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🗓️ 9 May 2025
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This is it: Book 4 of the Aeneid. The storm of love that's been brewing now breaks into full force. Two human sisters start flirting with disaster while two divine frenemies enter into a catty pseudo-alliance. It's a nuclear-grade meltdown of relations between the sexes, all taking place under the soaring vault of destiny. Dido transforms before our eyes into a deranged Greek tragic heroine on the model of Phaedra or Medea, while Juno and Venus find their power dynamic flipped on its head from what it used to be in Homer. It's master craftsmanship and master politics on Virgil's part...and hot tea for us.
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0:00.0 | Get in, loser. We're going to Carthage. |
0:03.0 | I have basically two sides to my personality. |
0:14.0 | Inside of me there are two wolves. |
0:16.0 | I'm a simple man. |
0:17.0 | One half of me is forever quoting lines from the movie Roadhouse with Patrick Swayze, |
0:23.5 | and the other half of me is forever quoting lines from the movie Mean Girls. |
0:27.3 | And that's what that line was from. |
0:29.1 | Get in, Loser, We're Going, Shopping is a quote from the movie Mean Girls. |
0:31.7 | I have to explain that now, I understand, because apparently millennials aren't cool anymore. I'm devastated to learn this. I read it |
0:40.0 | in The Guardian, so I know it must be true. And if millennials were still cool and we were still the |
0:46.2 | young, hip, new kids on the block, nobody would need me to explain where the line get in loser |
0:50.4 | were going to X comes from because everybody my age, if you were raised at a certain |
0:55.6 | period of time, you saw this movie and you probably quoted as much as I do. It's just got a weird, |
1:02.2 | earwormy sort of quality. Tina Faye at the top of her game, it's got line after line that people |
1:09.1 | remember, she doesn't even go here. I just have a lot of feelings. I mean, these are like forever running around, living rent-free in people's head. The same is true, by the way, of Roadhouse, which is a slightly later movie, 1989, classic bad good movie, Kung Fu, Action, Patrick Swayze, and just a script that's better than it has any |
1:30.0 | right to be. It's got lines in it like, pain don't hurt, and be nice until it's time to not be |
1:36.4 | nice. There's so many good lines in that movie, and between the two of them, they basically |
1:40.8 | answer every possible situation there is. But for this situation, |
1:44.9 | for this episode of Young Heretics, Mean Girls just seemed appropriate because this is going to be |
1:50.4 | kind of a catty episode. We have reached one of the great show pieces, set pieces of Virgil's |
1:59.4 | epic, the Aeneid. If you've been following along, we closed |
2:02.4 | out book three last time, and now we are on to the famous, the beloved, the tragic, the |
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