
131A-Greek Mythology: Sudden but Inevitable Betrayal
The origin stories of the Olympians. The creatures this week are the Yule Lads, their mom, stepdad, and murderous cat. -- Sponsors: Check out Bird Box on Netflix! Casper: Ready for a good night of sle...
26 Dec 201835min

130C-Jungle Book: An Old War
Mowgli is hiding among the humans to stay safe from Shere Khan after burning and shaming the tiger at the showdown at Council Rock. The problem? The tiger knows where Mowgli is, and he is coming for t...
19 Dec 201832min

130B-Jungle Book: The Strength of the Pack
We catch up with Mowgli after he’s been tossed in a pit of cobras while his friends fight countless vicious monkeys outside. We’ll also see what Shere Khan has been up to for the past seven years…and ...
12 Dec 201830min

130A-Jungle Book: Welcome to the Jungle
A boy is lost. A tiger hunts. The wolf pack takes on a new cub. The story of the Jungle Book begins -- Sponsors: Audible! Audible is my favorite way to listen to audiobooks. Go to http://www.audible.c...
5 Dec 201833min

129B-Persian mythology: Champions
Rostam embarks on his quest to free his king, taken captive in the land of the demons, where he'll not only have to free his stupid, stupid ruler and end the war, but embark on seven labors which will...
28 Nov 201835min

129A-Persian Mythology: The Mammoth that Rides
The story of Rostam from the Shahnameh, an important book in Iranian Mythology. It starts out in a weird place, with a strange little Benjamin Button-type baby being raised by a mythological peacock d...
21 Nov 201832min

128-Irish folklore: Give Him the Finger
A fairy tale from Ireland with a genre savvy queen who has one request for her husband: don't let his surely evil next wife get anywhere near her three sons. Of course, things don't really go as plann...
14 Nov 201839min

127-Finnish Mythology: The Boy who Lived
A story from the Finnish national epic, the Kalevala, about revenge, letting go, and moving on. Also why you shouldn't mess with babies that can whisper threats at three months old and survive way mor...
7 Nov 201839min




















