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On his daily show, Terry interviews newsmakers, sports people, imaginary characters, and virtually any real person who walks in through the WHAS studio door.
WHAS Radio's 9th Best Announcer



  • TERRY MEINERS 
    aka TERRY 2X OVER E-Z  
     
    "Meiners is a skilled smart aleck, a local legend who is able to skewer almost everyone without making too many enemies. His show is general interest – some politics, some pop culture, some skits, maybe 25 percent sports sprinkled in." --- Pat Forde, Yahoo! Sports, March 27, 2012
    TERRY'S FAMOUS POLICE STOP ON THE WATTERSON (Courier-Journal)   (Louisville.com)

    WE'RE NOT ALL HOMELY: MEET MY NIECES
    TERRY GETS GOLF TIPS
     
    BEST HATE MAIL EVER:
     
    From: gentry deck [mailto:gentrydeck@msn.com]
    Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 9:46 AM
    To: MEINERS, TERRY A
    Subject: Listener--NOT.
     
    At 3:00 I have a race with myself to see how fast I can turn off your show. Your radio program has no social redeeming value. At the end of your life when you look back at yourself you will then know you have wasted your life. It is too bad because you may have talent, but you waste it acting like a baffoon.
     
    Gentry
     
    TM:  Thanks, Gentry.  I love you, even if you can't spell buffoon, or sloppily transpose the words "social redeeming."
     
     
    JOE CECIL wrote to the boss:  "While I’ve always enjoyed Terry Meiners humorous personality, his commentary has become increasingly ‘off-track’, political AND annoying...I ‘get it’ that the hippie in him leans to the left (always has) but it seems as if he now attempts to compensate or ‘balance the ship’ to offset the Conservative programming on WHAS 840."

    GREAT DAY LIVE WITH TERRY & RACHEL
    Terry Meiners and Rachel Platt co-host the popular TV magazine show Great Day Live, weekdays at 9am on WHAS-TV.  whas11.com/gdl  Courier-Journal profile   CJ photo album  (photo: Bill Luster, The Courier-Journal)  Terry's sexiest TV moment ever.  EVER.
    Click Here The Beasman taunts after U of L loses in NCAA
    Click Here Joe Dean with Lady Gaga's drag queens

    Randy & Jason Sklar riff with Terry on Pitino, male cheerleaders, and errant TV moments.  VIDEO

    MORE VIDEO:
    Terry's famous police stop on the Watterson  Courier-Journal
    Joel Sanders on southern accents and prosthetics
    Terry gives a tour of the 84WHAS studio
    Max Meiners plays Van Halen for Christmas
    Terry has a 6-year-old co-host
    UK/U of L recruits smack talk at McD's All-Star game
    Brett Favre pervert animation from Asian TV
    Scariest airport landing: Lukla Nepal
       




    Kentucky Derby and Oaks Day infield fun



    CLIMB A RADIO TOWER HERE.  SCARIEST AIRPORT HERE.

    FOX 4 DALLAS SOCIAL MEDIA PARODY


    GETTING SCHOOLED

    Terry knows that the best way to get second graders to laugh is to pick up one of their classmates and spin him around until he hurls.  These kids enjoyed the show during St. Gabriel the Archangel's Celebrity Reader Week during November 2010.  Photo album  Kids' Thank You notes here.

    Here is the photo gallery from my Dr. Seuss reading adventure at Pleasant Grove Elementary in Mt. Washington, KY (March 2, 2011)


    OH, GOD

    Watch the atheist football player here.  ONION NEWS: Supremes green light a-holes at games

    ALL 84WHAS podcasts are here.

    Enjoy this example of distorted Internet information. (6th paragraph in this Huffington Post article). 


    TERRY MEINERS & SHOW PRODUCER IAN VERTREES



    Weekday afternoons from 3 to 7, The Terry Meiners Show parodies the famous, promotes the challenged, rewards the self-starters, and irritates the humorless.


    Dancing With the Studs:  The Beasman dances with Terry on Jib Jab.  Also appearing in the video is dead actor Patrick "Don't you know who I am?" O'Neal. 
    Love your life.  Count your days here.




    TERRY'S MANTRA:  Walk more, eat less.

    Terry's Classic Clips from 84WHAS
      Joe B after LSU victory: Greatest Week Ever?
      Frank & Mel extreme library makeover
      Rick Pitino on U of L's Las Vegas plans
      Police Squad interrogates Terry
      Pat Boone "Gay Alert!" updates
     Commonwealth Stadium new tourist attraction
     Cats beat U of L in football thriller
     Trubba Man racist state fair
     Singing Carl church ladies
     John Boel relays complaint about racy TV women
     3-year-old Gracie keeps singing Christmas songs.
     Shirley Q chants "The 12 Days of Kwanzaa" and "Have Yourself a Happy Kwanzaa"
      Foster Brooks "12 Days of Christmas."
     Bill Clinton running of the husbands
     Patrick O'Neal american movie classics
     Wardrip Brothers bye bye you guys
     Clear Channel daycare
     Listener complaint "turd"
     Shirley Q endorses Terry's show
     Rev. Louis Coleman taser rap
     Rick Bartlett's "Louisville, KY" song
     Dave Armstrong thanks US Air for UPS' expansion
     Terry passes out in Blue Angels jet
     WCYA blown snow coverage
     Terry's #1 fan


    MY SILLY SONS


    Max Meiners, right, graduated from Western Kentucky University and now lives and works in Louisville. He's a director for WHAS-11.  Find him on Facebook.  9-feet-tall Simon Meiners graduated from the University of Louisville and is headed to graduate school.  A prolific writer, Simon creates magnificent pieces on societal changes and global climate issues. Find him here on FB. 






    Joe B Hall & "Larry Minner"   July 27, 2009

     U of L thumps UK in Rupp Arena




    Terry's perpetual lecture:
    LOVE YOUR LIFE.  SAVOR EVERY SECOND.

    Exercise daily. Give others respect and love.  Stay away from drugs and druggy friends.  They’ll poison your dreams.
    ---------
    RUN TO LIVE.  LIVE TO RUN. TELL THE GRIM REAPER YOU'RE BUSY LIVING.



    THE BEST WEEK OF THE YEAR: CRUSADE FOR CHILDREN WEEK

    Meet Dawson Barr on this video.  He's 5 years old and has battled cancer since he was six months old.  He's gotten steady treatment at Kosair Children's Hospital, funded in part by the WHAS Crusade for Children.  You'd never know that Dawson faces such incredible hardship because he runs around laughing and telling "Knock, knock" jokes to anyone who can hang with him.  Dawson is just one of the faces of the WHAS Crusade for Children.  Thanks for your help.  (video from Angie Fenton and The Voice Tribune)
Classic Terry: Links to Ron Clay & Terry Meiners on WLRS & WQMF in the 1980s; Their theme song? "Boobs A Lot," baby!

  • TERRY'S EARLIEST RADIO WORK:

    Terry Meiners worked for WKQQ-FM in Lexington from 1976-1980.  After a brief stint running a convenience mart in Indianapolis, Terry returned to radio at WLRS-FM in Louisville. 



    After doing fill-in work for the regular cast, Terry was soon paired with an older, streetwise, gently jaded hippie named Ron Clay.

    They were an instant smash hit.  It only took a few months for the competition to steal them away for $5 more per week and all the Bryan Adams records they could steal.

    Terry retells the story in this 2007 interview:  LKYRadio.com

    Ron & Terry's "Morning Sickness" show on WLRS moved to WQMF-FM in January 1983.  After the LRS owners sued for breach of verbal contract, a Jefferson County circuit judge ruled that the pair could change stations but the name of the show and the sketches remained the intellectual property of WLRS. 

    It was the first and last time the word intellectual was ever associated with either Mr. Clay or Mr. Meiners.

    "The Show With No Name" became a monstrous hit for 96-QMF until Terry's departure for WHAS Radio in June 1985.



    Pictured above:  Ron Clay & Terry Meiners at WLRS-FM in 1982.  Sam Grandison was the doorman at the 800 Building where LRS-102 was located.  Click the photo for an audio sample of "Morning Sickness" from 1982.

    Here are the first 6 of 46 episodes of Beaver Bits that Ron & Terry produced for "The Show With No Name" on WQMF in 1983

    (click the speaker to listen)

    - Beaver Bit #1
    - Beaver Bit #2
    - Beaver Bit #3
    - Beaver Bit #4
    - Beaver Bit #5
    - Beaver Bit #6


    WQMF was originally called WQHI, using the nickname Hi95.  Click the license plate for its history and audio.


    Randy Davidson (above left) played the character Buzz Baxter from 1985 through 1996 on the Terry Meiners & Company show.  Randy also imitated Joe B. Hall, Bill Clinton, Ronnie O'Bryan, Ralph Hacker, and Frank Hudson "The News Stud."  Listen to audio clips here.  Davidson's voice is heard today on various commercials.


    OLD SCHOOL RECORDINGS:  Here is a treasure trove of WHAS Radio facts and audio links, including the 1922 sign-on announcement, 1937 flood coverage, 1974 tornado coverage, plus airchecks of many legendary WHAS air personalities.  Here is the complete audio aircheck page of historical WHAS Radio archived material collected by John Quincy via lkyradio.com.



    Photo:  Nick Mills (1986)


    Terry Meiners, WHAS Radio's 9th Best Announcer

    After working for WLRS and WQMF from 1980 through May of 1985, Terry began hosting the afternoon show on 84WHAS.   His first show aired on December 2, 1985, after he completed a six month non-competition sabbatical.    Audio:  Terry's show clips from March 24, 1986    Video:  84WHAS commercial from the 1990s
     
    On his daily show, Terry interviews newsmakers, sports people, imaginary characters, and virtually any real person who walks in through the WHAS studio door.  

    Terry has also worked for WHAS-TV since 1985, now appearing weekday mornings on the popular Great Day Live magazine show with co-host Rachel Platt.  Meiners co-hosted Louisville's version of "PM Magazine" in 1987-88, then moved to WHAS-TV news as a weekly feature reporter.  Since 1990, Meiners has provided at least one feature per week on the WHAS11 show "Good Morning Kentuckiana.  



    Terry can talk to anyone because he has lived a life filled with constant interaction with others.  Meiners hails from a family of fourteen children born to Mel and Norma Meiners, married June 19, 1949.  They started making babies the next year and stayed with that hobby for the next twenty years.

    THE INCREDIBLE MEINERS FAMILY

    Everyone in Louisville knows at least one of Terry's family members.  Here's the list with birth dates, spouse names, and the total number of children included so you can determine which Meiners you knew from your school:

    Louis Melvin Meiners  b. April 10, 1926; d. February 15, 2008
    Norma Jean Reasor Meiners  b. April 26, 1930; d. December 12, 2005

    Louis M Meiners Jr.  b. October 4, 1950 (Marie Neiderhelman) +4
    Maureen Elaine Williams  b. March 27, 1952  (Greg) +4
    Denise Marie Russell  b.  July 3, 1953   +4
    Tina Marie Meiners  b. February 8, 1956  (Terry McCay)  +2
    Terry Allen Meiners  b. January 22, 1957  +2
    Timothy Joseph Meiners  b. March 7, 1958  (Cindy Mattingly)  +6
    Christopher Thomas Meiners  b. September 6, 1959  (Barbara Becht) +1
    Colleen Marie Milburn  b.  September 3, 1960  (Danny)  +6
    Mary Michele Renbarger  b.  October 9, 1961 (Tony) +4
    Gregory Wayne Meiners  b. May 29, 1963  (Kim Thatch)  +2
    Lisa Marie Rohleder  b. September 3, 1964  (Nick)  +3
    Lynn Marie Hesse  b. August 7, 1965  (Bill)  +6
    Michael David Meiners  b. March 16, 1967  (Angie Reynolds)  +3
    Mark Kevin Meiners  b.  April 26, 1969  (Tracy Kardols)  +2
    _________________________


    WHAS legends:
    Randy Atcher and Cactus Tom Brooks

     T-Bar-V theme intro and closing song from a (circa) 1990 reunion show.
      Randy Atcher: Happy Birthday
      Randy Atcher:  Savings Post
      Randy Atcher:  Goodnight

    _________________________
    A Tribute to Terry's Brother From Another Mother:  Rev. Louis "Buster" Coleman, 1946 - 2008



    He fought for his causes.  He took shrill to a higher level.  He is now at peace.

    Rest easy, my man.   There are no tasers in the next realm.  Click Here 

    "I believe in Kingdom Come.  When all the colors bleed into one."  (U2 - Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For)
    _________________________

E-mail address where I'm likely to hit DELETE on you in a nanosecond


  • TERRY'S #1 ENGLISH LESSON

    ---How To Write Goodly---

    1. Verbs HAS to agree with their subjects.

    2. Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.

    3. And don't start a sentence with a conjunction.

    4. It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.

    5. Avoid cliches like the plague. (They're old hat)

    6. Also, always avoid annoying alliteration.

    7. Be more or less specific.

    8. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are (usually) unnecessary.

    9. Also too, never, ever use repetitive redundancies.

    10. No sentence fragments.

    11. Contractions aren't necessary and shouldn't be used.

    12. Foreign words and phrases are not apropos.

    13. Do not be redundant; do not use more words than necessary; it's highly superfluous.

    14. One should NEVER generalize.

    15. Comparisons are as bad as cliches

    16. Don't use no double negatives.

    17. Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.

    18. One-word sentences? Eliminate.

    19. Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake.

    20. The passive voice is to be ignored.

    21. Eliminate commas, that are, not necessary. Parenthetical words however should be enclosed in commas.

    22. Never use a big word when a diminutive one would suffice.

    23. Kill all exclamation points!!!

    24. Use words correctly, irregardless of how others use them.

    25. Understatement is always the absolute best way to put forth earthshaking ideas.

    26. Use the apostrophe in it's proper place and omit it when its not needed.

    27. Eliminate quotations. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."

    28. If you've heard it once, you've heard it a thousand times: Resist hyperbole; not one writer in a million can use it correctly.

    29. Puns are for children, not groan readers.

    30. Go around the barn at high noon to avoid colloquialisms.

    31. Even IF a mixed metaphor sings, it should be derailed.

    32. Who needs rhetorical questions?

    33. Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.

    34. Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.

Terry's 84% Truthful Bio


  • THE CAREER

    Terry Meiners was delivering his Louisville Times newspapers on a hot September afternoon in 1985 and watched Gary Burbank throw a radio program director through a window at WHAS.

    Hmm, must be a job opening! 

    Terry took over the afternoon slot by impressing the boss with his ability to belch the alphabet, punch up commercials, and fluff the wigs of the TV news anchors ALL AT THE SAME TIME.

    THE QUIRK

    Note to greeters: Unless you're carrying Purell, don't ever shake Terry's hand.  He's a Type A germaphobe.

    THE FAMILY

    Terry's family life is bizarre.  Both of his sons ran off to colleges but didn't say where.  Terry covers their tuition bills through Paypal.   His wife ran off with a spiritual advisor who creates "Life Boxes" through which he channels messages from dead people.  

    She took the dog, but when it saw them channeling Lassie, the dog decided it would be less painful to live with the Invisible Fence guy. 

    To handle added financial pressure from the economic meltdown, Terry works a second job at the fish market called "You've Awakened My Sole."
     
    With everyone gone from the home, Terry now lives in the Highlands neighborhood filled with withered hippies and academicians who still blame Bush for everything, including the stems and seeds they have to smoke because of poor financial planning.  Bummer, dude.

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