Kentucky Sports Radio (KSR) founder Matt Jones hosts a podcast called INTERRUPTED for iHeart Radio. His recent guest Terry Meiners, a broadcaster since 1976, had plenty stories to share with Jones. The two prominent Kentucky media personalities carried on a 49 minute conversation weaving through a myriad of topics. It even became emotional when Meiners began reminiscing about his parents. Enjoy the chat! Listen to "Life & Legacy discussion between Matt Jones and Terry Meiners" on Spreaker. Matt and Terry talked Louisville vs. Kentucky in the long conversation but sidestepped any chirping about Louisville's current dominance over Kentucky in football and basketball. But, but, but...VOLLEYBALL!
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That time Howard Schnellenberger almost smashed Disc Jockey’s face
In a recent Courier Journal profile of my radio career, a 1992 photo of Howard Schnellenberger pretending to punch me reflected a real life incident from a few years earlier. The photo was staged at a golf tournament awards dinner, but only Coach Schnellenberger and I understood and chuckled at the backstory. I ran frequent radio sketches where Schnellenberger would drive his loaner Cadillac right through the glass doors of my studio, a nod to his frequent driving mishaps behind the wheel of a local dealer's car. The parody Schnellenberger would scream DISC JOCKEY (instead of learning my name) and demand that I drop down and give him 5 pushups for being a sissy, spineless, "poor excuse for a man." The
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