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Post by doctork on Jul 29, 2023 17:32:10 GMT -5
Nobody else posted the link and I'm a bit our of practice, but I think this is the show, from July 30 2005 www.prairiehome.org/shows/57305.htmlWe've been taking a break from touring (to film a movie, among other things), and it's given us the chance to rebroadcast some of our best shows. This week, we'll play one we did a few years back out of the Auditorium Theater in Chicago, with that fine tribute to Buck Owens by the Sones de Mexico Ensemble. Plus: saxophonist Franz Jackson, harmonica player Howard Levy, and Eddie Blazonczyk's Versatones. Don't miss it. Rundown - July 30, 2005 00:00 Logo 00:10 Tishomingo Blues 02:18 GK talks about gratitude 03:14 Lulu's Back in Town - Franz Jackson and Shoe band 08:12 Sweet Home Chicago - GK and audience 14:31 Got My Mojo Workin' - Guy's All-Star Shoe Band 16:49 Guy Noir script 28:09 Ukrainia - Eddie Blazonczyk's Versatones 31:53 Bride and Groom - Eddie Blazonczyk's Versatones 35:20 Powdermilk Biscuit Break/ Now Thank We All Our God 38:06 End of the World script 44:41 El Butaquito- Soles de Mexico 48:58 GK talks about Soles de Mexico 49:21 La Rabia - Soles de Mexico 53:32 Catchup script 56:13 GK talks about Chicago 57:20 Struttin' With Some Barbecue- Franz Jackson 1:01:10 Intermission - After You've Gone 1:05:38 Greetings 1:10:23 GK talks about Chicago, audience members read political speeches 1:18:00 On The Sunny Side of the Street- Franz Jackson and band 1:22:14 The Press script 1:24:49 What Am I Doing Hangin' Around- Eddie Blazonczyk's Versatones 1:29:16 Mountaineers - Eddie Blazonczyk's Versatones 1:32:37 Monologue 1:48:54 Cooking With Studs - Studs Terkel 1:54:38 Tribute to Buck Owens - Soles de Mexico
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Post by dwarnold on Jul 29, 2023 17:35:20 GMT -5
Sorry Doc, I lost my internet for some odd reason.
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Post by dwarnold on Jul 29, 2023 17:36:03 GMT -5
July 30, 2005 ... November 23, 2002 original show
00:00 Logo 00:10 Tishomingo Blues 02:18 GK talks about gratitude 03:14 Lulu's Back in Town - Franz Jackson and Shoe band 08:12 Sweet Home Chicago - GK and audience 14:31 Got My Mojo Workin' - Guy's All-Star Shoe Band 16:49 Guy Noir script 28:09 Ukrainia - Eddie Blazonczyk's Versatones 31:53 Bride and Groom - Eddie Blazonczyk's Versatones 35:20 Powdermilk Biscuit Break/ Now Thank We All Our God 38:06 End of the World script 44:41 El Butaquito- Soles de Mexico 48:58 GK talks about Soles de Mexico 49:21 La Rabia - Soles de Mexico 53:32 Catchup script 56:13 GK talks about Chicago 57:20 Struttin' With Some Barbecue- Franz Jackson 1:01:10 Intermission - After You've Gone 1:05:38 Greetings 1:10:23 GK talks about Chicago, audience members read political speeches 1:18:00 On The Sunny Side of the Street- Franz Jackson and band 1:22:14 The Press script 1:24:49 What Am I Doing Hangin' Around- Eddie Blazonczyk's Versatones 1:29:16 Mountaineers - Eddie Blazonczyk's Versatones 1:32:37 Monologue 1:48:54 Cooking With Studs - Studs Terkel 1:54:38 Tribute to Buck Owens - Soles de Mexico
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Post by doctork on Jul 29, 2023 17:36:35 GMT -5
That link says it is a pre-Thanksgiving show, but it is from Chicago.
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Post by dwarnold on Jul 29, 2023 17:38:02 GMT -5
The 2005 season of A Prairie Home Companion was a big one for all involved and saw our small company stage 34 live shows, embark on a cross-country tour, book the first of 11 PHC-themed cruises, and support the filming of the Robert Altman movie A Prairie Home Companion. During the summer off-season, several rebroadcasts were featured, including this one, originally broadcast on November 23, 2002, from the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago. We think it ranks as of one our best.
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Post by doctork on Jul 29, 2023 17:38:11 GMT -5
Sorry Doc, I lost my internet for some odd reason. Oh don't worry. I got here late. I was talking on the phone with a long-time family friend who was my brother's best friend for decades. Today would have been his 66th birthday.
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Post by dwarnold on Jul 29, 2023 17:40:58 GMT -5
Sones de México Ensemble Sones de México Ensemble is a Chicago-based sextet that specializes in performing, recording, promoting, and teaching Mexican folk music, including the regional styles of huapango, gustos, chilenas, son jarocho, and more. Formed in 1994, the band uses more than 50 indigenous acoustic instruments to produce the sounds they make. The ensemble is a four-time winner of the Chicago Music Award for Best Latin Entertainer.
Eddie Blazonczyk’s Versatones For almost 50 years, The Versatones played a mix of both traditional and original tunes, with Eddie Blazonczyk singing in both Polish and English. The band consisted of a fiddler and concertina player, two trumpeter/clarinetists, a drummer, and Blazonczyk himself on vocals and electric bass. At age 22, encouraged by his record label, Eddie began to focus on polka music and recorded over 50 albums, becoming one of the primary ambassadors for Polish-American polka. The Library of Congress named him “one of the most important figures in the creation of the contemporary Polish-American polka sound.” Eddie Blazonczyk was inducted into the Polka Hall of Fame in 1970 and received the National Heritage Fellowship in 1988. He won a 1986 Grammy Award for Best Polka Recording. Blazonczyk passed away in 2012.
Howard Levy Multi-instrumentalist Howard Levy is perhaps best known for developing a fully chromatic harmonica style on a standard 10-hole diatonic instrument. Anyone who’s ever picked up a little Hohner Marine Band can appreciate the feat. The musical adventures of this Chicago-based Grammy winner include journeys into jazz, pop, rock, Latin, classical, folk, blues, country, and more. He has appeared on hundreds of recordings. His latest album is Duets with Friends (Balkan Samba Records).
A Note from Garrison About this Show from 2005:
Welcome to the historic Auditorium Theater and to this week's live broadcast of A Prairie Home Companion, which I never intended to become historic but time flies when you're having fun and now I keep running into beautiful young people who tell me they grew up listening to the show. Some of them confess that, as children, they fell asleep to the News from Lake Wobegon and that, during their tempestuous teen years, on family car trips they sat sullenly listening to Guns N' Roses and Bon Jovi on their Walkmans as the parents played old monologues about throwing a tomato at your sister. And now here they are, in their mid-twenties, sitting in the fourth row.Chicago is the home of WLS, which was the home of National Barn Dance back in my childhood, and we listened to it in Lake Wobegon when the wind was out of the southeast. Homer & Jethro played on the show, and the Hoosier Hot Shots, and Pat Buttram, the Sage of the Airwaves, and it was corny and fun and full of hijinks. Chicago gave us Jim and Marian Jordan (Fibber McGee and Molly) and the famous closet that cascaded junk every week and the saying, "Tain't funny, McGee." And The Breakfast Club with Don McNeill. And it gave us Studs Terkel, of course, a patron saint of public radio. Studs was in business in radio when I was born, doing a record show, The Wax Museum, on WENR, playing records by his friends Big Bill Broonzy, Woody Guthrie, and Mahalia Jackson, and he is still chugging along at WBEZ.It is so inspiring for an old guy of 60 to see a young guy of 90 going strong, and Studs is the soul of the city. He describes himself as looking like "a minor mob figure the day after he died" but he's a scrapper, a union guy, a White Sox fan, an old progressive, an admirer of Fighting Bob LaFollette and Clarence Darrow because they were their own men and didn't take orders from anybody.Cool good taste and elegant irony don't interest him so much as a good argument, the good fight. Chicago is a city with a heart, and he's a Chicago guy, a free man, an artist, a gentle soul of great humor and kindness, and our show this week is FOR STUDS. ~Garrison Keillor
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Post by dwarnold on Jul 29, 2023 17:49:00 GMT -5
I spent 5 hours in the yard today... mowing, trimming, etc. We got our late afternoon rainstorm come through from the north, which is unusual for this time of year, so I came in and took a shower, sat down, teased the bots who were lurking and waiting for me on the Web site... and promptly fell asleep on the couch and in the meantime the internet connection went out (which it is often prone to do... so much for paying $50 a month to T-mobile for a cellular connection). So my lovely wife comes in at 6:30 and asks why the show is not on!!
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Post by doctork on Jul 29, 2023 17:59:21 GMT -5
The 2005 season of A Prairie Home Companion was a big one for all involved and saw our small company stage 34 live shows, embark on a cross-country tour, book the first of 11 PHC-themed cruises, and support the filming of the Robert Altman movie A Prairie Home Companion. During the summer off-season, several rebroadcasts were featured, including this one, originally broadcast on November 23, 2002, from the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago. We think it ranks as of one our best. Thinking about that - it's quite true. I didn't know about the 2005 cruise as I wasn't a regular listener then, and probably wouldn't have gone anyway because it was out of NYC or Boston to Montreal. We did sign up for the 2006 cruise to Alaska because we were living in Washington and in fact could see th Alaska ferry terminal from our house. We'd been thinking "We live in the PNW, we should visit Alaska" so we did. And preparing for the cruise, I stumbled across the APHC website and the Chatterbox. Only for the the last few months of the Chatterbox because apparently GK found out that we discussed matters other than the host himself and the show, declared us all "dopey cronies" and shut the board down. The movie "Prairie Home Companion" was shown on that Alaska cruise - we hadn't seen it in a theater, but we'd heard good reviews and we had always admired Robert Altman who directed the film. It was his last film. We had a wonderful time, even our then-16 yo son, and thus I continued on all the subsequent APHC cruises until they finally ended with Covid. I don't remember if I was attending live shows before 2006, but I did look at the summer concert tour schedules and I think APHC did annual summer shows at Tanglewood in MA, and Wolftrap in VA, and one of the amphitheaters near Chicago. It was fun while it lasted.
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Post by doctork on Jul 29, 2023 18:09:00 GMT -5
I spent 5 hours in the yard today... mowing, trimming, etc. We got our late afternoon rainstorm come through from the north, which is unusual for this time of year, so I came in and took a shower, sat down, teased the bots who were lurking and waiting for me on the Web site... and promptly fell asleep on the couch and in the meantime the internet connection went out (which it is often prone to do... so much for paying $50 a month to T-mobile for a cellular connection). So my lovely wife comes in at 6:30 and asks why the show is not on!! I've found all these "convenient, life-improving" connections and communications to be unreliable and disappointing. Yet they are proliferating and getting worse! We have DirectV for our cable provider, and it has not been working well lately. We asked them to come out and fix it; the answer was that the signal was week and it was too much trouble to move the dish so we should switch to AT&T (which bought DirectV recently) streaming. Then they tried to sell us ATT cellphones too, which would off course be cheaper packaged in with the cell and internet. Meanwhile, the internet signal was weak, which is the fault of that provider - CenturyLink. So we'll have to CenturyLink to improve things first before it's even worth changing to streaming via AT&T. I am studying the forum of "Cutting the TV cord" on FlyerTalk (it's several hundred pages...) to decide what to do.
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Post by dwarnold on Jul 29, 2023 18:17:42 GMT -5
Cutting the cord continues to be a hot topic... all of the satellites that are being put up in our atmosphere and interfering with astonomy investigations are supposed to be able to give us unlimited access to the web/// but do we really want it?
By living in a very rural area, our options are significantly limited, in spite of state and federal promises that everyone should have high speed connectivity!
We could pay over $100 a month for a less than speedy satellite dish that will not work in bad weather, or pay about $50 a month for a very slow cable connection from a second class phone company, or surprise the same $50 a month for a promised 5 g connection through cell towers, which are noticeable not as close as needed to reliably provide that speed.. I think Elon Musk wants to charge more for his satellite connection, but I have so many trees... unsure how much a direct link to a satellite is possible!
But I think on positive things like in two weeks I will be in Western North Carolina trekking to waterfalls and enjoying the cooler temps in the mountains!
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Post by dwarnold on Jul 29, 2023 18:19:51 GMT -5
Happy National Chicken Wing Day, by the way. Did your Dream Diner's options include a celebration of the humble chicken wing?
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Post by dwarnold on Jul 29, 2023 18:26:34 GMT -5
We had our first observed attack on our garden by visiting deer this week. We did not actually see them visit in the night, but in the light of the next day, they had browsed on the eggplant leaves, okra leaves, green beans and such. The eggplants and okra are putting out new leaves but the green beans have given up.
I had seen two deer in my yard (across the street) right after I moved out here, but thought they had been either poached or moved on... so as much as I do not want to lose my garden, I am glad that some deer are still hanging on!
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Post by doctork on Jul 29, 2023 18:42:25 GMT -5
You know, our NC place is very rural but the internet is very good when I use my cell phone as a personal hotspot; we used to have internet there via DSL which is connected to the landline phone and at that time it required a wired connection. It's been a while since we used cable there, but when we subscribed while living there it worked very well through a local company but the number of channels was quite limited.
As for the number of satellites, I don't know very much at all but I suspect that the number used for business, weather, spy/other government functions far exceeds those for serving entertainment and private communications. Satellite phones remain unwieldy and expensive and don't work that well.
However, within the US, there is one federally mandated universally available low cost cell/cable comm tool available and AT&T has the government contract for it - it is free for emergency and essential workers/services (doctors, nurses, teaches, law enforcement, etc). If I change to AT&T as a cell/internet/cable provider I'll have access to that as an MD so our monthly bill will be dramatically lower. Our daughter was a consultant on that emergency comms project (I think it was called FirstNet) and had good things to say about it. I'm just researching because we are nearing the point where our current Verizon contract will end. I'm happy with our iPhone13s (it was a 2 phones for 2 price deal, hence the contract), but AT&T is dangling a great deal with two new iPhone14s (has some eSIM features that are very appealing) to world travelers), and perks enough to ameliorate early termination fees.
I dunno - it was easier when the was one phone company and 4 TV stations. When they added VCR I was pretty happy. Cellphones were a longer leash for those of us who are on call 24/7.
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Post by doctork on Jul 29, 2023 18:50:39 GMT -5
Deer are not only hanging on but are proliferating rapidly - thanks to all the gardens we make available to them, plus we encroach on their natural habitat and inhibit their natural enemies.
We don't have a garden but I'm told one requires a very high fence to prevent the garden-raiding, maybe 6 feet? The deer here stroll all over and have no fear of humans or most animals - certainly they are not afraid of Jerri the Bernese Mountain Dog who weighs 100# and barks like crazy at the deer. She hates them. They pay no attention to her or to Howard who is walking her, just stroll on their way. Bear in mind, we live in the city not a rural area at all.
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Post by dwarnold on Jul 29, 2023 18:52:17 GMT -5
Using the UCS update, as at the end of December, the main purposes for the operational satellites were:
Communications: 4 823 satellites – increase of 53.84% since January 2022. Earth observation: 1 167 satellites – increase of 13.30% since January 2022. Technology development/demonstration: 414 satellites – increase of 7.53% since January 2022. Navigation/positioning: 155 satellites – increase of 0.64% since January 2022. Space science/observation: 109 satellites– increase of 0.93% since January 2022. Earth science: 25 satellites – an increase of 13.64% since January 2022. Other purposes – 25 satellites
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Post by dwarnold on Jul 29, 2023 18:53:59 GMT -5
Using the UCS update, as at the end of December, the main purposes for the operational satellites were: Communications: 4 823 satellites – increase of 53.84% since January 2022. Earth observation: 1 167 satellites – increase of 13.30% since January 2022. Technology development/demonstration: 414 satellites – increase of 7.53% since January 2022. Navigation/positioning: 155 satellites – increase of 0.64% since January 2022. Space science/observation: 109 satellites– increase of 0.93% since January 2022. Earth science: 25 satellites – an increase of 13.64% since January 2022. Other purposes – 25 satellites Elon has been very productive ,,,
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Post by dwarnold on Jul 29, 2023 19:10:53 GMT -5
I know you are ahead of me, so if you have to leave, have a great week!
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Post by doctork on Jul 29, 2023 19:26:36 GMT -5
I had to head over to TCM and as usual, had trouble tuning in because DirectV converts over to streaming and has to load... If most of those satellites serve for communications, I'd bet there is a lot of overlap amongst the varied functions. Defense and spying love to disguise the exact nature of function. I don't know enough to say, but the undersea, underground and above-ground telephone wires may not be less damaging that satellites. And reality dictates that global communications are essential these days; if we can be anywhere in 24 hours, so to can viruses, bombs, armies and armaments be there in that time.
The more communication among people, the better in my book. I was called to Afghanistan (and other remote destinations) for many reasons but they include that when foreigners meet, it becomes obvious we are all just regular people who care about family, food and health. We're not born enemies with clear labels of "good" or "evil." People to people, face to face that becomes obvious.
So I guess we better keep track of those satellites. And have a great week!
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