Happy 102nd birthday to WWII hero 1st Sgt. Ernie Micka who went onto Utah Beach with the 9th Div. on D-Day plus 2. 🇺🇸 Ernie served the entirety of WWll. Today on @840WHAS, Ernie told me an incredible story of survival in North Africa. audio 🎙 https://t.co/H5AkbF9Ioh #ThankYou pic.twitter.com/6hc8JR5mDK— Terry Meiners (@terrymeiners) April 7, 2020
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Blue Gets In! Blue Gets In! Blue Gets In! Yeah, not this time.
“When is the draft? When is the combine? … Will there even be a draft?”—@UKCoachCalipari on preparing his players for the NBA Draft amid uncertainty pic.twitter.com/bVIZHxNTNZ— ESPN (@espn) March 12, 2020 THE BEASMAN blue don’t git in (cry) I AIN’T BEEN ABLE TO GIT OUTTA BED, LARRY MINNER. (cry) NAWWW, I AIN’T GOT THE CRONY VIRUS LIKE ALL THE OTHER OLD PEOPLE. (cry) SOME MILLENNIAL PUNK SEEN ME LIMPIN OUT TO THE MAILBOX AND SHOUTED: “K. O., BOOMER!” (cry) BUT I AIN’T GOIN DOWN TO NO CRONY VIRUS LIKE SOME CITY SISSY. (cry) BUT I COULD CROAK FROM A BROKEN HEART. MY BIG BLUE NATION GOT SHUT DOWN AT TOURNEYMINT TIME, DADGUMMIT! I’M JUST SO TORE UP ABOUT THE KENTUCKY WILDCATS
Remarkable Radio Marketing Mouths
The "Remarkable Mouth" radio station commercials from 1980 were the most talked about TV ads during my entire career. Beautiful women lip-synced a station aircheck with machine gun precision. The announcer would say "You have a remarkable mouth." The woman would respond "(featured station) is a remarkable radio station." Clean. Effective. Memorable. Here's the Louisville version that was used in the late 90s by hip hop giant B96. Cincinnati album rock station WEBN was in early on the concept in the 80s. Almost every major city in America had a local radio station using the syndicated concept. Eventually, of course, the women were asked to go shirtless. Even Canada jumped in, you hosers. More than 25 years after the Remarkable Mouth series first aired, stations started bringing
That other Tennessee tornado took down the Kentucky Wildcats
THE BEASMAN cats lose senior night to tennessee SHUT YOUR UGLY CARDINAL FACE RIGHT NOW CUZ I KNOW YOU IS SMIRKIN RIGHT NOW! ADMIT IT, LARRY MINNER! YOU AND YOUR OTHER CROSS-EYED, BALD HAIRED, STINKBREATH, NECK TATTOO, WELFARE STAMP, SAGGY PANTS, RAP MUSIC, LIBRUL DEMMERCRAT LOSERVILLE CARDINAL FANS IS ALL JUST HA-HA-HA-in ABOUT AMERICA’S TEAM, THE KENTUCKY WILDCATS LOSIN SENIOR NIGHT IN RUMP ARENER TO NOBODY TENNERSEE. (cry) THIS HERE IS (cry) THIS ONE (cry) THIS HERE A-BOMM-ER-A-SHUN IS THE WORST KENTUCKY BASKETBAW MOMENT OF COACH CAL’S TIME HERE. (cry) DADGUMMIT, THE GOOD AND CLASSY WILDCATS WAS UP BY 17 AND THEN, SOMEHOW, COACH CAL FORGOT HOW TO COACH! WHY IS WE PAYIN YOU 7 MILLION A YEAR IF
There really was a channel that played music videos
When our bosses at WLRS pulled the plug on our morning cable TV show in 1981, Ron Clay and I laughed. "They're replacing us with some new channel called MTV. Who would watch music videos all day?" Apparently, most people wanted to watch music videos and not Ron and me doing our radio show. I have to admit...it kind of stung. David Bowie sings Let's Dance while some goofy people mill around a bar, then they're in the desert seeing a mirage, then a woman is scrubbing the street. Oh, OK. Drugs much? People eventually agreed with me and tired of repetitive music videos featuring bizarre video imagery. MTV started airing schlock TV which thrives even to this day. Just for old