A tale about close neighbors

Garrison Keillor's Podcast

Prairie Home Productions

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

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🗓️ 15 February 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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I do not understand the neighbors, actually, such as why their summer house has LANDSCAPING and LAWN ORNAMENTS. A summer house is for relaxation, it isn’t to demonstrate craftmanship. You are supposed to sit on the porch and read Proust, you are not supposed to create a home that Proust would’ve envied.And I don’t understand why a copy of Foreign Affairs sits on their kitchen counter. In the den, out of sight, yes. In the kitchen? People are eating in the kitchen. Foreign Affairs is the diplomatic version of the prophet Jeremiah. He said, “The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?” Foreign Affairs says pretty much the same thing except for real. Ukraine and Gaza are sort of covered in the newspapers but terrible things are happening everywhere, so much so that you don’t want to know about it. Let Antony Blinken know about it. This is why foreign policy is a minor footnote in our presidential elections, somewhat less important than bike lanes or prayer in public schools — can students in English be assigned books in which prayer occurs even if the book is clearly labeled Fiction.

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0:00.0	Echo 77 is the place to go for authentic Nigerian cooking in Birmingham.
0:05.0	They use Square, the all-in-one point of sale.
0:07.0	Here's why.
0:08.0	We love the kitchen display system.
0:10.0	It means we get our others right every time.
0:13.0	And we get access to our techings the next day.
0:15.0	It's like Square was designed for us.
0:18.0	Square, big in restaurants.
0:20.0	Join at square.com.
0:22.0	Fee's apply.
0:22.6	Square Up Europe Limited is authorized by the Financial Conduct Authority under the Electronic Money Regulations 2011.
0:26.8	Registered reference number 970846.
0:29.0	Customer received a gratuity. I swear I never thought the day would come when I would arrive for a summer weekend at a rural paradise and suddenly be in a panic that I may have left the charger
0:59.4	from my hearing aids at home in the city. I never thought I would see that day, but now I have.
1:10.6	I once was young and gay, I mean not gay in today's sense, but what we
1:16.7	meant back in 1962. I once was, and I could hear a pin drop, and now I couldn't hear a bowling
1:26.7	pin if it dropped on my head. I suffered this plague for you,
1:33.3	my beloved listeners, because in your service I turned the headphones up too high because, being young and gay, I felt that music needed to be
1:50.0	loud to be a full emotional experience, that the body itself needed to vibrate vigorously. I was wrong.
2:02.6	I know that now.
2:04.6	And now is much too late.
2:06.6	At any rate, I did not leave the charger at home.
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