Season 2
July 26, 2024
Trailer Thursday for 07-25-2024 - Dead If You Do and Dead If You Don't
Send over your dead SMS messages. Greetings, listeners! What happens if you're in a catch-22 that could cost your life? In this teaser, Hassan finds himself in just such a predicament. After successfully fetching the princes…
July 24, 2024
Toss-Up Tuesday for July 23, 2024 - Hades Sends Out an SOS
Send over your dead SMS messages. Greetings, listeners! Today, Hades tells you all how happy he is sitting by the Lethe working on his podcast. All is not as it seems, however, for within his message lies another more dramat…
July 21, 2024
Story Sunday for 07-21-2024 - Baucis and Philemon
Send over your dead SMS messages. Greetings, listeners! In this episode, Hades retells the story of Baucis and Philemon. Rather than reading from a book, he simply tells you the tale from his own memory of it. In this story,…
July 17, 2024
Whoopsie Wednesday for 07-17-2024: Persephone and Hades Share a Romantic Dance In a Spring Garden Under Twinkling Stars
Send over your dead SMS messages. 'nuff said!
July 16, 2024
Twisted Tuesday: The Gods Go Missing
Send over your dead SMS messages. Greetings, listeners! Welcome to the new era of the Underworld podcast--a podcast which has been tarnished for way too long! As for those Greek gods, I've detained them for the time being, u…
July 15, 2024
Story Sunday for 07-14-2024: The Tongue-Cut Sparrow, a Tale from Japan
Send over your dead SMS messages. Greetings, listeners! Artemis here with a story from Japan. This one is about a bad-tempered woman and what happened after she overreacted to a sparrow's honest mistake. Thankfully, unlike i…
July 12, 2024
Trailer Thursday, 07-11-2024: The Best Revenge Is a Fiery One
Send over your dead SMS messages. Greetings, listeners! Revenge is not a dish best served cold! In fact, it seems that our princess thinks it is best served hot. Fiery hot. However, that's a discussion for another day. For n…
July 10, 2024
Toss-Up Tuesday: Lies and Gold
Send over your dead SMS messages. Hey there, listeners. This episode is a bit of revelry Uncle Hades displayed over the weekend. Just don't tell him I shared it. At least not for awhile. You see, with him, it's important to …
July 8, 2024
Story Sunday 07-07-2024 - The Twelve Months
Send over your dead SMS messages. Hello there, listeners. It's Hestia and today I thought I'd read a story by the fireside. As the goddess of hearth and home, I thought it would be a cozy way to enjoy our tale. I also couldn…
July 4, 2024
Trailer Thursday; 07-04-2024: Let's Mix It Up! Apricot And Almond Spritzer
Send over your dead SMS messages. Hey there, listeners! This week, my uncle got a touch of that Underworld malaise! So, he asked me to serve up the mocktail/cocktail recipe for the upcoming Golden Pail episode. Olympus knows…
July 2, 2024
Toss-Up Tuesday: Bespoke Websites Made Just For You!
Send over your dead SMS messages. Hello there, listeners! Hermes here to tell you about a fun and wacky website. No, I don't get money for this, and no, I'm not having a laugh at your expense! I'm actually here to tell you a…
June 30, 2024
Story Sunday: Peddler Polly and the Story Stealer
Send over your dead SMS messages. Greetings, listeners! This week's story has been made possible thanks to Aaron Shepard, a renowned storyteller of children's folklore. You may visit his website at http://www.aaronshep.com f…
June 27, 2024
Trailer Thursday: It Takes Chutzpah To Name Your Ship "Allah's Gift"
Send over your dead SMS messages. Greetings, listeners! Here's another trailer from The Golden Pail in which the vizier must scramble together some treasure in order to build a ship of such splendor that it gets dubbed Allah…
June 26, 2024
Whoopsie Wednesday: Apparently Ancient Princesses Drive Cars
Send over your dead SMS messages. Hello, listeners! While Hades and I were working on the podcast, I sang a line about a spoiled princess having a car she couldn't drive. Neither of us bothered to review the song before I st…
June 25, 2024
Toss-Up Tuesday: Dear Prince, What Were You Thinking?!; Artemis Weighs In On the Princess and the Pea
Send over your dead SMS messages. Hello there, listeners! Artemis here with a letter to Prince Charming about his mother's ridiculous advice. Whoever thought that picking out a woman to marry based on her ability to detect a…
June 24, 2024
Story Sunday: Kupti and Imani; Is There Any Patience for Sale? Patience for Sale?
Send over your dead SMS messages. Greetings, listeners! Hermes here with a story read from the Olive Fairy Book by Andrew Lang. It's a story about how a messenger's silly mistake led to a young princess receiving patience as…
June 21, 2024
Trailer Thursday: Trouble Begins with a Feather, Regardless of Whether You Pick It Up
Send over your dead SMS messages. Greetings, listeners! Here's a little trailer from the Golden Pail. No singing this time. Just a bit of good old-fashioned voice acting with cheesy music in the background to give it that ep…
June 18, 2024
PSA: No Set Schedule
Send over your dead SMS messages. Greetings, listeners! It is with much deliberation that I have decided to change the release schedule for this podcast to "no set schedule". It wasn't a decision I made hastily. However, aft…
June 17, 2024
Godfather Hades, Dionysus's Attempt to Retell (And Revamp) Godfather Death from the Brothers Grimm
Send over your dead SMS messages. Is it good? Who knows? Was it fun? Definitely! The story went something like this: a father who was down on his luck couldn't feed or care for his thirteenth child, so he decided to find the…
June 14, 2024
I'm a Golden Bird (The Underworld Undead Quartet)
Send over your dead SMS messages. Greetings listeners! Okay, so Hestia may be right. The key should be changed for her to minimize the cracking, but she's not getting off without us giving it a valiant try so that she can si…
June 14, 2024
I'm a Golden Bird (A Sneak Peek from the Golden Pail)
Send over your dead SMS messages. Hello there, listeners! I thought you'd enjoy a little preview of a song (our first song) in our long overdue episode, The Golden Pail. However, I, Hestia, think I'm not the right one for th…
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 …