Lake Wobegone's Favorite Son (Garrison Keillor)
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- Опубліковано 24 сер 2024
- Celebrated radio personality and author Garrison Keillor shares his Midwest sense of humor with Upon Reflection host Marcia Alvar and explains the benefits of radio broadcast in this 1991 University of Washington video. Radio, he says, provides the only uninhibited arena for free expression for both the storyteller and audience. They also discuss Keillor's need to use "commercials" in his radio broadcasts.
Thanks for the upload.. This guy is such a laid back storyteller.. And his voice could make a wolverine purr..
Garrison Keillor is a national treasure.
💜&MISS this guy!😎
AMEN!!
My brother just sent me a photo of a boat on a lake and said he had a great afternoon. I replied " Lake Wobegone"? It led me here and I enjoyed that interview.
Fascinating how this is a continuation of childhood
Alaska may not have been a great night from the shows perspective, but it will always be my favorite story.
I don’t care about the harassment allegations against Keillor. I do, however, care about hypocrisy. I began listening to APHC in the nineties when you actually had to listen to it on the radio on Saturday evenings. I used to make a point of tuning in before he started the News from Lake Wobegon. I loved it. I would marvel as he seamlessly shifted from entertaining people to preaching a gospel message. He was truly gifted.
Fast forward fifteen years. Obama came along, and eventually Trump came along and Garrison began to show his true colors. It’s like he couldn’t control his rage toward conservatives anymore, conservatives who, unbeknownst to him, made up the majority of his audience! And so I went from really enjoying the show to clenching my teeth and shouting at the radio for Garrison to JUST SHUT UP and go back to entertaining!
Garrison’s rage toward the right increased week by week, yet I still tuned in, painful as it was. He took subtle shots at my midwestern conservative values, he took subtle shots at anyone on the right, he took subtle shots at whoever was in the news that week, telling me how stupid I was to vote for them and how much smarter he was for supporting Clinton, Obama and the other progressives on the left.
He did one monologue where he talked about a bizarre dance troupe who was popular “in the midwest and in the south.” The audience laughed uproariously. Message received, Garrison. We’re lowbrow and stupid. We just don’t get it.
Then one day he just came out and said it live on the air, and I wish I had it on tape. “I’m a communist” said Keillor offhandedly. The audience didn’t react and the show went on. I was in utter disbelief, but now it made sense.
I continued to listen to A Prairie Home Companion but I wasn’t enjoying it as much anymore. About a year later, Garrison AGAIN proclaimed he was a communist. That broke it for me. I started listening less and less often as Garrison continued to take shots at Donald Trump and all the deplorable idiots who voted for him. Finally I wished that Garrison would lose his platform, and a few months later he did.
His replacement was just as much of a liberal progressive as Garrison was. He had to be to get the gig. I never listened to APHC again. Now I only listen to the older recordings of the News from Lake Wobegon, from the time before Garrison lost his way.
Obviously,......some hair spray company was a sponsor of this program.