Hello and welcome back to Close Reeds here in the Close to Reads podcast Network. I'm David Kern,

and I am joined by my old friends. Heidi White, Tim McIntosh, Heidi, Tim. How's it going? Welcome

back to the show. Thanks, David. Good to be here. We are here to talk about the Odyssey. Books 11 and 12.

This is our last, well, it's not our last,

I was going to say it's our last section of two books. It's just our last section of two books

for the next couple weeks. We'll do a four book section for next week. So, you know,

get reading as soon as you're done listening to this episode, I guess. If you want to join the

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or you can email us at Close Reeds Podcasts at gmail.com. Like I said, we are here to discuss

the Odyssey, but we also, a little inside baseball here,

we also are going to be recording a bonus episode today after this for those of you who are

Patreon supporters. We're going to be doing our monthly short story recording immediately after

this. So make sure you're signed up for that. We're going to be talking about a story by

Willa Kather. We've also posted stories by Hemingway and Akita Christi in the last couple months.

So if you are a close reads Patreon supporter, you can go listen to those now.

And if you're not, then consider doing so.

It supports the show, helps us do more episodes, helps us pay Tim and Heidi and our editor Logan. Shout out to

Logan, by the way. Check that out. You can go over to patreon.com slash close reads to learn more

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