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Ketchup Advisory Board GK:…we'll be right back after this message from the Ketchup
Advisory Board. (PIANO) SS: These are the good years for Jim and me. We have a lot more
spare time now that we've given up on our investment portfolio and we
spend our time holding garage sales and selling off stuff we don't need
anymore like our calculator and all those books about building wealth
that we invested in back in the Nineties. The last of the kids' gerbils
died, finally, and so did the hideous azalea plant that we got as a gift
from the cemetery when we purchased a double plot there in March when
Jim got what we thought was lung cancer but it turned out to be an allergic
reaction to room freshener. So we should have been happy. But one night
I came downstairs to find Jim busy writing something in a legal pad. ---
Honey, what's wrong? It's two in the morning…. TR: I know, Barb, but I can't sleep. I've got too much on my mind.
SS: What is it? TR: When I went to bed last night, I was a Democrat, Barb, but
now---- I'm just not sure. SS: What happened? TR: I had a dream that the Republicans had slashed the budget
for serum for orphans, and passed a law to allow factory workers to earn
11 cents an hour and live in abandoned cars and the President appointed
a guy to the F.A.A. who believes the earth is flat, and I woke up thinking,
how can I stand by and let these terrible things happen? And the answer
is, I can do it by becoming a Republican. So they nominated a guy to the
Supreme Court who believes that thieves should have their hands cut off.
It's okay. I'm a Republican. We Republicans don't look back. We're the
party of the future. None of us can know the future. So focusing on the
future is a pretty good deal if you'd rather not know. SS: Jim? TR: Yes? SS: I wonder if you're getting enough ketchup. (MUSIC) RD: These are the good years, although the weather's rainy, GK: Ketchup…..for the good times. RD: Ketchup, ketchup, ketchup. © Garrison Keillor 2003 |
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Singer and songwriter Andra Suchy talks about singing duets with Garrison, and her latest album, Little Heart.
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).
