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The Dispatchist: A Friendly Podcast about Hell

The Dispatchist: A Friendly Podcast about Hell

De : Victoria Jamin & Jacob
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 A friendly chat about hell, demons, mixed drinks, and some other stuffCopyright 2022 by The Dispatchist. (CC), noncommercial/attribution Philosophie Sciences sociales Spiritualité
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    • Ep. 106 – How Dry my Thelm (The Vision of Drythelm)

      Ep. 106 – How Dry my Thelm (The Vision of Drythelm)
      Jan 28 2026
      Before we get to whatever we’re rambling about today and then our topic, I feel like I need to address two points in our header image. Victoria is posed in front of an animated version of “Vision of Drythelm” we found on Youtube and hated so much we didn’t even talk about it, and that’s really saying something, our bar is pretty low. And Jacob is posing in front of the ruins of Melrose Abbey, where once Drythelm lived as a monk. Where should we start? Drinks, obviously. This week, and we strongly suspect some earlier week, we’re kicking the episode off with a Corpse Reviver #2. On the subject of drinks, and Satan, we all went to a Satanic Temple “Black Mass” at The Crow Bar, on the East side of Austin. The Crow Bar’s decor is a sort of “viking/dracula/satanist/goth” melange, very nice, would recommend! Brief callout to “The Bordello Cookbook.” Alas my copy is gone, it’s one of those cookbooks with a lively mix of history, anecdote, and recipes. I’ll copy the recipe for “Big Apple Bounce” here, and hope it finds some new readers. We’re flashing backward, and forward, to The Vision of Tundale, a ~1250 AD precursur to Dante’s Inferno. The recording quality is a little low, but we did an episode on Tundale in 2024, at our “panel” at the amazing Devil 2024 conference in Halifax. Good times! But the work has a lot in common…a near-death experience, the guide’s guardian angel chasing off the demons, being left alone in the Deeper Dark…Tundale had 500 years to perfect his material, and Drythelm seems to be focusing more on the “third space” between Heaven and Hell. It took all our vast powers of concentration not to make this an episode on Purgatory, because Purgatory really deserves a few episodes entirely for itself. Hell news! We used a few different sources for this one, but Jacob particularly liked the title, “Co-Redemptrix title of Mary not absolutely prohibited“…basically, Mary is not as good a redeemer as Jesus, and we must be clear on this, but not unambiguously clear. And, from Boing Boing, an article on Michaelangelo’s first painting, The Temptation…wait…The Torment of Saint Anthony. If you happen to be in Rome in 2033 for Easter, join us for pimm’s cups as we celebrate the 2000th anniversary of Christ’s death, ressurrection, and the ascension of Beelzebub as regent of hell, and…well, let’s be honest, none of us are likely to get our sins exculpated, but if we’re still recording, the drink offer is there. Maybe this time they’ll open the Tomb of Lucifer. Or at least sit on his chair. Dan Brown is, yes, still alive, still writing. His last book, The Secret of Secrets, was published in September 2025. Jacob notices that one of his books is themed around Dante’s Inferno, and this may come back to haunt Victoria and Jamin at a later date. From The Bordello Cookbook, Jeanne Bauer and Jo Foxworth Bounce, a drink that became popular in colonial times, was “brewed” by pouring a potent drink sucn as rum over fruit heaped with sugar and letting the mixture ferment. Although New York was not known [at the time] as “the Big Apple”…the apple home brew that inspired this recipe was still hugely enjoyed by the colonists. Surprise your friends with this one, for kicks. And we do mean kicks! Big Apple Bounce2 quarts sliced cored apples, including peel1 cup sliced lemons, including peel2 cups maple sugar3 sticks whole cinnamon10 whole cloves1 quart rumwater Place all ingredients except water into a large crock or other nonmetallic container and stir to combine. Add enough water to cover fruit. Cover top tightly with a lid or a cloth. Let sit for a week or more at room temperature until the mixture fernents. Strain and serve. Bottle remaining liquor for future use. [You may substitute other fruits or berries. Peaches and cherries are especially recommended.] So who was Drythelm? Or Dryhthelm? He was a land-owner in “a district of Northumbria which is called ‘Incuneningum’,” an exciting spelling Jacob brings up. Very avant-guarde. He becomes ill, nearly dead, peeks into hell but doesn’t quite go there, tours an area between heaven and hell, and then peeks into heaven, but doesn’t get there. Then he goes and suffers for some reason for a few years and tells only the best people about his journey. Callout to The Venerable Bede, 672-735, a monk, Sacred Historian, “the father of English History.” He lived in Northumbria, so was fairly close to Drythelm ground zero. He is a saint, and a Church Doctor, though the fact that his feast day was the same as St. Augustine may have caused him to be overshadowed. Mildly interestingly, he’s the only Englishman in Dante’s Paradiso. Word for the week: PentimentiWell, technically, pentimento (Italian for “repentance), elements and evidence of earlier images, forms, designs, sketches, strokes, etc., that have been changed or painted...
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      1 h et 11 min
    • Ep. 105 – Angel Fallout

      Ep. 105 – Angel Fallout
      Dec 19 2025
      Wrapping up our latest arch about angels! I’m sure they’ll come back, but we’ve really got to get back to Hell before someone figures out we’ve left. We can’t have that. WordPress somewhat recently added a feature to create text with AI. But honestly? I think our confused maeandering beats artificial confused maeandering any day. Brief callout to “Cranston Thorndike and the Dragon,” I know we mentioned this before but I can’t find it! Jacob spent a fair bit of time growing up adjacent to a Christian fundamentalist cultist, and it shaped him into what he is today. Fond memories for the confusing 80’s hell-journey that is “Cranston Thorndike and the Dragon.” We’ll almost certainly do an episode on it after we get out of the medieval period, and the reformation, and the 1900s… in the meantime, relive someone else’s memories on Youtube. In Hell News, we talk about the strange connection between Anton LaVey and Sammy Davis, Jr. This was covered recently in “Rolling Stone,” a magazine article that will soon be adapted into a horror movie starring Leslie Odem. Is “Rolling Stone article adapted into a horror movie” a first? I hope so. The crux of the article is Sammy Davis Jr’s unreleased pilot episode of “Poor Devil,” which can actually be found on Youtube. Yay! Related/unrelated, the “Aaron Burr/Got Milk” commercial. Jacob is surprised to learn it was directed by Michael Bay. Other hell-news: “Newly discovered devil bee from Australia,” “Brussels Nativity Scene Stolen,” “Dallas church sends immigration message with Christmas nativity,” “Santa Manna,” angel worksheets, and a recipe for the Flaming Goat cocktail. No-one is likely to care about this, but Jacob’s writing the notes, and is including a picture of his new fursona, “Tarnal,” which suggests that whatever lesson he was supposed to take away from Cranston Thorndike and the Dragon, he took completely the wrong one away. “Unmasked Mysteries” has a host of weird AI-generated near-myth videos. They’re all a bit weird, I think that’s fair to say. We enjoyed “This is what the hell of fallen angels look like” while recognizing that it’s not going to win the “Webbies” this year. Bit of a head scratcher. Word for the week: “Tennin,” a class of angel-like spirits from Buddhist myth, typically looking like women in flowing garments. They may serve as a connection between the divine and human, which is a very angelic sort of role! Jamin mentioned a sculpture of Samyaza, but the sculpture is “The Sons of God Saw that the Daughters of Men Were Fair,” by Daniel Chester French. (Image by Daderot). The wikipedia article uses that as an image. You can clearly see the well-rubbed butt cheek of the daughter of man.
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      1 h et 6 min
    • Ep. 104 – Still On Angels!

      Ep. 104 – Still On Angels!
      Oct 22 2025

      And, we’re still on angels. This may take a while. There’s a lot to say about them and we’re not sure where they end or how to get back on the hell highway or if we really ever got off.

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      1 h et 21 min
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