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🗓️ 10 November 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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0:00.0 | The stories you already know, |
0:04.0 | Greek myths. This week's story features some stories you already know, |
0:07.0 | Beach Wrestling, Cloud Women, |
0:09.4 | another water entity that changes shape, |
0:11.8 | and lots of confusion. |
0:13.4 | Grecing out the greatest stories in history were told in Greek mythology. |
0:20.4 | G. Geeking out gods Gods and Heroes, Amazing Feats, |
0:24.0 | Listen and you'll see it. |
0:26.0 | Quicking out! |
0:31.0 | And this is a very special episode because we originally performed this script |
0:36.9 | live in the land of big battles, crazy communities, and marvelous monsters. |
0:42.0 | That's right, we did this episode live at a comic book convention. |
0:47.0 | Yes, and we're going to bring it back for you today. |
0:49.0 | We have a mixed-up multiverse tale for you that we are calling the multiverse of Hellens. |
0:56.0 | The thing you have to remember about ancient Greece and Greek mythology is how much these people love stories. Everything is a story. There are stories within |
1:06.2 | stories and stories about stories. In fact, one of the most famous stories of all time is |
1:11.1 | Homer's Odyssey, which is what I'm going to talk to you about today. |
1:15.4 | That's right. |
1:16.4 | I am here telling you a story about that storyteller who wrote down the story that was |
1:19.6 | told to him in which a famous hero tells a story about his really long ride home from Troy. |
1:24.0 | Oh, and a couple of times during that story within a story, we meet characters who, wait for it, tell us stories. |
1:32.0 | It's like the plot of a Spider-Man movie or something. |
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