 The Rhubarb Tour is the soul of A Prairie Home Companion — stories from Lake Wobegon, passionate duets, the
philosophy of Guy Noir, wild radio dramas starring sound-effects genius Fred Newman, and the incredible Guy's All Star Shoe Band... and it's happening all around the country this August.
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Post to the Host:
I recently saw a Honda commercial, supposedly done in many many takes, without the use of computers. It uses parts of a Honda car operating in a Rube Goldberg fashion - and you did the voice-over
"wouldn't it be nice if everything worked like this" . The question is: to your knowledge, was this for real or was the whole thing done (as I believe) by computer graphics. Enjoy your show - sometimes enjoy the columns in the Chicago Tribune even if disagreeing sometimes.
Glenn M.
The word I got from Weiden & Kennedy, the ad agency in London, Glenn, is that the Honda commercial was done in real time in one take and that it only took a few takes to achieve perfection. If engineers were involved, as surely they were, I don't think they would've been
satisfied with computer graphics. Engineers are deeply into reality.
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June 28, we're off to Lenox, Massachusetts, where our show will come from the Koussevitzky Music Shed at Tanglewood. The last stop of the regular season is our July 5 performance at Ravinia in Highland Park, Illinois. Want more? A Prairie Home Companion's Rhubarb Tour kicks off on August 10th for a 16-city run that will take Keillor and company from coast to coast.
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You know why women often seem to be more in touch with God?
Because, they ask for directions.
This joke was sent in by Wendy H. of Massillon, OH. Thanks Wendy!
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Listen to The News from Lake Wobegon wherever and whenever you want. We're pleased to announce GK's signature monologue is now available as a free podcast, updated every Monday.
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June 23, 2008
Listened to the show Saturday and it was not bad. I wasn't in my kitchen this time around. I was in a hotel room in Boscobel, Wisconsin. A change of scenery at last. The kids and I had spent a good five hours in a car Saturday morning, checked in, and immediately boarded a chartered school bus
filled with happy people on their way to see my cousin marry the love of his life on top of a mountain some distance from the hotel, to which we'd return after the ceremony to celebrate and dance the night away...
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June 17, 2008
Eighty-six percent of the American people believe the price of gasoline will climb to five bucks a gallon this year, a big shift in public opinion from a year ago when most people felt that oil prices were spiking high and would soon return to normal—which is 35 cents a gallon, same as a pack
of smokes—and we'd be able to head west in our Winnebagos for a nice summer vacation...
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Listener-submitted short stories or poems about their homes or lives or whatever they fancy. Here are the latest:
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Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon |
 In Lake Wobegon lives a good Lutheran lady who is quite prepared
to die and wishes to be cremated and her ashes placed inside a bowling ball and dropped into the lake, no prayers, no hymns, thank you very much. Meanwhile, the Detmer girl returns from California where she has made a killing in veterinary aromatherapy to marry her boyfriend Brent aboard Wally's
pontoon boat, presided over by her minister, Misty Naylor of the Sisterhood of the Sacred Spirit. Brent arrives on Thursday. On Saturday, a delegation of renegade Lutheran pastors from Denmark come to town on their tour of America, their punishment for having denied the divinity of Jesus. And
Barbara Peterson, whose mother, Evelyn, left the startling note about cremation and the bowling ball, is in love with a lovely fat man who slips around town in the dim light and reconnoiters with her at the Romeo Motel.
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