Episode 26 - Terry Meiners
Interrupted by Matt Jones
iHeartPodcasts
2.4 • 888 Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Terry Meiners is a radio host in Louisville, Kentucky on NewsRadio 840 WHAS. Terry has been on air since 1985 and is teammates with Matt at iHeartMedia.
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| 0:00.0 | This is interrupted by Matt Jones on News Radio 840 WHAS. |
| 0:06.9 | Now here's Matt Jones. |
| 0:11.1 | It is interrupted by Matt Jones here on a difficult week in my world, but one that can help me be more happy, which is to see my man |
| 0:24.6 | Terry Miners, who is in Louisville. For those of you who are in Kentucky, you know Terry's been on |
| 0:30.4 | the radio forever on 840 WHAS. When did you start radio, Terry? In Lexington at WKQQQ, I was a dude hanging tapes on automation, |
| 0:41.7 | and then somebody got sick, and they said, get on in there. What year was that? What year, |
| 0:45.9 | though? 1976. I'm a freshman at UK. So you've been on the radio for nearly 50 years. |
| 0:54.1 | That's correct. When is, when do you, when does the radio for nearly 50 years. That's correct. |
| 0:55.5 | When is, when do you, when does it turn 50? |
| 0:58.7 | It'll be next June. |
| 1:01.6 | What are you going to do for your 50th? |
| 1:03.9 | I don't really know because my brain still works. |
| 1:06.8 | So I always tell them, you know, you and I work for the same people. |
| 1:10.0 | So I always say as long as my brain works, I'm, I'm going to keep doing it. And I always tell them, you know, you and I work for the same people. So I always say, |
| 1:11.2 | as long as my brain works, I'm going to keep doing it. And I love doing it, just like you do. We, we, we, you and I know each other very well. Well, you told me 15 years ago when I started. You were like, I got like two more years left. You're never going to quit. Like they're going, You're going to be on the radio. |
| 1:27.8 | They're going to like put you to bed and it's, |
| 1:30.7 | you're still going to be going to quit. Like they're going, you're going to be on the radio. They're going to like put you |
| 1:29.1 | to bed and it's, you're still going to be going weather and traffic in five. Well, when I start |
| 1:37.4 | calling people by the wrong names, I'm going to say, give me the hook. Well, then you can be |
| 1:41.2 | president. I mean, if you start, if you start calling people the wrong name. |
| 1:44.8 | I tell this story about you a lot, and I think it's a good one, which is the graciousness that you have. |
| 1:51.0 | I kind of got my start in radio in part because one time I was making fun of you and you found, and I didn't even know you, and you found out about it and invited |
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