Campfire Classics Podcast

Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!!

Ken is back this week with a fantasy epic form Mr. Baum!!

This Oz flavored Holiday Happening should fill you with cheer, and repentance, and envy...wait, that doesn't sound right, does it?

"A Kidnapped Santa Claus" was first publish in 1904 and has been called "one of Baum's most beautiful stories."

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Ken is back this week, working all by his onesome, and bringing you some classic sci-fi from Ray Bradbury.

Your host reads, and I don't have the patience to go into it more than that, so just listen to it! It's a good story!

"A Little Journey" was published in the August 1951 edition of Galaxy Science Fiction. Extensive research has uncovered no copyright.

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This week is more literary than usual.

More in the sense of Ken reads a longer than usual story.

He's flying solo again this week (lord help us) so he's decided, in his infinite "wisdom", to read us an extra long story.

In fairness, it's a pretty good one.

Coming to you directly...no, that's actually not true. Coming to you INdirectly from Dame Agatha Christie!

The Kidnapped Prime Minister!

"The Kidnapped Prime Minister" was published in Poirot Investigates in 1924.

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Happy Thanksgiving!

The Christmas Creep begins next week, but for now we celebrate the birth of pie and mashed potatoes, or something like that.

Whatever.

Ken is going it alone this week, and he's got a holiday story ready for you from the always (sometimes) hilarious O. Henry!

The story is "Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen" and Ken reads it...well, yeah, he reads it.

You'll also learn another reason to think Thomas Jefferson was a dick, the story of the real first American Thanksgiving, and, hey, did you catch the episode title? DEVIL PEE!

"Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen" was published in the short story collection The Trimmed Lamp and Other Stories of the Four Million, in 1907.

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Whoa!  What happened! I had two whole weeks of feeling like life made sense, and now...

Oh, the show's back, that's what...

Ah well. This week your hosts cover a new author with...cute hairy buns...? That can't be right.

No! His name is Henry Cuyler Bunner. Heather has selected his story "The Nice People" for Ken to read. And I tell you what, he really does read some words.

During the story, Ken and Heather chat about antiquated bit jokes, ruminate on pigeon genocide, and balk at the serious shade thrown at Mothers-in-Law by Hank Bunner.

"The Nice People" is from Bunner's Short Sixes and also appeared in his periodical Puck in the July 30, 1890 issue.

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Our hosts are going old school this week.

A REAL campfire.

A familiar author.

A creepy story.

And NO editing.

That's right folks. This week is raw and unedited.

Ken gives Heather "The Tell-Tale Heart" by E. A. Poe.

While she reads, your hosts discuss signs that you might be a serial killer, things they like uncut, and invent a new word!

"The Tell-Tale Heart" was published in 1843.

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How much could you learn about a person based on their most quoted movie or song?

What if that person were secretly a vampire?

These and many other questions have nothing to do with this week's story!

The story Heather picked for Ken this week is by a vampire... I mean author... who called herself May Sinclair... if that was her real name... which it wasn't...

The story is called "The Token" and Ken reads it well, but somehow Heather still ends up doing some dodgy accent work.

Other questions:

"The Token" was published in the book Uncanny Stories in 1923.

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It's 1993!

And Scotch season.

And that's as much intro as you need.

Ken has selected a story this week by Arthur C. Clarke. The story is called The Pacifist, and that title is surprisingly spoiler free!

Heather reads well, which is, let's face it, kind of a prerequisite for being part of this podcast.  Though there is some confusion as to the difference between geology and genealogy.

Along the way, Heather overcomplicates the first name in the story, misses a few INTRICACIES, and probably doesn’t offend the French, though Ken might…

"The Pacifist" was published in 1956 in Fantastic Universe.

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It's October! Time for a Fest of some kind.

With food maybe? And something to drink?

Some kind of...October...Fest...

Nah. That's silly.

Heather has selected this week's story, and it comes to us from E.F. Benson, author of "The Room in the Tower", from Campfire Classics episode number 24 Dreams, Feasts, and Fire Island. Ken gives it a go, despite some unreasonably long sentences.

Discussion topics this week include the international awesomeness of coffee, what we do in the back, and a misidentified president.

"The Terror by Night" was published in 1912 in The Room in the Tower, and Other Stories.

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What do you think of when you think of Italy?

For many the answer is the Mario Brothers! Probably.

Anyway, I'm gonna say it is so that I can segue into this weeks author Luigi (like the video game plumber) Capuana!

Ken selected the story, which means you are going to be treated to Heather's dulcet voice as she reads a story that contains disappointinglu few foreign words.

Along the way Heather does struggle with one particular word, Ken chooses not to commit copyright infringement despite announcing that he's going to, and...so...many...voices!

"The Deposition" was published in English The Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories in 1907.

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