Episode 804: Originally Aired on Mad Wasp Radio, 09.21.25
The Clockwork Cabaret: A Mad Wasp Radio Show
Release Date: 09/22/2025
Episode 820: Originally Aired on Mad Wasp Radio, 01.11.26
The Clockwork Cabaret: A Mad Wasp Radio Show
This week’s show twists familiar songs into something sly and unexpected, turning recognition into delightful disorientation. Emmett Davenport and Lady Attercop invite listeners to fall through the trapdoor between nostalgia and reinvention—right as the smile sets in. WARNING! This show is for adults. We drink cocktails, have potty mouths and, at least, one of us was raised by wolves. The Clockwork Cabaret is a production of Agony Aunt Studios. Featuring that darling DJ Duo, Lady Attercop and Emmett Davenport. Our theme music is made especially for us by Kyle O’Door. This episode aired...
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Episode 819: Originally Aired on Mad Wasp Radio, 01.04.26
The Clockwork Cabaret: A Mad Wasp Radio Show
This week’s show drifts between reassurance and reckoning, pairing bittersweet standards with songs that circle aging, endings, and the uneasy comfort of momentum. Emmett Davenport and Lady Attercop explore the space between “qué será, será” acceptance and the creeping sense that something important is ticking closer. It’s a late-night Cabaret episode for holding hands, taking stock, and deciding—again—how to keep going. WARNING! This show is for adults. We drink cocktails, have potty mouths and, at least, one of us was raised by wolves. The Clockwork Cabaret is a production of...
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Episode 818: Originally Aired on Mad Wasp Radio, 12.28.25
The Clockwork Cabaret: A Mad Wasp Radio Show
This week, Emmett Davenport and Lady Attercop wander the low road, tracing loneliness, bad decisions, and the thin line between comfort and ruin through songs about medicine, devils, cowboys, and charming men. From old-fashioned remedies and darker histories to swagger, sorrow, and strange humor, the Cabaret leans into music that aches, struts, and refuses easy answers. It’s a beautiful night for questionable cures and excellent company. WARNING! This show is for adults. We drink cocktails, have potty mouths and, at least, one of us was raised by wolves. The Clockwork Cabaret is a production...
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Episode 817: Originally Aired on Mad Wasp Radio, 12.21.25
The Clockwork Cabaret: A Mad Wasp Radio Show
Emmett Davenport and Lady Attercop unwrap the darker side of the season with a dive into Krampusnacht, where holiday cheer comes with horns, chains, and consequences. Paired with the dangerously festive Naughty List cocktail and a wildly eclectic Christmas playlist—from cozy classics to full yuletide chaos—this episode proves that Winter holidays have always been a little weird. WARNING! This show is for adults. We drink cocktails, have potty mouths and, at least, one of us was raised by wolves. The Clockwork Cabaret is a production of Agony Aunt Studios. Featuring that darling DJ Duo,...
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Episode 816: Originally Aired on Mad Wasp Radio, 12.14.25
The Clockwork Cabaret: A Mad Wasp Radio Show
Emmett Davenport and Lady Attercop dive into the eerie puzzle of the Dyatlov Pass Incident in this week’s Weird History, unraveling one of the 20th century’s most haunting unsolved mysteries. Paired with the jittery, shadow-soaked Night Terrors cocktail and a playlist full of sleepless longing, spectral folk, and chamber-pop shivers, this episode drifts through the strange hours when dreams and dread walk hand in hand. WARNING! This show is for adults. We drink cocktails, have potty mouths and, at least, one of us was raised by wolves. The Clockwork Cabaret is a production of Agony Aunt...
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Episode 815: Originally Aired on Mad Wasp Radio, 12.07.25
The Clockwork Cabaret: A Mad Wasp Radio Show
Emmett Davenport and Lady Attercop dive into the chaotic history of Tulip Mania in this week’s Weird History, exploring how a simple flower once sparked one of the world’s earliest financial bubbles. Paired with the bittersweet Market Crash cocktail and a playlist full of riches, rascals, and economic mischief, this episode proves that when it comes to money, humans never quite learn their lessons. WARNING! This show is for adults. We drink cocktails, have potty mouths and, at least, one of us was raised by wolves. The Clockwork Cabaret is a production of Agony Aunt Studios. Featuring that...
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Episode 814: Originally Aired on Mad Wasp Radio, 11.30.25
The Clockwork Cabaret: A Mad Wasp Radio Show
Emmett Davenport and Lady Attercop wander through the strange legend of Tom o’ Bedlam in this week’s Weird History, tracing the footsteps of wandering prophets, tricksters, and tavern-haunting rogues. Paired with the smoky, bittersweet Vagabond’s Mercy from Cursed Cocktails and a genre-leaping playlist featuring Django Reinhardt, Charming Disaster, Dust Bowl Faeries, and Orville Peck, this episode drifts through madness, melody, and moonlit mischief. WARNING! This show is for adults. We drink cocktails, have potty mouths and, at least, one of us was raised by wolves. The Clockwork...
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Episode 813: Originally Aired on Mad Wasp Radio, 11.23.25
The Clockwork Cabaret: A Mad Wasp Radio Show
Emmett Davenport and Lady Attercop unravel the tangled legends of Rasputin’s infamous demise, trading mythic poisonings and icy rivers for the stark truth revealed by modern historians. Paired with a wickedly charged playlist featuring Jill Tracy, Rasputina, Electric Six, and The Cog is Dead, this episode dives deep into folklore, fact, and the shadows where the two intertwine. WARNING! This show is for adults. We drink cocktails, have potty mouths and, at least, one of us was raised by wolves. The Clockwork Cabaret is a production of Agony Aunt Studios. Featuring that darling DJ Duo, Lady...
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Episode 812: Originally Aired on Mad Wasp Radio, 11.16.25
The Clockwork Cabaret: A Mad Wasp Radio Show
That darling DJ duo, Emmett Davenport & Lady Attercop, raise a glass to history’s most decadent troublemakers with a dive into the scandalous Hellfire Club—complete with monks’ robes, pagan toasts, and enough debauchery to make the Devil blush. This week’s Cursed Cocktail, The Bishop, offers a warm, wine-soaked blessing while the Calpurnia’s gramophone pours out riotous revelry from The Tiger Lillies, Tom Waits, Murder By Death, and more. WARNING! This show is for adults. We drink cocktails, have potty mouths and, at least, one of us was raised by wolves. The Clockwork Cabaret is...
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Episode 811: Originally Aired on Mad Wasp Radio, 11.09.25
The Clockwork Cabaret: A Mad Wasp Radio Show
Emmett Davenport and Lady Attercop tumble through the centuries in this time-twisting episode of The Clockwork Cabaret. From the eerie tale of the Moberly–Jourdain Versailles Time Slip to a chronometric Cursed Cocktail that bends hours and minds alike, it’s an evening of ghosts, gears, and glorious anachronisms—soundtracked by Tom Waits, Nick Cave, Steam Powered Giraffe, and more. WARNING! This show is for adults. We drink cocktails, have potty mouths and, at least, one of us was raised by wolves. The Clockwork Cabaret is a production of Agony Aunt Studios. Featuring that darling DJ Duo,...
info_outlineThis week, Emmett celebrates their birthday in the most dignified way possible: alone, with a balloon taped to a chair, a candle stuck in Boot Whiskey, and you—dear listeners—as the unwilling party guests. Expect melancholy waltzes, gleeful absurdity, fake sponsors peddling frosted bloomers and mandatory hats, and the occasional kazoo rendition of “Happy Birthday.” It’s two hours of cake-fingered solitude and frosted chaos on The Clockwork Cabaret, only on Mad Wasp Radio.
WARNING! This show is for adults. We drink cocktails, have potty mouths and, at least, one of us was raised by wolves.
The Clockwork Cabaret is a production of Agony Aunt Studios. Featuring that darling DJ Duo, Lady Attercop and Emmett Davenport. Our theme music is made especially for us by Kyle O’Door.
This episode aired on Mad Wasp Radio, 09.21.25.
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Playlist:
- Joel Fry - To Death We Go
- The Tiger Lillies - Send In The Clowns
- Puddles Pity Party - I Want You to Want Me
- Insomniac Folklore - This Light of Mine
- The Scarring Party - How Far Down Does This Hole Go
- Israel Kamakawiwo'ole - Somewhere Over the Rainbow
- Tom Waits - Table Top Joe
- Leonard Cohen - The Guests
- Marino - Devil in Disguise
- Nouvelle Vague - I Could Be Happy
- Aurelio Voltaire - The Industrial Revolution (And How It Ruined My Life)
- They Might Be Giants - Older
- Thomas Benjamin Wild Esq - I've No More ... To Give (feat. Damian Clark)
- Cab Calloway - Everybody Eats When They Come to My House
- Little Fats & Swingin' Hot Shot Party - Cake Walkin' Babies
- Kimya Dawson - My Mom
- Jenny Lewis With The Watson Twins - Happy
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Nobody's Baby Now
- Bitter Pill - Alone
- Murder By Death - Dead Man's Party
- Courtney Barnett - Nobody Really Cares If You Don't Go to the Party
- Marie Madeleine - The Nihilist Song
- The Smiths - Unhappy Birthday
- The Cure - Disintegration
- Alessia Cara - Here
- Wet Leg - Angelica
- Garfunkel and Oates - Happy Birthday to My Loose Acquaintance
- Nina Hagen - I Want to be Happy