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Comment by jswrenn | Hacker News Reader

My friends and I all grew up listening to Garrison Keillor, raised by parents who themselves grew up listening to Garrison Keillor. Keillor's retirement has very much felt like abruptly losing contact with many old friends at once.

I just hope Lake Wobegon is doing alright without us.

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Yeah, it still harkens back to when I was young and my parents had NPR on in the kitchen while preparing dinner.

I do the same thing in my house, though I have to say, I don't think my wife and kids appreciate it as much.

I'll miss Lake Wobegon, always a wonderful place to visit on the weekends.

Yeah, this.

I'm 33, I've been listening to PHC since I was 10 or so, its something I've spent a majority of my Saturday afternoons doing - I look forward to the new host and the new format, but its clear to me that it will never be quite the same.

I grew up the same way :) ... except he rubs me the wrong way, I think he's not at all interesting or clever, a completely banal failed ironic, with a deep streak of hate inside.

Hate?

He did articles for newspapers and webmagazines in the 00s, they had an Andy Rooney-ish "I hate people these days and everything they do" thing going.

Hate might be too strong of a word, but I understand what he means. It may be more that he's made a willful choice not to adapt to the times.

Garrison Keillor's not adapting to the times is an indictment of the times more than it is an indictment of Garrison Keillor, IMHO.

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