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Sunbrite Drive-Through Counseling GK:....brought to you by your local SunBrite Drive-Through Counseling. (HEAVY TRAFFIC NEARBY) SS (SPEAKER): Yes? TR: I'm obsessive compulsive, I'm depressed, and I'm completely neurotic. SS (SPEAKER): Okay. You want plain counselling or do you want drugs with that? TR: Plain. SS (SPEAKER THROUGHOUT): Do you want the $1.79, the $2.59, or the $3.89? TR: Uh. Actually I just wanted to ask something. SS: Yeah? TR: Do you like me? SS: Do I what? TR: Do you like me? SS: How would I know? I just met you. TR: What was your first impression when I drove in? SS: Drive up where I can see you and I'll tell you. TR: Okay. (CAR MOVES AHEAD, STOPS) (PAUSE) SS: Nervous. TR: Okay. SS: Emotionally needy. TR: Okay. SS: You also need to do something different with your hair. TR: Okay. Thanks. SS: I wouldn't comb it straight back and up like that. I think that's pretty much over. TR: Okay. SS: Do you want the $1.79, the $2.59, or the $3.89? TR: Dollar seventy-nine. SS (SPEAKER): Okay. Pull ahead to Window No. 3. (CAR PULL AHEAD SLOWLY, AND STOP. PAUSE. TR, SIGH AND THROAT CLEAR.) TK: You the guy with the $1.79 obsessive compulsive problem and the poor self image? TR: And depression. TK: Oh. Depression too. Okay. Just a minute. (PAUSE) Okay. Quit being so weird. Everybody makes mistakes, and so do you so don't make such a big thing of it. Quit brooding about it. Get outdoors once in awhile for crying out loud. Play a sport. Do something. Get a life. Make friends. You sit there looking at your belly button of course you're gonna get all screwy. Quit moping. Just get over it. Okay? TR: Okay. Could I have some drugs? TK: Here's a couple aspirin. Beat it. TR: Thanks. (CAR PULL AWAY) GK: Sunbrite Drive-Through Counselling. © 1996 Garrison Keillor
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An Interview with Heather Masse
In a 2009 interview, Heather Masse tells us about her earliest influences, auditioning in a women's bathroom, and a few memorable moments from A Prairie Home Companion.
Old Sweet Songs: A Prairie Home Companion 1974-1976
Lovingly selected from the earliest archives of A Prairie Home Companion, this heirloom collection represents the music from earliest years of the now legendary show: 1974–1976. With songs and tunes from jazz pianist Butch Thompson, mandolin maestro Peter Ostroushko, Dakota Dave Hull and the first house band, The Powdermilk Biscuit Band (Adam Granger, Bob Douglas and Mary DuShane).
