Episodes
March 3, 2025
Toss-Up Tuesday: Candy Coated Lies: On Censorship, Ignorance, and Art As Critique
Send over your dead SMS messages. Greetings, listeners! A few things happened in my absence that compelled me to pause my work on The Wounded Lion, namely the TikTok ban and Amazon essentially deciding to brick Kindles withou...
Jan. 22, 2025
Who's Who and Which Is Which?
Send over your dead SMS messages. Greetings, listeners! We received a letter from Megaera, who wasn't at all pleased by Hermes's shenanigans last time. Perhaps I should have taken offense to my basso profundo being cloned, bu...
Jan. 4, 2025
Story Sunday - Hermes Retells The North Wind and the Sun, or How Fireside Folklore with Hades Was Born
Send over your dead SMS messages. Greetings, listeners! We hope you've been enjoying your holidays with ambrosia, nectar, and divine comedy, and 2025 has treated you well. I've been keeping myself busy, spending time with my ...
Nov. 28, 2024
PSA: Hades On Mortal Gratitude and Folly; A Nod to Thanksgiving and a Warning Against Phishing Scams
Send over your dead SMS messages. Greetings, listeners! In this completely unplanned interlude (whose true purpose will become clear shortly), I wish to take a moment to express my gratitude to the patrons of this podcast—tho...
Nov. 21, 2024
The Golden Pail, S2E6 of Fireside Folklore with Hades
Send over your dead SMS messages. Greetings, listeners! After many months, outtakes, and lost paperwork, we've done it! Here is the long-awaited episode, The Golden Pail , a tale from Palestine, adapted from Ibrahim Muhawi's ...
Nov. 19, 2024
Whoopsie Wednesday: Flames of Fortune
Send over your dead SMS messages. Greetings, listeners! As is customary for Whoopsie Wednesday, (a segment I still question the sanity of), I present to you a song that didn't make it into the final take of The Golden Pail . ...
Nov. 18, 2024
PSA: The Release of the Golden Pail
Send over your dead SMS messages. Greetings, listeners! My husband is finally done with that long-awaited Golden Pail . Stay tuned because it will be released on Friday, November 22. In the meantime, I'll be sharing a song fo...
Oct. 31, 2024
13 Nights of Halloween: Night 13 - The Man Who Killed Halloween
Send over your dead SMS messages. Greetings, listeners! Tonight, we make a sojourn into the world of true crime as we look at the true story behind the urban legends about Halloween candy being tainted with drugs or filled wi...
Oct. 29, 2024
13 Nights of Halloween: Night 12 - The War of the Worlds
Send over your dead SMS messages. Greetings, listeners! Though Night 10 is in Pluto's hands, and Night 11 is currently unclaimed, Ares waits for no one, so we bring to you the infamous old-time radio episode, The War of the W...
Oct. 27, 2024
13 Nights of Halloween: Night 10 - The Babysitter
Send over your dead SMS messages. Greetings, listeners! We know! We're late getting this one out to you, but Halloween is my favorite holiday and having an excuse to prolong my celebrations is always welcome. As we eluded to ...
Oct. 26, 2024
13 Nights of Halloween: Night 9 (Reprise) - Those Who Walk In Darkness
Send over your dead SMS messages. Greetings, listeners! After Death Robbery ended, my uncle turned and asked me what I meant when I said that Boris Karloff had a voice like molten silver with a sinister undertone. And, as muc...
Oct. 26, 2024
13 Nights of Halloween: Night 9 - Death Robbery
Send over your dead SMS messages. Greetings, listeners! Thank you for sticking with us through this marathon of episodes! Tonight, my nephew Hephaestus takes the mic and tells us why he chose this old-time radio episode from ...
Oct. 25, 2024
13 Nights of Halloween: Night 8 - Urashimataro and the Turtle
Send over your dead SMS messages. Greetings, listeners! We're back again and I can't believe I've managed to keep my family together and disciplined enough to get this done! Persephone must have something to do with it. Tonig...
Oct. 24, 2024
13 Nights of Halloween: Night 7 - Father Frost
Send over your dead SMS messages. Greetings, listeners! We've reached the midpoint of our celebration! Tonight, Hestia will be telling the old Russian tale of Morozko, otherwise known as Father Frost. In this tale, we learn t...
Oct. 23, 2024
13 Nights of Halloween: Night 6 - Death Is a Doll
Send over your dead SMS messages. Greetings, listeners! Tonight, our very own Apollon has chosen an episode of old-time radio from the series Box 13 . Here, we learn that sometimes, the mind can manifest curses more horrifyin...
Oct. 23, 2024
Toss-Up Tuesday: The Olympian Games, Revisited
Send over your dead SMS messages. Greetings, listeners! I, Hades, removed an episode from this feed. Yes, though the Underworld doesn't generally let anything go, this time, I struck down something I said. It was the episode ...
Oct. 22, 2024
13 Nights of Halloween: Night 5 - High Beams
Send over your dead SMS messages. Greetings, listeners! Welcome back to another installment of our 13 Nights of Halloween event. What happens when an innocent grocery run turns into a harrowing game of cat and mouse? In tonig...
Oct. 21, 2024
13 Nights of Halloween: Night 4 - The Inn
Send over your dead SMS messages. Greetings, listeners! We're back with another short story, this time read by Hermes, entitled the Inn by Guy De Maupassant. This story explores isolation and the trick our mind can play when ...
Oct. 20, 2024
13 Nights of Halloween: Night 3 - Catch Kill
Send over your dead SMS messages. Greetings, listeners! Thank you for joining us for our third night in our 13 Nights of Halloween series. Tonight, we'll be listening to "Catch Kill", an episode from the old-time radio show, ...
Oct. 19, 2024
13 Nights of Halloween: Night 2 - Mr. Fox
Send over your dead SMS messages. Greetings, listeners! Thank you for joining us for our second night of Halloween horror. Tonight, we explore the importance of ensuring you know what you're getting into before tying the knot...
Oct. 18, 2024
13 Nights of Halloween: Night 1 - The Masque of the Red Death
Send over your dead SMS messages. Greetings, listeners! Thank you for joining us on this spooky journey to celebrate Halloween. We start this morbid tour beyond the veil by exploring a universal fear: death. Can opulence and ...
Oct. 16, 2024
Whoopsie Wednesday - Terrifyingly Twisted Tricks and Treats
Send over your dead SMS messages. Greetings, listeners! While producing the 13 Nights of Halloween, my Underworld Undead Quartet composed some songs that were either too cutesy, too weird, or too out-of-genre to be used, and ...
Oct. 9, 2024
PSA: 13 Nights of Halloween for 2024
Send over your dead SMS messages. Greetings, listeners! I bring both good and bad news in this update. The bad news is that despite completing the writing of "The Golden Pail," my divine family has been dragging their feet wh...
Oct. 7, 2024
Your Suffering Is My Suffering (Hades's Haunting Lament)
Send over your dead SMS messages. [Verse 1] In the land where shadows stretch beneath the olive tree, A people’s hope is shattered, like ruins washed to sea. The ruthless hand of Israel, relentless in its claim, Has torn apar...