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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New invention makes using your iPad on airplanes a lot easier
From: WTIP
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
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...

Bought by KVSC and KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 26, 2013
  • Length: 15:47
  • Purchases: 2
Boundary Waters/South Kawishiwi River #6 on Most Endangered Rivers list
From: WTIP
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
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
Mermaids do exist...and this one's making a living at it
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Series: The Roadhouse
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WTIP's Buck Benson chatted recently with Linden Wolbert, who quit her full-time job a few years back to be a professional mermaid. With skills in f...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2013
  • Length: 18:18
Peter Smerud on the remarkable peregrine falcon
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Series: The Roadhouse
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WTIP's Cathy Quinn spoke recently with Peter Smerud, executive director of Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center, in Finland, Minn., about the p...

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  • Added: Apr 17, 2013
  • Length: 16:48
  • Purchases: 2
World Book Night is April 23--learn how one organization is spreading the love of reading, person to person
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Carl Lennertz, executive director of World Book Night U.S., spoke with WTIP's Buck Benson Mar. 29 about World Book Night, held April 23 each year. ...

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  • Added: Apr 02, 2013
  • Length: 17:10
  • Purchases: 1
Legal expert Dale Carpenter discusses U.S. Supreme Court hearings on gay marriage
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Series: The Roadhouse
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WTIP's Ann Possis spoke Mar. 29 with Prof. Dale Carpenter of the U of MN Law School, an expert in the areas of constitutional law and sexual orient...

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  • Added: Apr 02, 2013
  • Length: 16:16
  • Purchases: 1
NYT best-selling author Mary Roach visits The Roadhouse
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Series: The Roadhouse
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WTIP's Dave Seaton chatted recently with the delightful Mary Roach, author of quirky science books like "Stiff," "Bonk," and "Packing for Mars." H...

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  • Added: Mar 30, 2013
  • Length: 22:04
  • Purchases: 1
Need one more excuse to sleep more? Not sleeping enough can make you gain weight
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Series: The Roadhouse
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WTIP's Buck Benson spoke Mar. 22 with Dr. Rachel Markwald, sleep expert and lead author of a recent study from the U of CO, Boulder, showing that ...

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  • Added: Mar 26, 2013
  • Length: 15:53
  • Purchases: 1
Inuit throatsingers Lydia Etok & Nina Segalowitz demo traditional art
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Series: The Roadhouse
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WTIP's Cathy Quinn welcomed Inuit throat singers Nina Segalowitz & Lydia Etok to Studio A Mar. 15 for conversation, laughter, and demos of the trad...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2013
  • Length: 18:50
Filmmaker Emily Haddad on her doc about the first woman MN Supreme Court Justice
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Series: The Roadhouse
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Filmmaker Emily Haddad joined WTIP's Ann Possis during Women's History Month to talk about her latest documentary, "Girl from Birch Creek," the ins...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2013
  • Length: 12:59
Mediterranean diet shown to be good for you...plus, it's delicious!
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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WTIP's Ann Possis spoke Mar. 15 with Dr. Mark Pereira, professor of epidemiology & community health at the U of MN School of Public Health, about a...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2013
  • Length: 09:52
Duluth musicians Mary Bue & Kyle Maclean play The Roadhouse
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Series: The Roadhouse
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WTIP's Buck Benson & Ann Possis welcomed Duluth musicians Mary Bue (keyboard) and Kyle Maclean (guitar) to Studio A Mar. 8. They played and sang th...

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  • Added: Mar 13, 2013
  • Length: 22:14
  • Purchases: 1
Arctic explorer Lonnie Dupre on his third attempt at Denali & his recently published memoir
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Series: The Roadhouse
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WTIP's Buck Benson chatted recently with explorer Lonnie Dupre, just back from his third unsuccessful attempt to summit Denali solo in January. Lo...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2013
  • Length: 27:28
Historian & author Prof. Elaine Tyler May on Women's History Month
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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WTIP's Ann Possis spoke with Prof. Elaine Tyler May of the U of Minn. on International Women's Day, in honor of Women's History Month. Prof. May is...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2013
  • Length: 15:42
Great blues guitar from North Shore musician Gordon Thorne
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Series: The Roadhouse
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WTIP's Buck Benson & Ann Possis welcomed local favorite Gordon Thorne to Studio A March 1 for conversation, laughter and, of course, incredible blu...

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  • Added: Mar 05, 2013
  • Length: 30:51
  • Purchases: 1
Duluth filmmaker Mike Scholtz on his award winning doc, "Wild Bill's Run"
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Series: The Roadhouse
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WTIP's Buck Benson chatted recently with Mike Scholtz about his award-winning documentary, "Wild Bill's Run." Described as 'part Arctic adventure, ...

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  • Added: Mar 05, 2013
  • Length: 21:56
  • Purchases: 1
Beer career: Cook County native Ryan Petz on his Twin Cities brewery, Fulton Beer
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Series: The Roadhouse
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WTIP's Ann Possis spoke recently with Cook County native Ryan Petz who, with three of his friends, founded Fulton Beer. Ryan is president of the co...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2013
  • Length: 18:07
Bump Blomberg & Chris Silver live in Studio A
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Series: The Roadhouse
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WTIP's Bob Carter & Buck Benson welcomed Grand Marais, Minn. singer/songwriter Bump Blomberg, on guitar, & Wisconsin musician Chris Silver, on mand...

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  • Added: Feb 19, 2013
  • Length: 31:31
  • Purchases: 1