All Grown Up Now
ALL GROWN UP: A tale of retail, relocation, revenge, re-invention, reckless behavior, really good clothes, indiscretion, infidelity, domestic violence, and one kidnapping. This is a memoir, told in a series of podcasts, by Kenneth D. King, podcasting from his studio near union Square in New York City. It's the story of a small-town boy who dreams of being a “grown-up”, and his journey to get there. Each week, you'll hear another installment of his story.
All Grown Up Now is the story of a life, seen through the framework of a friendship. Written like a novel, the story follows two main characters, Ken, and Mark, on a fast-paced romp through the 1980's and early 90's, blazing a path through retail, relocation, revenge, re-invention, reckless behavior, really good clothes, infidelity, domestic violence, kidnapping, and one kidnapping. (Really.)
While it runs from the 1980's to early 90's, this isn't a story that runs in a straight line--the story itself serves somewhat as a string for "beads", episodes which are flashbacks and detours that relate back to the story at hand—the story of how Ken becomes a “grown-up”.
All Grown Up Now: A Friendship in Three acts, available as a printed book, or an eBook, on Amazon.com.
- Update frequency
- every 14 days
- Average duration
- 20 minutes
- Episodes
- 98
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2023
Episode 43: Boys' Shorts 2
Two brief stories: Anna-Nicole Smith and the Mustard Jar, and Stuart's Gay Card.
Episode 42: Mrs. Freeman
This is the extended story of Mrs. Freeman, Ken's first landlady and Guardian Angel. You get to hear the history, as well as an update from New York!
Episode 41: My number's not up yet
This episode is a story of how Ken and his family "dodged a bullet", and not merely metaphorically.
Episode 40: Fortuny!
This episode is about Ken's love affair with Fortuny, and how that rare fabric found him his husband!
Episode 39: The Three Month Rule
The Three Month Rule is Ken's way of making sure that he doesn't do anything stupid in regards to romance. Have a listen and see how it works!
Episode 38: Boys' Shorts #1
In Boys' Shorts, you get a couple of short stories. The first is on the importance of adjectives, the second is a tale of Ken's one-and-only "walk of shame"!
Episode 37: The Driving Lessons
This is an extended version of the story of Ken's teenage driving school. He only had one student, but she passed her driving exam!
Episode 36: Hate Mail
In this episode, we hear about the one piece of hate mail that Ken ever received, from the losers at a crazy evangelical "church". It gives a window onto that it looked like, and how it proved to be…
Episode 35: The Mermaid Dress
This is a tale of a fashion model and a high-fashion gown, leavened with a bit of crazy!
Episode 34: Comets Make People Crazy!
In this episode, we hear a couple of amusing tales about how the Howard Street studio in San Francisco attracted crazy people!
Episode 33: Eulogy for a Pair of Shoes
In this episode, we hear about Ken's first pair of expensive shoes, which he paid a week's salary for in 1980. Further, we get to see just what these shoes represented.
Episode 32: Tales of a Checkered Past--First Crush
In this short story, we hear of a first crush, between an awkward teenage boy (Ken) and the Object Of His Affection, a motorcycle-riding country boy.
Episode 31: Tales of a Checkered Past---The Blind Dates
Blind dates can be a good ting, or a recipe for disaster. For Ken, they have been disaster in the past. We get to hear of three of Ken's funnier blind date stories!
My First Grown-up Jewelry!
High-school-aged Ken receives his first piece of real grown-up jewelry, and a life lesson.
Episode 29: The Epilogue
Now that the story has ended, the people involved just didn't disappear--their stories continued. This is what happened to them.
Episode 28: The most normal thing in the world.
All Mark ever wanted was the most normal things in the world--good friends, satisfying work, happiness. We start the episode with just that--a dinner party where Mark, Ken, and two other of Mark's f…
Episode 27: Gotta keep your Gay Card updated!
In this episode, Mark and Ken start out to update Mark's Gay Card, which is seriously in arrears, by attending the director's cut of David Bowie in The Man Who Fell To Earth. This experience was not…
Episode 26: Ace the Gumshoe, and a Lawyer named Pizzaface!
In this episode, Mark and Ken get surprised by a lawsuit after the commando raid. This is where Ken remembers his experience from his youth--crazy people are unpredictable. You can't predict what t…
Episode 25: When Going Commando doesn't mean missing your underwear!
In this episode, Mark finds an apartment, and starts getting harassed in person by Victor. Ken writes the petition, which Mark argues for himself in court, winning a restraining order with conditions…
The Boy Who Fell To Earth
In this episode, Ken begins by filling us in on the five-year gap between Act 2 and Act 3. Once the two land in San Francisco, the journey out of this domestic violence situation begins. With brief…