Tear Jars and Tombstones

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12/14/21 • 63 min

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Campfire Classics Podcast

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!!

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

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.

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Fairies, Wishes, and Seagull

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.

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Orgy? Orgy

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.