Mount Olympus - The Hercules And Xena Podcast

Meg and Lucas hijack the show to talk about song contests as Brian and Mark are no where to be found, but there's still an episode that needs posting. Our Own Hercules of Radio: Producer Brian His Faithful Sidekick: Producer Mark The Xena of Podcasts: Meg Her Devoted Partner: Lucas

  There's no side discussion because all side discussions are main discussions!  5th chair Daoud drops by as we look back on the series that was and go on one last legendary journey. The panel does opt not to discuss Porkules because the last time they did that they turned a 45 minute episode into a 2 hour discussion. Our Own Hercules of Radio: Producer Brian His Faithful Sidekick: Producer Mark The Xena of Podcasts: Meg Her Devoted Partner: Lucas  

Ares is back baby in Xena Ep 99: Seeds of Faith.  Eli is gonna fight the Gods with peace.  Angel Callisto is going to try and finally make peace.  Xena and Gabrielle won't have any peace because out of Eli Ares is gonna take a piece.   The panel reflects on cynicism, friendship, and pancakes.  Also The Outpost. Our Own Hercules of Radio: Brian His Faithful Sidekick: Producer Mark The Xena of Podcasts: Meg Her Devoted Partner: Lucas Find us on Facebook or Twitter @MountOlympusPod Email the show: MountOlympusPod@gmail.com Check out our website: www.retrogradeorbitradio.com

We did it!  Hercules Episode 111 - Full Circle - Hera's back from the pit, Zeus is a bad dad, Ares tries to overthrow the Gods, Herc and Iolaus on one last legendary journey.   The series ends!  We actually made it! In panel discussions Brian watched BBC's Ghosts and the panel debates the desirability of living in a haunted house. Our Own Hercules of Radio: Producer Brian His Faithful Sidekick: Producer Mark The Xena of Podcasts: Meg Her Devoted Partner: Lucas

Somehow, Xena manages to log another clunker of an episode, completing an exceedingly rare three episode run of under-par episodes.  Our Own Hercules of Radio: Brian His Faithful Sidekick: Producer Mark The Xena of Podcasts: Meg Her Devoted Partner: Lucas Find us on Facebook or Twitter @MountOlympusPod Email the show: MountOlympusPod@gmail.com Check out our website: www.retrogradeorbitradio.com

We're almost there folks, but before we do the end let's skip almost the whole way back to the beginning with that last clip show of a final TV movie before the series proper: Hercules in the Maze of the Minotaur. To say this one is uneven is probably a bit too kind to it.  Much like the jarring kindness and pleasantness that Hercules and Zeus are still exchanging. There is a Minotaur cursed by Zeus, who is also his son which makes him Hercules brother and he's raising an army beneath the streets.  All of the excitement in that sentence above covers roughly the same amount of time we actually spend on any of that. The panel shows its age as usual with the confirmation that Flintstones kids vitamins still exist and then delve into Alvin and the Chipmunks. Mount Olympus is a product of Retrograde Orbit Radio, and is brought to you by the following Retrograde Orbit Radio players: Our Own Hercules of Radio: Producer? Brian His Faithful Sidekick: Producer Mark The Xena of Podcasts: Meg Her Devoted Partner: Lucas

We leave Chin for all of 12 seconds and its right back because Xena left the undead black powder on in Xena Episode 97: Back in the Bottle.  This uneven episode proves they can't all be winners. Because this one isn't a winner the panel takes an inordinate amount of time talking about how in college gym class none of them were winners.  Yes you read that right college. gym. class. Our Own Hercules of Radio: Brian His Faithful Sidekick: Producer Mark The Xena of Podcasts: Meg Her Devoted Partner: Lucas Find us on Facebook or Twitter @MountOlympusPod Email the show: MountOlympusPod@gmail.com Check out our website: www.retrogradeorbitradio.com

The podcast takes a detour as Mark is joined by his daughter Ivy to discuss the 1960s animated TV show The Mighty Hercules. Mount Olympus is a product of Retrograde Orbit Radio, and is brought to you by the following Retrograde Orbit Radio players: The Friends of Jessica Fletcher: Meg & Lucas & Mark & Brian Find us on Facebook or Twitter @MountOlympusPod Email the show: MountOlympusPod@gmail.com Check out our website: www.retrogradeorbitradio.com

And now, as we do every week when its the first of April its now time for the pilot episode of Murder, She Wrote - The Murder of Sherlock Holmes It's wall to wall praise for Angela Lansbury as she writes her first novel and solves her first two murders Also digressions galore, and the panel explores whether or not Brian can ever really be "Party guy" Mount Olympus is a product of Retrograde Orbit Radio, and is brought to you by the following Retrograde Orbit Radio players: The Friends of Jessica Fletcher: Meg & Lucas & Mark & Brian Find us on Facebook or Twitter @MountOlympusPod Email the show: MountOlympusPod@gmail.com Check out our website: www.retrogradeorbitradio.com

It's the penultimate episode of Hercules and....its this?  Hercules Episode 110 - A Wicked Good Time.  Herc and Iolaus have to do some teen intervention for their friend Lilith for her previously not involved in witchcraft daughter Seska.  Discord wanders by the set on her way to presumably something more important. The panel gets overly committed to talking about the department store Hills. Our Own Hercules of Radio: Producer Brian His Faithful Sidekick: Producer Mark The Xena of Podcasts: Meg Her Devoted Partner: Lucas

Suddenly we're in Chin and its time for Xena to encounter some mentor's daughters and take control of Lao Ma's wisdom in Xena Episode 96: Purity.    We get magical and black powderical while Gabby and Joxer have an uncomfortable side adventure. Also we learn about the bears and the bees. Our Own Hercules of Radio: Brian His Faithful Sidekick: Producer Mark The Xena of Podcasts: Meg Her Devoted Partner: Lucas Find us on Facebook or Twitter @MountOlympusPod Email the show: MountOlympusPod@gmail.com Check out our website: www.retrogradeorbitradio.com

  We're closing in on the end with Hercules Episode 109 - City of the Dead - We go to Egypt, where apparently the biggest crisis is Nefertiti is a bad mother.   Also they have the Necronomicon.  Also it's a master class in hard cuts that jolt you from scene to scene with no connective tissue in an unpleasant manner! The panel digests the merits of the Pennsylvania Polka. Our Own Hercules of Radio: Producer Brian His Faithful Sidekick: Producer Mark The Xena of Podcasts: Meg Her Devoted Partner: Lucas  

  Alright bear with us because Alti is back, Gabby doesn't know spirit magic at all, Amarice isn't an Amazon, and Xena's isn't comfortable fighting in her own skin.  It's Xena Episode 95: Them Bones, Them Bones.   WTF CGI Skeleton fight. Other than that Brian spends way too much time talking about cake. Our Own Hercules of Radio: Brian His Faithful Sidekick: Producer Mark The Xena of Podcasts: Meg Her Devoted Partner: Lucas Find us on Facebook or Twitter @MountOlympusPod Email the show: MountOlympusPod@gmail.com Check out our website: www.retrogradeorbitradio.com  

Autolycus comes in for his swan song as Hercules has to cut the ribbon at a bank opening in Hercules Ep 108: Hercules, Tramps and Thieves.  We meet Autolycus Ex-Wife, and a whole load of single entendres.  Also so much banking. Also we learn that everyone on the panel decided to be bad at walking. Our Own Hercules of Radio: Producer Brian His Faithful Sidekick: Producer Mark The Xena of Podcasts: Meg Her Devoted Partner: Lucas The panel manages to watch Wandavision after freeing another wrench. Our Own Hercules of Radio: Producer Brian His Faithful Sidekick: Producer Mark The Xena of Podcasts: Meg Her Devoted Partner: Lucas

Hey everybody Xena's got a secret in Xena Episode 94: Animal Attraction!  So Xena's pregnant, and Gabby gets a horse, and Joxer gets written out of half the episode and Amarice finds a fling, also it is a western and it all sort of inexplicably works. Mark's finds madness and wonder amongst balloons.  Our Own Hercules of Radio: Brian His Faithful Sidekick: Producer Mark The Xena of Podcasts: Meg Her Devoted Partner: Lucas Find us on Facebook or Twitter @MountOlympusPod Email the show: MountOlympusPod@gmail.com Check out our website: www.retrogradeorbitradio.com

Herc vants to vight vampires ah ah ah ahhhhhh in Hercules Episode 107: Darkness Visible.  Herc and Iolaus go hang out with their friend Vlad, who impales for fun sometimes and speaks only in double entendres.  It turns into a strigoi situation. Also we learn that everyone on the panel decided to be bad at walking. Our Own Hercules of Radio: Producer Brian His Faithful Sidekick: Producer Mark The Xena of Podcasts: Meg Her Devoted Partner: Lucas

Ares has a one night stand who really thinks highly of herself and Xena has to manage to not fight her to the death.  Also Ares tries to give Gabrielle a job offer in Xena Episode 93: Succession We also discuss fear of cake. Our Own Hercules of Radio: Brian His Faithful Sidekick: Producer Mark The Xena of Podcasts: Meg Her Devoted Partner: Lucas Find us on Facebook or Twitter @MountOlympusPod Email the show: MountOlympusPod@gmail.com Check out our website: www.retrogradeorbitradio.com

Herc visits his previously unmentioned friend Oedipus, with which he apparently missed a few key details of his life in the past couple years.  Then the episode becomes about Antigone.  Our enthusiasm is easily restrained. Before that the Panel arrives to Sea Shanties late, and Mark has cat related Ms. Pac-Man misfortunes.   Our Own Hercules of Radio: Producer Brian His Faithful Sidekick: Producer Mark The Xena of Podcasts: Meg Her Devoted Partner: Lucas

Gabrielle forgets that staves are awesome, Eli forgets that he should be madder about people deciding pacifism isn't for them, Joxer forgets that we've already moved way past his crush on Gabrielle, Amarice forgets why she's here, and Xena forgets everything.   This is all so Ares can remember what it is like to be cool awesome Ares.  Also there is briefly a God killing weapon of killing Gods.  No biggie. Mark has trepidation about being drawn to buying a Ms. Pac-Man machine and Brian doesn't even have time to edit the episode before Mark has already purchased that machine. Our Own Hercules of Radio: Brian His Faithful Sidekick: Producer Mark The Xena of Podcasts: Meg Her Devoted Partner: Lucas Find us on Facebook or Twitter @MountOlympusPod Email the show: MountOlympusPod@gmail.com Check out our website: www.retrogradeorbitradio.com

  The final season of Hercules will be dark and mature.  But certainly not this week with Hercules Ep 105 - Love, Amazon Style.   Aphrodite and Hephaestus are on the skids, and Deimos is looking for the Cronus stone, while Iolaus is sometimes bad Iolaus, and Herc is just over it.  Also shout out to currently in tax jail Salmoneus. Meanwhile the panel addresses Capital 'E' events in the Capitol.   Also musicals and Ernest saving Christmas.   Our Own Hercules of Radio: Producer Brian His Faithful Sidekick: Producer Mark The Xena of Podcasts: Meg Her Devoted Partner: Lucas