MC MytholOG - Midas, Medea, Jonah*, ATOWT, Last Gasp, Homeric, Icarus, Murph*, Herc, Orpheus, Dayz*

This is the full podcast of Midas, A Folly in Two Acts & an Epilogue, which was previously dropped as discrete episodes but is available now in its shimmering entirety! Everyone thinks they know the story of Midas and the Golden Touch, some even know the concomitant story of Midas and the Donkey Ears, but there is even more to know about this foollish king of Phrygia than those two stories.Why did Midas get the Golden Touch in the first place? What did that have to do with Dionysus the god and the satyr Silenus? And will Dan ever get paid?Why did Midas get the Donkey Ears? How was this, too, an instance of his foolishness? Was he a racist?How did Midas die in the end? Was he really punished through eternity in Tartarus for his sins?There is a reason this story is a classic as the material herein has multiple parallels to events and persons throughout history not to mention the present day. Enjoy, and thank you for tuning in.

Inspired by Eugene Ionesco’s Rhinoceros, an absurdist play about the invasion by a crash of rhinos (read: fascism), my Skool Dayz is an absurdist tragicomedy about teachers and students getting distracted by all sorts of things, effectively putting blinders on to a real threat, in this case, an armed intruder (or two) in the school. Dayz opens with a faculty meeting wherein administrators head a workshop on protocol for the event of an armed intruder. Things do not quite go as planned in the simulation and the faculty are not quite as attentive as they should be and are easily distracted by this and that. In the midst of their distraction, they see an actual shooter through the halls of the building, leading to at least one administrator getting shot! No, for realz! This episode is the surreal sequel to Act I of Skool Dayz, in which the previous events - an intruder or two runnning through the school hallways and the faculty's slow reaction to it and to their own administrator getting shot - lead to their inevitable (?) conclusion. In this episode you will find out who the intruders are, why they have intruded, and how the administrators, faculty and students in the building react to this menacing breach. Tune in and embrace the strange and unsettling conclusion, Act II, of Skool Dayz.

How will Midas handle himself in the afterlife, having made a mess of his mortal one with his acts of folly? Hear what the judges in Hades think of this inveterate fool. Hearken to their final judgment where the little king of Phrygia will spend his eternity. Lend MC your ears now and find out the final disposition of king Midas. 

As his reward for taking care of Silenus, his old mentor, the god Dionysus grants Midas his classically foolish wish, followed hard by the tragic fallout from the wish, that in turn followed by the subsequent unwish.

After two brief prologues, Dan and Georgie, two laborers of the famous King Midas, he of the golden touch,  discover the body of an old satyr mysteriously passed out in Midas's royal rose garden. Hoping for a reward, they tie him up with vines and dump him on the back of a donkey to take him to the king himself.