"Yeah you can interview me but only if I can drink a beer during it."
Then he hung up the phone.
That was the first time I spoke to Milt Tenopir about interviewing him for a film I was working on called, "Through These Gates". A friend of mine knew his wife from work, so I weaseled myself into a phone call by playing the "buddy card".
That sounds slimier than I intended it to.
I pulled up to his nice but modest house in South Lincoln, with a 12 pack of Busch Light, which I had heard was the only beer he would drink, and I knocked on his door.