The Paul Harvey Keynote is a riveting 17 minute address by the late legendary radio news commentator Paul Harvey. It was recorded at the Marina del Rey Marriott on March 8, 2003 during the R&R Talk Radio Seminar where Paul Harvey was the 2003 R&R News/Talk Radio Lifetime Achievement Award winner. The speech was recorded by Art Vuolo, Jr. and it was Paul Harvey’s last speech to the radio industry and Paul proved that the spoken word is far more powerful than any picture . . .
“You trust me to paint pictures on the mirror of your mind and I will let you feel such agony, and ecstasy, such misery, and such magnificence as you would never be able to feel by looking at it. Let me paint you a picture of unrequited love in seventeen words. “When the fire in me meets with the ice in you what could remain but damp ashes. Now you tell me what picture in all of film could duplicate that poignancy. We court with the lights turned down that’s to remain undistracted. We savor a fragrance or a kiss or a foot massage with our eyes closed. Or comedy . . . In a book which Paul Jr. and I put together for what its worth I was able to match cartoon sketches with some of the stories, not this particular story one. On page one hundred and thirty five you will meet Martha and Chris Gertsen of Gering, Nebraska. Every week day afternoon at two, Martha lowers the window shades, disconnects the telephone, turns on the TV to watch the wrestling matches. Martha admits that she loves to watch those big bruisers headbutt one another and body slam one another and then when she gets sufficiently worked up she throws a step over toehold on her husband, Chris, and there on the floor in front of the TV set they wrestle until one is able to pin the other. Don’t you tell Martha Gertsen that wrestling matches on TV are staged. She says if there is anything on TV that is stages its the soap operas. She says the wrestling matches, those are for real including hers with Chris. Which by the way she usually wins. Martha Gertsen is 76. Her husband Chris is 83. Now that picture which you have been imagining is infinitely more entertaining that any cartoon of the same thing.”
Paul Harvey Aurandt, better known as Paul Harvey, was a conservative American radio broadcaster for the ABC Radio Networks. He broadcast News and Comment on weekday mornings and mid-days and at noon on Saturdays, as well as his famous The Rest of the Story segments.
Self importance has ruined more good journalists than bad liquor. ~ Walter Lippmann
R&R Talk Radio Seminar was held alternately in Los Angeles and Washington, DC, R&R Talk Radio Seminar is the largest annual gathering of News and Talk radio executives, …
