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A Prairie Home Companion Segment 23
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GK: Winter is a time when people take things slow, as you know.

FN: (SLOW) Not bad. Feeling good. Can't complain, that's for sure.

GK: But as the air warms and the ground thaws, our biology speeds up.

FN (RAPID ACCEL TO HIGH-PITCHED FAST FORWARD)

GK: And the pace of life becomes very fast. (NASCAR RACE)

And even faster.

PHONE RING. FN: Yeah. Gotta put you on hold. HANG UP. PHONE RING. FN: Please hold. HANG UP. PHONE RING. FN : With you in a minute. HANG UP. PHONE RING. FN FAST GIBBERISH. HANG UP. PHONE RING.

FN FAST GIBBERISH. HANG UP.

GK: If it's just too painful to accelerate at that pace, maybe you need a good relaxant. The American Pharmaceutical Foundation says: we have relaxants that can put you in 2nd gear, or low gear, or Park.

TR: Yessir. I used to feel like a gerbil on a tread wheel. Up and down and all over the map. Now it's stead as she goes. My medication? Noditol. I call it the Velvet Hammer.

HT (SINGS):

Why jump and yell and sing the blues

Plant your feet in concrete shoes.

Tell your doctor you want to use

Noditol.