Guest Host: John Lustig

No need to flip a coin to decide whether to listen to this episode! We're covering the story commonly called "Flipism," a fan-favorite ten-pager! We discuss whether Flipism actually works and the many crazy contours of this fan favorite ten-pager!

Guest Hosts: Sara Santiago & Tom Wormstedt

Happy Christmas (in February) in the South Seas, listeners! This Barks adventure takes us on a South Seas holiday, with a low stakes adventure that was featured in the Christmas in Disneyland comic, and includes an adventure both on and IN an active volcano! We'll talk about actual black pearls, volcanology, and more!

Guest Hosts: Austin Kelly & Bucket Think Tank

Get your mega-tickets ready, listeners, and get ready to go around the world with the ducks and their Junior Woodchuck animal call whistles! "Mines" is a delightful global adventure, and Barks' most globe-spanning story! It sets up a great collision between multiple story elements that pays off with an extremely satisfying conclusion!

Guest Host: Dan Cunningham

Start baking your custard pies and get ready to board the second of Barks' riverboat adventures! This story is an unusual one, being a flashback, without Donald or the nephews! This is because it appeared in the atypical comic "Uncle Scrooge in Disneyland," a promotional giant which my guest host talks about in fascinating detail! We'll also briefly explore the other stories that appear in the comic before talking about this Mississippi River-set tale!

Guest Hosts: Warren Harmon & Dan Severino

Welcome listeners! Join us in "Forbidden Valley," a clear take on the Lost World archetype, and a plot remake of "in Darkest Africa!" We've got the first appearance (arguably) of the villain McSwine (here by a more pickle-themed name) and a tale of dangerous animals, small, medium, and large!

Guest Hosts: Ryan Bailey & Susan Bailey

Ready to get away from the big city, with all the soot and smog? See Sidewalk Sam, for all your getting-away-from-it-all real estate needs! Just because which set of lakes you buy, you might encounter the Peeweegahs, as Scrooge and Donald do, in this ecologically-minded wilderness adventure!

Guest Hosts: Ryan Bailey & Veikko Suvanto

Listener, have you ever bought something you regretted? Scrooge McDuck has: a one-trillion dollar auction purchase of an orb of Bombastium, a rare and mysterious element. Unfortunately, the sphere must be kept frozen, thus the ducks end up traveling to the mountains of Antarctica, pursued by a representative from the U.S.S.R-inspired country of Brutopia, whose happy people possess all of five kitchen sinks. Join us as we discuss this story's geopolitical issues, unusual censorship, inspired slapstick, and facts about penguins!

Guest Hosts: Patrick Block & Warren Harmon

Happy New Year! Are you the type to make a resolution? Donald and the nephews certainly are, in these memorable New Year stories, released in back-to-back years. New Year's Revolutions is an entertaining enough story, but Secret Resolutions is the real treat, with its (admittedly low-stakes) mystery structure and decadent drawings of Carl Barks-invented pastries. Why not resolve to enjoy the episode, and to listen to more podcasts!

Guest Host: Bucket Think Tank

Welcome! Grab your shovel, visit your nearest creepy hypno-therapist, as we journey Back to Long Ago, in this weird tale of past-life regression! Listen to me and my new guest host discuss the personification of Scrooge & Donald's shovels, the nephews' sensible cynicism, and the dynamic of Donald vs. Scrooge stories. We'll also delve into the true story of the incident that spawned the then-contemporary past-lives craze!

Guest Hosts: Patrick Block & Warren Harmon

Happy Holidays! We're checking in with a short episode this week, exploring one of Barks' funniest Christmas-themed stories, in which Donald unwisely attempts to con a free turkey dinner out of his Uncle Scrooge! My guests and I also talk about some of our favorite other Christmas Barks stories.