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The Chronic Rift Network is a series of podcasts looking to find the culture in pop culture. Our shows range from family fare to original audio works to discussions of your favorite television and movies to news and information programs all related to the world of pop culture. And anchoring this is The Chronic Rift. In 1990, The Chronic Rift was a public access show that ran for four years in New York City. In 2008, the show returned as a podcast continuing its quest to "find the culture in pop culture".
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March 24, 2020
Here’s a special bonus episode for everyone stuck inside and starved for entertainment -- two episodes on the theme of quarantine. First up on “Have Gun Will Travel,” Paladin helps a Native American man whose sick cattle result in others enforcing a quarantine around his land with their rifles. Then on “The Jack Benny Program,” Jack is sick in...
March 16, 2020
Just in time for St. Patrick’s Day, it’s “Lux Radio Theatre” with their adaptation of the 1949 film “Top o’ the Morning.” This tale of a singing insurance investigator – NOT Johnny Dollar – stars Dennis Day from “The Jack Benny Show.” Academy Award-winner Barry Fitzgerald and nominee Ann Blyth reprise their roles as residents of the Emerald Isl...
March 1, 2020
“It Pays to Be Married” was a daytime game show aimed at housewives. Five days a week, Jay Stewart interviewed couples from all walks of life who had faced and solved problems within their marriages. It was an inspirational, if generally light-hearted, program. On tonight’s program, Jay interviews a Latvian war bride who had trouble adjusting t...
February 15, 2020
We start out with a very faithful adaptation of the one of the oddest short stories in American literature, Herman Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener.” It’s the story of a Wall Street office clerk, Bartleby, whose job is to make copies of documents. Then one day, he doesn’t want to, saying simply "I would prefer not to." Indeed, he would prefer...
January 7, 2020
“The Jack Benny Show” starts the year off right, with talk of Christmas presents and Jack and the gang going to the Rose Bowl for the New Year’s Day game. Then on “Information Please,” are you up on famous dinner parties, the first words of poems, and the specialized slang of obscure professions? Get ready to stump the experts.
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