Back home in Minnesota

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Back home in Minnesota

Podcast 137 - "I skipped the rivalries with peers and the ambition to be the coolest person in the room, and I lived in my own head.

Garrison Keillor

Jan 18, 2026

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I had three bags at the airport and when I saw I’d have to maneuver them onto an escalator, I asked a Somali man with a luggage cart to help me get to a taxi. He grabbed the bags and headed for the elevators and greeted some wheelchair pushers and another luggage handler along the way, and I asked him how many Somalis work at the airport, and he said, “…

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