NewsRadio 840 WHAS (WHAS-AM)
49 episodes listed below
Radio, still talking back.
Terry Meiners’ archive captures a loose, fast-moving radio world where local news, Kentucky sports, politics, callers, and celebrity chats keep colliding. It is sharp, teasing, and proudly overstuffed, with jokes usually arriving before anyone has finished parking the topic.
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Terry Meiners’ archive is less a tidy podcast feed than a living shelf of radio energy. It moves fast. The episodes pull from news talk, comedy bits, interviews, sports arguments, civic gossip, and the kind of local memory that knows exactly which rivalry button to press. A story about a comptroller stealing public money becomes a joke about quarter horses tied up at City Hall. A proposed Mitch McConnell statue becomes a whole imagined ritual for Andy Beshear. Kentucky basketball joy lasts about ten seconds before dread, taunting, and Beasman-level hysteria rush back into the room. The show likes practical setups because they give the jokes somewhere to land. It also likes interruptions. A caller, a clip, a sponsor break, a character voice, or a sudden sports grievance can shove the segment into a new lane without much warning. That looseness is part of the appeal. The archive catches broadcast thinking in motion rather than smoothing it into prestige-podcast manners. Sports fans get the loudest recurring material, especially around Kentucky, Louisville, Duke, St. John’s, Rick Pitino, Mark Pope, and the emotional weather of tournament season. Political listeners get statehouse irritation, partisan jabs, and enough local specificity to keep the jokes from floating away. There are also interviews with callers like Mike from Queens, where the talk turns toward horse racing, the Louisville Kings, friendship, work ethic, and the city’s hunger for bigger sports moments. The comedy is blunt but rarely cold. Even the teasing tends to come from a familiar local posture: everyone knows the names, the grudges, the roads, the teams, and the old arguments. The show is best heard as a radio scrapbook with the hinges still squeaking. It is messy in a useful way. The value is not just nostalgia, but texture: how a community sounds when news, sports, politics, sponsors, callers, and running jokes all share the same crowded desk.
Made for: For listeners who like local talk radio with sports grudges, political needling, character bits, and broadcast muscle memory. It especially suits Kentucky and Louisville followers who enjoy messy banter more than polished commentary.
What sets it apart: Its strength is the archive itself: a radio world where civic news, college sports, interviews, parody, and old-school station rhythm are preserved together. Few comedy-talk feeds feel this local, this reactive, or this comfortable changing lanes mid-sentence.
With a half century of broadcasting completed, Terry Meiners shares audio from his shows on WHAS, WQMF, WLRS, and WKQQComedy sketches, news interviews, celebrity chats, and monologues are all included in this small portion of Terry's audio library.Terry has worked alongside phenomenal broadcasters who are included in various segments. Ron Clay, Randy Davidson, Mary Jeffries, Van Vance, Cawood Ledford, Jeff Ketterman, Liz Curtis, Mario Maitland, Mandy Connell, Wayne Perkey, Milton Metz, Jack Fox, Doug McElvein, Joe Donovan, Chuck Taylor, Tanna Guthrie, Duke Meyer, Kim Works, Tony Cruise, Ian Vertrees, Angela Fleming, Terry Dismore, Joe Elliott, Rachel Platt, Brian Rublein...
Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Terry Meiners turns Kentucky radio history, recurring characters and restless guest banter into a lively record of comedy made at broadcast speed.
Terry Meiners treats the radio studio as a place where interviews, invented voices and topical jokes can collide without much ceremony. 50 years of Terry Meiners radio bits preserves that loose, quick-moving approach, shifting from elaborate character scenes and Kentucky…
A Wildcat bank teller wields a garden hose when your nostalgia needs less dignity.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A loose Louisville hang where comic back-and-forth keeps pulling the talk off course.
Greg Hahn's visit with Terry Meiners plays like a loose, good-natured hang, with ordinary details kept alive by comic timing. It opens with Greg back in the Ville, then moves through the act he says he learned there and now carries to Hong Kong, Japan, and Greece, with Athens…
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.
A loose local-radio time capsule where the jokes keep widening and the personalities do the lifting.
A WHAS highlights tape leans hard into local radio chaos, with Terry Miners and Company bouncing through station banter, character bits, and a banking gag that somehow ends at a car wash.
A veteran radio conversation turns memory, gratitude, and civic strain into something warm and lived-in.
Matt Jones and Terry carry a radio-life conversation that starts in 1976 and edges toward a 50-year mark next June. It moves from WKQQ beginnings and wrong-name jokes to a plain look at what it means to stay on the air as long as the mind still works.
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Live sermons with Easter-shaped urgency.
This episode discusses a case of embezzlement by a seemingly trustworthy office comptroller in Dixon, Illinois, exploring how lack of oversight enables such financial crimes.
Terry Meiners reflects on the end of the college basketball season, focusing on the rivalry between Kentucky and Louisville.
Terry Meiners discusses the Kentucky General Assembly's proposal to place a statue of Senator Mitch McConnell in the state capitol rotunda.
A Kentucky fan celebrates Duke's NCAA Tournament loss while criticizing UConn's coach and mocking Duke's performance.
Mike Repole discusses his involvement with the Louisville Kings football team, his passion for horse racing including the Kentucky Derby, and St.
A radio host describes a robot with vocal fry that was introduced at the White House during a global coalition meeting hosted by Melania Trump, focusing on technology and education for children.
A host emotionally reflects on the thrilling Kentucky vs.
A passionate and humorous commentary on the Kentucky Wildcats' NCAA tournament victory, including trash talk about rival Louisville.
Interview with author David Dominez about his book and HBO documentary on a murder in Old Louisville.
Terry Miners interviews Archbishop Shelton Fob and Father Cole McDowell, discussing their roles, the Catholic Church's support for the WHAS Crusade for Children, and lighthearted topics like throwing a first pitch.
A sports talk segment featuring banter about NCAA tournament matchups, including a parody caller mocking Kentucky fans.
A comedic monologue parodying Kentucky basketball fans' passionate and exaggerated reactions to games.
Terry Meiners interviews actors Patrick Duffy and Linda Purl about their careers and experiences on classic TV shows.
Terry Meiners shares a humorous radio segment featuring a quirky visitor and banter with colleagues.
Terry Meiners shares a humorous radio segment where he chats with his son Simon about his work at the Fraser Museum.
Terry welcomes Greg Hahn back to the Ville, and the visit quickly turns into a loose comic roam.
Terry Meiners presents a compilation of radio comedy bits from his Louisville-based show, including parody segments such as Cat Chat with Oscar Cone, Chuck Olmstead Action News, a Fox News missing-persons spoof, and a Nick and Rick Wild 109 shock-jock bit.
This episode is a compiled highlights tape from Terry Meiners and Company, a comedy and talk radio program that aired weekday afternoons from 3-7pm on 84 WHAS Radio in Louisville, Kentucky, featuring bits from 1993.
Bill Maher discusses President Obama's endorsement of gay marriage and its political implications, including how it might affect the 2012 election by provoking controversial responses from Republicans.
This episode presents a complete rebroadcast of the 1939 Campbell's Playhouse production of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, narrated by Orson Welles and starring Lionel Barrymore.
Matt Jones interviews Terry Meiners on NewsRadio 840 WHAS to mark Meiners' approaching 50th year in Louisville radio, covering his career arc from taping automation at WKQQ in Lexington in 1976 to becoming the city's elder statesman.
Terry Meiners interviews the mayor of Louisville about the Light Up Louisville event, blending humor and local news.
A compilation of comedic radio segments from Terry Meiners' 50-year broadcasting career, including sketches, interviews, and monologues.
Terry Meiners shares a humorous monologue about Christmas lights and the holiday season.
Terry Meiners interviews CNN political commentator Scott Jennings about his role on CNN's debate shows and his perspective on political discourse.
Terry Meiners interviews Murr from Impractical Jokers, discussing his Catholic school background, the show's pranks, and humorous stories.
Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg discusses the urgent issue of SNAP benefits potentially ending at midnight, affecting over 80,000 residents, and highlights local efforts with organizations like Dare to Care to address food insecurity amid rising costs.
A comedic rant about Louisville and Kentucky sports, featuring exaggerated insults and playful banter.
Terry Meiners discusses the NBA gambling scandal, questioning why anyone would participate in a rigged poker game, with casual banter about colleagues and music interspersed.
Terry Meiners interviews Senator Rand Paul about the government shutdown and its financial implications.
A sports talk segment featuring a comedic character ranting about the Louisville Cardinals' loss to Virginia and criticizing the team and coach.
Terry Meiners shares a humorous radio anecdote about accidentally cursing on air after hitting a walkway with the station van.
Terry Meiners discusses Donovan Mitchell's visit to Louisville and coach Pat Kelsey's comments about the program being 'point guard U'.
Terry Meiners interviews Nate Morris about the assassination of Charlie Kirk, discussing his impact on the conservative movement and his faith.
A compilation of comedic radio segments from Terry Meiners' 50-year broadcasting career, including sketches, interviews, and monologues.