Fireside Folklore with Hades

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 when that's coming, but hey! Until it does, we can enjoy something refreshing! Happy Independence Day for those celebrating in the States, and for those who don't, l...

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 about Websim.ai which creates the Internet in your image! That's right, folks. If you can think it, a website can be yours! Want to create a blog of my lates...

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 for more fun retellings and original stories. As I was thinking about the concept of copyright, the public domain, and how it has been stripped of its power in the las...

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's Gift. Unfortunately, this ship causes a lot of problems for one young princess. Namely, her supper is late! What an insult, wouldn't you agree? Anyway, unti...

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 started singing it! This obviously couldn't go into The Golden Pail but it was funny, nonetheless, so I decided to share it with you for Whoopsie Wednesday. Hopefully w...

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 pea under an enormous pile of mattresses and featherbeds clearly didn't understand the concept of red flags or high-maintenance! I'm here to school the prince a...

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 a gift! You see, I was supposed to have finished an adaptation of The North Wind and the Sun but my mortal conduit just didn't get all of my brilliant thoughts...

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 epic feel. Our young hero, Hassan, runs away from his father, who probably wants to make his life a nightmare. Thankfully for him, he has a Djinn horse, and I couldn't...

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, after realizing that I couldn't delegate my scripting or relegate the folklore to artificial entities, lazy deities, or spirited ghosts, I decided this was the...

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 kid a godfather. Why didn't he just send him to the Mafia? I don't know. Anyway, he rejects God and the Devil, because one has his favorites and the other lies,...

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 sing this one. I loved it so much I actually shared it with the mortal world, and I don't do that often, folks! So, I hope you enjoy it as much as I did, or at the very...

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 this, and I was hoping you'd help me talk my brother out of this? Or at the very least, tell him to change the key so that it's more comfortable for my ... ah...

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 counterpart? So I'm releasing this (or at least immortalizing this content) on Tuesday. Enjoy! Or if you don't, tell anyone but me because unlike my uncle Had...

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, good for me and perhaps a touch of a nuisance for you, for you see, my friends, I've thrown myself headfirst into the process of creating the episode in a way I...

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 from a listener ... with her permission, of course! As we close out May and Mental Health Awareness Month, please know that whatever struggles you may be going throug...

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, it was my podcast which convinced her that Zeus wasn't cheating on her and I really (and truly) wanted to make peace. You see, listeners, we gods do love to hold our gru...

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 performing twelve Labors to atone for slaying his family in an induced fit of madness. The final Labor, as you will see, involved the Underworld, because Hera was trying to get rid of...

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 deliberately delaying my ceasefire! Although I won't swear this upon the river Styx. After all, such an oath isn't the sort of thing I'd make for something as trivial as th...

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 at odds, and we're all too stubborn to move from our entrenched positions. However, if I am to rail against you mortals, or rather your elected and appointed officia...

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 fear, though! You'll still get to enjoy stories, recipes, fun facts, and games! Tonight, you'll hear an adaptation on L. Frank Baum's tale, now dubbed "Th...

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 and the mortal world being quite wrought with turmoil of late. This week, our journey takes us to the country of Yemen. Though they are one of the poorest countries in the...

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 pomegranate prince, who's been taking a lot of heat lately! I know. Hearing the drama of the gods isn't your cup of tea ... but Hades adores myths and stories!

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. Of course, that means I won't be getting my Mutabal for quite some time, but I suppose good things come to those who wait.  This week, we return to Palestine where we hear...

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 related to our Olympian problems, including ensuring you don't have to deal with the acoustics of the Underworld, a transition from dial-up, and the skyrocketing premi...

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 eagerly catching up with his tropical queen! This week, we're traveling to South Africa, a country which rose from the ashes of Apartheid to become an inspirational example of h...