're trying to get a little hit,
you know, during three minutes that you drive from here
to there and you turn it on just maybe just
to see what's on the radio. The demise of radio
has been predicted for far longer than I've been in it,
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and I got involved in two thousand and five. But
people outside of radio would tell me that radio is dead,
just as they said that the AM dial was dead.
Because of the FM dial.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
It was such a thicker sounds, richer, fuller sound. It
would squeeze out the AM dial. It squeeze out the
AM shows. And it did, it did for years.
Speaker 6 (26:43):
It did, and were it not for Rush Limbaugh, I
don't believe the AM dial would be around. There are
a lot of radio stations, small radio stations. In fact,
the station I grew up listening to, I begged him
not to do it. Gary Stelly sent back the signal.
He now runs a website only kogt dot com, and
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he's he's the unofficial mayor of Orangey. He's the one
that promotes the school teams. He's the one that promotes
the canned food drive. He's the one that gives you
the police news. He's the one that gives you the tea,
as the kids say on you know the gossip. But
he gave back the signal because it didn't make sense
to run the station anymore. And a lot of stations
have gone away. But as with every other industry, sometimes
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when you when you when you push out. You know,
there were a lot of mortgage companies that were thriving
when we had insanely low interest rates, and then once
that changed and the interest rates went up, a lot
of folks got out of real estate and got out
of the mortgage business that really had no business being
in it before. They could only be there when when
a rising tide was lifting all boats. I think that
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what's happened is with a lot of those stations going away,
it has consolidated the listener to fewer stations and maybe
increased how robust those stations have become.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Just my theory.
Speaker 6 (27:56):
It's a lightning realm seven one three, nine, nine, nine
one thousands lightning round game.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
By the night.
Speaker 6 (28:07):
Your kt r H memory on this the ninety fifth birthday,
coach Nate?
Speaker 2 (28:12):
What is yours? H?
Speaker 5 (28:17):
Michael?
Speaker 13 (28:17):
Coaches are not good?
Speaker 4 (28:20):
Saturday morning?
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Was I got that all right, that Can you try
me again and sit still? Oh I'm sorry, No, that's okay.
Speaker 13 (28:32):
Uh Saturday morning? Uh yeah I did, It's I'm.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
Driving, that's right.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Can you turn your radio up?
Speaker 7 (28:46):
Sorry?
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Uh yeah, okay.
Speaker 5 (28:49):
Go ahead.
Speaker 13 (28:49):
Hey listened to Red in Liberals Saturday morning? Because coaches
are not good. Hold of coaches?
Speaker 2 (28:57):
But were you trying to be.
Speaker 13 (28:59):
A fine hard as I could?
Speaker 5 (29:01):
Man?
Speaker 11 (29:01):
That guy.
Speaker 13 (29:02):
I met him at the very center you know are
doing when I was back when I was working in
the school district. Man, he was a walking encyclopedia of
what to do in a fly bed for me, you know,
just valuable.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Ramon used to work with him producing his show.
Speaker 14 (29:21):
Well really, yep, yep, Well I sure liked him, you know,
I used to I used to tell Randy you got
the best gig in all of radio because you just
work on Saturday and Sunday mornings.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
And he would say, yeah, but do you want to
give up your weekend?
Speaker 6 (29:38):
Nobody wants to go hang out on Wednesday and I
have all day Wednesday off, But do you want to
do that?
Speaker 2 (29:43):
You know, Randy, I didn't listen to the.
Speaker 6 (29:46):
Show that came before him, but Randy built that show
with a rather loyal following and sponsors that loved him
and got results, and a listening base that made their
decisions based on what Randy talked about. And his top
salesman was one of the two top salesmen of our show.
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But he's the number one seller of live endorsements. Grasshoppers
trying to catch him, but it's a big lead. Is
a guy named Robert Reese. And Robert would go out.
I remember I'd call him on Saturday mornings just to
see what he was doing. And he was out at
a live remote where Randy was out at Plants for
All Seasons was a big one.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Our show sponsored vict Flaarerity.
Speaker 6 (30:27):
In fact, Victor Flaherty's daughter, who was raised in the business.
Let's see Victor started Plans for All Seasons I think
in nineteen seventy two. He was a kid back then,
and I think his daughter was born a year or
two later if I remember correctly, so she's literally been
raised at Plans for All Seasons. She was a fill
in host when Randy passed unexpectedly. It through the the show.
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And when I say the show, I mean the community
into turmoil. There are people who set their watch by
Saturday morning, they get up in garden with with Randy Belinda,
You're on Michael Berry Show, go ahead.
Speaker 15 (31:05):
Him, Michael. For me, it was Paul Harvey back in
the late seventies, and I was going back and forth
to n M and actually my dad, you know, it
was the baseball and I've heard it all my life,
but I just loved Paul.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Harvey me too.
Speaker 6 (31:24):
When I took over the stations in five the AM stations,
we ran Paul Harvey at five forty five to six
and seven forty five to eight because the idea was
the audience had cycle by then, so you could play
it again the Paul Harvey of the day, and we
were still in diaries, were just switching over to meters,
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but it stayed consistent. Paul Harvey was the most popular
part of the day, even bigger than Rushling Ball. And
it wasn't even close. Paul Harvey was the most listened
to thing on KTRH in two thousand and five.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Of the entire day. And I mean when I say
it wasn't even close, it was.
Speaker 6 (32:06):
There were people that at five forty five or seven
forty five would turn on the radio to hear Paul
Harvey and turn it back off, or would switch from
another station, another show to which they might have been
loyal to.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Hear Paul Harvey, that's how big.
Speaker 6 (32:19):
In fact, Randy Lemon told me he was in the
audience where Paul Harvey gave the speech the Farmer. It
was a farm convention event. I forget what it was,
but Randy was there. I don't know if he was
at A and M at the time, or if he.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Was out of A and M and early in his career,
but he said, I said, did you realize at that
time how big that speech was going to? You know
that the farmer like he did the policeman, the fire
And he said, you knew something special.
Speaker 6 (32:50):
I don't know if we realized how big that was
going to get. All Right, more of your casts coming up.
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and loud.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael Verie Show is on the air.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
What we've got here is failure, Milky.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
Most of the people covering that campaign were not particularly
knowledgeable about the past, and didn't you know, may may
not have even known that. You know, America firsters pac
Madison Square Garden in nineteen thirty nine and a pro
Nazi Germany.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Rally, you said over the weekend referring to it, there's
a direct parallel to a big rally that happened in
the mid nineteen thirties on Madison Square Garden.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
So I know what I saw, and I'll just leave
it at that. Do you think Donald Trump is a fascist?
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (00:50):
I do, Yes, I do.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
The races, sex, is homophobic, xenophobic, islamophobic, you name it.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
The only garbage I see floating down there is his supporters.
Speaker 6 (01:03):
His his his demonizational scene is unconscionable, and it's on America.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
You could put half of Trump's supporters into what I
call the basket of deplorable.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
Look at the thing with leading, look at the beer with.
Speaker 7 (01:20):
Look at the life, we leading the way with bows,
dumb the fall.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
You know, that's a little bit old.
Speaker 8 (01:30):
That chart that charts a couple.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Of months old. And if you want to really see.
Speaker 8 (01:34):
Something that said, take a look at what happened.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
You're the dwelling manage.
Speaker 7 (02:01):
Even we bled the same blood, we share the same home,
and we salute the same great American flag. We are
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one people, one family, and one glorious nation under God.
Speaker 9 (02:31):
So Jews and Muslims and Catholics and Evangelicals and Mormons,
and they're all joining our colors and large numbers, larger than.
Speaker 7 (02:40):
Anyone has ever seen in.
Speaker 9 (02:42):
This country before, larger than they've ever seen in any country.
And the Republican Party has really become the party of inclusion,
and that's something very nice about that.
Speaker 6 (03:08):
Several years ago, we were talking about our schools and
the fact that good people need to run for office,
and we all say, yes, that's a great idea, but
nobody wants to do it. It's a burden, it's a hassle.
And then you remember what William F. Buckley said when
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having run for mayor of New York City at the
age of twenty seven. They said, Mayor, what's the first
thing you'll do if you win the election? And he said,
demand a recount. The only thing worse than running for, say,
your local school board, would be winning, because now, what
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do you do? You ever watched municipal TV? Trust My
wife crazy because my idea of a good time. When
we settle into a hotel, she's getting all her stuff out,
I will immediately turn the to wherever we are in America,
I would turn the TV on and I would watch
municipal TV.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
It's like Wayne's World.
Speaker 6 (04:11):
It's hilarious to me, especially if they're having a municipal
city council meeting or school board meeting. Oh the nonsense
that is carried on there. So there was a fellow
that's the last guy you would ever expect to run
for the school board named Victor Perez. And Victor didn't
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even have kids in Katie ID it had grand kids there,
successful businessman, and it was one of those things. I've
watched cannis like this run and they're great guys, and
they should run and they should win because they would
do a good job for all the right reasons, and
they're not setting themselves up for a future political run.
(04:53):
They genuinely want to give back and they always lose
because they don't play the game. But Victor just outworked them,
and the people of Katie said we want change on
our school board, and he did it, and he became
the point of the spear in KDISD for what was
happening there. Well, I know you may be thinking, Michael,
(05:16):
please don't bring up another election. I just got through
the last one. Unfortunately, a democratic republic is not a
set it and forget it. You have to stay on
top of it. You don't just hire somebody at your
company and say do your job. I'm going on vacation.
You have to manage them. You have to lead them,
you have to oversee them, you have to evaluate them. Well,
(05:36):
that time is coming. April twenty second will be early voting.
We're going to talk about the KDISD election, but this
is a lot of your local school boards. An election
day is May third, although we hope you'll vote early.
So Victor Perez, the president of KD KTSD, is getting
a lot of attention for doing the sorts of Trump
like dosee like things that you want to see in
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your schools, giving us hope maybe you can take.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Your school back.
Speaker 6 (06:08):
Maybe it because personnel's everything, it's Jimmy's and Joe's not
x'es and o's.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
It matters who the people are.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
Trump proves that how many Republicans told us this couldn't
be done, and that couldn't be done, and Trump got elected.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Yeah, can stroke of my pen. Watch this, I'll close
the border in five minutes. He did it.
Speaker 6 (06:25):
So Victor Perez, conservative grandfather runs for office and wins. Well,
there are organizations Soros funded, Soros backed. They've got muscle,
they've got money, they've got organization. These people across the
country are set to destroy this country. I'll give you
an example. So Victor Perez is up for reelection. There's
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a group called Indivisible Katie Huddle. They're indivisible. You cannot
divide them, and they are a self proclaimed quote unquote
sister organization of the KD Area Democrats. Let me tell
you something, when you find Democrats in a Republican stronghold,
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they're never just Democrats because if you're just a Democrat,
you sit quietly. What it means is their socialist, communist,
crazy nut jobs. Well, this is the group individual Indivisible
Katie Huddle that recently protested outside the Tesla dealership, a
local Tesla leadership with signs that said, impeach Trump. They
(07:31):
also have all sorts of other nutty stuff. But anyway,
so what they've done, and it's quite brilliant, is they
put two candidates against Victor Pereess so they can take
back to kdeid kdie school board. One of them who
calls himself a conservative, he's not talk about that, and
another one who calls herself a Democrat socialist. They were
both endorsed by the Katy Area Democrats. So the one
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guy's running around town, you know, hey, I'm the conservative here,
but you were just endorsed by the Katy Area of
whack job Democrats and the socialist. So what they're trying
to do is get on both sides of Victor Perez
and defeat him.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
We will talk to him in just a moment. Nasty
things going on locally. Keep your eyes held, folks. You
gotta pay attention. Captain some ting wong. Well, something must
be right. You're listening to Michael Berry and no one wants.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Of the hood wink?
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Does I mean you stop thinking? You'll think you're looking
summon fish to the dish though like the sushi, because
am I the only one.
Speaker 6 (08:40):
Notices a similarity between them and Blues traver John Popper.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
John Poppers is first man. Yeah, I think it's big boy.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
Victor Perez is the president of the Katie I SD
school Board.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
And what is your job by day, Victor?
Speaker 5 (08:59):
Uh, I am retired. I was a four more energy
industry CFO and I retired three or four years ago.
So I'm retired and I'm now as you as you said,
you know, on the Katie school Board and president of
school board.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
And how long have you? I mean, I lose track
of Time's been four years.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
So I was elected in May of twenty two. These
are three year terms, so I'm up now in May
of twenty five.
Speaker 6 (09:30):
Okay, let's talk about your time there before we talk
about this election. Is it harder, easier, or about the
same as you thought to get things done?
Speaker 5 (09:46):
I'd say it's it's probably harder to get things done.
It's I mean, there is a lot of work involved.
But and it's also a lot more political than I
ever expected, you know, at the school board level, more politics,
more you know, just attacks and just you know, just
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just the more intense intense that I expected. You know,
I expected to be working to of course, and I
do you know, to make kat I s D better.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
And but it's there's a lot of distractions and a
lot of you know, it's just more political and demanding.
Speaker 8 (10:30):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
Definitely more anxiety and bothe on my family and myself.
Speaker 6 (10:37):
So I will tell you, you know, it's Victor pres is
our guest president of the Kati SD School Board. I
will tell you Victor, and I don't say this lightly.
I'm not sure that the lefties that try to control
Kitty Independent School District, I'm not sure they're not worse
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than the Hi s D lefties. The HISD problem is
driven by a racial agenda. There's there are a group
of people under the control of one boss for the
region and who's the boss of Harris County everything but
the city of Houston now and and he keeps his
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people as you know, president of the school board. In fact,
did I see hold on just a second victory?
Speaker 2 (11:27):
I believe.
Speaker 6 (11:28):
Yesterday the federal trial began for the former his D
chief operating officer Brian Busby, who's facing charge is a bribery, wirefraud,
tax fraud, and witness tampering, and former HISD board president
Ronda Skiller and Jones, along with four former HISD employees
are going to testify against him. I mean, this massive
scheme to steal money. I mean, this is the school board.
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I mean, this is this is perverse, this is sack,
this is sacriligious.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
It's awful.
Speaker 6 (11:56):
But I have noticed the lefties that the elements out
there like this Indivisible Haiti huddle in these groups. They're
really because they're white liberals, and it's a whole different level.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Of nastiness.
Speaker 5 (12:12):
Yeah, and I never I was never aware of this
group until just recently. Apparently they've been around for a while,
and uh uh so I'm just just surprising to see
them getting involved and uh, you know, endorsing in a
school board election.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Well let's talk about that.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
And they've endorsed.
Speaker 6 (12:31):
So you've got not one, but two candidates. Somebody thought
they were very.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
Well, uh the one there was one person that you
that you've alluded to, that actually is running in another position,
in the other position.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Oh I'm sorry, can you read is in position too?
I say, yeah, okay, I didn't see that.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
Okay, yes, And so I have one, I have one opponent,
but they all the three, the three, the three seemed
to be aligned against me. So, for example, the the
other person in a position two, along with my opponent,
are aligned against me. Plus it seems like Tama Reid
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and my opponent are aligned against me as well. So
I'm sort of like it's sort of like more of
a three against one.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (13:19):
And so your opponent, James Cross claims to be a
conservative because that's what he needs to claim to win
in Katie, claims to be a conservative or portrays himself
that way. And Tammy Reid, who's running a position two,
calls herself a Democrat socialist. Those two candidates both got
the Democrat the Katie Area of Democrats endorsement. I hope
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everybody in Katie understands that, because that seems to be
important to how people are going to cast their vote.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
They got the endorsement of the Indivisible Katie Tidle, which
is the group that you mentioned earlier.
Speaker 6 (13:58):
And it strikes me that that doesn't seem like so
much of a conservative position. He's telling people what they
need to know or what they need to believe, what
they want to believe, what he wants them to believe.
With these little these little push push people out there
just whispering, you know, their little lives It reminds me
of this group. The last election that had one or
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two of the candidates was a former teacher and boy,
they were.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
A nasty group of women.
Speaker 6 (14:28):
It was I can't remember their names, but one of
them was a former school school teacher and uh, and
she wrote some very nasty things about me. How dare
I try to influence the Katie I SD school board
race because she is a teacher and I'm not, so I.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
Think What's What's what's striving some of his opposition against me,
it has been for the last couple of years is
the fact that I've been strong on upholding parental rights,
parental rights and also conservative values, conservative really conservative Katie values.
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And that's you know, we've implemented with a very slim
conservative majority. That I'm trying to protect by running again
is to you know, protect uh, you know, the students
from for example, sexually explicit materials and libraries, protecting students
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and and uh and the schools from liberal gender ideology
creeping into the schools, you know some and and also
keep books out of the libraries that promote or adopt
gender fluidity. So those are some of the policies that
we've been able to enact and uh, it's really it's
(15:52):
it's been amazing to watch some of the opposition against
us in terms of enacting some of those policy these
you know, common sense policies and keep educationally on suitable
materials out of the schools.
Speaker 6 (16:06):
But it's also been amazing to see the wins you've
racked up. I know you don't want to spike the football,
but your win has made a difference there with with
your majority that you have. Now, we will be talking
to Victor Perez uh the four of the elections again.
But I encourage you folks, if you're and Katie email me.
I'll connect you with him. Get involved in your local
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school board race.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
This is Mark Chestnut and jar Bizar of talk radio.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
To the Radio States, and we were to damp tread
won't be inside you could hear about that.
Speaker 10 (17:00):
Sergio Sanchez is a friend of mine who lives in
McCallen and he runs a station called News Talk seventy
ten ku r V.
Speaker 6 (17:10):
It's a powerhouse station in South Texas and he's also
involved as a very influential conservative in political circles there.
He knows every elected official, precinct chairman, regional official business
official in that area in the valley, and more importantly,
(17:34):
they all know him because he's an important guy to know.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
He sent me an email this morning.
Speaker 6 (17:40):
And he says, zar happy birthday to KTRH, the station
I grew up with. It's the ninety fifth birthday of KTRH.
Come to the Rice Hotel. And you know, we live
in a moment. We all do very Kamala Harris State,
(18:00):
but we live in a moment that will be gone.
And at this moment, right now, we can remember the
times in the course of our lives that we listened
to kat r H and made a memory. Maybe it
was Randy Lemon, maybe it was Dewey, Maybe it was
(18:22):
Chris Baker, Maybe it was Rush Limbaugh, could have been
Tom Martine. It could have been any number of voices
that came through that signal. Before you could get it
on your phone, in your computer, before you could on
(18:42):
demand at any time listen to it as a podcast.
You just listened on a radio in your car, or
the little box you carried around, or the box you
had next to your bed. Such an intimate media medium,
an intimate medium, and I think how many this is
(19:05):
the longest I've ever done anything, I get bored. I've
done a lot of different things, but this I have
fallen in love with. And it's the opportunity to create.
It's the opportunity to work with people I love, care for,
respect admire, enjoy their company, and it's the opportunity to
(19:26):
engage with really cool people. Every day I get emails
from people maybe talking about wiping their elderly mom's butt
and realizing that that's an act of great love and
they can't believe that that's what it's come to because
this was the mother that wiped their butt when they
were a little bit and it's come full circle and
they know that the days of wiping the butt won't
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last much longer, so they use that to psyche themselves
up every day. Or it could be a guy who's
just restored a vehicle. Vinnie Tortorella just sent me U
picture of three Cadillacs, I mean three corvettes, sixty threes
and sixty fours I think it was, and said, I
just put these just finished, these three projects.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Take a look at this. All the types of people.
Speaker 6 (20:13):
Our sponsors are also listeners, and our listeners are also investors.
Because the investment in the show is the spend on
the sponsor. And so many times when I'm out and about,
someone will come up and share a memory of could
be our show. It could be another show that aired
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over all those years, and it's a glorious thing that
we've been able to be a part of. Media will
not be in five years what it is today. These
will be times we will look back on and say, oh,
well that was interesting because you will consume your media
differently through different instruments, and maybe that media will look different.
(20:57):
That's just the nature of change is it is constant.
This is an early kt RH morning broadcast. This this yeah,
go ahead, good morning.
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May be carried out. The Jones family founded the station.
This is John T.
Speaker 6 (21:56):
Jones talking about the early history of the legendary as
Chris Baker would call it, fifty thousand blowtorch.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Do you like apples? I like that apples. No, that
that's not John T. Jones. That's from the archives as well. Okay,
well that's good to know. But could you just play that.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Originally it started broadcasting?
Speaker 6 (22:21):
Is you know, it won't hold out for a second
because we won't have a chance to get the whole
broadcast in at with the hardbreak coming up.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
But I tell what I'd like to do.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
I would like to hear from you what may take
maybe a segment to do this, get right to your point.
You got about fifteen to twenty seconds. We'll do it
kind of almost as a lightning round or maybe maybe
maybe even a full blown, full blown, commissioned what's sanctioned
lightning round? And that is a KTRH memory. Now that
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does not go I used getting my drug. It means
a name or a show, if you know around the
age the time. If it was nineteen sixty five or
nineteen eighty nine or two thousand and six, just pick
a date from the you know, two thousand and six ish,
you know, I'd say ish, and the show or the
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personality or the segment.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
I got to tell you.
Speaker 6 (23:24):
Here we are twenty twenty five, and we're two days
from opening day of the Astros, and I still find
radio of baseball.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
On the radio to be a special thing.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
If I'm out and about after our evening show and
there's an Astros game on, I still.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Find it to be a very enjoyable thing.
Speaker 6 (23:50):
To listen to baseball on the radio just just feels right.
And think of all the legends that were radio broadcast
all right, seven one three nine nine nine, one thousand.
It's a lightning one three, one thousand.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
That's why I had so my guitar probably out of tune.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Now you might have to edit that.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
This is Mark Chestnut and Jar Bizaar of Talk radio.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
You can have fun with the fairy radio now.
Speaker 7 (24:25):
You know you love the Michael Ferries Show.
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Because the mainstream media always all those with no.
Speaker 7 (24:31):
Conservatism is undead.
Speaker 9 (24:32):
It's time to put that whole darn fairy tale straight
too and want.
Speaker 13 (24:36):
To get down in the cool way.
Speaker 7 (24:38):
There's only one thing that will wait your tay.
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Cc Rada means he's only a turn off the TV.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
And put away the CD player though you're listening to
the truth Michael Fair Radio, Fair Radio.
Speaker 6 (24:52):
You can on the ninety fifth birthday of at R
H out of Houston, fifty thousand blow tour.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
You know you talk about the the changing of the
times radio.
Speaker 6 (25:09):
I believe it was nineteen seventy three, sorry, nineteen seventy two.
A study was done it's called in the radio business
called cuming the dial. That means you listen, you register
as a listener. Back then it was diary and it
was nineteen seventy two. It was ninety three percent of
Americans cumed the radio dial. And they did the same
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study in twenty twenty three. It might have been twenty
twenty four and the number was ninety three percent. I
know it's hard to believe people say that, but you
have to realize you're exposed to radio. Sometimes when you
don't realize it, you walk into a store and they
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have it on. You're also listening at times when you
don't think much about it because you're trying to get
some traffic information. You're trying to get a little hit,
you know, during three minutes that you drive from here
to there and you turn it on just maybe just
to see what's on the radio. The demise of radio
has been predicted for far longer than I've been in it,
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and I got involved in two thousand and five. But
people outside of radio would tell me that radio is dead,
just as they said that the AM dial was dead.
Because of the FM dial.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
It was such a thicker sounds, richer, fuller sound. It
would squeeze out the AM dial. It squeeze out the
AM shows. And it did, it did for years.
Speaker 6 (26:43):
It did, and were it not for Rush Limbaugh, I
don't believe the AM dial would be around. There are
a lot of radio stations, small radio stations. In fact,
the station I grew up listening to, I begged him
not to do it. Gary Stelly sent back the signal.
He now runs a website only kogt dot com, and
(27:04):
he's he's the unofficial mayor of Orangey. He's the one
that promotes the school teams. He's the one that promotes
the canned food drive. He's the one that gives you
the police news. He's the one that gives you the tea,
as the kids say on you know the gossip. But
he gave back the signal because it didn't make sense
to run the station anymore. And a lot of stations
have gone away. But as with every other industry, sometimes
(27:24):
when you when you when you push out. You know,
there were a lot of mortgage companies that were thriving
when we had insanely low interest rates, and then once
that changed and the interest rates went up, a lot
of folks got out of real estate and got out
of the mortgage business that really had no business being
in it before. They could only be there when when
a rising tide was lifting all boats. I think that
(27:45):
what's happened is with a lot of those stations going away,
it has consolidated the listener to fewer stations and maybe
increased how robust those stations have become.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Just my theory.
Speaker 6 (27:56):
It's a lightning realm seven one three, nine, nine, nine
one thousands lightning round game.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
By the night.
Speaker 6 (28:07):
Your kt r H memory on this the ninety fifth birthday,
coach Nate?
Speaker 2 (28:12):
What is yours? H?
Speaker 5 (28:17):
Michael?
Speaker 13 (28:17):
Coaches are not good?
Speaker 4 (28:20):
Saturday morning?
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Was I got that all right, that Can you try
me again and sit still? Oh I'm sorry, No, that's okay.
Speaker 13 (28:32):
Uh Saturday morning? Uh yeah I did, It's I'm.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
Driving, that's right.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Can you turn your radio up?
Speaker 7 (28:46):
Sorry?
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Uh yeah, okay.
Speaker 5 (28:49):
Go ahead.
Speaker 13 (28:49):
Hey listened to Red in Liberals Saturday morning? Because coaches
are not good. Hold of coaches?
Speaker 2 (28:57):
But were you trying to be.
Speaker 13 (28:59):
A fine hard as I could?
Speaker 5 (29:01):
Man?
Speaker 11 (29:01):
That guy.
Speaker 13 (29:02):
I met him at the very center you know are
doing when I was back when I was working in
the school district. Man, he was a walking encyclopedia of
what to do in a fly bed for me, you know,
just valuable.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Ramon used to work with him producing his show.
Speaker 14 (29:21):
Well really, yep, yep, Well I sure liked him, you know,
I used to I used to tell Randy you got
the best gig in all of radio because you just
work on Saturday and Sunday mornings.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
And he would say, yeah, but do you want to
give up your weekend?
Speaker 6 (29:38):
Nobody wants to go hang out on Wednesday and I
have all day Wednesday off, But do you want to
do that?
Speaker 2 (29:43):
You know, Randy, I didn't listen to the.
Speaker 6 (29:46):
Show that came before him, but Randy built that show
with a rather loyal following and sponsors that loved him
and got results, and a listening base that made their
decisions based on what Randy talked about. And his top
salesman was one of the two top salesmen of our show.
(30:09):
But he's the number one seller of live endorsements. Grasshoppers
trying to catch him, but it's a big lead. Is
a guy named Robert Reese. And Robert would go out.
I remember I'd call him on Saturday mornings just to
see what he was doing. And he was out at
a live remote where Randy was out at Plants for
All Seasons was a big one.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Our show sponsored vict Flaarerity.
Speaker 6 (30:27):
In fact, Victor Flaherty's daughter, who was raised in the business.
Let's see Victor started Plans for All Seasons I think
in nineteen seventy two. He was a kid back then,
and I think his daughter was born a year or
two later if I remember correctly, so she's literally been
raised at Plans for All Seasons. She was a fill
in host when Randy passed unexpectedly. It through the the show.
(30:53):
And when I say the show, I mean the community
into turmoil. There are people who set their watch by
Saturday morning, they get up in garden with with Randy Belinda,
You're on Michael Berry Show, go ahead.
Speaker 15 (31:05):
Him, Michael. For me, it was Paul Harvey back in
the late seventies, and I was going back and forth
to n M and actually my dad, you know, it
was the baseball and I've heard it all my life,
but I just loved Paul.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Harvey me too.
Speaker 6 (31:24):
When I took over the stations in five the AM stations,
we ran Paul Harvey at five forty five to six
and seven forty five to eight because the idea was
the audience had cycle by then, so you could play
it again the Paul Harvey of the day, and we
were still in diaries, were just switching over to meters,
(31:45):
but it stayed consistent. Paul Harvey was the most popular
part of the day, even bigger than Rushling Ball. And
it wasn't even close. Paul Harvey was the most listened
to thing on KTRH in two thousand and five.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Of the entire day. And I mean when I say
it wasn't even close, it was.
Speaker 6 (32:06):
There were people that at five forty five or seven
forty five would turn on the radio to hear Paul
Harvey and turn it back off, or would switch from
another station, another show to which they might have been
loyal to.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Hear Paul Harvey, that's how big.
Speaker 6 (32:19):
In fact, Randy Lemon told me he was in the
audience where Paul Harvey gave the speech the Farmer. It
was a farm convention event. I forget what it was,
but Randy was there. I don't know if he was
at A and M at the time, or if he.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Was out of A and M and early in his career,
but he said, I said, did you realize at that
time how big that speech was going to? You know
that the farmer like he did the policeman, the fire
And he said, you knew something special.
Speaker 6 (32:50):
I don't know if we realized how big that was
going to get. All Right, more of your casts coming up.
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