132B-Trojan War: Some Foolish Thing

Myths and Legends

Jason Weiser, Carissa Weiser

Fiction, History, Arts, Books

4.8 • 25.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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This is the episode. This is the episode where Helen of Sparta becomes Helen of Troy, and an event happens that launches 1000 ships toward the city in the east. This is where it all begins. The creature of the week has a dorky smile and a retainer and will absolutely eat you. -- Sponsors: Check out season two of Siren on Freeform, Thursday January 24th at 8pm. Squarespace is the best way to make a website. Try it for free at https://www.squarespace.com/mythsand, when you’re ready, use the code MYTHS at checkout to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. -- Music: "Twilight Grandeur" by Podington Bear "Thumbscrew" by Blue Dot Sessions "Palms Down" by Blue Dot Sessions "Dawns" by Ketsa "CGI Snake" by Chris Zabriskie "Aloscape I" by Blue Dot Sessions -- That ice cream thing: https://store.benjerry.com/ben-jerrys-pint-lock/(The site I found it on said it was $36, but it's actually way cheaper. My bad.)

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0:00.0	This week, on Myths and Legends, it's our wrap up to the prequel of the Trojan War.
0:04.0	We'll see how the world's first beauty pageant led to the deaths of tens of thousands,
0:08.1	and how you should definitely not help that small hurt animal, because that's apparently Zeus's
0:13.6	favorite way of meeting romantic partners. If you hear vomiting from the woods, it's just the
0:18.8	creature of the week, eating dinner. This is Myths and Legends, episode 132B, some foolish thing.
0:34.6	This is a podcast where I tell stories from mythology and folklore. Some are incredibly popular
0:39.4	stories you think you know, but with surprising origins. Others whose stories that might be new to
0:43.7	you are definitely worth listening. Previously on the podcast, a child was born in the city of Troy,
0:49.4	who was, according to a prophecy, going to bring about the destruction of the city of Troy.
0:53.9	The child was abandoned on the mountain side, but because that never worked, was picked up by the
0:58.7	Trojan King's herdsman Agles and raised as his own. That baby was named Paris.
1:15.4	Leed is screamed and pushed. It was time she felt the first baby arrive,
1:21.5	its first cry is filling the air. At last, a moment to relax, she thought, but she was wrong.
1:29.2	There were more. Much more. The first was a boy, little caster. The second was another boy,
1:36.4	Pollock's. The third, a little girl, Clayton Nestra. Triplets, lead a thought. That was
1:44.5	surprising, but whatever, it was finished. Then, she felt another sharp pain. More? Except,
1:53.6	this one was far, far worse than the others. It felt altogether different. The urge to push
2:00.4	came again, and the new mom grimaced and cried, and pushed some more until, finally, it was free.
2:06.9	This time, it really was finished. Leeda Breathe, realizing only then that she never heard the last
2:15.9	baby cry. She tried to sit up, but she couldn't. She was too weak. Why wasn't her baby crying?
2:22.5	The midwife sat stunned. It's because it wasn't a baby, she said, and held up the egg.
2:31.2	Sometime last year, she had helped the goose that had been chased by an eagle. She rescued it,
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