50 years of Terry Meiners radio bits · NewsRadio 840 WHAS (WHAS-AM)

Cat Calls with UK fans, Chuck Olmstead ACTION NEWS, Beasman, Randy Atcher sings T-Bar-V theme

January 5, 2026·31 min·2 clips

A Kentucky fan in Florida dodges taxes to avoid funding a Louisville arena, then dismisses London bombings as less important than basketball.

1. Terry Meiners' comedy podcast collects live-radio bits spanning parody news segments, fan call-in bits, and children's programming spoofs. 2. The show is hosted by Terry Meiners, a veteran Louisville radio personality, with recurring characters including Oscar Cone, Chuck Olmstead, and call-in voices Larry and Joe. 3. The episode functions as an archive of satirical set pieces that mock Kentucky sports fandom, local TV news competition, Fox News sensationalism, and shock-jock radio culture. 4. The Cat Chat segment opens with Oscar Cone announcing he lives in Florida six months and one day to avoid Kentucky taxes, framing it as a scheme to prevent helping fund a Louisville arena. 5. A caller named Johnny Gobbler dismisses the London 2005 terrorist bombings as less important than whether Randolph Morris will return to play for the Kentucky Wildcats. 6. Chuck Olmstead Action News parodies Louisville TV news competition, depicting WHAS and Fox 41 managers escalating their newscast start times from 10pm down to 8:30pm with absurd offers. 7. Robin Klingle of WHAS counters with 'WHAS News at 9:59' and each bid involves progressively wilder stunts including Presto the Clown and Angie Humphrey doing sports topless. 8. The Beasman segment features a child visitor whose parent fails to appear on time, with the host Joe Elliott trading insults with the kid, who tells him his breath smells like a Little League coach. 9. The Fox News parody features a fake Greta Van Susteren hosting a panel with Detective Dan Ross debating which young attractive missing girl to devote wall-to-wall coverage to after Natalie Holloway. 10. The panel decides Paris Hilton could be kept occupied for two to three weeks with a Rubik's Cube before the segment ends with a Fox News alert naming Michael Jackson as the missing pretty white girl. 11. Call-in voices Joe and Larry debate whether Tubby Smith should be fired, with Joe calling for a wholesale coaching intervention involving 'coaching rehab' that would 'wipe the brain clean.' 12. Nick and Rick Wild 109 mock Howard Stern's satellite radio financial trouble, predicting he will have to intern for them and beg to be their 'present biatch.' 13. Nick and Rick conclude by listing their planned outrages—strippers, midgets, hermaphrodites—before immediately breaking character to discuss going to church and a John Birch Society meeting. 14. Randy Atcher's T-Bar-V Ranch children's theme plays over a child caller named Jordan, age five, who explains that her two moms go to the gambling boat and she makes hot pockets for her brother's supper. 15. The Jordan bit is presented as a straight children's segment until the child casually mentions not knowing who her daddy is. 16. The Katie Couric segment parodies a Today Show meltdown over John Kerry's 2004 presidential loss, with Dr. Phil advising her to 'start living as a gay woman' before Kerry himself walks in. 17. The episode's humor relies on regional Louisville-area references including specific call letters WHAS and Fox 41, T-Bar-V Ranch as a known local children's program, and UK basketball culture. 18. The format is rapid-fire sketch comedy with no throughline plot, running approximately 31 minutes with each bit lasting one to four minutes. 19. Listeners who grew up with Louisville radio in the 2000s and enjoy dry, locally-grounded comedy will recognize the targets and characters. 20. People unfamiliar with Louisville media history or Kentucky basketball culture will miss most of the specific references.

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A loose stretch of Kentucky sports talk, caller detours, and Natalie Holloway parody.

The episode moves between Kentucky sports talk and sketch comedy, with Oscar Cone, caller chatter, and basketball gossip all keeping the conversation in motion.

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For when you want Kentucky call-in chaos with Fox News parody and Natalie Holloway detours from the first hello to the last dig.

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