Campfire Classics Podcast

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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:

"Ponsonby and the Pantheress" can be found in the 1914 book The Cost of Wings, and Other Stories.

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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:

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.

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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.

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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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.

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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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?

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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How do you murder a couch?

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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Can you braid your back hair?

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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Can we talk about clowns two episodes in row?

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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How do you feel about clowns?

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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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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