BONUS: Researching Sparta Was A Trip, Behind the Scenes w/ Michaela Smith
Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold
Liv Albert
4.8 • 5.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2023
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
In this bonus episode, Liv speaks with Michaela Smith who handled the research for the special Sparta series. They talk about researching for the show, and the ancient world in general. Help keep LTAMB going by subscribing to Liv's Patreon for bonus content!
CW/TW: far too many Greek myths involve assault. Given it's fiction, and typically involves gods and/or monsters, I'm not as deferential as I would be were I referencing the real thing.
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| 0:00.0 | It's 1967, the Cold War, and Joseph Stalin's daughter, Stetlana, the princess of the |
| 0:15.0 | Kremlin, has just fled Mother Russia. |
| 0:18.4 | Her new home? |
| 0:19.9 | A place where the roads are paved with gold, and people bake apple pies out of baseball's |
| 0:25.8 | and freedom. |
| 0:27.3 | A place called America. |
| 0:35.2 | That story alone would be worthy of a podcast, but this one, Stetlana, is about what comes |
| 0:42.0 | next, and it's the craziest story I've ever heard. |
| 0:46.4 | It has KGB agents, mystics, and a Frank Lloyd Wright Commune, destiny, immortality, and |
| 0:53.0 | breakable cycles, weird sex stuff, weird money stuff, weird dances, three Olga's, two |
| 0:59.1 | Stetlana's, and one neurotic gay playwright who won't shut up about it all. |
| 1:03.6 | Guess which one I am? |
| 1:05.1 | Listen to Stetlana's Stetlana on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get |
| 1:10.6 | your podcasts. |
| 1:14.0 | This is what it sounds like inside the box-top. |
| 1:17.0 | I'm journalist and I'm Morton in my podcast, City of the Rails. |
| 1:20.5 | I plunge into the dark world of America's railroads, searching for my daughter Ruby, who ran |
| 1:25.2 | off to hop train. |
| 1:26.6 | I'm just stuck on this train, not where I'm going to end up, and I jump. |
| 1:33.1 | Following my daughter, I found a secret city of unforgettable characters, living outside |
| 1:37.3 | society, off the grid, and on the edge. |
| 1:41.2 | I was in love with a lifestyle and the freedom, this community. |
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