Me and Maurizio, ships in the night

Garrison Keillor's Podcast

Prairie Home Productions

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

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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He asked about North Dakota, so I told him. Yes, the winters are long and the land is flat, but the people are the salt of the earth. Decency and humor. No pretense. Nobody lives here to show off. The man in the greasy jacket and barn boots might be a multi-millionaire farmer and he will be friendly without patronizing you, and you can tell him what you think and---- I got sort of rhapsodic, though I am not considering moving to North Dakota myself.A man choosing between Singapore and North Dakota has opened up a broad range of options. I saw him again the next day ---- Grand Forks is the sort of town where you keep running into people ---- and he had a big grin on his face. The cold weather seemed to energize him. And he had met other members of his math tribe. He looked good, a free man, the world his oyster, nothing to hold him back.

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0:00.0	If you could get rid of everything bad about banks and build one from scratch,
0:04.4	you'd build a different kind of bank.
0:06.5	One that has actual people you can talk to 24-7, not robots,
0:11.5	doesn't invest in fossil fuels, charges no extra fees for spending abroad,
0:16.1	and definitely doesn't close before you finish work.
0:18.6	You'd build tools to help manage bills, teach kids good many habits, and give interest on personal and joint accounts.
0:25.9	So what would that look like?
0:27.8	Starling Bank, the Bank Built for you.
0:30.3	Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. I flew up to Grand Forks North Dakota last week on one of those little regional jets that
0:57.6	puts you into an intimate relationship with your seat mate.
1:01.1	Mine was a slim young man in black horn rims
1:06.5	who was studying a legal pad with math formulas on it.
1:11.7	And halfway to Grand Forks he asked the flight attendant for aspirin.
1:18.8	He had an accent, flayed it on and me, what is it? What does she say? I said
1:26.6	aspirin. I guess she thought we were friends since we were practically at each other's lap so she found some aspirin.
1:37.0	He said to me, did I say it wrong? I told him no, he just said it just fine. She was busy that's all. The plane was
1:48.0	descending towards Grand Forks and he was staring out the window, fascinated by the flatness of the terrain and also
2:00.6	the whiteness of the snow.
2:03.4	Do people live there?
2:04.9	He said.
2:06.5	They try, I said.
2:09.2	He asked if I lived there.
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