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“Chant” — 2/9/2013

“The people I come from were low-key people. They spoke softly and they liked to end their sentences with ‘then’ or ‘now.’” Watch Garrison’s meditation on Midwesterners from last weekend’s show, with Cantus adding majestic background vocals.

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The News from Lake Wobegon for July 28, 2012

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.

Clint Bunsen endures a talkative duck hunting companion, the Lake Wobegon High School football team faces a feared rival, and Pastor Liz chooses between three very different sermon topics, in a monologue from October 2011.

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The News from Lake Wobegon for June 9, 2012

It’s been warm there — what we would consider warm. It’s been up in the 80s and it’s been kind of rough on these Scandinavians.

The high school graduation ceremony moves out of the air-conditioning-less gymnasium, the students are disappointed by the transit of Venus, Hannah Rasmussen overuses a metaphor in her valedictorian speech, and the Mueller children return to Lake Wobegon for their mother’s funeral.

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