Campfire Classics Podcast

Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!!

Ken gets to read again, finally, as Emily has chosen story for him to read.  This week we return to long time favorite author H.G. Wells with a story called "Mr. Brishner's Treasure."

But first, your hosts take a few minutes to discuss their true passion: Puzzles!  No, not like cool puzzle boxes.  Not escape rooms.  Those pictures that someone cut into tiny pieces so that we have to put them back together just to see what they look like.

Except that we don't need to do that, because there's a picture of the puzzle already put together on the box cover.  And that picture doesn't have little cuts and divots all over, so it's actually a BETTER PICTURE than the puzzle!

I guess what I'm trying to say is that puzzles are pointless and you people are monsters.

Now, what were we talking about?  Oh, right, Ken reads a story, and he and Emily get side tracked by by the usual assortment of misunderstood words, forced innuendos, and TALKING ABOUT PUZZLES.

"Mr. Brishner's Treasure" was first published in April 1899 in the Strand Magazine.

Remember to tell five friends to check out Campfire Classics.

Also, the 2022 calendar featuring co-host Ken in Halloween animal ears is now available on our website!

And find Emily online using her social media handle @embosc

Now sit back, light a fire (or even a candle), grab a drink, and enjoy.

Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!!

This week, it almost seems Ken and Emily have a prophetic connection to the story, which would be way cooler if it weren't a story called "And All the Girls Were Nude".  As you might imagine it's not our most PG story. 

Written by Richard Magruder (that's MagruDer with a D, not a B), it is a story which, while not particularly subtle, is wildly entertaining.

As the story progresses your hosts discuss the educational value of this very podcast, the euphemistic possibilities of the Grand Canyon, and how neither of them have ever seen any pornography.

"And All the Girls Were Nude" was first published in December 1954 in the magazine Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy.  Extensive research has not uncovered any evidence of a current copyright on the story.

Remember to tell five friends to check out Campfire Classics.

Also, the 2022 calendar featuring co-host Ken in Halloween animal ears is now available on our website!

And find Emily online using her social media handle @embosc

Now sit back, light a fire (or even a candle), grab a drink, and enjoy.

Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!!

We really need to start more episodes with dance parties.  That would be fun.

This week we've got a 20 second disco early on, and it just keeps getting weirder.

We're celebrating Edgar Allan Poe's birthday this week.  Fun facts are all about the Poe Toaster, and Emily reads the story "The Angel of the Odd".  And oh boy, is it odd.

Conversation along the way includes the worst day ever, bouncing for fun and exercise, and repeated ejaculations!

"The Angel of the Odd" was first published in 1844 in The Columbian Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine.

Remember to tell five friends to check out Campfire Classics.

Also, the 2022 calendar featuring co-host Ken in Halloween animal ears is now available on our website!

And find Emily online using her social media handle @embosc

Now sit back, light a fire (or even a candle), grab a drink, and enjoy.

Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!!

We're a little slap happy this week!  But the best things in life always happen...

That's it, the best things in life always happen.  It's not profound but there it is.

Emily is back behind the mic, taking some of the pressure off of Ken this week, and she jumps in to read a mid '50s Pulp Detective ScifFi by a guy called Paul Fairman.  His story, "Dalrymple's Equation" is pretty wild, but not near as wild as our hosts tangents.

What is Ken's police informant name?  What part of Boston is Chicago?  And why is the puss sneering?

"Dalrymple's Equation" was first published in 1956 in the magazine Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy.  Extensive research has found no evidence of an active copyright.

Remember to tell five friends to check out Campfire Classics.

Also, the 2022 calendar featuring co-host Ken in Halloween animal ears is now available on our website!

Now sit back, light a fire (or even a candle), grab a drink, and enjoy.

Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!!

A short one this week, just a quick Happy Public Domain Day message from host Ken Sandberg.

Life has gotten away from your hosts, but it's not every week that Winnie-the-Pooh enters public domain!  So, if you're a fan of that silly old bear all stuffed with fluff, give this one a listen.

Next week will return to the usual irreverent insanity, but for now, enjoy a sweet simple story from our childhood.

And, to see Ken read from A.A. Milne's book of poetry When We Were Very Young, check out 50/50 Arts Productions videos here.

So sit back, light a fire (or even a candle), grab a drink, and enjoy.

Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!!

That title really says it all.  This is a weird one.  The story is lovely, but the setup is unconventional.  If you're a new listener, maybe start somewhere else.

If you listen anyway, the first listener to message us having figured out what is different about this week wins 150 points and a brand new shiny Thank You from us!

This week, the story comes from P. G. Wodehouse.  For fun facts about this funny man, check out Episode 33, Dynamite of the Soul.

And on that note, I'm going to let you get to it.  Short and simple.  This week's story, "Jeeves and the Hard Boiled Egg" was published in the Saturday Evening Post in the United States on 3 March 1917, and in The Strand Magazine in the United Kingdom in August 1917. The story was also included in the 1925 collection Carry On, Jeeves.

So sit back, light a fire (or even a candle), grab a drink, and enjoy.

Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!!

This week we have a mascot! Lucy the sad eyed dog!

She's adorable, but we try not to dwell.  As you know, we here at Campfire Classics are very good at keeping on track with our job of reading literature.  Speaking of, this week Emily Bosco is back and she's reading a Charles Dickens short called "The Ghost in Master B.s Room".

The jokes start before we get around to the first paragraph, but that's not uncommon.  Along the way topics discussed include bisexual textiles, cockney rhyming slang, and inappropriate school age activities.

"The Ghost in Master B.s Room" was first published in 1859 in the book The Haunted House.

Remember to tell five friends to check out Campfire Classics.

Also, the 2022 calendar featuring co-host Ken in Halloween animal ears is now available on our website!

Now sit back, light a fire (or even a candle), grab a drink, and enjoy.

Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!!

We're making history with Campfire Classics this week!  Something that has never been done.  It's a podcast hosted by...two dudes.

That's right, this week, with Heather once again unavailable for comment, Ken's brother Craig is stepping up to the mic to read a story by a new author named Gertrude Barrows Bennett.  The story is called "Behind the Curtain".  And spoilers...there's a curtain in it.

We don't think this episode gets too inside jokey despite the fraternal co-hosts, but one concern we do have is how similar Ken and Craig sound while speaking.  If you're reading this, please let us know: can you tell them apart?

This weeks tangents include Animorphs, prescription vacations, and pregnant sloths!  Strap in kiddos, it's a weird one.

"Behind the Curtain" was first published in 1918.

Remember to tell five friends to check out Campfire Classics.

Also, the 2022 calendar featuring co-host Ken in Halloween animal ears is now available on our website!

Now sit back, light a fire (or even a candle), grab a drink, and enjoy.

Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!!

This week we have a pair of Fairy Tales read to us by real life fairy, well, self proclaimed half-fairy, Tauren Hagans! She's able to take a break from singing Christmas tunes out in North Carolina to sit behind a mic and read with Ken.

Ken has chosen two stories from L. Frank Baum's American Fairy Tales, and the stories are delightful.  We've read from this book before, so you get a few fun facts, but for more in depth looks into Baum's life check out episode 1/31 "Acetone High on the Yellow Brick Road" or 2/8 "Baum 2.0".

The episode is charming, and along the way Ken and Tauren discuss life as a half-fairy and the evils of seagulls, all while rewriting the endings of Mr. Baum's stories.

"The King of the Polar Bears" and "The Capture of Father Time" were first published in American Fairy Tales in 1901.

Find Tauren at her website taurenhagans.com, and learn all about how you too can be a fairy, or at least have the hair of one, at at fairyhairnyc.com!

Also, the 2022 calendar featuring co-host Ken in Halloween animal ears is now available on our website!

Remember to tell five friends to check out Campfire Classics.

Now sit back, light a fire (or even a candle), grab a drink, and enjoy.

Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!!

Here at Campfire Classics, the coming of the holiday season means only one thing.  A shift in the tone of our stories.  It’s time to leave the mysteries and frivolities of the rest of the year behind and turn our minds back to that genre truly synonymous with Christmas...GHOST STORIES!

Emily is back behind the mic, coming at us from Connecticut.  Ken has chosen a story for her from long time Campfire Classics favorite M.R. James.  The story is called "The Diary of Mr. Poynter", and though it is a slow burn to the spookiness, it definitely gets to that creeping horror we've come to expect from his writing.

In the tradition of great episodes before, this one devolves into bouts of giddy laughter as Ken and Emily discuss Thanksgiving cuteness, perpetually wet spots, and a sexual goat auntie.

"The Diary of Mr. Poynter" was first published in Ghost Stories of an Antiquary in 1904.

Also, the 2022 calendar featuring co-host Ken in Halloween animal ears is now available on our website!

Remember to tell five friends to check out Campfire Classics.

Now sit back, light a fire (or even a candle), grab a drink, and enjoy.