Name: Leo Kottke, "The Ice Miner," Live in Concert, May 3, 1971
Uploaded: 2019-12-02T05:32:18.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Leo Kottke, "The Ice Miner," Live in Concert, May 3, 1971' from Don Giller on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-12-02. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Leo Kottke, "The Ice Miner," Live in Concert, May 3, 1971' from Don Giller on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-12-02. Transcript available.

So I'll play this. This is called the ice miner, which is a profession that I
don't think exists anymore. There used to be, for instance, in Big Lake,
Minnesota,
named after the Big Lake and called Big Lake, during the wintertime the
railroad would mine ice out of the lake. And there were guys, seasonal
laborers, would come out of the sticks in the middle of the wintertime and just
chop ice all day long and put it on the train and the train would drive around
until it disappeared. Come back, get some more, go off again, back, forth. That's
why I
got so solipsistic a minute ago. I think that's the word, the word I want.
Maybe
sophomoric is a better term. But anyhow, it reminds me of a lot of Sisyphus.
These
guys just constantly whacking away for no, you know, real reason.
So, let's go.
So, let's go.
So, let's go.
So, let's go.
Thank you.