Today we explore the long and fraught journey of Terrence from the year 19,000 BG through guide 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. I'm Abu. And I'm Leo. And Leo, here we are on our golden path. Oh my God. So

exciting. I'm so stoked. This is the first official episode of Gomja Bar. Yes, it is. And I can't wait to

get into it. Our path begins into an

unknown future because, you know, neither of us have spice visions. No, not yet at least. I'm hoping

this podcast will unlock something deeper inside me, but... We're early in the week. There's time.

Planned to you. Maybe by, we'll have spice visions.

Definitely.

So let's talk about what we're going to cover today because we wanted our first episode to cast as wide a net as possible.

We also wanted to be sure that our first episode was totally spoiler-free.

So what we're going to talk about today is the timeline of the Dune universe, but we're going to stop before the first Dune book starts.

Right.

So we're going to talk about basically the history, all the tens of thousands of years of human history that takes place before the events of the first book.

So this is actually a great introduction if you haven't read

the books yet or you're about to dive into the books. Our hope is that this episode and the

following episode, we're actually have to break it up into two parts because lo and behold,

you can't cover 30,000 years and, you know, under an hour. Shocker. These next two episodes,

we're hoping will help you have greater context and a greater

understanding of the world you're about to jump into as you start reading the Dune novels.

And we want to make it clear. If you have like a deep familiarity with Dune, this will be a

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