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Tenebrae
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What happened to the regular host Garrison Keillor? I missed the show for a couple of weeks, and tonight I noticed that there’s somebody else doing the hosting.
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truetofaith
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I like the show & been listening for about 2 years. Garrison is ok just taking some vacation time.
Great music & humor…a breath of fresh air from the garbage that’s on other stations.
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esieffe
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I listened to it when I lived in the Virginia country side in a 200 year old house. It seemed a fitting backdrop. This was in the late 80s.
BTW, if you ever get a chance to live in a 200 year old colonial house, don’t.
BTW, if you ever get a chance to live in a 200 year old colonial house, don’t.
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JTD_Eagle1
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My dad does every week and I do sometimes as well. I agree, a lot better than other programs.
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DaveBj
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No. I got tired of Keillor’s left-leaning political views.
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boomerang
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I love PHC – The Evelyn Lundquist Counseling Agency (ELCA). Evelyn is a scream. “Do you think you’re the only one with problems?!! Wake up and smell the coffee, buster!!!” …Ketchup…Ketchup…Powdermilk Biscuits…Guy Noir, Private Eye…the “mother” character…BeBop A ReBop Rhubarb Pie…I’ve seen Keillor twice in person. Great shows.
“Do you think you’re the only one with problems?!! Wake up and smell the coffee, buster!!!” …Ketchup…Ketchup…Powdermilk Biscuits…Guy Noir, Private Eye…the “mother” character…BeBop A ReBop Rhubarb Pie…I’ve seen Keillor twice in person. Great shows.
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truetofaith
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I must agree with that!
Oh & sometimes I’m not sure if he is religious or poking fun at religion.
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DaveBj
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He’s poking fun – religiouslyI must agree with that!
Oh & sometimes I’m not sure if he is religious or poking fun at religion.
Some of it hits a little close to home, because I was raised in one of those counter-cultural denominations similar to the one he describes from his childhood.That said, I do like the name of the Catholic parish in Lake Woebegone – Our Lady of Perpetual Obligation.
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Cat
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I’ll go along with this.
I have a theory. I think that NPR came up with the idea of Prairie Home Companion as a way to attract conservative-leaning Americans to NPR. They recruited Garrison Keillor (or perhaps he was one of the ones who came up with the idea of a “conservative lure.”)
And they launched the show, and it did exactly what they thought it would do–attracted a whole new group of fans to NPR–all those right-wing, conservative people who normally never listen to any radio other than the local AM talk station that still has the same DJs that have been around for 40 years.
They put together a really good show. PHC is really good–I love Lake Woebegone and all the folksy places and characters. I love the essays about simple lifestyles, hard work, wholesome recreation, etc.
And I LOVE much of the music featured on PHC.
My husband is one of the conservatives who started out just listening to PHC, and then discovered This American Life, and Planet Money, and several other liberal-leaning shows.
HOLD ON, though–if you listen to Planet Money, you will see that it actually ISN’T liberal at all. It’s the best show I’ve seen when it comes to money, taxes, charities, etc.
But This American Life is very liberal, and so are a lot of the other talk shows on NPR. And the people who write and host these shows are liberal and they talk as though anyone who disagrees with them is so far down on the evolutionary scale that they barely qualify as human beings.
(That’s the way they talk on NPR–dropping the ends of all their sentences, which probably doesn’t bother all the young people who listen to all their media through headphones, but is awful for old things like me who listen to an actual radio, often in my big ol’ gas-guzzling SUV!)
My husband has made it a point to always listen to BOTH sides, which makes him a formidable opponent in a debate about current issues.
But those liberal shows drive me nuts! And I really don’t care for Keillor at all–he seems to have such disdain for all who aren’t at his high level of understanding of the human condition.
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DaveBj
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Actually, the real reason that I don’t listen to PHC is that our radios in the house don’t pick up WBHM; only the radios in our vehicles get it, and I’m never in my truck at PHC time. The leftism is an excuse, but it’s a pretty good excuse. I do have my truck radio tuned to WBHM for news, but I’m not in my truck all that much. Probably good for my political sanity.
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technatrix
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I can’t admit it anyone I know because I would be docked about a million “cool” points, but listening to the News from Lake Woebegone is my guilty pleasure. I’m never really around a radio to listen to the whole PHC show, but I listen to the Woebegone podcast on iTunes.
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jilly4ski
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LOL, I went to school up where this program began (literally the program aired from the university) and often walked, ran, and rollerbladed on the “Wobegone trail.” (named after the fact).
Fun fact, that area is also the setting for Sinclare Lewis’s Main Street.
I have listened to the program on occasion (Love the Guy Noir bit) as our local classical station carries it. But I am definitely not a regular listener. Also I get tired of Keilor’s voice as he also hosts the writers’ almanac, which some days I hear twice a day in the car.
And yes, it is annoying how they dropped their sentences even for us younger people.
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