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Garrison Keillor's Podcast

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  • Funny, poignant, sentimental, and sometimes controversial thoughts of the day.

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  • A Letter from Greenville, S.C.

    A Letter from Greenville, S.C.
    Jul 20 2024
    I spent last week gadding about the Carolinas doing shows and enjoying the South, eating eggs and grits and hearing the waitress say, “Can I get you more coffee, darling?” and encountering Republicans, a tribe rarer than Mohicans on the West Side of Manhattan where I live. I miss them. My uncles tended Republican, believing in personal responsibility and fiscal reality, and at church on Palm Sunday, at coffee hour, I heard the word “taxes” uttered contemptuously and a gentleman in his sixties was saying, “Everything government touches, it messes up,” a genuine living Republican. Twenty minutes before, at Mass, he had been forgiven his iniquity, and I wanted to put my arms around him.

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    7 mins
  • A morning walk along Columbus Avenue

    A morning walk along Columbus Avenue
    Jul 13 2024
    Now I’m an old man, in no rush, keeping an eye out for curbs and crevices and treacherous slabs of sidewalk, hoping not to make a spectacle of myself, knowing that in New York I am surrounded by writers, real or imagined, who would find the crash of a tall elderly author rather satisfying. Once I was swift afoot and long astride, and now I amble along, accepting distractions, my barber Tommy, a sculptor of hair, at work in his shop, and the newsstand, a historic relic, in the Online Age, and the security woman in her yellow vest at the schoolyard gate, and these beautiful children, apartment kids growing up on crowded streets, learning social skills. I had the Mississippi River and woods to go wander off alone in and so I picked up a pencil and a Roy Rogers tablet and wrote, as I am doing now.

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    7 mins
  • A lucky man admits to happiness, and why not?

    A lucky man admits to happiness, and why not?
    Jul 6 2024
    Ask a Midwesterner, “How are you?” and we tend to say, “Not bad” or “It could be worse,” feeling it’d sound glib or boastful to say, “Delighted,” and we men in particular tend to adopt an easygoing grumpiness as suitable for all occasions, but I think it’s bad luck not to acknowledge that I am very fortunate to have added my tongue to the other 999 at church, to lift my voice with the two women’s in trio to an audience in Vermont, to see that ecstatic little boy finding the joy in pablum that the Dead tried to find in acid. I am tired of conversations with fellow libs that start with ritual lamentations about the horrors we read about in the paper. We are right to be aware of the horrors, but the display of outrage at cruelties I haven’t experienced strikes me as show-offy. Donate money to organizations that relieve suffering. Volunteer at the food shelf, visit the sick, tutor the needy children, do good where you can, and count your blessings.

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    8 mins
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Nostalgia in my Ears

When I was young my father and I listened to the Writers Almanac daily on our drive to school, literature was one of the only things my father and I could fully agree on. I thought that it had been cancelled years ago, but I am instantly brought back. And in the chaos of life today I am so grateful to have found it again. It really is the small things in this life of ours.

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Well done daily narration and poetry readings.

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Well done daily narration and poetry readings. Would like more daily poetry readings.




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