Campfire Classics Podcast

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

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

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

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,...

Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!! Alright, we're swinging hard back into the realm of SciFi this week with a short story from one of the biggest names in the genre, Philip K. Dick.  He gave us Blade Runner, Total Recall, and Minority Report, and this week he's giving us "The Gun". This is one of those stories that is mostly so engaging that your hosts forget to be funny, bu...

Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!! Ready for a story with a moral?  Nah, me neither.  How about this vague fairy tale by Scotsman Andrew Lang.  Ken has selected the story "The Fisherman and his Wife" from The Green Fairy Book. Your hosts also play a new game that you can play along with at home!  Write in and let us know how you stack up. Along the way, Ken and Emily discuss...

Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!! Here's a bit of tonal whiplash from last week.  Good lord, you really never know what you're going to get with this show, do you!? So, Ken is reading a children's story this week called "The Book of Beasts"!  Written by Edith Nesbit, it is an early children's adventure story about a boy king and a dragon. Also, pay attention to this week's...

Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!! Oh no.  They are punchy this week.  The first twenty minutes is nothing but foolishness with no serious material covered.  It was almost like someone told our hosts that this podcast was supposed to be FUNNY.  But we all know that here at Campfire Classics we won't stand for frivolity in our literature. Eventually, Ken and Emily buckle down...

Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!! We're back with another ghost story, this one from Rudyard Kipling of The Jungle Book fame. It's a weird one given that the scariest thing that happens is a game of billiards, but manages to be spooky despite Ken's Reading of it.  Emily does give some fascinating Fun Facts about our author though, complete with a fake news death hoax. This...

Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!! Okay, so, spoilers, but apparently the author doesn't care so why should we: this week's story is called "A True Relation of the Apparition of one Mrs. Veal, the next Day after her Death: to one Mrs. Bargrave at Canterbury. The 8th of September, 1705."  No, really, that is the title of the story, not the story in its entirety.  Written by D...

Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!! "Little Mummies" was the alternative title to this episode, but you know...shock value.  Throw some saucy language in the title and you get more listens.  Anyway!  Welcome!  This week, Emily has dug up and old mummy's curse story for Ken to read.  It was written by Louisa May Alcott, and...wait...that can't be right.  I'm going to double ch...

Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!! Officially knighted by...well...us...Sir Johnny Bangs has returned! That's right friends, our author from Episode 1 of this season is back! Back then we read "The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall," which was an amusing or sad ride, depending on whose side you were on.  This week we're reading a Sherlock Holmes/A.J. Raffles mashup called "The Ad...

Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!! Happy Big Game Week! We hope your team won. Happy Valentine's Day!  We hope your day was fun. And happy New Episode Day! Always our favorite one. This week's story, read by Ken, is an uncommonly romantic story compared to our usual selections. Written by early feminist author Kate Chopin, the story "A Mental Suggestion" takes a few unexpect...

Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!! This week in honor of the upcoming romantic holiday, we're reading a horrifying story by master of creepiness, H.P. Lovecraft, called "The Picture in the House". Naturally, your hosts do their due diligence, being weird, playful, and totally dorky.  But eventually they get to the story and then, well...Trigger Warning.  Because this Trigger...

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 some...

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 wi...

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. Conversat...

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...

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 insanit...

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...

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 st...

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 "Behin...

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...

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 Connect...