A Letter from Greenville, S.C.

Garrison Keillor's Podcast

Prairie Home Productions

Society & Culture, Fiction, Comedy Fiction, Improv, Comedy

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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I spent last week gadding about the Carolinas doing shows and enjoying the South, eating eggs and grits and hearing the waitress say, “Can I get you more coffee, darling?” and encountering Republicans, a tribe rarer than Mohicans on the West Side of Manhattan where I live. I miss them. My uncles tended Republican, believing in personal responsibility and fiscal reality, and at church on Palm Sunday, at coffee hour, I heard the word “taxes” uttered contemptuously and a gentleman in his sixties was saying, “Everything government touches, it messes up,” a genuine living Republican. Twenty minutes before, at Mass, he had been forgiven his iniquity, and I wanted to put my arms around him.

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0:00.0	Ah, she's brilliant. Miss, I finally got plans out the group chat. We get it. Four votes for a festival,
0:05.9	three for a city break. It's hard to adhere to everyone's needs. There's Betty with her
0:09.6	oversized tent. Sarah and her six foot eight boyfriend.
0:13.0	All right.
0:14.0	Roger Junior and his dog, Roger Senior.
0:16.0	And don't get us started on Mel.
0:19.0	But, like a marriage counselor, she's the one keeping things together.
0:22.0	All aboard Miss I finally got plans out the group. a marriage counselor, she's the one keeping things together.
0:22.6	All aboard Miss, I finally got plans out the group chat.
0:25.6	Keep everyone's plans alive when you travel with us.
0:28.0	P, and O'Ferees, there is another way.
0:30.1	Oh, he's cute. Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. He's hugging his pillow like a sloth on a branch.
0:40.0	He couldn't sleep before. Now listen to him him sounds like an elephant with a chest infection
0:46.0	Well they call him a dreamer and now they're right all aboard mister I can never sleep when I'm traveling.
0:53.0	Find all the comfort you need in the quiet lounge.
0:56.0	Piando Ferries, there is another way. I spent last week guarding about the Carolinas doing shows and enjoying the South,
1:21.5	eating eggs and grits and hearing the waitress say can it get you more coffee darling?
1:27.0	And encountering Republicans, a tribe rarer than Mohicans on the west side of Manhattan where I live, I miss them.
1:37.2	My uncles tended Republican, believing in personal responsibility and fiscal reality.
1:45.0	And at church on Palm Sunday, at coffee hour,
1:50.0	I heard the word taxes uttered contemptuously and a gentleman in his 60s was saying
1:59.0	everything government touches it messes up a genuine living Republican. 20 minutes before at mass he had
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