Bunkum

It’s the last Bunkum! You made it to the end! Congratulations! An epic quest! A monster to be slayed! A kingdom to save! A display of cowardice! Bunkum goes out with a bang AND a whimper! Bye, everybody! Be sure to listen to my current and better scripted comedy podcast, The Restory of History’s Mysteries!

A voyage of discovery! The founding of a new colony! Imperial expansion without the hindsight of 21st century multiculturalism! Hooray! A feast to welcome the new neighbors! Long distance relationships! An awkward situation comes to a head! Bunkum is the wacky neighbor of podcasts!

Home improvement! A relaxing stroll through a house in progress! Brilliantly revolutionary architecture! How do they do it?!? Bunkum is on the cutting edge of making stuff up!

A secret agent! A counteragent infiltration! Tracking down a mole! Cool fancy gadgets! A conspiracy that goes all the way to the bottom! Hey, get away from that bottom! Bunkum is basically a five-year-old with a better vocabulary!

A stroll through the classifieds! A spooky market! All sorts of strange items! A dusty old lamp and its genie tenant! Everything you ever wanted at your fingertips! A happy ending for almost everyone! Bunkum brings utopias to fruition!

There’s no sponsor this week! It’s all ad-free! High culture! Dan says Richard III instead of Richard II! A boxing drama! A medical service! A word from a for-real god! Bunkum is just oozing with excitement! We should really get it looked at!

Listener questions! A strange case of what must be mistaken identity! A doppelganger! What are the odds? Oh, not that unreasonable, really! Unjustly imprisoned! A suspenseful escape attempt! Bunkum keeps you in………..

It’s a fantasy adventure! Magic and monsters! Dice and dungeons! A tabletop RPG that goes sideways! Awfully darn close to a normal yet still entertaining sketch! Good job, Dan! Bunkum rolls a natural 20 on bad metaphors!

Our Man loooooves playing the lottery! I think it’s a sensory thing! All that scratching! A sudden influx of liquid assets! A first-class elite tour of the land of wonders! Entering the viral class! The glorious transfer of wealth! Bunkum is your pass to the good life!

MacArthur Genius Grant-winning poetry! Hercules performs amazing feats! His neighbors are not so pleased! Someone call Terry Gilliam! The lines between reality and madness are getting blurry up in here! Bunkum has convinced itself it has Munchausen syndrome!

A family curse! It’s brain versus body! Can Our Man find out what’s causing the explosion of were-beasts? Of course! It’s so simple! A battle for the future of were-Americans! (Awereicans?) Bunkum’s dictionary is crammed with sticky notes with new words!

The Grand Canyon is missing! What could have happened!?!? Let’s investigate together! Yay, friendship palling around times! A small town cop works the case of his life! And what he uncovers will blow you away! Bunkum mostly read movie posters as a kid!

Some actual science! And some actual religion! But, alas, no actual Dan Grubb! Sorry, folks! I’m not genuine! I’m a figment of my imagination! Whoa, heavy, duuude! The ancient Mesopotamians thought Adam and Eve were big weirdos! Bunkum is basically one of those ivy league classes you can take online!

No superheroes! It’s a high class farce! Oh, those parlor doors opening at just the wrong moment! Oh, and also Senator Bigfoot, your favorite! And the new episode of Bunk Beds, the hit Bunkum review program! Bunkum hates fourth walls, man! Smash them up!

It’s here! The epic finale of the Redressers arc! You made it, pal! Good job listening! I’d tell you what happens, but your mortal brain can’t handle it! Or maybe it can! Give it a listen and see if you survive! Bunkum is playing chicken with your mind!

I did not expect the team to wind up here. But, hey, they have powers now! Cool! This story is getting pretty weird! Buckle in, it’s almost done! Bunkum is strapping in for the big finish!

A list of cool stuff! Epic brainstorming! The All-New, All-Different Redressers! Oh, yeah! I’m super excited, you guys! Bunkum is heading for the epic climax!

Man, jail sucks! Do trials suck? Let’s find out! A courtroom drama! Everything gets better! According to some! Bunkum puts the “real” in “Am I really listening to this?”

Tonight there’s gonna be a jailbreak! Etc. etc. etc.! Actual teamwork! Good job, Redressers! I bet it’ll totally work! Bunkum is always optimistic because it refuses to learn from the past!

Look out! It’s Robbing Jack Do-Harm! His name is a little on-the-nose! I tried to give him notes, but he doesn’t accept constructive criticism very well! Probably has something to do with his anti-social tendencies! Justice is served! I bet! Bunkum is in kind of a gray area, morality-wise!

An action-packed training montage! The part of the movie where the rag-tag motley crew learn how to work together! I love those parts! Too bad these folks are idiots! Even glamorous superhero teams have to clean up the monkey’s room! Let’s cut that part out! Yuck. Bunkum has been waiting for this series its whole … Continue reading Bunkum 60: The Redressers, Part 4

Oh no, not Master R.A. and the Dorm Room Dojo! Some complications provide a glimpse into the inner workings of the team! A secret revealed! A new team model is slapped together! Bunkum puts the human drama in superhuman melodrama!

Consider that table set! That’s story writing lingo for laying out dishes and silverware! Let’s meet the team! It’s a really good team! And pretty inclusive! There’s even an undead-American! Bunkum is the future liberals want!

It’s the epic beginning of the maxi-series The Redressers! A cosplayer meets a mysterious stranger! Who could it possibly be?!? Oh my goodness! I think this might be a bigger deal than we at first suspected! Bunkum knows how to pace a story, baby!

There’s something in the basement! Police drama! Whatever could it possibly be? I hope our hero is alright! The male gaze! Bunkum is madcap! I’m so mad about these caps!

A tragic loss! A retrospective on an incredible life! One man’s influence on the world! Mind you, Stalin and Genghis Khan had a big influence too! But I’m sure this guy is different! He’s a tech innovator! Those guys are always working for the betterment of humanity, right? Bunkum’s ignorance means your bliss!

A different post-apocalyptic show than that one from two years earlier! A hospital stay! A message from beyond the stars! A murder investigation! Bunkum has almost figured out the new format!

Experimental theater! An astounding feat! Pushing the limits of the human body and ingenuity! Bunkum wins all the Nobel Prizes and Olympic medals! Nyah nyah!

Listener mail! The life of a gorilla! A gritty noir drama! Hard hitting action! Bunkum, see? Mnyeah, see? It’s a hackneyed Edward G. Robinson imitation that went out of style in the 40s, see?

Remember when I said Bunkum was gone forever? I lied! Sorry for manipulating your emotions like that! Anyway! A new format! Ghost dating! Feathers! Bunkum got tired of recreating old time radio and decided to join the podcast era!

A galaxy of guest stars! All your favorites! Just kidding! Everything goes horribly wrong! Fun with paradoxes! Bunkum is over forever!

Oh, for heaven’s sake, it’s a bunch of pirates! Or, if you’re at the gym, “pi-rah-tees”! I don’t know pi-rah-tes! But I know ca-ray-zeh! What were we talking about? Look at that jungle island! Oh my, what a deadly threat! Treachery and danger abound! Bunkum is a terrible realtor!

A gentleman thief! It’s a frame-up, I tells ya! Hmm….what else did they say in the 30s? I sure am enjoying jazz in the dangerous part of town and those talkies! A stunning revelation in the pursuit of ka-nowledge! A landmark development in podcast technology! Bunkum reinvents the medium once again!

An important chemistry lesson! Is it a religious holiday? Is science a religion? Kind of, if you think about it! Oh, wait! No, not at all! But they can have holidays, even though the etymology doesn’t allow it! I think we’ve all learned a lot today! Oh yeah, and the devil shows up, haha! Bunkum: … Continue reading Bunkum 47: Mole Day

Holy mackerel, it’s a whole episode about your pal Dracula! Do holy mackerel swim in holy water? That’d be bad news for ole Drac! Some important public service announcements! A fabulous epistolary podcast! Believe it or not, it kind of follows the original story! Wow! Good job, Dan! Bunkum: Where Dan does a good job!

You’ll never guess what this one is about! Aw, dang! You’re too clever for me! I guess you’ll just have to make do with all of these wonderful jokes! I think this is around when I started to lose my mind. Yup! There it goes! Bunkum done run off with all ma dang brains!

A mystery solved! Well, how shall we spend the rest of the episode? Oh, like that! What a strange bunch of characters! Another mystery! Thank goodness that first one was solved so Our Man’s inbox is cleared! Bunkum is on the trail to laughs!

True crime! Everybody loves true crime! Hooray for taking gut-wrenching tales of human misery and loss and making them all about me! Line of sponsors forms to the left! Bunkum profits from other people’s pain!

In medias res! That’s Latin for “I’m confused! I hope there’s a flashback coming up!” Don’t worry! There’s flashbacks! All is explained! Oh, now I see why Our Man did that stuff! Thanks, backwards plot! Bunkum listened to “Suspense” way too much that month!

Can you tell I’ve been reading comics for 30 years? There are entirely too many superheroes! Thank goodness Our Man isn’t one! A community divided! The world will never be the same! Until next summer’s epic crossover, that is! Bunkum mocks the things we love!

Hooray, more time travel! These are the best stories! Unless this one goes horribly awry! But that would never happen in a farcical comedy show! Bunkum defies time and space, but never you, the dear listener! That’s the Bunkum Promise©! bunkumpromisenotvalidinallfiftystatesaskyourlocalpodcastproviderfordetails

The start of a very bad day! Two cities merging! But not in a boring, municipal revenues way! It’s actually quite dire! What can we possibly do?!?!?! Listen to Bunkum, I guess! Bunkum is the solution to everything!

Dog training! What could possibly go wrong?!? Aha! You’ve discovered the beginning of every writing session! Very large dogs! That could go wrong, I bet! Trouble with The Law! Bunkum: We’re stupid, so you don’t have to!

The artistic temperament of a composer! The gritty composing underworld! Another miracle product! I’m pretty sure I was born 90 years too late! A great joke that’s only funny if you see it written! So I guess you’d better follow me on Twitter @senatorbigfoot! Bunkum: Where Dan does his disgusting self-promotion!

Definitely not an infringement of copyright! Billionaire playboy with cool crime-fighting gadgets! Uh oh, another superhero! I hope they get along and don’t fight arbitrarily! Tragic origin stories of villains! Everybody loves those! That’s why Episode I was a huge success! Bunkum: It’s like a comic con for agoraphobes!

Ye olden times! Actually, they still pronounced it “the”! They just used a letter for “th” that looked kind of like a weird Y that we don’t use anymore! You’ve now officially minored in Linguistics! Oh, right, the episode! Knights and squires and all that junk! An infested basement! An incredible journey! Bunkum fills your … Continue reading Bunkum 35: Sir Ourman and the 404 Error

One of my favorite characters! A surprise cameo by my other favorite character! This is as self-serving as a…as a, uh…well, as a podcast! A timestream in peril! An epic western! Drama in the ring! Bunkum is bigger than sticking to one genre per episode!

Tension! Amateur narration! No, I mean even more amateur than mine. Competition bringing out the best in everyone! The future of genetics! Oh, thank God, Dan sings again! Bunkum brings the world of idiosyncrasy to your ears!

Media history! I think I took that class one semester! I got a B! Podcasting through the centuries! Awfu I mean, Amazing imitations! Bunkum is your source for accidental exposure to actual information about history!

A giant monster! The ugliest kaiju ever seen! Competing plans for survival! There’s always time for romance! An in-depth interview sure the jerk all your tears! The glorious return of Captain Scarred Mangled Banner! Bunkum is the King of the Monsters!

Imperial ennui! The overthinking that comes with privilege! Three wise guys! Brilliant quatrains by an unnamed literary genius! Executions, executions, executions! Come on down to the Imperial Execution Dealership on Route 61 and get something chopped off today! Bunkum unites the world under the iron first of comedy podcasts!