APM: A Prairie Home Companion's News from Lake Wobegon
By American Public Media
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Podcast Description
Garrison Keillor's signature monologue, The News from Lake Wobegon, a staple of the live public radio program A Prairie Home Companion.
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February 4, 2012: The News from Lake Wobegon | "Barely-not-quite-winter -- in the 30s, low 40s, so there's not much snow around. People are kind of cranky as well." The Tolleruds have a gerbil loose in their house, reflections on hiding embarrassing photos and personal effects from your children, the town continues to deal with a warm winter, and Darlene defends a hair color mishap. | 2/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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January 28, 2012: The News from Lake Wobegon | "We got a little snow -- a little snow Monday night. What a beautiful snowfall it was, and not all that cold out." The recent warm weather puts those who suffer from "Pump Handle Phobia" at ease. Plus, Mr. Hansen lends a hand around the neighborhood while his wife visits her sister in Florida, and reveals an unusual secret. | 1/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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January 21, 2012: The News from Lake Wobegon | "It's been cold out there. It was one below zero here the other day and everybody felt pretty good about that." Kenny does some soul searching after leaving the Sidetrack Tap and getting stuck in a hidden snow tunnel, the Women's Circle switches from quilting to writing, and Pastor Liz has a revelation while "night swimming." | 1/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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January 14, 2012: The News from Lake Wobegon | "Unseasonably warm early in the week but now, thank goodness, the temperature has dropped into the single digits, which is to everyone's satisfaction." The town's ice fishermen deal with an unexpected lack of ice, residents gear up for the Winter Festival, Lake Wobegon sets a world record, and Darlene is forced to stay close-mouthed. | 1/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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January 7, 2012: The News from Lake Wobegon | "The crocuses are up and the tulips are up and then we got a little bit of snow overnight but nobody said a word about it." Dorothy wins the "Guess the Ice Melt" contest, the tundra swans return to Lake Wobegon, spring yard work begins, and Pastor Liz is forced to use her emergency sermon, in a monologue from April 16, 2011. | 1/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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December 31, 2011: The News from Lake Wobegon | "It's been warm out there. It's been in the 40s so we had a brown Christmas -- we had no snow." Hawaiian visitors head to Lake Wobegon for a taste of winter, the Tolleruds and the Hansens fight over a good deed after a freezer malfunction, and some advice for 2012 as the town celebrates New Year's Eve. | 12/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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December 24, 2011: The News from Lake Wobegon | "The snow is falling even now. I can imagine it -- snow falling across the lake, which is just starting to freeze here just a few days ago." The "city mice" visit the "country mice" for the holiday, and stories from four memorable Lake Wobegon Christmases. | 12/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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December 17, 2011: The News from Lake Wobegon | "It's been much too warm out there. It's been raining. It looks dreary -- it doesn't look like the festival of lights whatsoever." Plus, a series of misunderstandings draws a crowd to Our Lady of Perpetual Responsibility, the Tolleruds reluctantly accept a gift from a NYC relative, Lake Wobegon Lutheran Church celebrates St. Lucia Day, and the high school choir goes caroling. | 12/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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December 10, 2011: The News from Lake Wobegon | "It's been cold and that snow that is on the ground is now there to stay and we're happy about that." -- Winter comes to Lake Wobegon. Plus, thinking twice about offering hospitality after a visit from Aunt Cooter, the Bunsens forego their usual holiday arguments, and the Living Nativity returns to Our Lady of Perpetual Responsibility. | 12/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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December 3, 2011: The News from Lake Wobegon | "It's been getting colder -- into the 20s. It's been trying to snow and we've been seeing a lot of Christmas lights." Plus, Pastor Liz reluctantly serves as a "healer" after a miraculous event at a Lake Wobegon Lutheran Church women's retreat becomes the talk of the town. | 12/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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November 26, 2011: The News from Lake Wobegon | "This Thanksgiving--a fairly uneventful Thanksgiving, a little excitement up at the Magendantz home." A fire prompts reconciliation between the Bunsens and the Magendantzes after years of animosity, Clint Bunsen accidentally restores the Moonlight Bay Supper Club's neon sign, the Tolleruds welcome their daughter home from St. Olaf College, and thoughts on Thanksgiving meals. | 11/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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November 19, 2011: The News from Lake Wobegon | "Oh, we knew it was going to snow. We could see that sky—that was a snow sky. People who have lived here for more than five minutes know what that snow sky looks like." Plus, discovering hidden treasures under the floor of Lake Wobegon Lutheran Church, Pastor Liz delivers a sermon on one of her least favorite Gospels, and Lake Wobegon exiles return home for Thanksgiving. | 11/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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November 12, 2011: The News from Lake Wobegon | "This was the week that the weather turned. The big ship swung off to the North." Plus, Lake Wobegon prepares for winter, reflections on Veterans Day, and newly widowed Becky Beckman keeps a final promise to her husband Bradley by taking his place on an annual deer-hunting trip. | 11/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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November 5, 2011: The News from Lake Wobegon | It's been gray, it's been chilly, it's been cold, and we had our first real frost out there -- frosty sidewalks early in the morning. Lyle Janske discovered that the other day. He came out to take his garbage out and he walked across the deck out behind his house, and suddenly without his anticipating it, his feet were up above his head. | 11/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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October 29, 2011: The News from Lake Wobegon | It's been chilly here this last week--it's been very chilly. We got some rain and a little bit of snow. People were putting in bulbs for next spring when the first flakes of snow fell. Just a little tiny sliver of moon up in the sky so it's going to be very, very dark for Halloween on Monday night. | 10/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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October 22, 2011: The News from Lake Wobegon | The world has taken a turn towards the cold. The sun comes out but it's not warm anymore -- we've taken the big turn towards fall. People are wearing hats in Lake Wobegon. People are turning on their furnaces. | 10/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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October 15, 2011: The News from Lake Wobegon | This was the week that the chill moved in and the big full moon up there Tuesday night. And then on Wednesday a big rain came pouring down and the wind blew and so a lot of the leaves came down. That red maple tree out in the front yard of the Lutheran Parsonage just almost was stripped of leaves. | 10/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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October 8, 2011: The News from Lake Wobegon | It's been warm out there this week -- been up in the 80s, unusual for October. The trees are at their peak and everybody should've been happy. Of course, the old complainers who sit and nurse their coffee in the Chatterbox Cafe found a way to complain about it after all. | 10/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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October 1, 2011: The News from Lake Wobegon | It's been cloudy. It's been chilly out there. The sun has come out now and then. And then on Thursday this powerful wind came up -- it was very dramatic. Some people lost phone service and weren't even aware of it at the time and leaves blew off some of the trees completely. | 9/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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September 24, 2011: The News from Lake Wobegon | It's the week of the fall equinox, when we turn towards the darkness -- and we have this week. It's been chilly, it's been cloudy, and the sun -- less of it. The sun going down, people eating dinner by lamplight again and all sorts of odd things happening when the darkness comes on us. | 9/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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September 17, 2011: The News from Lake Wobegon | It's the beginning of fall. It's been cool -- good sleeping weather when people crawl into bed at night. It's warm under the extra blanket if you're sleeping with somebody else and you tuck yourself into your little envelope on these cool fall nights. | 9/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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September 10, 2011: The News from Lake Wobegon | For a while I grew up the son of a Swedish sharecropper in North Dakota and I got on a toboggan in January and there was a prevailing wind out of the northwest which blew me down to Minneapolis and it just seemed like too much effort to go back. And they didn't seem as if they would miss me anyway so I stayed here. | 9/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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September 3, 2011: The News from Lake Wobegon | Fall is in the air. The last of the gardens being brought in--bumper crops of tomatoes. Irene Bunsen had the great satisfaction this week of walking out of her back gate, out of her garden, and across the alley, and down the way, and into the back gate of her brother-in-law Clarence Bunsen. | 9/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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August 27, 2011: The News from Lake Wobegon | It's gotten very cold there this last week. The temperature's been highs in the 20s. Cold, bitterly cold weather. It's the kind of weather we're used to. The Northern Lights have been so beautiful--these tongues of green, tips of orange at night. | 8/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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August 20, 2011: The News from Lake Wobegon | We've had snow out there. We had about a foot and a half of snow here this last week, which just sort of killed some people who are just tired of winter. But it snowed anyway, despite their objections. | 8/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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August 13, 2011: The News from Lake Wobegon | We got a little snow out there this last week -- six inches, but we don't care. We're not shoveling. The shovel's been put away. The snowplow is parked in the garage; Bud is not going to bring it out. That snow, it's just going to have to melt on its own. | 8/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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August 6, 2011: The News from Lake Wobegon | The tundra swans came in this week -- hundreds of them. Beautiful white birds came sailing in and landed on the lake. They spend the winter in North Carolina -- most of them -- and they're on their way up to their breeding grounds, which is in the Canadian arctic. | 8/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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July 30, 2011: The News from Lake Wobegon | Clint Bunsen sneezed so hard he threw his back out and he had to miss work for the rest of the week. At the Sidetrack Tap Wally, behind the bar, sneezed with such force that he blew a cigar the whole length of the bar. | 7/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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July 23, 2011: The News from Lake Wobegon | It was so hot, a real change of life for people in Lake Wobegon. It is too hot to work -- it just is. And how do you stop doing what you have been practicing to do all of your life? | 7/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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July 16, 2011: The News from Lake Wobegon | It's been beautiful out there this last week. You know, here we are: the end of March, the beginning of April and suddenly it was getting warmer and warmer and the ice was off the lake and the redwing blackbirds were everywhere and the crocus was poking up and still there were people in Lake Wobegon who were saying, "Just you wait, we're gonna get more snow." | 7/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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July 9, 2011: The News from Lake Wobegon | It's been cool up there, been a little bit rainy—but not nearly rainy enough—and so the lake level is still very, very low, which means there's an enormous expanse of beach there. | 7/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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July 2, 2011: The News from Lake Wobegon | It's been hot and humid out there. Some people are sitting around limp in the face of their air conditioners with their arms wrapped around them and a lot of people are not so troubled by 105-degree heat. | 7/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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June 25, 2011: The News from Lake Wobegon | It's been a little wet out there. We got plenty of rain here this last week and it was cool, if that's the sort of weather that you like. It was the summer solstice on Tuesday -- Tuesday around noon. | 6/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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June 18, 2011: The News from Lake Wobegon | Perfect weather -- absolutely beautiful, perfect weather out there. The sort of weather that makes some of us with dark imaginations feel uneasy, as if something is just about to happen on a day so perfect as this. | 6/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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June 11, 2011: The News from Lake Wobegon | The gardens are starting to come in now. The first little radishes are coming in. The first asparagus has been cut already -- a great delicacy. | 6/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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June 4, 2011: The News from Lake Wobegon | It's been gorgeous, just like it is here today -- temperatures in the 70s and blue skies, the smell of lilacs in the air. It's just perfect, perfect days that two months ago we would have spent a king's ransom to go elsewhere to find. | 6/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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May 28, 2011: The News from Lake Wobegon | It's been gorgeous, beautiful weather. The lilacs are in bloom now -- that clean, sweet smell of lilacs in the air, the smell of fresh-cut alfalfa as well. | 5/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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May 21, 2011: The News from Lake Wobegon | It's been a cold spring. Tuesday morning here, the temperature was five above zero, which was the lowest low from that day in history and the high temperature was 13, which was the lowest high in history. | 5/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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May 14, 2011: The News from Lake Wobegon | Spring, spring. Spring came in -- came in on Monday, came in with that gorgeous spring thunderstorm. You never get tired of these gorgeous spring thunderstorms. | 5/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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May 7, 2011: The News from Lake Wobegon | It's been warm out there. We've seen the first butterflies. The first wood ticks have shown up. The daffodils are up. The crocuses are even starting to fade right now. | 5/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Apr. 30, 2011: The News from Lake Wobegon | It's been chilly this last week and we got a little snow on Tuesday, snow after Easter--and Easter was late this year. | 4/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Apr. 23, 2011: The News from Lake Wobegon | It was warm. The week started out warm and then we got some snow here on Tuesday and we just ignored it, of course -- as you would ignore an embarrassing relative. | 4/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Apr. 16, 2011: The News from Lake Wobegon | The crocuses are up and the tulips are up, and then we got a little bit of snow overnight but nobody said a word about it. | 4/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Apr. 9, 2011: The News from Lake Wobegon | It's been warm out there, and sunny. It's been up in the 60s -- not all week, of course. | 4/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Apr. 2, 2011: The News from Lake Wobegon | We are happy it is warmer; it is beautiful to see green grass again. | 4/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mar. 26, 2011: The News from Lake Wobegon | It is spring; we had a little snow, 6 inches, but we are not going to clear it as the shovels have been put away. | 3/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mar. 19, 2011: The News from Lake Wobegon | We were hit by an enormous snowstorm on Thursday. | 3/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mar. 12, 2011: The News from Lake Wobegon | The snow has melted a great deal except for stubborn show that hangs out deep in the woods. | 3/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mar. 5, 2011: The News from Lake Wobegon | It has been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon. In anticipation of spring... we expect spring in April, but are always disappointed. | 3/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Feb. 26, 2011: The News from Lake Wobegon | It is snowing again, despite people's objections. | 2/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Feb. 19, 2011: The News from Lake Wobegon | The snow is melting and people are able to walk around town again. | 2/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Feb. 12, 2011: The News from Lake Wobegon | We need snow this time of the year, everyone gets cranky during the month of February. | 2/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Feb. 5, 2011: The News from Lake Wobegon | Our skin and politeness is becoming thin and crackling as the winter goes on. | 2/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jan. 29, 2011: The News from Lake Wobegon | School teacher Margie stays home under her quilts in a form of hybernation to escape the winter. | 1/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jan. 22, 2011: The News from Lake Wobegon | Danger and cold weather brings out humor in Lake Wobegon. | 1/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jan. 15, 2011: The News from Lake Wobegon | The slick roads in Lake Wobegon makes for some sudden introductions. | 1/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jan. 8, 2011: The News from Lake Wobegon | Pastor Liz tends to Mr Carny's final moments. | 1/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dec. 31, 2010: The News from Lake Wobegon | Lunar Eclipse | 12/31/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dec. 25, 2010: The News from Lake Wobegon | Four memorable Christmases. | 12/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dec. 18, 2010: The News from Lake Wobegon | Our Lady of Perpetual Responsibility prepares for their annual Christmas pageant, minus the "slaughter of the innocents" from last year. | 12/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dec. 11, 2010: The News from Lake Wobegon | Lutheran's don't like to pretend to be happy, they would rather just stay home. | 12/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dec. 4, 2010: The News from Lake Wobegon | In Lake Wobegon, even a huge snowfall doesn't cancel events - most of which would bring more pleasure if they were cancelled. | 12/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nov. 27, 2010: The News from Lake Wobegon | Thanksgiving in Lake Wobegon brought fresh snow and a stream of exiles returning home. | 11/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Extra download! Guy Noir | Guy visits Saint Augustine where he is given a offer that is difficult to resist from Rupert Murdoch. | 11/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nov. 20, 2010: The News from Lake Wobegon | 33 years after embezzling $200K from the Lake Wobegon State Bank, 92 year old Myrtle Anderson wants to come back home. | 11/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nov. 13, 2010: The News from Lake Wobe | The first large snowfall of the year finds Lake Wobegon residents unprepared. | 11/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Oct. 30, 2010: The News from Lake Wobegon | It's Halloween in Lake Wobegon, things get crazy, and we all learn a valuable lesson. | 10/31/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Oct. 23, 2010: The News from Lake Wobegon | Recollections of a trip to Aunt Eva & Uncle Jack’s farm about chickens, sad songs and a 30 foot fall (in the buff) from the haymow. | 10/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Oct. 16, 2010: The News from Lake Wobegon | Marilyn Tollerud decides not to go commercial with her famous pumpkin bread. | 10/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Oct. 9, 2010: The News from Lake Wobegon | Pastor Liz makes her way around town and loses $200 bucks in the Side Track Tap. | 10/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Oct. 2, 2010: The News from Lake Wobegon | The Lake Wobegon Leonards lose their big homecoming game and the folks in town react to fall and cooler weather settling in. | 10/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sept. 25, 2010: The News from Lake Wobegon | Clint and Irene Bunsen are away in Indiana, and the tomatoes in their yard are just perfect. But they won't last. So the folks in Lake Wobegon turn to pastor Liz for the right thing to do. | 9/26/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sept. 18, 2010: The News from Lake Wobegon | Dorothy at the Chatterbox Café is raising eyebrows with a new hairdo. | 9/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sept. 11, 2010: The News from Lake Wobegon | A review of summer vacations -- the historical low point of any good Lutheran's year. | 9/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sept. 4, 2010: The News from Lake Wobegon | Fall settles in around Lake Wobegon, which is a good thing, because we could only bear so much summer. | 9/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Aug. 28, 2010: The News from Lake Wobegon | The wild grapes are ripe along the East side of the lake and the Schroeder's have set about making their wild grape wine. | 8/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Aug. 21, 2010: The News from Lake Wobegon | The smell of freshly mowed grass becomes Proust's madeleine, conjuring up memories of young love on a summer afternoon. | 8/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 77 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
At last, one of our favorite PHC monologues...
What a pleasure to be able to at last archive the weekly news coming out of Lake Wobegon. We look forwarde to visiting and revisiting with the all the folks we have come to know from our many years of listening to PHC. Having the episodes on our laptop will help make the miles melt away on trips between our home and our childrens' homes, as Garrison takes us back to the "quiet little town" he grew up in. Thanks for finally making the news availiable as podcasts!
The best part of a great show...
I was tempted to give this four stars instead of five as encouragement to give us the entire weekly show, rather than just Lake Wobegon. But I couldn't do it. Even this snippet of a fantastic show deserves fives stars in it's own right. For those of us familiar with Northern Minnesota/North Dakota small town life, this is better than a trip through the nostalgic sepia-tone photo albums of our parents and grandparents. Those memories live and breathe again thanks to Garrison. It's sometimes funny, sometimes melancholy. But it's always comforting and hopeful. It's a little trip home without the troubles and impositions of relatives.
YES!!!
YES YES YES! I grew up listening to this show and still do, just not as often as I would like. I'm glad its finally made it to the podcast! Garrison, please come to Tulsa!!!
