{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Bluff City: America's Playground Pt. 01 (WITH ANNOUNCEMENT!)","description":" BEFORE WE GET TO THE EPISODE THERE IS AN IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT!!!!!!!! This upcoming weekend, July 3rd and July 4th, Friends at the Table will be doing a LIVE STREAM MARATHON FUNDRAISER for the National Network of Abortion Funds!! We'll be hosting the stream over at twitch.tv\/friendsatthetable JOIN US 12 - 8 PM ET JULY 3RD AND JULY 4TH! Watch us play some videogames! Listen to us play some ttrpgs!!! Enjoy us not playing games at all for a bit of it!!! We might do a Marielda one shot . . . . ? It'll be fun! Tell your friends!!     The Scamps Are About The unusually mild spring of 1891 saw an unusual craze sweep the length of the Bluff City boardwalks, when the organ grinders found themselves targeted by the city\u2019s children in an outbreak of particularly nefarious behavior. The children, moving in loosely organized packs, would fall upon one organ grinder after another. Some would find the cans that contained their tunes removed and dropped off the pier. Others would turn their organs\u2019 handles and salt water would pour, improbably, from the pipes.  The organ grinders, by and large, were not much older than their assailants, and as mild spring turned into cold summer, unusual battle lines were drawn among Bluff City\u2019s children. Elliot Callahan, discussing this song the following year, wrote: \u201cI know not which young band of voices would raise these verses. Whether the beleaguered grinders - or, in parody, the roustabouts themselves - it matters not.\u201d    The scamps are about! On the beaches and the boardwalks!\u2028 The scamps are about! Send the word along the line! \u2028 From the bait shop on pacific, in a mob that\u2019s quite terrific, Wearing grins that are horrific and demeanors so malign!    The scamps are about! Pouring southward, ever southward,  And they\u2019re carrying those sacks they use to make their wicked play! See the organ grinders panic, hear their melodies grow frantic, As the antics of the scamps intensify along their way!   The scamps are about! Is there anyone to stop them? Is there any lion-hearted soul to step into the fray? If there\u2019s someone strong of spirit then I\u2019d really like to hear it, Since the beer they poured inside my organ\u2019s getting in the way.    Featuring: Austin Walker, Art Martinez-Tebbel, Jack de Quidt, Janine Hawkins and Keith J Carberry   Music & Description by Jack de Quidt   Mall Kids is available at https:\/\/mr-matthew.itch.io\/mall-kids ","author_name":"Friends at the Table","author_url":"https:\/\/friendsatthetable.net","html":"