Oh, hi, hello there.

Happy Valentine's Day.

You just know there's going to be trouble when I start an episode like that.

This is Let's Talk About Myths, baby, and I am your host, she who really doesn't care

for Valentine's Day or any of that nonsense and thus is bringing you another fun episode

where I blow up all your dreams and schemes.

Live.

That was long-winded, but yeah, my name is live, but you probably know that by now.

With Valentine's Day falling on a Tuesday this year, I just knew I had to do a special

episode dedicated to this weird and capitalistic nonsense holiday.

Particularly because, well, there are some bizarre connections with Greek mythology,

or rather more explicitly Roman.

So today we're talking all things love.

That is, all things arrows and cupid.

Because I mean, God's know love and Greek mythology is both entirely and completely determined

by either him or Aphrodite, and it rarely, rarely goes well.

Or rather, it rarely goes well for both parties.

You know, in preparing for this or thinking what I could do for a Valentine's Day episode,

I first googled the most romantic Greek myths, just to see what the varied, you know,

listicles might have come up with that maybe could help me.

But um, wow.

I mean, should I have been surprised that all of the so-called romantic stories are either

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