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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Lake Superior State U. Banished Words list for 2013 trending now!
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Lake Superior State University recently released their 38th annual Banished Words list. WTIP's Buck Benson chatted with John Shibley of the univers...

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  • Added: Feb 19, 2013
  • Length: 16:20
  • Purchases: 1
Gwen Westerman on her new book, "Mni Sota Mkoce: The Land of the Dakota"
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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WTIP's Bob Carter spoke recently with Dr. Gwen Westerman, co-author with Bruce White of "Mni Sota Makoce: The Land of the Dakota." The book, from t...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2013
  • Length: 20:58
Norwegian filmmakers seek to understand, document Norwegian-Americans
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Norwegian filmmakers Kristian Balsrod & Anton Ligaarden stopped by WTIP's The Roadhouse Feb. 1 to update hosts Ann Possis & Buck Benson on their lo...

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  • Added: Feb 11, 2013
  • Length: 26:39
  • Purchases: 1
Need a creative boost? Hit the trail, say psychology professors Ruth Ann & Paul Atchley
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Series: The Roadhouse
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University of Kansas psychology professors Ruth Ann & Paul Atchley recently completed a study showing that four days out in the wild, without cell ...

  • Added: Feb 11, 2013
  • Length: 15:04
Author Will Schwalbe on his NYT best-seller, "The End of Your Life Book Club"
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Series: The Roadhouse
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Will Schwalbe wrote the best-selling book, "The End of Your Life Book Club," a memoir of reading with his mother during the last two years of her l...

  • Added: Feb 11, 2013
  • Length: 21:20
Musician Marlin Ledin captures the sounds of Lake Superior's ice
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Series: The Roadhouse
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WTIP's Ann Possis visited with Washburn, Wisc., musician and artist Marlin Ledin Jan. 18 about his project to record the ice sounds of Lake Superio...

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  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 20:32
  • Purchases: 2
Duluth organizer Reyna Crow on Idle No More movement
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Idle No More is a grassroots movement that has recently been sweeping across the country and the world. In this interview, Kelly Schoenfelder, with...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2013
  • Length: 09:30
Astro Bob: Asteroid Apophis won't hit us in 2029
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Series: The Roadhouse
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The asteroid Apophis was discovered by astronomers in 2004. Upon its discovery, it appeared that it was going to come pretty close to striking Eart...

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  • Added: Jan 14, 2013
  • Length: 10:57
  • Purchases: 1
Inukjuak town manager Johnny Williams on trapped whales in Hudson Bay
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Series: The Roadhouse
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The small village of Inukjuak in Nunavut, Canada, has been the site of a lot of media attention in the last few weeks. A family of killer whales ha...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2013
  • Length: 15:53
Filmmaker Vincent Gargiulo on his upcoming film, "Duluth is Horrible"
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Vincent Gargiulo is an award-winning filmmaker whose work has been shown around the country. At the beginning of January, Vincent completed a succe...

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  • Added: Jan 14, 2013
  • Length: 10:25
  • Purchases: 2
Duluth News-Tribune writer Sam Cook looks back at the year in the outdoors
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Series: The Roadhouse
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WTIP's Buck Benson visited Dec. 28 with Sam Cook, longtime outdoors writer for the Duluth News-Tribune, about significant events and developments i...

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  • Added: Jan 02, 2013
  • Length: 30:21
  • Purchases: 1
Cool new book for kids and their grownups: "Unbored"
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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WTIP's Buck Benson chatted recently with Elizabeth Foy Larsen, co-author of "Unbored: The Essential Field Guide to Serious Fun, " which the (Minnea...

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  • Added: Jan 02, 2013
  • Length: 19:04
  • Purchases: 2
Ontario environmental/adventure travel journalist on his first book, "The Greatest Lake"
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Series: The Roadhouse
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WTIP's Buck Benson visited recently with award-winning environmental & adventure travel journalist Conor Mihell, on his new book, "The Greatest Lak...

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  • Added: Dec 18, 2012
  • Length: 19:44
  • Purchases: 1
Will the world end Dec. 21 in the 'Mayan Apocalypse'? Psychology expert on the science of fear
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Series: The Roadhouse
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WTIP's Bob Carter spoke with Prof. Shmuel Lissek of the U of MN department of psychology Dec. 14. Lissek's specialty is the science of fear. They d...

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  • Added: Dec 18, 2012
  • Length: 17:22
  • Purchases: 1
"Books That Shaped America" from the Library of Congress...what would be on your list?
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Mark Dimunation, chief of the Library of Congress' rare book & special collection division, joined WTIP's Bob Carter recently to discuss their "Boo...

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  • Added: Dec 12, 2012
  • Length: 19:00
  • Purchases: 1
New book on Minnesota know-how, from carving ice sculpture to singing like a voyageur
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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WTIP's Bob Carter was joined recently by former Pioneer Press outdoors writer (and current communications director for the MN DNR) Chris Niskanen t...

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  • Added: Dec 12, 2012
  • Length: 23:25
  • Purchases: 2
Expert on British royalty & monarchy talks royal baby bump
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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WTIP's Ann Possis chatted Dec. 7 with John Watkins, professor of English at the U of MN, who specializes in sovereignty, queenship, and British his...

  • Added: Dec 12, 2012
  • Length: 16:03
Design professor Barry Kudrowitz talks toys, creativity, and why play matters
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Series: The Roadhouse
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WTIP's Ann Possis chatted recently with Barry Kudrowitz, assistant professor of product design at the U of MN, just in time for the holiday toy sea...

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  • Added: Dec 04, 2012
  • Length: 17:41
  • Purchases: 3
Not your ordinary bike trip...this one's to the South Pole
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Series: The Roadhouse
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WTIP's Ann Possis visited recently with polar adventurer, educator and guide Eric Larsen about his upcoming adventure, Cycle South. Eric, the first...

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  • Added: Nov 27, 2012
  • Length: 14:21
  • Purchases: 1
Mmm...first-ever food exhibit opens at National Museum of American History
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Series: The Roadhouse
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WTIP's Buck Benson chatted the day after Thanksgiving with Paula Johnson, curator at the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C., a...

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  • Added: Nov 27, 2012
  • Length: 18:39
  • Purchases: 1