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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Okay, Paul Miles, thanks a ton. You're with news radio
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eight forty whas my son is in the studio with me.
It works pretty close to here. As a matter of fact, Hey,
Simon Minors.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Good to see you. I hoofed it here. I walked
from ninth in Main Street. I don't want to fall
around with parking at the meter and then checking the
app on my phone to see if I'm going.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
To get ticketed. I walked. It's nice. I love that
it's not that far. What's ninety four degree is though? Yeah,
you have to hydrate. Well yeah, well you're good about that.
You've always been smart about that sort of a thing.
How many minutes does that take? Because I've walked over
to your office before, but I sort of lollygagged.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
I zipped through the alleys. I sort of zigzag and
it was about fifteen minutes. We're cut through you know,
Jefferson Square, by the courthouse, past the old jail building.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
See all that stuff. Oh which square am I thinking?
Where they turn it into a garden. Oh, that's up
this way. Most are the loisal guards. You didn't go
through that. Yeah, that's another nice thing. I think the
Traeger's funded a little that's right, couse recently? Yeah, good on.
Then Simon works at Fraser Museum and a lot of
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people love your videos you do on are you can?
Zillion likes on TikTok over various.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Things I've learned by fooling with the algorithm and just
trial and error.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
You just have to say did you know?
Speaker 2 (01:15):
And then pose some fact about Kentucky and its relationship
to the rest of the world, and people go, I
didn't know that. On Friday, app was did you know
that the most recognized song in the English language came
from Kentucky?
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Did you know that? No? I did not.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
It is Happy Birthday to You, written and composed by
Patty and Mildred Hill, the Hill sister Hill sisters who
were at one was a kindergarten teacher, the other was
a musician, and they taught a little kindergarten class in
the eighteen nineties in the Iroquois Park neighborhood and one
of their songs was good Morning to All, and they
would workshop those lyrics, which they eventually became Happy Birthday
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to You.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
They sang to one of.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Their kindergarteners one day and then somebody, yeah, that's got
a hook in it, that's right. So now it's the
most Guinness World Records called it the most recognized song
in the English language. So you can walk into a
hut in Kirabody in the Pacific Islands and hum this
melody and people know it because of these these two
women from Louvielle from the eighteen nineties.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Well, did they go on to have a slew of hits?
Do they have a discography we can look back? Did
they also write Stairway to Heaven?
Speaker 2 (02:14):
No, it ended up in a music publisher's book. And
then one of them showed up on our show on Broadway.
They were in the audience and they heard this song once.
They were an old woman, and it said, hey, I
wrote that. So they the two sisters died in the
early nineteen hundreds, and then it was litigation by their
descendants that went on and on, and the battled in
the courts until twenty sixteen, when a federal judge just said,
you know what, enough with this. This is in the
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public domain now, so you can't fight over these scraps anymore.
So now it's in the public domain. So if you
watch TV shows before twenty sixteen, people avoided singing Happy
birthday to you because they would have to pay royalties
out the eyeballs. But after that you can use it
very liberally.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
That's interesting. Yeah, I didn't realize it took that long
for a judge to rule one. Yeah, it was a long, litigious,
ugly battle.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
But so any the point being, well, happy birthday, thank
you next month, oh thank you. Well, the point being,
there are all these relationships between Kentuckians and inventions and
practices that have come out of the state of Kentucky
that are more than just horse racing and bourbon and
basketball and the things that we think of. It is
all those things, but it's much more than that. So
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we like to establish those at the museum and sometimes
we toss them out in little sound bites, tiktoks, Instagram's,
Facebook posts, what have you. And we like to just
educate people about Kentucky's relationship with the rest of the world.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
I liked your videos. So that you sit in that
old time car in front of the Fraser Museum and
then you interview somebody or get somebody to tell you
something fascinating.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
This is the challenge of marketing. So I work at
the Fraser History Museum. Were are a Kentucky History Museum.
We're twenty one years old, same age as four Street
Live where we're recording this right now. Open in two
thousand and four. Look at the other cultural attractions in
the city. Like you think of the Kentucky Science Center,
They've got the lobby, the triceratops right or the Paraboc
mirror out front, these big things. You've got the penguins
and the gold David outside twenty one c. What do
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we have at the Phraser. We're trying to get the
Model t people can associate it with us. It's the
old nineteen twenties vehicle that's parked permanently right outside the museum,
and I want people to associate that with the museum
because it's always there. You can get in, you get
it's a photo op. Families going in take pictures of
their kids driving the Model Tea. So I've started ripping
off the you know, the James Corden car karaoke. I
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kind of just pile people coworkers in there and I'll
interview them one at a time. What's your name, Terry Miners,
what do you do? I'm a radios We talk and
I'll say, what's your favorite spot to take your wife
out on to dinner? And just learn a little bit
about my coworkers. So now I've done that with some
guests from the community.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
It's been a lot of fun. So I know you're
immensely popular online. Well, I appreciate that. I think that's
very cool. And it's the Model T like weather resistant.
I mean, what are you doing.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
It's out there twenty four to seven. I mean we
wheel it to Bourbon and Beyond each year when we
do an activation there, we're at the festival grounds and
we'll wheel it out there so people can come up
and their tipsy and they want to see the Model T.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
What's this all about?
Speaker 2 (04:58):
And we engage him and it's the starketing point for
conversation about the Fraser Museum and what we do in
Kentucky history.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
I can learn more about history. Don't you have some
beer fest coming up to Oh?
Speaker 2 (05:07):
We do, so if you're interested in supporting the museum
and all the wonderful exhibits we've got in programs. A
big exhibit we've got's called Davis Jeweler's.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Love and Marriage. It's a history of love and marriage.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
In Kentucky that just open fifty wedding dresses from Kentucky history. Anyway,
if you're interested in supporting all this work we're doing
about Kentucky history, I encourage you to come out to
our June or July twenty sixth Summer beer Fest. It's
called Fraser Summer Beer Fest, and it's our fifth annual one.
And it's particularly special because, like I said, it's our
twenty first birthday. This year, we're finally, you know, legally
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Reggie Age. So we're hosting our fifth annual Fraser Summer
Beer Fest July twenty six. We've got permits to block
off Main Street between eighth and ninth so you can
come down. There are two hundred different brewers, I mean, Goodwood,
Awry Country Boy, all these wonderful local brewers that are
going to be serving different kinds of ales and stouts
and ciders and hef aviisans and surveyses, all the different
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kinds of beers you want, and you get about forty samples,
and you know there'll be food vendors and food trucks
and different activations. We'll have, you know, Jay Shepherd Cigars
and Watson's Patio ferns are all this wonderful stuff. But
we have a special deal right now, a Bogo deal.
We started it on Father's Day, so the promo code
is Father's Bogo.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
But basically you.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Can get a general mission ticket, buy one, get one
and it ends tonight and midnight, so you got to
act fast. Go to Frasermuseum dot org and get your
buy one, get one deal on Fraser beer Fest tickets.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Again.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
It's a wonderful Saturday in downtown Louisville, Saturday, July twenty sixth,
I believe is the date. But that deal ends tonight,
so definitely encourage you to get your general mission tickets
are fifty dollars each, but you can get one, buy one,
get one free today only.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
I've seen photos of the previous ones, and you've got
a zillion people who show up. It's a fun thing.
People love showing up.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Ubring, you know, drink responsibly, use a ride share, come
down to downtown Louisville. You can walk around and it's
just so much fun to have a FaceTime with people
love Kentucky history, want to support the museum and try
these different local beers.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
It's a really great time, all right, it's Fraser Museum
dot org. Correct and then look.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
For the Yeah, it'll be right there. It's on our
home page. We're not hiding it. It's easy to find.
And I'll be the guy scanning your tickets. I'm not
just like the media guy like I'm We're all working.
It's all hands on deck, you know. We schedule graveyard
night shift, everything for the cleanup and the prep. So
I'm usually that. My My job is scanning people's tickets
when they enter. So, yeah, your dad drinks wimpy beer?
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Does it? Are you embarrassed by this at all? Define
wimpy beer? It's watery, you know.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
I have people you put your hand on the other
side and you can see it through the I like
that too. I don't like dark beers. I drink when
I drink beer. I'm honestly normally, I'm a wine drinker.
I like prosecco. That's kind of my vice. And if
I'm drinking beer, though, if I want to eat a
pizza and have a beer, I like high life. I
like uh.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Like Mary and I were in Ireland and you go
in there and they make a ceremony out of pouring
a guinness. Why don't want one, right. I mean, it's
fun to watch them pour it, and I saw other people,
but I've tasted it before. It's like, that's not for me.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
I have an adventurous pellet, and something's beer is not
one of them. I'll try something, And I don't want
to dissuade dark beer drinkers from coming to this because
we have every type of rid under the sun.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
I know you did.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
There's a ton of cold. I mean, all these different things.
But personally, I think I've inherited that taste from you
for I guess later beers. But I also drink like
watery coffee too. I drink paler. You're not even a
coffee drink at all, No, but yeah, I drink pale,
milky coffee.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
That's what. So I've done a poor job raising you,
is what you're saying, because from.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
No, no, no, I don't believe in that gatekeeping. Some people
are like, oh, I'm a I'm a homicide detective and
I drink black coffee in my TV show or what.
I'm like, cool, are you better than me? Like I
drink my bourbon neat and I'm like, well fine, give me.
You know me are rum and coke, Like, what are
you gonna judge me for that?
Speaker 1 (08:49):
People hammer me though online if they see me holding
some kind of light beer, Miller light or something in
bud light in my hand, and I was going, why
are you drinking that creek water? You need to try
a man. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
I don't get gate keeping the way other people enjoy
food or beverages. Like you like pineapp on your pizza.
You want to eat your slice of pizza with a
knife and fork. That's your business. I'm not gonna get
online and start tweeting about what a clown you are
because the way you like to consume food and drink.
If you enjoy light beer, drink a light beer. I
have two, gonna have one, That's what it is.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
And you're right. I hate coffee. But I hate coffee
because I was a paper boy and I was freezing
to death, and you know you w'm twelve years old,
thirteen whatever, and I go to that white castle at
Preston and Eastern Parkway, Shelby and Eastern Parkway, freezing to death,
and the ladies like, oh my goodness, the ladies working,
they're here, have some of this. I remember, So coffee
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I always associate with freezing to death. Oh okay, it
was burned to really bad coffee, or think it was
just I just associated with being poor and freezing to death.
And you know, you're a paper boy out there of
scrounging to make four dollars or whatever. And so I
was like, yeah, no thanks. It stuck with me my
whole life. It is because I've been with you to
coffee shops. You've only had hot chocolate. Hot chocolate, that's it.
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And I get that.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
I get that that I need. I'm a caffeine addicts,
so I need.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
So I want to apologize to you in public here
if I've misdirected your life by not showing you more
of the universe. But apology not needed. But if you
and your brother and I, we've we've done so many
adventures like in r v's We've seen a lot on
the roads, which is fun. It's kind of opened our
eyes to all kinds of things. That's true.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Yeah, I think I'm a little adventurous in foods, although
I did. I went to Mama's barbecue on Saturday and
I put ketchup. I wasn't even thinking I put ketchup
on some of the barbecue and the person I was
eating with gamme dagger eyes and she said, you better
pray that that that lion cook did not see you
do it. And I was like, what's the problem here
is this? See now, now you're on board with judging
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people for how they eat. Oh my, I just know
the reactions, right. I'm not much on sauces anyway, so
I don't care whatever they slather on their is for me.
You hand me a rack of ribs.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
I'm good.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
No, I told you already. My go to lunch is
a garden salad from Kroger with Chick fil A sauce
instead of dressing, which is.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Just nasty work. Simon T. Miners. All right, the beer
fest for Fraser Museum comes up the end of July
July twenty sixth, and your bow go only lasts for
like eight more hours. That's right.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
I'm looking at the Clock's four to forty six. You
guys got about I don't know, eight seven hours to
claim this deal fifty dollars tickets, buy one, get one free,
get admission to this Fraser beer fest three or four
hours on a warm Saturday in the summer in downtown
Louis will get to try all these wonderful beers and
support the Fraser History Museum and all the work we do.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Let's go eat some ribs this weekend. Sounds like a plan.
Love you son, Love you too. Back in a minute
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