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Duck's Breath Mystery Theatre
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"For the purposes of making her children guilt-ridden for as long as possible, she kept herself together with megadoses of Alberto's VO5, deep personal faith, and prescription tranquilizers."

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Ian Shoales: Another Holiday Memory, by Duck's Breath Mystery Theatre
from the album Christmas Cards
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December 26, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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"We did absolutely TERRIBLE this Christmas season but our LOSS is your GAIN!" "Yeah! It is?"
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Post-Christmas Depression Sale, by Duck's Breath Mystery Theatre
from the album Christmas Cards
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December 26, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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"You got a bathroom in this store?" "Yes, follow the strobe lights and take a left at the siren."

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Humble Department Stores: Doll Counter, by Duck's Breath Mystery Theatre
from the album Christmas Cards
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December 22, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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"After one hour shopping in a Humble Department Store a typical couple thinks they have been there seven."

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Humble Department Stores: Holiday Hours, by Duck's Breath Mystery Theatre
from the album Christmas Cards
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December 22, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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"I remember back before there was an Unthinkable. Back then we didn't think, because we didn't want to, not because we couldn't."

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Sterling Dell Zell: Christmas, by Duck's Breath Mystery Theatre
from the album Christmas Cards
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December 19, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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"Santa's crew, like all reindeer, are the reincarnated souls of divorced men."
#AskDrScience

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Ask Dr. Science: Immortal Reindeer, by Duck's Breath Mystery Theatre
from the album Christmas Cards
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December 18, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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"Santa has been on TechStyle before with his Instant Energy Reindeer Pellets and his Chimney Squeeze-o-Matic." "I couldn't get along without THAT!"

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TechStyle: Santa Claus, by Duck's Breath Mystery Theatre
from the album Christmas Cards
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December 17, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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"Never buy anything for someone else you wouldn't want them to give you a few years later."

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S.U.C.C.E.S.S. with Michael Cordon: Christmas Is for Losers, by Duck's Breath Mystery Theatre
from the album Christmas Cards
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December 16, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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"Ah yes, sir, it's a very fine belt, sir, it's made entirely of..." "HOW MUCH DOES IT WEIGH"

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Mr. Fidget: Christmas Shopping, by Duck's Breath Mystery Theatre
from the album Christmas Cards
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December 15, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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"...the yule log crackling on a merry fire...merry cackling with uncle Ewell"

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Ask Mr. Science: Is Santa Real?, by Duck's Breath Mystery Theatre
from the album Christmas Cards
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December 14, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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"Every collective farm celebrates coming of Papa Permafrost by filling pots with boiling antifreeze..."

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Clifford Noté: Santa Panel, by Duck's Breath Mystery Theatre
from the album Christmas Cards
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December 13, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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"This year the audience will have to work a bit harder to find the comedy behind the pathos..."
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Sean Larue: Christmas as Theatre, by Duck's Breath Mystery Theatre
from the album Christmas Cards
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December 12, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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"I live alone. I don't want a dead tree in my apartment."

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Ian Shoales: The Holidays, by Duck's Breath Mystery Theatre
from the album Christmas Cards
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December 11, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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"Santa is not bound by the same scientific laws the rest of us are."

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Ask Mr. Science: Hyperspace Santa, by Duck's Breath Mystery Theatre
from the album Christmas Cards
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December 10, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Now available: new Duck's Breath reissue "Christmas Cards", a collection of holiday bits from their NPR heyday featuring #DrScience #IanShoales #SterlingDellZell and more! Feel sane again for less than the cost of a short pumpkin spice latte!

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Christmas Cards, by Duck's Breath Mystery Theatre
26 track album
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December 10, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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Special new holiday-themed Bandcamp wheeze debuting TONIGHT

#DrScience #IanShoales #Danno #SeanLarue #MichaelCordon #CliffordNote #MrFidget #TechStyle #SterlingDellZell
December 9, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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From 1979, here's the long-lost video for Duck's Breath's "When Girls Collide":
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WhenGirlsCollide_Redux_01 (1)
This is "WhenGirlsCollide_Redux_01 (1)" by JIM TURNER on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
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August 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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It's Bandcamp Friday! Why not be kind to your web-footed friends and buy one of our fabulous reissue packages? So cheap! It's deep absurdity AND deep discounts!

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Duck's Breath Mystery Theatre
Duck's Breath Mystery Theatre was founded in Iowa City Iowa in 1975. The five man comedy team: Bill Allard, Dan Coffey, Merle Kessler, Leon Martell, and Jim Turner have been producing, writing, perfor...
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August 1, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Did you know that our very own Leon Martell AND Jim Turner are both in Ernie Fosselius' legendary "Porklips Now" (1980)? Available now on the Blu-ray "Hardware Wars":
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June 9, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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Click to find amusing video of "President" Sterling Dell Zell revealing pieces of his past and his hopes for the future, to whet your appetite for a potential ALTERNATIVE REALITY, and future moments to come with this great great great man.
Streaming: Duck's Breath Mystery Theatre's "STERLING"
Duck's Breath Mystery Theatre is sharing some great stuff from their archives! Check out Jim Turner as 1982 Senate Candidate Sterling Dell Zell!
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May 30, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Sunny Side releasing videos from STERLING, a 35 comedy video series, on YouTube, TikTok and Insta, all this week:

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Streaming: Duck's Breath Mystery Theatre's "STERLING"
Duck's Breath Mystery Theatre is sharing some great stuff from their archives! Check out Jim Turner as 1982 Senate Candidate Sterling Dell Zell!
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May 27, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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This is Merle Kessler from Duck's Breath, posting from DuckSbreath, letting you know that I am also at
@el-rem.bsky.social. I signed up Xmas ish? Forgot? Well, here I am all over the dang social media! Look at me! Read my strong opinions! Shut up!
May 16, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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May 16, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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The Duck's Breath Mystery Theatre are very much still a going concern, if "concern" can be defined as an entity able to generate revenue from their various stupendous original albums and other sensational reissues on Bandcamp, and holy cow is that the case

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Duck's Breath Mystery Theatre
Duck's Breath Mystery Theatre was founded in Iowa City Iowa in 1975. The five man comedy team: Bill Allard, Dan Coffey, Merle Kessler, Leon Martell, and Jim Turner have been producing, writing, perfor...
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May 16, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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The Duck's Breath Mystery Theatre paid the price for their success
Duck's Breath as worried-looking executives at a table in a corporate boardroom with their smiling underlings standing behind them. From a photo shoot for the album "Born To Be Tiled", 1986
May 16, 2025 at 3:44 AM