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The Potboiler Podcast

The Potboiler Podcast

By: Patrick Hughes
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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 of revolving main characters.

Welcome to the Potboiler. Pulpy paperback genre fiction with some fresh paint.

Good, fun reading for your ears.

Find out more at on my website: https://patrickhughes.ca/

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Episodes
  • Hollow Grim & The Bitter End - Part 2
    Mar 29 2026



    In Hollow Grim’s youth, his father US Marshal Charlie Grim was known as the man that brought law and Justice to Nevada. He is known across the west as fair, fierce, and an unmatched skill for measuring the man that stands in his path.


    With his celebrity would always come a challenge. With challenge comes conflict, with victory comes vendetta and growing list of names riding for your door.


    On one particular night, Progress Township in rides an old opponent of Charlie’s, after an old score he seeks to settle. He intends to write this kind of night a new kind of story.


    Charlie Grim stands on his road as he always does.


    To the bitter end. May it remind us the story was sweeter.



    The 3 episodes of this story will be offered with no commercial interruptions. Visit https://patrickhughes.ca for links to me and to my other projects. Please stick around after the story for some light business.


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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • Hollow Grim & The Bitter End - Part 1
    Mar 15 2026


    Hollow Grim & The Bitter End - Part 1


    Let’s do the intro.


    In Hollow Grim’s youth, his father US Marshal Charlie Grim was known as the man that brought law and Justice to Nevada. He is known across the west as fair, fierce, and an unmatched skill for measuring the man that stands in his path.


    With his celebrity would always come a challenge. With challenge comes conflict, with victory comes vendetta and growing list of names riding for your door.


    On one particular night, Progress Township in rides an old opponent of Charlie’s, after an old score he seeks to settle. He intends to write this kind of night a new kind of story.


    Charlie Grim stands on his road as he always does.


    To the bitter end. May it remind us the story was sweeter.


    The 3 episodes of this story will be offered with no commercial interruptions. Visit https://patrickhughes.ca/ for links to me and to my other projects. Please stick around after the story for some light business.


    Enjoy


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    53 mins
  • The Hero Business - Part 10
    Feb 7 2026

    Part 10


    The 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 different. The people around him seem to want that very thing.


    The episodes of this story will be offered with no embedded commercial interruption. Visit https://patrickhughes.ca/ for links to me and to my other projects. Please stick around after the story for some light business.


    The Hero Business features excerpts from my novel The Valiant Unheroic - available for order on my website.


    Eric Verrity Rocks




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    1 hr and 12 mins
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