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Dec 28, 2025 16 min

Special Episode: 'The Final Question'

from Banner & Company Hosted by Nashville Banner

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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