My Old Radio Shows on YouTube?

 I’m trying to figure out how to put highlights of my old radio shows, The Reform Times and The Ray Cherry Show on YouTube. I have two stacks of CDs representing the year and a half that the shows aired. I didn’t figure any universities, funded by state Democrat and/or Republican appropriations committees, would agree to archive a movement or an individual effort that tried to replace their parties.  Still, my effort is what history professors would call primary source evidence of American history.

My original plan was to give the state and national Reform Party air time that was denied them by the Media before the inertia of the Reform Movement evaporated.  It was a logical step to merge the assets of the Kansas and Missouri Reform Parties. My first radio show in 2004, The Reform Times, was co-hosted by talented Kansas Reformer Dawn Bly who ran for Congress in 2002. It aired every Saturday morning at 10:00 a.m. and was designed as a news and educational voice of the local Reform Party Club.  It may have been Missouri’s first radio show dedicated to practical direct grass roots political action.  We discussed what the Reform Party was, the Reform movement 1992 to the present, the contributions of Ross Perot and Pat Buchanan, the relevance of the Reform Party to Americans, and what the average person could do to get involved.

Dawn spent about fifteen hours per week researching and booking the guests. The Reform Times had a balanced representation of lobbyists, politicians, and special interests. Guests are chronicled in Journal of the Silent Majority. They include: Judy Ancel, Director of the Institute for Labor Studies at UMKC; Glenda Wilson of Missouri’s Job Service; lobbyist Karl Peterjohn, Executive Director of the Kansas Taxpayers Network; Chris Hanna of Americans for Prosperity; Bob Hodgdon, President of Hodgdon Powder; Bill Freeman who talked about the assault weapons ban; Judy Smith, State Director for Concerned Women for America, Kansas Chapter talked about gay marriage; the Sierra Club’s lobbyist, Charles Benjamin; Kevin Newmanon covered gaming; John Morris, Republican Congressional Candidate; Jesse Camacho; Kay O’Connor, Republican Senator of the Kansas 9th District; Mike Ferguson, 2004 Libertarian nominee for Missouri Lt. Governor; Don Griffin, Pat Buchanan’s old friend from the St. Louis Globe-Democrat; Reformer Jim Mullins who was running in the Kansas 2nd Senate District; Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo; Dee Berry of the Green Party; George Cook, Kansas Reform Party 2004 nominee for the U.S. Senate; Shawn O’Hara, the Chairman of the National Reform Party; and Libertarian Greg Terry.

The Ray Cherry Show which began in 2005 replaced The Reform Times because in odd years there are few elections.The broadcast was a story of the best elements, the worst elements, and the history Americans don’t know.  Co-host Dennis Carriger and I commented on the news and offered our opinions, not without an occasional satirical jab or comic bent. Although the show lasted only six months, I was thrilled to have had an opportunity to speak out. Perhaps YouTube can help preserve the memories.