My First Podcast

Fia uncovers a devastating link between her mother’s journal, a long-dead Midwest band, and the possibility that the Sidhe manipulated a fatal car crash to shape her family’s fate. As she heads into Monnagh’s neon-lit nightlife in sequined armor, a pub band’s stolen lyrics prove the past is far closer—and stranger—than she imagined.

An eerie folk-fantasy love story unpacks how grief can make a counterfeit home feel like salvation, from a golden meadow and a Sidhe’s deceptive devotion to the creeping realization that nothing in this paradise can truly grow. The hosts trace the horror and tenderness of Nora’s choice as the illusion collapses around her unborn child.

A medieval Irish scribe trapped between monastic condemnation and forbidden love is drawn into the woods by a mysterious fae-like guide offering sanctuary, sensual freedom, and a radical new vision of the divine. The episode explores grief, queer desire, institutional control, and the unsettling question of whether liberation can also be a trap.

This episode examines a horrifying night of onstage violence, drug-facilitated assault, and the crowd’s disturbing complicity, as a teenager is left exposed by the very people around her.

It then turns to the aftermath: dismissive police questioning, emotional shutdown, and the diary as a radical act of self-preservation in the face of denial and abandonment.

This episode explores a wounded ancient god whose rejection by a mortal woman in 1347 unleashes plague, grief, and a lifelong vow to never compel love again. It also follows how that past reverberates through later generations, where bloodlines, fate, and a single laugh reopen old wounds.

Fia uncovers a family history shaped by silence, selective memory, and generational trauma, then confronts how a museum display can sanitize a predatory legend into heritage. When the past returns at midnight, the line between folklore, memory, and menace becomes impossible to ignore.

In occupied France, a pregnant woman is forced into a false identity and sent fleeing with a reliquary of grief: a dead husband’s memory, a hidden faith, and the fragile hope of survival. Along the blackout roads, small acts of recognition and protection become the difference between disappearance and escape.

In 1889 Ireland, a young woman pours months of solitary embroidery into a midnight-blue gown stitched with stars, only to be dismissed by her family as a useful spinster. When a boorish ex-officer arrives for dinner, hidden motives, social power plays, and Biddy’s razor-sharp wit come dangerously to the surface.

This episode traces the escalating fallout around Meave as public humiliation, private affection, and group silence collide in the band’s rehearsal rooms and tour van. It also breaks down the psychology of intermittent reinforcement and how toxic dynamics keep everyone trapped.

Nora leaves rural Ireland for Paris and struggles to find her footing in a Jewish household, from learning Sabbath prayers to a disastrous first attempt at challah. Amid rising fascism and family tension, the episode traces how love, language, and belonging collide at the Shabbat table.