You. Yeah, you sitting there. I know what you're thinking of. I know what you're

really thinking of. You want that cheese snack. Yeah. The one you steal from your kids lunchbox,

perfectly round, cheesy and baked to perfection.

The one you hide on the top shelf so your short game can't reach.

The one you keep in your glove box for traffic jams, or just because.

You're thinking of mini-cheddars.

Oh, did it just make it worse by mentioning it?

Sorry, go on.

Give in, I would.

Mini-cheddarsars baked with real cheese.

Still thinking about it, baby, and I am your host.

Live here with another reading episode.

We are returning to Statius Thebide, this mythic, epic poem about, I don't know why I'm phrasing

like that, this epic poem about the House of Thebes, Thebes broadly, all of these moments which are depicted in piecemeal stories from earlier times and plays and so many things, but which only survive in this type of epic storytelling form from this.

This is from the Roman period, but featuring such clear Greek stories.

There's kind of a lot going on here, but we are just jumping right back in and returning.

Now, this episode is going to appear sometime.

I'm traveling a bit right now, and so I was trying to prepare a bunch of episodes in advance.

I'm trying to share with you all episodes from the other shows that are joining the Memory Collective Podcast Network because I'm so excited and it makes

it feel real because otherwise I've just been like working on trying to put this thing together

that I don't really know what I'm doing but I just feel like it has to exist and this makes

it real. But I'm also trying not to like not give you guys any episodes of like traditional

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