Season 12 Episode 8: O Brother, Where Art Thou?

"Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story. of that man skilled in all ways of contending, the wanderer, harried for years on end”

We of the Cromcast have what you might call, a proposition for ya. Just settle on down over yonder and prepare your ears and we shall regale you with analysis of a cinematic masterpiece. Mind you, we ain't one at a timin' em here, we're mass communicatin' with y'all. 

Today's show is all about the 2000 Coen Brothers' film "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" So be prepared for a lot of in depth discussion but also a lot of movie quotes sprinkled in. We are very excited about this episode and think it is a great capstone to our Silver John season! Tune in!!

One Things

Jon: American Scandal, a podcast by Wondery

Josh: Pocket knives! They're handy and sharp!

Luke: "After Dark" by Manly Wade Wellman

Up next... It is the most wonderful time of year, CROMTOBER! Joins us for a few rounds of autumnal alcohol and discussion about Halloween traditions. That is, if the witch doesn't get us first!

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Outro: "In the Jailhouse Now" by The Soggy Bottom Boys, Featuring Tim Blake Nelson. Music obtained legally; we hope our discussion of this content makes you want to go out and purchase the work!

Season 12, Episode 7: Hellboy - The Crooked Man

 

There was a crooked man, and he walked a crooked mile,He found a crooked sixpence against a crooked stile;He bought a crooked cat which caught a crooked mouse,And they all lived together in a little crooked house.

 Welcome back to the mountain trail, Cromrades! We were just about to get dinner started - a little tin of sardines, some saltine crackers, and a big bottle of homebrew, you know... trail food. All of a sudden, this big red feller come runnin' up the trail. Seemed to be in a hurry, so we let him pass. We figured we'd catch up with him, sooner or later. What's that? You know him? He looked a lot like this... 

This week we're diving into The Crooked Man by Mike Mignola, with art by Richard Corben, originally published from July through September, 2008. Hellboy has a lot in common with John the Balladeer, and we think you'll agree, and this story is heavily influenced by Manly Wade Wellman's mountain wanderer. If you haven't read this, you owe it to yourself to check it out. The best way to pick it up these days might be in the Hellboy: The Complete Short Stories omnibus. 

The villainous Crooked Man is brought to horrifying life by the artistic talents of Richard Corben. He's a visually striking character, and we could easily imagine him going up against Silver John. 

Josh mentioned some literature about witch balls. Check it out here: Sympathetic Magic in the Kentucky Mountains: Some Curious Folk-Survivals

One Things

Jon: Hunting Eichmann: Chasing Down the World's Most Notorious Nazi

Josh: The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch

Luke: Philip K. Dick Energy - Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, and A Scanner Darkly

Next time - we go to the movies to watch the Cohen brothers classic, O Brother, Where Art Thou? It's bonafide! 

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Outro: "Crooked Man" by Those Poor Bastards. Music was obtained legally; we hope our discussion of this content makes you want to go out and purchase the work!

Season 12, Episode 6: Where Did She Wander?

 Welcome back cromrades to another Silver John story. In this episode, the Cromcast crew tackles the last John story Wellman ever wrote and it's a pretty great one. If you have ever wondered what happens when you sing about a witchy pagan succubus at a bluegrass festival, then this story is for you! 

One Things
Luke: Fantasy and sci fi author, David DrakeJosh: Getting his game on with The King of Dragon PassJon: Watch Watchmen from HBO!

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Next time - We are going to team up with big red himself, Hellboy!

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Outro: "I am a Pilgrim" as performed by Obray Ramsey

Season 12, Episode 5: Owls Hoot in the Daytime

Welcome back, Cromrades! This week, we join John the Balladeer in a lonely cabin at the base of a secluded mountain, where possums as big as dogs wander, an ancient treasure lies buried, and Owls Hoot in the Daytime! This story was one of the later John the Balladeer stories that Manly Wade Wellman published, and it certainly has that feeling of a sort of finality that we couldn't quite put our fingers on to describe accurately! 

Art by Thomas Boatwright

One Things
Luke: The newest release from Run The Jewels, and Battlestar Galactica (Beats, Bears...)Josh: All Witcher Everything, particularly the Dark Horse comics story House of Glass. Find the omnibus here!Jon: March - the story of John Lewis comic from Top Shelf. 

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Next time - Where Did She Wonder?? 

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Outro: "In Hell I'll Be In Good Company" by The Dead South. Music was obtained legally; we hope our discussion of this content makes you want to go out and purchase the work!

Season 12, Episode 3: The Little Black Train (A Liminal Journey)

Welcome, Cromrades! It has been a while, but we are still rolling down that Manly Road through the Appalachian Mountains with Manly Wade Wellman and his Silver John stories! This week, we take a ride on The Little Black Train (read it here) and see that, though death comes for each of us, a sinful life leads to a ride on the little black train to the bad place! 
Note: Josh meant Josh Turner, not Josh Groban. Honest mistake. There are a lot of Joshes. But we are all Josh, each in our own way. Aren't we?


Shout out to Dreaming Creek Brewery, we're fans of their Kentucky Common! Stop by there if you're in the Richmond, KY area!
One Things: Josh: Modern Video games: Video Card + Skyrim = Crazy Delicious!Luke: The World Fantasy Awards Volume 1 & Volume 2. Also Abe Books!Jon: The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck from Fantagraphics! 
Featured on This or That - Tolkien Names vs Antidepressants

Lincoln's death train is an example of a little black train as harbinger of death, or ferry to the afterlife. We present a lengthy discussion on trains as symbols of transition, and as liminal space. 
Next time: Call Me From The Valley. The Manly Road continues!

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Outro: "The Little Black Train" by Joe Guthrie. Music was obtained legally; we hope our discussion of this content makes you want to go out and purchase the work!

Season 12, Episode 1: O Ugly Bird, by Manly Wade Wellman

Welcome back, Cromrades! We're excited to kick off Season 12 with O Ugly Bird (read it here), a John the Balladeer story first published in the December 1951 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. We have a backwoods wizard, a local populace under siege, and John, who breezes through the mountains writing wrongs and singing songs! 

One Things Jon - Classic Disney cartoons viewed on Disney Plus Josh - Onward, a Pixar film also viewed on Disney Plus Luke - Khemmis - Doomed Heavy Metal Next up: We continue down the mountainous Manly Road with Manly Wade Wellman and discuss "Vandy, Vandy", another Silver John story.  Questions? Comments? Curses?

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Outro: "A Conversation With Death" by Khemmis from their new "Doomed Heavy Metal" EP, linked above. Music was obtained legally; we hope our discussion of this content makes you want to go out and purchase the work!

Announcing Season 12 - The Manly Road Story List!

We reckon it's time we become acquainted with Manly Wade Wellman, and what better way to do that than to journey through the Appalachians with John the Balladeer? Season 12 takes us East - to the mountains! 

1. O Ugly Bird! – Introducing Manly Wade Wellman, John the Balladeer, and The Manly Road. John comes across a backwoods wizard and his giant avian familiar.
2. Vandy, Vandy – While investigating the origins of an old song, the lyrics seemingly come alive in an unexpected way.
3. The Little Black Train – A backwoods ghost train issues forth to claim a sinful soul.
4. Call Me From the Valley – John gets involved in an ancient feud that should have ended long ago but somehow still lingers…
5. Owls Hoot in the Daytime - John faces down a demon who dwells within an entrance to a mountain.
6. Where Did She Wander? – John investigates the hanging of a witch and finds something more than he expected.
7. The Crooked Man, by Mike Mignola and Richard Corben. Hellboy investigates a possible witching in the Appalachian mountains when a man named Tom Ferrell shows up in the area for the first time in twenty years. The people in the area blame a woman named Cora that Tom knew when he was younger. So Tom and Hellboy go to Cora's place to investigate...
8. O Brother, Where Art Thou? - In the deep south during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them.

We'll light out down that mountain trail with Silver John real soon...