Mount Olympus - The Hercules And Xena Podcast

It's an episode which in some parallel world wasn't released late and is absolutely timely with its references to 2021 and totally timing things right. Timing it as if it released One December Night - A story or two star crossed older musicians and their attractive offspring who have to help them get the band back together as Bruce Campbell goes off to make a Hallmark movie. 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

Hell can't wait in Xena Episode 115: Heart of Darkness We get 7 deadly sins and a constantly changing rulebook as Xena makes a play at tricking Lucifer to find that its better to rule in Hell than serve in Heaven.  And yet that old Devil seems barely up to the task.   Eve continues her reign of bad fashion choices and ill defined God adjacent powers. Mark forces Ska upon us all 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 still a weekly show we swear with Xena Episode 114: The Haunting of Amphipolis. Xena doesn't do the math and presumes her mom didn't die in the 25 years she's been gone.   Wrong, Mom built the tavern on a hellmouth or such so Xena has to easily best the leader of hell.  Gabby as usual is bad at dealing with Hell.  Eve has the power of Eli compelling everybody. The panel remembers playing portal. 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 panel surprisingly enough hasn't died and actually have managed to sojourn into Xena season 6 and we open with episode 113: Coming Home.  Another rag tag bunch of on their last legs amazons is on the verge of being wiped out by an Ares driven mad by the furies to reclaim his Godhood.   And yet its all kind of a hot mess.    Also Eve forgets about that time she destroyed a bunch of amazon villages and decides to teach some fight moves. The panel keeps up the fiction that they're still on track and absolutely releasing things on time. 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

  This day all (most) Gods (and Goddesses) die in Xena Episode 112: Motherhood.   Eve gets purified! Gabby gets furious! Ares gets shot! Xena goes on a roaring rampage!  Discord gets her dang head lopped off like she was a non speaking extra! This one is for all the marbles as its God Killing Time. The panel thinks back on piracy and attacking various Titans. 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  

In the home stretch now with Xena Episode 111: Eve - An episode that is both too long and too short, where we have Livia kill Joxer, and then ask God almighty for some divine intervention to skip past any other way to turn Livia back into Eve.

Well that whole gonna have a good childhood thing really didn't work out in Xena Episode 110: Livia. Xena's child basically grew up to do everything she never wanted, warrior warlording, champion of romeing, making out with Ares and the Roman Emperor.   Cause remember She's Livvviiiiiaaaaaaaaaaa! The team learns that Meg is hunting aliens in the sky and Mark has been replaced by a squirrel.  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 the future! In Xena Episode 109: Looking Death In the Eye.  And by the Future I mean a flashback to the past, which was previously the shows present. Anyway Xena and Gabby and Eve have to die to make sure Eve doesn't really die.  Things go awry and Xena and Gabby are going to be given a deep sleep by Ares as old man Joxer recounts this final adventure that he may or may not know about depending how far along in the plot we are. The team recounts their Con adventure, and as always recommends Star Trek Lower Decks. 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 to set the table and clear the decks as we tidy up the universe before Xena and Gabby go sleep sleep for about 25 years in Xena Episode 108: Antony & Cleopatra Cleopatra gets killed so Xena takes her place, Brutus is out there trying to kill off everyone, Octavius is sitting in the corner waiting for his turn to build the true Pax Romana, and Antony drinks the biggest gulp of plot blindness as we're asked to believe that old Caesar never mentioned Xena once and that Antony wasn't familiar with Xena in the slightest. The panel's sleepytimes go awry.   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

Brian oversleeps and misses the show, which turns out to be a blessing for him as Mark, Meg and Lucas dive into Xena: Episode 107: Kindred Spirits.   Would you like to see the worst version of Joxer possible?  Just bottom basement sketchy Joxer?   The Joxer that's going to be the last Joxer Xena and Gabby see before they jump 25 years? First off, why would you want that, but secondly apparently its your lucky day. I think the panel without Brian talks about books, granted the opening 20 minutes is almost always about either books, food, or the decrepitude of middle age. 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

What if you made a pilot that didn't get picked up and you wanted to recoup the costs?  We' get Amazon High with Xena Episode 106: Lifeblood.    The whole panel returns to decide whether or not its a good thing that a 90s teen cheerleader is in fact responsible for naming and leading the Amazons. Also the panel is old and forgetful now in the middle age years 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

And now, as we do every week when we totally biff our recording schedule - Baywatch Nights! Baywatch Nights Episode 3: Silent Witness answers the question "Could you have an episode where the writers forgot to come in that week?" Join us for the nonsensical carnival circus fight stay for the runaway situation that clearly ends very badly off screen. Also Angela Harry in this Episode was Jan Ors in Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight and that's important to us. Mount Olympus is a product of Retrograde Orbit Radio, and is brought to you by the following Retrograde Orbit Radio players: Person who is not David Hasslehoff: Mark Person who is not Angie Harmon: Brian Find us on Facebook or Twitter @MountOlympusPod Email the show: MountOlympusPod@gmail.com Check out our website: www.retrogradeorbitradio.com

Team disunity continues but Meg and Lucas go forward with Xena Episode 105: Married With Fishsticks. It's a Xena-lite with Gabrielle finding it was all a dream, and also that that all a dream was about being in a terrible mermaid episode, that is so so so very bad. Also Shoe 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

The team finally gets (mostly) back together for Xena 104: Amphipolis Under Siege - Where Athena decides its time for her to take a crack at killing off Xena's child.   Ares shows up to offer some less than sweet lovin' and Gabrielle is going to lead yet another rag tag army.  Xena's mom also shows up to witness some God bedding shenanigans. The panel remembers that junk food ideally is only a sometimes food, but look, sometimes can be now. Also this podcast recording seems cursed. 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

A normal schedule still eludes us, but Meg and Lucas stumble on Monster Ark, where Renee O'Connor goes looking for the lost Ark of Noah, no not the people evacuating Ark, the one Noah built to seal up evil and all that.   Also flashback to when malls were cool, because they aren't now. Mount Olympus is a product of Retrograde Orbit Radio, and is brought to you by the following Retrograde Orbit Radio players: Faith: Meg Science: Lucas 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 we totally biff our recording schedule - Baywatch Nights! Look, Baywatch Nights is a bad show, but how many shows have rollerblade crimes?  Baywatch Nights Episode 2: Bad Blades surely does.  All the crime John O'Hurley can crime up. Meanwhile Remember One Arm the Wampa? Mount Olympus is a product of Retrograde Orbit Radio, and is brought to you by the following Retrograde Orbit Radio players: Person who is not David Hasslehoff: Mark Person who is not Angie Harmon: Brian Find us on Facebook or Twitter @MountOlympusPod Email the show: MountOlympusPod@gmail.com Check out our website: www.retrogradeorbitradio.com  

Its Xena 103: Eternal Bonds Gods wanna kill Xena, Ares wants to hook up with Xena, Joxer would like Gabrielle to explain why she doesn't love him, also save him from super deadly poison because of that whole Gods wanting to kill Xena thing. Also this podcast recording seems cursed. 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 steers back into the serious side as we bid a series farewell to Hercules, kill a few gods, and welcome a new child. Also, the panel talks about bad cider and angry seltzer.  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

Wait this isn't the three stooges, but we're gonna solve Xena Ep 101: Punch Lines with a whole bunch of pies in the end anyway.  The story is mostly about how its not quite a real clip show, and Argo and Gabby get shrunk, and Joxer is a loyal traveling companion though not all that useful.  Also Gabby meets Sad God of the Sadboys.   Xena is here mostly to win a sexy chores bet. Also, we spend an unusually long amount of time talking about haircuts. 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 finally here.  Xena Ep 100: Lyre, Lyre, Hearts on Fire.  Friends it is finally time for the bands to do battle, to meet Joxer's other brother, to put Gabby in a Go-Go costume and find that War! (Hooh, Good God Ya'll) is good for absolutely nothin' Brian and Mark went into actual public to an actual movie and went to an actual restaurant and had actual wings.  For real, in real life in the public times. 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