Keillor hints at what is missing:  who in Scab Holler, Kentucky really gives a tinkers dam about what happens in a city which  you  can only enjoy it if you are relatively wealthy,  like Keillor,  who made his dough producing a  great program for Public Radio.  Irony at its best.  

In Scab Holler,  Junior  died of an opiate overdose,  a teenage girl is preggers.    Grandpa is hocking up his black lungs,  and dad left years ago for Somewhere,  Indiana.  The week the debit card gets filled by the state is the best of every month.  The white trash majority  voted for Trump and their erstwhile "friends" in the Democrat party are doing their best to re rig their rigged election,  which was lost by a lazy candidate too old to serve at full capacity.  Karma bit the Democrat butt.  They threw a pair of large panties and a bra out to the voters,  and lost.   Irony.  

Billy Joe Sue had a boyfriend,  
his name was Diamond Dick,

Billy Joe Sue never seen the  diamond, 
She only saw the Dick..