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Listeners are invited to reflect on the nature of success and the roles we play in our own lives, from the highest offices to the most humble positions. This is not a single story, but a rich tapestry of unique explorations that reveal the quirks and follies of human ambition. With every episode, discover a new book that challenges perceptions and offers fresh insights into the whimsical pursuit of our dreams.]]></description><atom:link href="https://www.spreaker.com/show/7143311/episodes/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><language>en</language><category>Books</category><copyright>Copyright Satire Genre</copyright><image><url>https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/fd7d15fc0a30abe7fbc9f64dcc45fd7c.jpg</url><title>Vegetable; or, From President to Postman</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/vegetable-or-from-president-to-postman--7143311</link></image><lastBuildDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 09:24:51 +0000</lastBuildDate><itunes:author>F. Scott Fitzgerald</itunes:author><itunes:owner><itunes:name>Satire Genre</itunes:name><itunes:email>spreaker80@podcastlibrary.org</itunes:email></itunes:owner><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/fd7d15fc0a30abe7fbc9f64dcc45fd7c.jpg"/><itunes:subtitle>Embark on a captivating journey through the absurdity of ambition and the complexities of identity in "Vegetable; or, From President to Postman." This podcast delves into the interplay of dreams and reality, exploring how individuals navigate the...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Embark on a captivating journey through the absurdity of ambition and the complexities of identity in "Vegetable; or, From President to Postman." This podcast delves into the interplay of dreams and reality, exploring how individuals navigate the dizzying heights of aspiration amidst the chaos of societal expectations. Each episode features a new complete audiobook, showcasing a rotating collection of narratives that echo the themes of power, identity, and the often humorous consequences of our desires. Listeners are invited to reflect on the nature of success and the roles we play in our own lives, from the highest offices to the most humble positions. This is not a single story, but a rich tapestry of unique explorations that reveal the quirks and follies of human ambition. With every episode, discover a new book that challenges perceptions and offers fresh insights into the whimsical pursuit of our dreams.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:category text="Arts"><itunes:category text="Books"/></itunes:category><itunes:category text="Kids &amp; Family"><itunes:category text="Pets &amp; Animals"/></itunes:category><itunes:category text="Science"><itunes:category text="Nature"/></itunes:category><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><podcast:guid>22788ae7-5deb-584d-bb30-21d1a7b21f92</podcast:guid><itunes:type>episodic</itunes:type><item><title>Doctor Johnson A Play-A. Edward Newton</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/doctor-johnson-a-play-a-edward-newton--74638067</link><description><![CDATA[Any man who doesn’t want to get on in the world, to make a million dollars, and maybe even park his toothbrush in the White House, hasn’t got as much to him as a good dog has—he’s nothing more or less than a vegetable."Such is the preface of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s only outing as a playwright. The action begins when 35-year-old railway clerk Jerry Frost gets drunk off a bootlegger’s potent hooch on the eve of Warren G. Harding’s presidential nomination. As a result, the second act takes place entirely within Jerry’s intoxicated fantasies, where he has become the new U.S. President and must deal with an assortment of colorful characters and situations. It is here where comic farce and political satire come to intriguing blows, as Fitzgerald finds opportunities to comment (discreetly or not) on the political climate of his day. When his pseudo-presidency goes all to pieces, Jerry’s fantasy comes crashing down, and as he comes to his senses in the third act, we find that his career aspirations have become decidedly less lofty.Though decidedly a minor work from The Great Gatsby’s author, The Vegetable finds him skewering the American Dream’s ethos in ways he would never do again. It’s lighthearted, naughty, irreverent, and does just the trick to escape—even if briefly—from our turbulent times. - Summary by Tomas Peter Cast List Jerry Frost: Tomas Peter Charlotte Frost: Bhavya Horatio "Dada" Frost: Josh Kibbey Doris: Foon Joseph Fish: Chuck Williamson Mr. Snooks: Son of the Exiles Mr. Jones: TJ Burns General Pushing: ToddHW Chief Justice Fossile: Phil Schempf The Detective: Sonia Mr. Stutz-Mozart: Beth Thomas Newsboy / First Senator: Leanne Yau Second Senator: Stefan Von Blon Third Senator: Campbell Schelp Narrator: Devorah Allen Editors: Linny and Tomas Peter]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74638067</guid><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 09:03:18 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/74638067/doctor_johnson_a_play_a_edward_newton.mp3" length="66428380" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>F. Scott Fitzgerald</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Any man who doesn’t want to get on in the world, to make a million dollars, and maybe even park his toothbrush in the White House, hasn’t got as much to him as a good dog has—he’s nothing more or less than a vegetable."Such is the preface of F. Scott...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Any man who doesn’t want to get on in the world, to make a million dollars, and maybe even park his toothbrush in the White House, hasn’t got as much to him as a good dog has—he’s nothing more or less than a vegetable."Such is the preface of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s only outing as a playwright. The action begins when 35-year-old railway clerk Jerry Frost gets drunk off a bootlegger’s potent hooch on the eve of Warren G. Harding’s presidential nomination. As a result, the second act takes place entirely within Jerry’s intoxicated fantasies, where he has become the new U.S. President and must deal with an assortment of colorful characters and situations. It is here where comic farce and political satire come to intriguing blows, as Fitzgerald finds opportunities to comment (discreetly or not) on the political climate of his day. When his pseudo-presidency goes all to pieces, Jerry’s fantasy comes crashing down, and as he comes to his senses in the third act, we find that his career aspirations have become decidedly less lofty.Though decidedly a minor work from The Great Gatsby’s author, The Vegetable finds him skewering the American Dream’s ethos in ways he would never do again. It’s lighthearted, naughty, irreverent, and does just the trick to escape—even if briefly—from our turbulent times. - Summary by Tomas Peter Cast List Jerry Frost: Tomas Peter Charlotte Frost: Bhavya Horatio "Dada" Frost: Josh Kibbey Doris: Foon Joseph Fish: Chuck Williamson Mr. Snooks: Son of the Exiles Mr. Jones: TJ Burns General Pushing: ToddHW Chief Justice Fossile: Phil Schempf The Detective: Sonia Mr. Stutz-Mozart: Beth Thomas Newsboy / First Senator: Leanne Yau Second Senator: Stefan Von Blon Third Senator: Campbell Schelp Narrator: Devorah Allen Editors: Linny and Tomas Peter]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>8295</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/fd7d15fc0a30abe7fbc9f64dcc45fd7c.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Lying Lover or, The Ladies' Friendship-Richard Steele</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/lying-lover-or-the-ladies-friendship-richard-steele--74604476</link><description><![CDATA[Any man who doesn’t want to get on in the world, to make a million dollars, and maybe even park his toothbrush in the White House, hasn’t got as much to him as a good dog has—he’s nothing more or less than a vegetable."Such is the preface of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s only outing as a playwright. The action begins when 35-year-old railway clerk Jerry Frost gets drunk off a bootlegger’s potent hooch on the eve of Warren G. Harding’s presidential nomination. As a result, the second act takes place entirely within Jerry’s intoxicated fantasies, where he has become the new U.S. President and must deal with an assortment of colorful characters and situations. It is here where comic farce and political satire come to intriguing blows, as Fitzgerald finds opportunities to comment (discreetly or not) on the political climate of his day. When his pseudo-presidency goes all to pieces, Jerry’s fantasy comes crashing down, and as he comes to his senses in the third act, we find that his career aspirations have become decidedly less lofty.Though decidedly a minor work from The Great Gatsby’s author, The Vegetable finds him skewering the American Dream’s ethos in ways he would never do again. It’s lighthearted, naughty, irreverent, and does just the trick to escape—even if briefly—from our turbulent times. - Summary by Tomas Peter Cast List Jerry Frost: Tomas Peter Charlotte Frost: Bhavya Horatio "Dada" Frost: Josh Kibbey Doris: Foon Joseph Fish: Chuck Williamson Mr. Snooks: Son of the Exiles Mr. Jones: TJ Burns General Pushing: ToddHW Chief Justice Fossile: Phil Schempf The Detective: Sonia Mr. Stutz-Mozart: Beth Thomas Newsboy / First Senator: Leanne Yau Second Senator: Stefan Von Blon Third Senator: Campbell Schelp Narrator: Devorah Allen Editors: Linny and Tomas Peter]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74604476</guid><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 09:03:35 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/74604476/lying_lover_or_the_ladies_friendship_richard_steele.mp3" length="78752230" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>F. Scott Fitzgerald</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Any man who doesn’t want to get on in the world, to make a million dollars, and maybe even park his toothbrush in the White House, hasn’t got as much to him as a good dog has—he’s nothing more or less than a vegetable."Such is the preface of F. Scott...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Any man who doesn’t want to get on in the world, to make a million dollars, and maybe even park his toothbrush in the White House, hasn’t got as much to him as a good dog has—he’s nothing more or less than a vegetable."Such is the preface of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s only outing as a playwright. The action begins when 35-year-old railway clerk Jerry Frost gets drunk off a bootlegger’s potent hooch on the eve of Warren G. Harding’s presidential nomination. As a result, the second act takes place entirely within Jerry’s intoxicated fantasies, where he has become the new U.S. President and must deal with an assortment of colorful characters and situations. It is here where comic farce and political satire come to intriguing blows, as Fitzgerald finds opportunities to comment (discreetly or not) on the political climate of his day. When his pseudo-presidency goes all to pieces, Jerry’s fantasy comes crashing down, and as he comes to his senses in the third act, we find that his career aspirations have become decidedly less lofty.Though decidedly a minor work from The Great Gatsby’s author, The Vegetable finds him skewering the American Dream’s ethos in ways he would never do again. It’s lighthearted, naughty, irreverent, and does just the trick to escape—even if briefly—from our turbulent times. - Summary by Tomas Peter Cast List Jerry Frost: Tomas Peter Charlotte Frost: Bhavya Horatio "Dada" Frost: Josh Kibbey Doris: Foon Joseph Fish: Chuck Williamson Mr. Snooks: Son of the Exiles Mr. Jones: TJ Burns General Pushing: ToddHW Chief Justice Fossile: Phil Schempf The Detective: Sonia Mr. Stutz-Mozart: Beth Thomas Newsboy / First Senator: Leanne Yau Second Senator: Stefan Von Blon Third Senator: Campbell Schelp Narrator: Devorah Allen Editors: Linny and Tomas Peter]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>9834</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/fd7d15fc0a30abe7fbc9f64dcc45fd7c.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Family of Love-Lording Barry, Thomas Dekker, Thomas Middleton</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/family-of-love-lording-barry-thomas-dekker-thomas-middleton--74571673</link><description><![CDATA[Any man who doesn’t want to get on in the world, to make a million dollars, and maybe even park his toothbrush in the White House, hasn’t got as much to him as a good dog has—he’s nothing more or less than a vegetable."Such is the preface of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s only outing as a playwright. The action begins when 35-year-old railway clerk Jerry Frost gets drunk off a bootlegger’s potent hooch on the eve of Warren G. Harding’s presidential nomination. As a result, the second act takes place entirely within Jerry’s intoxicated fantasies, where he has become the new U.S. President and must deal with an assortment of colorful characters and situations. It is here where comic farce and political satire come to intriguing blows, as Fitzgerald finds opportunities to comment (discreetly or not) on the political climate of his day. When his pseudo-presidency goes all to pieces, Jerry’s fantasy comes crashing down, and as he comes to his senses in the third act, we find that his career aspirations have become decidedly less lofty.Though decidedly a minor work from The Great Gatsby’s author, The Vegetable finds him skewering the American Dream’s ethos in ways he would never do again. It’s lighthearted, naughty, irreverent, and does just the trick to escape—even if briefly—from our turbulent times. - Summary by Tomas Peter Cast List Jerry Frost: Tomas Peter Charlotte Frost: Bhavya Horatio "Dada" Frost: Josh Kibbey Doris: Foon Joseph Fish: Chuck Williamson Mr. Snooks: Son of the Exiles Mr. Jones: TJ Burns General Pushing: ToddHW Chief Justice Fossile: Phil Schempf The Detective: Sonia Mr. Stutz-Mozart: Beth Thomas Newsboy / First Senator: Leanne Yau Second Senator: Stefan Von Blon Third Senator: Campbell Schelp Narrator: Devorah Allen Editors: Linny and Tomas Peter]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74571673</guid><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 09:03:22 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/74571673/family_of_love_lording_barry_thomas_dekker_thomas_middleton.mp3" length="75836732" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>F. Scott Fitzgerald</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Any man who doesn’t want to get on in the world, to make a million dollars, and maybe even park his toothbrush in the White House, hasn’t got as much to him as a good dog has—he’s nothing more or less than a vegetable."Such is the preface of F. Scott...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Any man who doesn’t want to get on in the world, to make a million dollars, and maybe even park his toothbrush in the White House, hasn’t got as much to him as a good dog has—he’s nothing more or less than a vegetable."Such is the preface of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s only outing as a playwright. The action begins when 35-year-old railway clerk Jerry Frost gets drunk off a bootlegger’s potent hooch on the eve of Warren G. Harding’s presidential nomination. As a result, the second act takes place entirely within Jerry’s intoxicated fantasies, where he has become the new U.S. President and must deal with an assortment of colorful characters and situations. It is here where comic farce and political satire come to intriguing blows, as Fitzgerald finds opportunities to comment (discreetly or not) on the political climate of his day. When his pseudo-presidency goes all to pieces, Jerry’s fantasy comes crashing down, and as he comes to his senses in the third act, we find that his career aspirations have become decidedly less lofty.Though decidedly a minor work from The Great Gatsby’s author, The Vegetable finds him skewering the American Dream’s ethos in ways he would never do again. It’s lighthearted, naughty, irreverent, and does just the trick to escape—even if briefly—from our turbulent times. - Summary by Tomas Peter Cast List Jerry Frost: Tomas Peter Charlotte Frost: Bhavya Horatio "Dada" Frost: Josh Kibbey Doris: Foon Joseph Fish: Chuck Williamson Mr. Snooks: Son of the Exiles Mr. Jones: TJ Burns General Pushing: ToddHW Chief Justice Fossile: Phil Schempf The Detective: Sonia Mr. Stutz-Mozart: Beth Thomas Newsboy / First Senator: Leanne Yau Second Senator: Stefan Von Blon Third Senator: Campbell Schelp Narrator: Devorah Allen Editors: Linny and Tomas Peter]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>9470</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/fd7d15fc0a30abe7fbc9f64dcc45fd7c.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Big Drum-Arthur Wing Pinero</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/big-drum-arthur-wing-pinero--74540940</link><description><![CDATA[Any man who doesn’t want to get on in the world, to make a million dollars, and maybe even park his toothbrush in the White House, hasn’t got as much to him as a good dog has—he’s nothing more or less than a vegetable."Such is the preface of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s only outing as a playwright. The action begins when 35-year-old railway clerk Jerry Frost gets drunk off a bootlegger’s potent hooch on the eve of Warren G. Harding’s presidential nomination. As a result, the second act takes place entirely within Jerry’s intoxicated fantasies, where he has become the new U.S. President and must deal with an assortment of colorful characters and situations. It is here where comic farce and political satire come to intriguing blows, as Fitzgerald finds opportunities to comment (discreetly or not) on the political climate of his day. When his pseudo-presidency goes all to pieces, Jerry’s fantasy comes crashing down, and as he comes to his senses in the third act, we find that his career aspirations have become decidedly less lofty.Though decidedly a minor work from The Great Gatsby’s author, The Vegetable finds him skewering the American Dream’s ethos in ways he would never do again. It’s lighthearted, naughty, irreverent, and does just the trick to escape—even if briefly—from our turbulent times. - Summary by Tomas Peter Cast List Jerry Frost: Tomas Peter Charlotte Frost: Bhavya Horatio "Dada" Frost: Josh Kibbey Doris: Foon Joseph Fish: Chuck Williamson Mr. Snooks: Son of the Exiles Mr. Jones: TJ Burns General Pushing: ToddHW Chief Justice Fossile: Phil Schempf The Detective: Sonia Mr. Stutz-Mozart: Beth Thomas Newsboy / First Senator: Leanne Yau Second Senator: Stefan Von Blon Third Senator: Campbell Schelp Narrator: Devorah Allen Editors: Linny and Tomas Peter]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74540940</guid><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 09:09:39 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/74540940/big_drum_arthur_wing_pinero.mp3" length="128960373" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>F. Scott Fitzgerald</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Any man who doesn’t want to get on in the world, to make a million dollars, and maybe even park his toothbrush in the White House, hasn’t got as much to him as a good dog has—he’s nothing more or less than a vegetable."Such is the preface of F. Scott...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Any man who doesn’t want to get on in the world, to make a million dollars, and maybe even park his toothbrush in the White House, hasn’t got as much to him as a good dog has—he’s nothing more or less than a vegetable."Such is the preface of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s only outing as a playwright. The action begins when 35-year-old railway clerk Jerry Frost gets drunk off a bootlegger’s potent hooch on the eve of Warren G. Harding’s presidential nomination. As a result, the second act takes place entirely within Jerry’s intoxicated fantasies, where he has become the new U.S. President and must deal with an assortment of colorful characters and situations. It is here where comic farce and political satire come to intriguing blows, as Fitzgerald finds opportunities to comment (discreetly or not) on the political climate of his day. When his pseudo-presidency goes all to pieces, Jerry’s fantasy comes crashing down, and as he comes to his senses in the third act, we find that his career aspirations have become decidedly less lofty.Though decidedly a minor work from The Great Gatsby’s author, The Vegetable finds him skewering the American Dream’s ethos in ways he would never do again. It’s lighthearted, naughty, irreverent, and does just the trick to escape—even if briefly—from our turbulent times. - Summary by Tomas Peter Cast List Jerry Frost: Tomas Peter Charlotte Frost: Bhavya Horatio "Dada" Frost: Josh Kibbey Doris: Foon Joseph Fish: Chuck Williamson Mr. Snooks: Son of the Exiles Mr. Jones: TJ Burns General Pushing: ToddHW Chief Justice Fossile: Phil Schempf The Detective: Sonia Mr. Stutz-Mozart: Beth Thomas Newsboy / First Senator: Leanne Yau Second Senator: Stefan Von Blon Third Senator: Campbell Schelp Narrator: Devorah Allen Editors: Linny and Tomas Peter]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>16104</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/fd7d15fc0a30abe7fbc9f64dcc45fd7c.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Blunderer, or The Counterplots-Molière</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/blunderer-or-the-counterplots-moliere--74508734</link><description><![CDATA[Any man who doesn’t want to get on in the world, to make a million dollars, and maybe even park his toothbrush in the White House, hasn’t got as much to him as a good dog has—he’s nothing more or less than a vegetable."Such is the preface of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s only outing as a playwright. The action begins when 35-year-old railway clerk Jerry Frost gets drunk off a bootlegger’s potent hooch on the eve of Warren G. Harding’s presidential nomination. As a result, the second act takes place entirely within Jerry’s intoxicated fantasies, where he has become the new U.S. President and must deal with an assortment of colorful characters and situations. It is here where comic farce and political satire come to intriguing blows, as Fitzgerald finds opportunities to comment (discreetly or not) on the political climate of his day. When his pseudo-presidency goes all to pieces, Jerry’s fantasy comes crashing down, and as he comes to his senses in the third act, we find that his career aspirations have become decidedly less lofty.Though decidedly a minor work from The Great Gatsby’s author, The Vegetable finds him skewering the American Dream’s ethos in ways he would never do again. It’s lighthearted, naughty, irreverent, and does just the trick to escape—even if briefly—from our turbulent times. - Summary by Tomas Peter Cast List Jerry Frost: Tomas Peter Charlotte Frost: Bhavya Horatio "Dada" Frost: Josh Kibbey Doris: Foon Joseph Fish: Chuck Williamson Mr. Snooks: Son of the Exiles Mr. Jones: TJ Burns General Pushing: ToddHW Chief Justice Fossile: Phil Schempf The Detective: Sonia Mr. Stutz-Mozart: Beth Thomas Newsboy / First Senator: Leanne Yau Second Senator: Stefan Von Blon Third Senator: Campbell Schelp Narrator: Devorah Allen Editors: Linny and Tomas Peter]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74508734</guid><pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 09:09:15 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/74508734/blunderer_or_the_counterplots_molie_re.mp3" length="72059226" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>F. Scott Fitzgerald</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Any man who doesn’t want to get on in the world, to make a million dollars, and maybe even park his toothbrush in the White House, hasn’t got as much to him as a good dog has—he’s nothing more or less than a vegetable."Such is the preface of F. Scott...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Any man who doesn’t want to get on in the world, to make a million dollars, and maybe even park his toothbrush in the White House, hasn’t got as much to him as a good dog has—he’s nothing more or less than a vegetable."Such is the preface of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s only outing as a playwright. The action begins when 35-year-old railway clerk Jerry Frost gets drunk off a bootlegger’s potent hooch on the eve of Warren G. Harding’s presidential nomination. As a result, the second act takes place entirely within Jerry’s intoxicated fantasies, where he has become the new U.S. President and must deal with an assortment of colorful characters and situations. It is here where comic farce and political satire come to intriguing blows, as Fitzgerald finds opportunities to comment (discreetly or not) on the political climate of his day. When his pseudo-presidency goes all to pieces, Jerry’s fantasy comes crashing down, and as he comes to his senses in the third act, we find that his career aspirations have become decidedly less lofty.Though decidedly a minor work from The Great Gatsby’s author, The Vegetable finds him skewering the American Dream’s ethos in ways he would never do again. It’s lighthearted, naughty, irreverent, and does just the trick to escape—even if briefly—from our turbulent times. - Summary by Tomas Peter Cast List Jerry Frost: Tomas Peter Charlotte Frost: Bhavya Horatio "Dada" Frost: Josh Kibbey Doris: Foon Joseph Fish: Chuck Williamson Mr. Snooks: Son of the Exiles Mr. Jones: TJ Burns General Pushing: ToddHW Chief Justice Fossile: Phil Schempf The Detective: Sonia Mr. Stutz-Mozart: Beth Thomas Newsboy / First Senator: Leanne Yau Second Senator: Stefan Von Blon Third Senator: Campbell Schelp Narrator: Devorah Allen Editors: Linny and Tomas Peter]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>8998</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/fd7d15fc0a30abe7fbc9f64dcc45fd7c.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Galahad Jones-Arthur Adams</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/galahad-jones-arthur-adams--74471775</link><description><![CDATA[Any man who doesn’t want to get on in the world, to make a million dollars, and maybe even park his toothbrush in the White House, hasn’t got as much to him as a good dog has—he’s nothing more or less than a vegetable."Such is the preface of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s only outing as a playwright. The action begins when 35-year-old railway clerk Jerry Frost gets drunk off a bootlegger’s potent hooch on the eve of Warren G. Harding’s presidential nomination. As a result, the second act takes place entirely within Jerry’s intoxicated fantasies, where he has become the new U.S. President and must deal with an assortment of colorful characters and situations. It is here where comic farce and political satire come to intriguing blows, as Fitzgerald finds opportunities to comment (discreetly or not) on the political climate of his day. When his pseudo-presidency goes all to pieces, Jerry’s fantasy comes crashing down, and as he comes to his senses in the third act, we find that his career aspirations have become decidedly less lofty.Though decidedly a minor work from The Great Gatsby’s author, The Vegetable finds him skewering the American Dream’s ethos in ways he would never do again. It’s lighthearted, naughty, irreverent, and does just the trick to escape—even if briefly—from our turbulent times. - Summary by Tomas Peter Cast List Jerry Frost: Tomas Peter Charlotte Frost: Bhavya Horatio "Dada" Frost: Josh Kibbey Doris: Foon Joseph Fish: Chuck Williamson Mr. Snooks: Son of the Exiles Mr. Jones: TJ Burns General Pushing: ToddHW Chief Justice Fossile: Phil Schempf The Detective: Sonia Mr. Stutz-Mozart: Beth Thomas Newsboy / First Senator: Leanne Yau Second Senator: Stefan Von Blon Third Senator: Campbell Schelp Narrator: Devorah Allen Editors: Linny and Tomas Peter]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74471775</guid><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 09:08:12 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/74471775/galahad_jones_arthur_adams.mp3" length="63259675" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>F. Scott Fitzgerald</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Any man who doesn’t want to get on in the world, to make a million dollars, and maybe even park his toothbrush in the White House, hasn’t got as much to him as a good dog has—he’s nothing more or less than a vegetable."Such is the preface of F. Scott...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Any man who doesn’t want to get on in the world, to make a million dollars, and maybe even park his toothbrush in the White House, hasn’t got as much to him as a good dog has—he’s nothing more or less than a vegetable."Such is the preface of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s only outing as a playwright. The action begins when 35-year-old railway clerk Jerry Frost gets drunk off a bootlegger’s potent hooch on the eve of Warren G. Harding’s presidential nomination. As a result, the second act takes place entirely within Jerry’s intoxicated fantasies, where he has become the new U.S. President and must deal with an assortment of colorful characters and situations. It is here where comic farce and political satire come to intriguing blows, as Fitzgerald finds opportunities to comment (discreetly or not) on the political climate of his day. When his pseudo-presidency goes all to pieces, Jerry’s fantasy comes crashing down, and as he comes to his senses in the third act, we find that his career aspirations have become decidedly less lofty.Though decidedly a minor work from The Great Gatsby’s author, The Vegetable finds him skewering the American Dream’s ethos in ways he would never do again. It’s lighthearted, naughty, irreverent, and does just the trick to escape—even if briefly—from our turbulent times. - Summary by Tomas Peter Cast List Jerry Frost: Tomas Peter Charlotte Frost: Bhavya Horatio "Dada" Frost: Josh Kibbey Doris: Foon Joseph Fish: Chuck Williamson Mr. Snooks: Son of the Exiles Mr. Jones: TJ Burns General Pushing: ToddHW Chief Justice Fossile: Phil Schempf The Detective: Sonia Mr. Stutz-Mozart: Beth Thomas Newsboy / First Senator: Leanne Yau Second Senator: Stefan Von Blon Third Senator: Campbell Schelp Narrator: Devorah Allen Editors: Linny and Tomas Peter]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>7900</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/fd7d15fc0a30abe7fbc9f64dcc45fd7c.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Gondoliers-W. S. Gilbert</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/gondoliers-w-s-gilbert--74437571</link><description><![CDATA[Any man who doesn’t want to get on in the world, to make a million dollars, and maybe even park his toothbrush in the White House, hasn’t got as much to him as a good dog has—he’s nothing more or less than a vegetable."Such is the preface of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s only outing as a playwright. The action begins when 35-year-old railway clerk Jerry Frost gets drunk off a bootlegger’s potent hooch on the eve of Warren G. Harding’s presidential nomination. As a result, the second act takes place entirely within Jerry’s intoxicated fantasies, where he has become the new U.S. President and must deal with an assortment of colorful characters and situations. It is here where comic farce and political satire come to intriguing blows, as Fitzgerald finds opportunities to comment (discreetly or not) on the political climate of his day. When his pseudo-presidency goes all to pieces, Jerry’s fantasy comes crashing down, and as he comes to his senses in the third act, we find that his career aspirations have become decidedly less lofty.Though decidedly a minor work from The Great Gatsby’s author, The Vegetable finds him skewering the American Dream’s ethos in ways he would never do again. It’s lighthearted, naughty, irreverent, and does just the trick to escape—even if briefly—from our turbulent times. - Summary by Tomas Peter Cast List Jerry Frost: Tomas Peter Charlotte Frost: Bhavya Horatio "Dada" Frost: Josh Kibbey Doris: Foon Joseph Fish: Chuck Williamson Mr. Snooks: Son of the Exiles Mr. Jones: TJ Burns General Pushing: ToddHW Chief Justice Fossile: Phil Schempf The Detective: Sonia Mr. Stutz-Mozart: Beth Thomas Newsboy / First Senator: Leanne Yau Second Senator: Stefan Von Blon Third Senator: Campbell Schelp Narrator: Devorah Allen Editors: Linny and Tomas Peter]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74437571</guid><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:09:00 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/74437571/gondoliers_w_s_gilbert.mp3" length="47699735" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>F. Scott Fitzgerald</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Any man who doesn’t want to get on in the world, to make a million dollars, and maybe even park his toothbrush in the White House, hasn’t got as much to him as a good dog has—he’s nothing more or less than a vegetable."Such is the preface of F. Scott...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Any man who doesn’t want to get on in the world, to make a million dollars, and maybe even park his toothbrush in the White House, hasn’t got as much to him as a good dog has—he’s nothing more or less than a vegetable."Such is the preface of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s only outing as a playwright. The action begins when 35-year-old railway clerk Jerry Frost gets drunk off a bootlegger’s potent hooch on the eve of Warren G. Harding’s presidential nomination. As a result, the second act takes place entirely within Jerry’s intoxicated fantasies, where he has become the new U.S. President and must deal with an assortment of colorful characters and situations. It is here where comic farce and political satire come to intriguing blows, as Fitzgerald finds opportunities to comment (discreetly or not) on the political climate of his day. When his pseudo-presidency goes all to pieces, Jerry’s fantasy comes crashing down, and as he comes to his senses in the third act, we find that his career aspirations have become decidedly less lofty.Though decidedly a minor work from The Great Gatsby’s author, The Vegetable finds him skewering the American Dream’s ethos in ways he would never do again. It’s lighthearted, naughty, irreverent, and does just the trick to escape—even if briefly—from our turbulent times. - Summary by Tomas Peter Cast List Jerry Frost: Tomas Peter Charlotte Frost: Bhavya Horatio "Dada" Frost: Josh Kibbey Doris: Foon Joseph Fish: Chuck Williamson Mr. Snooks: Son of the Exiles Mr. Jones: TJ Burns General Pushing: ToddHW Chief Justice Fossile: Phil Schempf The Detective: Sonia Mr. Stutz-Mozart: Beth Thomas Newsboy / First Senator: Leanne Yau Second Senator: Stefan Von Blon Third Senator: Campbell Schelp Narrator: Devorah Allen Editors: Linny and Tomas Peter]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>5956</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/fd7d15fc0a30abe7fbc9f64dcc45fd7c.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>All for Love; or, The World Well Lost-John Dryden</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/all-for-love-or-the-world-well-lost-john-dryden--74398644</link><description><![CDATA[Any man who doesn’t want to get on in the world, to make a million dollars, and maybe even park his toothbrush in the White House, hasn’t got as much to him as a good dog has—he’s nothing more or less than a vegetable."Such is the preface of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s only outing as a playwright. The action begins when 35-year-old railway clerk Jerry Frost gets drunk off a bootlegger’s potent hooch on the eve of Warren G. Harding’s presidential nomination. As a result, the second act takes place entirely within Jerry’s intoxicated fantasies, where he has become the new U.S. President and must deal with an assortment of colorful characters and situations. It is here where comic farce and political satire come to intriguing blows, as Fitzgerald finds opportunities to comment (discreetly or not) on the political climate of his day. When his pseudo-presidency goes all to pieces, Jerry’s fantasy comes crashing down, and as he comes to his senses in the third act, we find that his career aspirations have become decidedly less lofty.Though decidedly a minor work from The Great Gatsby’s author, The Vegetable finds him skewering the American Dream’s ethos in ways he would never do again. It’s lighthearted, naughty, irreverent, and does just the trick to escape—even if briefly—from our turbulent times. - Summary by Tomas Peter Cast List Jerry Frost: Tomas Peter Charlotte Frost: Bhavya Horatio "Dada" Frost: Josh Kibbey Doris: Foon Joseph Fish: Chuck Williamson Mr. Snooks: Son of the Exiles Mr. Jones: TJ Burns General Pushing: ToddHW Chief Justice Fossile: Phil Schempf The Detective: Sonia Mr. Stutz-Mozart: Beth Thomas Newsboy / First Senator: Leanne Yau Second Senator: Stefan Von Blon Third Senator: Campbell Schelp Narrator: Devorah Allen Editors: Linny and Tomas Peter]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74398644</guid><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 15:41:19 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/74398644/all_for_love_or_the_world_well_lost_john_dryden.mp3" length="78954421" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>F. Scott Fitzgerald</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Any man who doesn’t want to get on in the world, to make a million dollars, and maybe even park his toothbrush in the White House, hasn’t got as much to him as a good dog has—he’s nothing more or less than a vegetable."Such is the preface of F. Scott...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Any man who doesn’t want to get on in the world, to make a million dollars, and maybe even park his toothbrush in the White House, hasn’t got as much to him as a good dog has—he’s nothing more or less than a vegetable."Such is the preface of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s only outing as a playwright. The action begins when 35-year-old railway clerk Jerry Frost gets drunk off a bootlegger’s potent hooch on the eve of Warren G. Harding’s presidential nomination. As a result, the second act takes place entirely within Jerry’s intoxicated fantasies, where he has become the new U.S. President and must deal with an assortment of colorful characters and situations. It is here where comic farce and political satire come to intriguing blows, as Fitzgerald finds opportunities to comment (discreetly or not) on the political climate of his day. When his pseudo-presidency goes all to pieces, Jerry’s fantasy comes crashing down, and as he comes to his senses in the third act, we find that his career aspirations have become decidedly less lofty.Though decidedly a minor work from The Great Gatsby’s author, The Vegetable finds him skewering the American Dream’s ethos in ways he would never do again. It’s lighthearted, naughty, irreverent, and does just the trick to escape—even if briefly—from our turbulent times. - Summary by Tomas Peter Cast List Jerry Frost: Tomas Peter Charlotte Frost: Bhavya Horatio "Dada" Frost: Josh Kibbey Doris: Foon Joseph Fish: Chuck Williamson Mr. Snooks: Son of the Exiles Mr. Jones: TJ Burns General Pushing: ToddHW Chief Justice Fossile: Phil Schempf The Detective: Sonia Mr. Stutz-Mozart: Beth Thomas Newsboy / First Senator: Leanne Yau Second Senator: Stefan Von Blon Third Senator: Campbell Schelp Narrator: Devorah Allen Editors: Linny and Tomas Peter]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>9859</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/fd7d15fc0a30abe7fbc9f64dcc45fd7c.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Schoolmistress-Arthur Wing Pinero</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/schoolmistress-arthur-wing-pinero--74354293</link><description><![CDATA[Any man who doesn’t want to get on in the world, to make a million dollars, and maybe even park his toothbrush in the White House, hasn’t got as much to him as a good dog has—he’s nothing more or less than a vegetable."Such is the preface of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s only outing as a playwright. The action begins when 35-year-old railway clerk Jerry Frost gets drunk off a bootlegger’s potent hooch on the eve of Warren G. Harding’s presidential nomination. As a result, the second act takes place entirely within Jerry’s intoxicated fantasies, where he has become the new U.S. President and must deal with an assortment of colorful characters and situations. It is here where comic farce and political satire come to intriguing blows, as Fitzgerald finds opportunities to comment (discreetly or not) on the political climate of his day. When his pseudo-presidency goes all to pieces, Jerry’s fantasy comes crashing down, and as he comes to his senses in the third act, we find that his career aspirations have become decidedly less lofty.Though decidedly a minor work from The Great Gatsby’s author, The Vegetable finds him skewering the American Dream’s ethos in ways he would never do again. It’s lighthearted, naughty, irreverent, and does just the trick to escape—even if briefly—from our turbulent times. - Summary by Tomas Peter Cast List Jerry Frost: Tomas Peter Charlotte Frost: Bhavya Horatio "Dada" Frost: Josh Kibbey Doris: Foon Joseph Fish: Chuck Williamson Mr. Snooks: Son of the Exiles Mr. Jones: TJ Burns General Pushing: ToddHW Chief Justice Fossile: Phil Schempf The Detective: Sonia Mr. Stutz-Mozart: Beth Thomas Newsboy / First Senator: Leanne Yau Second Senator: Stefan Von Blon Third Senator: Campbell Schelp Narrator: Devorah Allen Editors: Linny and Tomas Peter]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74354293</guid><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 02:28:03 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/74354293/schoolmistress_arthur_wing_pinero.mp3" length="82793515" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>F. Scott Fitzgerald</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Any man who doesn’t want to get on in the world, to make a million dollars, and maybe even park his toothbrush in the White House, hasn’t got as much to him as a good dog has—he’s nothing more or less than a vegetable."Such is the preface of F. Scott...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Any man who doesn’t want to get on in the world, to make a million dollars, and maybe even park his toothbrush in the White House, hasn’t got as much to him as a good dog has—he’s nothing more or less than a vegetable."Such is the preface of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s only outing as a playwright. The action begins when 35-year-old railway clerk Jerry Frost gets drunk off a bootlegger’s potent hooch on the eve of Warren G. Harding’s presidential nomination. As a result, the second act takes place entirely within Jerry’s intoxicated fantasies, where he has become the new U.S. President and must deal with an assortment of colorful characters and situations. It is here where comic farce and political satire come to intriguing blows, as Fitzgerald finds opportunities to comment (discreetly or not) on the political climate of his day. When his pseudo-presidency goes all to pieces, Jerry’s fantasy comes crashing down, and as he comes to his senses in the third act, we find that his career aspirations have become decidedly less lofty.Though decidedly a minor work from The Great Gatsby’s author, The Vegetable finds him skewering the American Dream’s ethos in ways he would never do again. It’s lighthearted, naughty, irreverent, and does just the trick to escape—even if briefly—from our turbulent times. - Summary by Tomas Peter Cast List Jerry Frost: Tomas Peter Charlotte Frost: Bhavya Horatio "Dada" Frost: Josh Kibbey Doris: Foon Joseph Fish: Chuck Williamson Mr. Snooks: Son of the Exiles Mr. Jones: TJ Burns General Pushing: ToddHW Chief Justice Fossile: Phil Schempf The Detective: Sonia Mr. Stutz-Mozart: Beth Thomas Newsboy / First Senator: Leanne Yau Second Senator: Stefan Von Blon Third Senator: Campbell Schelp Narrator: Devorah Allen Editors: Linny and Tomas Peter]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>10339</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/fd7d15fc0a30abe7fbc9f64dcc45fd7c.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Skin Game-John Galsworthy</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/skin-game-john-galsworthy--74215418</link><description><![CDATA[Any man who doesn’t want to get on in the world, to make a million dollars, and maybe even park his toothbrush in the White House, hasn’t got as much to him as a good dog has—he’s nothing more or less than a vegetable."Such is the preface of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s only outing as a playwright. The action begins when 35-year-old railway clerk Jerry Frost gets drunk off a bootlegger’s potent hooch on the eve of Warren G. Harding’s presidential nomination. As a result, the second act takes place entirely within Jerry’s intoxicated fantasies, where he has become the new U.S. President and must deal with an assortment of colorful characters and situations. It is here where comic farce and political satire come to intriguing blows, as Fitzgerald finds opportunities to comment (discreetly or not) on the political climate of his day. When his pseudo-presidency goes all to pieces, Jerry’s fantasy comes crashing down, and as he comes to his senses in the third act, we find that his career aspirations have become decidedly less lofty.Though decidedly a minor work from The Great Gatsby’s author, The Vegetable finds him skewering the American Dream’s ethos in ways he would never do again. It’s lighthearted, naughty, irreverent, and does just the trick to escape—even if briefly—from our turbulent times. - Summary by Tomas Peter Cast List Jerry Frost: Tomas Peter Charlotte Frost: Bhavya Horatio "Dada" Frost: Josh Kibbey Doris: Foon Joseph Fish: Chuck Williamson Mr. Snooks: Son of the Exiles Mr. Jones: TJ Burns General Pushing: ToddHW Chief Justice Fossile: Phil Schempf The Detective: Sonia Mr. Stutz-Mozart: Beth Thomas Newsboy / First Senator: Leanne Yau Second Senator: Stefan Von Blon Third Senator: Campbell Schelp Narrator: Devorah Allen Editors: Linny and Tomas Peter]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74215418</guid><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:09:11 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/74215418/skin_game_john_galsworthy.mp3" length="70818467" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>F. Scott Fitzgerald</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Any man who doesn’t want to get on in the world, to make a million dollars, and maybe even park his toothbrush in the White House, hasn’t got as much to him as a good dog has—he’s nothing more or less than a vegetable."Such is the preface of F. Scott...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Any man who doesn’t want to get on in the world, to make a million dollars, and maybe even park his toothbrush in the White House, hasn’t got as much to him as a good dog has—he’s nothing more or less than a vegetable."Such is the preface of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s only outing as a playwright. The action begins when 35-year-old railway clerk Jerry Frost gets drunk off a bootlegger’s potent hooch on the eve of Warren G. Harding’s presidential nomination. As a result, the second act takes place entirely within Jerry’s intoxicated fantasies, where he has become the new U.S. President and must deal with an assortment of colorful characters and situations. It is here where comic farce and political satire come to intriguing blows, as Fitzgerald finds opportunities to comment (discreetly or not) on the political climate of his day. When his pseudo-presidency goes all to pieces, Jerry’s fantasy comes crashing down, and as he comes to his senses in the third act, we find that his career aspirations have become decidedly less lofty.Though decidedly a minor work from The Great Gatsby’s author, The Vegetable finds him skewering the American Dream’s ethos in ways he would never do again. It’s lighthearted, naughty, irreverent, and does just the trick to escape—even if briefly—from our turbulent times. - Summary by Tomas Peter Cast List Jerry Frost: Tomas Peter Charlotte Frost: Bhavya Horatio "Dada" Frost: Josh Kibbey Doris: Foon Joseph Fish: Chuck Williamson Mr. Snooks: Son of the Exiles Mr. Jones: TJ Burns General Pushing: ToddHW Chief Justice Fossile: Phil Schempf The Detective: Sonia Mr. Stutz-Mozart: Beth Thomas Newsboy / First Senator: Leanne Yau Second Senator: Stefan Von Blon Third Senator: Campbell Schelp Narrator: Devorah Allen Editors: Linny and Tomas Peter]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>8843</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/fd7d15fc0a30abe7fbc9f64dcc45fd7c.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Monsieur De Pourceaugnac-Molière</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/monsieur-de-pourceaugnac-moliere--74168690</link><description><![CDATA[Any man who doesn’t want to get on in the world, to make a million dollars, and maybe even park his toothbrush in the White House, hasn’t got as much to him as a good dog has—he’s nothing more or less than a vegetable."Such is the preface of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s only outing as a playwright. The action begins when 35-year-old railway clerk Jerry Frost gets drunk off a bootlegger’s potent hooch on the eve of Warren G. Harding’s presidential nomination. As a result, the second act takes place entirely within Jerry’s intoxicated fantasies, where he has become the new U.S. President and must deal with an assortment of colorful characters and situations. It is here where comic farce and political satire come to intriguing blows, as Fitzgerald finds opportunities to comment (discreetly or not) on the political climate of his day. When his pseudo-presidency goes all to pieces, Jerry’s fantasy comes crashing down, and as he comes to his senses in the third act, we find that his career aspirations have become decidedly less lofty.Though decidedly a minor work from The Great Gatsby’s author, The Vegetable finds him skewering the American Dream’s ethos in ways he would never do again. It’s lighthearted, naughty, irreverent, and does just the trick to escape—even if briefly—from our turbulent times. - Summary by Tomas Peter Cast List Jerry Frost: Tomas Peter Charlotte Frost: Bhavya Horatio "Dada" Frost: Josh Kibbey Doris: Foon Joseph Fish: Chuck Williamson Mr. Snooks: Son of the Exiles Mr. Jones: TJ Burns General Pushing: ToddHW Chief Justice Fossile: Phil Schempf The Detective: Sonia Mr. Stutz-Mozart: Beth Thomas Newsboy / First Senator: Leanne Yau Second Senator: Stefan Von Blon Third Senator: Campbell Schelp Narrator: Devorah Allen Editors: Linny and Tomas Peter]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74168690</guid><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 09:09:32 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/74168690/monsieur_de_pourceaugnac_molie_re.mp3" length="41459989" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>F. Scott Fitzgerald</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Any man who doesn’t want to get on in the world, to make a million dollars, and maybe even park his toothbrush in the White House, hasn’t got as much to him as a good dog has—he’s nothing more or less than a vegetable."Such is the preface of F. Scott...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Any man who doesn’t want to get on in the world, to make a million dollars, and maybe even park his toothbrush in the White House, hasn’t got as much to him as a good dog has—he’s nothing more or less than a vegetable."Such is the preface of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s only outing as a playwright. The action begins when 35-year-old railway clerk Jerry Frost gets drunk off a bootlegger’s potent hooch on the eve of Warren G. Harding’s presidential nomination. As a result, the second act takes place entirely within Jerry’s intoxicated fantasies, where he has become the new U.S. President and must deal with an assortment of colorful characters and situations. It is here where comic farce and political satire come to intriguing blows, as Fitzgerald finds opportunities to comment (discreetly or not) on the political climate of his day. When his pseudo-presidency goes all to pieces, Jerry’s fantasy comes crashing down, and as he comes to his senses in the third act, we find that his career aspirations have become decidedly less lofty.Though decidedly a minor work from The Great Gatsby’s author, The Vegetable finds him skewering the American Dream’s ethos in ways he would never do again. It’s lighthearted, naughty, irreverent, and does just the trick to escape—even if briefly—from our turbulent times. - Summary by Tomas Peter Cast List Jerry Frost: Tomas Peter Charlotte Frost: Bhavya Horatio "Dada" Frost: Josh Kibbey Doris: Foon Joseph Fish: Chuck Williamson Mr. Snooks: Son of the Exiles Mr. Jones: TJ Burns General Pushing: ToddHW Chief Justice Fossile: Phil Schempf The Detective: Sonia Mr. Stutz-Mozart: Beth Thomas Newsboy / First Senator: Leanne Yau Second Senator: Stefan Von Blon Third Senator: Campbell Schelp Narrator: Devorah Allen Editors: Linny and Tomas Peter]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>5177</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/fd7d15fc0a30abe7fbc9f64dcc45fd7c.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Gamester-Edward Moore</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/gamester-edward-moore--74122398</link><description><![CDATA[Any man who doesn’t want to get on in the world, to make a million dollars, and maybe even park his toothbrush in the White House, hasn’t got as much to him as a good dog has—he’s nothing more or less than a vegetable."Such is the preface of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s only outing as a playwright. The action begins when 35-year-old railway clerk Jerry Frost gets drunk off a bootlegger’s potent hooch on the eve of Warren G. Harding’s presidential nomination. As a result, the second act takes place entirely within Jerry’s intoxicated fantasies, where he has become the new U.S. President and must deal with an assortment of colorful characters and situations. It is here where comic farce and political satire come to intriguing blows, as Fitzgerald finds opportunities to comment (discreetly or not) on the political climate of his day. When his pseudo-presidency goes all to pieces, Jerry’s fantasy comes crashing down, and as he comes to his senses in the third act, we find that his career aspirations have become decidedly less lofty.Though decidedly a minor work from The Great Gatsby’s author, The Vegetable finds him skewering the American Dream’s ethos in ways he would never do again. It’s lighthearted, naughty, irreverent, and does just the trick to escape—even if briefly—from our turbulent times. - Summary by Tomas Peter Cast List Jerry Frost: Tomas Peter Charlotte Frost: Bhavya Horatio "Dada" Frost: Josh Kibbey Doris: Foon Joseph Fish: Chuck Williamson Mr. Snooks: Son of the Exiles Mr. Jones: TJ Burns General Pushing: ToddHW Chief Justice Fossile: Phil Schempf The Detective: Sonia Mr. Stutz-Mozart: Beth Thomas Newsboy / First Senator: Leanne Yau Second Senator: Stefan Von Blon Third Senator: Campbell Schelp Narrator: Devorah Allen Editors: Linny and Tomas Peter]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74122398</guid><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 13:20:38 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/74122398/gamester_edward_moore.mp3" length="76377348" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>F. Scott Fitzgerald</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Any man who doesn’t want to get on in the world, to make a million dollars, and maybe even park his toothbrush in the White House, hasn’t got as much to him as a good dog has—he’s nothing more or less than a vegetable."Such is the preface of F. Scott...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Any man who doesn’t want to get on in the world, to make a million dollars, and maybe even park his toothbrush in the White House, hasn’t got as much to him as a good dog has—he’s nothing more or less than a vegetable."Such is the preface of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s only outing as a playwright. The action begins when 35-year-old railway clerk Jerry Frost gets drunk off a bootlegger’s potent hooch on the eve of Warren G. Harding’s presidential nomination. As a result, the second act takes place entirely within Jerry’s intoxicated fantasies, where he has become the new U.S. President and must deal with an assortment of colorful characters and situations. It is here where comic farce and political satire come to intriguing blows, as Fitzgerald finds opportunities to comment (discreetly or not) on the political climate of his day. When his pseudo-presidency goes all to pieces, Jerry’s fantasy comes crashing down, and as he comes to his senses in the third act, we find that his career aspirations have become decidedly less lofty.Though decidedly a minor work from The Great Gatsby’s author, The Vegetable finds him skewering the American Dream’s ethos in ways he would never do again. It’s lighthearted, naughty, irreverent, and does just the trick to escape—even if briefly—from our turbulent times. - Summary by Tomas Peter Cast List Jerry Frost: Tomas Peter Charlotte Frost: Bhavya Horatio "Dada" Frost: Josh Kibbey Doris: Foon Joseph Fish: Chuck Williamson Mr. Snooks: Son of the Exiles Mr. Jones: TJ Burns General Pushing: ToddHW Chief Justice Fossile: Phil Schempf The Detective: Sonia Mr. Stutz-Mozart: Beth Thomas Newsboy / First Senator: Leanne Yau Second Senator: Stefan Von Blon Third Senator: Campbell Schelp Narrator: Devorah Allen Editors: Linny and Tomas Peter]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>9538</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/fd7d15fc0a30abe7fbc9f64dcc45fd7c.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Vegetable; or, From President to Postman-F. Scott Fitzgerald</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/vegetable-or-from-president-to-postman-f-scott-fitzgerald--73402291</link><description><![CDATA["Vegetable; or, From President to Postman" by F. Scott Fitzgerald explores the journey of an individual navigating the complexities of identity and purpose in a rapidly changing world. This thought-provoking narrative delves into themes of ambition, societal expectations, and the often absurd nature of human endeavors. Fitzgerald's sharp wit and keen observations resonate with contemporary audiences, reminding us of the timeless struggle between aspirations and reality. As listeners engage with this unique work, they will find reflections on the human condition that remain relevant today, making it a compelling choice for anyone interested in the intricacies of life and the pursuit of meaning.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73402291</guid><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 19:48:16 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/73402291/vegetable_or_from_president_to_postman_f_scott_fitzgerald.mp3" length="85301629" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>F. Scott Fitzgerald</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>"Vegetable; or, From President to Postman" by F. Scott Fitzgerald explores the journey of an individual navigating the complexities of identity and purpose in a rapidly changing world. This thought-provoking narrative delves into themes of ambition,...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA["Vegetable; or, From President to Postman" by F. 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Scott Fitzgerald’s only outing as a playwright. The action begins when 35-year-old railway clerk Jerry Frost gets drunk off a bootlegger’s potent hooch on the eve of Warren G. Harding’s presidential nomination. As a result, the second act takes place entirely within Jerry’s intoxicated fantasies, where he has become the new U.S. President and must deal with an assortment of colorful characters and situations. It is here where comic farce and political satire come to intriguing blows, as Fitzgerald finds opportunities to comment (discreetly or not) on the political climate of his day. When his pseudo-presidency goes all to pieces, Jerry’s fantasy comes crashing down, and as he comes to his senses in the third act, we find that his career aspirations have become decidedly less lofty.Though decidedly a minor work from The Great Gatsby’s author, The Vegetable finds him skewering the American Dream’s ethos in ways he would never do again. It’s lighthearted, naughty, irreverent, and does just the trick to escape—even if briefly—from our turbulent times. - Summary by Tomas Peter Cast List Jerry Frost: Tomas Peter Charlotte Frost: Bhavya Horatio "Dada" Frost: Josh Kibbey Doris: Foon Joseph Fish: Chuck Williamson Mr. Snooks: Son of the Exiles Mr. Jones: TJ Burns General Pushing: ToddHW Chief Justice Fossile: Phil Schempf The Detective: Sonia Mr. Stutz-Mozart: Beth Thomas Newsboy / First Senator: Leanne Yau Second Senator: Stefan Von Blon Third Senator: Campbell Schelp Narrator: Devorah Allen Editors: Linny and Tomas Peter]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/72759908</guid><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 16:47:35 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72759908/vegetable_or_from_president_to_postman_f_scott_fitzgerald.mp3" length="85211680" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/8c494f54-a5aa-4363-9634-64257970dee6/8c494f54-a5aa-4363-9634-64257970dee6.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/8c494f54-a5aa-4363-9634-64257970dee6/8c494f54-a5aa-4363-9634-64257970dee6.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/8c494f54-a5aa-4363-9634-64257970dee6/8c494f54-a5aa-4363-9634-64257970dee6.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>F. Scott Fitzgerald</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>"Any man who doesn’t want to get on in the world, to make a million dollars, and maybe even park his toothbrush in the White House, hasn’t got as much to him as a good dog has—he’s nothing more or less than a vegetable."Such is the preface of F. Scott...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA["Any man who doesn’t want to get on in the world, to make a million dollars, and maybe even park his toothbrush in the White House, hasn’t got as much to him as a good dog has—he’s nothing more or less than a vegetable."Such is the preface of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s only outing as a playwright. The action begins when 35-year-old railway clerk Jerry Frost gets drunk off a bootlegger’s potent hooch on the eve of Warren G. Harding’s presidential nomination. As a result, the second act takes place entirely within Jerry’s intoxicated fantasies, where he has become the new U.S. President and must deal with an assortment of colorful characters and situations. It is here where comic farce and political satire come to intriguing blows, as Fitzgerald finds opportunities to comment (discreetly or not) on the political climate of his day. When his pseudo-presidency goes all to pieces, Jerry’s fantasy comes crashing down, and as he comes to his senses in the third act, we find that his career aspirations have become decidedly less lofty.Though decidedly a minor work from The Great Gatsby’s author, The Vegetable finds him skewering the American Dream’s ethos in ways he would never do again. It’s lighthearted, naughty, irreverent, and does just the trick to escape—even if briefly—from our turbulent times. - Summary by Tomas Peter Cast List Jerry Frost: Tomas Peter Charlotte Frost: Bhavya Horatio "Dada" Frost: Josh Kibbey Doris: Foon Joseph Fish: Chuck Williamson Mr. Snooks: Son of the Exiles Mr. Jones: TJ Burns General Pushing: ToddHW Chief Justice Fossile: Phil Schempf The Detective: Sonia Mr. Stutz-Mozart: Beth Thomas Newsboy / First Senator: Leanne Yau Second Senator: Stefan Von Blon Third Senator: Campbell Schelp Narrator: Devorah Allen Editors: Linny and Tomas Peter]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>10652</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>decidedly,fitzgerald,frost,jerry,postman,president,satire,senator,tomas,vegetable</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/fd7d15fc0a30abe7fbc9f64dcc45fd7c.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item></channel></rss>
