If you can't tell, I wrote this episode in the middle of winter during one of the worst snowstorms we've had in years. It's about a guy who hates snow who, unlike me, could do something about it. The creature is the cock-fish. It both is and isn't exactly what it sounds like. Music: "Contemps 12" [...]
🍺Meet Cambrinus, things aren't going so well for him🍺 He's a peasant kid with a job that's going nowhere, a crush who doesn't love him back, and no one takes him seriously when he absolutely knocks it out of the park playing the viola. If only he knew he was destined to be legendary King of [...]
🤑 The Monkey King and friends are making money and staying in fancy hotels🤑 What is this that you heard about them being monks? What? No. That's ridiculous. They don't know why you thought that. So weird. They are horse traders who trade horses while they pass through this city that murders monks. Wait NO DON'T [...]
A story of devotion from Japan about a samurai that is tempted to throw away his life of duty and service to his lord. The creature is the Snawfus, from the Ozarks in North America, and it's really tired of people shooting it in the head with plum pits. Music: "Arame" by Blue Dot Sessions
⚔️The plight of the Viking celebrity poet⚔️ Friends become enemies, enemies become friends, and none of what you actually say matters all that much...as long as you're famous. 😈 The creature: the cicada It's not a creature at all. Just a normal bug...or maybe that's what Zeus wants you to think? --- Disclaimer: https://myths.link/403 Membership: https://www.mythpodcast.com/membership [...]
🐸Love means never having to say I'm sorry (I poisoned you)"🐸 ...or something like that. This Valentine's Day there are three love stories from Japan. On the first, a man moves on after becoming a widower (kind of), on the second, two frogs fall out of love...with a place, and on the third, the whole world [...]
Tom walks around in goatskin underwear with a distinctly smokey smell after spending the first nineteen years of his life growing up in a pit of ashes with one goal in mind: to not have to walk around in his goat underwear smelling of smoke. That's how he'll get his start in stand-up comedy. The creature [...]
🐀It's Race Day🐀 Today, we tell the story of how the animals in the Chinese Zodiac got their years: a race that's terrible for all involved. 😈 The Creature: Nian Why you want to dress in red to avoid long, unpleasant runs on New Year's Day, though any run in January or February (or in general) [...]
👸 Our princess is in another castle! 👸 Two stories from Ireland where it's unclear who the villain is...and how it might just be among the people we least suspect. 😈 The creature: le cheval Bayard A horse who just wants to make you feel bad about your riding ability...and also destroy your marriage. --- Links [...]
🎉At a bad New Year's party?🎉 It has to be better than little Joe and Baptiste's New Years, in the frigid Canadian wilderness. But they're going to change that. By making a deal with the devil. 😈 The creature: The Yale The Yale, or the Centicore, is a super goat who's super famous despite not deserving [...]