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Tuesday Jan 03, 2023
The Greatest Showman?
Tuesday Jan 03, 2023
Tuesday Jan 03, 2023
Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!!
We're back to what we do well this week.
Well, what we do okay.
Well, what we do often.
We're back to just audio! Please enjoy this return to good quality and not having to see our faces!
This week Heather reads a story Ken picked out for her, newly in the public domain. A Sherlock Holmes short title "The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger".
But first! We are all subjected...I mean treated...to another week of Clown Corner!
This week's bizarre conversation pieces include Heather forgetting our author's name, the true origin of cows, and the invention of the word onomatopenis.
Oh, and those A.A. Milne poems Ken mentions can be found here.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote "The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger" in 1927.
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Tuesday Dec 27, 2022
A Video Episode
Tuesday Dec 27, 2022
Tuesday Dec 27, 2022
Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!!
Welcome to our live(ish) video episode!
Last week you were promised a live reading of ghost stories on Christmas. So, here it is.
We're all aware that the audio quality is a little...eh...
BUT!You can watch Ken and Heather struggle through on by watching the video at the 50/50 Arts Production YouTube Channel linked here.That makes up for it, right!?
Both of your hosts get to read a short story by M.R. James. And basically it's all weird, unedited, and uncensored because you're getting it as recorded.
Let us know what you think.
Tangents abound, and include topics such as Heather's fashion choices, acid trips, and possibly undead sex slaves.
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Tuesday Dec 20, 2022
Suck It, Joe Rogan
Tuesday Dec 20, 2022
Tuesday Dec 20, 2022
Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!!
Where ever we go, whatever we do, we're gonna go through it...
TOGETHER!
Heather and Ken are together again, recording in their Philly home, and back at it with a vengeance.
Heather picks a story for Ken to read. It written by E.F. Benson of "The Room in the Tower" fame. And Ken reads it pretty well, but our hosts get distracted. A lot.
Distractions include drunk Santa, deja vu, and coming up the crags.
"Between the Lights" was written by E.F. Benson in 1912.
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Tuesday Dec 13, 2022
A Pooh Break
Tuesday Dec 13, 2022
Tuesday Dec 13, 2022
Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!!
With Heather unavailable this week, Ken is here presenting you a nice, short, solo episode.
If you like cute stories read in a soothing voice with a fire crackles in the background this is the episode for you!
If you like pretty much everything else this podcast usually does, fear not! We're coming back at you next week!
Winnie the Pooh was written by A. A. Milne and published in 1926.
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Tuesday Dec 06, 2022
Wide Bosom
Tuesday Dec 06, 2022
Tuesday Dec 06, 2022
Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!!
What do Insane Clown Posse, Surfing, and Kathy Bates have in common? This podcast episode!
Plus, Patron Saint of Campfire Classics, Dame Agatha Christie, is back with a story for us this week with none of her usual character.
The fun facts have nothing to do with her, because we've covered her a lot. Check out Episodes 1, 10, 20, 21, 22, and 23 for some interesting facts about her.
Heather reads the story, and your hosts discuss bosoms, Juggalos, and biblical murder. Oh, also , Heather has CoViD, so be nice to her.
"The Wife of the Kenite" was published in 1923.
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Tuesday Nov 29, 2022
In the Rear
Tuesday Nov 29, 2022
Tuesday Nov 29, 2022
Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!!
We're keeping it classic this week with an old favorite, Mr. E.A. Poe. He's always done well by us in the past, so, why not!?
Heather selected the story and has some truly fascinating fun facts that have little to do with Mr. Poe, but that's all I'm going to tell you about that, so you'll just have to listen if you want more!
This was a bowel heavy episode which is alway...a delight? ...disturbing? ...another "d" word I can't think of? Sure. Someone likes it in the rear, there's wind and a candle in the poop, and the whole thing gets flushed down a giant hole.
"MS Found in a Bottle" was published in 1833.
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Tuesday Nov 22, 2022
The Drinks Was Good
Tuesday Nov 22, 2022
Tuesday Nov 22, 2022
Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!!
I'm not gonna lie, this weeks story is a really good one. Your hosts are returning to form with a story old enough to be considered classic from an author with some drama in her life. Heather reads "Ponsonby and the Pantheress" by Richard Dehan (pen name of Clotilde Graves), and I'm not even going to be sarcastic this week, she killed it. Great Story, great read, and Ken...is also there.
Things to remember:The moon is sexy.The drinks was good.The door is gaping.
"Ponsonby and the Pantheress" can be found in the 1914 book The Cost of Wings, and Other Stories.
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Tuesday Nov 15, 2022
Bad Touch
Tuesday Nov 15, 2022
Tuesday Nov 15, 2022
Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!!
This week, your hosts have lost their minds and decided for some reason to subject us all to a long ass edition of Clown Corner. So, you'll have to forgive me for wanting to get out of this as quickly as possible.
This one comes with several warning:Clowns aren't funny.ClownDog is coming to get you. Woof woof stab, bitches.Clowns are your overlords, now.
Oh, and Heather picked a story for Ken called "The Happy Clown". Has there ever been a title that sent chills further down your spine? Good lord!
"The Happy Clown" was written by Alice Eleanor Jones and published in If in 1955. Extensive research has been able to uncovered no evidence of an active copyright.
Did you dance for us?
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Tuesday Nov 08, 2022
A Cock Colonel
Tuesday Nov 08, 2022
Tuesday Nov 08, 2022
Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!!
The only important thing to come out of this episode is Heather's new country song entitled "Snake Proof Boots". Genuinely, nothing else matters. But, I'm not going to tell you when in the episode that happens, so if you want to hears it you'll just have to listen to the entire episode.
Some strange talking points do come up that leave me with questions.What is a "shit tin brick house"?How many creepy ass dolls is Lindsay hiding?Can we get through one episode without without an ejaculation reference?
Heather reads a story called "Rough Beast" written under the pen name Roger Dee, but you'll have to listen to the episode to learn the author's REAL name...
"Rough Beast" was published in 1962 meaning Ken was wrong when he said it was published in the '50s and he is, as I have long contended, either an idiot or a liar. Either way, extensive research has been able to uncovered no evidence of an active copyright.
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Tuesday Nov 01, 2022
Then Came Lady Xanax
Tuesday Nov 01, 2022
Tuesday Nov 01, 2022
Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!!
Coming to you from the City of Brotherly Love!
Heather doubles down on Clown Corner (oh lord, now we'll never get rid of it), and I'm pretty sure Ken compares himself to a god.
They also ask some hard hitting questions.What's the hardest thing about moving?He had the third biggest what in London?What sword swallowing skills are transferable to everyday life?
Oh yeah, plus they read a story. Heather selected a Sir Arthur Conan Doyle story called "The Case of Lady Sannox" and Ken reads it. And the story is good enough that you can totally ignore most of his terrible reading choices!
"The Case of Lady Sannox" was published in The Idler, in 1893.
We previously covered Sir Doyle in Episodes 4, 5, 18, and 74
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Tuesday Oct 25, 2022
Why Am I Sticky
Tuesday Oct 25, 2022
Tuesday Oct 25, 2022
Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!!
Heather's back and it's looking like we might actually get a few episodes in a row with the OG team!
Will Clown Corner survive its first run in with her? Only you can decide!
What did you learn in High School?What's the worst slutty holiday?Do ghosts orgasm?
These questions are answered, whether you like it or not, while heather reads the story Ken has picked out for her. It's called "Call From a Far Planet" by Tom Godwin. It's pretty intense.
"Call From a Far Planet" was published in Amazing, a magazine with a very confident name, in 1958.
Extensive research has been unable to find evidence of an active copyright. If we're wrong, tell us. Or don't. Either way, oops.
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Tuesday Oct 18, 2022
A Vengeful Couch
Tuesday Oct 18, 2022
Tuesday Oct 18, 2022
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How do you murder a couch?Who is going to get theirs?How early is too early for coming?
These questions seem needlessly...nope, just needless. But, that's the price we pay for letting this show go on so long.
If you've enjoyed Clown Corner so far, then it's your fault we're still doing it! This week's clown update is...hmm...no, I'm not going to spoil it. Better to let you find out be listening.
But the story is by a new author named Desmond Coke. He wrote us a great ghost story that Ken manages to stammer through fairly quickly. Which we all appreciate.
"The Ghost That Failed" appears in the book Red Cross Story Book by Famous Novelists Serving in His Majesty's Forces, which was sold as a sort of fund raiser for wounded soldiers in 1915.
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Wednesday Oct 12, 2022
No Morals, All Filler
Wednesday Oct 12, 2022
Wednesday Oct 12, 2022
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Can you braid your back hair?What does WCCDESTARWSMAPTBT stand for?Do women really have "war counsels"?
And most importantly, does any of this have a point? That one is easy to answer. Nope! No point. No moral. All filler.
Craig Kellberg is once again in the co-host seat, putting up with another installment of Clown Corner, and then reading a story by O Henry called "The Trimmed Lamp".
It is either a filthy euphemism or a poetic hint at the story's moral. If it has one...
"The Trimmed Lamp" appears in the book The Trimmed Lamp, and Other Stories of the Four Million which was published in the 1907.
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Tuesday Oct 04, 2022
Bad Dates
Tuesday Oct 04, 2022
Tuesday Oct 04, 2022
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Can we talk about clowns two episodes in row?What's your first thought when you hear "collar"?Does The Expendables need another sequel?
I don't know, but that sounds like the kind of stuff we talk about here, alright. Pointless and meandering.
Craig Kellberg is back in the co-host seat for a second week in a row, and selected for Ken a story called "A Call" by Grace MacGowan Cooke. Possibly with the help of her sister.
And then your hosts ramble on about embarrassing dating situations. So don't miss that!
"A Call" was published in the 1906.
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Tuesday Sep 27, 2022
Bad Doctor
Tuesday Sep 27, 2022
Tuesday Sep 27, 2022
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How do you feel about clowns?Is it okay to practice your strokes in public?Would you smoke another man's pipe?
These questions and more are discussed as your hosts try to read another one of those books that look good on your shelf.
If you have a shelf.
Or books.
This week, Craig Kellberg is back in the co-host seat, and Ken has given him a story called "A Fight with a Ghost" by and author credited as Q.E.D. Who is this mysteriously named author?
You'll have to listen to find out!
"A Fight with a Ghost" was published in the 1904 collection 25 Ghost Stories compiled and edited by W. Bob Holland.
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Tuesday Sep 20, 2022
Angsty Bloviation
Tuesday Sep 20, 2022
Tuesday Sep 20, 2022
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How old is too old to be a teenage dirtbag?
Like, that whole attitude stops being cool eventually, right?
That seems to be a major talking point in this weeks story by Russia's great tragedian or comedian depending on who you ask, Anton Long-middle-name-that-starts-with-a-P Chekhov.
Ken reads the story with such great detailed character work that even he forgets when he's reading and when he's just being an idiot. And this week's co-host Jamie does her best to sneak some historical relevance in, but it's a losing battle. But what do you expect from a story literally called "From the Diary of a Violent Tempered Man". It may as well be titled "Boo Hoo, I'm Grumpy".
Along the way, your hosts discuss the invention of CPR, adolescent melancholy, and Getting stoned and playing Grand Theft Auto.
"From the Diary of a Violent Tempered Man" was first published in July, 1887.
Oh, and for the song The Guitar, mentioned in this episode go here!
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Tuesday Sep 06, 2022
The Menace in the Rear
Tuesday Sep 06, 2022
Tuesday Sep 06, 2022
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Have you ever thought "Gosh, I miss being young"?
This episode will singlehandedly change your mind.
The good old days were neither good, nor old, nor days. Actually that's not true. They were definitely days, they were older than today, and some of them may have been good, but that's not the point.
The point is that this week, your hosts have a story for you by Stephen Crane called "The Pace of Youth", and good lord young people are stupid! Not you of course. You are both young and very clever. But all the other young people? Yeah, dummies.
And what do Ken and Heather talk about while reading this story?The death of Romeo and Juliet.The death of Yahoo!The death of X-Tube.Huh...that's a lot of death for a cute story about young people...weird.
"The Pace of Youth" was first published in The Open Boat and Other Stories in 1898.
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Tuesday Aug 30, 2022
Sexy Carl’s Jr.
Tuesday Aug 30, 2022
Tuesday Aug 30, 2022
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So this one gets...sexy? If we can call grease and custard sexy
Ken has a story for Heather to read this week from a man named Victor Bridges (look him up, he barely exists), who has become our new favorite author here at Campfire Classics.
This episode gets raunchy, hysterical, sexy, funny...it's basically podcasting burlesque.
The story is called "The Man with the Chin" (no spoilers in that title), and Heather does an admirable job reading it. That's a joke you'll get once you've listened to the episode.
Along with the story, you'll get such inspiring conversation as:How to become a millionaire.Floating Renn FairesAnd who thinks about penises more, men or women?
"The Man with the Chin" was first published in The Cruise of the "Scandal" and Other Stories in 1920.
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Tuesday Aug 23, 2022
Look After Your Ass
Tuesday Aug 23, 2022
Tuesday Aug 23, 2022
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Look after your own ass. Just good words to live by.
This week we're dipping into the tales of the Brothers Grimm! Because somehow we seem to have missed them so far.
Ken selected this story and a returning guest host is reading it! Because no one, not even Ken, liked his solo episode from last week. Don't worry, the people in charge of making that decision have been mercilessly ridiculed.
So! The story this week is called "Little Table Set Thyself, Gold-Ass, and Cudgel Out of the Sack". Hard to believe there are any words left or the rest of the story.
This weeks conversation topics include monkey syphilis, talking rose bushes, and the inevitable heat death of the universe. Two of those are true, ten points to the first person to email us and tell us which one isn't.
"Little Table Set Thyself, Gold-Ass, and Cudgel Out of the Sack" was first published in Gimms' Fairy Tales in 1812 under the German title "Tischlein deck dich, Goldesel und Knüppel aus dem Sack."
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Tuesday Aug 16, 2022
Tales From the Tub
Tuesday Aug 16, 2022
Tuesday Aug 16, 2022
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Welcome to the first official installment of Tales From the Tub, where Ken and Heather can't record together, so Ken just reads you story!
A few weeks back, in the episode "Silly Old Bear" Ken read the first Winnie the Pooh story. Today, he reads you the second.
We will soon return to your normal programming, but for now Campfire Classics hopes you enjoy this quiet little short story read with no sex jokes made about getting stuck in a hole.
Winnie-the-Pooh was first published in 1926.
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Tuesday Aug 09, 2022
Throbbing Knob
Tuesday Aug 09, 2022
Tuesday Aug 09, 2022
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Go become a burglar. I think that's the moral of this week's episode.
Or possibly it's that '90s pop culture references are weird.
I really don't know. Maybe this episode, like life, has no moral, and we are all merely wandering through a meaningless nihilistic wasteland that we call "reality" because we don't know what else to do.
Agh! This is what happens when I'm forced to listen to Ken try to be clever and philosophical while Heather butchers French words. I get maudlin...
Anyway.
This week, Ken has selected another Arsène Lupin story for Heather to read. This story is called "The Black Pearl". Since Ken decided he didn't want to do fun facts this week, for info on the author you can check out season 2, episode 6 "The Drag Queen Chaperone".
During the episode, our hosts tackle hard hitting social issues like the importance of Mark-Paul Gosselar, pineapple pizza, and which way to load toilet paper. Oooo...edgy stuff.
"The Black Pearl” was first published in Je Sais Tout, No. 18, 15 July 1906, as "The Extraordinary Life of Arsene Lupin: The Black Pearl"
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Tuesday Aug 02, 2022
Demon BJ
Tuesday Aug 02, 2022
Tuesday Aug 02, 2022
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This week is just unsettling, beginning to end. Even the light hearted banter is a little weird. But that is fitting, because our author this week is Weird Horror master H.P. Lovecraft.
Because we've covered Lovecraft before, so you can hear fun facts about him by listening to Season 1, Episode 11 "Don't Go in the Moist Hole" or in Season 2's "Coming for Boston".
Instead, Heather has covered a haunted acoustic guitar, and a disturbingly skeletal electric guitar from haunted eBay.
Then Ken reads this week's haunted ditty, and along the way our hosts discuss:What does "tittynope" mean?Who throws the best orgies?And seriously, why would you do that?
"The Music of Erich Zann” was first published in National Amateur in March 1922.
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Tuesday Jul 26, 2022
Victoria’s White Mound
Tuesday Jul 26, 2022
Tuesday Jul 26, 2022
Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!!
If you've ever found yourself think "This episode of Campfire Classics is too linear and the story they're reading makes a lot more sense than I want it to," then this is the episode for you. Good lord, your hosts are pulling out all the stops, hopping from non-sequitur to non-sequitur, and reading a story that feels almost like it was written by someone challenged to avoid any semblance of plot.
Now you're intrigued, aren't you?
Ken has chosen a short story by Virginia Woolf (the extra "o" proves you're supposed to howl her name) for Heather to read. It's called "Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street". And while Heather does a fabulous job of reading, the story is just...confusing.
During moments of lucidity, your hosts ask: What's the worst thing you ever consumed at a party?Is it better to have no guests or shitty guests?And what the crap is going on in this story!?!?
"Ms. Dalloway in Bond Street” was published by The Dial in 1923.
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Tuesday Jul 19, 2022
Sir Johnny Bangs 3: Chalk My Cue
Tuesday Jul 19, 2022
Tuesday Jul 19, 2022
Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!!
YES! The knight errant and lord protector of the realm, Sir Johnny Bangs has returned again, to keep us safe from boredom and bad puns. And he succeeds on one of those two fronts.
Long time fans will be delighted to learn that Heather has chosen a story by John Kendrick Bangs for Ken to read this week. But our long time fans have proven that they are easily entertained, so maybe that's not saying much!
After a quick series recap on how our hosts are incapable of following a through line without severe tangential nonsense. But that seems to be part of their charm! Either that or we all have some sort of auditory Stockholm Syndrome.
Ken reads the story with his usual array of voices ranging from grizzled to old to old and grizzled. Along the way your hosts discuss how many balls are too many, the invention of the contact lens, and your favorite joke.
"The Speck on the Lens” was published in the collection The Water Ghost & Others in 1894.
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Tuesday Jul 12, 2022
Oh! Pooh!
Tuesday Jul 12, 2022
Tuesday Jul 12, 2022
Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!!
Come down! Come down! And let’s see who you be!
If that didn’t make sense to you, you haven’t listened to this week’s episode yet. And why the heck not!?!? Huh? What’s keeping you?
It is a pretty good one. Ken has chosen a story for Heather by author Harriet Beecher Stowe of Uncle Tom fame. But like, it’s funny, and spooky, and there’s a lot of stuff about poo and penises. So, you know…a Campfire Classics episode.
Heather gives a masterful read despite the story being largely written in dialect (something regular listeners will know our hosts fear more than death by a thousand mosquitoes), and along the way you’ll be treated to some classic ‘90s movie references from Heather, Ken fundamentally misunderstanding what is happening in the story, and a surprisingly long conversation about the virtues of a wooden prosthetic foreskin.
"The Ghost in the Mill” was published in the collection Oldtown Fireside Stories in 1872.
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Tuesday Jul 05, 2022
A Spoonful of Sugar
Tuesday Jul 05, 2022
Tuesday Jul 05, 2022
Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!!
This one gets weird right off the bat, with Heather deciding that being literary and funny isn't enough, this show also needs to be a paranormal political travelogue. It's a pretty wild opening that includes advice on finding some really horrifying stuff on the internet. Ken does not approve.
Once we get to the story, chosen by Heather this week, we're back in familiar if unsettling territory as Ken reads a ghost story from M.R. James entitled "The Haunted Dolls House."
It's exactly the kind of beautifully written creep fest we've come to expect from Mr. James. As the episode progresses Heather tries to sell you things I promise you don't want, Ken basically just whines about being uncomfortable a lot, and one of your hosts misses a really obvious "Elizabethan erection" joke.
"The Haunted Dolls House" was published in Empire Review in 1923. It was republished 2 years later in the anthology A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories.
Some of the haunted objects Heather talks about can be found here.
Info on M.R James can be found by listening to Episode 6 of this podcast!
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Tuesday Jun 28, 2022
A Plethora of Butts
Tuesday Jun 28, 2022
Tuesday Jun 28, 2022
Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!!
It's the closest thing to a live episode we've done yet! Recorded at an actual campsite in front of a real live tent! Oh, the excitement! The drama! The...butt jokes? Okay, so it's the same old show.
Ken has chosen a story for Heather to read by author Stuart Strauss (probably a fake name) called "The Shadow on the Moor". That part is probably real.
As the stories are read, your hosts ask:How do they spell cigarette in 2937?Do you remember the game Crossfire?Can a butt be an inny?
"The Shadow on the Moor" was published in 1928 in Weird Tales. Extensive research has discovered no evidence of an active copyright.
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Tuesday Jun 21, 2022
Frozen Flagpole
Tuesday Jun 21, 2022
Tuesday Jun 21, 2022
Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!!
A perfect example of why we can't have nice things, this episode was recorded late at night, and good lord, our hosts are punchy.
So, what does that mean for us? Well, really business as usual, I suppose. Heather and Ken chatter on like morons for like ten minutes, and then Heather introduces the story she has pick for Ken to try to read this week. Written by Vincent James O'Sullivan, it is called "The Interval." and that's all the hints you get!
Ken reads valiantly, and along the way your hosts question: What is the dirtiest sounding clean phrase?Is Heather a chicken-shit or smart?What kind of idiot is Ken?
"The Interval" and it was published back in 1917 in The Boston Even Transcript.
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Tuesday Jun 14, 2022
Chode Rocket
Tuesday Jun 14, 2022
Tuesday Jun 14, 2022
Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!!
Have you ever wondered what a Garth Brooks Science Fiction song would sound like?
No? That's okay, neither had I. Then I heard this episode, and oh my...
This week, Ken has a story for Heather that was written by a railroad watchman who never went to school. And if that doesn't get you excited, you're probably a clever person.
H. Beam Piper wrote "The Answer" and it was published back in 1958. Once again, lazy copyright lawyers make it available to us already! Though we're not so sure that song about raccoons is in the public domain yet, so... ssshhhhh.
As the story progresses your hosts discuss 1920s frat boys, 50 foot shafts, and putting long things in your mouth.
"The Answer" was published in 1958. Extensive research has found no evidence of active copyright.
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Tuesday Jun 07, 2022
Revenge of Pirate Jesus
Tuesday Jun 07, 2022
Tuesday Jun 07, 2022
Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!!
In a world where EVERYONE has a podcast, you must ask yourself...why aren't we a union yet!?
Did you read that in you best Don LaFontaine voice? I hope so. Anyway, about the episode.
Heather has chosen a story for Ken to read. It's a Western by the guy who wrote Destry Rides Again. The story is "Wine on the Desert" by Frederick Schiller Faust, AKA Max Brand, AKA Evan Evans, AKA George Owen Baxter, AKA George Evans, AKA Peter Dawson, AKA David Manning, AKA John Frederick, AKA Peter Morland, AKA George Challis, AKA Peter Ward, AKA Frederick Frost...I'm tired now, what was I saying?
Ken reads, and along the way your hosts discuss their favorite listeners, dead wood dick, and sweet sweet revenge cherries.
"Wine on the Desert" was published in 1941 under the pen name Evan Evans.
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