
20 Questions with Terry Meiners
Clip: Season 1 Episode 8 | 5m 7sVideo has Closed Captions
Kelsey Starks asks radio host Terry Meiners 20 rapid-fire questions.
Kelsey Starks asks radio host Terry Meiners 20 rapid-fire questions.
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20 Questions with Terry Meiners
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Kelsey Starks asks radio host Terry Meiners 20 rapid-fire questions.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipI have a quick rapid fire 20 question.
Oh, okay.
You describe yourself in one word driven.
Okay.
Favorite restaurant in town?
Hmm.
el-Sisi.
Spend a lot of time there.
Do you prefer texting or talking?
Texting.
Last person you called on the phone.
My wife.
Nickname as a kid, I guess.
Terrance.
There's a reason for that.
I had a nun who made me write.
Terrance, My legal name is Terry Minors.
She made me write Terrence.
And I was like, I'm so upset.
I was in the fourth grade.
Your name's Terrance Minors because Terry is not a Saint's name that's connected the same Terry's as I go on crime.
What's done is making me sign my name.
Terrance Letters.
She said, Just do it.
Last year, Tina had to write Christina.
Just go with it.
Make the nuns happy.
OC Favorite day of the week?
Monday.
Really?
That's.
That's a different answer than just.
It's a new adventure.
Every week is another adventure.
So great things happen because the gates open.
And here we go again.
Yeah.
Brand new.
I like that favorite ice cream flavor.
I'm going to say vanilla because there are so many other flavors that I like occasionally, but vanilla always hits it right.
And a lot of people would not think you're a vanilla guy.
Favorite neighborhood in Louisville.
I'm going to say my own mockingbird.
How many hours of sleep do you need at night?
Six.
Yeah.
Ideal outside temperature.
65.
Oh, okay.
And what is playing now in your car?
Radio Allman Brothers.
Okay.
I like it.
Last show, you binge watched.
Probably.
Marvelous, Mrs. Maisel.
Good one.
The place you have to take out of town.
Visitors.
Churchill Downs.
This is going to be a tough one for you, UK or you.
About UK.
Right?
Favorite season.
Spring morning person or night?
Morning Favorite local band.
Crashers.
Came.
Is there a local place that is gone that you miss most earlier?
I mean, I think there's a stand somewhere, but they used to be everywhere.
Yeah.
What does Louisville need that isn't here now?
Compassion.
Good answer.
Favorite guest you've had on your show?
Charlton Heston.
Fascinating guy and booming voice and movie star and just.
He was just fascinating.
Okay.
Worst guest, least favorite guest on your.
Least favorite guest.
I'm trying to think of someone who really made it more difficult than it needed to be.
That's tough for me.
I don't I don't learn something from everybody.
Right.
Like you do.
I take something away.
But yes, sometimes people.
There was a guy and I don't remember his name with the band Three Dog Night, and they were going to play somewhere locally.
And we put him into our conversation and he just wasn't having and he wanted it to be about him was like, it's a it's a roundtable.
Yeah.
So call.
Like that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
There are people that sometimes they're, they're disinterested in being on with you.
They just, they're doing it as an obligation.
Oh, I have one.
Okay.
I just love to you, Bo Jackson.
Oh, he.
He was late.
He was supposed to be on, like, at 630.
I get off at 7702.
The phone rings.
It's him, Bo Jackson.
I said, I'm sorry.
My show's over.
I can record it because he was coming to Louisville for something, but I have to walk across the hall and recorded over there.
I've got to put you on hold.
He goes, Don't put me on hold.
I said, I have to walk across the hall.
It'll just be 10 seconds.
I just need to walk across the hall to another studio.
If you put me on hold, I'm gone.
So I said I have to.
And he just goes.
So it's like, okay, Bo, Bo, don't do hold.
So there's my least favorite.
All right.
There you go.
That's a wrap.
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Clip: S1 Ep8 | 10m 29s | Kelsey Starks chats with former colleague Terry Mieners on radio station WHAS. (10m 29s)
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