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EP 312 - With Fists Raised
Well...shoot. Thanks for listening to our yarnin’, travelers. This last one has been a long meandering road, full of unexpected twists and turns and yet here we are standin’ at the end of it....
EP 311 - Hear the Sparrow
Frantic and alone, Remy is driven to the wilderness by a betrayal and her voices.
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EP 310 - Burden of Truth
Unable to combat Daniel’s demons by herself, Bethany gets a little help from a demon of her own. Meanwhile, Enid Wallace presents Amelia with a once-in-a-lifetime offer.
https://www.wbez.org/shows/pleasuretown/ep-310-burden-of-truth/11076ac6-0b55-4fed-a73a-ed69b47c6bfe
EP 309 - The Most Joy
Eli, Eve, and Flo reflect on their pasts and futures, hopes and reservations, faiths and follies. Meanwhile, Ms. Wallace joins Mr. Goose at one of PleasureTown’s more secretive venues to celebr...
https://www.wbez.org/shows/pleasuretown/ep-309-the-most-joy/f8a422b6-833d-4b30-8f58-49a58d4965e4
EP 308 - Rebuilding This Place
With the town in desperate need of financial help, the Clerk holds a State of the Town address to lay out the pros and cons of the new railroad. Meanwhile, as Bethany aids the lost spirits of Ple...
Ep 307 - The Good In Ourselves
This week on PleasureTown, Remy is challenged when one of the more troubled members of her support group rejects help. Meanwhile, Amelia blows the dust off her gloves and goes a few rounds with h...
EP 306 - Gnarled Remains
This week on PleasureTown, Skippy, the town clerk, takes stock of what is left of in the wake of the Great Fire, all the while trying to manage the out-of-touch founders. Meanwhile, Elijah, leade...
https://www.wbez.org/shows/pleasuretown/ep-306-gnarled-remains/3e46ddd4-1409-42b6-80df-d065a0574b79
EP 305 - Smoke and Embers
Amelia and Remy bond over making their totems for the Feast of the Wretched. Meanwhile, the medium Daniel encounters a spirit who tries to console his lovesick heart.
https://www.wbez.org/shows/pleasuretown/ep-305-smoke-and-embers/979f0cc4-9d0e-4aba-9f4b-c488591b810c
Ep 304 - Heart Still Beating
Tip of the hat to you listeners, and thanks again for joining us! Now, pop in those headphones and prepare to embark on another voyage into PleasureTown! This week, we follow Remy as her strugg...
Ep 303 - Certain Dignity
An opportunity to stimulate the floundering economy of PleasureTown presents itself in the form of Enid Wallace, a wealthy railroad baroness who wishes to build her tracks through the town. How w...
https://www.wbez.org/shows/pleasuretown/ep-303-certain-dignity/8bf4843d-dd65-48ca-a124-19bba1c1a317
Ep 302 - Sinners At Every Turn
Meet Bethany and Daniel, two amorous teens from Louisiana who are gifted with the ability to speak to the dead. Meanwhile, Claude and Cyrus struggle to find the finances for repairs as the town s...
Ep 301 - A Thin Connection
In the season premiere, Amelia relives her childhood and her father’s abusive self-interest to tell how she came to be the proprietor of the town’s Inn. Also, Remy, daughter to a family of we...
Ep Mini12 - The Human Form
A nudist who is known for her pink parasol describes an encounter with a pair of Irish siblings. One loves her, and one wishes to possess her.
Ep Mini11 - It Takes A Village
PleasureTown may be a playground for the liberated, but for one young man, being born into a world so focused on pleasure made life nearly unbearable. This is his story.
Ep Mini10 - How It Works
In this minisode, we meet a nameless PleasureTown resident as he recounts a chance meeting with a tormented Claude, who is haunted by memories of his father...and what he did. This minisode was w...
https://www.wbez.org/shows/pleasuretown/ep-mini10-how-it-works/7cbb51a0-98fa-4202-bdd3-9c24a99fd5ee
Ep Mini9 - Bad Water
Fear and hate go hand in hand. This is a lesson Hong, a Chinese immigrant, must learn as he traverses the Wild West to build a new home in Oklahoma. Will Hong be able to conquer the perils of his...
https://www.wbez.org/shows/pleasuretown/ep-mini9-bad-water/a609bd0d-1994-4947-94df-a91799399f72
Ep Mini8 - Rule of Symmetry
This week on PleasureTown, we join Clara, a young mathematician and PleasureTown native, as she decides to leave her family and community behind. Although Clara sets out to forge her own identity...
Telegram For You!
We've missed you. Stop. We'll be back soon. Stop. Follow us on Twitter. Stop. @PleasureTownOK Stop. And Nerdette is back! Stop. Joy abounds! Stop.
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Ep 212 - Last Breath
In the season finale, Bulger and Rudd discover the Cintamani Stone, sending them on a collision course with Alvin Pilfer and Warren Featherbone III.
https://www.wbez.org/shows/pleasuretown/ep-212-last-breath/87556c29-3652-4b80-8924-becc4fed5a32
EP 211 - By Blood or Bond
Veiled by the magic of the Cintamani Stone, Adrianne enters Bulger’s store to make contact with her estranged brother. Later, the stone’s elusiveness manages to push Alvin Pilfer to the brink...
https://www.wbez.org/shows/pleasuretown/ep-211-by-blood-or-bond/418914f3-c6ce-4b6b-816a-11144e728584
Ep 210 - Of Such Metal
It's Oklahoma's 10th anniversary, and President Roosevelt is visiting as part of his campaign to drum up favor for the War. The citizens of PleasureTown are abuzz...as are the spirits who watch o...
https://www.wbez.org/shows/pleasuretown/ep-210-of-such-metal/9b04159f-758c-4bbf-937e-18a0d11cd175
Ep 209 - Hunt Of The Hunter
In The Hunt of the Hunter, a sinister figure walks in Rudd’s footsteps. Will this be the comedian’s last laugh? Meanwhile, the shantytowners stage a revolt, bringing their dismay to Claude’...
Ep 208 - The Flames Rising
It’s the Feast of the Wretched! A stranger on her way to town encounters Jeb, who has become a man on the run. Through a tale of family and fire, he warns her against what she might find in Ple...
Ep 207 - Needed Quiet
In this week’s episode, we visit with Goldie as she examines the reflection of her violent past with former lover Alvin. Waist deep in an ocean of regret and sorrow, Goldie laments failed resol...
https://www.wbez.org/shows/pleasuretown/ep-207-needed-quiet/2dcb0d16-6088-4091-b609-b8b217d1e5ea
Ep 206 - History of Solitude
In this week’s episode of PleasureTown, we join the Bartender as he ruminates on the retribution that fate has dealt him for his years spent as a hitman. Also, a withdrawn Cyrus is confronted a...
Ep 205 - Thinly Veiled Disguise
In this week’s thrilling episode of PleasureTown, Mudd plans on spending his earnings from a recent heist but instead encounters an individual possibly more devious than himself. We then walk w...
Ep 204 - Always Spot the Thorns
In the garden of life, some people are petals...and others are thorns. This time, Shiner returns to share details of her legendary romance and her legendary death. Next, we listen as Mudd and Rud...
Ep 203 - Years of Mayhem
More often than not, it is those that we least expect that are our undoing. In this week’s episode, we rejoin the town’s stoic Bartender as he is confronted by the widow of the man he murdere...
https://www.wbez.org/shows/pleasuretown/ep-203-years-of-mayhem/a3f0c03c-10e0-4ff6-9cf7-12b61ad0d46d
Ep 202 - Good Luck Charm
In the second episode of Season 2 of PleasureTown, we become reacquainted with Jebediah, a blind man whose father exploits his preternatural ability to taste what others are feeling. Also, Claude...
https://www.wbez.org/shows/pleasuretown/ep-202-good-luck-charm/b81db752-de84-472f-bb6e-d02a67cf883b
Ep 201 - And You Run
Claude and Cyrus are back with another season of strange and twisted tales from PleasureTown's past. In the Season Two premier, we begin by flashing back -- way back -- to hear a story of loss an...
https://www.wbez.org/shows/pleasuretown/ep-201-and-you-run/0f1d61ce-1c8b-4f3d-ba30-edad2cc6b94b
Ep Mini7 - This Same Flower
In PleasureTown's seventh and final "minisode," we meet a young New York City couple with big dreams of small town living. But money is tight and trouble abounds. Will the couple make it to the f...
Ep Mini6 - The Shadows
In the thrilling conclusion to the Fantasy Fair & Freak Show trilogy, tough-talking Frank and the mysterious Mirella come to Pete’s aid while Mr. Blythe attempts to confront Buster about their ...
https://www.wbez.org/shows/pleasuretown/ep-mini6-the-shadows/6423c6ec-2aeb-4868-a214-7a21af5a0c27
Ep Mini5 - Legitimate Medicine
In PleasureTown’s fifth minisode, we are introduced to smooth-talking huckster Nicholas Morrison, a new arrival who makes his living as a slinger of suspicious solutions. Soon after his arrival...
Ep Mini4 - Nothing But Hungry
In PleasureTown's fourth "minisode," we continue the story of Crandle Philing’s Fantasy Fair and Freak Show. Suspicions rise among the carnival workers as more strange happenings occur among th...
Ep Mini3 - My Life Wandering
In PleasureTown's third "minisode," we flash forward to the present, where we meet young Mason Bowen, a student at Enid State University. As part of his college thesis, he interviews Mr. Johnston...
Ep Mini2 - All Sorts of Trouble
In PleasureTown's second "minisode," a local shopkeeper with an axe to grind has a run-in with a band of youthful hoodlums. But there's opportunity to set the children on the straight and narrow ...
Ep Mini1 - By My Own Hands
In PleasureTown's first "minisode," we meet Esther, the town seamstress, who spins a yarn about her lost heritage and life under the watchful eye of the menacing Miz Janine. This is part of our "...
Ep 112 - The Road Appearing
In the season finale, an apocalyptic premonition could alter the course of Claude and Cyrus' lives forever. Meanwhile, the battle between the virtuous and the fallen comes to a head as Angie must...
Ep 111 - The Other Side of Life
Two of PleasureTown's long-time residents reach the end of the road. Ma Barker visits the grave of her deceased husband, Henry, and reflects on a life of hard knocks. Meanwhile, Shaman Jon's spir...
Ep 110 - Double Lives
A mystery unfolds in PleasureTown as one of the pillars of this hedonistic society is found dead due to strange circumstances. Meanwhile, residents cope with the aftermath of a large and destruct...
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Ep 109 - Pushing Upstream
Tensions come to a head between the PleasureTown founders, as Claude and Cyrus duke it out in a battle of words for control of the town. Meanwhile, the children of PleasureTown embark on an adven...
https://www.wbez.org/shows/pleasuretown/ep-109-pushing-upstream/5a2f1a0d-3e1a-4602-bfa2-fac91b1f1483
Ep 108 - Of Vigilance & Worry
A sudden revelation threatens the future of PleasureTown's star-crossed lovers, the Doctor and the Reporter. We hear from the Reporter's side of the story and discover just how their magnetic att...
Ep 107 - Flashes of Fire
As PleasureTown grew, it began to attract a different breed of wanderer. No longer were those drawn to the settlement society's rough and grizzled outlaws and misfits. Dreamers, poets and artists...
https://www.wbez.org/shows/pleasuretown/ep-107-flashes-of-fire/273eacbc-f449-4201-94a3-dab36bb531e8
Ep 106 - The Feast Of The Wretched
In this episode, we learn the birth story behind PleasureTown's original holiday, The Feast of the Wretched. Meanwhile, Mattie Barker has left town, putting aside her frying pan to take up a pair...
Ep 105 - Two Souls
In this episode, we meet PleasureTown's barber, who tells the story of how he and his blind brother fled to the settlement after a particularly hairy run-in with a local bigot. We also revisit Sh...
https://www.wbez.org/shows/pleasuretown/ep-105-two-souls/c5002c1f-ffbe-410a-a867-4fd91b83083b
Ep 104 - If Thy Right Hand Offend Thee
As the population of PleasureTown continued to swell, the settlement began to see an uptick in violence, lawlessness and murder. In this episode, town founders Cyrus and Claude engage in a heated...
Ep 103 - A Smile That Stretches
As PleasureTown transformed into a budding settlement, the community began to see a flood of diverse immigrants. With all the activity, it didn’t take long for the media to catch wind of the di...
Ep 102 - White Stone Path
As word spread of the strange, hedonistic town, more and more lost souls gravitated toward a place they believed could be their home. In this episode, we follow Shaman John, once a man of faith t...
https://www.wbez.org/shows/pleasuretown/ep-102-white-stone-path/7bcbf924-338a-4994-8ae0-a54819848b74
Ep 101 - Buried & Forgotten
In this episode, Claude and Cyrus invite listeners to join them in retracing the steps that lead them to PleasureTown. Despite their contrasting personalities, both Claude and Cyrus share histori...
https://www.wbez.org/shows/pleasuretown/ep-101-buried-forgotten/994f7303-60a4-45a9-b0ee-ea0542682bd9
PleasureTown: The Legend Has Begun
Unfamiliar with PleasureTown ? If you ask some, PleasureTown was paradise on Earth, a place where anyone could be and do whatever they wanted without fear of judgment or retribution from their fe...