Episode 808: Originally Aired on Mad Wasp Radio, 10.19.25
The Clockwork Cabaret: A Mad Wasp Radio Show
Release Date: 10/20/2025
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 Davenport and Lady Attercop tinker with the boundaries of science, spirits, and sheer absurdity. In Weird History, they revisit Dr. Ernst Gräfenberg’s explosive plumbing mishap—a cautionary tale of invention meeting indignity. Then it’s time for Cursed Cocktails, featuring the disturbingly decadent Monkey Gland—a drink born from mad science and questionable anatomy. Plus: fake adverts for steam-powered sock sorters and doomed musical ice spectacles.
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, 10.19.25.
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Playlist:
- Jill Tracy – Pulling Your Insides Out
- Marianne Faithfull – In the Factory
- the Deadfly Ensemble – the Anatomist
- Bryce Pinkham, Jefferson Mays & Catherine Walker – Poison in My Pocket
- Aurelio Voltaire – Kill the Beast
- The Tiger Lillies – Heroin
- Vernian Process – Behold the Machine
- The Cog is Dead – The Marvelous Mr. Lowe
- They Might Be Giants – Let Me Tell You About My Operation
- Paul Roland – Re-Animator
- Man Man – Black Mission Goggles
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – There She Goes, My Beautiful World
- Liz Green – Bad Medicine
- Fabienne Delsol – I’m Gonna Catch Me a Rat
- CocoRosie – The Moon Asked The Crow
- Headless Heroes – Hey, Who Really Cares
- Betty Hutton – It’s Oh So Quiet
- Jim Moray – All You Pretty Girls
- Nancy Sinatra – Bang Bang
- Kate Bush – Experiment IV
- Thomas Dolby – She Blinded Me With Science