The Karmasonic Radio Network is back on the air—and now it has a sponsor. In Episode 2, the crew unveils GLOWCLOT™, a plasma-thickening beverage so mysterious it leaks its own slogans. Between trying to record their first real ad spot and navigating a haunted Studio B, the TKRN staff wrestle with paperwork, spilled noodles, and an unsettling phone call from someone who shouldn’t exist.

But this is TKRN—nothing ever stays on script. Listeners are treated to the premiere of the Department of Unlikely Scenarios, a listener-write-in segment gone off the rails (“What if language was a parasite?”), and a sudden astral infomercial about Out-of-Body Vacations. Just when the crew thinks they’re back on schedule, the station is hijacked by a seven-minute signal from The Last Frequency, plunging everyone into dead air and unanswered questions.

Corporate satire, Firesign-style chaos, and supernatural broadcast bleed-through collide as Bill Freemer’s obsession with the lost Playlist of ’68 deepens, the mysterious caller lingers, and Studio B hums with secrets. The Sponsorship Initiative cements TKRN’s weird new normal: sponsors, sketches, and signals from nowhere—all fighting for space on the same dial.

The Karmasonic Radio Network is:

• Casey Liver
• Dawn Chamness
• James Thaddeus Safarik
• Bob Flynn
• Caprice Sorg
• Bob Sorg
• and R. Benjamin Roper as The Beaver

Directed and Produced by R. Benjamin Roper

“Beam Your Signal to Control!”

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“Not just radio… it’s an audio hallucination.”

Welcome to the signal.

In this inaugural transmission of The Karmasonic Radio Network, host R. Benjamin introduces listeners to a strange new audio realm—a psychedelic patchwork of found frequencies, offbeat programming, and the semi-functional chaos of the TKRN studio crew. The station, a mysterious revival of an old border blaster transmitter, pulses to life under mysterious circumstances… mostly thanks to Zeke, the overeager intern who accidentally reactivates “The Button.”

We learn that TKRN is broadcasting from an undisclosed desert location using salvaged equipment and metaphysical duct tape. As R. explains, the network isn’t just playing shows—it’s transmitting entire worlds. A brief rundown of the upcoming programming teases experimental formats like The Department of Unlikely Scenarios and The Last Frequency—a mysterious pirate signal that no one at the station can explain.

Joining R. are the rest of the core TKRN staff:

• Bill Freemer, a grizzled archivist with an almost haunted reverence for radio’s forgotten past (and a growing obsession with The Playlist of ’68),
• Zeke, the well-meaning but glitch-prone engineer intern with questionable clearance,
• Marla, the beleaguered voice talent and reluctant anchor of reason,
• Sterling, the egotistical “art director” who rewrites scripts on-air,
• And Arben, whose job is unclear but whose voice seems to bleed into everything.

The crew barely settles in before something shifts. Equipment acts up. The studio lights flicker. And from the depths of the transmitter, a strange signal bleeds in—a faint Morse code transmission, accompanied by a warped rendition of “The Mexican Hat Dance”. No one admits to cueing it. Bill just mutters, “It’s ’68 all over again.”

The episode closes with a traditional sign-off… and then a lingering static hum. Something was heard. Something is still transmitting.

This isn’t just a show. It’s a broadcast ritual. And the signal has only just begun.

“Beam Your Signal to Control!”

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“Not just radio… it’s an audio hallucination.”