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Post by dwarnold on Mar 9, 2024 16:47:51 GMT -5
Welcome to the last Saturday night of real time! Tonight most of us Spring forward an hour and lose sleep just so there can be more daylight after work. Today in Tallahassee we had 11 hours and 50 minutes of "day" but there are lots of start and end times used by different sectors. There are astronomical, nautical and civil twilight times all of which are prior to sunrise and then post sunset. Sunrise this morning was at 6:51 but couldn't see it anyway and tonight the sunset is at 6:42. And since we are messing up our clock, tomorrow morning the sun will rise at 7:50 and set at 7:43 but and the length of the day increases to 11 hours and 52 minutes. Sadly that means lots of kids will be in total darkness waiting on school buses, and parents will be getting to work before the sun comes up in many cases. And then come bedtime for toddlers, they will be still full of energy because their bodies are not adjusted and things seem different! Our rebroadcast was originally aired on March 9, 2002 and GK did not give us lots of info... Our featured broadcast comes from The Fitzgerald Theater in downtown Saint Paul, Minnesota with special guests Stephanie Davis, Peter Ostroushko, Mike Dowling, and steel guitarist Cindy Cashdollar. Plus, our Actors, Sue Scott, Tim Russell, and Tom Keith; Rich Dworsky and the Guy’s All-Star Shoe Band. www.prairiehome.org/shows/57703.html
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Post by dwarnold on Mar 9, 2024 17:00:10 GMT -5
March 9, 2002
00:00 Logo 00:14 Tishomingo Blues 02:40 GK talks about last night's freezing rain storm, out-of-towners' driving, astronomy, governor closing the gov. mansion 05:26 Remington Ride - Cindy Cashdollar , Shoe Band, and guests 08:26 Dairy script 09:45 Time Changes Everything - Stephanie Davis, Shoe Band, and guests 13:35 GK talks about songwriter Harlan Howard, who passed away this week 14:26 Pick Me Up On Your Way Down - GK, Stephanie, Shoe band and guests 17:14 Gershwin script 23:55 Fishin' in the Wind - Pat Donohue and Mike Dowling 27:16 Kansas City Man Blues - Pat Donohue and Mike Dowling 31:04 Powdermilk Biscuit Break 32:40 GK talks about next half-hour 33:06 St. Paul script 38:09 Cafe Boeuf script 40:55 East Texas Waltz - Peter Ostroushko 45:24 Guy Noir script 1:02:15 Intermission - Marie 1:06:18 Greetings 1:08:55 GK announces the Joke Show on April 6 1:10:08 Just a Cup of Coffee - Stephanie Davis, Shoe band, and guests 1:13:58 SFX Cruise script 1:17:59 Fat Boy Rag - Shoe band and guests, into GK talking with Cindy 1:22:36 Sittin' Here Pickin' the Blues - Pat Donohue, Shoe band, and guests 1:26:10 Jump, Children - Mike Dowling, Shoe band, and guests 1:30:16 Monologue 1:47:29 Rosalie - Mike Dowling 1:51:46 Catchup script 1:54:19 Credits, Bye Bye Love
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Post by dwarnold on Mar 9, 2024 17:01:35 GMT -5
MIKE DOWLING was raised in central Wisconsin and began his professional musical career in high school. He had spent a lot of time playing along with his parents' records; he recruited a couple of friends into an electric guitar band, never expecting that it would lead someday to playing with the likes of Joe Venuti and Vassar Clements. He worked at it, ultimately moving to Nashville and becoming a sideman, session player, band leader, solo act, and composer. He had a string of songwriting successes in his ten years in the Music City, tunes recorded by Emmy Lou Harris, the Nashville Bluegrass Band, Tim O'Brien, Kathy Mattea, Claire Lynch, and Del McCoury; he and his wife, Jan, wrote a No. 1 hit for Canadian country artist George Fox. He has received high praise from a lot of places: Vassar Clements said, "Mike's one of the finest guitar players there is, anywhere." And Jethro Burns said: "I don't play guitar when Mike's in the band. You don't take the game warden fishing."
STEPHANIE DAVIS claims it's easier to write songs when it's cold and the coyotes are howling. And she recalls her Montana ranch days, busy with calves in February and March. By the next autumn, those newborns will weigh in the neighborhood of 650 pounds. Then winter and songwriting time come around again. Stephanie’s songs have been recorded by numerous artists, including Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood, and Shelby Lynne. Among her own recordings: Crocus in the Snow, Western Bling, and Western Bliss, all on the Recluse Records label.
CINDY CASHDOLLAR joins the Guy's All-Star Shoe Band for this weekend's performance. Born in Woodstock, New York, Cindy started learning guitar at age 11 and later mastered Dobro and pedal steel. She toured with John Herald, Levon Helm, Rick Danko of The Band, and Leon Redbone. She also spent eight years with Western swing band Asleep at the Wheel. She's won multiple Grammy Awards and has recorded with artists like Manhattan Transfer, George Strait, Willie Nelson, and Reba McEntire, among others. She can also be heard on Bob Dylan's Grammy-winning Time Out of Mind. In 2022, the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum added Cindy to their “Nashville Cats” roster, honoring side musicians for their contributions.
APHC veteran PETER OSTROUSHKO is heard sitting in with the Guy’s All-Star Shoe Band on this week’s featured broadcast. Peter grew up in northeast Minneapolis listening to his shoemaker father play traditional Ukrainian songs, and he taught himself to play piano, mandolin, guitar, fiddle, banjo, bass, and other instruments. Both a frequent PHC guest artist and former musical director, Peter also performed orchestral works and appeared with both The Saint Paul Chamber and Minnesota Orchestras, among others. But his very first recording session was an uncredited mandolin set on Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks. Before his passing in 2021, Peter worked on a podcast called “My Life and Time as a Radio Musician,” detailing his contributions to the music of A Prairie Home Companion.
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Post by dwarnold on Mar 9, 2024 17:19:12 GMT -5
I hope you all don't mind me sharing about our buddy Thomas and a findraiser he is doing for his wife to get an outdoor wheelchair. gofund.me/a031b610Thomas' wife Andrea was diagnosed with early onset Parkinson's disease many years ago and eventually it got so bad that she could no longer work. Thomas is her full time caregiver and they discovered a wonderful "tracked" wheelchair that they borrowed for a week and it turned out to be such a wonderful blessing for her that now he is hoping to raise funds to get her one of her very own. As you can imagine such specialty wheelchairs are not covered by insurance government or not, so any little bit can help her regain a sense of engagement with her love for the outdoors! Thanks
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Post by dwarnold on Mar 9, 2024 18:00:39 GMT -5
Showtime has arrived!!
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Post by doctork on Mar 9, 2024 18:04:26 GMT -5
Thanks for the links DW - for the show and for Andrea's go fund me account.
I'm tuned in now right on time. I don't care for the time change, and that was an enjoyable factor about living in AZ. The first March I was there I wondered "So what do I do?" Answer - nothing, leave the clocks alone!
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Post by doctork on Mar 9, 2024 18:08:46 GMT -5
Hi DW!
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Post by dwarnold on Mar 9, 2024 18:17:23 GMT -5
Good evening Doc, I had to put some tomatoes and onions into the oven to bake for a little bit, making a batch of homemade enchilada sauce
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Post by doctork on Mar 9, 2024 18:19:38 GMT -5
Sounds great. I haven't even thought of dinner yet. But then it's only 3:20, I got a little time.
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Post by dwarnold on Mar 9, 2024 18:25:57 GMT -5
I am much more bothered by the morning time change now that I get up early to pick up food and serve the homeless community. It was nice that we could see people we were serving and now we have to go back to serving in the dark for a while more. The longest day light duration in Tallahassee will come on June 20th and it will be 14 hours and 7 minutes (not considering twilight time) then in December on the Solstice we will only have 10 hours and 11 minutes. Lots of fuss over time eh.
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Post by dwarnold on Mar 9, 2024 18:31:16 GMT -5
I hope our missing Chatter Jay is ok, was hoping to hear about his storytelling trip!
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Post by doctork on Mar 9, 2024 18:36:12 GMT -5
The changes don't bother me as much at more congenial latitudes but here where they are extreme, I pay much more attention.
I haven't looked up the details today but in the winter on the shortest on the shortest day we have about 8 hours of daylight. During the summer's longest day we have about 16 hours of "official daylight" but the twilights are very long in the summer (and very short in winter) which adds about an hour on each end. It starts getting light at 4 am and a little glow of daylight remains until well after 10 pm. I wouldn't last long in Alaska.
There are many adverse effects of the abrupt time changes. The "rise and shine in the dark" isn't nearly as bothersome when it is a slow change over months. It's the overnight change that bothers me.
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Post by doctork on Mar 9, 2024 18:36:57 GMT -5
I hope our missing Chatter Jay is ok, was hoping to hear about his storytelling trip! Yeah, I haven't heard anything from him lately.
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Post by doctork on Mar 9, 2024 18:45:01 GMT -5
This reminds me how much I enjoyed the work of the late Peter Ostroushko. He was on several of the APHC cruises, such a nice guy, talented musician, lovely music.
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Post by dwarnold on Mar 9, 2024 18:48:22 GMT -5
The changes don't bother me as much at more congenial latitudes but here where they are extreme, I pay much more attention. I haven't looked up the details today but in the winter on the shortest on the shortest day we have about 8 hours of daylight. During the summer's longest day we have about 16 hours of "official daylight" but the twilights are very long in the summer (and very short in winter) which adds about an hour on each end. It starts getting light at 4 am and a little glow of daylight remains until well after 10 pm. I wouldn't last long in Alaska. There are many adverse effects of the abrupt time changes. The "rise and shine in the dark" isn't nearly as bothersome when it is a slow change over months. It's the overnight change that bothers me. I just looked up Bellingham and did not realize that on June 20, astronomical twilight actually starts and ends so much before the "daylight' that it is 24 hours!
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Post by doctork on Mar 9, 2024 19:02:14 GMT -5
24 hours? I don't think it's quite that long, though in Alaska or northern Nordic countries it might be. I know when I flew Seattle to Copenhagen, we never lacked sunlight. It was still broad daylight on the left side of the plane when we took off about 8 pm and broad daylight when we landed the next morning at 0500 or so. Never got dark on the flight. Here in Bellingham from mid June through early July, from midnight to about 0330 I haven't noticed any visible light. I notice it when my plane gets into SEA at midnight and I have a 2 hour drive home - city lights yes, natural light, no.
Most of the year that astronomical daylight (when the sun is more than 12 degrees below the horizon) is not really visible light, though nautical light can still be helpful in say navigating the end of the dog walk.
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Post by doctork on Mar 9, 2024 19:04:18 GMT -5
Have you noticed that I haven't worried much lately about Life's Persistent Questions? It was usually about where am I going to live and work. Now I think I won't be employed any more, and it's likely we'll move back east when we get around to it - pretty soon, like later this year.
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Post by dwarnold on Mar 9, 2024 19:05:47 GMT -5
Have you noticed that I haven't worried much lately about Life's Persistent Questions? It was usually about where am I going to live and work. Now I think I won't be employed any more, and it's likely we'll move back east when we get around to it - pretty soon, like later this year. You certainly do not have the "stories" that you used to have, about crazy shifts, drives, hotel stays, and patient situations.
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Post by doctork on Mar 9, 2024 19:13:24 GMT -5
Yeah, I really miss that but OTOH "I'm needed at home." Being home so much is boring.
I am debating about renewing my last two medical licenses, both of which are due this month. WA is pricey, about $1,000, but I just got a note yesterday from a place I worked that I really liked and they would like me to come back. Gotta keep the license active if I even think I might be tempted to take it. Maybe I could work less than 40 hours/week and manage.
NC is much less expensive and I kind of think I should keep a license in the state(s) where I live.
I took the board recertification exam lass than a year ago, thinking for sure I'd get back to work soon.
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Post by doctork on Mar 9, 2024 19:25:12 GMT -5
DW did you see my post about the couple that are caretakers for our NC home? She is second cousin to Doc Watson. Her brother is going to be doing some pump repairs on our house, and when I saw the surname "Watson" I just had to ask!
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Post by doctork on Mar 9, 2024 19:28:48 GMT -5
Oh, Dave Bartholmew! He wrote my favorite Elvis song, "One Night With You." I sat next to him on the plane from New York to Paris once and chatted about NOLA. He was impressed that I graduated Ben Franklin HS, while I was impressed he is in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame!
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Post by dwarnold on Mar 9, 2024 19:32:07 GMT -5
Yeah, I really miss that but OTOH "I'm needed at home." Being home so much is boring. I am debating about renewing my last two medical licenses, both of which are due this month. WA is pricey, about $1,000, but I just got a note yesterday from a place I worked that I really liked and they would like me to come back. Gotta keep the license active if I even think I might be tempted to take it. Maybe I could work less than 40 hours/week and manage. NC is much less expensive and I kind of think I should keep a license in the state(s) where I live. I took the board recertification exam lass than a year ago, thinking for sure I'd get back to work soon. A person has to have options for sure!
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Post by dwarnold on Mar 9, 2024 19:32:59 GMT -5
DW did you see my post about the couple that are caretakers for our NC home? She is second cousin to Doc Watson. Her brother is going to be doing some pump repairs on our house, and when I saw the surname "Watson" I just had to ask! I did not previously.
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Post by doctork on Mar 9, 2024 19:44:27 GMT -5
Lori remembers sitting on Doc's lap when she was little while he was playing "Froggy Went A Courting"!
Our NC house is not far from where Doc and his family lived.
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Post by dwarnold on Mar 9, 2024 19:49:43 GMT -5
So are you an OSCAR fan that puts out predictions on winners?
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Post by doctork on Mar 9, 2024 19:51:42 GMT -5
This tune "Rosalie" is so pretty. I don't think I'd heard of Mike Dowling or the song before.
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Post by doctork on Mar 9, 2024 19:52:59 GMT -5
So are you an OSCAR fan that puts out predictions on winners? I don't think I've seen any of the Oscar contenders. I'm such a fan of classic film that I don't watch many new ones and certainly not until they are on cable or streaming. So have you seen enough of them that you have favorites?
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Post by dwarnold on Mar 9, 2024 19:53:03 GMT -5
I do have a recommendation on a current movie... One Life with Anthony Hopkins in the lead role. The true story of Sir Nicholas 'Nicky' Winton, a young London broker who, in the months leading up to World War II, rescued 669 predominantly Jewish children from the Nazis. Nicky visited Prague in December 1938 and found families who had fled the rise of the Nazis in Germany and Austria, living in desperate conditions with little or no shelter and food, and under threat of Nazi invasion. He immediately realized it was a race against time. How many children could he and the team rescue before the borders closed?
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Post by dwarnold on Mar 9, 2024 19:53:56 GMT -5
So are you an OSCAR fan that puts out predictions on winners? I don't think I've seen any of the Oscar contenders. I'm such a fan of classic film that I don't watch many new ones and certainly not until they are on cable or streaming. I haven't seen any of the movies that have been nominated in any of the categories!!
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Post by doctork on Mar 9, 2024 19:56:05 GMT -5
"One Life" sounds good so I'll look for it.
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