Mount Olympus - The Hercules And Xena Podcast

It's an awkward time to talk about the end of the world in Hercules Ep 88: Somewhere over the Rainbow Bridge.  Ragnarok is here apparently as Hercules kills off another pantheon (at least briefly) The panel discusses parades, but first we acknowledge the elephandemic in the room. 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

Footloose - Xena Episode 74: A Tale of Two Muses - Seriously 5 minutes of this episode is dancing.  Autolycus and Tara are both kind of wasted, everything is wasted. Mark brings us tales from the sleepy morning, and Meg brings us up to date on all her Descendants. 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: 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

  Hercules tours the Scandinavian Icelands in Hercules Ep 87: Norse by Norsevest.  Things get.....honestly kind of dull, and Hercules manages to kill again by deciding that someone else's culture is dumb. Meanwhile Minecraft is afoot.  And everyone is old and has pills. 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  

  Xena and Gabby run across Caesar and Xena puts Gabby in charge of a rag tag band of troops in Xena Ep 73: A Good Day.  Gabby has to manage to not kill anyone while fighting the Roman Legion and Xena sets up what is clearly a multi-hour sword fight. This weeks food fight is about stuffed peppers and rice. 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: 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  

Hercules is still in Erie, and the party keeps going when Caesar shows up in Hercules Ep 86: Render unto Caesar.  Herc Half-Heartedly Helps Morrigan not be so evil.  Caesar officially doesn't take a day trip to Ireland. The panel takes on Big Ice Cream Novelty 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're back to a more typical Xena outing in Xena Ep 72: In Sickness and in Hell, and by typical we mean 'does this feel like season 1 or 2?'  Xena has lice, Gabby has a fungus, Joxer is...here.  Xena and her horse broke up? Why guys? Why? Also fights about Chili. 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: 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 for something completely different: Hercules Episode 85 - Genies and Grecians and Geeks, Oh My.  Hercules is offscreen somewhere in Erie, and Salmoneus and Autolycus are here to steal a lamp and get into hijinks.  And become meathead Salmoneus as they dare to try and use their wishes from a Genie to best....apparently a Sultan named Sultan. Also Mark has a midlife crisis. 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  

  Is it finally time for Gabby to be back? Sort of eventually! in Xena Ep 71: A Family Affair.  Joxer and Xena go back to Gabby's hometown to accidentally  encounter her somehow still not dead daughter clone.  Destroyerlarity ensues. Also the panel delves deeper in its crippling inability to read names. 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: 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  

Geez Herc, still with the Iolaus thing in Hercules Episode 84 - Resurrection.  Herc learns he can't drive a boat, and has to face off with 90s Flash effects Morrigan.  Also Druid Stuff. Also the panel gets real weepy about serious and silly things. 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

A muddle of plot continues with Xena Ep 70: Adventures in the Sin Trade (Part 2) Xena still is looking at the past and future to open up the Northern Amazon afterlife or somesuch.  Alti has evil powers, and Xena has certainly not evil powers of necromancy. Also the team makes a concerted effort to bring back Puzz 3D. 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: 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 show comes back from the holidays with Hercules Episode 83 - Descent.  Herc isn't taking the death of Iolaus well and decides that he's just going to go wreck the Sumerian underworld.  Also I guess goodbye to the entire Sumerian pantheon? Also so much discussion about Cats! For real, we talk about the insanity that is Cats!  Your minds may never be the same. 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  

It's a new year with a trilogy not quite panning out, yes that means its time to discuss the last ride of the Barden Bellas Pitch Perfect 3 - A movie that tries its best to make you forget that you do in fact love the Barden Bellas, but does succeed in making you hate Theo like a lot.  Thankfully Anna Kendrick, Anna Camp, Rebel Wilson, and Brittany Snow and the rest of the Bellas are still charming as ever. We also talk New Years plans, before getting into the show where Brian has to be physically restrained from assaulting Theo and Mark has to be physically restrained from assaulting Chicago. Also everyone agrees that John Lithgow's accent is an absolute crime.  The alternate title for this show was 'Mistakes were made' Mount Olympus is a product of Retrograde Orbit Radio, and is brought to you by the following Retrograde Orbit Radio players: Played the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center - Brian Asking people Aca-scuse me - Mark Asking everyone to add their own cardio - Meg Pointing out he's never heard of

  Christmas means a cool Christmas Album and that means we replace a normal episode of this podcast with Pitch Perfect 2 Pitch Perfect 2 - A wonderful movie about friendship and fighting the Germans.  Also about traveling through time and finding out that someday they're going to make you leave college. We also briefly touch on a very podcast Christmas in January.  And spend most of the second and third acts apologizing for Flashlight. Mount Olympus is a product of Retrograde Orbit Radio, and is brought to you by the following Retrograde Orbit Radio players: Played the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center - Brian Asking people Aca-scuse me - Mark Asking everyone to add their own cardio - Meg Pointing out he's never heard of that rule - Lucas Find us on Facebook or Twitter @MountOlympusPod Email the show: MountOlympusPod@gmail.com Check out our website: www.retrogradeorbitradio.com  

  Season 4 begins with Xena Ep 69: Adventures in the Sin Trade (Part 1) What sin trade? Who knows? Is the backstory laid out in a way that we can follow it? Not really?  Is their evil shaman magic involved? Yes somehow? Alternate afterlives, you betcha! The panel mostly passes on this episode and prefers to talk about a Crisis on a moderate number of Earths and also briefly tries to see if we can talk about Detective Amy Santiago instead of reviewing the episode. 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: 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  

Hercules Season 5 starts off with Hercules Episode 82: Faith - Herc and Iolaus join up with Nebula to go meet her long lost demi-God brother Gilgamesh.  Oh also whatcha gonna do when Dahak and his 26 inch pythons starts to run wild on you??!?!? Meanwhile the panel is sad as death roams the land 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

2Dahak2Furious with Xena Episode 68: Sacrifice (Part 2) Xena and Gabby still need to kill Hope and get an offer of 'help' from Callisto.  Meanwhile Joxer runs into trees.  Also you can put Dahak out like a camp fire. Meanwhile we start moving in to the Christmas season and Mark's love of all things Christmas. 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: 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

Previously mentioned brief discussion of Pitch Perfect from months ago spills out into 2 hours of occupying everyone's brain. Pitch Perfect - A wonderful movie about friendship and singing and maybe the mighty ducks?  The panel goes all in to have their hearts warmed and ears....sung into?  The all female Barden Bellas are here. Also brief aside at the top of the show where Mark hates Frosty the Snowman. Mount Olympus is a product of Retrograde Orbit Radio, and is brought to you by the following Retrograde Orbit Radio players: Played the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center - Brian Asking people Aca-scuse me - Mark Asking everyone to add their own cardio - Meg Pointing out he's never heard of that rule - 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 end Hercules Season 4 with Episode 81 - Reunions.  Herc decides to half try being a whole God!  Hera appears in the flesh, Apollo is still a jerk, Zeus is out of character, and Ares wandered onto the wrong set this week. Meanwhile Disney+ brings their cold hands around our wallets and we're powerless to resist. 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  

  It's Dahak Time! It's Dahak Time! Why don't you have some Dahak of mine? In Xena Episode 67: Sacrifice (Part 1) Xena and Gabby need to go rekill hope and Callisto shows up having torn through reality. Also a brief diversion into board games and the requisite sighs of anguish around Monopoly. 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: 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's back for Herc and we Herc decides the best way to deal with grief it to remember that time he and Apollo got real big into E in Hercules Episode 80 - Top God The panel also spends a not significant enough amount of time on talking about how when you think about it Nick Cage is actually pretty great. Mount Olympus is an episode by episode review of the smash 90s television programs "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys" and its spinoff "Xena: Warrior Princess," which still enjoy unparalleled cultural relevance today! Or ... at least they do in the hearts of our hosts. Kevin Sorbo, Lucy Lawless, Michael Hurst, Renee O'Connor and friends (along with fan favorite Bruce Campbell!) stomp, fight, and flirt their way through the New Zealand countryside - and we break it down week by week. 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: Me