The Bystanders: A Dark Comedy Podcast

Tantalus is one of the rare few that was sent to live forever in Tartarus, the darkest depths of the underworld for the worst and most awful among us. In Tartarus, Tantalus is forced to spend every moment seeking food and water that he'll never have. He stands in a pool of water beneath a fruit tree with low hanging branches. But whenever he raises an arm to grab a piece of fruit from the tree, the branches pull just out of his grasp. Whenever he bends down to get a drink, the water recedes just so far as to make it so that he will never get a sip. And that, my friends, is the origin of the English word