What the country could learn from a small-town festival

What BBN said about it

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorA storyteller named Josh Goforth stood at the microphone under the Courthouse Tent in Jonesborough, Tennessee, and opened with a bluegrass song called I'm Bound to Ride.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe Washington Examiner says the country could learn something from it.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorThe festival teaches patience. You sit still, you hear a stranger out, and then a train takes the microphone.

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   Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistCan I just say, the whole lesson is listening, and I have been listening to this sky my entire career, and it has never once said thank you.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorYou have not been listening, you have been narrating.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorLet me finish.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe festival is a place where people sit still and hear a stranger out, and we are three men who just talked over a banjo song.

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   Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistI would have opened with a song about the jet stream, and I'd have gone twenty minutes, and nobody would have left. Probably.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorTwenty minutes. In a tent. With the tracks right there.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorBrock, what's the temperature in that tent? Whatever is cooking off camera, I'd like a number.

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    Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistSeventy-five, Hank. Your number again, and I'd have said it more gently if you had let me finish.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorI'd like it noted that I was the only one who let the banjo song finish. Mostly in my head.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorFine, everybody quiet and listen. Brock is already reaching for his weather charts.