Campfire Classics Podcast

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:

"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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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:

"The Interval" and it was published back in 1917 in The Boston Even Transcript.

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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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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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Happy 100 episodes!

That's right!  Our silly little podcast has made it to 100.  That's wild!

To celebrate Heather returns to the microphone, and Ken decides to badmouth a bunch of beloved TV shows that were cancelled way before their time.  Because this is a classy show...or something.

Ken has selected the story for Heather to read, and surprising no one, it's an Agatha Christie story.  And you know what that means!  That's right. Heather has to try to do her Hercule Poirot voice.  And it goes about as well as it always does.

So, we listen to "The Plymouth Express Affair" while Ken and Heather drink bubbly wine, discuss the family jewels, and tell Trekkies to suck it. Because picking on nerds is cool?

It's okay. We can make those jokes. We're nerds, too.

"The Plymouth Express Affair" was published in the January 1924 issue of The Blue Book Magazine.

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And welcome back Craig to Episode 99!  We're almost at a landmark!

How do we celebrate?  By reading a story that we don't really understand and planning the worst musical ever constructed!

Obviously.

Ken has selected the story (if that's what we're calling it) from a new author named Andrew Halliday.  His story "The Engine-Driver" is about...an engine driver, I guess.  I'm actually not sure.  I just finished editing the episode and I don't think your hosts even know what it was.

Anyway, along Ken and Craig make some truly outlandish theatrical plans, speculate wildly over the motivations of (probably) innocent man, and once again taking up valuable podcasting time making fun of a Tom Cruise movie.

"The Engine-Driver" was published in the 1866 book Mugby Junction.

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There's a new host in town this week. Campfire Classics recurring character Ken's Mom (known to most of the world as Jamie Sandberg) has finally shown up in the flesh for a Mothers Day Weekend recording session.  That means this is going to be a nice clean wholesome episode, right?

Right?

Aw, that's cute.

Ken clearly is a little tentative about the usual brand of humor in front of his own mother, but she pushes the issue and...well...you'll just have to listen.

Jamie has a story for Ken to read.  It's by a new author to the podcast named M.E. Braddon, and you're going to want to listen to these fun facts because her life was a ride. Ken does a reasonably good job, but he just abandons the German accent that was laid in front of him.  Come on, Ken.  Do better.

During the episode, Ken and Jamie discuss accidental bigamy, cousin marriage, and infrequent ejaculation.  So we're clear, this is Ken...AND HIS MOTHER. Someone is making some life choices.

"The Cold Embrace" was published in 1860.

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This week's co-host is Ken's brother, Craig!  The boys had fun last time he came on, but this week Craig starts the episode off with a shocking revelation!

Once they sort that out, Ken introduces this week's author and story, and Craig jumps into a valiant reading of C.M. Eddy, Jr's "The Ghost-Eater".

Along the way, the boys discuss a new music genre, Craig struggles to pronounce words (this is why you warm up), and Ken fails to remember the name of the guy who wrote Conan the Barbarian.  It's Robert E. Howard, Ken, you've read him on this show.  Get your crap together, dude.

If you listened last week, a "cash clo man" was a man who would stand in the street ringing loud cowbells and offering to buy people's junk, especially old clothes.  They were outlawed across most of the planet by the late 1930s for being loud and annoying.

"The Ghost-Eater" was published in Weird Tales in 1924.

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Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!!

Hey, who's that on the podcast?  Heather!  She's back for this one as she gets closer and closer to getting off the ship!

Ken has a story for her to read by a new author, Richard Le Gallienne, called "The Haunted Orchard". It is, unsurprisingly, a little haunting story about a ghost.  In an orchard.  But despite being a little on the nose, it's beautiful story with some incredible imagery.

Ken and Heather catch us up on Heather's recent adventures, then they get into the story discuss some bizarre side topics like Shakespeare's little Willy, furniture made by exotic dancers, and mormons at a beach bar.

Oh, and they don't have internet access, so you're going to have to look up words yourself.

"The Haunted Orchard" was published in Harper's Magazine, January, 1912.

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