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🗓️ 14 June 2017
⏱️ 46 minutes
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0:00.0 | Just brief disclaimer, there's more graphic than usual violence this week. |
0:03.2 | I listed all the details on MythPodcast.com. |
0:06.0 | This week, on the Myths and Legends podcast, we're finishing the story of Symbad the Sailor. |
0:10.4 | We'll learn all about throwing pebbles at apes for fun and profit in opportune power naps, |
0:14.9 | and how you shouldn't offend someone who's giving you a ride, |
0:17.7 | especially if you're literally riding on their back, hundreds of feet up in the air. |
0:22.0 | The creature this time is one from Polynesian mythology, |
0:24.7 | who surfs down rainbows in his fish slippers. |
0:33.7 | This is the Myths and Legends podcast. |
0:35.8 | Episode 71-C, they're in back and they're in back again. |
0:43.7 | This is a podcast where I tell stories from mythology and folklore. |
0:46.7 | Some are incredibly popular stories you think you know, but with surprise and origins. |
0:51.1 | Others are stories you might not have heard, but really should. |
0:54.0 | Previously on the podcast, Symbad the Sailor won on seven adventures, |
0:57.6 | and then retired to a life of pain strangers to listen to his stories of seven adventures. |
1:02.4 | We're on adventure four out of seven, where Symbad actually got married. |
1:06.0 | His marital bliss was short lived, however, when his wife became terminally ill, |
1:10.8 | and he learned that the local culture required widows and widowers to be lowered into tombs |
1:15.2 | with their late spouses to die, so the couple could be together forever. |
1:19.6 | And that's where we'll pick up with Symbad, being lowered into the tomb. |
1:27.4 | Ow, ow, ow. |
1:30.1 | Ah, Symbad thought to himself, sure, they were lowering him into a pit to starve to death, |
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