Episodes
June 11, 2024
Oh, Uncle Hades! Where Did Ya Go?
Send over your dead SMS messages. Soldiers of folklore, it's Ares here! I just thought I'd pop in with a little song to stir the pot. Also, I wanted to be first! Did you know that Tuesday is associated with Mars, my Roman co…
June 7, 2024
S2E5-Forever5 - Until We Meet Again ... This Feed Is Being Commandeered By the Family
Send over your dead SMS messages. Greetings, listeners! This retelling of the Golden Pail is akin to the quest for the holy grail. I've run into all sorts of impediments, but this time, my friends, it's a good one! That is, …
May 31, 2024
S2E5-6 - A Letter From a Listener; Holding Onto Hope In a World Of Despair
Send over your dead SMS messages. Greetings, listeners. We have been feverishly working on the Golden Pail but it hasn't been completed and my father, Chronos, isn't doing me any favors! So, I thought I would share a letter …
May 25, 2024
Hera and Hades Make Peace With Ambrosia Cookies and Mutual Understanding; S2E5-5 of Fireside Folklore with Hades
Send over your dead SMS messages. Greetings, listeners! Time in the Underworld moves differently, hence my delay in sharing the conclusion to the ceasefire between Hera and I which was too many millennia too late! Ironically…
May 18, 2024
The Twelfth Labor of Heracles, or Why Hera and Hades Are At Odds
Send over your dead SMS messages. Greetings, listeners! Today, we travel back in time to a time when ancient Greece was in its prime, and heroes walked among us. We learn about Heracles, the hero who was tasked with performi…
May 11, 2024
S2E5-3 - Hades Takes A Listener Request; Or Unbeknownst to Ares, He Is Set Up
Send over your dead SMS messages. Greetings, listeners! I received quite the audacious dead letter the other day, and given the fact that I appreciate honesty and chutzpah, I decided to humor it. Yes, I really am deliberatel…
May 4, 2024
How to Reach a Ceasefire Agreement; Ares and Hephaestus Make Peace; Fireside Folklore with Hades, Season 2, Episode 5-2
Send over your dead SMS messages. Greetings, listeners! The tale I've been wanting to tell, The Golden Pail, requires far more characters than we have deities for! This is primarily because a few of us, including myself, are…
April 27, 2024
The Box of Puppies; Episode 1 of Sweet Stories to Share; A Satirical Episode About Censorship And Its Detriment to Discourse
Send over your dead SMS messages. Greetings, listeners! After the passage of the Divine Censorship Act by the U.S. Congress, (and overwhelmingly, I might add), I'll be ceding my podcast to my eldest sister, Hestia. Never fea…
April 19, 2024
Cloud Camels, A Clever Folktale from Yemen; Episode 5, Season 2 of Fireside Folklore with Hades
Send over your dead SMS messages. Greetings, listeners! My apologies for the delay getting this particular episode to you. Managing the Underworld's affairs has been quite the handful these days, what with Persephone absent …
April 19, 2024
But Hades Adores Myths and Stories!
Send over your dead SMS messages. Greetings listeners! Persephone here. After coming to the Upperworld, I've been observing the way you mortals behave, and I thought I'd take a leaf out of the playbook to defend my dear pome…
April 13, 2024
Sapphires and Scorpions: A Fairy Tale From Palestine About How Generosity and Greed Are Rewarded, Episode 4, Season 2 of Fireside Folklore with Hades
Send over your dead SMS messages. Greetings, listeners! This week, we have officially begun a new season of our podcast because Persephone is no longer with us! Yes folks, Dionysus is officially handling the recipe segment. …
April 6, 2024
Divine Idol: The Gods Sing To Solve The Podcast's Fiscal Woes, Episode 3-1 of Fireside Folklore with Hades
Send over your dead SMS messages. Greetings, listeners! This is a bittersweet episode for me because we are bidding farewell to Fireside Folklore with Hades as you know it. You see, we've encountered some fiscal challenges r…
March 30, 2024
The Sticks of Justice, A South African Folk Tale About How a Clever Man Caught a Thief; Season 2, Episode 3 of Fireside Folklore with Hades
Send over your dead SMS messages. Greetings, listeners! This episode was recorded before Persephone left for the Upperworld, so depending on where you are, it may be spring or perhaps your Southern hemisphere Hades is eagerl…
March 23, 2024
Persephone's Imminent Departure; Fireside Folklore with Hades, S2E2-1
Send over your dead SMS messages. The coming of spring is bittersweet, for this is when Persephone must go back to the Upperworld. How will that change the podcast? Will Dionysus end up taking over the recipe segment? Will P…
March 15, 2024
Half of a Halfling, A Fairy Tale From Palestine About A Man's Courage, Compassion, and Cleverness; Season 2, Episode 2 of Fireside Folklore with Hades
Send over your dead SMS messages. Greetings, listeners! Here is the long-awaited first stop in Palestine. This week, we retell the story of Half of a Halfling , a story about a young hero who was born with one foot, one arm,…
March 9, 2024
Chronos Messes With Time, Or Why The Episode Has Been Delayed; Episode 1.1 of Fireside Folklore with Hades
Send over your dead SMS messages. Show Notes for "Fireside Folklore with Hades" Special Episode: Greetings, mortals and immortals alike. Hades here, with an unexpected special episode to explain the delay in releasing our ne…
March 2, 2024
The Woodcutter's Wealthy Sister; A Cautionary Syrian Tale About a Foolish Woodcutter and a Frightful Demon; S2E1 of Fireside Folklore with Hades
Send over your dead SMS messages. Greetings, listeners! This came out later than intended, but it's here at last: our inaugural episode for our second season of this folklore podcast, coming at you straight from the Underwor…
Feb. 27, 2024
Cursed Into Secrecy, Full Production; An Underworld Twist on Faithful John, The Famous German Fairy Tale; Episode 20C of Fireside Folklore With Hades
Send over your dead SMS messages. Greetings, listeners! For those who can't be left in suspense, here is the full tale of "Cursed Into Secrecy". This truly is the final (yes, final!) upload before Season 2. We will endeavor …
Feb. 23, 2024
Cursed Into Secrecy, Part 2, An Underworld Adaptation of the German Tale Faithful John, Episode 20B of Fireside Folklore with Hades
Send over your dead SMS messages. Greetings, listeners! In this final installment of "Cursed Into Secrecy", Charon and Nyx have the showdown of a lifetime as they heatedly discuss whether Hades is a manipulative and controll…
Feb. 20, 2024
Cursed Into Secrecy, An Underworld Adaptation of the German Tale "Faithful John", Fireside Folklore with Hades - Episode 20, Part 1
Send over your dead SMS messages. Welcome listeners to this ultimate deception! What we thought would be our final episode before the beginning of Season 2 turned out to simply be the penultimate episode, squared! In this fi…
Feb. 9, 2024
Damon and Pythias' Underworld Quest: The Greek Legend Reimagined - Fireside Folklore with Hades, Ep. 19
Send over your dead SMS messages. Ferry passengers! Lord Hades here with a tantalizing glimpse into our next mythic podcast tale. Join me as we welcome a bold mortal visitor to the Underworld - one Pythias, who comes seeking…
Jan. 27, 2024
Chaos and Critique in the Realm of Shadows; An Underworld Adaptation of The Boy Who Cried Wolf, Aesop's Fable From Greece; Mini-Episode 18 of Fireside Folklore with Hades
Send over your dead SMS messages. In this whimsical episode of Fireside Folklore with Hades, our host, the ever-stern yet somehow indulgent Lord of the Underworld, finds his tranquil reflections interrupted not by the cries …