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March 1, 1986      World Theater, St Paul, MN

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Participants

Bruce Calin Bill Caswell Johnny Gimble Prudence Johnson Tom Keith Kate MacKenzie Howard Mohr Dick Nunneley Peter Ostroushko Butch Thompson


Songs, tunes, and poems

All night long ( Johnny Gimble )
The X in Texas ( Johnny Gimble )
Liberty ( Johnny Gimble )
The Wonder of it all ( Johnny Gimble )
You're From Texas ( Johnny Gimble )
Gotta Travel On ( Bill Caswell )
Oklahoma hills ( Bill Caswell )
I'm Busted ( Bill Caswell )
When My Blue moon turns to gold again ( Bill Caswell )
On Top of Old Smoky ( Bill Caswell )
Just When ( Bill Caswell )
That's what your love does to me ( Bill Caswell )
Tomorrow Night ( Prudence Johnson )
Too Far Gone ( Prudence Johnson )
My Home in the Sky ( Prudence Johnson )


Sketches, Sponsors, People, Places

Bunsen, Clint
College of Low Technology
Krebsbach, Carl
Minnesota Language Systems
Powdermilk Biscuits
Walleye Phone Company


'The News from Lake Wobegon'

They're hauling in the ice houses because a large pond formed. Clint Bunsen refused to use his tow truck when he noticed that horizon moving up and down. Ice fishing isn't a sport because you sit all of the time but it's better than fishing sitting in a boat. Boat fishing involves judgment. Everything about fishing is eliminated except the religious part. Men sit and contemplate their sins, deciding which were sins and which were a strange kind of virtue. Carl Krepsbach went out ice fishing. He decided against driving his 2-1/2 ton pickup over 2-1/2 feet of ice. He lit a fire in the little stove and dropped his line with his special bait. Looking at his bait reminded him of the Christmas when all of his children were sick. He was visiting his parents when Marge called up to say that all of the kids were throwing up. They both cleaned up. Carl looked at his huge bird feeder and saw an obnoxious squirrel devouring the sunflower seeds. His system of counterweights took the squirrels 20 seconds to beat. He got a rambo hose nozzle for Christmas. He set up the nozzle aimed it at the feeder and waited for an hour and blasted the squirrel. An hour later, the squirrel came back and he blasted it again. Then his littlest daughter said, "Something is wrong with Chucky." The squirrel was limping around looking hungry and forlorn. His daughter said, "Can't we give him some special food?" Carl made a mixture of jalapeno peppers and put it in a squirt gun. When the squirrel came to pick up some walnuts, Carl blasted him. His daughter saw it all and was very upset. Carl read a Christmas card from the man who Marge had gone with before she went with Carl. Lying in bed with Marge, his wife of thirty years.


Other mentions/discussions during the show

Radio Drama: Tom's sound effects door.


Notes and References

1986.02.28 Star Tribune


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