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March 27, 1999      Fitzgerald Theater , St Paul, MN

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Participants

[undocumented]


Songs, tunes, and poems

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Sketches, Sponsors, People, Places

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'The News from Lake Wobegon'

Spring is coming. The fire department went to Mayor Eloise Krepsbach's house. A child put a family of dolls in the oven and another turned on the oven. This child is a great joker and doesn't have many friends. When life was simpler, you could put a Model T together in someone's basement. The golden age was when there were outhouses. Boys who pushed over outhouses are now old men now. The late Fred Krepsbach was a great practical joker. He would fake an IRS call At his duck hunting cabin, he would rig up a feather in the bed between two men and they would snarl at each other. He died of pneumonia from a chill waiting to fool his grandsons by pulling a dollar bill with a string. They were kept after school because they had put a woman's voice with Mr. Halvorsen's school announcement. Merle bought a very expensive Chevy Blazer with radio controls on the steering wheel. He told his wife, Lynette, that the radio was voice activated and fooled her. A week later there was a recorded voice warning of an on-board computer failure. He was so proud of her. One Fred K's hunting crony's shot a coot and bragged about it. A week later the menu at the Chatterbox featured coots and mud hens.


Other mentions/discussions during the show

Governor Venturi and GK patch up their feud. Writing the great American novel. Obituary of Judge Harry A. Blackman.


This show was Rebroadcast on 2001-03-31

Notes and References

Archival contributors: Official website


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