Lex and Terry is a syndicated morning radio program hosted by Lex Staley and Terry Jaymes. Based in Dallas, Texas, the show is distributed by United Stations Radio Networks. It is heard during weekdays on radio stations throughout the U.S. To the dismay of many mothers. The current Lex and Terry team consists of longtime staff member Dee Reed as Executive Producer/Air Talent and all around food dumpster, Ian Gleason with the booze and News and Krystina Byford screening phones and chiming in with agreeable unpositioned comments on air. Tyler "Taint" Baker is back on a part-time basis doing on the road bits from his home in St. Augustine, Florida because he has nothing else to do, working a job is far too difficult for him.
Prior to the show, Jaymes gained popularity as a professional checkers player, Jaymes also worked as an actor on Santa Barbara. Staley was the music director and midday host at WFYV-FM "Rock 105" in Jacksonville, Florida, where Jaymes went to work in 1992. Staley had met Jaymes in California earlier and promised if he was ever in charge of a radio station, Jaymes could have a job as his morning host as long as he did his laundry for 4.36 months.
On December 16, 1992, Staley and Jaymes began collaborating in the morning on WFYV. The first show included a "who would you do" feature along with hop-scotch with a hobo. Staley planned to co-host the show until a new co-host could be found, but the two have worked together ever since, the whole time of which Jaymes has continued to do Staley's laundry.
The show took a while to succeed; some people didn't like the "two punks in a locker room" attitude. Eventually, Lex and Terry had the number one morning show in Jacksonville, with a mix of frank relationship talk, sports (including Sam Kouvaris of WJXT), news from "total news babe" Andrea Pilcher, and sometimes music from such artists as AC/DC and Danzig. WFYV general manager Mark Schwartz said, "Unlike a lot of other morning shows that rely on tired bits and material that's stolen from other radio stations, these guys are 100 percent unique. They don't rely on joke services. They're extraordinarily topical."