Episode 6C – Bros Before Hos
This week on MYTH, we’ll continue Monkey’s epic journey to the west to retrieve Indian magic. This is the third episode on the epic tale of Sun Wukong, the Monkey King. If you haven’t heard the first two parts, I’d recommend going back and listening. The first episode provides a lot of back story on…
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Episode 6B – A Questing We Will Go
This week on MYTH, we’ll begin Monkey’s epic journey to the west to retrieve Indian magic. This is the second episode on the epic tale of Sun Wukong, the Monkey King. If you haven’t heard the first part, I’d recommend going back and listening. It’s not strictly necessary to understand this week’s story, but it…
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Episode 6A – Who’s Your God Now?
This week on MYTH, we’ll be staying in the far east for the beginning of one of the most famous epics. I’m really excited about this one! It’s Episode 6A, Who’s Your God Now? We’ll be diving into the epic story of the Monkey King from Chinese mythology for several episodes. This week, it’s Monkey’s…
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Episode 5 – Flower Power!
This week on MYTH, we’re headed to the Far East for a pair of folktales from Japan. Both stories heavily feature the peony, but they take very different paths. The first is the tale of a lonely girl in feudal Japan. She is to be married to a man she’s never met and she’s not…
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Episode 4 – When God Gives You Murder, Make Murder-Aid
This week on MYTH, it’s a story near and dear to my heart; it’s the Norse account of the invention of beer. It’s everything you’d expect a Viking story about alcohol to be! It has Odin being a sneaky dick (because sky gods are assholes), Thor doing a bad job of being sneaky, and fights with…
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Episode 3 – Never Go Back to Corpserape Island
It’s Halloween time, everyone, and it’s my favorite time of year. As such, I’ve posted the new episode a few days early, so it’s up in time for Halloween weekend. This is Episode 3, Never Go Back to Corpserape Island. It’s the legend of the Lost Colony of Roanoke, one of the first English settlements…
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Episode 2 – The Amazing Spiderman
It’s the story of Anansi, the half spider trickster god from West African mythology, getting stories for the world. Anansi is the spiritual ancestor of Peter Parker, and this story has it all: giant wisecracking spiders, web-slinging adventures, and instructions on how to catch bad-tempered fairies. Gods and Monsters has a story about a shapeshifting…
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Episode 1B – Pandora’s Vagina
This is the second of the two-part episode on the ancient Greek creation myth. In this episode, I’ll cover the story of Pandora and her famous box and the creation and destruction of multiple populations. The Gods and Monsters segment this week covers Empousa, the seductive, fire-haired forerunner of the vampire. Check out this episode!
Episode 1A – Gods Make Shitty Dads
This is the first of two episodes telling the story of the creation myth of the Ancient Greeks. It covers the birth of Chaos through the dividing of the cosmos between the Olympians. On Gods and Monsters, we’ll delve into the history of the Greek God Morpheus. As always, this episode is NSFW.