Our epic adventure comes to its riveting conclusion.

Raphael Sabatini, today on the Classic Tales Podcast.

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Now for our personal moment. Well, the kids are going back to school for now.

And we have a tradition to watch the best movie of all time, American graffiti.

If you're familiar with the cycle of the hero, it's in mythology, religion, it's everywhere.

And Lucas was a big fan of it. He took Joseph Campbell, who wrote the hero with a thousand faces, to the set of Star Wars when he was making the first movie, to make sure he was getting everything right.

Well, Silla, who's basically a genius, will walk us through American graffiti and point out all of the areas where George Lucas is using the cycle of the hero in this film.

How John Milner is the Knight, the symbolism of Kurt trying to open his locker. How Wolfman Jack is the collective conscience, the prophet, who lives on a mountain. It's amazing.

Silla is convinced that it's the best movie ever made. And I'm bound to agree with her. It's so fun.

She tries not to talk every time, but she can't help herself. She has to point out all of the stuff. It's the best.

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