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Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold

The Least Heroic Hero: A Bonus Conversation on the F***boi that is Theseus w/ Emily Edwards of FBOL

Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold

Liv Albert

History, Comedy, Arts

4.85.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2021

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Liv speaks with Emily Edwards of F***bois of Literature explicitly to break down the horrors of Theseus in the most casual, ranty way imaginable. Because Theseus was the absolute worst.

CW/TW: far too many Greek myths involve assault **ESPECIALLY THESEUS**. 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.

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0:30.0

Hello this is let's talk about myths baby and I am your host live here with yes you

0:40.9

read that right a bonus episode yeah I am here on a random Saturday with you guys just

0:48.3

because frankly I just desperately wanted to do this episode but I realized it was kind

0:55.6

of beyond the scope of what I normally do in conversation episodes and maybe a bit

1:00.4

excessive because you all know how much I talk about this all of the time so instead

1:07.0

we've made it a very fun and very ridiculous bonus episode because yes today I sat down

1:15.0

with Emily Edwards of the fuckboys of literature podcast you all probably know her I have been

1:20.5

on her show to talk about Jane air and the picture of Dorian Gray it's so much fun

1:26.3

so you can check out those episodes on the fuckboys of literature feed if you are interested

1:30.5

there's such a thrill but in general Emily's been on the show too to talk about Cersei

1:34.8

amongst other things it's just a good excuse to get to talk to her frankly and theses yes

1:41.4

theses yes because theses is just asking to be examined for the fuckboy that he is and

1:48.4

so when I came up with this idea to talk to Emily and she was into it honestly like

1:53.2

just got more and more excited and this was so much fun basically we just tear theses

1:58.9

apart bit by bit detail by detail in what was a very fun and ridiculous and hilarious

2:06.5

conversation about honestly the world's worst hero how he is called a hero is beyond

2:14.2

me I mean the dude was such an asshole and Emily and I get into it so I hope you enjoy

2:22.0

and make sure you check out the back episodes of fuckboys of literature available wherever

2:27.0

you get your podcasts new episodes are available for a dollar a month over on Emily's

2:32.4

patreon which I totally respect honestly it takes so much work to get into podcasts

2:37.7

and if you're not making any money off of it sometimes it can feel not worth it and

2:41.3

so Emily's made the very cool and brave decision to make it so that all of her podcasts

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