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.

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: TheBitComedyNetwork@gmail.com
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: TheBitComedyNetwork@gmail.com
Website: BITComedyNetwork.com

Production + Graphics: Hill Kane, Raising Kane Media + Marketing

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.

• 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.

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: TheBitComedyNetwork@gmail.com
Website: BITComedyNetwork.com

Production + Graphics: Hill Kane, Raising Kane Media + Marketing