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Linda's Funeral Parlour

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Grack Public Access opens with a memorial dedication for Tig, and the episode says listeners can learn a little more about her connection to the show at the end. Tog Chesterfield and Parker Spoon come in on a second start after a false start, still not quite sure whether anyone knows where they are. The whole thing is set at Linda's Funeral Parlor. The week's theme is cakes, and the sponsor is small brooms, which nobody can explain cleanly at first without dragging the bit out. Tog tries to sketch the room for the listener, calling out the parlor and its mood like he is painting it live. The show keeps its public-access feel by letting the setup wobble while the two hosts correct themselves, restart themselves, and keep talking anyway. Parker stays with Tog, answering in the same loose rhythm. The broadcast then drifts toward the Corn Cake Bake Off, which is treated like one of the bigger civic events in Grackleton. A mid-September date gets set, and the mention of September 14 lands like a real problem. Parker realizes that date collides with an annual visit to Aunt Eloise. He cannot skip it, because his mother treats the visit as a family duty and maybe also as a shot at the will. Parker says he genuinely likes Aunt Eloise, even if the schedule makes him miserable. He would rather be baking corn cakes than almost anything else. Tog agrees to help him anyway. He even offers to stand in so Parker can keep the bake-off represented. The conversation settles on a recipe idea and the possibility of recording a little session at the event. That gives the episode a comic center: one local radio topic, one impossible date, and one friend trying to keep the tradition alive. The sponsor bit, the funeral-parlor setting, and the cake obsession all feed the same affectionate, slightly unsteady civic mythology. The closing stretch keeps the tone warm and rambling rather than neat. A final promo for another show follows, but the Grackleton banter is the part that stays with you.

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A drifting Grack Public Access stop about cakes, a sponsor, and a memorial note for Tig.

Grack Public Access settles into a messy but affectionate visit to Linda's Funeral Parlor, with Tog Chesterfield and Parker Spoon back for a third episode after a false start.

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