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The Witch of Pungo | Halloween Bonus Episode Something wicked this way comes to Podcast Town! Welcome to Pungo, West Virginia, where historical reenactments are a little too realistic, the community garden is riddled with resentment, and an ancient witch's curse wreaks havoc on the local charcuterie. As the town's public radio personalities investigate a centuries-old mystery, witches take flight, vegetables vanish, and the emergency services introduce a new phone number that nobody can remember. Will Pungo survive its haunted history? Will the witches get their revenge? And what the hell is a calabash? We hope you enjoy this special Halloween episode of Podcast Town, where the only thing scarier than the curse is calling for help. Apologies The BIT Comedy Network apologizes to witches everywhere, the good people of Worcestershire, anyone who can pronounce Worcestershire, colonial historians, historical reenactors, broom manufacturers, community garden directors and their disgruntled assistants, garlic growers, charcuterie enthusiasts, calabash farmers, taffy makers, public radio listeners, emergency dispatchers, firefighters, anyone who attempted to dial the new emergency number, and all listeners who thought a little witchcraft couldn't hurt anybody. Credits Director and Creator: Billy Merritt Producer, Editor & Graphics: Hill Kane Featuring: Billy Merritt (Himself, Narrator) Jason Luna (Mickey Steves - Host of The Great Pongo Staycation | Immigration Boss | Witch | Barry) Betsy Reves (Betsy Madison - Founder of Olde Pungo Re-enactment Center | Witch) Luke Bovard (Producer, Fire Chief | Immigration Officer) Lisa Steckman (Rachel Rose - Co-host of How Your Garden Grows | Asst Dir. of the Pungo Garden Club) Amber Bellsdale (Aspen Lewis - Co-host of How Your Garden Grows | Town instigator | Lauren Smith) Don Slovin (Barry Propane - Host of Unsung History | Witch) Hill Kane (Jane Kane - 16th generation Pungolian | Witch | Director of the Pungo Garden Club, Town Historian) Our fantastic BIT SWINGERS: Flannery Wilson (Pungo PD | Witch | Laffy Taffy Shoppe Keep, etc.) Katya Vasilaky (Multiple Witches and Shoppe Owners) Special Appearance by Margo Escott (Willa's Candles) Music and Sound Effects - Pixabay.com Hosting: Libsyn "The BIT" and "The BIT Improv Comedy Network" are trademarks owned by Billy Merritt. © 2024–2026 Billy Merritt. All rights reserved. Inquiries: [email protected] Website: BITComedyNetwork.com Production + Graphics: Hill Kane, Raising Kane Media + Marketing

It's SPOOKY season at BIT! BPR | Fun Movies with Lauren Conway: Dr. Goblin The doctor is in. The carrots are missing. And the director has a vision. Today on Bit Public Radio, Lauren Conway welcomes director Jason Luna to discuss Dr. Goblin, a cinematic achievement that begins with questionable medicine and becomes an unexpectedly tender exploration of goblin-human relations. Through improvised film clips and deeply serious analysis, we visit a town divided over its new doctor, its frozen yogurt shop, and the suitability of lavender walls. Meanwhile, one goblin discovers that humans might be worth knowing. Especially the ones with gardens. What You'll Definitely Not See Coming A sinister medical conspiracy involving lollipops. A goblin school where everyone's a G. A meet-the-parents dinner with competitive arm wrestling. Can love overcome generations of prejudice? Will the doctor accept your insurance, or just your produce? And who approved "Monster Mash" for the wedding reception? Apologies to zebras, lavender enthusiasts, and goblins who expected more rigorous representation in their high school curriculum. Credits Director and Creator: Billy Merritt Producer, Editor & Graphics: Hill Kane Featuring: Billy Merritt - Himself Flannery Wilsons - Lauren Conway, BPR Host Jason Luna - (Himself) Dr. Goblin's Director Dr. Gary Yorke - Dr. Goblin The BIT Crew (various and sundry characters): Amber Bellsdale Brent Kohler Don Slovin Jim Tripp Hill Kane Katya Vasilaky Music: BPR Theme Song: Lyrics by Hill Kane, musical composition created on SUNO AI Hosting: Libsyn "The BIT" and "The BIT Improv Comedy Network" are trademarks owned by Billy Merritt. © 2024–2026 Billy Merritt. All rights reserved. Inquiries: [email protected] Website: BITComedyNetwork.com Production + Graphics: Hill Kane, Raising Kane Media + Marketing

Loud People, Soft Voices Today on Bit Public Radio, host Cherry Sage asks a deceptively simple question: How do people find their voice? The answer, apparently, involves secret libraries, motivational shouting, naked civic festivals, billionaire coffee, sentient books, rogue robbers, labor-organizing cats, and at least one municipal unicycle. As Cherry guides listeners through stories about confidence, volume, self-expression, and public-radio fundraising, BPR correspondents discover that finding your voice can be empowering, dangerous, expensive, and occasionally strong enough to rupture an eardrum. Along the way, the annual pledge drive gets increasingly out of control as BPR attracts a demographic it has historically struggled to reach...Billionaires. 👀 What You'll Definitely Not See Coming: A secret library where the books are considerably more opinionated than the patrons. A motivational philosophy so powerful it may actually rupture an eardrum. A public-radio pledge drive that somehow attracts billionaires, organized cats, and some deeply suspicious coffee. Cherry Sage hosts Loud People, Soft Voices with the calm, thoughtful composure BPR listeners expect from public radio. She is shy, introspective, soft-spoken...and somehow responsible for keeping control of a live fundraiser involving correspondents, wealthy callers, aggressive sponsors, free zucchini, duck eggs, suspicious coffee, and an increasingly organized feline population. Her professional philosophy: 👉 Everyone deserves to find their voice. 👉 Some people should probably use theirs less.👉 Never underestimate what can happen during a pledge drive. Apologies BPR apologizes to sentient library books, wheat spies, The NeverEnding Story, motivational shouters, the Pied Piper, San Francisco robbers, fairy-tale mushrooms, naked unicyclists, mimes, zucchini farmers, billionaire coffee drinkers, exploited coffee cats, the Icelandic Christmas Cat, anyone who has ever paid $15,000 for coffee, and anyone who is now deeply concerned about where their morning coffee came from. We would apologize to the billionaires. But frankly, they seem fine. Credits Director and Creator: Billy Merritt Producer, Editor & Graphics: Hill Kane Featuring: Billy Merritt - Himself Angela Washko - Cherry Sage, BPR Host Hill Kane - Herringbone Hendrix, Correspondent #1 Brent Kohler - Robert Kennison, Correspondent #2 Amber Bellsdale - Aurora Lighness, Correspondent #3 BIT Crew (various and sundry characters): Don Slovin Jim Tripp Flannery Wilson Luke Bovard Lisa Steckman Music: BPR Theme Song: Lyrics Hill Kane, musical composition created on SUNO AI Hosting: Libsyn "The BIT" and "The BIT Improv Comedy Network" are trademarks owned by Billy Merritt. © 2024–2026 Billy Merritt. All rights reserved. Inquiries: [email protected] Website: BITComedyNetwork.com Production + Graphics: Hill Kane, Raising Kane Media + Marketing

Gravestone Chic Today on Bit Public Radio, host Lana Schur explores the ever-changing nature of cool. Is "cool" determined by fashion? By celebrities? By invisible gravestones? By barbarian Goths invading Rome? Nobody seems entirely sure. Correspondent Jimbo Brandywine travels to a Renaissance Faire to investigate the unexpected return of the Goths, only to uncover turkey economics, a family raised by actual turkeys, and one very confused human identity crisis. Next, Flannery Wilson reports from Beverly Hills, where luxury shoppers have embraced the newest status symbol: gravestones that don't actually exist. The investigation somehow leads to ghost tourism, HOA disputes, Walt Disney, and a long-overdue confrontation with Mary Poppins. Finally, former failed "CNN" investigative journalist Paisley Bowie uncovers an underground community living inside pottery kilns, where magical ashtray-producing fairies, eternal curses, and suspiciously enthusiastic smokers reveal the surprising intersection of ceramics and public broadcasting. Throughout it all, Lana desperately attempts to keep an increasingly chaotic pledge drive on the rails—offering listeners everything from Butterball turkeys and job-shadowing opportunities to invisible burial plots and disgraced journalism awards. Somewhere in there... someone might actually donate. Apologies Butterball, Renaissance Faires, Goths (both Visigothic and Hot Topic), Vogue magazine, Patrick Swayze, pottery instructors, ceramics departments, ashtrays, smokers, non-smokers, Walt Disney, Mary Poppins, Julie Andrews, Disney Parks, cryogenic researchers, Beverly Hills, Rodeo Drive, Louis Vuitton, homeowners associations, psychics, ghosts, goblins, fairies, turkey farmers, Renaissance turkey vendors, Robert Smith, The Cure, BBC journalists, NPR pledge drives, public radio tote bags, kiln manufacturers, pizza ovens, anyone currently preserving their brain for the future... and anyone attempting to start a fashionable invisible cemetery. Credits Director and Creator: Billy Merritt Producer, Editor & Graphics: Hill Kane Featuring: Billy Merritt - Himself Katya Vasilaky - Lana Schur, BPR Host Jim Tripp - Jimbo Brandywine, Correspondent #1 Flannery Wilson - Correspondent #2 Dean Aisles - Paisley Bowie, Correspondent #3 BIT Crew playing various and sundry characters: Don Slovin Hill Kane Geoff Taylor Brent Kohler Angela Washko Luke Bovard Music: BPR Theme Song: Lyrics Hill Kane, musical composition created on SUNO AI Hosting: Libsyn "The BIT" and "The BIT Improv Comedy Network" are trademarks owned by Billy Merritt. © 2024–2026 Billy Merritt. All rights reserved. Inquiries: [email protected] Website: BITComedyNetwork.com Production + Graphics: Hill Kane, Raising Kane Media + Marketing

Curiosity Morning Today, We're Curious About... Canada 🇨🇦 Today on Bit Public Radio, host Jane Kane welcomes border officer Mark Hadley to answer one simple question: What exactly is Canada? The answer, it turns out, is... surprisingly complicated. As Jane and Mark explore our neighbors to the north, BPR correspondents uncover an international bagpipe smuggling operation, questionable border security practices, suspicious hockey interference, and the diplomatic complexities of pouring maple syrup on complete strangers. Along the way, listeners learn almost nothing about Canada—but quite a bit about stereotypes, curiosity, and why you should never underestimate the power of a well-played bagpipe. 👀 What You'll Definitely Not See Coming: A multinational war on illicit bagpipes. Operation Bagpipe Hockey... and its even worse sequel, Operation Baggy Waggy. A tourist who mistakes Canada for Europe. The surprisingly dangerous legal consequences of making poutine jokes. A prison sentence involving hot cocoa, public healthcare, and an alarming number of Timbits. Switzerland somehow becoming collateral damage. About Today's Guest Mark Hadley joins Curiosity Morning as a veteran U.S. border officer whose entire understanding of Canada has been assembled from conversations at a border crossing... despite never actually setting foot inside the country. His professional philosophy: 👉 Curiosity is important. 👉 Crossing the border is easy. 👉 Crossing your own assumptions is considerably harder. Today's Closing Thoughts Curiosity crossed the border. Stereotypes forgot their passports. Everyone owed Canada an apology. Apologies BPR apologizes to the people of Canada, Canadians living abroad, border patrol officers, customs officials, RCMP officers, hockey players, hockey pucks, bagpipe players, Scotland, Braveheart, Tim Hortons, Timbits, maple trees, maple syrup producers, poutine enthusiasts, Lake Louise, Southern lawyers, Swiss immigration officials, Switzerland, multilingual citizens, horses named Joke, breakfast diners, ant colonies, prison wardens, public healthcare systems, and anyone who has ever attempted to smuggle anything inside a bagpipe. Also... anyone who genuinely tuned in hoping to learn something about Canada. Credits Director and Creator: Billy Merritt Producer, Editor & Graphics: Hill Kane Featuring: Billy Merritt - Himself Hill Kane - Jane Kane, French Canadian Judge Mark Hadley - Border Tooper U.S.A. (Also, Mark Daganal, The Baggoning Dater #1, Swiss Border Official #1) Amber Bellsdale - 1st Station ID Brent Kohler - Number Picker, U.S./Canadian Border Officer, Hockey Interview Show Host, Luke's Friend back home in the South, Sascatchawan Jailor #2 Don Slovin - Himself, Bagpipe Houligan #2, The BaggoningDater #2, Bagpipe/Drug Smuggler, Offender of Canada and Switzerland Flannery Wilson - Detective Janice, Scottish Bagpiper, Wounded Bagpiper #2, Sascatchawan Jailor #3, Swiss Border Official #2 Jim Tripp - Bagpipe Houligan #1, Breakfast Server #1, Bagpiper ER Doc, Don's Lawyer Luke Bovard - Himself, Underground Bagpipe Vigilante, Humble Southern American Lawyer, Southern Ontarian Prosecutor, Sascatchawan Jailor #1, Swiss Person #3, 2nd Station ID Music: BPR Theme Song: Lyrics Hill Kane, musical composition created on SUNO AI Hosting: Libsyn "The BIT" and "The BIT Improv Comedy Network" are trademarks owned by Billy Merritt. © 2024–2026 Billy Merritt. All rights reserved. Inquiries: [email protected] Website: BITComedyNetwork.com Production + Graphics: Hill Kane, Raising Kane Media + Marketing