Round the World With Cracklin Jane

Mar 10 2025 100 ep. 65 mins 32

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Each week, a curated selection of historical 78 RPM recordings of mostly popular music, with a radio drama thrown in at the end.

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Dictator

Mar 10 2025 58 mins

We consider the pros and cons of dictatorship as a career choice. Luckily, we have a treasure trove of 78 RPM recordings dealing with the matter to inform our research. The focus of our fact-finding mission is three of the dictators from the Second World War: Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Josef Stalin. Let’s let popular songs from the 1940’s tell us what people really fel

Parade of Parades

Mar 03 2025 59 mins

Kingsley Research and Development is testing its latest market-busting innovation: an activity tracker that can holographically depict the future of the wearer based on present conditions. In order to test the device on a massive scale, they are sponsoring the Parade of Parades, in which the test subjects do all the marching around the bands and floats, which remain stationary. The

Laneboro

Feb 24 2025 59 mins

The team of federal agents led by Agent Galahad have been batting zero in little Laneboro. They have been tasked with conducting a series of raids to pick up certain undesirables. The locals seem to be cooperating. But what’s going on here?

Trip to Hades

Feb 18 2025 58 mins

Miss Krakauer spoils everyone’s spring vacation with a homework assignment: Go out and interview people stuck in an undesirable living situation that they can’t get out of. Some of the students head over to the local jail, some to the Old Folks’ Home, but Ray decides to go to Hades and interview the tormented souls there. Does he come back in one piece?

Funny Thing About 1924

Feb 11 2025 58 mins

We blast off for Planet Kingsley X-10 for the reading of Grandma’s will, in which she stipulates that Rufus will inherit a fortune if he can earn a PhD by age 30. He embeds on Planet Earth to do an anthropological study for his dissertation on Humor in 1924 Music. Will his research be accepted by the examining committee?

To the Moon and Beyond

Feb 03 2025 59 mins

Big Leader, boss-hog of the entire world, has systematically expanded his empire - first with a few isolated countries here and there - until every inhabited region on earth is under his dominion. Now he wants to build an exclusive golf resort on the moon.

Secrets

Jan 27 2025 59 mins

The Red Top Rumormonger, unprincipled periodical, treacherous tabloid, iniquitous newspaper, crippled by court settlements for perfidious exposes - the editorial board has decided to bolster the bottom line by blackmailing ordinary citizens, who need to maintain their community standing and can afford a modest outlay of hush money. That’s the idea, anyway. Will it work?

Cinderblock

Jan 20 2025 59 mins

At the low point of her existence, Cinderblock, the outcast alley cat, accidently rubs on an ancient lamp, releasing the genie, who promises three wishes. Is it just a hallucination stemming from hypothermia and starvation, or will Cinderblock suddenly be transformed into an Alpha Feline?

Jams and Jellies

Jan 13 2025 59 mins

Yes, there’s a new sheriff in town – at Kingsley Industrial Jams and Jellies division. And it’s time to get the lead out in research and development. We join Grandma and her team of advisers as they sift through the submissions and recommendations found in the long-neglected employee suggestion box.

Day Trader

Jan 04 2025 59 mins

Welcome to Cromwell’s Candy Store, a neighborhood institution for generations. A juvenile joyland, a pediatric paradise. But is Cromwell’s everything it seems? Why doesn’t Old Man Cromwell ever seem to age? Why do so many adults furtively visit Cromwell’s and often emerge candyless? The answer lies behind the heavy green velvet curtain beyond the counter.