Open the doors, let the young mingle among the treasures

Garrison Keillor's Podcast

Prairie Home Productions

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

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🗓️ 26 October 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Some of these kids at the Met will wind up in law school and get a serious education in civil procedure and come away with due respect for our system of justice: trial by a jury of one’s peers, the rules of evidence, witnesses testifying under oath aware of the penalty for perjury. The lawyers defending the Famous Man were so taught and they stand silently by his side as he bellows his contempt to the TV cameras……Teen Night at the Met was a holiday from all that. The young people there wouldn’t have elected the Scowler to be a municipal sewage inspector. There are dark days ahead but eventually the young and curious and lighthearted are going to inherit the country and make it great and an artist will make a sculpture of Trump naked with a sword, his bare butt and belly hanging out, and that will be that.

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0:00.0	The Open the doors let the young mingle among the treasures a glorious Friday night at the Met Museum in
0:29.7	New York the great halls packed with thousands of teenagers for teen night admission, whatever you care to drop in the box, high school kids mobbing the joint the Picasso lady the naked Venus the
0:47.5	Rodin folks a 15th century lady the naked man with a sword, all looking down on rivers of youthful energy
0:59.3	and a teen gospel choir singing in one marble stairway in a brass jazz band playing in another
1:08.9	and a dance troop from India twirling in a gallery everywhere you look something happening no dress
1:19.0	code nobody lecturing us on what this naked man's nakedness symbolizes.
1:27.0	It's very much not the stately temple.
1:30.8	It usually is.
1:32.1	The kids are mingling, searching, scouting, sitting on the floors, jabbering, holding their cell phones high to take videos. The place is electric with youth. The guards of
1:48.1	course are a little edgy but I don't see any lurking or skulking just an incredible light-heartedness.
1:58.9	My sweetheart is fascinated by the dancers, their ornate costumes, their quickness and balance, the chanting
2:07.5	and drumming.
2:09.8	I feel drunk on the happiness of the urban young amid all the antiquities.
2:17.0	I am an antiquity myself and I realize the's goal is to broaden its base by creating joy where there had only been
2:30.9	awesomeness, but walking through the building makes me incredibly happy
2:38.4	about the future of the country and the world. It just plain does.
2:46.4	I'm an old Democrat.
2:48.3	I'm descended from warriors.
2:51.2	On this Friday, I've read disturbing news I've had long phone conversations
2:57.7	about the unreality of American politics about creeping anti-Semitism, the long shadow of
3:06.7	authoritarianism, the health problems of old pals, but walking into the met has blown all that away, and I haven't even looked at
3:18.5	a Rothko or the Van Goghiruses. It's simply the exuberance of youth. It's all the more powerful
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