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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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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.
The Jack Ben...
December 27, 2019
Episode 56—All Aboard the Hogwarts Express
Science fiction writer Scott Pearson’s cohost Ella Pearson recounts her many Harry Potter-themed adventures while living in England: visiting places where J. K. Rowling worked on the books, spotting filming locations from the movies, making two trips to the Harry Potter Set Tour, and seeing the stage play...
December 25, 2019
We’re going to spend Christmas with “The Great Gildersleeve” and family. Teen-aged Marjorie would rather go out on date, unexpected guests drop by, and we’re treated to Lillian Randolph as Birdie singing a Christmas spiritual. Then Eve Arden returns as “Our Miss Brooks,” a high school English teacher who never gets a break, not even during the...
December 16, 2019
What would Christmas be without Jack Benny going Christmas shopping and doing it on the cheap? On this episode of “The Jack Benny Show,” Jack tries to decide between metal- or plastic-tipped shoe laces as a gift for Don Wilson. Then on “Fibber McGee and Molly,” Fibber tries to make a fruitcake using an old family recipe, but his lack of skills...
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