The Fire Escape

Today it is Peter who is fired. Hywel and Colter press on Peterless in their quest for truth and are joined by actor, producer, raconteur and generally delightful chap, Christian Campbell (Reefer Madness, True Detective, Trick, Big Love).Join us out on the porch (the fire escape is the New York porch, if you will) and listen to our discussion of the history of The Player's Club, Edwin Booth, propaganda and hear a little bit about Christian's story. It was a delightful conversation and we hope you enjoy. Except Pete, he doesn't care about you.Learn more about Christian's work on his website, http://xiancampbell.com/ or give him a follow on the medias' social @uscanuk.

We welcome Hywel back with open arms and discuss the history and present differences between mainland Europe, Britain and the Americas when it comes to licentiousness in the wild.

Joining us on our perch out on The Fire Escape this week is Bloomberg writer and all around cool kid, Hannah Elliott.We talk about her career in journalism, running track at Baylor University, the Pacific Northwest and figuring out how it works living in NYC. We also talk about being in to cars, but not being "car guys', as in we don't know that much about cars, but we do like them.Hywel was chipping away at his play this week so again he is MIA, BUT he is finished with it now and hopefully is returning to us soon, in spirit and in body.As per usual please rate and review the show and let us know what you think!

greetings and welcome back to part two of our All Hywel's Ween Spooktacular. On today's show Colter reads a story by HP Lovecraft and Pete retails us with the chilling story of the Bell Witch, a 19th Century middle-Tennessee legend. Tune in for all the haunting tales of Transatlanticism we have for y'all.Hywel was oddly not with us, maybe he is haunting one of our listeners? Let us know at [email protected] you would like to read along, check out the posts section on fireescapepod.com.

YE BEWARE THE SMELLS AND BELLS!Happy (almost) Halloween, dear listeners! Today the lads talk about the history of the final day of October and the origins of the festival Samhain in part one of our two-part spooktacular! Tune in to part two next week on Halloween day to hear spooky stories from the likes of HP Lovecraft and other great writers.

This is Colter's version of MJ's Flu Game. It goes just about as well. There are car wrecks! There is go-kart racing! Hywel is still in Germany. We learn how to say Roll Tide in various Scandinavian languages. We dealt with a lot of technical issues this week, but as always this is free and you volunteered for this. Enjoy!

We did it, y’all. Against all odds and heavy opposition the lads have been doing this show for an entire year as of this week. It’s fitting that we have now discovered our new queen in an 8 year old Swedish girl who pulled a sword from a lake, long may she reign. Thank you so much for listening to our vortices of chat.Cymru Am Byth and Rywel Tydde!

The lads had the most fascinating person they had ever met on this episode, Captain Sophie Hollingsworth (what a great explorer name right?). She graciously hosted us at The Explorers Club in NYC and regaled is with stories of trips across the Australian Outback, sailing across the pacific, remote islands in the South Pacific and her efforts to promote sustainable exploration throughout the world.

The lads sat down physically and metaphysically with Pete’s old boss and guitar store legend, Matt Umanov.Up top we talk about Hywel’s extreme tiredness from his European travels, then Matt joins us to talk about his 50 year history in the instrument business.

We start our (quite literal, as has been the case as of late) transatlantic discussion on the fundamental differences between Presidents and prime ministers, and how oddly progressive the Weimar Republic was pre-Hitler.We then devolve into talking about some uncurious Danes and debate whether or not John Lennon is the perfect example of a “white ally” (scare quotes used for maximum irony).