The bag may not inflate but oxygen is flowing

Garrison Keillor's Podcast

Prairie Home Productions

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

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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I’m a historic guy. They could put me in a museum. I went to college when tuition was $71/quarter so we didn’t have to ask our parents for money so we got to go into the arts. There were no laptops, no iPhones, no Airplane Mode. I regaled the Lovelanders with stories about the Fifties, back when Minnesota winters were ferocious. I lived through the bitter winter of 1948 when the temp got down to minus 70 and many of us Minnesotans became comatose, our metabolism stopped, there was no neurological response, and a month later I awoke in a narrow wooden box wearing makeup, which I’d never worn before. It was interesting. I should’ve dressed more warmly but as someone said, “Good judgment comes from experience and much experience comes from bad judgment.” And thanks to my mistake I have experienced the afterlife and I told them about it in Loveland. Someday I’ll come to your town and tell you.

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1:22.6	I went out to Colorado on Wednesday, a state I love because my great, great-grandfather
1:31.2	David Powell came there in 1863, perhaps for the silver rush, but maybe to avoid dying in the
1:41.0	Civil War, which, if he had done the noble thing, might have eliminated the
1:47.6	possibility of me. As Mark Twain said, to do good is noble, to tell others to do good as
1:54.8	good is even nobler and much less trouble. I would have gone to Denver to research David Powell's papers.
2:03.6	He served in the first legislature, but I had to go to Loveland. I'm one of America's
2:11.6	few remaining octogenarian stand-ups, and I was booked to stand-up and do a show.
2:20.9	I see now that I got into this line of work when I was small,
2:27.2	and a neighbor child informed me that I had been left on my parents' doorstep by gypsies, along with the note
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