April 10, 2025 • 12 mins
It's National Siblings Day. Here's why the Meiners family is the best of the best of the best. It's about undying support, faith, and humor. We've been connected since the first kid dropped in 1950 and the last one arrived in 1969.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Emanating from the digital launch pad Hi at Top four
Street Live. It's the Terry Miners Show. I am such
a neglectful brother. I just now, only a couple of
minutes ago, realized it's National Siblings Day and we have
(00:25):
all been in contact. We're on a group text. I
am one of fourteen, so we do all stay in touch.
Almost every day there's some somebody texting about something that's
going on in the family, and we all like to
keep up and cheer for each other. But yeah, it's
National Siblings Day. So to each of my thirteen brothers
and sisters, no twins, all single births, I love you. You
(00:49):
are awesome. We've had a heck of a ride over
all these years and it continues. We're all pretty excited
about that. Hello guys, Allen, Hello Terry Miners. Do you
have siblings? I do not. I have not enjoyed the
torture or the good natures the having a sibling. I'm
an only child. I I mean I think having a
(01:10):
brother or sister would be wonderful. I do. I ha
had some cousins that were very close lidricks to me,
treated me like brothers, and none. That's good. That's good
you had them there still though, being an only child,
you know, it's a different perspective on life. It's not
it's neither good or bad, it's just different. What about you, Joe,
I didn't have that experience. I had an older sister,
so I was the young one in the family. But
(01:30):
it's great, baby boy, I was I was still am
a parent. According to her, she thinks I am a
babby boy. Does she think that your parents favor you,
like they're still giving you things that she doesn't get
anymore of little extra money here?
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Well, you know, you know, after graduating college, you know,
the whole, that whole dynamic.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Change for us. We'll still you know, it's like, you know, well,
today's my birthday, So how come you got him that
on his birthday? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Now there is a little there is a little bit
of distain on that portion of it, you know, and
it maybe it's warranted, maybe, but you know, I think
I've been grateful for what I've been given.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Because you never had to go through this on Christmas morning,
parents are always sweating it out, like, well, forget this kid,
that bike that costs a lot.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
My mom, she even as we got into our teenage years.
She's like, I know she has one more present than
you exactly, and it's she would pull me aside. She's like,
I don't want you to be mad. I'm like, I'm not.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
You need to talk to her, not to me. Okay,
I'm I'm cool with it, man.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Mary.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Mary still goes through that whole thing about they've got
to have an equal number of packages.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
So this is not shout out to my mom, because
she's always been really concerned about that. I'm glad, I'm
we're not the only family that we go through that
dilem as a parent. Amy's like, yeah, you know, I've
got to have the same thing for them. I don't
want them to.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Be the same number. The whole thing. That's right. Our
problem is Aiden is twenty two now, Grace, is is
it right? Twenty two thousand? See how you did it?
Speaker 3 (03:03):
I have to do it too. He's like, uh, what
is it? Oh?
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Yeah, no, he yeah, he'll be twenty three in a
month or a couple months. Doesn't he graduate this year? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:11):
From college?
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Uh at Western That's that's exactly right. He Now, you
know we used to be able to control your kids.
My other two sons are in their thirties, so they've
been out of the house quite a stretch. But these two,
you know, at Christmas time, they're there on Christmas morning
and now he just on Christmas evening he says to Mary,
(03:32):
can I open one? It's like why story map, And
of course he goes, okay, baby boy. See he gets
the same thing, and he's not he's not the baby,
but he you know, he he blinks at Mama, Mama,
I love you so much. Can I open one now? Okay?
And then after that he's like, well, I mean those
(03:53):
other ones are just sitting there kind of so last
year he opens them all on Christmas Eve.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
That would not fly, oh yeah at my house.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
And then the next morning we're all sitting there opening
and he's got that look on his face like this
is terrible. It's yours yesterday. I'll at one open on
Christmas Eve. They're like, can't we just do it now?
I go no, No, I'm a tradition guy. You got
to get up and you open it on Christmas morning,
but want on Christmas Eve? That's it. I think Aiden
thinks in the back of his mind that if he
(04:22):
opens them on Christmas Eve, then Mary will scurry out
somewhere and find other things and wrap them at night.
So we don't want him to not be but open something.
He's a grown man. He made his choices.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Now we always do the uh.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
My mom always gets my sister and I uh pajamas
on Christmas Eve, and that is the one present we're
allowed to open, so we can wear our gifts.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
But when we go to bed too, Yeah, well Mary
still does that for them. We didn't do that in
my family of fourteen, my family of origin. I mean,
can you imagine my parents had a when you're all
getting pjs? We wore. We wore hand me down from
the older people. What's the age range from the youngest
to the oldest twenty year difference nineteen nineteen year difference span.
(05:08):
And so one was already well off at the house
when one was born. We never all lived in the
same house. And you fall where number five peace maker?
Can you feel that peace maker? He's a middle child peacemaker.
But now, seriously, we all are in touch every day
(05:29):
today happens to be our dads. Would have been his
ninety ninth birthday, So we did that and my one
sister went to the cemetery today and left flowers, you know,
and they do it and then we kind of report
back to everybody else what's going on, and it's it's like,
my dad was hilarious, and you know, just that was
(05:51):
such a loss because so many people knew him, and
I knew he was different when I was a kid,
because we'd go to the grocery store he shopped. You have,
all those kids, you got to help out. They got
the grocery store and we'd go on there and all
those people would holler at hey, Mel, what's up, Mel, Hey,
how you doing Mel? Everybody knew my dad, And then
somewhere in my young life, I was in a grocery
(06:11):
store with some other kids parent and nobody shouted out
at them, nobody said anything to him. I thought, my
dad is different, and you know, he was just kind
of one of those life of the party, bigger than
life kind of characters and.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
That quality to him.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Yeah, and I'm so shy, it's hard to believe I'm
his son. Well I'm not really. None of us know.
We're all loud, all of us, because you had to
be heard over the din of just you know, the
whole deal. I wanted to ask her you the quote
unquote most cantankerous. No, no, I mean we can. We
(06:49):
always make assignments of who is whatever out of our fourteen.
My brother Tim, we all agree, is the funniest. He's
just he just can spend anything into thing hilarious. For instance,
somebody sent out that picture of Page Spear, and that
is that her name? How do you say?
Speaker 3 (07:06):
The golfer?
Speaker 1 (07:07):
The golfer she was showed herself in that green jacket
the other day with her boobs hanging out on that
little jacket, and somebody sent that out and then he
then my brother wrote right away within seconds, he goes,
looks like that's from her seventh grade she left in
the dryer too long? Oh, howlet go? But everybody keeps.
(07:29):
Everybody amused and supported. You know that's fun because people
always ask me about that, and I've asked my siblings before,
let's write a book fourteen chapters. We each do a chapter,
and several of them are like, uh, I don't know
if I want to do that or not. So it's
like we can't do unless we all agree, right, yeah,
(07:49):
but I would have a ball, you know, just just.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
How long would your chapter be?
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Well?
Speaker 1 (07:54):
I don't know, would we direct it toward our life,
that would make sense. It wouldn't have anything to do
with all this nonsense.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Just the different directions you all have gone in and.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Had the funny things. I mean, that same brother I
just mentioned a few months ago, he's made the joke
before that, you know, there's the laundry's not done or whatever,
because there's so many people, so much pandemonium. He said.
People don't know how many times I was over there
in the fourth grade wearing my sister's underwear. It was
the only clean one down there. I didn't care good night.
(08:24):
I couldn't. I couldn't bring myself to do it. Man,
that's a different level. Yeah, and Mary gets on me
because I go to the warehouse store now and again
and by you know, the big packs of paper towels
and toilet paper and the big hand soap thing, and
I fill the containers in our house when they get low.
She's like, we don't need all these giant things. I said,
(08:46):
if you only knew, I might serve the whole family. Yeah,
when you're seven years old and you get in the
shower and there's no soap, this is like, you know,
those types of things because there's so much, so many
moving parts going on that Oh my god, where I
was soap and you know, you get worried when the
toilet paper got loved. It's like, somebody do something here.
(09:09):
That's just a lot to manage. And so you know
where I think most of us are big on all
that warehouse store business where we're just we're stocked to you,
what do you need? I got it.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Here, Now I get the paladi Costco. We'll be good
for a couple of months. Yeah, that's how that goes.
But the best part about it all is and again
I'll wind this back to its National Sibling Day. I
could call any of them at three in the morning
and say I need a helicopter to land in front
of my house and get me out of here.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
In five minutes. And they'd say, well, you know, you
want to lend it in front of the house or
behind it. Nobody would ask you why, They would just
say yes. You know. That's the great thing is the
support that everybody provides for each other. There's just nothing
like it. So I am I always feel like I'm
the luckiest person who ever lived. But really, there's fourteen
of us in that lucky pot because all of us
(10:03):
have each other and there's just nothing like it. It's
something I can't explain, I just feel, and so it's
a great gift. So Happy Siblings Day. And I hope
that everybody you know has a great relationship with the
people in their lives, because I know some people don't
and it makes me sad. I don't understand that. But
it's like I didn't live their life, so I can't
(10:23):
put myself in their shoes. It's just hard to imagine.
A guy said something to me right when I got
started in radio and I was told them about my
big family or whatever it came up, and I said,
do you have any siblings? Because yeah, I have a sister,
but I hate her guts, and I was it shocked
me to hear that. I was like what, I didn't
(10:45):
know how to just even wrap my brain around that concept.
And here it is, you know, forty seven years later,
and I still remember. It's right. That's the kind of
market made on me. So you know, just if you
if you can mend the fence with somebody, do it.
It's worth it. Life is a quick passage and it's
(11:06):
tough to leave or to walk around with that burden
that if you could repair it and if you just
figure out a way or open reopen communication, or do something.
I mean, because it's it's just so valuable to have
people that you just know are there. It's the guardian
(11:26):
angel feeling of just knowing that there's a halo of
support around you all the time. So you have that
little issue in your life and you're listening to me today.
The reason you thought to turn on the radio today
was you were supposed to hear me say this. Contact
that person. Doesn't that be a sibling somebody with whom
(11:47):
you had a great relationship. You don't even reach out today.
Just do that, see if you can repair that. Okay,
welcome to the broadcast, ladies and gentlemen. I don't even
want to start preaching, but I always sharing that message.
It's important Christmas Eve, I think, or Christmas you always
say that I did every year try to repair, which
is good advice. Life is short. I mean, I've sat
(12:08):
in hospitals with people holding their hands days before that
was over for them. And I've heard some amazing things
out of people. But the one thing that they all
want to know is they made a difference they made
a mark, they were of value to others, and so
(12:30):
that's just an important thing to do. And so you
shouldn't leave something like that unrepaired, at least I think
in my mind. All right, let me flip it over here,
because i'll get all gooey again
Emanating from the digital launch pad Hi at Top four
Street Live. It's the Terry Miners Show. I am such
a neglectful brother. I just now, only a couple of
minutes ago, realized it's National Siblings Day and we have
(00:25):
all been in contact. We're on a group text. I
am one of fourteen, so we do all stay in touch.
Almost every day there's some somebody texting about something that's
going on in the family, and we all like to
keep up and cheer for each other. But yeah, it's
National Siblings Day. So to each of my thirteen brothers
and sisters, no twins, all single births, I love you. You
(00:49):
are awesome. We've had a heck of a ride over
all these years and it continues. We're all pretty excited
about that. Hello guys, Allen, Hello Terry Miners. Do you
have siblings? I do not. I have not enjoyed the
torture or the good natures the having a sibling. I'm
an only child. I I mean I think having a
(01:10):
brother or sister would be wonderful. I do. I ha
had some cousins that were very close lidricks to me,
treated me like brothers, and none. That's good. That's good
you had them there still though, being an only child,
you know, it's a different perspective on life. It's not
it's neither good or bad, it's just different. What about you, Joe,
I didn't have that experience. I had an older sister,
so I was the young one in the family. But
(01:30):
it's great, baby boy, I was I was still am
a parent. According to her, she thinks I am a
babby boy. Does she think that your parents favor you,
like they're still giving you things that she doesn't get
anymore of little extra money here?
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Well, you know, you know, after graduating college, you know,
the whole, that whole dynamic.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Change for us. We'll still you know, it's like, you know, well,
today's my birthday, So how come you got him that
on his birthday? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Now there is a little there is a little bit
of distain on that portion of it, you know, and
it maybe it's warranted, maybe, but you know, I think
I've been grateful for what I've been given.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Because you never had to go through this on Christmas morning,
parents are always sweating it out, like, well, forget this kid,
that bike that costs a lot.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
My mom, she even as we got into our teenage years.
She's like, I know she has one more present than
you exactly, and it's she would pull me aside. She's like,
I don't want you to be mad. I'm like, I'm not.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
You need to talk to her, not to me. Okay,
I'm I'm cool with it, man.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Mary.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Mary still goes through that whole thing about they've got
to have an equal number of packages.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
So this is not shout out to my mom, because
she's always been really concerned about that. I'm glad, I'm
we're not the only family that we go through that
dilem as a parent. Amy's like, yeah, you know, I've
got to have the same thing for them. I don't
want them to.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Be the same number. The whole thing. That's right. Our
problem is Aiden is twenty two now, Grace, is is
it right? Twenty two thousand? See how you did it?
Speaker 3 (03:03):
I have to do it too. He's like, uh, what
is it? Oh?
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Yeah, no, he yeah, he'll be twenty three in a
month or a couple months. Doesn't he graduate this year? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:11):
From college?
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Uh at Western That's that's exactly right. He Now, you
know we used to be able to control your kids.
My other two sons are in their thirties, so they've
been out of the house quite a stretch. But these two,
you know, at Christmas time, they're there on Christmas morning
and now he just on Christmas evening he says to Mary,
(03:32):
can I open one? It's like why story map, And
of course he goes, okay, baby boy. See he gets
the same thing, and he's not he's not the baby,
but he you know, he he blinks at Mama, Mama,
I love you so much. Can I open one now? Okay?
And then after that he's like, well, I mean those
(03:53):
other ones are just sitting there kind of so last
year he opens them all on Christmas Eve.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
That would not fly, oh yeah at my house.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
And then the next morning we're all sitting there opening
and he's got that look on his face like this
is terrible. It's yours yesterday. I'll at one open on
Christmas Eve. They're like, can't we just do it now?
I go no, No, I'm a tradition guy. You got
to get up and you open it on Christmas morning,
but want on Christmas Eve? That's it. I think Aiden
thinks in the back of his mind that if he
(04:22):
opens them on Christmas Eve, then Mary will scurry out
somewhere and find other things and wrap them at night.
So we don't want him to not be but open something.
He's a grown man. He made his choices.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Now we always do the uh.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
My mom always gets my sister and I uh pajamas
on Christmas Eve, and that is the one present we're
allowed to open, so we can wear our gifts.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
But when we go to bed too, Yeah, well Mary
still does that for them. We didn't do that in
my family of fourteen, my family of origin. I mean,
can you imagine my parents had a when you're all
getting pjs? We wore. We wore hand me down from
the older people. What's the age range from the youngest
to the oldest twenty year difference nineteen nineteen year difference span.
(05:08):
And so one was already well off at the house
when one was born. We never all lived in the
same house. And you fall where number five peace maker?
Can you feel that peace maker? He's a middle child peacemaker.
But now, seriously, we all are in touch every day
(05:29):
today happens to be our dads. Would have been his
ninety ninth birthday, So we did that and my one
sister went to the cemetery today and left flowers, you know,
and they do it and then we kind of report
back to everybody else what's going on, and it's it's like,
my dad was hilarious, and you know, just that was
(05:51):
such a loss because so many people knew him, and
I knew he was different when I was a kid,
because we'd go to the grocery store he shopped. You have,
all those kids, you got to help out. They got
the grocery store and we'd go on there and all
those people would holler at hey, Mel, what's up, Mel, Hey,
how you doing Mel? Everybody knew my dad, And then
somewhere in my young life, I was in a grocery
(06:11):
store with some other kids parent and nobody shouted out
at them, nobody said anything to him. I thought, my
dad is different, and you know, he was just kind
of one of those life of the party, bigger than
life kind of characters and.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
That quality to him.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Yeah, and I'm so shy, it's hard to believe I'm
his son. Well I'm not really. None of us know.
We're all loud, all of us, because you had to
be heard over the din of just you know, the
whole deal. I wanted to ask her you the quote
unquote most cantankerous. No, no, I mean we can. We
(06:49):
always make assignments of who is whatever out of our fourteen.
My brother Tim, we all agree, is the funniest. He's
just he just can spend anything into thing hilarious. For instance,
somebody sent out that picture of Page Spear, and that
is that her name? How do you say?
Speaker 3 (07:06):
The golfer?
Speaker 1 (07:07):
The golfer she was showed herself in that green jacket
the other day with her boobs hanging out on that
little jacket, and somebody sent that out and then he
then my brother wrote right away within seconds, he goes,
looks like that's from her seventh grade she left in
the dryer too long? Oh, howlet go? But everybody keeps.
(07:29):
Everybody amused and supported. You know that's fun because people
always ask me about that, and I've asked my siblings before,
let's write a book fourteen chapters. We each do a chapter,
and several of them are like, uh, I don't know
if I want to do that or not. So it's
like we can't do unless we all agree, right, yeah,
(07:49):
but I would have a ball, you know, just just.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
How long would your chapter be?
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Well?
Speaker 1 (07:54):
I don't know, would we direct it toward our life,
that would make sense. It wouldn't have anything to do
with all this nonsense.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Just the different directions you all have gone in and.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Had the funny things. I mean, that same brother I
just mentioned a few months ago, he's made the joke
before that, you know, there's the laundry's not done or whatever,
because there's so many people, so much pandemonium. He said.
People don't know how many times I was over there
in the fourth grade wearing my sister's underwear. It was
the only clean one down there. I didn't care good night.
(08:24):
I couldn't. I couldn't bring myself to do it. Man,
that's a different level. Yeah, and Mary gets on me
because I go to the warehouse store now and again
and by you know, the big packs of paper towels
and toilet paper and the big hand soap thing, and
I fill the containers in our house when they get low.
She's like, we don't need all these giant things. I said,
(08:46):
if you only knew, I might serve the whole family. Yeah,
when you're seven years old and you get in the
shower and there's no soap, this is like, you know,
those types of things because there's so much, so many
moving parts going on that Oh my god, where I
was soap and you know, you get worried when the
toilet paper got loved. It's like, somebody do something here.
(09:09):
That's just a lot to manage. And so you know
where I think most of us are big on all
that warehouse store business where we're just we're stocked to you,
what do you need? I got it.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Here, Now I get the paladi Costco. We'll be good
for a couple of months. Yeah, that's how that goes.
But the best part about it all is and again
I'll wind this back to its National Sibling Day. I
could call any of them at three in the morning
and say I need a helicopter to land in front
of my house and get me out of here.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
In five minutes. And they'd say, well, you know, you
want to lend it in front of the house or
behind it. Nobody would ask you why, They would just
say yes. You know. That's the great thing is the
support that everybody provides for each other. There's just nothing
like it. So I am I always feel like I'm
the luckiest person who ever lived. But really, there's fourteen
of us in that lucky pot because all of us
(10:03):
have each other and there's just nothing like it. It's
something I can't explain, I just feel, and so it's
a great gift. So Happy Siblings Day. And I hope
that everybody you know has a great relationship with the
people in their lives, because I know some people don't
and it makes me sad. I don't understand that. But
it's like I didn't live their life, so I can't
(10:23):
put myself in their shoes. It's just hard to imagine.
A guy said something to me right when I got
started in radio and I was told them about my
big family or whatever it came up, and I said,
do you have any siblings? Because yeah, I have a sister,
but I hate her guts, and I was it shocked
me to hear that. I was like what, I didn't
(10:45):
know how to just even wrap my brain around that concept.
And here it is, you know, forty seven years later,
and I still remember. It's right. That's the kind of
market made on me. So you know, just if you
if you can mend the fence with somebody, do it.
It's worth it. Life is a quick passage and it's
(11:06):
tough to leave or to walk around with that burden
that if you could repair it and if you just
figure out a way or open reopen communication, or do something.
I mean, because it's it's just so valuable to have
people that you just know are there. It's the guardian
(11:26):
angel feeling of just knowing that there's a halo of
support around you all the time. So you have that
little issue in your life and you're listening to me today.
The reason you thought to turn on the radio today
was you were supposed to hear me say this. Contact
that person. Doesn't that be a sibling somebody with whom
(11:47):
you had a great relationship. You don't even reach out today.
Just do that, see if you can repair that. Okay,
welcome to the broadcast, ladies and gentlemen. I don't even
want to start preaching, but I always sharing that message.
It's important Christmas Eve, I think, or Christmas you always
say that I did every year try to repair, which
is good advice. Life is short. I mean, I've sat
(12:08):
in hospitals with people holding their hands days before that
was over for them. And I've heard some amazing things
out of people. But the one thing that they all
want to know is they made a difference they made
a mark, they were of value to others, and so
(12:30):
that's just an important thing to do. And so you
shouldn't leave something like that unrepaired, at least I think
in my mind. All right, let me flip it over here,
because i'll get all gooey again
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Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang
Ding dong! Join your culture consultants, Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang, on an unforgettable journey into the beating heart of CULTURE. Alongside sizzling special guests, they GET INTO the hottest pop-culture moments of the day and the formative cultural experiences that turned them into Culturistas. Produced by the Big Money Players Network and iHeartRadio.