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Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

Medusa, Feminism, & Wine, an End of Year Q&A

Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

Liv Albert

Comedy, History, Arts

4.65.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

It's time for an end of year Q&A! I answer all of your questions about gods, goddesses, history, tragedy, and wine!

 

CW/TW: far too many Greek myths involve assault. Given it's fiction, and typically involves gods and/or monsters, I'm not as deferential as I would be were I referencing the real thing.

 

Attributions and licensing information for music used in the podcast can be found here: mythsbaby.com/sources-attributions.

Learn more about Liv's next group trip to GREECE, this time following along with Ariadne's escape from Theseus. Pre-order Liv's new book, The Odyssey: a Modern Retelling. Get ad-free episodes and so, so much more, by subscribing to the Oracle Edition at patreon.com/mythsbaby.


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0:00.0

The assassination

0:05.0

of President John F. Kennedy is the greatest murder mystery in American history.

0:10.0

That's Rob Briner.

0:11.0

Rob called me, Soledette O'Brien, and asked me what I knew about this crime.

0:15.4

I know 60 years later, new leads are still emerging.

0:19.7

To me, an award-winning journalist, that's the making of an incredible story.

0:25.1

And on this podcast, you're going to hear it told by one of America's greatest storytellers.

0:31.0

We'll ask, who had the motive to assassinate a sitting president.

0:35.1

My dad, five JFK, screwed it, it's at the bay of pigs, and then he screwed us after the Cuban

0:40.6

missile crisis.

0:41.6

We'll reveal why Lee Harvey Oswald isn't who they said he was.

0:45.8

I was under the impression that Lee was being trained for a specific operation.

0:50.5

Then we'll pull the curtain back on the cover-up. The American people need to know the truth.

0:56.0

Listen to who killed JFK on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.

1:04.0

Hey there, I'm Maya Schunker and I'm a scientist who studies human behavior.

1:09.0

Many of us have experienced a moment in our lives that changes everything, a moment that

1:14.4

instantly divides our life into a before and an after. On my podcast a

1:19.6

slight change of plans I talk to people about how they've navigated exactly these moments.

1:25.0

Something died in me that day. It never came back. I'm so grateful that something new did

1:32.0

emerge. A new me emerged, a new me was born.

1:36.0

I also talked to experts on the science of change about how we can live happier, healthier lives.

1:42.0

These momentary experiences of awe,

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