StereoForest Comedy & Fiction Podcasts · StereoForest Podcasts

Lake Corncrop

·59 min·3 clips
Parker says the geese have "venom" and an old woman gave him an anti-venom drink.
Grack Public Access opens on 101.7 FM with Tog Chesterfield and Parker Spoon at Lake Corn Crop in Grackleton. The sign says Lake Corn Crop, and the mud makes sure it gets noticed. Their sponsor is the Wonderworst Kale Dog, and the location is already doing half the broadcast for them. Tog treats the lake like a family outing. Parker treats it like a place that needs careful describing. The chairs become a whole part of the room. One of them still carries a faint caramel scent from an earlier caramel macchiato spill. The hosts keep circling the ordinary details because the ordinary details keep turning odd. A conversation about crying becomes a lesson in distraction. Parker says she has been upset about crying so much. Tog decides to distract her instead of trying to solve it. It works. That small success gives the scene its shape. The talk then drifts toward geese. Two geese show up close enough to matter right away. One host imagines them dressed like gondola people, and the other has to pull the image back down to earth. The episode keeps leaning into that kind of literal nonsense. Each correction only makes the broadcast feel more lived-in. By the end, Lake Corn Crop feels less like a stop on the map than a place defined by mud, chairs, and one very strange conversation. The whole thing plays like community radio that has stumbled into folklore.

As heard by us

A muddy public-access broadcast that turns local chatter into running comedy.

Grack Public Access on 101.7 FM, The Grack, is a muddy public-access mess. Tog Chesterfield and Parker Spoon keep trading names, explanations, and corrections from their show chairs, while the Wonderworst Kale Dog sponsor, the spilled macchiato, and the geese around Lake Corn…

Read the full review in PlayNext →

Why you'd press play

Press play for a public-access broadcast from Lake Corn Crop where a sponsor read, mud, and two geese take over the bit.

Read the full recommendation in PlayNext →
Listen to the show on