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Feb 2016
28m 39s

24-Thor: Whosoever Holds this Hammer

Jason Weiser, Carissa Weiser, Nextpod
About this episode
Norse mythology, like all mythology, is strange. Thor's hammer is gone. It was stolen...or he just left it somewhere and forgot about it. To get it back, though, he's going to have to do something more difficult than fighting legions of giants. He's going to need to get married.
And there's the origin of poetry, which contains way more men formed from spit than you'd expect for the origin of poetry.
On the creature of the week, seriously, just stay out of the woods. It never ends well. Except when it does, and you find love and learn to put on a puppet show.
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"Beeth" by Blue Dot Sessions
"Direct to Video" by Chris Zabriskie
"An Opus in Bb" by Blue Dot Sessions
"Witch Laws" by Dlay
"Hanami Matsuri" by Fabian Measures
"It's Always Too Late to Start Over" by Chris Zabriskie

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