I can be right or I can be rich - Traditions

The irony of two people who have known each other their entire lives playing an icebreaker game is not lost on us. We can't help our selves, we love invasive questions and oversharing, sue us! (actually please don't) THANKS SPONSORS - Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial t ...  Show more

Have you ever tried on outfit after outfit only to feel like at the end of unloading your closet, you still have nothing to wear? That's how we felt trying to find a topic this week. Nothing fit right, everything seemed silly and we just wanted the comfort of a couch rot btch fes ...  Show more

Easter! It's a big deal, all across the world. And just like earlier celebrations of spirituality, it's been commodified in the United States. In today's episode, Ben, Max, and Noel sneak into the Sunday service just a bit late to explore how the ancient commemorations of rebirth ...  Show more

The Orphic Tradition is a weird, weird thing that includes the god of Time himself, Chronos (not, you know, Cronus/Kronus). Plus, don't try to understand the chronology of Greek mythology. CW/TW: far too many Greek myths involve assault. Given it's fiction, and typically involves ...  Show more

In this final episode on the Orphic tradition we look at some weird and wild alternate theogonies, the so-called Orphic gold tablets, and the Orphic hymns. Yes, it's a lot.CW/TW: **this episode includes particularly egregious assault and incest, even for Greek myth** Given it's f ...  Show more

So many origins! Where did Laomedon of Troy's fancy horses come from, and why do they matter? And what about Heracles' familial origins?!CW/TW: far too many Greek myths involve assault. Given it's fiction, and typically involves gods and/or monsters, I'm not as deferential as I w ...  Show more