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January 9

The Door to the Year

Rebroadcast from January 14, 2012

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This week: one more mid-winter repeat before we return to live broadcasts, featuring two January shows from the Fitzgerald Theater in Saint Paul, Minnesota and a few visits from Our Man in Nashville, Brad Paisley. The first Fitz broadcast, from 2012, finds Mr. Paisley singing “This is Country Music” and answering Guy Noir’s ad for a new roommate; and men’s vocal ensemble Cantus performing “There’s a Meetin’ Here” and delivering a message from Irish Breeze Mouthwash. The second, an edition from just last year, includes the host singing “The Ballad of Peanut Butter” with Richard Kriehn and Chris Siebold and the “Barcarolle” from Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffmann. Plus: a word about the geology of Nashville from 2014. In Lake Wobegon, Senator K. Thorvaldson finally heads south for the winter.

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January 16

Oro en Paz

This week: we’re back with our first live broadcast of 2016 and we’re briefly decamping for the Golden State, starting with a visit to the stately War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco. The acoustic sister trio Joseph will head down the coast from Oregon to astound your ears with sibling harmonies and well-crafted folk songs. Our resident soprano Ellie Dehn is along to help do justice to one of the country’s most distinguished performing arts halls and lend her voice to our radio scripts. Plus: Heather Masse will be with us to sing duets with the host and even a song or two of her own; our Royal Academy of Radio Actors, Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Fred Newman will have their full arsenal of character impressions, streetcar sounds, and sea lion barks at the ready; music director and pianist Rich Dworsky and the band (drummer Bernie Dresel, bassist Larry Kohut, Richard Kriehn on mandolin and fiddle, and Chris Siebold on guitar) are preparing a selection of fog-infused Bay Area melodies; and the host will have an update on the latest News from Lake Wobegon, where it’s finally safe to head out on the ice for a little fishing. Tune your receiver down to the public radio end of the dial and we’ll see you on Saturday evening!

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December 26

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Download The 12 Days of Christmas, and the Boxing Day, Bertha’s Kitty Boutique, Catchup, Fritz, Duct Tape, Coffee, A Christmas Carol scripts, and the News from Lake Wobegon from our December 26 broadcast from the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul.

 

 

 

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Summer 2015

The America the Beautiful Tour

Featuring Sarah Jarosz,
Fred Newman,
and Rich Dworsky
with The Fare Thee Well Band

 

 

 

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This Week's Joke

Julius Caesar walks into a bar, holds up two fingers and says, "Five beers, please."

This joke was submitted by Carl Schulz from Johnstown, PA. Thanks!

People-Watching

To the host:

How do you people-watch without standing out? I really love doing that, but I’m afraid people think I’m weird, or worse.

Stephen McMinn
Stockbridge, GA Read more

Enough

Listened to the show Saturday and it was not bad. I don’t know about you, but I was pretty worn out as I listened, and it wasn’t a bad worn out, but I sure didn’t feel like doing much of anything at all. I love the holidays and the gatherings and the road trips and food and events and all, but it can be a lot and if you’re anything like me you need a stretch of nothing to just kind of gather yourself. Read more

Trucks

I’m at the grocery store and the front page of the National Enquirer blazes out with “Brad and Angelina 480-Million-Dollar Divorce” and I’m thinking “How do they do that?” She’s maybe got even more money than he does. How do they do the math? They have six kids. Maybe the eight of them should each get 60 million from the pot and they’d all still be rich and thanks a lot and keep in touch and we’ll see you around. Read more

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