Minnesota MINute

If you're one of those dirty, filthy, Godforsaken transplants to Minnesota who are confused and dismayed by locals' customs and communication styles, Dave Pezullo is your hero.

Music by: Luciano Michelini "Frolic"

Franco Micalizzi "Amusement"

Get ready to groan.

Music---"The Oldest Known Melody (Hurrian Hymn no. 6---c. 1400 BC)" as found on YouTube courtesy of DamianMusicChannel4

Minnesota's just weird and inscrutable enough to have one of those rare illiberal college towns.

Music courtesy of Andy G. Cohen---"Worky Worky" via the Free Music Archive

We really bring home the bacon on this episode.

Features a modified sample of "Eli Green's Cakewalk" by the Heftone Banjo Orchestra featured on the Free Music Archive

The "Can He Do That" podcast asks important questions about the powers and implications of the Trump administration. We decided to look to see if a similar production existed locally. Here's what we found.

Features a rendition of "Hail to the Chief" by the Department of the Air Force.

Learn about an ambitious Highland Park rabbi who successfully sold a weirdly appealing product that could only take off in Minnesota.

Features a sample of "New Town Klezmer" by the Underscore Orkestra found at the Free Music Archive. Sampled with a Creative Commons-Non-Commercial-Share-Alike-4.0 license.

Producer of the popular-but-fundamentally-smug podcast "Eaganomics" Jerry Trapman provides a definitive answer to the bigly/big league/Bagley debate.

Take that, "Stuff They Don't Want You To Know" :P

Contains a sample of "Cylinder Eight" by Chris Zabriskie found at the Free Music Archive

If you think today's podcasts cover weird niches, you should've been in Minnesota in the mid-1970s.

Contains copyrighted material from "I Love Lucy", thank you CBS and Desilu Productions. Contains a sample of "Babalu" by Desi Arnaz. Contains "Chomp Sound Effect", courtesy of YouTube and user Nick Judy.

Hint: it isn't "long Johns".