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🗓️ 5 August 2024
⏱️ 128 minutes
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0:00.0 | Well in this show very funny comedian and musician Reggie Watts is in studio also |
0:06.3 | Joe's gonna be doing some news Brian Greenberg stops by Victor Rasick is here as well and we'll get into all that right after this. |
0:16.0 | Despite the modern myth, the ancient Olympics were far from being a pure expression of |
0:22.1 | untainted athleticism. But that doesn't mean they weren't |
0:26.4 | badass. So allow me to take you on a little tour through the ancient Olympics. But I'll warn you, ancient |
0:35.6 | Olympian tour guides were notorious for being liars and propagators of |
0:40.3 | historical myths. One Roman- sightseer named Lucian once quipped, |
0:47.0 | quote, |
0:48.0 | Abolish lies from Greece and all the tour guides would die of starvation, |
0:53.8 | since no visitor wants to hear the truth, even for free. |
0:58.0 | End quote. |
0:59.0 | If Lucian can be trusted, then even in ancient times the history of the Olympics was riddled |
1:06.2 | with mythology and fake history. |
1:09.3 | So I think the only way to get a sense of those games is to dive right in to the mythology. |
1:16.9 | Let's do it. |
1:18.0 | Check out the podcast Our Fake History and the Olympic myths episodes available now wherever you get your |
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