Episodes

Saturday Mar 21, 2020
Saturday Mar 21, 2020
Greetings Cromrades! We're going to be releasing our stores of content in the next week to provide some podcast entertainment for you while you may be in quarantine. Up first, we have Dorothy M. Johnson's story, "A Man Called Horse". It's a quick read, you can find it here, but it has a lot to say and has a great arc for the main character Horse.
Dorothy M. Johnson is fascinating in her

Wednesday Mar 18, 2020
Wednesday Mar 18, 2020
Greetings, brave wanderers! Herein we continue our third season of Bourbon & Barbarians! Our adventurers enter the castle and hear some creepy organ music. Our episode is freely available on archive.org and is licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0. "Gnarled Situation" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Likewise Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://

Tuesday Mar 03, 2020
Tuesday Mar 03, 2020
Welcome back, Cromrades! Good to see you out here on the dusty Western Road. We just made camp and were about to drink some whiskey beside this here campfire and listen to our pal Rusty Burke tell some stories. Why don't ya join us? This week's tale is a Robert E. Howard weird western about an old cowboy who hasn't aged in going on a hundred years! Come listen in to learn the secret of

Tuesday Feb 18, 2020
Tuesday Feb 18, 2020
Greetings, brave wanderers! Herein we continue our third season of Bourbon & Barbarians! Our adventurers 'get on the bus,' so to speak and are en route to the Keep on the Borderlands (i.e., Castle Ravenloft)!
Our episode is freely available on archive.org and is licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0. "Gnarled Situation" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Likewise

Tuesday Feb 11, 2020
Tuesday Feb 11, 2020
Howdy, Cromrades! This week, we're heading down the dusty trail on the Stage to Lordsburg! This influential story by Ernest Haycox was first published by The Saturday Evening Post in 1937, and the 1939 adaptation was a cornerstone in the development of the western film genre! We were excited to talk about the archetypes found within this story.
Ernest Haycox
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Tuesday Feb 04, 2020
Tuesday Feb 04, 2020
Greetings, brave wanderers! Herein we continue our third season of Bourbon & Barbarians! Our adventurers visit Marweena's cottage, and subsequently visit the Kalish encampment.
Our episode is freely available on archive.org and is licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0. "Gnarled Situation" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Likewise Licensed under Creative Commons: By

Wednesday Jan 29, 2020
Wednesday Jan 29, 2020
Hey cromrades! Today we have a surprise addition to our western season. Instead of covering a story, we got to talk with Robert E. Howard super-fan, "Indy" Bill Cavalier! Think of this as an open invitation to come to Cross Plains, TX this summer so you can take part in Howard Days 2020. This year everyone will be celebrating 50 years of Conan in the Comics and we get to do so with "Rascally"

Tuesday Jan 21, 2020
Tuesday Jan 21, 2020
Howdy, friends! We're lighting out down The Western Road this season, taking a look at Robert E. Howard's Western stories, along with tales from other influential western authors! We kick things off in wild fashion this week with "Law-Shooters of Cowtown" by Howard! You can find this story in "The End of the Trail" collection from Bison Books.
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Tuesday Dec 17, 2019
Tuesday Dec 17, 2019
Greetings, brave wanderers! We continue our third season of Bourbon & Barbarians! Herein our adventurers visit the Burgomaster, and prepare themselves to enter the proper, actual, for-real-this-time classic AD&D module, I6: Ravenloft!
Our episode is freely available on archive.org and is licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0. "Gnarled Situation" by Kevin MacLeod (

Tuesday Dec 03, 2019
Tuesday Dec 03, 2019
Hile, travelers! We return to our third season of Bourbon & Barbarians! Herein our adventurers have aged a couple years, learned a couple things, and now piece together the breadcrumbs that lead to STRAHD!
Our episode is freely available on archive.org and is licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0. "Gnarled Situation" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Likewise Licensed