# 5 Ridiculous Questions with Laura Palka

> Source: https://www.charlotteiscreative.com/5-ridiculous-questions-with-laura-palka/
> Updated: 2020-01-31T15:17:10+00:00
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> Categories: CLT Creatives | Contributors: Tim Miner

If you're watching The Outsider on HBO, you know there are very few moments of comfort. So, it felt like a reprieve to see a familiar face pop up as a

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### **Laura Palka**
 **Anchor/Reporter/Actor**
 **[Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/lpalka/) | [Web](http://www.964creative.com/) |[IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3923016/)**

If you’re watching *The Outsider on HBO*, you know there are very few moments of comfort. So, it felt like a reprieve to see a familiar face pop up as a reporter at the beginning of the second episode — **Laura Palka**, host of the “The Daily Two” on WSOC/WAXN-TV. Laura’s been a familiar face on Queen City screens for years, but now she’s added acting to her resume, appearing in *Homeland, The Red Road, Rectify, Powers, Good Behavior* and the feature film *Masterminds*, about the famous Loomis Fargo bank heist from a few years ago.

After we recovered from watching this week’s episode of *The Outsider*, we reached out to this reporter, field hockey/dance mom and self-confessed British royalty buff.

### **Laura graciously reached back out, we used our precious time to ask this Charlotte media legend five*ridiculous* questions:**

**Did you wait to move to Charlotte after New Year’s Eve 2000 because you wanted to see if Charlotte was still standing after the Y2K bug destroyed the city?**
 Ha! No, I moved here when I got a job offer from WSOC-TV to anchor the weekend news. I wanted to live close to work, but in 2000 there were no condos or apartments built Uptown yet. Crazy, right?

**Canada already seems to be sick of Megan and Harry. As CLT’s most prominent “Royal-phile,” you’re in charge of getting them to move here. What’s your 15-word pitch?**
 The Queen City will treat you like royalty and with much better weather. (Plus, we have several daily nonstop flights to London if you get homesick.)

**As a Wayne State grad, who would you rather interview, Wayne Brady or Wayne Knight (Newman from Seinfeld)?**
 Definitely Wayne Brady. Hosting the “Let’s Make a Deal” is much harder than it looks because you have to expect the unexpected. I’m sure he has some wacky stories to tell.

**Okay, you’re in the truth business, level with us. Did Captain James Jack carry the Meck Deck to Philly or not?**
 No clue! But I do know the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence happened on my birthday – May 20th, because it says so on our state flag.

**Please complete this sentence: “When my kids see me on TV, they …”**
 When my kids see me on TV, they used to ask how mommy got in the box. Now, they are too busy looking at their phones.

### **And, one to grow on …**

**Of all the “fake” news stories you’ve reported on in movies and TV, which one do you wish was real?**
 While most scripts are fictional stories, the*Masterminds* Loomis Fargo heist fiasco was true, which made it that much funnier. Dumb criminals are always funny.