Con is still determined to run for office, driving Suranji to the brink of madness, when Cthulhu intervenes.

Music: Hippodrome March, 1912, John Philip Sousa “Comrades of the Legion,” John Philip Sousa, United States Marine Band “Do You Believe?” 1929, Billy Hays Orchestra

Con, inspired by the politics overheard from Flubradda, decides to run for office.

Music: Hippodrome March, 1912, John Philip Sousa “Manhattan Beach March,” 1906, Sousa’s Band “I’m Just Wild About Harry,” 1921, Eubie Blake “Comrades of the Legion,” John Philip Sousa, United States Marine Band

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Suranji and Elder Thing Cthulhu are getting a bit annoyed with Con’s continuing obsession over the political gas giants they’ve been monitoring.

Music: Hippodrome March, 1912, John Philip Sousa “Sophie Tucker for President,” 1952, Sophie Tucker “C’est bian l’air que chaque matin,” Meyerbeer, L’Etoile du Nord, sung by Sumi Jo

Con is enchanted by the oratory of the Flubraddarans, inhabitants of a gas giant, and explores the political speechifying of its own extinct species of origin.

Music: Hippodrome March, 1912, John Philip Sousa “Happy Days Are Here Again,” 1930, Ted Weems Orchestra “Nur für Natur,” Johann Strauss II, Der Lustige Krieg, sung by Rudolf Kreuzberger

Con and Suranji, in orbit around a gas giant, have discovered the native life forms are in the middle of an election cycle. Elder Thing Cthulhu manifests the obligatory exposition.

Music: Hippodrome March, 1912, John Philip Sousa “The Wibbly Wobbly Walk,” 1913, Fred Elliot “Jazz Baby,” 1919, Agnes Lynn

Con and Suranji are on holiday in orbit around a gas giant, when Con makes a startling discovery: the gas giant contains life!

Music: Hippodrome March, 1912, John Philip Sousa “Cocktail Lady,” 1999, Funky Terrorist “Little know ye who is coming” Campaign commercials: Eisenhower, 1952; Kennedy, 1960; Nixon, 1972

Con can’t forget the higher-dimensional experience Cthulhu gave the probe, and finds standard reality stale and meaningless.

Music: Hippodrome March, 1912, John Philip Sousa “Some of These Days,” 1925, New Orleans Jazz Band “Some of These Days,” 1911, Sophie Tucker “At Peace with the World,” 1926, Louis James, Franklin Bauer

Cthulhu attempts to rouse Con from another depressive episode by whisking the probe off to a higher-dimensional assembly of Elder Things.

Music: Hippodrome March, 1912, John Philip Sousa “Badinage,” 1912, Victor Herbert, Victor Light Opera Orchestra Interlude from Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Shostakovich “My Baby Just Cares for Me,” 1930, Ted Weems Orchestra

Suranji finds a stray nut in Con’s infrastructure and will not rest until it tears the probe apart to find where it goes.

Music: Hippodrome March, 1912, John Philip Sousa “Just Another Day Wasted Away,” 1927, Abe Lymon Orchestra “Tell Me, Little Gypsy,” 1920, Art Hickman Orchestra “Sadie Green, the Vamp of New Orleans,” 1026, The Five Harmaniacs

Con and Suranji finish the cosmicast, then go about their business with a tune that won’t go away.

Music: Hippodrome March, 1912, John Philip Sousa “Blues in the Night,” 1942, Cab Calloway and The Palmer Brothers “Blues in the Night,” Larry Adler and his Orchestra with John Kirby and his Orchestra “Blues in the Night,” 1942, Dinah Shore

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Con produces a spooky audio drama based on the work of terrormeister H.P. Lovecraft, with the help of Suranji and Elder Thing Cthulhu.

Music: Hippodrome March, 1912, John Philip Sousa “The Skeleton Rag,” 1912, Billy Murray and the Premier Quartet

Con explores another quirk of his extinct species, the worship of certain individuals as “heroes.”

Music: Hippodrome March, 1912, John Philip Sousa “My Hero,” 1910, from The Chocolate Soldier by Oscar Straus, sung by Lucy Isabelle Marsh “Entrance of the Kings,” from La Belle Helene by Jacques Offenbach

Con decides to embrace his incipient insanity and enjoy it, but cracking up isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

Music: Hippodrome March, 1912, John Philip Sousa “Ain’t We Crazy,” 1946, Slim Bryant “I’m Crazy When the Band Begins to Play,” 1909, Pete Murray “Hey! Hey! and Hee! Hee!” 22 August 1024, International Novelty Orchestra

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And we shall see what we shall see. Keep those digital appendages crossed!

Con is experiencing one of those rare time-cycles when everything goes just right.

Cosmicasters! It’s Podcast Awards time! From now through September 30 go to podcastawards.com and enter The Con and Suranji Cosmicast under the Best Produced and Comedy categories (url: http://cosmicast.podbean.com). You only get one chance to nominate your favorite podcasts, so let’s see if we can’t get poor Con some of the attention it so desperately requires. Nominate The Con and Suranji Cosmicast today!

Music: Hippodrome March, 1912, John Philip Sousa “Piano Boogie” “Chasing the Blues Away,” 1927, Winegar’s Pennsylvania Boys “Balrog Boogie,” Diablo Swing Orchestra

At the bottom of the form enter your full name and valid email address. There’s a comment box: these comments can really make a difference! Needless to say, The Con and Suranji Cosmicast should be realistically described as the funniest sitcom in galactic history, of immense entertainment value and profundity, world-changing in its thought-provoking giddiness. If we’re the only podcast you listen to regularly , say so! When you’re finished, click the Submit button next to the Comments box, and you’re all done. Remember, you can only submit ONCE, so be sure you’ve got your comments and url’s entered correctly.

We’ll be keeping you alerted on developments. Keep those digital appendages crossed!

1. You can only nominate ONE TIME. After you submit your nominations, you will be blocked from nominating again. So use that opportunity to nominate The Con and Suranji Cosmicast!

2. You can only nominate the Cosmicast under one subordinate category and then again for a “top” category. That means you should nominate the Cosmicast for Comedy and Best Produced.

3. Following the nominating period, there will be a period of review by the Podcast Awards folks, using various occult criteria to whittle down the myriad nominees to the top ten in each category. If by some bizarre and miraculous fluke of Fate the Cosmicast gets into the top ten for either (or both!) categories, you will then be allowed to vote, over and over and over again, as many times as you can stomach, for the Cosmicast. Winners will be feted in la-la land (Los Angeles).

The Oxford Rationalist Liberation Front and Amateur Theatrical Collective will keep you informed as to our progress. So wait for the link and instructions to come on the nominating process, then cross your digital appendages, and we’ll see if Con can’t finally realize its dream of a little positive reinforcement for all the hard work the ‘cast entails!