The Roadhouse

Series produced by WTIP

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Image by: courtesy Buck Benson 

The Roadhouse is an interview and music program that airs live every Friday from 5 to 7 p.m. to kick off the weekend.

WTIP's The Roadhoue is two hours packed with insightful interviews, weekend happenings, local features and toe-tapping music. You never know quite what to expect on the Roadhouse! Funding is provided in part by the MN Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund.


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Fingerstyle guitarists Jim Ohlschmidt & Gordon Thorne make great music
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Series: The Roadhouse
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WTIP's Bob Carter & Buck Benson welcomed Jim Ohlschmidt, along with local musician Gordon Thorne, to The Roadhouse Apr. 12. Jim was in Cook County ...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2013
  • Length: 28:15
Boundary Waters/South Kawishiwi River #6 on Most Endangered Rivers list
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Series: The Roadhouse
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WTIP's Buck Benson spoke Apr. 19 with Amy Kober, senior director of communications at American Rivers. They just released their annual report on Am...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2013
  • Length: 14:11
Look out! The Axe Giant is coming!
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Series: The Roadhouse
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WTIP's Bob Carter chatted recently with Jeff Miller, producer of the new indie horror movie, "Axe Giant: The Wrath of Paul Bunyan." Why didn't anyo...

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  • Added: Apr 26, 2013
  • Length: 15:47
  • Purchases: 2
New invention makes using your iPad on airplanes a lot easier
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Series: The Roadhouse
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WTIP's Buck Benson chatted recently with Twin Cities businessman Anton Jachim, inventor of the Arctic Flight, an articulated stand for the iPad tha...

  • Added: Apr 29, 2013
  • Length: 15:26
Singer-songwriter Lucy Kaplansky visits The Roadhouse
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WTIP's Bob Carter chatted recently with singer-songwriter Lucy Kaplansky. She, along with John Gorka and Eliza Gilkyson, make up the folk trio Red ...

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  • Added: Apr 29, 2013
  • Length: 18:11
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Great Lakes increasingly threatened due to pollution from plastics
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Series: The Roadhouse
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WTIP's Bob Carter spoke recently with Dr. Lorena M. Rios Mendoza, a scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Superior, about her research into poll...

  • Added: Apr 29, 2013
  • Length: 15:42
What's going to happen with Minnesota's fishing opener?
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WTIP's Buck Benson welcomed Duluth News-Tribune outdoors editor Sam Cook to The Roadhouse May 3, where they talked about fishing openers past and p...

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  • Added: May 07, 2013
  • Length: 23:28
  • Purchases: 1
Update: The state of renewable energy in Minnesota
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Series: The Roadhouse
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WTIP's Ann Possis spoke May 3 with Erin Stojan Ruccolo of Fresh Energy, and Amanda Bilek of the Great Plains Institute, about the outlook for renew...

  • Added: May 07, 2013
  • Length: 19:37
Dmitry Orlov on why he believes the U.S. is on the brink of collapse
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Series: The Roadhouse
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WTIP's Buck Benson spoke May 3 with Dmitry Orlov, author of the award-winning book "Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospect...

  • Added: May 07, 2013
  • Length: 23:10
Author Sarah Stonich talks about her wonderful new book, "Vacationland"
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Minneapolis author Sarah Stonich joined WTIP's Bob Carter May 10 to chat about her new book, "Vacationland," a portrait of an old fishing resort in...

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  • Added: May 13, 2013
  • Length: 20:03
  • Purchases: 1
Mindfulness therapy as a way to help veterans with PTSD
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Series: The Roadhouse
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WTIP's Bob Carter spoke recently with Dr. Anthony King, research assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Michigan, about his recent ...

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  • Added: May 14, 2013
  • Length: 20:36
  • Purchases: 1
Creating a global tapestry of climate stories from around the world
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Series: The Roadhouse
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WTIP's Buck Benson chatted recently with Prof. Aaron Doering of the Learning Technologies program at the University of Minnesota. He recently retur...

  • Added: May 14, 2013
  • Length: 18:02
Katherine Loflin, the "City Doctor," on what attaches people to a place, and why it matters
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Series: The Roadhouse
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Dr. Katherine Loflin joined WTIP's Ann Possis recently to talk about her work in "placemaking". She advises elected officials, planners, businesspe...

  • Added: May 21, 2013
  • Length: 16:11
The social behavior of chimps & other primates, and what it tells us about ourselves
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Series: The Roadhouse
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Prof. Michael Wilson, assistant professor of anthropology and of ecology, evolution, and behavior at the U of Minn., joined WTIP's Buck Benson rece...

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  • Added: May 21, 2013
  • Length: 21:04
  • Purchases: 1
Percussion artist/educator Mark Powers makes music with everyday objects
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Series: The Roadhouse
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WTIP's Buck Benson & Ann Possis welcomed percussionist, educator, and world traveler Mark Powers recently to Studio A with buckets, pots & pans, an...

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  • Added: May 21, 2013
  • Length: 26:13
  • Purchases: 1
Former Vikings punter Chris Kluwe mixes sports & activism
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Series: The Roadhouse
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Former Vikings punter Chris Kluwe chatted with WTIP's Buck Benson recently about football, marriage equality, and more. He just joined the Raiders ...

  • Added: May 29, 2013
  • Length: 13:17
'North Shore Bike Guy' Adam Harju talks biking in Cook County
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Series: The Roadhouse
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Adam Harju, the "North Shore Bike Guy," stopped by WTIP's Studio A May 24 to talk all things bike with host Bob Carter. Adam shared progress on bik...

  • Added: May 29, 2013
  • Length: 13:22
Getting the most from your farmers market, just in time for summer
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Series: The Roadhouse
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Beth Dooley has covered the local food scene in Minnesota for over 25 years. She joined WTIP's Matthew Brown May 31 to talk about her latest book, ...

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  • Added: Jun 01, 2013
  • Length: 16:39
  • Purchases: 1
Microfinance through the lens of travel memoir: "The International Bank of Bob"
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Series: The Roadhouse
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WTIP's Ann Possis chatted recently with Bob Harris, author of "The International Bank of Bob," a delightful new book about the world of microlendin...

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  • Added: Jun 01, 2013
  • Length: 21:44
  • Purchases: 1
Joe Paulik plays & talks about his recent CD, "Power of Place"
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Series: The Roadhouse
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WTIP's Matthew Brown & Ann Possis welcomed Cook County singer-songwriter Joe Paulik to The Roadhouse May 31. He talked about nature as inspiration ...

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  • Added: Jun 01, 2013
  • Length: 31:21
  • Purchases: 1