In which Boy and Girl make their stage debut, mourning becomes a competition, the Dutchess talks about her tits, and Buckingham inadvertently gives Tricky Dicky a way to get his plan underway.

Forcing people to play nice rarely works, just ask King Edward. Richard is a great actor and Edward sounds like an owl. Why?

Because, Erin and Diana tie Richard III to The Sound of Music. That's why.

A pagan dream that should have been a warning. Conversation about status, and honor, and morals, OH MY.

2 murderers, who may or may not be villains, pay a visit.

What is a malmsey butt? And how does George, Duke of Clarence, end up in relation to one?

And a 'word cloud' from Erin (or perhaps a flailing around with concepts that scratched the brain but never fully formed).

In which we meet a bunch of the gang. Infighting. Curses. Lying. And Crying.

Queen Margaret is a BADASS and the rest of those fools should listen up.

How do the Brady Bunch and The Sneetches relate to Richard III? You'll just have to have a listen.

What does Ferdinand the Bull have to do with The Tragedy of Richard the Third? Erin tells you all about it in this episode full of witty repartee, sexual inuendo, remarkable changes, a very odd wooing, and burying someone upside down.

What happens when someone discovers their power?

AAAAAAND...

They're off!

The War of the Roses, Lancasters/Lanisters and Yorks/Starks, Machiavelli, Hag and Dutchess - Queen and Lady, Animal Names, Burial in a Parking Lot and much, much more.

Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this sun of York.

The Dubious Conclusion.

All the rancidity exposed. The Duke is a dookey. Mariana is on her knees (she might end up frozen solid like that). Isabella joins her on HER knees. Angelo is prepared for death. Reprieve. Objection! Lucio is hoisted on his own petard (that's from Hamlet). All is forgiven and the Duke is just gross (but Isabella is kinda gross too). What did anyone learn? What will Vienna be like after all this? WHO CAN SAY (said like Bubble).

The Duke plots and plans. The ladies follow directions. Some friar named Penis gets involved and we are off to the races!

A few short scenes and the intro to the whopper at the end.

Pompey meets some old friends. We meet Barnardine (Not today Satan). A pirate saves the day. The Duke continues his dooky-ness. And Lucio can't keep his mouth shut.

Also... Erin desperately tries to make our two different recording spaces and levels and all the stuff I don't understand sound more in line. It just sounds muddy but...sorry!!!

Meet Marianna of the moated grange. She's the key to the bed-trick plan that will seal Angelo's fate. Or will it? In the second scene the Duke finds out that his little schemes ain't working quite as well as he had hoped they would. Because, you know, HUMANS! They don't behave according to prescription. That's what makes them fun.