Mount Olympus - The Hercules And Xena Podcast

We did it!  Xena Episode 134: A Friend in Need Part II - The one where Xena dies.  No not that one, the one where she dies and Gabby has a plan to bring her back.  No not that one either.  The one where she dies and stays dead!  FOR REASONS!  Thus ends the show! The panel talks about space goats, because it was recorded 'some time' before it was actually released. 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 begin to come to the end with Xena Episode 133: A Friend in Need Part I.  Look there is an atrocity in Xena's past so large is dwarf's all of the other ones and we're just learning about it.  Also we're learning about proto Gabby, also we're learning about Ancient Japan.   Look this show was always primarily about learning The panel wonders why we aren't all watching more British television. 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

But what if we just started making up episodes that happen between seasons 3 and 4 is the question that those putting together Xena Episode 132: Soul Possession weren't afraid to ask.  It's a flashback episode to an episode that didn't happen framed by things happening in the future, and there are soul swaps, and soul contracts, and soul ice cream.  We say goodbye to Joxer (who has been dead for some time) and Ares, and also the future. Mark tells us about how he's a ringer at carnival games! 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

Sometimes you just can't get sacrificed in Xena Episode 131: Many Happy Returns.  Xena and Gabby are flirttastic, a warlord wants to do warlording on the side as more of a hobby, Aprodite remembers it's Gabby's birthday, and a Virgin Sacrifice attempts to hold her breath into sacrificing herself.   The whole kitchen sink is going on in this one! The panel has strong feelings about whether or not to reread books, and how mad you're allowed to get at jumping puzzles. 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

Alternate timelines and a warning about what happens if you kill the God of the underworld (hint, it leaves Hades unlocked) in Xena Episode 130: When Fates Collide.   Caesar walks his way out of the hereafter, messes with fate, and gets a bit too clever for his own good.   Gabby blows up the universe. The panel has strong feelings on Pie and Cake. 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 only non Gabby Amazon worth a damn returns and the Centaurs also get the short end of the stick in Xena Episode 129: Last of the Centaurs. Hear this misplaced tale of forgiveness and one sided slaughter that also ties back to Xena's past.   See all the centaur's wiped out as the show tries to tell us 'no no its probably fine' The panel talks about their sleeps and dreams. 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

Sometimes an episode is just bad.  Xena Episode 128: Send in the Clones. Did you ever wonder what if everyone just gave up for the week and put together a really bad episode?  Congrats.  Its this.   The panel gets expressly not sentimental. 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

What if our ultimate send off to the Amazons was just a greatest hit of getting themselves killed and outsmarted and throw in some betrayl as well!  You didn't want it but Xena Episode 127:  To Helicon and Back provides! Mark is in the market for office chairs and muppets, and not in that order. 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

Xena Episode 126: Yes The Amazons Again.   I mean Ep 126: Path of Vengeance.  Eve is put on trail again for being Livia, again, by the Amazons, again.  The downward slide of the Amazons continues as they pal around with Ares. The panel hunts cryptids. 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

Xena Episode 125: You Are There!  Hard hitting 90s expose in the world of Xena!  This one might be too hot for tv! Scandal! Sin! Deceit! Mark tries to plan for his birthday. 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

Xena Episode 124: The God You Know - Also long as Xena doesn't do something dumb like try to murder the Archangel Michael she should easily be able to kill Caligula who is Roman emperor now and is slowly sucking the life out of Aphrodite. Ares also appears, largely to dump plot and chill in a roman jail. The panel has scintillating talk about rules of order. 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

Xena Episode 123: Dangerous Prey - Its the episode that has the courage to ask 'What if all the Amazons are just big dumb dumbs now?'  An Amazon tribe goes and gets itself slowly killed by using horror movie logic to investigate a problem.  "Sure I'll just go off into the woods alone like the last 8 amazons who died!"   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 crack the biggest mystery out there as we interrogate My Mother the Car Episode One: Come Honk Your Horn Also everyone has been getting sick!  And a significant amount of station wagon talk!   Our Own Car of Radio: Brian His very own guiding star: Producer Mark The Mother of Podcasts: Meg Silent Film Antagonist: Lucas Find us on Facebook or Twitter @MountOlympusPod Email the show: MountOlympusPod@gmail.com Check out our website: www.retrogradeorbitradio.com

Yes, its finally here, the episode with sexy roof repair and the worlds sexiest milkmaid.  Its Xena Episode 122: Old Ares Had a Farm.  Warlords try to hunt down an Ares who lacks Godhood, and Xena is clearly trying to turn this into a fantasy farming getaway.  Three people, and only one bed! In other news hot wheels are hot and Puzz 3D is going up! 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

It's time for the Ring Cycle to Come to an end with Xena: Episode 121: Return of the Valkyrie.  Xena's gonna get some convenient amnesia and Odin's going to decide that he's a strong maybe about interfearing with the story as we sort of just end. Brian finally edits the episode with only slight things pointing to when it was recorded, like putting that Boba Fett earworm back into your brain. 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

Xena Gabby and Beowulf plow forward with Xena Episode 120: The Ring.  There is a lot of ringing and rumbling, and Valkryie fighting all for Xena trying to get the ring of power to get herself out of a jam, while Gabby finds an unexpected lover interest. Audio issues seem fixed maybe!  Also Mark has a bit of a hard time this week and fixes it by seeing MST3K again 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 get back to good form and dig into yet more Xena backstory in Xena: Episode 119: The Rheingold.  Xena gets around to hanging out with Odin and forging a ring of power and also getting involved with Beowulf.   There is a lot going on. The panel, specifically Lucas, is beset by audio issues 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

Maybe.....maybe we should all skip the one that's all about cannibals with Xena Ep 118: The Abyss Seriously, that's it, Gabby gets slathered in mud and stuff and cannibals eat a friend of Virgil. The panel inexplicably remembers Alias and Dark Angel, but in the way that they only acknowledge that those things did sort of exist. 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

Sand is everywhere and gets in everything with Xena: Episode 117: Legacy Gabby accidently stabs a guy and has to feel guilty about it due to her 'I should've waited to see if he stabbed Xena with that Knife motion before stabbing him' dilema.    The panel gets saucey.  Pasta Saucey. 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

Xena Episode 116: Who's Gurkhan If you wanted the least imposing warlord who ever was we've got him.  Also Gabby's parents are also dead, it's been a bad 25 years for team everyone Xena and Gabby cared about as Gabby goes on a low key revenge boat ride.  And Xena pretends Gabby couldn't handle this herself. The team has its finger on the pulse of pop culture now with its astounding Saved By The Bell talk. 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