Banner & Company

Special Episode: 'The Final Question'


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At the end of every Banner & Company episode — the very end, after the credits have rolled and the theme music fades out — there's a little hidden feature that regular listeners are likely familiar with. We call it "the final question," and it's when we ask our guest to pull a slip of paper from a fish bowl (fish not included) and read what it says. On that paper is a question, left by a previous guest on the show. It's a little bit random, but also an intentional way to connect all of our guests to each other.

So just for fun, for the last episode of the year we present a few of these "final questions" in sequence, from asker to answerer, in a way you can't usually hear them.

Guests (in order of appearance):

  • Ellen Angelico, musician
  • Steven Womack, writer and former Watkins professor
  • Major Jackson, poet and teacher
  • Phil Bredesen, former Tennessee governor and Nashville mayor
  • Michael Shane Neal, portrait artist
  • Giancarlo Guerrero, former music director, Nashville Symphony
  • Willie Steele, writer and aspiring knuckleballer
  • Rebecca Haw Allensworth, author of The Licensing Racket
  • Rev. Matt Steinhauer, pastor and advocate

    Plus, Kelley Sirko of the Nashville Public Library tells us about what it's like fielding semi-random questions as part of your job.

    Host: Demetria Kalodimos

    Producer: Steve Haruch

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