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The Potboiler Podcast

We need more fiction.We need more beguiling villains worthy of the conflicted hero’s pursuit.Their smokey rooms have to be soaked in familiar imagery, while swift subversions of any genre’s expectations make their entrances and turn over their tables.The roads they’re on have to twist and turn their mission so they lose sight of the incitement far behind them.We need Hollow Grim, noir sleuth manhunter rifleman, and Eric Verrity, misunderstood superhuman crime fighter, among a small series

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1:11:48

The Hero Business - Part 10

The Potboiler Podcast ·

2026/02/07

Part 10The business of Eric Verrity the Hero begins, according to the plan imposed by his new PR guy, with an appearance on a national talk show.The audience adores him, roaring their appreciation with every question from the talk show host.Eric feels the stage lights radiating down on him as his new reality loads more weight on him by the minute, and the cheers from the crowd increasingly feel more burdensome and heavy.He begins to see that this fame will make his contribution into something

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1:06:11

The Hero Business - Part 9

The Potboiler Podcast ·

2026/01/11

Welcome to The Potboiler.Potboiler is an old term for pulpy paperback genre writing that’s ready for the spotlight.Let’s do the intro.Three months have passed since Eric Verrity’s valiant rescue at the National Life Building and his life has changed dramatically.His relationship with Molly has flourished, as has his connection with his once estranged foster brother Todd.Following the expansive notoriety of Eric’s superhuman efforts, the world sees him in a different way, and that is proving to be a

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1:12:41

Hollow Grim & The Third Worthington Murder - Part 3

The Potboiler Podcast ·

2025/12/26

Hollow Grim is on the trail of Werner Worthington III, the closest thing he’s ever known to an arch enemy, and a notorious crimeboss that has reportedly already been killed twice since the deployment of his dead or alive arrest warrant.The twists and turns of the thickening hunt has taken Hollow to Worm’s own fortress, where a showdown waits for him and the growing band of hunters on the same trail.The turns in the road continues as they close in on the truth of the Worthington murders and the

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58:10

Hollow Grim & The Third Worthington Murder - Part 2

The Potboiler Podcast ·

2025/12/06

Welcome to The Potboiler, I’m Patrick Hughes and this is Hollow Grim and The Third Worthington Murder, part two.Potboiler is an old term for pulpy paperback genre writing that I think deserves some summer sun.Let’s do the intro.Hollow Grim is on the trail of Werner Worthington III, the closest thing he’s ever known to an arch enemy, and a notorious crimeboss that has reportedly already been killed twice since the deployment of his dead or alive arrest warrant.Hollow took the path east as Dent

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56:00

Hollow Grim & The Third Worthington Murder - Part 1

The Potboiler Podcast ·

2025/11/22

Welcome to The Potboiler, I’m Patrick Hughes and this is Hollow Grim and The Third Worthington Murder, Part One.Potboiler is an old term for pulpy paperback genre writing that I think deserves some sunlight.Let’s do the intro.Over the path of Hollow Grim’s life, following his legendary lawman father around their small Nevada town, in his early days as a military marksman for hire, and in the dying days of the nineteenth century, an antagonist with influence conducts the instruments that make life

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1:11:20

Hollow Grim & The Downfall - Part Three

The Potboiler Podcast ·

2025/10/18

Potboiler is an old term for pulpy paperback genre writing that I think deserves to shine.Let’s do the intro.Hollow Grim knows a confrontation with Sterling Stern is inevitable and necessary, to end the exploitation of his father’s legacy in law enforcement.As he prepares to leave for Chicago, the new telephone in the Progress Hotel begins to chime.The former Tribune reporter and chronicler of his father’s exploits has the same thoughts about inevitability and tells him over the line that he intends

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43:48

Hollow Grim & The Downfall - Part Two

The Potboiler Podcast ·

2025/10/10

Welcome to The Potboiler, I’m Patrick Hughes and this is Hollow Grim and The Downfall, part two.Potboiler is an old term for pulpy paperback genre writing that I think deserves some sunlight.Let’s do the intro.Hollow Grim is known across the western United States as a marksman man hunter for the US Marshal, a good killer hunting down the fugitives eluding the deputies and private agents.His celebrity is a burden for every day it’s a benefit.Any notoriety he’s found lives under the massive shadow of

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58:24

Hollow Grim & The Downfall - Part One

The Potboiler Podcast ·

2025/09/20

Let’s do the intro.Hollow Grim is known across the western United States as a marksman man hunter for the US Marshal, a good killer hunting down the fugitives eluding the deputies and private agents.His celebrity is a burden for every day it’s a benefit.Any notoriety he’s found lives under the massive shadow of his legendary father, Marshal Charlie Grim.His father’s name was built in ink, in the pages of the Chicago Tribune, reported by a writer named Sterling Stern.They were the hero and his

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38:54

The Hero Business - Part 8

The Potboiler Podcast ·

2025/09/06

Potboiler is an old term for pulpy paperback genre writing that’s ready to face the bad guy.Let’s do the intro.Todd needs Eric’s help.A disgruntled worker at an office building downtown has taken his coworkers hostage, and has a bomb set explode.Todd doesn’t have time to negotiate or space to rush the scene.He knows that Eric is his best and only chance.The encounter Eric enters will reset the trajectory of Eric’s public life.A door is going to be open for him that is awfully difficult to close

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1:12:43

The Hero Business - Part 7

The Potboiler Podcast ·

2025/08/03

Eric has spent a life not being injured and aware he was being hurt.He didn’t have the awareness to understand the pain he’d endured could have an affect on the people that care for him.As he shares more of his story with Molly he has to contend with the hurt she feels for him.As Todd discovers that the motel fire was likely arson, Eric is also forced to confront that his actions draw attention and attention brings consequences.The episodes of this story will be offered with no embedded commercial

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1:10:39

The Hero Business - Part 6

The Potboiler Podcast ·

2025/07/18

Eric’s heroic deeds have reintroduced his long estranged foster brother into his life, and while his relationship with Molly deepens, his life of solitude and habit is becoming an increasingly distant memory.At the same time his new doctor is seeking a deeper understanding of his strength and his weaknesses.After leaving a session with his doctor, Eric encounters a young woman on the bus that appears to need his help.He embarks on a rescue that ends tragically but commands popular media attention in

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1:00:06

The Hero Business - Part 5

The Potboiler Podcast ·

2025/06/30

Eric’s memories of his therapy as a teenager with Doctor Harmon and the parallel lines stringing to his current discussions with Doctor Maynard diverge as young Eric learns Doctor Harmon has terminal cancer and is getting his affairs in order.Arrangements have been made to see Eric securely into financial adulthood.Meanwhile, Dr. Maynard clinical interest in his patient grows into fascination as he continues to probe his heroics pursuits.On a regular night in his neighborhood, Eric stumbles across a

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52:14

The Hero Business - Part 4

The Potboiler Podcast ·

2025/06/16

As his court mandated therapy continues, Eric’s memory counters his new doctor’s interest in his pursuits with that of the child psychiatrist.Shortly after his foster brother Todd’s harrowing football injury, Dr. Harmon begins visits with Eric who has matched his brother in a descent into depression.Doctor Harmon quickly sees something special in Eric, encouraging him to accept the things that make him different to help him find a purpose.Reflecting the growing relationship with Dr Maynard, Eric is

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1:08:22

The Hero Business - Part 3

The Potboiler Podcast ·

2025/05/30

Following Eric’s brave intervention during an attempted robbery at her corner store, Molly insists on cooking Eric a home cooked meal.Watching her work in his kitchen, Eric recalls his the period of his childhood in the foster home of the Danvers, lead with images of the kind and maternal Mrs. Danvers, and his impressive foster brother Todd.His memories carry him through the formative period, and the rise and fall of his brotherly bond with Todd, who guided him, protected him and ultimately rejected

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47:31

The Hero Business - Part 2

The Potboiler Podcast ·

2025/05/17

Eric is an exceptional young man that has spent his life being told that the things that make him special are flaws and limitations.He just wants to help.Helping a stranger at a moment of vulnerability is a complex thing.It’s a intrusion, even if it’s the right thing to do.As Eric begins his court mandated therapy, his friendship with Molly,the proprietress of his neighborhood’s grocery store, takes on a new dimension when he intervenes during an attempted robbery.The episodes of this story will be

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59:38

The Hero Business - Part 1

The Potboiler Podcast ·

2025/05/06

Who is your hero?Who comes through the dark of your nightmare to defend you from your worst fear?When that image appears in your mind’s eye, what qualities define what you see?Is your hero the kind of idol we all have grown to know, impressive by every physical standard, instantly worthy of your trust and your favor?Is your hero a statue, a movie poster, a legend?What if the figure that emerged through the shadows and smoke with an outstretched hand was not impressive to you in any popular

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38:34

Hollow Grim & The Winter in January - Part 3

The Potboiler Podcast ·

2025/04/14

Hollow’s strategy has turned to desperation.Uncertain in the dropping temperature exactly how much of his life has left him, he knows his choice now to act or let the cold take him, but without knowing which of the judge’s enemies has taken this action his disadvantage is practically a death sentence.The three episodes of this story will be offered with no commercial interruptions.Visit patrickhughes.ca for links to me and to my other projects.Please stick around after the story for some light

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27:24

Hollow Grim & The Winter in January - Part 2

The Potboiler Podcast ·

2025/04/07

Every year ends with winter.It comes to an end like everything else, with lifeless unforgiving cold.As Hollow Grim monitors his wounds, as the temperature drops, and as the day grows increasingly dire, the search through his memory of Judge Jameson’s past for a suspect continues to occupy his mind.He needs to know the rifle that has him cornered on the frozen ridge so he can determine how to retaliate, escape or survive.Find more at my website: https://patrickhughes.ca/ Hosted on Acast. See

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40:26

Hollow Grim & The Winter in January - Part 1

The Potboiler Podcast ·

2025/03/29

On a desolate day in January, Hollow Grim is hunting deer on a familiar trail, where Doc Shillington’s land backs on to Judge Irving Jameson’s expansive family property.Hiking the migration path Hollow has hunted on since his father used to take him every Sunday, a rifle shot from across the valley suddenly makes him the hunted, taking shelter on the frigid cliffside.Unable to move without entering the rifleman’s crosshairs and uncertain of his position, Hollow has the threat of the quickly dropping

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59:12

Hollow Grim & Hunt Kill Thrive - Part 3

The Potboiler Podcast ·

2025/03/22

A compulsion to hunt, to untie a knotted riddle, and to answer an injustice he can’t tolerate has led Hollow Grim to an encounter with a suspected child killer, who was only moments from the end of his rifle’s deadly aim but has managed to turn the trap against him.Hollow is captive by the killer he’s been hunting, a man of his own compulsions.Instead of dispatching his problem, this killer has decided he wants to play a game.Hollow is given no choice but to play along.His captor knows how to

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