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SCENE: It’s the studio at Minnesota Public Radio. MyLyssa SILBERMAN, reporter for National Public Radio\u2019s Saint Paul bureau, covering the \u201cFake News\u201d and \u201cDiversity\u201d beats, is guest-ghosting “MInnesota Insights”, a program of insights about Minnesota,. She is interviewing Gretel STROMBERG, Executive Director of \u201cMinnesotans United for All Progressive Causes\u201d. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

SILBERMAN: So, big news in Los Angeles. The city is banning gasoline-powered leaf blowers. What’s your take on that, Gretel?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

STROMBERG: (sounding audibly giddy<\/em>). I could hardly be happier! That noise every fall just drives me crazy. And sturdies show that a leaf blower creates a biggest carbon footprint in an afternoon than a car driving from Minneapolis to Fresno. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

SILBERMAN: Hmmm. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

STROMBERG: But it’s also the fact that it’s just a horrible sound. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

SILBERMAN: Oh, same for me!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

STROMBERG (sounding like she’s trying to head off a faux pas<\/em>), let me say that what I’m saying is from the perspective of a white woman of privilege…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SILBERMAN: Of course…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

STROMBERG: Because white woman privilege is huge and powerful. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Scene cuts to a community clinic in Coleraine, Minnesota, where Angela PULJUU, an LPN, is driving home from a 12 hour shift in an assisted living<\/em> center<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PULJUU: Huh. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Scene cuts to a tony home in Deephaven, facing Lake Minnetonka. Karen BERHEIM-WOLD, part-time realtor, ex-wife of a successful entrepreneur and current trophy wife of a bank CEO, is having a cup of Nespresson in her three season porch overlooking the lake)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

BERHEIM-WOLD: That is so true<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Scene cuts to a small farm in Goodhue County, where Janelle HELMBACHER is looking at price hikes in the meat aisle at the local grocery store<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HELMBACHER: What, now?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Scene cuts to an opulent mansion in Chicago, where for whatever reason Oprah Winfrey is listening to the live stream<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WINFREY: Testify!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Scene cuts to a school bus in South Saint Paul, where teachers aid Pauline SCZEPANSKI<\/em> is wrangling a bunch of junior high kids who have gotten un-used to being around kids or following rules<\/em>). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCZEPANSKI: Huh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And SCENE<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

(Production notes: This play in one act is based off a conversation over the weekend on NPR’s formerly-amusing comedy “Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me”. Note that I didn’t say “loosely based” on”. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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