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American Radio Company of the Air

November 14, 1992      World Theater, St Paul, MN

    see all shows from: 1992 | World Theater | St Paul | MN

Participants

Ivy Austin Robert BacaCoffee Club Orchestra Rob Fisher Garrison Keillor Tom Keith Ann Reed. Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys


Songs, tunes, and poems

Six nights a week ( Ivy Austin , Garrison Keillor )
Salt of my tears ( Ivy Austin , Garrison Keillor )
Loch Lomond ( Ivy Austin , Garrison Keillor )
Old master painter ( Ivy Austin , Garrison Keillor )
Too much trouble ( Ann Reed )
Some hearts ( Ann Reed )
Hole in the sky ( Ann Reed )
Think of me (Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys  )
Nickel in the slot (Coffee Club Orchestra  )
Novelette (Coffee Club Orchestra  )
Alligator hot (Coffee Club Orchestra  )


Sketches, Sponsors, People, Places

Bunsen, Clarence
Cafe Boeuf
Fisher's Coffee
Guy's Shoes
Monback Brother's Trash Hauling
Northern Security
Walden Number Two Pencils


'The News from Lake Wobegon'

Deer hunting Lutherans become like John Wayne. Clarence Bunsen driving through Millet, a town founded by bar tenders and settled by bar flies. Bleak landscape - abandoned pickups and mobile homes. Fear that by driving through Millet, you could get lost and become a Millet person with tobacco-stained overalls. Clarence doesn't hunt any more after he drew a bead on his brother. Passing all of the trucks with deer carcasses, he imagines a truck driven by two deer with two dressed-out hunters in the back. Joke about St. Peter greeting the new arrivals after he has looked up their IQs. He asks the dumbest guy, 'Did you get your deer?' Nobody gets rich in L W because they watch you too closely.


Other mentions/discussions during the show

LRT: GK gives his autograph to sick child and gets her cold. He has a guilt trip while he is sick. Child is really a lawyer who sues GK. Bad things happen to Minnesotans when they go to Antigua, St. Martin, Bahamas, or the Virgin Islands. Poem about the first White House cat. Claude Monet's birthday.


Notes and References

Archival contributors: Frank Berto


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