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The Beasman is still tore up about another Florida jinx game

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THE BEASMAN florida curse continues
(crying) LARRY…I CAINT TAKE IT NO MORE. STOP TAWKIN BOUT THAT GOLFER FROM LOSERVILLE AND TAWK ABOUT WHAT WE GONNA DO NOW WITH U UH KAY! (crying) I’M SO TORE UP. (crying) THE FLORIDER JINX IS CRUSHIN MY WILDCAT HEART. (crying) LITTLE WILDCAT KIDS COULDN’T GO TO SCHOOL TODAY CUZ THEY’S DEE-PRESSED. THEIR WILDCAT MOMMIES AND DADDIES STAYED HOME DRINKIN, CRYIN, AND CUSSIN THEM REFFERMARIES. (crying) IT AIN’T F-F-F-FUNNY WHEN U UH KAY LOSES.

IT’S ONLY FUNNY WHEN U OF SMELL IS A F-F-F-F-FAILURE. (crying) I THUNK FOR SURE WHEN THE CATS WAS UP 27-14 THAT THE 30-YEAR JINX WAS OVER. WE WAS HIGH-FIVIN AND LAUGHIN AND TAWKIN BOUT HOW U OF SMELL SUCKS AND HOW KENTUCKY IS GOODER THAN ALABAMMER AND EVERBODY ELSE. (crying) US GOOD AND CLASSY CAT FANS TURNT TOWARD THE FLORIDER SECTION TO GIVE GATOR CHOMP HUMILERATION TO THEIR FANS. WE WAS SHOUTIN “LOOOOOOOSER!” AT ALL THEM FLORIDER PEOPLE.

Oops. Someone forgot to place their hand over his heart for the national anthem.

“YOU SUCK, YOU BUNCH OF TRUMP LOVIN, BEACH BUM, HURRICANE TRASH NOBODIES. GO ON HOME TO YOUR FLOODED BASEMENTS. WE IS THE CATS!” AND SUDDENLY WE ALL LOOK UP AND SOME FLORIDER CHEATER GOES OUT FOR PASS WITHOUT NO WILDCAT TO GUARD HIM. (crying) TOUCHDOWN…FOR THE SECOND TIME! (hard crying) MY WILDCATS DONE GOT PUNKED AGAIN BY THEM COCONUT HEAD FLORIDER CHEATERS, DAGUMMIT. (crying) YOU POSED TO LET THE OTHER TEAM KNOW YOU IS STANDING THERE UNGUARDED.

IT’S THE LAW! IT’S SO DISHONEST TO SNEAK OUT THERE ALONE AND STAY QUIET. THAT’S CHEATIN IF YOU ASK ME. (crying) QUIT THAT SMIRKIN, LARRY MINNER. STOP SMIRKIN ABOUT U UH KAY GITTIN JOBBED BY THE REFFERMARIES AGAIN. YOU KNOW THEM NO COUNT, CROSS-EYED, CROOKED REFERMARIES WAS GITTIN PAID OFF TO CALL HODING ON U UH KAY ON THAT LAST PLAY. (crying) WE WAS GONNA KICK THAT FIELD GOAL AFTER BENNY GOT US DOWN TO THE 25 YARD LINE BUT THEM CHEATIN REFFERMARIES CALLED IT BACK AND THEN WE HAD TO KICK A 99 YARD FIELD GOAL. HORRIBLE!

photos: Kentucky.com

(crying) I DON’T THINK I BLEEVE IN GOD NO MORE, LARRY. ALL US GOOD AND CLASSY CAT FANS WAS PRAYIN IN THE FOURTH QUARTER: “PLEASE GOD, LET OUR CATS WIN FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 19&55 AND WE PROMISE WE’LL GO TO CHURCH EVER DAY JUST LIKE COACH CAL!” BUT GOD DINT LISSEN. HE LET FLORIDER WIN AND THEY MOCKED US WITH THEIR GATOR CHOMPS ALL THE WAY OUT TO THE PARKIN LOT. YOU KNOW WHAT? COACH CAL NEVER WINS NO NATIONAL CHAMPERCHIPS BUT HE GOES TO MASS EVER DAY. I THINK GOD IS AGIN THE KENTUCKY WILDCATS! MAYBE US GOOD AND CLASSY CAT FANS NEED TO TAKE A KNEE DURING THE OPENING PRAYER! (crying)

BUT EVEN IN OUR MISERY, US GOOD AND CLASSY CAT FANS CAN STILL SOMETHIN TO SMILE ABOUT. U OF SMELL IS STILL GITTIN THE DEATH PENALTY! LET’S CELERMABRATE THE NC2A TELLIN THEM SKANKY GRAMMAW STRIPPER LOVIN U OF SMELLERS TO TAKE THAT BANNER DOWN! IT’S FAKE NEWS! TAKE IT DOWN! TAKE IT DOWN! LET’S HAVE US A BIG BLUE PEPPER RALLY IN FRONT OF THE DEADBEAT YUM YUM ARENER WHEN THE NC2A BRINGS THAT LADDER TRUCK IN THERE TO YANK DOWN THAT LYIN BANNER!

Michigan guard Trey Burke (3) walks off the court as confetti falls on Louisville players, including Russ Smith (2), Luke Hancock (11), Stephan Van Treese (44) and Zach Price (25), after the NCAA Final Four tournament college basketball championship game, Monday, April 8, 2013, in Atlanta. Louisville won 82-76. (AP Photo/Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Curtis Compton)

IT NEVER HAPPENED! HOORAY CATS! U UH KAY IS THE LAST KENTUCKY TEAM TO WIN IT ALL, NOT NO SAGGY PANTS, RAP MUSIC, MAN WEARIN EARRINGS, STINKBREATH, FOULMOUTH, GRAMMAW STRIPPER, CHILD ABUSE, HEROIN NEEDLE, GANG BANG DRIVE BY SHOOTERS, BACKWARDS CAP, MAKIN BABIES OUT OF WEDLOCK, GRAFFITI PAINTIN, HAIRY GIRL ARMPIT, WHISKEY FOR BREAKFAST, BRAINLESS, G.E.D. FLUNKIN THUG U OF SMELL CARDINAL BIRDS. SO WE GOT THAT GOIN FOR US, WHICH IS NICE! AWWWWWW C-A-T-S CATS! CATS! CATS! FARDY & OH! FARDY & OH! FARDY & OH!

The Beasman can’t stop laughing about Clemson trouncing UofL

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THE BEASMAN cats on fire as cards fold
(unaired portion of script) THEY DISSED US, LARRY! THEY DINT SHAKE OUR HANDS SO THE KENTUCKY WILDCATS HAD TO CRUSH THEIR SOUTH CARAMALINER SOULS FOR THE FOURTH TIME IN A ROW! WE ARE UK! WE ARE BIG BLUE! KENTUCKY PROUD! STOOPS TROOPS! AWWWWWW C-A-T-S CATS! CATS! CATS! WE LOVE US SOME KENTUCKY WILDCATS! BENNY SNELL SAID IT BEST: WE BE 3 AND OH! WE BE 3! WE BE 3! WE BE 3! I ARE A COLLEGE STUDENT! I ARE A COLLEGE STUDENT.

photos: UK athletics

GOOOOO BIG BLUE! BUT THE STOOPID TOP 25 PO STILL DON’T GOT NO U UH KAY IN IT. WHAT IN THE SAM HILL IS WRONG WITH THEM LUNKHEADS WHO VOTE? IS THEY ALL ON DRUGS? WELL ONCE WE BEAT UP THEM FLORIDER GATORS COME SAIRDEE NIGHT THEN WE WILL SEE WHO BLONGS IN THE TOP 25 AND WHO IS A FRAUD! WHAT A WEEKEND! CATS WIN! CATS WIN! CATS WIN! AND GAME DAY AINT NEVER COMIN BACK TO Y’ALL’S GHETTO TOWN CUZ YOU CAINT GIVE EM A GOOD GAME. CARDINALS GOT BLOWED OUT AND US GOOD AND CLASSY CAT FANS WAS LOVIN EVER MINUTE OF IT! FIRE HONEST BOBBY! FIRE HONEST BOBBY! HIRE JEFF BROHM! HIRE JEFF BROHM! (laffs) I LOVE STIRRIN THE POT, LARRY.

Y’ALL PATHETIC U OF SMELL FANS GOT TO TAKE YOUR LUMPS AND ADMIT THAT U UH KAY IS YOUR MASTER IN FOOTBAW AND BASKETBAW! WE BEAT YOU LAST FALL AND WE BEEN ON A ROAD WINNING STREAK EVER SINCE! Y’ALL SNAGGLE TOOTH CARDINAL FANS LAUGHED AT US WHEN WE SAID BEATIN U OF SMELL IN THE PIZZA OVEN WAS THE TURNAROUND FOR U UH KAY FOOTBAW. WELL LOOK AT BOTH OF US NOW, YOU FRUIT LOOP! THE KENTUCKY WILDCATS IS AMERICA’S TEAM AND U OF SMELL JUST GOT ANOTHER BEATDOWN ON NATIONAL TELLERBISION.

OL LEE CORSO PUT ON THAT CARDINAL HEAD AND THE CLEMZER DINT TAKE TOO KIND TO IT. LEE CORSO MUST BE SEE-NILE! BETTER GIT HIM A FULLTIME NURSE CUZ HE’S OUTTA HIS MIND. THE ONLY THING Y’ALL DID RIGHT WAS WEAR BLACK CLOTHES BECAUSE IT WAS A CARDINAL FUNERAL! (laffs) AND POOR OL SLICK RICK PUT ON LAY-MAR JACKSON’S TIGHT JERSEY LIKE HE THUNK HE WAS A NEW YARK FASHION MODEL. WHAT A JOKE! THE ONLY PASS SLICK RICK KNOWS HOW TO THROW IS TO SOME STRUMPET TO SNEAK IN THE DARM AND COMMIT SINS WITH HIS PLAYERS.

ADMIT IT, LARRY! IT IS ALL OVER FOR YOUR BOYFRIEND SLICK RICK AND HIS SINFUL SIDEKICK BOBBY PETRINKO. Y’ALL JUST NEED TO PIRE WARSH ALL THEM CRIMINAL COACHES OUTTA YOUR GHETTO TOWN AND START OVER. I BETCHA THE STATUE OF JOHNNY UNITAS WOULDA PLAYED BETTER THAN ANYBODY ON YOUR TEAM! MEANTIME U UH KAY IS THE TOAST OF AMERICA. WE GOT US COACH CAL – HE GOES TO MASS EVER DAY. AND WE GOT US MARK STOOPS, WHO USED TO BE STOOPID BUT NOW THAT HE’S WINNIN WE ALL LOVE HIM. KENTUCKY IS THE GOLD STANDARD AND LOSERVILLE IS THE MOLD STANDARD. Y’ALL IS CRUSTY, MOLDY, TIRED HAS BEENS THAT IS THE LAUGHING STOCK OF AMERICA.

photo: UofL athletics

PUT ME ON HODE FOR THE MARK STOOPS CALL-IN SHOW. HE TAWKS TO HIS FANS WHILE BOBBY PETRINKO DON’T TAKE NO CALLS AND GITS AST QUESTIONS THAT HIS STAFF MEMBERS WRITE IN ADVANCE. LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL! U UH KAY GONNA FINALLY WHOOP FLARIDER AND ALL THE CURSES WILL BE AS DEAD AS LOSERVILLE’S 2013 BANNER! TAKE IT DOWN! TAKE IT DOWN! TAKE IT DOWN! YOU SAGGY PANTS, RAP MUSIC, WHISKEY FOR BREAKFAST, FOULMOUTH, STINKBREATH, MAKIN BABIES OUT OF WEDLOCK, UNCHRISTIAN, UNHINGED, UNAMERICAN SCUMBAG U OF SMELL THUGS IS FINALLY GITTIN WHAT’S COMIN TO YOU….A BIG, FAT TRIP TO NOBODYLAND.

GAME DAY AINT COMIN BACK. BOWL BIDS AINT COMIN BACK. MARCH MADNESS AINT COMIN BACK. THE ONLY THING COMIN BACK TO LOSERVILLE IS NC2A INVESTERGATORS BRINGIN A BIG TALL LADDER TO CLIMB UP IN THE DEADBEAT YUM YUM ARENER TO CUT DOWN THAT FAKE NEWS BANNER, AND THEN THEY GONNA REPO THAT FRAUD HEISMAN TROPHY! BETTER SET YOUR GPS FOR BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, LARRY.

YOU AND YOUR TIGHT JERSEY WEARIN BOYFRIEND SLICK RICK ABOUT TO GIT RUN OUTTA TOWN WORSE THAN CLEMZER DONE TO YOUR OVERRATED FOOTBAW TEAM. BETTER PUT SOME FRESH LIGHTBULBS IN YOUR SCOREBOARD FOR NEXT SAIRDEE WHEN Y’ALL GIT TROUNCED BY CUPCAKE STATE! AWWWWWWW C-A-T-S CATS! CATS! CATS! FARDY & OH! FARDY & OH! FARDY & OH!

Freeway Rick Ross walks a straight line today

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Once America’s top cocaine dealer, Freeway Rick Ross has traveled an arduous path. He hid his drug dealing profession from his mom by purchasing buildings instead of pricey cars and flashy clothes.

Terry Meiners and Freeway Rick Ross, September 6, 2017

Ross notes the irony of buying drugs from foreigners funded by the U.S. government. Freeway Rick sold over a billion dollars of cocaine in the 1980s. Eventually he wound up in prison, learned to read, taught himself legal strategies, and made it back into the free world.

But now he wants to teach young people, particularly black males, that “the life” is a fake fantasy. He knows today’s opioid crisis could be the end of us all.

Freeway Rick Ross wants to stop people from making the mistakes he made.

He dropped by my radio studio today to tell some of his story.

He doesn’t want to talk about Rapper Rick Ross. He just wants his name back.

He’s already succeeded in getting his life back.

The Beasman: UK pimp slaps USM while U of Smell limps past Purdue

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Kentucky photos via UK athletics on Twitter

AWWW C-A-T-S CATS! CATS! CATS! GO BIG BLUE! WE IS #1 IN FOOTBAW. COACH CAL IS #1 IN HURRICANE FUNDRAISIN. AND U OF SMELL STILL SUCKS LIKE LAST YEAR! BIG BLUE NATION RULES THE WORLD! HEY LAREEEEEEEEE! LARRY DADGUM MINNER! YOUR CARDINAL BIRDS LOOKED LIKE THEY STILL GOT THE FUMBLE-ITIS THEY HAD LASS YEAR WHEN U UH KAY BEAT ‘EM AND TURNT EM INTO NOBODIES. WHAT’S THE MATTER WITH THEM CARDINAL CONVICTS, LARRY? DO THEY THINK THAT FOOTBAW IS A SUBPOENA OR A HAND GRENADE? AIN’T NONE OF ‘EM WANTS TO HODE ONTO IT.

LAY-MAR JACKSON WAS OK BUT THE REST OF EM SUCKED. I TELL YOU WHAT, ALL US GOOD AND CLASSY CAT FANS WAS PULLIN HARD FOR THEM ROTTEN BROHM BROTHERS TO UPSET U OF SMELL AND PUT A BIG SMILE ON BIG BLUE NATION’S FACE. GO PURDUE! BEAT THAT VILLE! EVER TIME PURDUE WOULD MAKE A MOVE, ALL OF BIG BLUE NATION WAS LAUGHIN AND PRAYIN FOR THE UPSET. DADGUMMIT, IT WAS LOOKIN GOOD FOR MOST OF THE GAME BUT THEM ROTTEN CARDINAL BIRDS LIMPED AWAY WITH A FRAUD VICTREE.

BUT LEMME TELL YOU, AIN’T NO WAY U OF SMELL CAN BEAT CLEMSON, FLORIDA STATE, OR THE KENTUCKY WILDCATS. STOOPS TROOPS GONNA PIMP SMACK Y’ALL AROUND LIKE WE DONE LAST YEAR, LARRY. THE WILDCATS PUT THE HAMMER DOWN ON SOUTHERN MISTERSIPPI REAL FAST AND SO THE REST OF THE GAME WE WAS JUST EXPERIMENTIN WITH DIFFERNT COMBER-ATIONS. SO THE CATS IS GONNA RUN THE TABLE THIS YEAR AND WIN THE NATIONAL CHAMPERCHIPS IN FOOTBAW AND BASKETBAW.

EVEN YALL STUPID U OF SMELLERS GOTTA ADMIT THAT COACH CAL IS A SAINT. HE JUST COMES ON TV AND IMMEDIATELY BIG BLUE NATION DIGS DEEP AND GIVES A MILLION DOLLARS TO THEM TEXAS PEOPLE WHAT’S DOG PADDLIN FROM THE HARVEY THING. THE ONLY TIME U OF SMELL RAISES MONEY IS TO POST BOND FOR ALL Y’ALLS CRIMINAL PLAYERS AND LEGAL FEES FOR Y’ALL COACHES IN TROUBLE WITH THE NC2A. COACH CAL – HE GOES TO MASS EVER DAY – GOT ALL THEM NBA PLAYERS ON SPEED DIAL TO RAISE CHARITY MONEY.

IF SLICK RICK NEEDS TO TAWK TO HIS FARMER PLAYERS HE JUST GOES DOWN TO SKID ROW TO FIND ‘EM ALL SHOOTIN CRAPS AND SELLIN DOPE FOR A LIVIN. WHAT IS U OF SMELL GONNA DO FOR THE FLOOD VICTIMS, SEND EM SOME OLD LADY STRIPPERS? I LOVE IT.

U UH KAY GOT IT GOIN ON, LARRY. AND QUIT TAWKIN ABOUT HOW OUR RECEIVER WAS ON THE TWITTER MACHINE COMPLAININ ABOUT HIS PLAYIN TIME. TURNT OUT SOME U OF SMELLER HACKED HIS ACCOUNT. SU-PRISE, SU-PRISE. WHY DON’T Y’ALL SNAGGLE TOOTH, BEER BREATH, NECK TATTOO, MAN BUN, DIRTY BEARD, BACKWARDS CAP, GRAFFITI PAINTIN, GRAMPA PUNCHIN, MAKIN BABIES OUT OF WEDLOCK CARDINAL PEOPLE CLEAN UP YOUR OWN HOUSE. THE FIRST THING YOU CAN DO IS FETCH A LADDER TO CLIMB UP AND TAKE DOWN THAT FAKE NEWS BANNER. TAKE IT DOWN! TAKE IT DOWN! TAKE IT DOWN! THAT’S A FRAUD BANNER. THE ONLY U OF SMELL BANNERS THAT IS REAL IS THE ONES DENNY CRUMMY GOT FOR Y’ALL.

Denny Crum, July 2017 (photo by Danny Alexander for TOPS Louisville magazine)

AND I WANNA SAY A SPECIAL HELLO TO DENNY CUZ I KNOW HE GOT SICK WHILE HE WAS FISHIN. I’M GLAD HE’S OK NOW CUZ I NEED TO TAKE HIM OUT AND CATCH MORE FISH THAN HIM LIKE I ALWAYS DO. DENNY IS THE ONLY GOOD CARDINAL. SLICK RICK AND THE REST OF THEM ANDRE MCGEE STRIPPER POLE SCUMBAGS IS A DISS-GRACE TO THE STATE OF KENTUCKY. THE ONLY THING U OF SMELL DOES BETTER THAN U UH KAY IS COMMIT CRIMES. CONGRATULATIONS ON HAVIN ONE SKILL, U OF SMELLERS.

Louisville St. Xavier’s Justin Thomas, five wins on the PGA Tour in 2017

AND QUIT ACTIN LIKE JUSTIN THOMAS IS A CARDINAL BIRD. HE WENT TO ALABAMMER CUZ HE KNOWED THE S.E.C. IS THE BEST. HE ONLY SAID HE LIKES U OF SMELL SO Y’ALL WON’T BURN HIS HOUSE DOWN WHILE HE’S AWAY PLAYIN GOLF. YOU SUCK, LARRY! GO CATS! GO BLUE! AWWWWWW C-A-T-S CATS! CATS! CATS! FARDY & OH! FARDY & OH! FARDY & OH!

Every CEO knows that you don’t mess with the profit center

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front page of The Courier-Journal, August 26, 2017

The obvious tension among University of Louisville officials is no secret. Mounting pressures from a myriad of financial, legal, and NCAA entanglements have left the school’s leaders singing out of different hymnals.

The Courier-Journal’s Tim Sullivan projects that VP of athletics Tom Jurich’s massive new deal with adidas will break the wall of silence between the administration and the athletics department.

Here is my previous blog post referenced in Sullivan’s CJ column.

What’s next?

UofL Foundation Chairman David Grissom won’t say whether he has asked interim President Dr. Greg Postel to fire head basketball coach Rick Pitino for a “fresh start” following the NCAA scandal. Lots of sources say that’s exactly what happened in July around the time of the new Yum Center deal that Postel steered around Jurich.

Jurich has repeatedly said he will not consider such a move and would leave UofL if Pitino is fired.

Pitino’s buyout is around $44 million. Yeah, ain’t gonna happen. UofL is in no financial position to push out its most successful (and marquee) employee.

Wait…Grissom urged Postel to fire Pitino? Who’s running this nuthouse anyway?

I know this. Coaches in every sport are loyal to Jurich. If Jurich goes, a mass exodus of nearly the entire cupboard of Louisville’s ACC competitive coaches will follow. An abandoned UofL would have to host a coaching job fair with some poorly qualified newbie choosing the replacements.

November 26, 2016

Jurich and Pitino are UofL’s Fortune 500 company. The adidas deal was announced the other night at the Fifty Yard Line dinner where Jurich commanded the stage while the interim president sat quietly three tables off to the side.

Jurich hosted Gov. Matt Bevin, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, business icon Junior Bridgeman, and two adidas executives. Postel was noticeably relegated to secondary status.

Let’s hope all of these UofL leaders can work out their discomfort and come together as a team to face rough waters ahead for all higher education.

Universities all across America are dealing with free falling government dollars, cultural meltdowns that turn off alums, and sparse alumni donations. Newer generations of graduates just don’t send money to the ‘ol alma mater like mom and dad did.

Pitino and Jurich are locks for UofL’s all-time Mount Rushmore. Plus, Bobby Petrino, Jeff Walz, Ken Lolla, and Dan McDonnell are generating their own national buzz and financial success.

Every CEO knows you don’t mess with the profit center. Jurich’s twenty year run has generated an unprecedented BOOM TIME that is the envy of even gigantic schools.

iHeart Media VP Earl Jones, WHAS’ Terry Meiners, WDRB GM Bill Lamb, and UofL VP Tom Zurich (photo: Voice-Tribune 2017)

Yes, Pitino and Jurich are my friends. They’ve got tons of supporters, incredible competitive achievements, and they raise incredible amounts of local charitable dollars.

Even the most ardent UofL haters understand that Jurich is the most sought after athletics director in America and Pitino is a Top 5 coach.

Neither could be replaced without sending the university spiraling back into its nadir just before Denny Crum was hired and started UofL’s run to national prominence nearly 50 years ago.

Even a guy with a skimpy resume understands that.

Great Day Live, October 2014

REAL RADIO – Louisville voices on statues, reparations, and LGBT rights

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Yesterday’s radio show delivered a triple punch of prominent Louisville activists amplifying their messages on 50,000 watt WHAS Radio.

Dr. Ricky Jones always brings his A game. He dove headfirst into the issues of confederate statues, neo Nazis, and why Democrats are cowards. Plus, we sang a duet of Dixie.

Chanelle Helm, one of Louisville’s most noteworthy Black Lives Matter organizers, expounded upon her eye opening post “White People, Here are 10 Requests from Black Lives Matter”

Director of the Fairness Campaign Chris Hartman followed up on his visit to the Kentucky Farm Bureau’s state fair ham breakfast. For the sixth consecutive year, Hartman protested what he says are discriminatory policies toward LGBTQ citizens that are advanced by lobbyists for KFB.

A sampling of responses:

Fort Knox guards are the real golden state warriors

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Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin and Terry Meiners at WHAS, August 21, 2017

Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin texted that he was nearby and wanted to tell me something. It turned out that he was still buzzing from just visiting the gold depository at Fort Knox and wanted to tell my radio audience about it.

Bevin, invited by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnunchin, is the only governor to ever visit the gold depository. President Franklin D. Roosevelt is the only commander in chief to visit the vault and Mnuchin only the third treasury boss to personally inspect America’s safety deposit box.

Bevin gave the WHAS Radio audience a fairly comprehensive accounting of the vault’s contents, last opened for inspection in 1974.

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Bevin had already had a pretty solid day, flying a helicopter with his old Army buddy over Hopkinsville, a totality zone for the day’s solar eclipse. Once Mnuchin’s people contacted him about the vault opportunity, Bevin redirected the flight to Fort Knox.

Governor Matt Bevin copilots a state helicopter above Christian County, Kentucky on eclipse day, August 21, 2017.

The Kentucky governor was impressed with the gold bars, coins, and other precious contents of the vault but was quick to point out that its “few hundred billion dollars” in value is “approximately 1% of our total federal debt.”

He wouldn’t talk about the complicated entry system but joked that, combined with a total solar eclipse, it seemed like a setup for a new version of the James Bond heist film Goldfinger.

SWEET SOUNDS: I heard it on the radio

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Today is National Radio Day. In my life, it means almost as much as my birthday.

Ron Clay & Terry Meiners exiting WLRS studios in The 800 Building as doorman Sam Grandison shakes his head. (1982)

I’ve been lucky enough to earn my living doing what I always wanted to do. From the time I was a little kid I just wanted to be on the radio. My dad laughed at Bill Bailey’s jokes. I loved WAKY radio and the lunacy I heard from its deejays.

I was hired at WHAS in 1985 for my sarcastic comedy streak, but the job evolved into conducting news making interviews with the powerful and prominent. Sometimes people become more prominent after appearing on my show.

Terry Meiners on the air at beginning of his radio career — WKQQ-FM (Lexington) in 1977.

After some of my WAKY buddies helped me put together an audition tape in 1976, I was hired by Jim Rivers, a Lexington programmer at WKQQ-FM and WBLG-AM. While other college kids were out having fun, I was tending to the automated rock songs on WKQQ from 10 PM until 6 AM on both Friday and Saturday nights. That’s the lowest rung on the ladder.

WKQQ program director pitched management on taking the radio station from automation to live deejays. His calculation for me, a college student, is misstated as “weekly” when he meant to type “monthly.” $40 x 12 months = $480

But I loved it. I was earning minimum wage and couldn’t wait until my next shift so that I could be part of the delivery system of music, promos, and a few parody pieces I started to submit. Eventually WKQQ went to live deejays and I was not selected. Six months in, one of the new hires didn’t work out so I was given a chance.

I’ve never stopped loving the job of opening the microphone and speaking extemporaneously to an unseen audience. Listening to your thoughts expands my mind. The rewards have been phenomenal.

Terry Meiners files snow reports along I-65 (January 22, 2016)

Happy National Radio Day. I hope your career brings you the soaring joy I still receive from mine some forty years later. Thanks for listening. Thanks for watching my TV nonsense. Thanks for being so supportive to my family after all these years. I hope I’ve been of help to you or your organization in some positive way.

Terry Meiners shares a drink with his pet cicada in 1987 (WHAS-TV)

WHAS radio team 1990 Wayne Perkey, Jack Fox, Milton Metz, Terry Meiners, Diane Williamson, Joe Donovan, and Doug McElvein

A lot of the folks in the above photo made great impressions on me and helped boost my career. I am forever grateful to all of the wonderful broadcast mates I’ve shared studios with. Each one added to my portfolio of knowledge and devotion to the craft of communication. Thank you all so much.

The most important component of my career has been taking part in the public service miracle called the Crusade for Children. Through all of the challenges of regular workdays, nothing rewards the soul more than helping special needs children and their families. I am eternally grateful for the chance to help in some small way. Onward.

1980 WHAS Crusade for Children with Wayne Perkey, Phyllis Knight, Jim Walton, and Milton Metz

In closing, one final hero must be spotlighted. Paul Harvey was the quintssential American broadcaster. We carried his broadcasts on WHAS for decades. See his story below.

Rick Pitino halftime hilarity – Who knows what’s next?

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University of Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino and I had a ton of fun with his TV show during his first 12 years in Louisville. The contract eventually went to a different TV station and we lost our weekly silliness.

Here’s a typical show. It originally aired on December 20, 2008. The final segment (at approx 21 minutes in) shows a montage of the goofball halftime interviews we would do for laughs. Once I launched my second question, I had no idea what Pitino would say to break my shoes. ESPN Sportscenter eventually picked it up one night. Pitino saw it and texted: “Our act finally made it to national TV.” Mission accomplished.

Coach P is still one of the best interview subjects in all of media. He gives thoughtful, insightful answers and never forgets to add some humor. That skill set will serve him well whenever he steps away from coaching and goes to TV commentary.

Pitino tells me today that he is ready to go back to work on Monday with that same head of steam he brings every year.

Two-fer Tuesday: political ping pong

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Governor Matt Bevin and U.S. Rep. John Yarmuth were together for the Lincoln Bridge dedication in December 2015. The two men are not friendly with each other.

My radio show today featured back-to-back interviews with political opposites Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin and U.S. Representative John Yarmuth (Ky-3).

Here’s the governor talking about potential expansion of Toyota’s manufacturing presence, his victory in the PVA assessment of his home, misdirected media, pension pressure, and tax changes to retain wealth. As for the possibility of facing Attorney General Andy Beshear in the 2019 gubernatorial race: “To me that would be fantastic. He is not even competent as an attorney general.”

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Hello, I’d like to report a carjacking. This is Jack speaking! (2013)

Congressman Yarmuth talked about North Korea’s nuclear threats toward the U.S., President Trump’s reply that America would bring “fire and fury never before seen in the world,” congressional health care camaraderie, and whether VP Mike Pence is sincere in claiming that he is not considering a 2020 run for the presidency.

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