Rage rooms are all the rage | Michelle Meredith is retiring and picks her stories all week
IT’S GETTING A LITTLE TOUGHER TO SAY TOMORROW OR ONE OF A KIND. REPORTER MICHELLE MEREDITH IS RETIRING FROM WESH 2 NEWS ALL THIS WEEK. WE’RE SAYING YES TO THE STORIES SHE’S BEEN BEGGING OUR BOSSES TO TELL FOR YEARS. BASICALLY LETTING HER DO WHATEVER SHE WANTS. WELL DESERVED. SO TODAY SHE GRABBED A BAT AND CHECKED OUT ONE OF ORLANDO’S RAGE ROOMS. I WANTED TO END MY TV CAREER WITH A BANG. OH, SO WE WENT TO A RAGE ROOM ORLANDO ON L.B. MCLEOD ROAD AND LET THE GAMES BEGIN. THAT’S RIGHT. THE RAGE ROOM IS A PLACE WHERE YOU PAY MONEY TO TAKE OUT LIFE’S FRUSTRATIONS BY SMASHING THINGS. WHY DO WE START OFF WITH GLASS? IT’S THE SOUND. THE SOUND OF GLASS BREAKING IS VERY SYMBOLIC. AMARI NELSON, A K A DOCTOR. RAGE IS IN CHARGE, AND A FORMER THERAPIST. SO WHEN THEY COME IN HERE, THEY HAVE THIS TIME TO REALLY FOCUS ON THE THINGS THAT THEY ARE DEALING WITH OUTSIDE, AND THEY RELIEVE IT WHEN THEY COME IN HERE AND BREAK IT. SO IT’S VERY, VERY SYMBOLIC AND VERY THERAPEUTIC. ALL RIGHT, I’M GONNA PUT THIS BABY ON. AND I’M LIKE, YOU KNOW WHAT? I’M GONNA KIND OF FEEL LIKE I’M GONNA JOIN THE ARTEMIS CREW. SO TIME FOR MY THERAPY. FIRST YOU HAVE TO SUIT UP, PUT THE GLOVES ON, AND OF COURSE, A FACE SHIELD. ALL RIGHT, FOLKS, 45 YEARS OF TV NEWS COMING TO AN END. LET’S RAE JOHNSON. I GOT A BAT AND I GOT CROWBARS. OH. THAT’S HEAVY. I’M GONNA GO. BAT. DO A QUICK WARM UP. AS ANY MAJOR LEAGUE RAGER WOULD DO. AND IT WAS GAME ON. OH. OH, MY GOD, THAT WAS SO LAME. GAME. OH! OH, OH MY GOD. I FEEL LIKE SUPERWOMAN. HERE WE GO. ONE MORE. YES, I FEEL THE RAGE. I FEEL THE POWER. HOW FORTUITOUS. A TV. OH, THAT’S IT. AND THE MORE I SMASHED. SMITHEREENS, THE BETTER. I DID FEEL. YOU KNOW, YOU KIND OF HAVE TO HAVE NO HEART TO BE IN THIS BUSINESS. OH. BUC-EE’S BUC-EE’S. I’M THINKING THE UNIVERSE WISHES ME BUC-EE’S. AND AS I WRAPPED MY HANDS AROUND THIS STRANGE LITTLE MESSAGE. I THINK OF MY NEXT CHAPTER. AND I THINK OF YOU, THE GOOD PEOPLE OF CENTRAL FLORIDA. OH, I LOVE MICHELLE ANGEL. SAY A LITTLE PRAYER THERE FOR ALL OF US. WE GET THROUGH YOU LEAVING LITTLE ANGEL. WELL, THIS WAS A STORY THAT, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE SERIES AND WE HAVE SERIES PITCHES. AND I PITCHED THE STORY. IT GOT THE KIBOSH. I WAS. OH, THAT’S RIGHT. WHEN THEY SAID, YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE THE YES MA’AM. I’M RAGE ROOM. AND THAT WAS SO MUCH FUN. THAT’S LIKE THE MOST FUN I’VE EVER HAD ON A STORY. WASN’T THERAPEUTIC FOR YOU, WAS IT? REALLY? I KNOW IT SOUNDS KIND OF CORNY, BUT IT WAS. WHAT WERE YOU THINKING ABOUT WHEN YOU WERE GOING TO TOWN? I WAS TOLD NOT TO THINK ABOUT PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS. OH, OKAY. BUT ANYWAY, JUST LET IT GO. WHATEVER IT WAS, IT WAS ACTUALLY, A LOT OF PEOPLE THINK, YOU KNOW, THEY SAID PEOPLE GOING THROUGH DIVORCES AND BAD RELATIONSHIPS. SOLO. TWO PEOPLE TEAM, YOU HAVE TEAMS SMASH SESSIONS AND WHERE IT’S CONSIDERED TEAM BUILDING, NOT MICHELLE. I HAVE A BURNING QUESTION FOR YOU. YES, YES. LAST ONE. AFTER FOUR DECADES OF WORKING IN TV, WHAT DID IT FEEL LIKE TO SMASH A TV? I HAVE TO ASK THE SAME QUESTION. NO WONDERING ALL THAT RAGE. I’M GONNA TE
Rage rooms are all the rage | Michelle Meredith is retiring and picks her stories all week
Updated: 5:23 PM EDT Apr 2, 2026
Michelle Meredith is retiring from WESH 2, so we let her loose in a rage room.
ORLANDO, Fla. —
Michelle Meredith is retiring from WESH 2, so we let her loose in a rage room.