Hey, nerds, I'm just here with a quick bit of news. So if you've ever thought of splurging on a trip to a couple of Greek islands and Athens, and you want to do it with me in October of this year, check the link in this episode's description or go to mythsbaby.com slash group trip for more information. It's happening.

Highlights include following in Ariadne's footsteps as she

flees the dreaded Theseus. Myths, Baby, and I am your host of that show, but not this,

live.

That was a weird introduction.

I am here really quickly just to introduce the little bonus episode that you're getting

today, which is the first half of episode

two intentionally, because it's fun, of U.R. Odysseus, which is the new podcast from my good

friend Laura Jenkinson Brown, who is the better known as Greek Myth Comics and who has written the utterly incredible

you are Odysseus.

Okay, so this is a semi-interactive audiobook version of that.

The premise of the wider book is that, you guessed it, you are Odysseus. So it retells not just

the Odyssey, but the entirety of Odysseus's journey from the point of view of Odysseus, except

you are Odysseus and you get to make those choices. So this audiobook is one version of that that Laura is presenting

in this way and you can listen to every episode as they come out. Finally, link in this episode's

description or just search, you are Odysseus. And of course, this is another podcast that we are

doing with the Memory Collective and I'm just so excited to

be able to bring you guys these incredible voices. And, you know, if you are wondering whether or not

this will fit alongside my own reading of The Odyssey or, you know, spoil it in any way, I guess,

I just want to say that these are, because of how Laura has gone about it, which is

from the point of view of Odysseus and therefore on like the more literal timeline, because of that

you get a completely different experience because the Odyssey itself, you know, is told in like

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