Campfire Classics Podcast

Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!! 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. ...

Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!! 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: Clowns aren't funny. ClownDog is coming to get you.  Woof woof stab, bitches. Clowns are y...

Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!! 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...

Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!! 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. What's the hardest thing about moving? He had the third biggest what in London? What sword swallowing skills are transfera...

Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!! 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? What's the worst slutty holiday? Do ghosts orgasm? These questions are answered, whether you like it or not, while heather reads th...

Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!! How do you murder a couch? Who is going to get theirs? How early is too early for coming? 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...

Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!! Can you braid your back hair? What does WCCDESTARWSMAPTBT stand for? Do women really have "war counsels"? 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 r...

Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!! Can we talk about clowns two episodes in row? What's your first thought when you hear "collar"? Does The Expendables need another sequel? 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 s...

Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!! How do you feel about clowns? Is it okay to practice your strokes in public? Would you smoke another man's pipe? 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...

Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!! 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 wor...

Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!! Have you ever thought "Gosh, I miss being young"? This episode will singlehandedly change your mind. The good old days were neither good, nor old, nor days.  Actually that's not true.  They were definitely days, they were older than today, and some of them may have been good, but that's not the point. The point is that this week, your hosts...

Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!! So this one gets...sexy?  If we can call grease and custard sexy Ken has a story for Heather to read this week from a man named Victor Bridges (look him up, he barely exists), who has become our new favorite author here at Campfire Classics. This episode gets raunchy, hysterical, sexy, funny...it's basically podcasting burlesque. The story...

Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!! Look after your own ass.  Just good words to live by. This week we're dipping into the tales of the Brothers Grimm!  Because somehow we seem to have missed them so far. Ken selected this story and a returning guest host is reading it! Because no one, not even Ken, liked his solo episode from last week.  Don't worry, the people in charge of...

Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!! Welcome to the first official installment of Tales From the Tub, where Ken and Heather can't record together, so Ken just reads you story! A few weeks back, in the episode " Silly Old Bear " Ken read the first Winnie the Pooh story.  Today, he reads you the second. We will soon return to your normal programming, but for now Campfire Classic...

Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!! Go become a burglar.  I think that's the moral of this week's episode. Or possibly it's that '90s pop culture references are weird. I really don't know. Maybe this episode, like life, has no moral, and we are all merely wandering through a meaningless nihilistic wasteland that we call "reality" because we don't know what else to do. Agh!  T...

Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!! This week is just unsettling, beginning to end.  Even the light hearted banter is a little weird.  But that is fitting, because our author this week is Weird Horror master H.P. Lovecraft. Because we've covered Lovecraft before, so you can hear fun facts about him by listening to Season 1, Episode 11 "Don't Go in the Moist Hole"  or in Seaso...

Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!! If you've ever found yourself think "This episode of Campfire Classics is too linear and the story they're reading makes a lot more sense than I want it to," then this is the episode for you.  Good lord, your hosts are pulling out all the stops, hopping from non-sequitur to non-sequitur, and reading a story that feels almost like it was wri...

Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!! YES!  The knight errant and lord protector of the realm, Sir Johnny Bangs has returned again, to keep us safe from boredom and bad puns.  And he succeeds on one of those two fronts. Long time fans will be delighted to learn that Heather has chosen a story by John Kendrick Bangs for Ken to read this week.  But our long time fans have proven...

Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!! Come down!  Come down!  And let’s see who you be! If that didn’t make sense to you, you haven’t listened to this week’s episode yet.  And why the heck not!?!?  Huh?  What’s keeping you? It is a pretty good one.  Ken has chosen a story for Heather by author Harriet Beecher Stowe of Uncle Tom fame.  But like, it’s funny, and spooky, and there...

Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!! This one gets weird right off the bat, with Heather deciding that being literary and funny isn't enough, this show also needs to be a paranormal political travelogue. It's a pretty wild opening that includes advice on finding some really horrifying stuff on the internet.  Ken does not approve. Once we get to the story, chosen by Heather thi...

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 pr...

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...

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 Pip...

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...

Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!! 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 su...