The Dispatchist: A Friendly Podcast about Hell

Wrapping up our latest arch about angels! I’m sure they’ll come back, but we’ve really got to get back to Hell before someone figures out we’ve left. We can’t have that. WordPress somewhat recently added a feature to create text with AI. But honestly? I think our confused maeandering beats artificial confused maeandering any day. Brief callout to “Cranston Thorndike and the Dragon,” I know we mentioned this before but I can’t find it! Jacob spent a fair bit of time growing up adjacent to a Christian fundamentalist cultist, and it shaped him into what he is today. Fond memories for the confusing 80’s hell-journey that is “Cranston Thorndike and the Dragon.” We’ll almost certainly do an episode on it after we get out of the medieval period, and the reformation, and the 1900s… in the meantime, relive someone else’s memories on Youtube. In Hell News, we talk about the strange connection between Anton LaVey and Sammy Davis, Jr. This was covered recently in “Rolling Stone,” a magazine article that will soon be adapted into a horror movie starring Leslie Odem. Is “Rolling Stone article adapted into a horror movie” a first? I hope so. The crux of the article is Sammy Davis Jr’s unreleased pilot episode of “Poor Devil,” which can actually be found on Youtube. Yay! Related/unrelated, the “Aaron Burr/Got Milk” commercial. Jacob is surprised to learn it was directed by Michael Bay. Other hell-news: “Newly discovered devil bee from Australia,” “Brussels Nativity Scene Stolen,” “Dallas church sends immigration message with Christmas nativity,” “Santa Manna,” angel worksheets, and a recipe for the Flaming Goat cocktail. No-one is likely to care about this, but Jacob’s writing the notes, and is including a picture of his new fursona, “Tarnal,” which suggests that whatever lesson he was supposed to take away from Cranston Thorndike and the Dragon, he took completely the wrong one away. “Unmasked Mysteries” has a host of weird AI-generated near-myth videos. They’re all a bit weird, I think that’s fair to say. We enjoyed “This is what the hell of fallen angels look like” while recognizing that it’s not going to win the “Webbies” this year. Bit of a head scratcher. Word for the week: “Tennin,” a class of angel-like spirits from Buddhist myth, typically looking like women in flowing garments. They may serve as a connection between the divine and human, which is a very angelic sort of role! Jamin mentioned a sculpture of Samyaza, but the sculpture is “The Sons of God Saw that the Daughters of Men Were Fair,” by Daniel Chester French. (Image by Daderot). The wikipedia article uses that as an image. You can clearly see the well-rubbed butt cheek of the daughter of man.

Episode #104! Angels! Theurgy! Adam! Mixed drinks! Exorcists!

Episode #103: We start a long conversation about angels. Why angels? Are there angels in hell? Yes.

Episode #102: Mary Kathryn Baxter - Hell's full of skeletons, chickens

Episode #101, let's talk about Mary Kathryn Baxter. And heaven. And ackelbets.

Episode #100!!!! Self-indulgent flashbacks and hopeful future, engaged!

Episode #99: The Apocalypses of Mary!

Episode #98: In which we learn that Mary was quite the bad-ass, really

Episode #97: Demiurge, but lighter. Victoria, why did you think "Metropolis" was lighter?

Episode #96: Now the Demiurge figure starts to get dark as we wander, lost, through the early Gnostic writers...

Episode #95: In which we continue the discussion of the Demiurge into the Biblical era, but mostly talk about the inavoidability of Plutarch.

Episode #94: In which we attempt to discuss the Demiurge, before he goes bad anyway

Episode #93: Purgatorio - Finishing our climb up the mountain in STYLE.

Episode #92: Purgatorio - Up the mountain with Virgil, and totally not his replacement

Episode #91: Purgatorio - eye horror, pride, and so much p

Episode #90: Purgatorio - Up the mountain again with Dante!

Episode #89: Opening up the Apocalypses of Peter and Paul!

Episode #88: The Testament of Solomon, the first in a long line of weird dangerous texts!

Episode #87: As we transition to the medieval era, let's talk about St. Augustine, who made a lot of it possible!

Episode #86: A light romp through a series of destinations that either were inspired by, or might inspire, sin.