This week’s episode is not really about one comedy album, but about the strange case of a burned commune, the family that lived there, and the man who has been studying the site for thirty-plus years, using vinyl found at the scene as one of his tools. Among them, one comedy album (a Cosby album, as it happens). We talk about what that means and what it’s like to work on a site that’s younger than you are, but at the same time millennia older.
Host: Jason Klamm
Producer: Mike Worden
This Week’s Guests: Breck Parkman & Maura McCoy
Breck’s state bio
The BoingBoing article that turned me on to the story
Olompali: A California Story
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Cole Stratton weirds it up this week with one of my new favorite comedy albums. Albert Brooks again bends the concept of the comedy record back when it was a medium you could still do that with and confuse people to their delight. It ends with a track where you get to perform a scripted sketch with Albert “on stage.” Thanks again to Cole for introducing us to this.