A perfect summer night in Manhattan

Garrison Keillor's Podcast

Prairie Home Productions

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

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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I was brought up by Midwestern stoics who drummed the lesson into us: Don’t think you’re somebody because you’re not. You’re not so smart as you think. You’re the same as everybody else. So buckle down and get your work done and don’t fall behind. So I turned into a hard worker. But sitting on this terrace at night with my daughter, and then my wife comes out with her glass of wine, this sandwich putting my friends within easy reach, it is clear to this old Episcopalian, God’s great generosity, how much He loves us, to give us this summer night. In this ugly election year, let us be good for each other.

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0:00.0	AI might be the most important innovation ever.
0:03.0	It's storming every industry with literally billions being invested.
0:07.0	So buckle up.
0:08.0	The problem is that AI needs the right data and a lot of speed and processing power.
0:12.0	So how do you compete without costs
0:13.9	spiraling out of control? Time to upgrade to the next generation of the cloud
0:18.2	Oracle Cloud Infrastructure or OCI. OCI is a single platform for your infrastructure, database and application development
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0:30.4	for location, access and data residency.
0:33.2	OCI provides blazing fast speeds for AI's demanding workloads
0:37.1	and in the cloud when you pay by the minute, speed matters.
0:40.4	And of course, nobody does data better than Oracle.
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0:51.6	slash bandwidth. That oracle.com
0:53.8	and bandwidth. That's oracle. com slash bandwidth. You're going to do. A perfect summer night in Manhattan under the Stars.
1:24.8	What a world of marvels we live in.
1:28.4	I sit with my daughter at night on a terrace under a birch tree looking out at the lights of Manhattan and I
1:36.7	take my phone and shoot a video scanning the city lights and text it to a friend back in Minnesota facing surgery who is in
1:50.4	isolation because her immune system compromised by chemo. She is
1:58.5	Catholic, so I also sent her a joke about the priest and the Baptist sitting together on the plane.
2:06.7	The priest orders a glass of wine, the Baptist a seven up.
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