July 1, 2025 • 41 mins
Terry Meiners joins Bill to talk about his career in radio and his many stories from throughout the years.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome everyone to another edition of the KSR pre Show.
Today is Tuesday, July first. I am Billy Rutledge and
we continue our week without Shannon the Dude. You can
give us a call on the Clarks Puppet Shop phone line.
That's eight five nine two aight oh two two eight seven.
Text us at five oh two two sixty five six
six five six and is always The KSR pre Show
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is brought to you by Italics Fine Italian Dining in
Lexington in the City Center on Main Street. We're in
the Louisville, Kentucky Building again as I will be producing
KOSR a little bit later today. A big thank you
to Rachel Elliott who joined us on the show yesterday.
Had a fun time talking about country music and what
music gets to be played on the radio. But now
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we continue our week of getting to know the Louisville
Building with an absolute legend. It's Terry Miners joining me.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
To know the Louisville Building. That's right, I'm still trying
to get to know this building myself. Philly. It's good
to see you, my friend.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
It's an honor to have you on Terry, and I
mean this with full sincerity. You are a mentor to me,
and I thank you for everything and all the advice
that you've given me over the years. I think back
of many great times. But I need to congratulate you.
As we walked in, you said today is your forty
year anniversary here in Louisville. Is that right?
Speaker 2 (01:13):
That is correct? I signed my papers on July first,
nineteen eighty five. I left QMF in Louisville. I was
going to say KQQ that's where I started at Lexington,
but I left QMF on Memorial Day weekend, on the Friday.
Can I tell a story?
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Yeah? Please, of course, this is what this hour's for.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Okay, good. So let me back up a couple of days.
Someone says to me, I get a phone call Terry Minors. Yes,
if I were you, I'd apply for the afternoon job
on WHAS Radio. I was like, well, that's intriguing. This
is very mysterious. Actually I knew the guy, but he
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was an intermediary because I'm sure that the Bingham owned
Whas Radio or WUS Incorporated at the time, did not
want a torturous interference lawsuit interfering with somebody's contracts. So
somebody called me says that, and I thought, hmm, this
is a good sign. So I immediately went we had
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typewriters and typed eighty four reasons why you should hire
Terry Miners, and then I sent it over to the
program director at WHS. I just made up eighty four things,
and later after he hires me, he said as soon
as I opened that, I knew I was going you.
His name was Denny Nugent, the guy who hired me here.
So I did send that, and then I kind of
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got an inkling everything was going to go well. So
I had a lawyer write a letter that said Terry
Miners is leaving WQMF. This was to the Addings Diamond
John Odding, and he'll stay up to six months because
he has a six month no compete. He'll stay up
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to six more months to help transition in a new person.
But the clock starts ticking right now. So I hand
that in. I finished the Friday morning show of Memorial
Day Weekend nineteen eighty five. I walk into mister Odding's office.
Who could be, you know, a little bit hot headed
now and again, but he always treated me very well.
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I go in, I hand him the letter and he's
kind of surprised that I went into his office, which
I'd never done before. He reads the letter, he looks
up at me, he looks back down, reads it again,
and he says, I think you better leave.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Forget the transition.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
God, that was it. And so I went home. And
then as soon as I got home, my phone's ringing.
It's bow Wood, who owns WEBN and Cincinnati. He's partners
in the QMF ownership in Louisville. And then he goes,
he somehow he figures out all automatically what's going on.
He goes, whas he goes, they'll fire you in three months.
(04:00):
They're just trying to break up what we have going
on here. Don't do this, don't do not. This is stupid.
They're playing you. He's screaming at me on the phone
from Cincinnati, and I said, well, you know, I didn't
acknowledge that it was WHS. I just like, well, I
appreciate the cup, but it's time for me to just
get a change. And it was kind of wild there
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for a while because I was nervous. Oh yeah, whas right.
It's a staple. It's like dances with wolves. You know,
you're Kevin Costner. They send you way out to this
far post and nobody talks to you. And so for
a month I just had to just cut the bushes
and cut the grass and hang around and think, God,
I hope they're serious because I quit my job. And
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sure enough, then right at the end of June forty
years ago, someone said, Wow, you can come on and
sign papers now, but we're not going to put you
on the air until December first. We'll honor the non compete.
And so that was all fun, but that month was
kind of nerve wracking. It really was just a drift, like,
you know, is this going to happen? Of course it
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did well.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Before the forty years of being a staple of this community.
You know, I've enjoyed over the last few years hearing
old audio of Terry Miners, whether it be beaver Bit
or you know, just some of the wacky stuff you
would do on the rock radio before you came became
the official three to six afternoon show on WHAS.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Right, Well, we've put together a whole website of all
that stuff. Now fifty years of Terry Miners, because next
year is technically fifty years. I started on WKQQ and
Lexington while I was at UK and then i'd come
back to my dorm in the evening after I was
on doing an evening shift and someone would say to me,
is that you on the radio? I was like, yeah, sorry,
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sorry to burst your bubble. You seem cool on the air,
but you're not in real life.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Funny how that works, isn't it?
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Were you? Did you play more of a character back
when you started in radio than it was yourself, because
I'm sure nowadays it's more of yourself on Haas.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Yeah. What I started doing in Lexington was I took
sound effects. I love the concept of sound effects. So
what I would do on this rock station it's we
still own it. It's w KQQ. It just moved up
the dial. I think the bull has that frequency now
that's where KQQ was. Now it's like one hundred or something.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
One hundred point seven, yeah or something like that.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
That's it in Lexington. But I was on ninety eight
point one KQQ, and they, you know, we had a
great program director. He's he gave me some latitude. So
I would like say, oh my god, this boss is
so cheap. We're having to cut the lawn here. I
got five acres to do, so let me play a
long song I get I got to get out and
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cut the grass. Then you'd hear a lawnmower. Then it
would start up, and then I would go onto green
Grass and High Tides from the Outlaws, which is a
twenty eight minute song or whatever, and then I would
when the song was fading out, you'd hear the lawnmower
come back in and then shut down, and then I'd
act like you know. Then I'd make up lies about
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things that had happened to me while I was out there.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
It was real theater of the mind, and it was
just having fun, right, and you did things that I
had never seen in radio before, like the not only impressions,
but even at times you would record yourself or like
as a character, and then you would talk to the recording.
It was like a conversation that you were having, so
you knew what they were going to say, but you
could make it comedic in that way.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Yeah, that was the fun part of That's the challenge,
Joe and I can still do that. Record a voice
and then talk back to it. But I would have
a character called you know, and then I would say, oh,
you can't be serious, you know, and then you make
yourself the sane person and the person on the line, Oh,
the Jefferson County schools gonna be closed. It's ninety two degrees.
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Why would they be close? Whatever it is, and so you, yeah,
you have conversations with yourself, which is kind of nuts
if you think.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
A little bit. Yeah, but it's genius.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
I feel good. I think. The riskiest thing I've ever
done in radio, though, was at w KQQ and Xington
when I was working the later evening hours because they
put me on different shifts. At midnight. You would play
an album, and you literally played a vinyl album on
the air. You would play side one and if the
record company only sent one copy of it was a
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big one, like Fleetwood Mac Rumors something like that, they
wouldn't send you a bunch. They'd send you one. If
it was something they wanted you to promote, they'd send
it up for all the DJs to have their own copy.
But if it's something that they knew was already going
to sell, so they give you one. So here's what
you'd have to do. Hey, good evening, WKQQ, Lexington. We've
got the brand new Fleetwood Mac album. Here side one
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ready gop and then you play it. Well, first off,
you had to make sure that the thing didn't skip,
I mean, it's an album. Sometimes we'd put it like
a dime on top of the stylus to make sure
that the thing would not skip. But then of course
comes to the transition. Well, you only have one album,
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the side one, the last song ends, and then you
have to figure out, well, that was Fleetwood Mac's first album,
and such and such, and Lindsey Buckingham had the cramps
when he did this, or whatever. You make up some
kind of story. Stevie Nicks was, you.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Know, she had breaking up with her band member.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
She was having some kind of emotional breakdown when they
recorded this song. While you're doing that, you're taking the
needle if you want, so, you're doing all that. While
you're talking, you're flipping the album, you're putting it back
down there, and then you're slowly potting this thing back up,
turning the volume back up so that you don't miss
a note. And here's side too, wow. And then so,
I mean that's how basic radio was at that time,
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in the mid seventies.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Eight tracks reel to reel. I mean you're splicing things
in the studio.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Yeah, and vinyl albums forty fives, or if someone comes in.
They people pop into studio sometimes go okay, how you doing,
never did, and then they sit their briefcase down on
the counter boom and it makes the record skip and you're.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Like, oh, it's the rectord I like the tip the
dime on top, so it's not skipping. These are the
things lost to time.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
The one thing radio station owners did was they bought
really great turntables, you know, really high quality equipment, so
you usually didn't have to do that, but sometimes you'd
get a janky piece of equipment. It just gets abused
because people use it twenty four hours a day. When
I worked at WLRS in Louisville, they had us wear
little white gloves that photographers use really yeah to hang
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their prints, you know when back in a dark room
you have to pull those sheets out and then hang
them or whatever. They use those little gloves. That's what
we had to wear in order to touch the albums
so we didn't scratch them up.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
That's unbelievable. We're just living in a different time now.
I mean, these all these TV screens that surround US
and computer screens and.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Just digital everything all the time is so much easier.
But it's there are other complications that come with modern
technology that it's not worth describing here now. But there's
some benefit to the prior engineering of radio stations. But
the best thing about radio is people have fun at work.
(11:12):
There aren't a lot of people who come home at
the end of the day, honey, how was your day?
I was a ball Most people say, oh my god,
it was a sledgehammer upside they had. But in media,
I always feel like I'm refreshed. I know the news.
I have great friends. I learned from someone like you, Billy.
I learned from you know, Janey down the hall, this person,
that person. You pick up things all the time, and
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so the collegiality to me helps make the best show.
I don't know how people do those little shows where
they're just sitting in their living room by themselves. Yeah,
they have somebody on a screen. Well, look at Pat McAfee.
He's got that dufus who played for Green Bay up there.
Aj he just looks like a statue there all the time.
It's different when you're not in the same room with someone, and.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Live radio is always going to produce some magic. You know,
you could be prepared more than anybody, and when that
red light goes on, your brain stops working. That's happened
to me more than once in these few years with
the pre show. I'm really looking forward to diving into
some more of your story, Terry. We're celebrating forty nine
years of Terry. Miners here in the ki is appreciow.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Yeah, all I got to do is live one more
year to get the five. Oh let's go. But by
the way, if I croak today, folks, don't take this
tape verbatim because I was an intern in nineteen seventy
four at Wacky Radio in Louisville.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Oh eechnically, technically we're over it.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Fifty line.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Well, we'll still hold. We'll still hold the party next
year for the fifty years of Terry. If you have
a text a question for Terry, you want to join
the show Texas five h two two sixty five six
sixty five six Terry. I went to the dentist yesterday,
and I am convinced that people who choose the chocolate
tooth polish or toothpaste are psychopaths.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
I agree with you.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
I mean as an adult. I get it if they're
kids that want the chocolate, But if you were an
adult and you choose the chocolate, I think there's something
wrong with you.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Cinnamon's okay with me, but that chocolate offering it seems
very weird. Dude, you just clean my teeth, now you're
gonna throw chocolate rub it all over them.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Doesn't feel clean at all. They also told me that
less than fifty percent of people brush their teeth twice
a day. Do you Is that a surprising statistic to you?
Speaker 2 (13:16):
It's a disgusting fact.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
I was like, yeah, tell me, tell me how many
people brush twice a day? Is it like eighty seventy
five percent? And they like, no, we think it's closer
to fifty if less than that. I thought that was
shocking to mean terry, But I guess more and more
people are so distracted by their phones they can't even
brush their teeth before they go to bed.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
You get up in the morning, your breath stinks, you know,
smells horrible. So you're gonna brush your teeth and then
before How do you sleep with a dirty mouth?
Speaker 1 (13:41):
I don't know. They said you would, they would rather
you see you brush your teeth at the end of
the day, so the food all that doesn't sit on
your teeth overnight like that. So just what you'll learn
when you go to the dentist every now and then,
and uh, if you choose chocolate, Just to know that
we're all judging out here. I am five two two
six five six six five six. If you have the
text you'd like to join the show, we'll talk more
with Terry Miners about all things radio, maybe a little
(14:04):
Vince Mayrow and his k text messages to deputy athletic directors.
Don't text me, kay. We'll take a break and be
right back here on the KS. I appreciate it, Kay,
Welcome back this Tuesday edition of the show. Before the show,
it's Billy Rutledge and Terry Miners just going down old
memory lane during the break talking about COVID doing the
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show at the kitchen table. I posted a photo of
us at the infield of the Kentucky Derby back in
twenty eighteen. It was my first time really getting to
work with you, Terry. I think it was the wettest
Derby of all time that year.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
It was miserable, But the COVID time where I had
to do my show on the dining room table was
such an annoyance to my family.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Because you're always yapping up there.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Well, I had to do it at the dining room table,
which is just inside the front door off the foyer,
because I didn't want people invading the rest of my house.
I got kids, you know, we're trying to live our lives.
And I'd be interviewing Billy Rutledge and the next guest
would arrive at my front door. So I'd get up
from the table and then walk over with a long
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cord on my headset, and then I put my finger
up to my lips to the person walking in the
house because Billy Rutledge was over there answering a question,
and I would just motion them in and point to
a seat for them, and then you finished your answer,
and I'd say, oh, that's cool, Billy. And I mean
it was so weird.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
I like how you had guests coming to the front door,
you know, coming in, uh right, you know, and three
is I mean, my dog would not be able to
do three to six afternoons people come.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
I had a tough time with it tow but I
never bought into the whole spray down the pizza books.
It's like, all right, we're overdoing it now.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Groceries.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Yeah, I need some pizza and I'm not gonna spray
antiseptic all over the box. I'm eating the pizza if
I die. It was worth it.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
So forty plus years in radio terry, you've got to
be along with the cast of characters and radio you
get to meet a lot of those, and mainly a
couple of them that are still with us, guys like
Tony Venetti and Matt Jones and helped me a lot.
How would you see those guys grow?
Speaker 2 (16:01):
I love Matt. He is you know, when he first
contacted me, I don't know, years ago, and he's he's
he talked, he's talked about it publicly before where he
said he took a shot at me or something and
I fired back something else I don't know what it was,
and he said, I immediately like this guy. Well, I
like Matt. I saw his future ahead of him. He's smart,
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and he's engaging, and he stands his ground on things,
and so that's a that's a he's a rare catch.
When I heard Matt on the air the first time,
I thought, this guy's going places Vanetti. I've known a
little bit longer, just from circles around town, you know,
and radio, and he is, there's something wrong.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Yeah, I was. I was looking for the words that
you were going to put together there to say that,
but you did it right.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
I don't know if his dad popped him upside the
head once, or his mom was carrying him through the
house and hit his head in the doorway or something,
but something's wiggling incorrectly in his brain.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
And he's had the same rock radio days in the
past for him, a lot of stories he can't tell
on the air.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
For that's true because we got spoiled by all kinds
of things. But it still happens. I mean, a couple
of years ago, Kiss played Louder than Life and someone
contacted me and said, hey, could you take the manager
of Kiss to play Valhalla. I was like, yeah, okay,
And so we go out there and play and have
a great time, and I really like the guy, and
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we have lunch and he says, you want to come
to the show to line and I'm like, yeah, not really.
I don't want to hurt your feelings. But I texted
my wife said we want to go to the kiss
show tonight. She goes, so, I don't know, let me
check with my brother. He loves them, and he's like
fifty seven years old or whatever, and he loved him
back in the day. So she said, let's go. So
I tell a guy, yeah, that'd be gready. He goes,
I'll set you up. Well, you know we're louder than life. Yes,
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in that huge stage. The directions they gave me, I
want the public to know this too. Some people just
live a way that I don't even understand. Ipparently this
manager put my name on some lists because I was
allowed to drive down Phillip's lane where no other cars were.
And then I get to a point and a guy
looks at a clipboard and he goes, oh, yeah, you
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come on in. They open a gate right near the
stage and I pull my car in there, and then
they pull us right over here, and there's people all
around and somebody's guiding us in and they park my
car next to Kisses suv. Come on, I mean, seriously,
that's all for taking a guy to play golf. Next thing,
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you know, you guys want to meet kiss of course.
So that's how that day turned out. And then they
took us right out and down that little center aisle
you know where the people moved through and took us
to the you know, it wasn't it's center stage, but
it's where the first production team is with the mixing board.
And we watched them and it was phenomenal. But it's
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like sometimes you just luck into something like that, and
it's like, that's the great thing about radio. You certain
things happen like that, just out of thin air, and
the next thing you know, you have a lifetime memory
experience that you'd never anticipated.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Oh I've gotten very lucky to attend a lot of
those things. Have it not parked next to the Kiss truck?
But you know, Shannon, the dudes out there are pretty
much running louder than life and in Bourbon beyond, and
that opportunity presents itself the right thinking.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Of thousands of people that go there, and all the
logistics to get near the stage, all you have to
go through, and they just let me just drive right
down the street and park next to their vehicles.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
So why business gets done on the golf course, Terry,
It's take somebody Valhalla. They'll get you at the Kiss show.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Good to know.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Uh, you mentioned your brother Is it correct that you
have fourteen brothers and sisters?
Speaker 2 (19:35):
I am one of fourteen, one of four. I have
six brothers and seven sisters. We all love each other.
We stay on the same text thread all the time,
and everybody throws in what's going on in their life,
and so we're always updated, even though sometimes I might
be interviewing somebody on the radio and it's a serious
intense conversation because something tragic's happened or whatever, and my
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phone's over.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Here going the group chat's going.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
And it'll be somebody talking about I baked this cake
and I want everybody you know. I was like, oh
my god. So sometimes, I mean, my phone's always silenced,
but sometimes you know that that kind of works against me.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Do you love it like it's a big family? Like
I've always heard that's how you're rich, is you know,
having a big family. But is it tough to have
a personal connection with everyone?
Speaker 2 (20:18):
No? I mean in the age spread is twenty years.
But right now we are working on a book for
the family. Oh I love that fourteen chapters. Chapter five
is called Terry, chapter six will be Dutch, chapter seven
will be And that's all we're doing. We're just telling
whatever we want to tell in the story. I've already
written mine and submitted it, so we're going to give it.
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We're having a family reunion next year.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
That. Oh, well, God bless your mother. I mean, she
must have been exhausted.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
I mean, my parents, I don't know how they did
what they did. I see, you know. I mean, obviously
I've raised kids and I know what life costs. I
don't know how my parents did that. No, it's mind
boggling to think. We lived in Germantown in Louisville. That's
Texas Avenue and Milton was the street there. I've been there.
A woman walked up to me at a baseball game
one day and she says, I have your childhood home.
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I'm the owner. I'm like, how many people living there
with you? She said, just me? And I'm like, oh
my god. When I lived in there, there were ten
kids and two parents, twelve people in the house. She
has to herself, Oh wow, that's that's incredible, and she
probably feels a little closed in it's that small. Then
we moved a few miles away and suddenly we had one, two,
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three bathrooms.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Three bathrooms for sixteen people.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Yes, but well by that time, the old somebody had
moved to college. Yeah, but still it was a lot
of people. And then neighbors came and went, and the
sad Low's next door. Our homes were interchangeable. You would
just go in and out of each other's homes without knocking.
We were all welcoming each other's home. Instead of making
people get up and answer the door all day. You
just walked in and you went and found the person
you needed. Wow, that's how close our families are.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
I love that, Terry. I mean that is that is
such a special relationship you can share.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
I don't know how people did it back in the
day because there were other huge families, so God bless
them all. It's an amazing thing.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Dozens.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Yeah, I love all my brothers and sisters. We're all
doing great.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Terry Miners is our guest here on the KSR pre Show.
Terry's on Whas from three to six every weekday. I'm
sure you've heard. We need to take a break though,
we'll come back and get to more here on the show.
Before the show, Welcome back. It is the KSR pre Show.
Billy Rutledge here without Shannon the Dude. Terry Miners is
our guest forty years in Louisville Radio. We'll be celebrating
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fifty total next year. Terry got a question from the
text line five two two six five six six five six.
South Side Chuck checks in and says, uh, he knows
you play golf, Terry, so he'd like to know who
is the most famous and yet funny guy Terry has
played golf with and any golf stories he'd like to share.
So thank you.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
South Side Chuck. That's a great question because I've been
lucky enough to play with a lot of really funny
characters and over the years. You know, basically the coaches
that have been out there with. I like seeing them
in their natural environment where they're not they don't have
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microphones in their faces. One of my favorite people to
play golf with was Junior Bridgeman. Miss him just a kind,
thoughtful person. We walked the hills many times, and that
loss was devastating to me. So I wanted to mention
that first and foremost, that is the most impactful golf
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partner I've ever had, because he's done so much to
raise up people's lives, not only here in Kentucky, but
really around America. At his funeral, people got up and
told stories that were astounding how he improved their lives.
And so you know when you meet people like that
in life, and then you just try to be like
them a little bit more like them. All the boats rides,
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talking the best to the best.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
We talked about business getting done on the golf course,
and no better businessman than him.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Right. Well, one day I drove out of Valhalla and
drove down Shelbyville Road and went to Wendy's and ordered
on the board the menu board, and then drove around
to the drive through. The door opens. It's Junior Bridgeman
handing me my food. I said, what are you doing?
He goes, He goes, you can't run a business if
you don't understand every position.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
That lead from the front. Right.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Yeah. I mean, I thought, wow, that's kind of brilliant.
But he's so humble and so good and such a
such a thoughtful booster of other people's lives. When when
I went into shock, almost I had to go home
and go to bed when I heard that Junior had
passed away, because I didn't want to believe it. A
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reporter had to confirm it with me that it was
because I thought they were trying to save him in
a hospital. I guess deluded myself for several hours that
they were going to save him. And then a reporter
started using past tense talking to me because I'd already
answered her questions in present tents, and then she started
saying he was this, and I was like, no, no,
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and I told him stop, give me a second and
reset on this. And so that was horrible revisit. But
I appreciate the questions south Side Chuck, But I wanted
to mention Junior because he is the most impactful person
I've ever met, and I got to spend so much
time with him on the golf course, which wasn't wasted.
But yeah, I've been out with a lot of funny
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people at times, people who just I don't know, they
just make you laugh.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Well, you mentioned Junior. He's a pillar at the community,
there is no doubt. And speaking of people that meant
a lot to this city of Louisville, Kentucky, is Tom Jurich. Recently,
he was honored with part of Floyd Street being renamed
in his honor, and that led me to see Terry
Miner's picture of his own street that he posted on
Instagram the other day Terry Miner's Alley. What's the story
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behind this?
Speaker 2 (26:04):
When I turned forty, Jerry Abramson was mayor of Louisville,
and he wanted to prank me a little bit because
they had the station had a little party for me,
and abrams says, said, I got a little treat for you,
and so we came outside, we got the remote mic
and came outside the Whas building over here a few
blocks away, and he said, look, we've renamed this alley
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just for you. And he had street signs made one
on each end of this alley, filthy disgusting alley that
had broken glass and wasted other hygienic products that were
on the ground. And it was just hilarious and he's like,
happy birthday, and he goes and it's not real either.
Those are just signs that's not really named after you,
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because we wouldn't go that deep. I laughed myself silly
over that, but I got to keep the sign. So
that's what I posted on you.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
I like that Terry Miners Alley, even though there's a
couple of needles on the ground there in the alley. Yep,
you know. That's kind of how I feel a little
bit about when the Mayor of Lexington, Linda Gordon, gave
Shannon the Dude his own day. He did the fifty
mile walk. He got his own day in Lexington. It's
a holiday terry. I'm like, come on, guy just walked
fifty miles.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
I'm impressed by Shannon the Dude. I see him frequently
as he's walking out and I'm walking in this building,
and he's always got a sunny attitude.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
I like that about it. Oh well, sometimes that comes
on the air. Sometimes it doesn't. But I will give
him a lot of credit. Hopefully he doesn't hear him
say this, but he does a very good job at
a lot of things. Like he's multitasking a lot of
different jobs in the morning, So I will give him
credit there.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Yeah. And I saw Matt a couple of days ago.
He came. We had a nice chat in my studio
down the other hall, and it's just nice. I like
interacting with everybody because you learn a little something about
what's going on. I love Matt Jones's mom too.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
She's oh Karen. Yeah. Unfortunately, her name has become synonymous
with people yelling at a.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Couple of other friends named Karen. I feel sorry for
them because of that that name has been just captured
for the wrong reason.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Well, speaking of like people coming into the studio and
you know, being able to interview people face to face,
this is a bit of a selfish pursuit. But at
one point you had Jennifer Lawrence in the studio. Is
that ever possible, Terry, do you think you could ever
interview her again in studio?
Speaker 2 (28:13):
I don't know if I talk to her in studio,
but she's doing wonderfully. She's delightful. And I've known her
since she was a kid, yeah, from a right and
she's just again a very funny person who just looks
at things through a different kind of a lens. And
she knew what she wanted when she was ten twelve
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years old. I mean she knew, and so her mom
and dad kind of just made sure the path was open,
like they did for their two other kids, their sons.
And so that's a great family. And of course Gary
and Karen Lawrence are some of my dearest friends. We
hang out a lot.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Oh so you get you know the family, Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
They have for a long time, and they're just quality people.
And they don't. They don't face their superstar daughter any
more than they do the two sons. It's great everybody's
everybody is of equal value and I like that, but
Jennifer is is uh superstar. I mean I feel sorry
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for her because it's the pressure of all this, you know,
people wanting to take your picture all the time by
blah blah blah blah, just all and trying to you know,
climb the wall to your people want your phone numbers,
ye try. It's astounding. But she has a film coming out.
I think it was just featured at con in France.
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It's Dye My Darling or something like that. Anyway, it's
a woman dealing with postpartum depression and a lot of
people are saying this thing is really might get some oscar.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Noise, serious tipic. Yeah, but she doesn't shy away from these.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
No no So anyway, she's done wonderfully. She's an amazing
person and it's funny. And I think one of the
things that I put on the fifty years of Terry
Muners Bits is a Jennifer interview I did back right
when she was just starting to pop, and I remember
asking her, so have you met any celebrities, and she said,
Jody Foster texted me and we met at Starbucks and
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she was so excited. Well, now she was so happy
to start meeting some some celebrities and now she's bigger
than all of them.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Yeah, but that is a different level of fame. Like
what you're talking about ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
It's a pressure that that most people would collapse under it.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
I wouldn't wish that upon anybody, Like I see the
paparazzi following people around, and I think of the mental
health of these people. It's it's simply incredible.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Yeah, Jen and her husband want to be parents too.
They've got two kids and they're beautiful and and uh
so they they they want their real life too. It's
just that's a that's a weird thing that that people
get attached to, to really popular celebrities at that level
because they just want to They want to go to
the grocery store. If they can't, sure, they just can't
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do it. Can you go the grocery store? Is that
people swarming the grocery store. People do talk to me
a lot in there, and they're kind, you know a
lot of people and they remember something or other. This
or that, or they'll say this or that, or you
help me with this. And this time of year, a
lot of people will mention the Crusade for Children to me,
which is really the most important thing in my career.
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We just raised five point eight nine million four children
with identified needs. That's the term we use now, and
it's helping people all throughout Kentucky and up through like
Indianapolis and Indiana. It's halfway up Indiana because wherever the
money is generated, it goes back to those areas. And
I love that. I love when people stop me and
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tell me something about the crusade, help them this, that
or whatever. And occasionally someone had come up and say,
I love your brother Paul. I know your brother Paul,
and he was so funny in school and he told
the teacher this, and I go, oh, Paul's doing great.
He lives in Bermuda, He's got four kids. But there
is no Paul. I don't want to but it's faster
to just say you know, he's doing great and then
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move on.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
You're searching through the names of your brothers and sisters.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
The other thing that comes up when people Google search
me now, I think the number one question is is
Addie Miners, Terry's daughter. Oh is she getting the That's
my brother's daughter. She's doing wonderfully. She's a reporter on
WLKY and people mentioned Addie Minors to me more than
just about anything, and that's awesome. I'm so proud of her.
She was a sacred heart. Academy sent me a little
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video of her doing the morning news and school and
I said, you're really good at this, Addie. Know how
to address a camera and look at your co anchorer.
Blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Bah's in her blood right.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
And then next thing you know, she's at UK And
then I go over to the football game and they
give her a microphone. She's standing in the middle of
Kroger Field going Okay, now we're gonna give away with
such and such an I thought, that's pretty bold for
an eighteen nineteen year old to be standing there talking
to sixty five thousand people.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
It is an awesome thing you do with the Crusade
for children. I got to be a part of it
doing an overnight shift. I think I worked midnight to
noon that night. Terry, just when I was a part
time board op at Louisville and you were the host,
So I want to commend you for everything that you
do there.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
It's the most important thing we do with our lives
is lift other people up.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
I couldn't send it better.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Yeah, No matter what you do and whatever realm you're in,
if you do something, if it means making soup for
a neighbor and going over and checking on her because
she's lonely, or he's had an operation and he can't
get around as well, you just take over some soup
and crackers to somebody and say, hey, just want to
make sure you're okay. This is the best thing you
can do in the world. Cost you a dollar fifty
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and you make somebody happy for the next ten years
thinking about you.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
And probably something we see less and last stuff. Nowadays
people hurt shout on social media.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Everybody's got a neighbor, and everybody can make a bowl
of soup.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Won't you be my neighbor? Harry Miners joining me here
on the ksrpre Show. I got a few more things
I want to talk to with Terry, but we need
to take our final break here on the KSR pre Show,
So we will do that now and we will be
right back. Welcome back. It's our final segment of the
KSR pre Show today on a Tuesday. Big thank you
to Terry Miners, who has joined us throughout the show.
You can listen to Terry every weekday from a three
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to six on news Radio eight forty whas where our
friend Nick Coffee just went over to join. He's doing
five to nine though, Terry, that's a that's a different animal,
isn't it right.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
He's been the afternoon guy in this very studio where
you and I are today, and I think he probably
misses it sometimes just because he hadn't had any sleep
since he took that HI. That's okay.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Yeah, I'm hoping he's taking it takes a nap throughout.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
The day pursuit. It's fun to be part of broadcasting
because you are you know, you're you're reaching out and
you're you're helping a lot of folks. When I was
on in Lexington, one of the first eye opening things
that happened to me was I got an envelope at
w KQQ somebody mailed from the women's prison. Is that
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in mid midway?
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Midway? It is somewhere somewhere, I'm not sure.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
She She drew a picture of a radio on a
stand and said that's what you look like to me.
I was like, wow, I never thought about that. How
interesting that is that you reach out, you come out
of a box, and people hear you and they have
any idea you know, that's what you mean to them,
but they just wait for you because they're used to
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the regularity of hearing that same person.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Yeah. I mean, we'll go out in the state for
KSR and people will introduce themselves to me. That one
they'll say, you don't look like how you sound, which
I don't know how to take that. Is it a
compliment or a diss But the second thing they say
is you know, they treat you like you're one of
their friends, like you're a family member to them. And
it's a really special relationship that I'm able to share
with people that I've only met maybe once, but they've
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been listening to me for years.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
At this point, well, I've had more than once women
come up to me in public places and say, and
I know they're being they're trying to make time, but
they'll say, you're a lot better looking in person than
you are on TV. What am I supposed to do
with that? See? ID like ugly on TV, but you
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know you seem normal in person.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
So we've gotten some submissions over the last couple of
minutes or so. This one comes from Corey Price of
a young Terry Miners.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Wearing no sauce from here. I don't know where that's from,
but that is fantastic.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
Corey will find the photo that you don't think exists.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
I look like an absolute lunatic in that photo with
that big wide tie.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
We got kind of similar hair in this photo. And
then what I got right now, maybe yours is a
little longer. And then I had lex TV and Radio
DM me some photos of you from back in the
day in Lexington.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
That's me on the board at WKQQ. And people think
in that one where I'm wearing the fog hats, they
think that that's an iPad in my hamill. I gotta
assure you that's not, because that's nineteen seventy seven or
somewhere around there.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
You got the mustache rocking here and the chest hairs out.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
Took my hat, says fog and it was sent to
us by the record company that pumped out fog hat.
That's the joke.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Okay, I got you now, I love it and these
are great photos and big thank you to send people
that have sent that in. That brings back some memories, doesn't.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
It appreciate it. But you know our team here, I
just relish it every day. There's Mario, Mario, Mario, you're
on tomorrow looking forward to it. He's a great guy.
We just keep finding new talent and people who are
bringing fresh ideas in the building. And to me, that's
what I thrive on. That's like fertilizer on the plant, and.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
We need like five Marios in here. The video content
he produces is engaging. I think it brings in a
different audience. He has done a great job in his
short time.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
I tell people all the time, I think Mario will
be the chairman of this company in about five years.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
Give him some time.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
He's smart and creative and talented. It's all good combination.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
So what advice would you give to me, Terry? I
was a young professional.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
Heat I mean, I've watched your career grow. It's it's
just you know, you bring enthusiasm. That's the whole goal.
But no matter what kind of job you do, whoever
it is, that's listening to us. Wherever you go and
work be positive with people. No one grows from someone
who says, I don't lack working here. I wish we
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did this the way we used to that kind of thing.
It doesn't matter. Today is July first, twenty twenty five,
and life is always changing, ever changing. You have to
embrace change and run with it and celebrate each moment
as it arrives in life, because that's how you grow
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in life, is by being open to hearing new things
and then embracing the fact that you're moving forward. Nobody
can just plan a flag. I still wish it was
nineteen eighty nine or Whatever's like, why right? But you
know the reality is the clock is never denied. It's
going to keep ticking, So savor every second of every day.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
Well, father times undefeated, you're right there. But you know,
embracing change is something I wish I could say I'm
better at terry. I think that we could all probably
be a little better at embracing and finding that positive attitude.
You know, it's easy for me to say I don't
want to do this today, right, or I don't want
to work with this person, But I like what you're
saying about the positivity being infections.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
You got to pay your rent. So if you go
to work, go and be a positive spark for the
other people that are around. It's always good to discreet people.
How you doing, Stop and ask someone how you know
how things are going, because you may know that somebody's
kid was sick or whatever. Ask them every now and then,
how's your son or whatever it happens to be, because
you're investing in somebody else's mental health by just checking
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on them to make sure they're okay. Believe me, I've
been up and I've been down in my life too,
and people have rescued me before in moments just totally
out of my blind side and boom, there'll be a
note sitting there, or somebody will text or something or
other and just check on you, and you're like, wow,
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it matters. That's why we're all put on this earth.
I always tell people to same thing. We're put on
this earth to pull each other along. If you're in
a mud hole, I'm gonna pull you out. I'm going
to do my best to pull you out. Someday I'll
be in a mud hole. Somebody will pull me out.
That's just the way I feel about it.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
Are you taking notes Mario. I mean, he's spitting fire
over here about some great advice.
Speaker 2 (40:19):
It's my philosophy of life and the most important thing
that I always say this around holidays. If you have
a problem with somebody in your family, or it's a
friend or somebody, and you know, hey, how's your best
buddy Jimmy. Oh we don't like each other anymore? He said,
bah bah bah, And I said this, Let it go.
Go send them a text today and say I still
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love you and I hope you're doing well. Don't know,
follow it up with but you shouldn't have said that
about whatever. Leave that part out. I love you and
I we're friends forever. I hope you're doing well. Just
leave it go. If they decide they don't want to
answer it, that's on them. But you've done your part.
And so when families say, well, I'm not going home
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to Thanksgiving because my sister said no, don't do that.
Mend the fence. Life is a finite window and for
you to leave here with something unsettled like that is horrible.
Speaker 1 (41:16):
It's great advice, these small acts of kindness.
Speaker 2 (41:19):
Just clean it up with somebody that you've gotten sideways with.
It's worth it. It's worth it to just reach out.
Speaker 1 (41:25):
Terry has been a pleasure. Thank you so much for
doing I'd love to do it again sometime. And we
got to go on the golf course still Terry, my man,
we still got it.
Speaker 2 (41:34):
And you get me a backstage at the Kiss concert.
Speaker 1 (41:37):
Now you're asking the wrong guy. We'll get shatted back
for that. Terry Miners has been our guest three to
six every weekday on Whas I'm Billy Rutledge. Mario is
gonna be my guest tomorrow, so we're looking forward to that.
For Terry Miners, I'm Billy Rutliche. Kzar's next. We'll talk
to you tomorrow
Welcome everyone to another edition of the KSR pre Show.
Today is Tuesday, July first. I am Billy Rutledge and
we continue our week without Shannon the Dude. You can
give us a call on the Clarks Puppet Shop phone line.
That's eight five nine two aight oh two two eight seven.
Text us at five oh two two sixty five six
six five six and is always The KSR pre Show
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is brought to you by Italics Fine Italian Dining in
Lexington in the City Center on Main Street. We're in
the Louisville, Kentucky Building again as I will be producing
KOSR a little bit later today. A big thank you
to Rachel Elliott who joined us on the show yesterday.
Had a fun time talking about country music and what
music gets to be played on the radio. But now
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we continue our week of getting to know the Louisville
Building with an absolute legend. It's Terry Miners joining me.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
To know the Louisville Building. That's right, I'm still trying
to get to know this building myself. Philly. It's good
to see you, my friend.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
It's an honor to have you on Terry, and I
mean this with full sincerity. You are a mentor to me,
and I thank you for everything and all the advice
that you've given me over the years. I think back
of many great times. But I need to congratulate you.
As we walked in, you said today is your forty
year anniversary here in Louisville. Is that right?
Speaker 2 (01:13):
That is correct? I signed my papers on July first,
nineteen eighty five. I left QMF in Louisville. I was
going to say KQQ that's where I started at Lexington,
but I left QMF on Memorial Day weekend, on the Friday.
Can I tell a story?
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Yeah? Please, of course, this is what this hour's for.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Okay, good. So let me back up a couple of days.
Someone says to me, I get a phone call Terry Minors. Yes,
if I were you, I'd apply for the afternoon job
on WHAS Radio. I was like, well, that's intriguing. This
is very mysterious. Actually I knew the guy, but he
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was an intermediary because I'm sure that the Bingham owned
Whas Radio or WUS Incorporated at the time, did not
want a torturous interference lawsuit interfering with somebody's contracts. So
somebody called me says that, and I thought, hmm, this
is a good sign. So I immediately went we had
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typewriters and typed eighty four reasons why you should hire
Terry Miners, and then I sent it over to the
program director at WHS. I just made up eighty four things,
and later after he hires me, he said as soon
as I opened that, I knew I was going you.
His name was Denny Nugent, the guy who hired me here.
So I did send that, and then I kind of
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got an inkling everything was going to go well. So
I had a lawyer write a letter that said Terry
Miners is leaving WQMF. This was to the Addings Diamond
John Odding, and he'll stay up to six months because
he has a six month no compete. He'll stay up
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to six more months to help transition in a new person.
But the clock starts ticking right now. So I hand
that in. I finished the Friday morning show of Memorial
Day Weekend nineteen eighty five. I walk into mister Odding's office.
Who could be, you know, a little bit hot headed
now and again, but he always treated me very well.
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I go in, I hand him the letter and he's
kind of surprised that I went into his office, which
I'd never done before. He reads the letter, he looks
up at me, he looks back down, reads it again,
and he says, I think you better leave.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Forget the transition.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
God, that was it. And so I went home. And
then as soon as I got home, my phone's ringing.
It's bow Wood, who owns WEBN and Cincinnati. He's partners
in the QMF ownership in Louisville. And then he goes,
he somehow he figures out all automatically what's going on.
He goes, whas he goes, they'll fire you in three months.
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They're just trying to break up what we have going
on here. Don't do this, don't do not. This is stupid.
They're playing you. He's screaming at me on the phone
from Cincinnati, and I said, well, you know, I didn't
acknowledge that it was WHS. I just like, well, I
appreciate the cup, but it's time for me to just
get a change. And it was kind of wild there
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for a while because I was nervous. Oh yeah, whas right.
It's a staple. It's like dances with wolves. You know,
you're Kevin Costner. They send you way out to this
far post and nobody talks to you. And so for
a month I just had to just cut the bushes
and cut the grass and hang around and think, God,
I hope they're serious because I quit my job. And
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sure enough, then right at the end of June forty
years ago, someone said, Wow, you can come on and
sign papers now, but we're not going to put you
on the air until December first. We'll honor the non compete.
And so that was all fun, but that month was
kind of nerve wracking. It really was just a drift, like,
you know, is this going to happen? Of course it
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did well.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Before the forty years of being a staple of this community.
You know, I've enjoyed over the last few years hearing
old audio of Terry Miners, whether it be beaver Bit
or you know, just some of the wacky stuff you
would do on the rock radio before you came became
the official three to six afternoon show on WHAS.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Right, Well, we've put together a whole website of all
that stuff. Now fifty years of Terry Miners, because next
year is technically fifty years. I started on WKQQ and
Lexington while I was at UK and then i'd come
back to my dorm in the evening after I was
on doing an evening shift and someone would say to me,
is that you on the radio? I was like, yeah, sorry,
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sorry to burst your bubble. You seem cool on the air,
but you're not in real life.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Funny how that works, isn't it?
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Were you? Did you play more of a character back
when you started in radio than it was yourself, because
I'm sure nowadays it's more of yourself on Haas.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Yeah. What I started doing in Lexington was I took
sound effects. I love the concept of sound effects. So
what I would do on this rock station it's we
still own it. It's w KQQ. It just moved up
the dial. I think the bull has that frequency now
that's where KQQ was. Now it's like one hundred or something.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
One hundred point seven, yeah or something like that.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
That's it in Lexington. But I was on ninety eight
point one KQQ, and they, you know, we had a
great program director. He's he gave me some latitude. So
I would like say, oh my god, this boss is
so cheap. We're having to cut the lawn here. I
got five acres to do, so let me play a
long song I get I got to get out and
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cut the grass. Then you'd hear a lawnmower. Then it
would start up, and then I would go onto green
Grass and High Tides from the Outlaws, which is a
twenty eight minute song or whatever, and then I would
when the song was fading out, you'd hear the lawnmower
come back in and then shut down, and then I'd
act like you know. Then I'd make up lies about
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things that had happened to me while I was out there.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
It was real theater of the mind, and it was
just having fun, right, and you did things that I
had never seen in radio before, like the not only impressions,
but even at times you would record yourself or like
as a character, and then you would talk to the recording.
It was like a conversation that you were having, so
you knew what they were going to say, but you
could make it comedic in that way.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Yeah, that was the fun part of That's the challenge,
Joe and I can still do that. Record a voice
and then talk back to it. But I would have
a character called you know, and then I would say, oh,
you can't be serious, you know, and then you make
yourself the sane person and the person on the line, Oh,
the Jefferson County schools gonna be closed. It's ninety two degrees.
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Why would they be close? Whatever it is, and so you, yeah,
you have conversations with yourself, which is kind of nuts
if you think.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
A little bit. Yeah, but it's genius.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
I feel good. I think. The riskiest thing I've ever
done in radio, though, was at w KQQ and Xington
when I was working the later evening hours because they
put me on different shifts. At midnight. You would play
an album, and you literally played a vinyl album on
the air. You would play side one and if the
record company only sent one copy of it was a
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big one, like Fleetwood Mac Rumors something like that, they
wouldn't send you a bunch. They'd send you one. If
it was something they wanted you to promote, they'd send
it up for all the DJs to have their own copy.
But if it's something that they knew was already going
to sell, so they give you one. So here's what
you'd have to do. Hey, good evening, WKQQ, Lexington. We've
got the brand new Fleetwood Mac album. Here side one
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ready gop and then you play it. Well, first off,
you had to make sure that the thing didn't skip,
I mean, it's an album. Sometimes we'd put it like
a dime on top of the stylus to make sure
that the thing would not skip. But then of course
comes to the transition. Well, you only have one album,
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the side one, the last song ends, and then you
have to figure out, well, that was Fleetwood Mac's first album,
and such and such, and Lindsey Buckingham had the cramps
when he did this, or whatever. You make up some
kind of story. Stevie Nicks was, you.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Know, she had breaking up with her band member.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
She was having some kind of emotional breakdown when they
recorded this song. While you're doing that, you're taking the
needle if you want, so, you're doing all that. While
you're talking, you're flipping the album, you're putting it back
down there, and then you're slowly potting this thing back up,
turning the volume back up so that you don't miss
a note. And here's side too, wow. And then so,
I mean that's how basic radio was at that time,
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in the mid seventies.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Eight tracks reel to reel. I mean you're splicing things
in the studio.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Yeah, and vinyl albums forty fives, or if someone comes in.
They people pop into studio sometimes go okay, how you doing,
never did, and then they sit their briefcase down on
the counter boom and it makes the record skip and you're.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Like, oh, it's the rectord I like the tip the
dime on top, so it's not skipping. These are the
things lost to time.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
The one thing radio station owners did was they bought
really great turntables, you know, really high quality equipment, so
you usually didn't have to do that, but sometimes you'd
get a janky piece of equipment. It just gets abused
because people use it twenty four hours a day. When
I worked at WLRS in Louisville, they had us wear
little white gloves that photographers use really yeah to hang
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their prints, you know when back in a dark room
you have to pull those sheets out and then hang
them or whatever. They use those little gloves. That's what
we had to wear in order to touch the albums
so we didn't scratch them up.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
That's unbelievable. We're just living in a different time now.
I mean, these all these TV screens that surround US
and computer screens and.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Just digital everything all the time is so much easier.
But it's there are other complications that come with modern
technology that it's not worth describing here now. But there's
some benefit to the prior engineering of radio stations. But
the best thing about radio is people have fun at work.
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There aren't a lot of people who come home at
the end of the day, honey, how was your day?
I was a ball Most people say, oh my god,
it was a sledgehammer upside they had. But in media,
I always feel like I'm refreshed. I know the news.
I have great friends. I learned from someone like you, Billy.
I learned from you know, Janey down the hall, this person,
that person. You pick up things all the time, and
(11:34):
so the collegiality to me helps make the best show.
I don't know how people do those little shows where
they're just sitting in their living room by themselves. Yeah,
they have somebody on a screen. Well, look at Pat McAfee.
He's got that dufus who played for Green Bay up there.
Aj he just looks like a statue there all the time.
It's different when you're not in the same room with someone, and.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Live radio is always going to produce some magic. You know,
you could be prepared more than anybody, and when that
red light goes on, your brain stops working. That's happened
to me more than once in these few years with
the pre show. I'm really looking forward to diving into
some more of your story, Terry. We're celebrating forty nine
years of Terry. Miners here in the ki is appreciow.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Yeah, all I got to do is live one more
year to get the five. Oh let's go. But by
the way, if I croak today, folks, don't take this
tape verbatim because I was an intern in nineteen seventy
four at Wacky Radio in Louisville.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Oh eechnically, technically we're over it.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Fifty line.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Well, we'll still hold. We'll still hold the party next
year for the fifty years of Terry. If you have
a text a question for Terry, you want to join
the show Texas five h two two sixty five six
sixty five six Terry. I went to the dentist yesterday,
and I am convinced that people who choose the chocolate
tooth polish or toothpaste are psychopaths.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
I agree with you.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
I mean as an adult. I get it if they're
kids that want the chocolate, But if you were an
adult and you choose the chocolate, I think there's something
wrong with you.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Cinnamon's okay with me, but that chocolate offering it seems
very weird. Dude, you just clean my teeth, now you're
gonna throw chocolate rub it all over them.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Doesn't feel clean at all. They also told me that
less than fifty percent of people brush their teeth twice
a day. Do you Is that a surprising statistic to you?
Speaker 2 (13:16):
It's a disgusting fact.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
I was like, yeah, tell me, tell me how many
people brush twice a day? Is it like eighty seventy
five percent? And they like, no, we think it's closer
to fifty if less than that. I thought that was
shocking to mean terry, But I guess more and more
people are so distracted by their phones they can't even
brush their teeth before they go to bed.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
You get up in the morning, your breath stinks, you know,
smells horrible. So you're gonna brush your teeth and then
before How do you sleep with a dirty mouth?
Speaker 1 (13:41):
I don't know. They said you would, they would rather
you see you brush your teeth at the end of
the day, so the food all that doesn't sit on
your teeth overnight like that. So just what you'll learn
when you go to the dentist every now and then,
and uh, if you choose chocolate, Just to know that
we're all judging out here. I am five two two
six five six six five six. If you have the
text you'd like to join the show, we'll talk more
with Terry Miners about all things radio, maybe a little
(14:04):
Vince Mayrow and his k text messages to deputy athletic directors.
Don't text me, kay. We'll take a break and be
right back here on the KS. I appreciate it, Kay,
Welcome back this Tuesday edition of the show. Before the show,
it's Billy Rutledge and Terry Miners just going down old
memory lane during the break talking about COVID doing the
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show at the kitchen table. I posted a photo of
us at the infield of the Kentucky Derby back in
twenty eighteen. It was my first time really getting to
work with you, Terry. I think it was the wettest
Derby of all time that year.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
It was miserable, But the COVID time where I had
to do my show on the dining room table was
such an annoyance to my family.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Because you're always yapping up there.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Well, I had to do it at the dining room table,
which is just inside the front door off the foyer,
because I didn't want people invading the rest of my house.
I got kids, you know, we're trying to live our lives.
And I'd be interviewing Billy Rutledge and the next guest
would arrive at my front door. So I'd get up
from the table and then walk over with a long
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cord on my headset, and then I put my finger
up to my lips to the person walking in the
house because Billy Rutledge was over there answering a question,
and I would just motion them in and point to
a seat for them, and then you finished your answer,
and I'd say, oh, that's cool, Billy. And I mean
it was so weird.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
I like how you had guests coming to the front door,
you know, coming in, uh right, you know, and three
is I mean, my dog would not be able to
do three to six afternoons people come.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
I had a tough time with it tow but I
never bought into the whole spray down the pizza books.
It's like, all right, we're overdoing it now.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Groceries.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Yeah, I need some pizza and I'm not gonna spray
antiseptic all over the box. I'm eating the pizza if
I die. It was worth it.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
So forty plus years in radio terry, you've got to
be along with the cast of characters and radio you
get to meet a lot of those, and mainly a
couple of them that are still with us, guys like
Tony Venetti and Matt Jones and helped me a lot.
How would you see those guys grow?
Speaker 2 (16:01):
I love Matt. He is you know, when he first
contacted me, I don't know, years ago, and he's he's
he talked, he's talked about it publicly before where he
said he took a shot at me or something and
I fired back something else I don't know what it was,
and he said, I immediately like this guy. Well, I
like Matt. I saw his future ahead of him. He's smart,
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and he's engaging, and he stands his ground on things,
and so that's a that's a he's a rare catch.
When I heard Matt on the air the first time,
I thought, this guy's going places Vanetti. I've known a
little bit longer, just from circles around town, you know,
and radio, and he is, there's something wrong.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Yeah, I was. I was looking for the words that
you were going to put together there to say that,
but you did it right.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
I don't know if his dad popped him upside the
head once, or his mom was carrying him through the
house and hit his head in the doorway or something,
but something's wiggling incorrectly in his brain.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
And he's had the same rock radio days in the
past for him, a lot of stories he can't tell
on the air.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
For that's true because we got spoiled by all kinds
of things. But it still happens. I mean, a couple
of years ago, Kiss played Louder than Life and someone
contacted me and said, hey, could you take the manager
of Kiss to play Valhalla. I was like, yeah, okay,
And so we go out there and play and have
a great time, and I really like the guy, and
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we have lunch and he says, you want to come
to the show to line and I'm like, yeah, not really.
I don't want to hurt your feelings. But I texted
my wife said we want to go to the kiss
show tonight. She goes, so, I don't know, let me
check with my brother. He loves them, and he's like
fifty seven years old or whatever, and he loved him
back in the day. So she said, let's go. So
I tell a guy, yeah, that'd be gready. He goes,
I'll set you up. Well, you know we're louder than life. Yes,
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in that huge stage. The directions they gave me, I
want the public to know this too. Some people just
live a way that I don't even understand. Ipparently this
manager put my name on some lists because I was
allowed to drive down Phillip's lane where no other cars were.
And then I get to a point and a guy
looks at a clipboard and he goes, oh, yeah, you
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come on in. They open a gate right near the
stage and I pull my car in there, and then
they pull us right over here, and there's people all
around and somebody's guiding us in and they park my
car next to Kisses suv. Come on, I mean, seriously,
that's all for taking a guy to play golf. Next thing,
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you know, you guys want to meet kiss of course.
So that's how that day turned out. And then they
took us right out and down that little center aisle
you know where the people moved through and took us
to the you know, it wasn't it's center stage, but
it's where the first production team is with the mixing board.
And we watched them and it was phenomenal. But it's
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like sometimes you just luck into something like that, and
it's like, that's the great thing about radio. You certain
things happen like that, just out of thin air, and
the next thing you know, you have a lifetime memory
experience that you'd never anticipated.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Oh I've gotten very lucky to attend a lot of
those things. Have it not parked next to the Kiss truck?
But you know, Shannon, the dudes out there are pretty
much running louder than life and in Bourbon beyond, and
that opportunity presents itself the right thinking.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Of thousands of people that go there, and all the
logistics to get near the stage, all you have to
go through, and they just let me just drive right
down the street and park next to their vehicles.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
So why business gets done on the golf course, Terry,
It's take somebody Valhalla. They'll get you at the Kiss show.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Good to know.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Uh, you mentioned your brother Is it correct that you
have fourteen brothers and sisters?
Speaker 2 (19:35):
I am one of fourteen, one of four. I have
six brothers and seven sisters. We all love each other.
We stay on the same text thread all the time,
and everybody throws in what's going on in their life,
and so we're always updated, even though sometimes I might
be interviewing somebody on the radio and it's a serious
intense conversation because something tragic's happened or whatever, and my
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phone's over.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Here going the group chat's going.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
And it'll be somebody talking about I baked this cake
and I want everybody you know. I was like, oh
my god. So sometimes, I mean, my phone's always silenced,
but sometimes you know that that kind of works against me.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Do you love it like it's a big family? Like
I've always heard that's how you're rich, is you know,
having a big family. But is it tough to have
a personal connection with everyone?
Speaker 2 (20:18):
No? I mean in the age spread is twenty years.
But right now we are working on a book for
the family. Oh I love that fourteen chapters. Chapter five
is called Terry, chapter six will be Dutch, chapter seven
will be And that's all we're doing. We're just telling
whatever we want to tell in the story. I've already
written mine and submitted it, so we're going to give it.
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We're having a family reunion next year.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
That. Oh, well, God bless your mother. I mean, she
must have been exhausted.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
I mean, my parents, I don't know how they did
what they did. I see, you know. I mean, obviously
I've raised kids and I know what life costs. I
don't know how my parents did that. No, it's mind
boggling to think. We lived in Germantown in Louisville. That's
Texas Avenue and Milton was the street there. I've been there.
A woman walked up to me at a baseball game
one day and she says, I have your childhood home.
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I'm the owner. I'm like, how many people living there
with you? She said, just me? And I'm like, oh
my god. When I lived in there, there were ten
kids and two parents, twelve people in the house. She
has to herself, Oh wow, that's that's incredible, and she
probably feels a little closed in it's that small. Then
we moved a few miles away and suddenly we had one, two,
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three bathrooms.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Three bathrooms for sixteen people.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Yes, but well by that time, the old somebody had
moved to college. Yeah, but still it was a lot
of people. And then neighbors came and went, and the
sad Low's next door. Our homes were interchangeable. You would
just go in and out of each other's homes without knocking.
We were all welcoming each other's home. Instead of making
people get up and answer the door all day. You
just walked in and you went and found the person
you needed. Wow, that's how close our families are.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
I love that, Terry. I mean that is that is
such a special relationship you can share.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
I don't know how people did it back in the
day because there were other huge families, so God bless
them all. It's an amazing thing.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Dozens.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Yeah, I love all my brothers and sisters. We're all
doing great.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Terry Miners is our guest here on the KSR pre Show.
Terry's on Whas from three to six every weekday. I'm
sure you've heard. We need to take a break though,
we'll come back and get to more here on the show.
Before the show, Welcome back. It is the KSR pre Show.
Billy Rutledge here without Shannon the Dude. Terry Miners is
our guest forty years in Louisville Radio. We'll be celebrating
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fifty total next year. Terry got a question from the
text line five two two six five six six five six.
South Side Chuck checks in and says, uh, he knows
you play golf, Terry, so he'd like to know who
is the most famous and yet funny guy Terry has
played golf with and any golf stories he'd like to share.
So thank you.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
South Side Chuck. That's a great question because I've been
lucky enough to play with a lot of really funny
characters and over the years. You know, basically the coaches
that have been out there with. I like seeing them
in their natural environment where they're not they don't have
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microphones in their faces. One of my favorite people to
play golf with was Junior Bridgeman. Miss him just a kind,
thoughtful person. We walked the hills many times, and that
loss was devastating to me. So I wanted to mention
that first and foremost, that is the most impactful golf
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partner I've ever had, because he's done so much to
raise up people's lives, not only here in Kentucky, but
really around America. At his funeral, people got up and
told stories that were astounding how he improved their lives.
And so you know when you meet people like that
in life, and then you just try to be like
them a little bit more like them. All the boats rides,
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talking the best to the best.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
We talked about business getting done on the golf course,
and no better businessman than him.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Right. Well, one day I drove out of Valhalla and
drove down Shelbyville Road and went to Wendy's and ordered
on the board the menu board, and then drove around
to the drive through. The door opens. It's Junior Bridgeman
handing me my food. I said, what are you doing?
He goes, He goes, you can't run a business if
you don't understand every position.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
That lead from the front. Right.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Yeah. I mean, I thought, wow, that's kind of brilliant.
But he's so humble and so good and such a
such a thoughtful booster of other people's lives. When when
I went into shock, almost I had to go home
and go to bed when I heard that Junior had
passed away, because I didn't want to believe it. A
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reporter had to confirm it with me that it was
because I thought they were trying to save him in
a hospital. I guess deluded myself for several hours that
they were going to save him. And then a reporter
started using past tense talking to me because I'd already
answered her questions in present tents, and then she started
saying he was this, and I was like, no, no,
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and I told him stop, give me a second and
reset on this. And so that was horrible revisit. But
I appreciate the questions south Side Chuck, But I wanted
to mention Junior because he is the most impactful person
I've ever met, and I got to spend so much
time with him on the golf course, which wasn't wasted.
But yeah, I've been out with a lot of funny
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people at times, people who just I don't know, they
just make you laugh.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Well, you mentioned Junior. He's a pillar at the community,
there is no doubt. And speaking of people that meant
a lot to this city of Louisville, Kentucky, is Tom Jurich. Recently,
he was honored with part of Floyd Street being renamed
in his honor, and that led me to see Terry
Miner's picture of his own street that he posted on
Instagram the other day Terry Miner's Alley. What's the story
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behind this?
Speaker 2 (26:04):
When I turned forty, Jerry Abramson was mayor of Louisville,
and he wanted to prank me a little bit because
they had the station had a little party for me,
and abrams says, said, I got a little treat for you,
and so we came outside, we got the remote mic
and came outside the Whas building over here a few
blocks away, and he said, look, we've renamed this alley
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just for you. And he had street signs made one
on each end of this alley, filthy disgusting alley that
had broken glass and wasted other hygienic products that were
on the ground. And it was just hilarious and he's like,
happy birthday, and he goes and it's not real either.
Those are just signs that's not really named after you,
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because we wouldn't go that deep. I laughed myself silly
over that, but I got to keep the sign. So
that's what I posted on you.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
I like that Terry Miners Alley, even though there's a
couple of needles on the ground there in the alley. Yep,
you know. That's kind of how I feel a little
bit about when the Mayor of Lexington, Linda Gordon, gave
Shannon the Dude his own day. He did the fifty
mile walk. He got his own day in Lexington. It's
a holiday terry. I'm like, come on, guy just walked
fifty miles.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
I'm impressed by Shannon the Dude. I see him frequently
as he's walking out and I'm walking in this building,
and he's always got a sunny attitude.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
I like that about it. Oh well, sometimes that comes
on the air. Sometimes it doesn't. But I will give
him a lot of credit. Hopefully he doesn't hear him
say this, but he does a very good job at
a lot of things. Like he's multitasking a lot of
different jobs in the morning, So I will give him
credit there.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Yeah. And I saw Matt a couple of days ago.
He came. We had a nice chat in my studio
down the other hall, and it's just nice. I like
interacting with everybody because you learn a little something about
what's going on. I love Matt Jones's mom too.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
She's oh Karen. Yeah. Unfortunately, her name has become synonymous
with people yelling at a.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Couple of other friends named Karen. I feel sorry for
them because of that that name has been just captured
for the wrong reason.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Well, speaking of like people coming into the studio and
you know, being able to interview people face to face,
this is a bit of a selfish pursuit. But at
one point you had Jennifer Lawrence in the studio. Is
that ever possible, Terry, do you think you could ever
interview her again in studio?
Speaker 2 (28:13):
I don't know if I talk to her in studio,
but she's doing wonderfully. She's delightful. And I've known her
since she was a kid, yeah, from a right and
she's just again a very funny person who just looks
at things through a different kind of a lens. And
she knew what she wanted when she was ten twelve
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years old. I mean she knew, and so her mom
and dad kind of just made sure the path was open,
like they did for their two other kids, their sons.
And so that's a great family. And of course Gary
and Karen Lawrence are some of my dearest friends. We
hang out a lot.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Oh so you get you know the family, Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
They have for a long time, and they're just quality people.
And they don't. They don't face their superstar daughter any
more than they do the two sons. It's great everybody's
everybody is of equal value and I like that, but
Jennifer is is uh superstar. I mean I feel sorry
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for her because it's the pressure of all this, you know,
people wanting to take your picture all the time by
blah blah blah blah, just all and trying to you know,
climb the wall to your people want your phone numbers,
ye try. It's astounding. But she has a film coming out.
I think it was just featured at con in France.
(29:35):
It's Dye My Darling or something like that. Anyway, it's
a woman dealing with postpartum depression and a lot of
people are saying this thing is really might get some oscar.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Noise, serious tipic. Yeah, but she doesn't shy away from these.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
No no So anyway, she's done wonderfully. She's an amazing
person and it's funny. And I think one of the
things that I put on the fifty years of Terry
Muners Bits is a Jennifer interview I did back right
when she was just starting to pop, and I remember
asking her, so have you met any celebrities, and she said,
Jody Foster texted me and we met at Starbucks and
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she was so excited. Well, now she was so happy
to start meeting some some celebrities and now she's bigger
than all of them.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Yeah, but that is a different level of fame. Like
what you're talking about ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
It's a pressure that that most people would collapse under it.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
I wouldn't wish that upon anybody, Like I see the
paparazzi following people around, and I think of the mental
health of these people. It's it's simply incredible.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Yeah, Jen and her husband want to be parents too.
They've got two kids and they're beautiful and and uh
so they they they want their real life too. It's
just that's a that's a weird thing that that people
get attached to, to really popular celebrities at that level
because they just want to They want to go to
the grocery store. If they can't, sure, they just can't
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do it. Can you go the grocery store? Is that
people swarming the grocery store. People do talk to me
a lot in there, and they're kind, you know a
lot of people and they remember something or other. This
or that, or they'll say this or that, or you
help me with this. And this time of year, a
lot of people will mention the Crusade for Children to me,
which is really the most important thing in my career.
(31:20):
We just raised five point eight nine million four children
with identified needs. That's the term we use now, and
it's helping people all throughout Kentucky and up through like
Indianapolis and Indiana. It's halfway up Indiana because wherever the
money is generated, it goes back to those areas. And
I love that. I love when people stop me and
(31:41):
tell me something about the crusade, help them this, that
or whatever. And occasionally someone had come up and say,
I love your brother Paul. I know your brother Paul,
and he was so funny in school and he told
the teacher this, and I go, oh, Paul's doing great.
He lives in Bermuda, He's got four kids. But there
is no Paul. I don't want to but it's faster
to just say you know, he's doing great and then
(32:02):
move on.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
You're searching through the names of your brothers and sisters.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
The other thing that comes up when people Google search
me now, I think the number one question is is
Addie Miners, Terry's daughter. Oh is she getting the That's
my brother's daughter. She's doing wonderfully. She's a reporter on
WLKY and people mentioned Addie Minors to me more than
just about anything, and that's awesome. I'm so proud of her.
She was a sacred heart. Academy sent me a little
(32:26):
video of her doing the morning news and school and
I said, you're really good at this, Addie. Know how
to address a camera and look at your co anchorer.
Blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Bah's in her blood right.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
And then next thing you know, she's at UK And
then I go over to the football game and they
give her a microphone. She's standing in the middle of
Kroger Field going Okay, now we're gonna give away with
such and such an I thought, that's pretty bold for
an eighteen nineteen year old to be standing there talking
to sixty five thousand people.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
It is an awesome thing you do with the Crusade
for children. I got to be a part of it
doing an overnight shift. I think I worked midnight to
noon that night. Terry, just when I was a part
time board op at Louisville and you were the host,
So I want to commend you for everything that you
do there.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
It's the most important thing we do with our lives
is lift other people up.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
I couldn't send it better.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Yeah, No matter what you do and whatever realm you're in,
if you do something, if it means making soup for
a neighbor and going over and checking on her because
she's lonely, or he's had an operation and he can't
get around as well, you just take over some soup
and crackers to somebody and say, hey, just want to
make sure you're okay. This is the best thing you
can do in the world. Cost you a dollar fifty
(33:31):
and you make somebody happy for the next ten years
thinking about you.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
And probably something we see less and last stuff. Nowadays
people hurt shout on social media.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Everybody's got a neighbor, and everybody can make a bowl
of soup.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Won't you be my neighbor? Harry Miners joining me here
on the ksrpre Show. I got a few more things
I want to talk to with Terry, but we need
to take our final break here on the KSR pre Show,
So we will do that now and we will be
right back. Welcome back. It's our final segment of the
KSR pre Show today on a Tuesday. Big thank you
to Terry Miners, who has joined us throughout the show.
You can listen to Terry every weekday from a three
(34:06):
to six on news Radio eight forty whas where our
friend Nick Coffee just went over to join. He's doing
five to nine though, Terry, that's a that's a different animal,
isn't it right.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
He's been the afternoon guy in this very studio where
you and I are today, and I think he probably
misses it sometimes just because he hadn't had any sleep
since he took that HI. That's okay.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Yeah, I'm hoping he's taking it takes a nap throughout.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
The day pursuit. It's fun to be part of broadcasting
because you are you know, you're you're reaching out and
you're you're helping a lot of folks. When I was
on in Lexington, one of the first eye opening things
that happened to me was I got an envelope at
w KQQ somebody mailed from the women's prison. Is that
(34:47):
in mid midway?
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Midway? It is somewhere somewhere, I'm not sure.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
She She drew a picture of a radio on a
stand and said that's what you look like to me.
I was like, wow, I never thought about that. How
interesting that is that you reach out, you come out
of a box, and people hear you and they have
any idea you know, that's what you mean to them,
but they just wait for you because they're used to
(35:15):
the regularity of hearing that same person.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Yeah. I mean, we'll go out in the state for
KSR and people will introduce themselves to me. That one
they'll say, you don't look like how you sound, which
I don't know how to take that. Is it a
compliment or a diss But the second thing they say
is you know, they treat you like you're one of
their friends, like you're a family member to them. And
it's a really special relationship that I'm able to share
with people that I've only met maybe once, but they've
(35:40):
been listening to me for years.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
At this point, well, I've had more than once women
come up to me in public places and say, and
I know they're being they're trying to make time, but
they'll say, you're a lot better looking in person than
you are on TV. What am I supposed to do
with that? See? ID like ugly on TV, but you
(36:02):
know you seem normal in person.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
So we've gotten some submissions over the last couple of
minutes or so. This one comes from Corey Price of
a young Terry Miners.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Wearing no sauce from here. I don't know where that's from,
but that is fantastic.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
Corey will find the photo that you don't think exists.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
I look like an absolute lunatic in that photo with
that big wide tie.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
We got kind of similar hair in this photo. And
then what I got right now, maybe yours is a
little longer. And then I had lex TV and Radio
DM me some photos of you from back in the
day in Lexington.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
That's me on the board at WKQQ. And people think
in that one where I'm wearing the fog hats, they
think that that's an iPad in my hamill. I gotta
assure you that's not, because that's nineteen seventy seven or
somewhere around there.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
You got the mustache rocking here and the chest hairs out.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
Took my hat, says fog and it was sent to
us by the record company that pumped out fog hat.
That's the joke.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Okay, I got you now, I love it and these
are great photos and big thank you to send people
that have sent that in. That brings back some memories, doesn't.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
It appreciate it. But you know our team here, I
just relish it every day. There's Mario, Mario, Mario, you're
on tomorrow looking forward to it. He's a great guy.
We just keep finding new talent and people who are
bringing fresh ideas in the building. And to me, that's
what I thrive on. That's like fertilizer on the plant, and.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
We need like five Marios in here. The video content
he produces is engaging. I think it brings in a
different audience. He has done a great job in his
short time.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
I tell people all the time, I think Mario will
be the chairman of this company in about five years.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
Give him some time.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
He's smart and creative and talented. It's all good combination.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
So what advice would you give to me, Terry? I
was a young professional.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
Heat I mean, I've watched your career grow. It's it's
just you know, you bring enthusiasm. That's the whole goal.
But no matter what kind of job you do, whoever
it is, that's listening to us. Wherever you go and
work be positive with people. No one grows from someone
who says, I don't lack working here. I wish we
(38:07):
did this the way we used to that kind of thing.
It doesn't matter. Today is July first, twenty twenty five,
and life is always changing, ever changing. You have to
embrace change and run with it and celebrate each moment
as it arrives in life, because that's how you grow
(38:27):
in life, is by being open to hearing new things
and then embracing the fact that you're moving forward. Nobody
can just plan a flag. I still wish it was
nineteen eighty nine or Whatever's like, why right? But you
know the reality is the clock is never denied. It's
going to keep ticking, So savor every second of every day.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
Well, father times undefeated, you're right there. But you know,
embracing change is something I wish I could say I'm
better at terry. I think that we could all probably
be a little better at embracing and finding that positive attitude.
You know, it's easy for me to say I don't
want to do this today, right, or I don't want
to work with this person, But I like what you're
saying about the positivity being infections.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
You got to pay your rent. So if you go
to work, go and be a positive spark for the
other people that are around. It's always good to discreet people.
How you doing, Stop and ask someone how you know
how things are going, because you may know that somebody's
kid was sick or whatever. Ask them every now and then,
how's your son or whatever it happens to be, because
you're investing in somebody else's mental health by just checking
(39:35):
on them to make sure they're okay. Believe me, I've
been up and I've been down in my life too,
and people have rescued me before in moments just totally
out of my blind side and boom, there'll be a
note sitting there, or somebody will text or something or
other and just check on you, and you're like, wow,
(39:56):
it matters. That's why we're all put on this earth.
I always tell people to same thing. We're put on
this earth to pull each other along. If you're in
a mud hole, I'm gonna pull you out. I'm going
to do my best to pull you out. Someday I'll
be in a mud hole. Somebody will pull me out.
That's just the way I feel about it.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
Are you taking notes Mario. I mean, he's spitting fire
over here about some great advice.
Speaker 2 (40:19):
It's my philosophy of life and the most important thing
that I always say this around holidays. If you have
a problem with somebody in your family, or it's a
friend or somebody, and you know, hey, how's your best
buddy Jimmy. Oh we don't like each other anymore? He said,
bah bah bah, And I said this, Let it go.
Go send them a text today and say I still
(40:41):
love you and I hope you're doing well. Don't know,
follow it up with but you shouldn't have said that
about whatever. Leave that part out. I love you and
I we're friends forever. I hope you're doing well. Just
leave it go. If they decide they don't want to
answer it, that's on them. But you've done your part.
And so when families say, well, I'm not going home
(41:03):
to Thanksgiving because my sister said no, don't do that.
Mend the fence. Life is a finite window and for
you to leave here with something unsettled like that is horrible.
Speaker 1 (41:16):
It's great advice, these small acts of kindness.
Speaker 2 (41:19):
Just clean it up with somebody that you've gotten sideways with.
It's worth it. It's worth it to just reach out.
Speaker 1 (41:25):
Terry has been a pleasure. Thank you so much for
doing I'd love to do it again sometime. And we
got to go on the golf course still Terry, my man,
we still got it.
Speaker 2 (41:34):
And you get me a backstage at the Kiss concert.
Speaker 1 (41:37):
Now you're asking the wrong guy. We'll get shatted back
for that. Terry Miners has been our guest three to
six every weekday on Whas I'm Billy Rutledge. Mario is
gonna be my guest tomorrow, so we're looking forward to that.
For Terry Miners, I'm Billy Rutliche. Kzar's next. We'll talk
to you tomorrow
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