Today on the show, she is literally to the iconic world of Dune.

We'll be exploring the themes, philosophies, and characters found in the sandy depths of this vast universe, from Frank Herbert's groundbreaking novels to the adaptations on film and TV.

My name's Abu.

My name's Leo.

And Leo, we're focusing on the character portion of that intro today.

Indeed.

We're going to be talking all about Reverendend mother, guys, Helen, Moheim.

Quite literally, as you said in the intro, the very first character were introduced to in the

entire Dune saga.

It's true.

I'd forgotten this, but looking at that first sentence of the book Dune ever heard of it,

the old crone is mentioned before Jessica or Paul.

Yeah.

It is surprising how central she is.

Right.

And in the trailers for the upcoming film, we've already seen her iconic scene from the start of that book. So she's a pivotal

character in the story, but in sort of classic frank fashion, we see her a couple of times and we

learn nothing else about her. So that's what today's episode is all about. Absolutely.

A couple of housekeeping things that we got to take care of at the top of the

show. Right. As always. First and foremost today, a shout out to a listener because today's

episode idea, today's topic, was a suggestion from Noreen Thomas. Yeah. Noreen, thank you so

much for writing in and for such a great episode idea.

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