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Post by doctork on Oct 21, 2006 18:59:19 GMT -5
The guitars were great, as was the rest of the show. Night all.
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Post by slb2 on Oct 21, 2006 23:32:01 GMT -5
GK is a writer and a Democrat, we expect him to have moods. Cool. I'm a writer and a Democrat, too. Guess GK and I have more in common than I thought. Plus, Jay just gave me an excuse for my [shadow=red,left,300]moods[/shadow]. Think it'll fly with Ace, though?
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Post by joew on Oct 21, 2006 23:44:58 GMT -5
booklady — during the show I'm usually busy, either doing errands or getting ready to begin to start preparations to cook dinner (or even actually cooking it). So I can't actully be at my computeer during the show, which is why I like the discussion thread so I can go back later and see what people were saying as it unfolded.
I started to listen while I was still doing errands and was disappointed that it was a fund-raising version, rather than the show Thomas told us about. I was also surprised, since WGBH had done a pledge drive during the two previous weeks.
For those of you outside of WGBH's broadcast range who do not listen to it on the web — WGBH has a Tivo-like method of inserting local pledge breaks into a regular show and then picking up the broadcast where they left off, which has the effect of turning it into a three-hour show.
The pledge show actually turned out to be pretty good in the parts I caught between errands. But I missed Tom Keith's reference to The Shutdown of the former Chatterbox. Was it on the pledge show or on the regular live show? And would someone who heard it, please tell me what was actually said about the CB's closing?
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Post by slb2 on Oct 21, 2006 23:53:51 GMT -5
But I missed Tom Keith's reference to The Shutdown of the former Chatterbox. Was it on the pledge show or on the regular live show? And would someone who heard it, please tell me what was actually said about the CB's closing? Yes, if I don't manage to listen to it on Sunday, I'd love to hear second-hand what was said.
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Post by gailkate on Oct 22, 2006 7:46:29 GMT -5
Me, too. But it wasn't Tom Keith. I described what he said on the St. Paul pledge break, which works like the Boston break. I didn't hear GK say something about closing the chatterbox and would like to know exactly. Unfortunately, no one will read this thread to learn that we're asking the question.
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Post by booklady on Oct 22, 2006 8:20:32 GMT -5
To mention the closing of the Chatterbox Cafe on the air - it reminds me of something. I'm not surprised I shoot myself in the foot, just how quickly I reload. I didn't get the show last night. What was said about the closing of the CB?
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Post by booklady on Oct 22, 2006 8:24:34 GMT -5
I see now that I've read the entire thread, a few others are wondering the same thing!
Joe, I was looking for you to see if you knew of another station in the Boston area that might be running the "real" show. WGBH is shilling itself onto my, er, bad list. To not broadcast a first-run show is nigh onto unforgivable. That's what they are on the air for.
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Post by doctork on Oct 22, 2006 9:50:13 GMT -5
The mention of the Chatterbox Cafe closing was during the Lake Woebegone News, and it appeared that he was talking about the CB on Lake Woebegone closing. I'd have to listen again to get the exact context. But the paranoid among us (and heck, even paranoids have enemies) thought it could be a veiled reference to the internet CB. I can't listen to the repeat today, but maybe one of you will, and let me know if we are paranoid, or perceptive?
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Post by joew on Oct 22, 2006 12:27:13 GMT -5
They have promised News from Lake Wobegon during the next half hour of the pledge show rebroadcast. I'll try to pay attention.
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Post by joew on Oct 22, 2006 12:50:41 GMT -5
Well, in the pledge show there was nothing in the News, which was actually from 2002. Reference to CB must have been in the live broadcast.
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Post by joew on Oct 22, 2006 12:59:18 GMT -5
Tillie, did they say anything about the Chatterbox on the live show? The fundraising show is wrapping up with GK saying a few words of appreciation to loyal fans and a final chorus of Red River Valley with Jearlyn Steele. Still nothing explicit about CB on the fundraiser.
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Post by juliastar on Oct 22, 2006 15:22:57 GMT -5
I didn't hear anything explicit in either the fund raiser or the regular show about the closing of the CB. If someone can link to a script, that would be helpful. I suppose it's possible some soul searching was encoded in the waiter bit that concluded the news, but other than the admission that people get angry with him from time to time, I'm not sure how the bit helps. The waiter was exemplary. He didn't make anyone feel like a dope, let alone come right out and say it.
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Post by dwarnold on Oct 23, 2006 7:23:35 GMT -5
Must be nice to be in a place where they play the show again... glad you enjoyed it Sunday Tillie
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Post by scotbrit on Oct 23, 2006 15:11:32 GMT -5
One minute into the News from Lake Wobegone monologue GK said something about Clint Bunsen in a cranky mood sitting in the Chatterbox Cafe.
Another minute later, he commented about "Boycotting the Chatterbox, but there's a problem, there is only one cafe in town and one saloon in a small town and if you boycott them you have nowhere to go ..." [paraphrased because I don't do Pitmans shorthand]
Whether I am reading into this something that was not there I don't know, but in view of the recent demise of the Chatterbox Cafe was that he mentioned it at all.
I am fully aware that the "virtual" Chatterbox Cafe followed the fictitious Cafe in his monologues from years ago, but I thought his timing was a bit insensitive. But was he hinting at something?
Then he mentions the Chatterbox Cafe about 9.20 mins into the monologue in passing with reference to being in a restuarant with a waiter present. "All I had known before was the Chatterbox Cafe" [paraphrased]
Maybe I'm just too sensitive. The whole segment is about 13 and a half minutes long.
It's available from the archives.
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Post by joew on Oct 23, 2006 16:30:13 GMT -5
I'm inclined to doubt that those were intended as references to the closing of the virtual Chatterbox, because they would be too cryptic to convey anything about it.
At most there is a fairly neutral subtext about moving beyond the CB, but again so vague that it seems at most a momentary surfacing of something in his subconscious mind.
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Post by slb2 on Oct 23, 2006 22:58:52 GMT -5
I'll bet GK isn't thinking about it at all.
Just my two cents. His is a busy mind.
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