69-Midas: You Got the Touch

🏝️No one has seen or heard about Maui for quite some timeMeanwhile, all these strange portents are leading disparate groups to a faraway island, all the while there are ominous tales spoken in whispers. It's probably ok, right? I mean, it's Maui. He's always looking out for us.R ...  Show more

🍼 If your parent goes through the trouble of getting you superpowers...Kind of the least you can do is get them a new house. And fight all the dragons infesting that house. And get their increasingly specific and dangerous medical treatments for their very real and not made-up i ...  Show more

Midas, he's got that Midas touch.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 would be were I referencing the real thing.Sources: Ovid's Metamorphoses translated by Allen Mandelbaum, ...  Show more

Oh Muses! In this episode we tell the tale of King Midas and his Golden Touch. We come across secrets too funny not to share, ridiculous facial features, golden bathtubs, and badly made wishes. --- National Geographic Kids Greeking Out is a kid-friendly retelling of some of the b ...  Show more

Remember King Midas and his love of gold? Well he's back, and he hasn't learned ANY lessons. This time, the roguish satyr Pan is involved, as well as the god Apollo, AND Apollo's beautiful golden lyre... If you would like to support Stories Podcast, you can subscribe and give us ...  Show more

In return for showing his friend kindness, the Greek deity, Dionysus, offers to grant one wish to King Midas. The King asks that everything he touches turn to gold. But isn’t it true when they say, be careful what you wish for? Watch Granny MacDuff on YouTube!   https://www.youtu ...  Show more