The News from Lake Wobegon 12/18/2019

Your show was the favorite thing for me to listen to, during my 9 years in the US. Now I'm back in Germany since 2006, but I still listen to the old podcasts of News from Lake Wobegon, especially during my Holidays on the Island of La Palma. I even started to associate many places there with your stories. It is a strange connection, stories from Minnesota and the winding road up to 2400m above the clouds and beneath the stars for a night of astronomy, but that became my association with Lake Wobegon.

He retired
Then suddenly
Fred
Rich
Tim
Sue
Lost their gig.
And now their back together.
I love this🙏👍

Your news is refreshing. If only Molly Ivins was alive to see it further.

Gender, race, politics, all these things doesn’t matter when it’s 20 below, we are just mammals, we need each other, so just be nice to each other.... I Love it!!

9th

My dad and I used to listen to this on the radio every Saturday evening. And we would be driving back from the lake, and I would lose myself in the Lake Wobegon mysteries.. i always wondered where that show went.

Garrison Keillor is The Greatest!!

I'm so comforted by this...I miss this America so much...thank you... hugs Joanie

Everyone so afraid to clap when he went colorblind. What have we become?

Thirty years ago, newlywed, we moved to Wyoming so my husband could be a firefighter at FE Warren AFB. I was bereft of the gray and green of the PNW, wasn't a fan of pop country music but found Wyoming Public Radio- and Prarie Home Companion. Became instant fans. Endeared once you said, "Wyoming, a place where you can watch your dog run away...for days." We'd listen as we remodeled our little farmhouse and on road trips. One time we were fortunate to see you perform at Chateau St Michelle. We listened when stationed overseas on Crete. A weekly delight, a treasure. Now, as I do these last few years, I bake Christmas cookies and sip gluehwein while your stories, songs and poems envelop my kitchen. Thank you.

I first time listening was when I studied in SIUC in 1981
And love it immediately. Though I am Thai student.

A time when I went back to Minisota The Mall of America., saw tapes I brought them home to Thailand

What year did he retire ?

Where can we purchase multiple NFLW sets(ie box set) ?

I love listening at bedtime. Beautiful

Is an unknown car still spending the night outside pastor Liz's house?

On a dark Saturday night in January in Minnesota there was nothing more cozy than to listen to APHC. It was followed by a couple of great music programs, jazz and classical. MN Public Radio was the best.

Though I recently heard him tell this story, he told a longer, funnier, and different story this time. Wonderful such a wonderful imagination a true original comedian. So much fun to listen to this 💓 thank you ( ps the ending similar but hilarious)

The printing on the video says December 18, 2019. But I've read that Garrison's last show was years earlier, on July 1, 2016. Why this discrepancy? Thanks

I listened to you with my grandparents every show on the radio ... It was the Greatest of memories... Thank you for your stories your songs and your love ... I share it with my kids now

amazing as ever...love that story...

Man, I’ve heard a lot of News from Lake Woebegone episodes, but THIS, this is an epic !!!!!

Garrison, so glad you are ok after your heart surgery. We loved you in Fish Creek and you gave a remarkable, inspiring show. I have listened to you since about 1972? since a friend introduced me to your show. Saturday night I would listen while I made spaghetti for my family. The kids moaned but listened and I caught them laughing at your jokes! Blessings and thank you. Mary Anderson, Fish Creek WI

ps. I will look for your new cd for my birthday which is today (30th).

It kind of reminds me how much I was hostile to all the girls in my school, knowing that none of them would ever date me, and that's pretty much the way it turned out for me my entire life. In my forties I went to Great Expectations dating service and managed to get 7 dates with 4 different women, and that cost me $5000.

I love snow, too!

Was this actually done in 2019, or is it a repeat of an earlier show?

I love this man

My first child rarely slept, so Saturday night we would put her in the car seat and drive around listening to Prairie Home Companion.

Warming house? You had a warming house? You lucky guy. In Illinois we knew what they were but none of us had ever seen one. Course the coldest of winters we might get a whole three weeks to skate.

He makes it look so easy standing up and telling these stories. Like there is no effort.

There were a couple of things that my reactionary dad and I agreed upon: Garrison Keillor and Hank Williams. We were both from the upper-Midwest area and had an innate understanding of Keillor's stories. Williams is one of few country singers I like and the best.

Even in the 50's we had a two-hole outhouse.

Lord, I miss this on Saturday nights!

Wow, he's still got it. The nearly lost art of the American raconteur is kept alive by a few plain-spoken individualists who never play to the gallery, but arouse in the hearts of strangers across the country a longing to return to a place they've never been.

So nostalgic to listen to him telling stories. Genius. I missed him and hanks for bringing him back.

These stories make up part of the beautiful memories that I have with my grandparents. We would listen to his stories about lake wobegon and play poker once a month when my brother and I would stay at their apartment.

Garrison Keillor you are a national treasure. I'm a Dem, and one of my gripes with the party, is that over nothing they eat their young...throw them under the bus, then throw the baby out with the bath water, etc, etc You along with Al Franken were screwed over. Shameful. So sorry. Time to RISE AGAIN!

Miss you tons Garrison. Happy for reruns.

This reminds me of the day when my then husband and I went to my Aunt Linda's wedding. It was on a cruise at the Mississippi, a beautiful wedding. I was wearing the best dress and the most expensive hose I'd ever owned. Well, he got impatient on US Route 20 going home. Sadly, the hose did not survive. LOL

A single allegation,
ended a long career.
Hmm.
Personally I'd trust garrison over don.
Any day of the week.
To say there is a double standard is an understatement,
of biblical proportions.
I miss a prairie home companion.
I'm confident he could find a way to make today's headlines.
Both to make sense.
While also not being ugly, or hopeless.
The impression of don would have been terribly authentic, humorous, entertaining.
Likely to piss off faux news.
You are missed Sir.

Love Garrison, forever❤❤❤❤❤

The love song!!!
❤❤

I got to listen on the weekend while I was working these past the days. thank you so much

I miss this so much ❤

An ya be stoic..when ya be bamboozled by invading trojan horse communist muslim killers?..hmmm..yea

Heard GK for the first time when I moved to Flagstaff over 20 years ago. I remember a bunch of friends from the university were going to see him live and were so excited. I tried to get a ticket and they were sold out but in the meantime my friend gave me some CD’s that he burned from Keillor’s Saturday PHC show on NPR. I was about 2 minutes into the show and all I could think of was how lucky I was that I didn’t waste money on a ticket for a live show. To this day, GK perplexes me. His attempt at humor literally angers me and is even more confusing listening to the audience laughing hysterically at punchlines I seem to always miss. This is for such a specific type of person. They are always super progressive up front but you get some Mead in them and they always reveal that they are just a little bit racist. They are usually the most milquetoast and vanilla among us. Garrison Keillor is the most presumptuous, unfunny person in the planet. His “observations” and satire are spoken in an ancient dialect that only the blandest people can understand.

Brilliant, simply Brilliant. 🤣😂😅🤣🥰 Bless you Garrison! On floor. In tears. 😂😂😅🤣❤❤❤