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Beautiful Night

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Beautiful Night is one man's vision to unite humanity and smash tyrants. The singular nature of this one-man show gives it the feeling of stepping into another person's dream. It's filled with music, characters, dark tales that interweave, & unpredictably surreal comedy with a mysterious logic all its own.

- Host -

Ben Banach

Ben Banach is a farmer & comedic outsider artist. He lives on Moon Girl Farm with a small group of devotees & his twin brother, Glen. He is perhaps the Hog Barn Strangler.

- Episodes - 

Beautiful Night
13 - Prairie Scum Part III - Beasts that Wail at the Harvest Moon
Beautiful Night
13 - Prairie Scum Part III - Beasts that Wail at the Harvest Moon
Beautiful Night

All around you, a howling wilderness. Celebrity guest Scoot McNairy stops by for a brief chat. Steve Malden makes a cameo in a song about hogs.The truth behind SCUM is revealed. Jean Michel spirals. A farmer falls in love. New roommates build a future. Ben & Skrog's frenemy-ship is challenged harder than ever. The price of used cars skyrockets. Something magical happens. Skungamon County & the world change forever.

Beautiful Night
12 - Prairie Scum II - In a Sunlit Pool, See a Shine
Beautiful Night
12 - Prairie Scum II - In a Sunlit Pool, See a Shine
Beautiful Night

I see such good in you--like sunlight in the woods, it shines through. Coriander teaches Geoffrey how to be bad. Skrog & Marty eat church chilli & watch a shocking episode of Good Morning Bun. Ben & Jean Michel continue terrorizing the countryside, as only scientists & Hog Barn Stranglers can. Guest musicians include Joe Roderick playing handpan on "Small Lakes are Cool". Heath Thornton plays drums & Chris Baxter plays the Cuban tres & lap steel guitar on "Quarry Dogs"

Beautiful Night
11 - Prairie Scum Part I: Kiss of the Hog Barn Strangler
Beautiful Night
11 - Prairie Scum Part I: Kiss of the Hog Barn Strangler
Beautiful Night

Follow the birds to the shade. Follow the drops of rain. Turtlesong fills the air. Skrog continues his run for Mayor of Bun & recruits an unlikely campaign officer from a particular attic. Ben & Jean Michel fall in with a rough bunch. Geoffrey & Coriander skim across eternity together.

Beautiful Night
10 - The Country Lawyer
Beautiful Night
10 - The Country Lawyer
Beautiful Night

Does an evil thing haunt you now? The night air fills with song. Corn pones are consumed. The trial of the century looms. The boys journey to Bun, Illinois.

Beautiful Night
9 - Miss O'Nassy's Home for Addled Boys and Shrinkin Men
Beautiful Night
9 - Miss O'Nassy's Home for Addled Boys and Shrinkin Men
Beautiful Night

A cold wind blows. Friends are divided by an election. A sideways shuffle resumes in the flickering twilight of civilization. Ben, shrinkin, is bullied by an addled boy.

Beautiful Night
8 - Small Suicides
Beautiful Night
8 - Small Suicides
Beautiful Night

It's the little things that matter. This episode is currently up for the MOST DRAMATIC SOLO PODCAST EPISODE AWARD. Please vote! Ben Banach nails it once again!

Beautiful Night
7 - The Night God
Beautiful Night
7 - The Night God
Beautiful Night

The story of Baby Island concludes (for now). The miniature word for "miniature" is "mini". No miniature word for "beautiful".

Beautiful Night
6 - Baby Island
Beautiful Night
6 - Baby Island
Beautiful Night

Even in this strange condition, I can find you in my hand.
 

Beautiful Night
5 - The Lady Outside
Beautiful Night
5 - The Lady Outside
Beautiful Night

On an unmapped mountain, the oak breaks, but the willow bends.

Beautiful Night
4 - Butterfly Milkweed
Beautiful Night
4 - Butterfly Milkweed
Beautiful Night

Under a troubled moon, milk is shed. Cocoons are broken. Near the mouth of a forest, fields of wheat wave beneath the stars. A vision is had.

Beautiful Night