Selling the Underworld, Part I

About this episode

Tiffany J. Kim explores the challenges of ruling the Underworld and considers passing the throne to someone more ambitious.

Send over your dead SMS messages. Greetings listeners, after silently watching the world burn for the past month, mustering up enough resolve to write has been ... difficult. Indeed, one wonders if ruling the Underworld is worth the trouble. Thus, I decided I needed to shake things up. Perhaps, cede the throne to one who has more vigor in him, not to mention the ambition to rule. Therefore, I took my trusted rotary phone to reach out to someone in the Upperworld who has clearly shown the worl...

People in this episode

Host: Tiffany J. Kim

Topics covered

• Underworld
• rulership
• ambition
• communication
• society

Keywords

• Underworld
• Hades
• rulership
• ambition
• communication
• society
• folklore

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