last week <\/a>to talk about his run for District 3 on the Lubbock City Council. Hasty\u2019s push for local election coverage didn\u2019t always win him the most viewers, but he prioritized it anyway because he felt it was important.<\/p>\n\u201cHe always spoke with confidence,\u201d Bruegel said. \u201cSometimes he was willing to even buck our own party leadership on things and be open minded. \u2026 Even when we disagreed with him, he was still respectful.\u201d<\/p>\n
It was in radio that he met and worked closely with Ken Corbin, a senior marketing specialist for Townsquare Media, which owns KFYO, who often joined Hasty on his political programs and who became a close friend. Corbin recalled the tough decision to cut Hasty\u2019s two daily radio programs to one, a plan that Hasty wasn\u2019t the biggest fan of, Corbin said. Hasty worried he was doing a disservice to his listeners. But the move ultimately gave him more time to perfect his afternoon show and wound up being the right choice, Corbin said. <\/p>\n
Hasty\u2019s work in radio, while recognized statewide, was just one piece of the man, Hyatt said. Hyatt described him as a devout Christian, a family man and a big sports fan. Major League Baseball, especially, was a hilarious sticking point for Hyatt, who runs an online sports publication. Hasty\u2019s favorite team was whichever one was winning. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s the only guy I know who had 15 favorite baseball teams, which made it great, because at any given moment his favorite team was winning,\u201d Hyatt said.<\/p>\n
In addition to baseball hats, Hasty had a proclivity for Stetson Open Road hats and premium cigars. And anywhere he traveled, he likely had a restaurant picked out for that night\u2019s dinner.<\/p>\n
In the last few years, Hasty and his wife, Jennifer, decided they wanted a family and that they wanted to build it through fostering and adoption. This experience turned Hasty into a budding advocate for foster care in Texas, Bruegel said. They were foster parents to a 1-year-old girl when Hasty passed. <\/p>\n
\u201cI hated to see that cut short,\u201d Hyatt said.<\/p>\n
His death was shocking, Bruegel said. Friends say he and his wife lived on a family farmstead north of Lubbock and were just getting involved in raising chickens.<\/p>\n
For those who want to raise a toast, Hyatt said to order nachos this weekend \u201cChad\u2019s Way,\u201d with only beef and cheese. <\/p>\n
\u201cIf you bring out anything else beyond beef and cheese on the nachos, he will send it back,\u201d Hyatt said. \u201cNo sour cream, no pico de gallo, no lettuce, no tomato. Nothing but beef and cheese. You want to understand a man\u2019s abiding love for his nachos, then you order nachos Chad\u2019s way.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Longtime West Texas conservative radio talk show host Chad Hasty died in his sleep Thursday morning. He was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[14006,8,14007,9,14008,14009,7,3417],"class_list":{"0":"post-22987","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-stories","8":"tag-dustin-burrows","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-lubbock","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-sid-miller","13":"tag-the-texas-tribune","14":"tag-top-stories","15":"tag-west-texas"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@news\/116498328641719781","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}