Hearthbound
Stray Lungs
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About the Show
Odessa's just trying to get home to her wife, but along the Loneliest Road in America, she'll encounter strange hosts, stray souls, and echoes of the past she's running from... or running towards.
Hearthbound is an award-winning folk musical audio drama, set across a post-apocalyptic Great Basin. It's a road trip, a queer love story, and a ballad for ecological restoration. You coming our way?
Baltimore Next Media Web Festival - Best LGBTQ Audio Fiction, Best Score in a Podcast Winner | NYC Podcast Awards - Best Fiction Podcast Nominee | LA Webfest Awards - Best Script, Best Sound Design, Best Ensemble Cast Nominee
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Recent Episodes
S1 Album Announcement & Feed Drop: Travelling Light
You can now purchase Hearthbound's Original Soundtrack and The Road Trip version of the show at https://straylungs.bandcamp.com! You can also download for free high-quality audio files for all…
S1 Feed Drop: Absolutely No Adventures
Looking for another show after Hearthbound? In the spirit of finding rest and respite at the end of a long journey, we want to share the first episode of friend of the pod, Absolutely No Adventures,…
S1E10 Episode 10: Anagnorisis
Odessa gets caught in the rain... [Transcript]Content Warnings - mild swearing, mentions of violence. Enjoying the ride? Consider leaving us a rating or review! You get home safe now, you hear?
S1E9 Episode 9: Penelope
Penelope bargains... [Transcript]Content Warnings - mild swearing, mentions of violence. Enjoying the ride? Consider leaving us a rating or review! You get home safe now, you hear?
S1E8 Episode 8: Antigone
Odessa makes a choice... [Transcript]Content Warnings - mild swearing. Enjoying the ride? Consider leaving us a rating or review! You get home safe now, you hear?
S1E7 Episode 7: Cassandra
Odessa heeds a prophet... [Transcript]Content Warnings - excessive swearing, misophonia. Enjoying the ride? Consider leaving us a rating or review! You get home safe now, you hear?
S1E6 Episode 6: Aeaea
Odessa orders pork... [Transcript] Content Warnings - graphic injury, brief gun violence, mild swearing. Enjoying the ride? Consider leaving us a rating or review! You get home safe now, you hear?
S1 Feed Drop: The Strange Case of Starship Iris
We're taking a short mid-season break! In the meantime, we wanted to share the first episode of a friend of the pod, The Strange Case of Starship Iris, created by Jessica Best. Biologist Violet Liu…
S1E5 Episode 5: Charybdis
Odessa shelters from a storm... [Transcript] Content Warning - mentions of grief, mentions of death, mentions of abandonment, mild swearing. Enjoying the ride? Consider leaving us a rating or review!…
S1E4 Episode 4: Calypso
Odessa enters a labyrinth... [Transcript] Content Warnings - brief gun violence, excessive swearing, mentions of death, mentions of grief. Enjoying the ride? Consider leaving us a rating or review!…
S1E3 Episode 3: Stasimon
Odessa tags along... [Transcript] Enjoying the ride? Consider leaving us a rating or review! You get home safe now, you hear?
S1E2 Episode 2: Trinacria
Odessa meets a one-eyed shepherd... [Transcript] Content Warnings - mild swearing. Enjoying the ride? Consider leaving us a rating or review! You get home safe now, you hear?
S1E1 Episode 1: Telemachus
Odessa is not alone... [Transcript] Content Warnings - mild swearing. Enjoying the ride? Consider leaving us a rating or review! You get home safe now, you hear?
S1 Trailer: "I'm Nobody"
Come along with us at hearthboundpod.com. [Transcript]
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