The daily pursuit of happiness

Garrison Keillor's Podcast

Prairie Home Productions

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

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Texting replaced the postcard mostly, and I have a shoebox full of old postcards from long-departed relatives about the happy afternoon spent in Pasadena or Lincoln’s home in Springfield or the Empire State Building. My people were reluctant to express happiness for fear it might be bragging but I love to think of them writing about the “lovely day” they spent walking around Springfield.The box needs to be discarded but I love my mother’s penmanship. I will recognize it even when I’m deep into dementia and have forgotten the street names of Minneapolis (Aldrich, Bryant, Colfax, Dupont, Emerson, Fremont, etc.). I come from serious people but when they wrote postcards they were always happy. Look in my shoebox, see for yourself.Garrison KeillorJason Keillor, EngineerJason Keillor, Original Music

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by Pepsi Max.
0:04.0	Christmas is great, but there's loads of ways to make it better.
0:08.0	Laksney can some chili into the gravy for some extra oomps.
0:12.0	Or be within a playlist though, you can even get your none up on the table.
0:16.0	Or just crack an open and ice-cold Pepsi Max.
0:22.0	Christmas. Better with Pepsi Max.
0:25.0	Hey, okay, I promise I'll keep this tea brief short.
0:29.0	So I just had my date with the bumble guy.
0:31.0	So cute. He surprised me with tickets to see this band I love.
0:35.0	Then he got us a spot at the front so I could actually see.
0:37.0	It was amazing, you know? Like, I really felt good vibes.
0:39.0	Oh, and he sent me a...
0:41.0	Let me know when you get home message.
0:43.0	That makes him really hot.
0:45.0	Kindness is sexy. Find it on bumble.
0:55.0	My grandma was a school teacher and she had a high regard for education,
1:05.0	which propelled me toward college, where I imagined myself as a writer,
1:11.0	which, as it turned out, became my life an intriguing chain reaction.
1:19.0	The idealism of an old lady leading to pretentious ambition on my part,
1:27.0	which, after years of hard work, writing the bad stuff so I could get to the better stuff,
1:35.0	took me down a long, lovely road.
1:39.0	Grandma said you don't want to be a five dollar haircut on a 29 cent head.
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