Hitchhikers and Appetizers

Hitchhikers & Appetizers is an improvised podcast based in, and expanding on, the world of Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The podcast is created by Mike Gorgone and Bran Peacock and is part of the Improv in Action Network.

S7E28 - Come Aboard We’re Expecting You with Charone Frankel

Trellis and Hortaio learn about the planet Stowpage and their main industry of Cruising. If there’s one thing Horatio loves about Cruises it’s planning his time around their buffets but he didn’t have plans for how to deal with the pirates.

10-15
32:11

S7E27 - Hot Fish Cheese and Berries Oh My with Patrick Price

Lazenbag Grabbag stops by booth 42 with his food cart and blowhole (not his) full of cheese. Hortaio, unsurprisingly, decides to go for a dip in it.

10-03
32:51

S7E26 - Why Are You Still Standing - with David Escobedo

Daddy Porksskins is from the planet Tenalp which is shaped like a chubby C because something (they don’t know what or really care) took a gigantic bite out of it. Also if you want to be something or someone’s “Daddy” this is the planet for you.

09-03
39:13

S7E25 - Hexadecapus - Give Or Take A Few Tentacles - with Paul Vaillancourt

High Prefect Groth comes to Booth 42 bringing with him word of the squishy glory of the seven tentacled one Octoculan. He also leans into the religion’s seventh tentacle of knowledge…always be marketing.

08-20
35:51

S7E24 - A Hot Dish with Myrtle Lundquist - with Amy Roeder

Trellis and Horatio welcome a guest from an obscure backwater planet. She’s Myrte Lundquist and she was abducted from some place called Minnesota back in the planet’s mid-1900s.

08-06
33:54

S7E23 - A Mind For Meat - with Carson Seabolt

Graig comes from Gorlax where he runs his family’s intergalactic business which prides itself on innovations in sentient and consenting meat products.

07-30
34:21

S7E22 - Swiper No Swiping or Go Full Boar! but watch out for the tusks - with Debra Schifrin

Tinderella is a dating app from the planet Swipey where everyone is a dating app. Trellis tries to pitch a reality dating show, starring himself of course and Horatio has a dream date with a giant mouth.

06-25
33:19

S7E21 - So It Is Woven, So It Shall Be - with Vickie Eisenstein

Bradley is from Trunkonia where the more trunks you have the higher your status. She comes to Booth 42 expecting a speed dating experience, but she got a lot more… or at least twenty-five more minutes with Trellis and Horatio than she was expecting.

06-18
32:52

S7E20 - Forever Hydrogeeeen - with guest Douglas Sarine

An amiable hydrogen particle named Hydrogeeeen floats around Booth 42 and we learn that he’s a bit of a celebrity.

06-11
35:18

S7E19 - Investigate This - with Guest Harold Young

Trellis and Horatio are honored to welcome the planet Stankonia’s worst private investigator Haronius Flexador to Booth 42.

06-04
30:22

S7E17 - A Thirst for Powder - with guest Nate Brosy

Gogi is from the very very very dry planet Kuring where anything can and is turned into jerky. And that’s why it’s the jerky capital of the galaxy

05-21
33:00

S7E16 -B Believe It Or Not - with guest Mary Hynes

Gron and their archival robot take refuge in Booth 42 when their home planet of B-Believe and its immense irreplaceable archives are destroyed by the evil Klakor Collective.

05-14
33:52

S7E15 - It's Rice to Meet You - with guest Mary Grace and Eric

Schlizz and Schlov are a father and son from the planet Souvenaire whose main industry is creating souvenirs to sell to the rest of the galaxy.

05-07
30:22

S7E14 - Lets go Borgor-ing - with guest Marshall Mulkey

Gor Borgor is from a planet that orbits three suns, so it gets pretty hot there. How hot? So hot that they export their suntan lotion-like sweat.

04-30
33:41

S7E13 - Run Walk or Frawl - with guest Rich Baker

Ambassador Frawl from the planet Chillaxon brings his culture’s philosophy of chill and relaxation to Booth 42. Trellis and Horatio do their best not to harsh his buzz.

04-23
35:17

S7E12 - EeeeKa The Godess of Small Irritations - with guest Ali Davis

Eeeeka, the goddess of small irritations, finds that the seeds of her work are growing much fruit in Booth 42. Trellis and Horatio have been accidentally worshipping her by naturally irritating other beings for years.

04-16
32:18

S7E11 - Three Guests In One - with guest Breeze Geier

Glorp, Pasco, and Jim are three alternating and distinct personalities sharing the same body and that’s perfectly natural on their home planet of Trisket.

04-09
32:12

S7E10 - Talkin Trash with Steve - with guest Mark Kendall

Steve is the lead sanitation engineer around, but when he travels the galaxy, he’s not just searching for trash, he’s seeking out treasure.

04-02
28:38

S7E9 - We will Mohave Another - with guest Jake Jake Friedman-Hurvitz

Mohave Cashew is from the moon Renato where the inhabitants subsist mainly on snails consumed using ensnailers. Also his funnel shaped mouth also functions as an arm.

03-26
31:45

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