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Greek Mythology/Percy Jackson - A Deadbeat Echo vs Delphic Whoracles · Fandomonium! A Fandom Comedy Game Show

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  Hello, and welcome to Gatesleepers, the pop culture game show that shines a
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  spotlight onto everyone's favorite fandoms. I'm your games master and titan god of evil,
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  time and Harvest. Okay, Matt Watson, But a games master needs
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  games, and games need players. So leap Frogs please welcome our first team.
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  He's a podcaster, small business owner, and you can follow his food
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  truck at Studio Munchie on Instagram. It's Jason Nowen. Oh. Hello,
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  and he's a podcaster and author whose debut novel Thane is available where good books
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  are sold. It's Aaron Randolph. Yes, indeed, I shall never find
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  my weak spot nor take me down, not once, not ever. Hello.
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  I love how chip are you? Especially you Aaron? Huh yeah,
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  No, I'm happy to be here. Just don't gain anything at my heel,
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  no reason. Nice good, first first reference, first related joke.
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  I love it. Thank you so much for being here, both of you.
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  We's notar with you, Aaron. How are you doing? Oh?
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  I'm doing great. I got a Kickstarter for Fame the audiobook on the way.
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  Yes, hopefully, well hopefully be launching in a couple of weeks.
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  I've got a cast of voice actors lined up the Kickstarter page looks great.
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  I made a Kickstarter video. It's it's just about ready to go. I
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  just managed to lose my distribution partner, like until week before I was set
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  to launch in the first place, so now I'm scrambling around to find another
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  one. But once that's all set, then the Kickstarter is go, go
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  go, So that's exciting. Yeah. Yeah, my PC broke. We
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  wound up delaying this recording and then I fixed it myself, so I'm feeling
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  good about that. Beautiful. So what I'm hearing is you are adaptable and
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  competent. Yes, yes, not anything like a Greek god. Not anything
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  like like that that massive characters. No, No, Greek mythology is like
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  Jerry Springer if theology were a thing. Yes, so yeah, it's Jerry
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  Springer of mythology is what it's the o G soap opera. Oh yeah,
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  oh yeah, oh yeah, it's the og everything. It's influenced everything.
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  But we'll get to that. It's great to have you here, Aaron Jason,
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  how are you doing. I'm doing good. Don't ask me about my
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  mom. Uh wasn't gonnaup. We're all feeling very very ancient Greek. I
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  like this office all right, how's your Dad God? Which is also appropriate
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  for this year. Yeah, you know, you know ye. So we're
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  kind of come in at this episode through the through the lens of Percy Jackson,
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  but we're making it broadly about Greek mythology. So are you a fan
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  of either of those? Jason? Yeah, yeah, absolutely, We're gonna
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  get into it with my mus for sure, but really enjoyed the New Disney
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  show. Have not experienced this series prior to that, so I didn't come
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  into it with any griefs or anything like that, but watched it with my
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  twelve year old brother, who I think the target demographic is for, and
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  so watching it through his eyes and watching him be obsessed with it and him
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  just like hyper fixating on it for a bit was a lot more entertaining that
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  I think some of these internet commenters had. So I had a fun time.
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  I like it. Oh yeah, that's exactly That's that's who the show
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  was made for. So yeah, it's good to know they're enjoying the target
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  audience. Yeah, demographic is receiving that product effectively. Yeah, it feels
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  kind of like young supernatural, like babies for supernatural, did you guys?
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  Yeah, yeah, I take that. Yeah, all right. And your
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  teammate, Aaron, how about yourself? You fin of a pussy jackson or
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  Greek mythology or neitha listen, I don't know anything about this Jersey packson guy.
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  I was a big into Greek mythology. I took Latin class, and
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  so I took Latin class for like four years in high school. So and
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  then that comes along with a lot of the Greek mythology stuff and touched a
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  little bit on it as a theater major in college. But like recently I
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  read the book Circe, and if you ever read it is a It is
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  a fictionalized history of Circe from Greek mythology, and it is approximately three quarters
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  of just depressing like awful Greek gods, humans and other people taking advantage of
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  her and then turning on her. And it is really really hard to read
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  for about three quarters of the book. The last quarter is better, is
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  nicer, what you know, by that point, my spirit was destroyed,
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  so you know, it's I have come to appreciate the nuances of the what's
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  the word fuckery of Greek mythology. So yeah, there is a lot or
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  in Latin, is it fuck us or something like that. I don't know.
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  I'm not familiars. Yeah, fuckers, fucking fucking I think you just
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  dropped the c bomb that it didn't mean to No, that that's good.
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  Actually that you know Latin, because the rest of this quiz will be in
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  Latin. So good luck to everyone else. So that for there to be
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  another else, there needs to be opponents, and Greek myths are always about
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  feuding factions, So let's introduce another mythical pair. He is a podcaster and
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  author of comic book series Space Oddities, of which you can buy issues one
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  and two right now. It's Ben Robinson. God damn first billing. Oh
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  yeah, and she's a podcaster and that kid at school who was really into
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  ancient Greece. It's Oudra Stepenson. It is I. I know how to
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  tie a proper toga, and it is not in the way that you are
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  doing now. Fantastic, Welcome Audra, Ben, Thank you both of you
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  for being here. How are you both doing? Ben? We'll start with
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  you, How are you doing? I'm doing great. I just got back
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  from like a three week vacation in the Philippines. And it was you got
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  to meet a bunch of family I didn't know existed, and I had a
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  great time. I thought of the podcast while I was there because like the
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  way they treat like the way fandom is there, like it's very much on
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  your sleeve, like almost literally, so like as you go around, they've
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  got all these like trikes, but it's like a motorcycle with a sidecar and
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  stuff like that. Like they're all decked out in like whatever their own fandom
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  is. Like you'll see like Batman and Mickey Mouse and Transformers logos, like
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  same thing with like the Jeepneys. They got these old jeps that are like
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  converted into public transport and they've just got whatever the person is into painted all
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  over the side of them. Yeah, and it's freaking rat That is cool,
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  Like there's no shame in it at all. Like I was walking down
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  the street in log and like I look over because I was looking for a
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  comic book for John. He wanted a Filipino comic book, and I see
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  full size, like full scale sized statues of Superman, Batman, Spider Man,
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  and then inside they had busts of like spider Man twenty ninety nine,
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  like and I was like, oh shit, is it a comic shop and
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  it looking aside the window. Nope, it's a chicken wing restaurant. Yah.
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  They just like, you know, the guy has some extra business money
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  and decides he wants a six foot tall Batman statue. This hits home considering
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  my current business model. This is the right. On the way down to
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  Megfest, we stopped at the geekiest pizzeria I've ever seen. Had video game,
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  comic book, movie memorabilia plastering the walls. It was everywhere. It's
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  lovely, fantastic. People have got to eat. Like it goes hand in
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  hand. Ben, you dropped some of the pictures in the in the chat
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  and the name of the store is Wings and More, and I like that
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  and more is really vague, but what they mean is life size. Right,
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  there is definitely one big statues that's fantastic, Like I love Wait what
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  what fandoms? That what Fandom's the central men? So okay, So that
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  one I just dropped because it was ridiculous. So that is the mayor.
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  That is the mayor of one of the cities we went to of like one
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  of the sections of Manila. I think it was okay, okay, it
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  was up near the log. It was somewhere near log anyway. It was
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  a mayor of one of the towns, and there's a zoo that he funds
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  and one of the rooms you go into has about eighty animals that he's killed
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  and stuffed in it and all over him, and then he's just got this
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  giant painting of him as a fucking centaur. That's really impressive that he managed
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  to kill and skin all those animals with just two yeah, four legs centaurs.
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  This centaurs though incredible archers, so yeah, and actually better at hunting
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  than humans, the kings of the hunt. So honestly, it's less impressive
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  that he got all those animals. Yeah, it's like you've done that avantage
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  from the get go. A second, the kind of guy with the ego,
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  with that ego is just it was it was impressive to be in the
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  shadow of this is like, this is light stuff right here. We did
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  get to take a picture with a tiger at that zoo, though, like
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  they just had it drugged out, sitting on a piece of concrete, like
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  we went on like they're like, okay, stand behind it, and then
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  the guy's just like shoving it to get it to like move into the right
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  position. And it's like, I hope he gives his pills one day.
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  It just pretends to be sleepy. It's great to hear that that was such
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  a fantastic trip, Ben, and that you thought about the podcast on the
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  way out there. That's that's awesome. Other than liberating tigers everywhere, how
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  are you doing, I'm having a great time. I loved Greek mythology growing
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  up, still do to this day. I'm so happy there's an excuse for
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  us to do it, yeah, as a thing, because without I feel
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  like, without the release of the show on Disney, this may not have
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  been an episode where I got to, oh, we to go round to
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  it eventually. Season I was going to say season twenty four, we would
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  have eventually gotten there. But I'm just grateful that the gods have presented an
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  opportunity. Hell, yes, I am the god. Yes, yeah,
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  wow in this situation. Yeah, just technically yes, yeah, I'm glad
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  you admitted it. I can't even argue no, it's just yet, it
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  felt like the right thing. We're officially giving him a complex, that's what
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  we're doing. It's weird to be the god of podcasts, though, because
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  your constituents are controversial to say the least. I don't know. It's true.
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  My kingdom is not looking very strong right now. Yeah, your temple
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  is an enclosed room with led lights and a guy in the corner named Jamie
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  looking up things on the laptop. Yeah, not not a good companions.
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  It's it's it's good to know you're doing well, and it's good to know
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  you're also readly into Greek mythology. So Ben, I'll ask you the same
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  question, are you into Percy Jackson, Greek mythology or none of the above.
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  I mean Greek with like I've got a passing knowledge that point. Yeah,
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  So so anything Andre says later is probably the extent of what I got
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  of Greek mythology. Like it's it's been around and it is interesting, and
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  I've seen like Hercules, both Kevin Sorbo and Disney nice so like I yeah,
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  so I've got I've got like a rough knowledge of stuff there as far
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  as Percy Jackson goes, it's Greek to me, like my son watched it,
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  and that's about it. I've not read or consumed hardly anything other than
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  seeing bits of the movie here and there. So okay, okay, well
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  that's I think the teams are pretty pretty well balanced. Given Audrey and Aaron's
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  like more deep knowledge, I think we're in for a clash of the Titans
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  than you. Is this yeah that you have. I've got to compliment that,
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  because you compliment in mind. Yeah right, I'm leaving no one would
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  blame you. Okay, teams, You've just been diagnosed with ADHD because you're
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  the son of Poseidon. It stands for absent daddy hydro disorder. And this
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  is of course life changing news. So to keep us grounded, I'd like
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  each pair to come up with a Greek mythology themed team name. Please.
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  We'll begin with Jason and Aaron. I wrote some down. I came prepared.
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  These are not half bad, maybe, Okay, I've got the half
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  bloods, which seems like a charged term if I'm gonna be honest with you.
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  Yeah, it's what else? You got? Lightning thieves? Basic?
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  Uh? I got the dead beat dads, because boy is there a lot
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  of them. Also, just putting all the kids in one camp with all
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  there with a big sigil saying this is what unifies you, lack of father
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  very strange. Just wanted to put that out there. I've got a moose.
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  Zeus really has nothing to do with zeus generally quite good. Yeah,
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  all right, Aaron, what do you think of those team names? Have
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  you got any of your own? Or do any of those two? I
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  was struggling to come up with something involving echo. Echo was a mountain nymph
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  who just loved to talk, but Harry cursed until all she could do was
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  repeat other people's words. She became the Echo, but I couldn't. I
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  don't know Percy Jackson well enough to tie that in with anything else, but
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  Echo. Also, it feels very appropriate for a mythology where there are lots
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  of deadbeat dads, because a sun or a daughter left behind is a natural
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  echo of their missing current. Yeah, that's an actually quite poetic and sad
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  way to look at it. Yeah, how about a dead beat echo,
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  a dead beat echo? Beat echoes this. Yeah, I'm the dead beat
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  echoes. Wow, Okay, I'm gonna put a dead beat echo because that's
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  just intriguing to me. Mm hmm, that'd be echo. I love it.
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  All right, let's find out who they'll be facing, Ben Ultra,
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  I've got a few. I don't know if any of them are any good.
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  I'm hoping, like you're a Greek mythology lord, you got something deep.
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  But uh so the first one was the obvious one, just like the
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  demi gods, because that's all I know about Percy Jackson is their demi gods,
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  right, because they're all like kids of gods. Then I had the
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  Sisyphian savants because with my yeah, with my lack of knowledge, you're going
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  to be pushing this boulder up the hill. Adra why and uh and then
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  uh on the in the in Dick joke, territory of Zeus is pounding posts
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  because that guy's just you feel fucking Along a similar line, I do have
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  the Delphic horricles. Also have Delphic scoricles because we will be scored. It
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  depends whether you're feeling competitive or sexy. Yeah, typically both. I mean,
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  come on, what don't don't put us in a corner. You can
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  be two things. Yeah, there's also Jason used Lightning Thief. But one
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  of the other book titles is The Last Olympian, So the Last Olympians the
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  reference. Yes. Also I looked up which god would be the god of
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  games. Mm hm, and it would probably be Hermes. Yeah, so
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  Hermi's heroes. Oh that's nice. Alliteration is always good. All right,
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  Well, what you're picking out of all those offerings? I mean, I
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  like the Horracles. Greek is very sexy. Yeah, yeah, Greek.
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  So I'm down for that one. Okay. So it's the Delphic Horracles.
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  Horracles and we could just shout horricle Yes, yeah, shout horror if you
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  want. I don't know, probably not on me say that, I'm probably
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  gonna do it. I suggest we shout echo because shouting deadbeat might be a
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  little triggering. Yeah no. And you were like, oh, man,
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  children are just the echoes of their dead, their their absent fathers. I
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  was like, what the fuck, that's crazy. I don't like looking like
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  my dad, so I have to think about that ship. Sorry, sorry,
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  sorry, So it's a deadbeat echo, a kid without a dad that
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  abandons his own kids like a second generation. Wow, should just keep going
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  on and on and on. Now now they're shade on our team name,
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  dammit. And you shout into the mountains and you hear that that final response,
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  that fifth or sixth rattle, that's that's an abandoned child. I'm okay,
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  we have a deadbeat echo versus the Delphic Horracles. Two fantastic names,
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  all right. And if you're listening to this and thinking, I'm ludo for
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  a laugh, but it's all Greek to me. Has already said that Jack
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  don't worry his order with a little segment we like to call passing knowledge.
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  Percy Jackson in the Olympians is a series of children's books written by Rick Ryordon
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  and originally published from two thousand and five to two thousand and nine. The
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  story follows Percy Jackson, a demigod and son of Poseidon, as he navigates
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  a world where Greek mythology intertwines with the modern day, alongside his friends from
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  Camp Hathblood, Annabeth Chase, and Grover the Satyr. Percy Jackson follows in
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  the ancient heroes footsteps, embarking on quests to prevent catastrophic events and battling ancient
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  monsters, although I guess the original heroes would probably just have called them monsters.
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  But neither here nor there. The book series had two film adaptations in
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  twenty ten and twenty thirteen, and most recently a television adaptation on Disney Plus
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  in twenty twenty. Three. Ancillary reference books, comic book versions, and
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  two spin off book series have been released up until now in twenty twenty four.
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  WHOA. The series blends humor with clever reimaginings of ancient myth. I'd
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  even go as far to say that Rick Ryordon is my Roman Empire and that
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  he took Greek myths, gave them slightly different names, remixed their stories,
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  put his name on him to great success. Nice. Also, like the
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  Roman adaptations, Rordan's modern twist on classic myths breeds new life into age old
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  stories, making them accessible and entertaining for a new generation. That being said,
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  the Oracle predicts for the next generation a new release of Percy Jackson now
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  with thirty percent RIHZ and twenty percent less CAP. Thanks Soldre. Did you
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  even have to do any research for that one? Or was that all top
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  of the dome for the dates? For the dates? Wow, that's about
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  it. Have you read all the books? I have read the original series
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  and one of the ancillary that's still pretty impressive series. The other ones were
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  coming out as as I mentioned, and going back and reading some of them,
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  they are for that younger demographic in the sense of like twelve, So
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  rereading them is not the same as like rereading the Hunger Game, right,
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  Like the intended age demographic is a little bit a little bit different. So
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  I didn't continue into the twenty twenty four books. The show was so much
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  fun though, But yeah, you twelve year olds are enjoying it, That's
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  that's what matters. And next time there'll be more cap and no less caps
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  cap more riz. Yeah I did. That was the other thing that I
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  had to google. Do kids still say those things? Probably not of this
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  part? Yeah, yeah, I was gonna say, am I just old?
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  Like, I not understand that at all? That's the thing we're saying
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  them. It means that then the longest say I'm done. Okay, I'm
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  saying that's fair. That's fair. Oh with thirty okay, thirty boy,
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  do I miss those days? A quarter of my life ago? Okay,
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  before I offend any more players, let's get to the muses, which actually
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  makes sense as a format point this time, it's all it's the muses.
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  Aw, yeah, all right, So is that the first time it's made
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  sense? I feel like somewhat right, have we ever? If we've never
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  done like a two thousands banned kind of game show. Makes sense. There,
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  we got, there, we go. We were all supposed to pick
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  seven of them, right, yep, everyone brings springs in seven and six
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  hours long. Careful you're opening You're opening a Pandora's box here, buddy.
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  Okay, okay. So I've asked our players to bring in a muse that's
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  something that inspires them or something they love from this particular fandom. Percy Jackson
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  is inspiring to me because if you surround yourself with a whip smart girl and
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  a lovable boy, you get to be the main character. Jason, We'll
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  start with you. What's inspiring you? From Greek mythology? I don't like
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  that. I'm grover. I just loud, Yeah, what's inspiring me?
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  So I'm gonna for some of you in that age demographic that we just talked
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  about. I'm about to give you a blast of the past. Do you
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  remember a book at your local bookstore and it was embossed in gold everywhere and
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  there's this like big ornate like symbol with a big fat jewel in the end,
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  and it was always something ology theologies book? Man? I do Oh
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  my fucking God, the absolute hyperfixation of a generation to get into things like
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  mythology, the gods, heroes and monsters of age and Greece. There you
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  go, parentheses, theologies, Man frickin Egyptology eighteen million ology books sold amazing.
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  What I had that one Dragonology, one Book of Dragons. Well,
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  those things that existed, well on wizard ology, I didn't. I didn't
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  know the Book of the Secrets of Merlin. Yeah, there's to be fair.
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  The Greek gods aren't really either. Yes, that is true. That
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  is true you talking about it'd be something in that book that also covered maybe
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  a contemporary Greek society or something like that. But I can't imagine they can
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  do that with the dragon one. Okay, but spies are real and spiology
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  of spycraft for twelve year old instead of a gem in the middle. Is
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  it just like a laser? Yes, basically it's like an Indiana Jones relic
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  going to design children's books. It's easy money. They're stupid, how dare
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  you? But yeah, the ology books. Yeah, ology books just things
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  that I got really into. And I think something I've talked about recently as
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  I think Greek mythology and Egyptology and all these other things are like the gateway
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  for people to get super into Loar. I think comic books and wrestling and
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  even sports are just modern day myths. Agree. I think that's basically what
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  the show is all about. So theologies. Thank you nice, nice.
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  Yeah, good to know all your Greek mythology comes from the publishers of Wizardology.
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  Okay, let's move on over to your teammates, Aaron, what is
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  your muse? I mean, the only thing I can think of is something
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  I've already mentioned, like I said, but I might as well give it
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  a proper introduction. Circe is a novel by Madeleine Miller, nice enough to
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  get the author in there. Now that I'm an author, I'm much more
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  sensitive sort of look you go. Yeah, And I know I talked about
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  it like it was horrible, but it really wasn't. I'm glad to have
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  read it, but I don't think I'll ever reread it, if that makes
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  sense. Yes, definitely, because it was it was very very heavy.
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  Having said that, I did enjoy it, and it did give me,
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  I feel a wider perspective on Greek mythology and the good things about it,
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  and a lot of the bad things about it, so I have I have
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  a I have a deeper appreciation because of that book. So I would definitely
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  choose that as my muse. Hell, yes, that's that's definitely a muse.
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  Always good to get a deeper understanding and appreciation of something you already know
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  a bunch about. Yeah, yeah, we've got nerds. We've got nerds
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  over it with books by Lady Hestia Evans. Read the one about wizards.
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  My master Merlin author's struggling. I'm shore with seventeen million copies, so they
• 25:52
  need the they need the sales. Breaking it in JK who all right,
• 26:00
  two fantastic muses from a deadbeat echo, my favorite emo band. But now
• 26:06
  we will move on the Delphic oracles and Ben, what is inspiring you from
• 26:10
  Greek mythology? So my amuse is Odin all right, Not not the Norse
• 26:17
  God because that's the wrong pantheon. But my son who is really I mean
• 26:23
  like is the only portal I have into the Percy Jackson verse. But like
• 26:29
  he was super into it when he was about ten and eleven, so he
• 26:33
  you know, he read all the books. You know, I watched it,
• 26:37
  you know bits and pieces of the movies with him. I mean,
• 26:40
  he was super into and you guys have never met him, but he talks
• 26:44
  a lot, and if he's interested about something, he talks about it a
• 26:48
  lot. I've heard many, many things about Percy Jackson, some of which
• 26:56
  I retained, Yes, yeah, nice and I you know, listen in
• 27:00
  too, but there was a lot of it that just went right over my
• 27:03
  head. Yeah, a full disclosure. I was going to bring him in
• 27:07
  here to sit over there, and he's secretly on the mic feeding me answers,
• 27:11
  but he had too much homework to do, so that she hid game
• 27:18
  shows on the internet for one hundred people are more important than homework. Sucks.
• 27:23
  Podcast rules, podcast rules. I mean, I tried to invite a
• 27:27
  Greek muse to hang out with me and feed me stuff, but she was
• 27:30
  busy. Yeah, that's what always, they're always busy. Yeah, that's
• 27:36
  a fantastic mews Ben. It's it's wholesome as hell to be inspired by your
• 27:41
  son who has a rat as hell name. And finally, Audra, the
• 27:47
  other half of the Delphic Horracles. What is inspiring you about Greek mythology or
• 27:52
  Percy Jackson? My muse is the Muses. They are inspiring me forward.
• 28:00
  There wasn't really one of like games per se, So I'm just gonna take
• 28:04
  a little bit of all of them because there's there's comedy, there's artistry.
• 28:10
  There's not really music out It's fine, Caliope, I'm not going to get
• 28:18
  through. But the Muses are probably my inspiration to push me forward. Someone
• 28:26
  had to do it, someone had to get matter, and I'm glad someone
• 28:29
  did. Your muse is the Muses, Yes, I love it. Am.
• 28:33
  I allowed a second muse real quick. Of course you're allowed to if
• 28:36
  it's muse. Am. I allowed three music to the band Muse Lovely number
• 28:48
  three. Growing up, I wasn't allowed to read Harry Potter, I wasn't
• 28:52
  allowed to read Twilight. I wasn't allowed to read so many things. And
• 28:56
  now when I look it up Percy Jackson, because of the increased visibility towards
• 29:02
  it, has some blogs being like, this book is not about God and
• 29:07
  it's gonna say that there's other gods and they're real, and so sometimes like
• 29:11
  some of them are saying that there's like a let's ban Percy Jackson. But
• 29:17
  overwhelmingly it was perfectly fine as one of those like hero books with a mythology
• 29:23
  and with a lore that I was allowed to read. That's really interesting and
• 29:30
  so wow, boy did I what's your fourth muse? Is it the sound
• 29:38
  that kittens make? Mus we can get all sevens is the guy who played
• 29:48
  Jay and Jay and Silent Bob Jason. There we go, Oh my goodness,
• 29:52
  Aaron six Please someone we can end this segment. Strong music is to
• 30:00
  listen to and very sick cow sound. I love it. You pray for
• 30:10
  them? That was some fine, fine comedy. Teams, let's accept the
• 30:15
  call to adventure and cross those threshold guardians into round one. Round one is
• 30:23
  our trivia game, and it's called good Reads or in this case God Reads.
• 30:30
  Technically, DEMI, let's not okay, this copy has gotten away from
• 30:34
  me. Let's in this game. I will give our teams a genuine quote
• 30:38
  by a generic sounding y A protagonist. Our pairs must then simply decide if
• 30:45
  this was said by Percy Harry or the risky option. See that will be
• 30:49
  different for every question. Thomas Thomas, which y A protagonist? Harry diesel
• 31:03
  Kens everywhere Thomas the time kensh The lord is so rich and rich. It
• 31:10
  comes to a big show promo. Yes, so it'll be Percy Jackson,
• 31:17
  Harry Potter, or a mystery option see for each question. So we will
• 31:21
  begin with a deadbeat echo. Here is your first quote from a YA protagonist.
• 31:26
  Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.
• 31:32
  Was that Percy, Harry or Ferris Bueler? Oh, that's gotta be fairis
• 31:37
  right? Eron one two? Edgy? For Harry? Harry wishes he was.
• 31:41
  It doesn't ring true for Harry. For me, Harry tended to take
• 31:48
  deadlines pretty seriously. And uh, but I don't know Percy Jackson well enough
• 31:55
  to negate it. So I'm willing to go with you on Ferris Bueller if
• 31:57
  you want. At least played in the Disney Plus show. The actor who
• 32:04
  played Percy was very optimistic. He was very like he was like an very
• 32:07
  daring child who always he was like a Peter Parker type of character, and
• 32:12
  that he saw like the good and like the most passive and optimistic perspective or
• 32:17
  choice that he could make, at least in the first book. So that's
• 32:21
  why I'm pushing towards Ferris, because Ferris is cool. Ferris would say something
• 32:24
  like that, Yeah, he's a cool guy. He's a cool guy.
• 32:28
  I must say, I must say Ferris. Yeah, all right, you
• 32:30
  both you're both saying Ferris. Yeah, it's not this is Percy Jackson.
• 32:37
  I haven't read the book, so towards the end of the first book,
• 32:38
  he's reflecting on his ADHD talking about that. Dang deadlines just don't real to
• 32:44
  me. Uti, I'm starting one in the face. But it's a cool
• 32:45
  thing to say. Still, it is a cool too cool for Harry.
• 32:47
  We both knew it wasn't Harry. Yeah, yeah, we'll move on over
• 32:52
  to the Delphic Oracles. I'm saying it like that, not with a hard
• 32:55
  w or. I suppose it would be a hard hate, wouldn't it.
• 33:00
  Okay, here's your quote. Why would I go looking for someone who wants
• 33:04
  to kill me? Is that a Percy b Harry or C. Frodo Baggins?
• 33:10
  I think this is Harry. Yeah, that's what I was thinking.
• 33:14
  I mean, full disclosure. I also haven't read Harry Potter, so that's
• 33:17
  okay at this part. That's fine, but it doesn't sound like Frodo to
• 33:22
  me. I'll tell you that. Yeah, I read them so much after
• 33:25
  I left the Rules of not being able to read them. I think this
• 33:30
  is when he's looking for serious Black. I think I think I know when
• 33:34
  Harry Potter says that, that is when he's never mind. Sorry I should
• 33:40
  I should say interg Yeah, okay, so you're both happy to go with
• 33:49
  Harry for this one. Yes, yeah, it is Harry, Yes,
• 33:52
  this is this is Potter just absolutely right too, and older is dead on
• 33:55
  it is about serious Black. When he's told about who serious Black, well,
• 33:59
  not who he is, but he's yeah, oh yeah, that's before
• 34:01
  he knows who serious is. Yeah, I gotcha. I just knew a
• 34:07
  lot of quite a few people wanted to kill Harry Potter. So I'm not
• 34:10
  certain that that's the case YaCy Jackson, but probably it's. It's his main
• 34:14
  thing. It's his main thing. Yeah, the whole Yeah, I wonder
• 34:17
  why the author has a victim complex? And next question, next quote for
• 34:25
  a deadbeat echo, I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me.
• 34:30
  Oh god, this a Percy B Harry or C. Taylor Swift.
• 34:37
  Oh no, no, no, My first instinct was Harry again, because
• 34:45
  he's constantly accused of it. Why do all these things happen when you three
• 34:49
  are around, you know, is the thing? Like all yeah, yeah,
• 34:52
  and I'm pretty sure at one point he gets upset about it. He's
• 34:55
  like, listen, all right, I am a literal lightning bolt for bad
• 35:00
  crap to happen. So yeah, that's absolutely fair. I would understand if
• 35:05
  he said something like this, but I don't know if he said that exact
• 35:07
  quote. Again, I don't know. Percy Jackson can't say, and don't
• 35:12
  know Taylor Swift can't say. It's an it's an unfortunate thing that the two
• 35:16
  men got the Taylor Swift. I don't know anything about Taylor. I just
• 35:22
  know that Harry Potter didn't say it's me. I'm the problem. It's me
• 35:28
  He should he should have done if he accepted it, like though those books
• 35:31
  would have ended much faster. Yeah, I wish I was in the zeitgeist.
• 35:37
  My t Swift knowledge is not fair. I want to go. My
• 35:42
  instincts is actually saying, Percy, I'm not gonna lie to you, but
• 35:45
  okay, if you want to overrule me, go ahead. My gut,
• 35:47
  says Harry. But it's your call. If I pull the trigger, you
• 35:52
  have full rain. Next question I'm giving it over. Yeah, all right,
• 35:57
  you're going with Harry for this one. No, no, no,
• 36:00
  I'm pulling, you're pulling the trigger, You're Pullmerican, have the full next
• 36:05
  question. It's not Percy, it's Harry. Possibly the question, the rest
• 36:12
  of the round, the rest of the game, the rest of the game.
• 36:14
  I'm so sorry. It's okay, It's okay, couldn't. All I'm
• 36:17
  doing is I'm trying to put it in Harry's little, gross, young British
• 36:22
  boy voice of just like, why is everything so hard? I'm looking for
• 36:30
  trouble. Trouble usually finds me. Yeah, it's actually remembered. Yeah,
• 36:34
  I remembered the Maggie Smith. I can't remember the character's name, but I
• 36:37
  remember saying something too Harry along those lines and him being defensive about it,
• 36:42
  and I was like, I think that's the line he says, but I
• 36:44
  wasn't sure. So dang. Yeah, your Harry Potter knowledge is better than
• 36:46
  mine. Yeah, he just he says it casually to someone at age thirteen,
• 36:50
  like you know how all thirteen year old's talk. Yeah, but yeah,
• 36:53
  good analysis there, Aaron, But unfortunately, I'm sorry, no point,
• 36:57
  it's not even captain anymore. And overruling. We have no captain system.
• 37:00
  Yeah, it's just we've ended our communists already. It's crying. Yeah,
• 37:07
  okay, back on over to the Delphi Oracles. Here is your next
• 37:10
  quote. My startling discovery, flaming breath is hot? Was that a Percy
• 37:17
  b Harry or C Terry and Lanister? I don't remember Tyran saying anything like
• 37:22
  this. He's usually a little bit more eloquent than that. Yeah. I
• 37:28
  don't know why I feel Percy. I feel like that's the that's a type
• 37:31
  of that feels like a Rick ryed and joke, I mean, breaking newsires
• 37:38
  hot? Was there? Like you've read these books, was there a point
• 37:43
  at which either of the main characters breathed fire? Oh? Not? But
• 37:51
  no, no, no, but what there's some there's some fucking dragons and
• 37:58
  Harry Potter. I don't I don't know this one. I'm gonna be honest
• 38:02
  with you. Some dragons, Wetterrian as as well, lots of Oh yeah,
• 38:07
  how did I not consider that? Ah? I mean my initial gut
• 38:12
  was also Percy, but it was based on, you know, the ether
• 38:15
  of the universe and no actual knowledge. So let's just say the Delphic horracle
• 38:20
  is speaking through you. Okay, are the Delphic horacles. So we're gonna
• 38:24
  go for Percy just based on the ether. Look, always believe oracles and
• 38:29
  mystics. It is Percy. Yeah, absolutely correct. Yeah. Wow,
• 38:34
  the gas went through that and the floor made us high and sometimes right.
• 38:39
  Yeah, I thought I could trick you with the dragon related properties, but
• 38:43
  no Ah, all right, next quote for a death beat echo, We're
• 38:49
  all right, We're good, all right. We could all do with a
• 38:52
  few laughs. I've got a feeling we're going to need them more than usual
• 38:55
  before long. Was that Percy, Harry or the Joe cut? There's no
• 39:01
  way it's the Joker. There's no way why I know. I'm not shut
• 39:07
  your mouth, though, hold on, you know that's not him. I'm
• 39:10
  not entirely sure what Matt's criteria for a young adult kids. It's it's falling
• 39:21
  a pot as her out here reading Batman. I am just going to mix
• 39:27
  the Joker right off the bat I don't. There's no way. I agree.
• 39:30
  I can see Harry saying something like this in book six or book seven.
• 39:36
  Wow, he's got it down to the book, especially when they're on
• 39:38
  the run like Ron says something funny in her mind. He snaps at him,
• 39:44
  and then Harry goes, we could all use some humor, but it's
• 39:46
  gonna get worse. Just heads up. That sums up the Harry Paula series
• 39:51
  right there, so I could. I'm leaning Harry, But again I don't
• 39:55
  know Percy Jackson well enough to say we go do this time, Jason,
• 40:00
  I am letting my guilt completely Overripe. I'm going to say that Aaron's the
• 40:07
  smartest guy and his knowledge of Harry Potter is impeccable, which is going to
• 40:13
  serve us well in this Percy Jackson episode. I'm going with Harry as much
• 40:16
  as I would have loved it if you'd have hyped Aaron up like that only
• 40:20
  for him to be wrong. Aaron is actually correct Harry, who says that
• 40:24
  three Harry fucking questions. No, I think you've heard. The first one
• 40:30
  was Percy Percy Harry Harry. Okay, not to give your order away of
• 40:34
  what it's been, but all right, do you just gain me that tower
• 40:42
  benefits? So who okay? Next quote for the Delpha Coracles, here we
• 40:45
  go. I will trample you to death. Silly Chinese Canadian baby man is
• 40:53
  that a Percy B Harry or c Eric Kautman. I mean it's well,
• 41:05
  so it sounds like a Cartman quote, like, I can't I can't see
• 41:07
  that fitting. I mean there is some casual racism in uh in Harry Commer
• 41:12
  casual. Oh, she's very very hal towards their h I know that's Can
• 41:22
  you read that one more time? Please? You canna make me say and
• 41:28
  I quote, I will trample you to death, silly Chinese Canadian baby man?
• 41:32
  Like are there Chinese Canadian babymen in either of the books like this?
• 41:36
  There's only one I know of, and that's Seemulu and we love him so
• 41:44
  h like I would lean towards Eric Cartman on this. Also, it just
• 41:46
  into the meta. It hasn't been seen, It hasn't been you don't remember,
• 41:51
  you don't remember Harry Potter and the fight against Justin Bieber, Like,
• 41:54
  I mean, come on, because it hasn't been seen, it either has
• 42:00
  to be seen or is definitely not see what is what if he's really trying
• 42:05
  to fuck with us and it's Harry Potter from an episode of South Park,
• 42:10
  You bastard. He's got me doubting everything now that yeah, And I haven't
• 42:15
  even not to say anything for a whole sixty times. That would use a
• 42:22
  parody version of that character from another thing. Uh huh, he absolutely would.
• 42:27
  Was Harry Potter in South Park. I haven't watched South Park in a
• 42:30
  long time. I bet Percy Jackson wasn't. I bet he wasn't. But
• 42:34
  Harry Potter might have. Harry Potter might have been. Oh gosh, now
• 42:37
  we've made it even harder on ourselves. Do we just want to go with
• 42:42
  Cartman? I don't know. Yeah, I'm fine with that. That was
• 42:45
  again, that was my first impression. All right, yes, you're going
• 42:47
  with common. It is not common. It is not Eric Comptman. This
• 42:52
  was pussy. Oh that's christ is pussy. But it's not. Percy says
• 42:57
  it in the book. But he's trying slating for a Pegasus. So it's
• 43:01
  a Pegasus who says this, who's racist. So the Pegasus is racist.
• 43:07
  And Percy's like, you don't want to hear what he's got to say,
• 43:09
  because he just said, I will drap you today, Chinese Canadian baby.
• 43:14
  I always knew horses were racist, dude, Oh you always knew that.
• 43:17
  Yeah, I always knew that. Man in this situation. That is exactly
• 43:22
  the kind of thing Kirtman would say, Yeah, that part I don't know,
• 43:27
  Ben, I don't know, or maybe Aldre can answer, who the
• 43:30
  do you know? Now? It could be from one of the later Bucks
• 43:34
  will say yes, just to maintain my pride. That's that's long, gun.
• 43:42
  Yeah, Okay, I've got one final quote for each team, So
• 43:45
  back on over to a deadbeat echo for your final quote. All right,
• 43:49
  for once I didn't look back? Was this said by Percy, Harry or
• 43:53
  Miles Morales? Oh shit, this does not feel like a Harry Potter quote.
• 44:00
  I mean, your Harry Potter knowledge has been popping off, so I'm
• 44:04
  gonna I'm gonna trust your gun on that. I feel if Matt was gonna
• 44:07
  pull a Miles Morales quote, it would have been from the Spider Verse movies,
• 44:10
  And if I'm being honest, his entire arc throughout those movies seem to
• 44:15
  be about never looking back. So for him to say for once, I
• 44:20
  didn't look back doesn't seem right, do you concur I will be honest,
• 44:27
  I did not see into the Spider Verse. It is on my list.
• 44:30
  I know I have to see it, and I will, but I have
• 44:32
  not seen it yet, so I cannot answer your question with any assistance whatsoever.
• 44:37
  I love the old, familiar geek and nud culture tone of like,
• 44:40
  I'm aware this is the zeit guys a cultural touchstone. Everybody loves this movie,
• 44:47
  and I seem to see it like an apology tone. That's the tone
• 44:53
  is, please don't come to me. I'm trying so hard not to be
• 44:57
  that Toxicuy. It's like you haven't seen Titan James Cameron. Yeah. Yeah,
• 45:05
  uh. In that case, doing that elimination, you want to shoot
• 45:07
  for Percy because that boy be looking back. That boy is a very hesitant
• 45:10
  boy who goes through an arc. Again, I don't know Percy Jackson enough
• 45:15
  to say for me, it is a fifty to fifty between the two.
• 45:19
  If I had to come down on one side, I would say Miles Morales.
• 45:23
  And that is just from a game the game masters standpoint, because we
• 45:28
  have not had a c all right, my guilt will allow that God guilt
• 45:35
  is gonna My guilt is gonna expire after this round. Yeah, so we're
• 45:40
  going to go Miles Morales' going c Miles Morales. It is not it is
• 45:47
  Percy. Oh sorry, now we're even Aaron, Now we're sorry. Sounds
• 45:52
  like that's okay. No, no, no, we're even one up,
• 45:55
  one down. Yeah, this third option and they're just a just a wuck
• 46:00
  with us. Then still one more question. It's seeming there's still one more
• 46:04
  question for you guys. Okay, so my logic from the last round stands
• 46:07
  it either has to be seen or is definitely not see. Oh so you've
• 46:12
  narrowed it down from three to arrowed it down. Just call it now,
• 46:15
  don't even let the quote. Just call it now. No, I do
• 46:17
  want to hear the quote. Harry's your final quote? What were we we
• 46:22
  were on? Like Harry Percy, Harry Percy, something like that. Do
• 46:27
  you want to do you actually know your sequence? Because I said it for
• 46:29
  the other team. No, I just wanted to say, Harry Percy.
• 46:31
  Yeah, okay, here's your quotes. Wow, I wonder what it would
• 46:37
  be like to have a difficult life? Is that Percy, Harry or Ellie
• 46:45
  Williams? Who's that? Oh? Is her last name? Williams? Okay,
• 46:52
  I mean none of them had easy lives, right, like Harry?
• 46:54
  Like what being sarcastic? I think this has got to be sarcasm, Like
• 47:01
  I don't know if he's very sarcastic. I do think of Percy as sarcastic.
• 47:05
  Ellie's definitely Ellie's definitely sarcastic. I do think I've picked upon the sarcasm.
• 47:09
  That's good, So that that puts our fifty to fifty pre choice down
• 47:16
  to fifty to fifty. Now, yes, with a compliment, Oh wow,
• 47:21
  you did make it on yourself. I don't even need to make games
• 47:27
  anywhore incredible strategy. I can just throw woods into a room and everyone will
• 47:30
  get themselves in a pickle. I do think of I think, hmmmm,
• 47:40
  my gut is saying Percy, it's that oracle maybe speaking, Yeah, speaking
• 47:46
  is your Does your gut feel confident? Because my thought was leaning towards Ellie,
• 47:51
  but it's not at all confident. So if you're slightly confident, I'll
• 47:54
  go with you. I'm not back where we started three minutes ago. Okay,
• 48:05
  I'm gonna it'll either be a point or the shame will be on my
• 48:09
  house. I'm gonna say Percy, you're gonna say Percy, You're wrong.
• 48:15
  It's not it's Harry. It's Harry. Yes. I remember this moment because
• 48:21
  it's one of the sassiest things he does is he just goes, wow,
• 48:25
  I want to what it be like to have a difficult life, you know,
• 48:28
  just like completely like throws it at her. I can't remember who it
• 48:31
  was. It's it's when he's told that in book five, when like Malfoy
• 48:36
  is now a prefect, he might make your life difficult. Oh, I
• 48:38
  wonder what it'd be like life to be difficult. I was just talking about
• 48:43
  his own life instead of mocking someone else. Yes, yes, we debated
• 48:49
  for like solid minutes over the too wrong answer. Don't it down god?
• 48:58
  Okay, that's the end of round one. So let's ask the book smart
• 49:01
  Annabeth to calculate the latest scores. I hope she's number smart too. They
• 49:06
  always say book smart, don't they? Books have numbers? Sometimes they sometimes
• 49:13
  they sometimes do say every page has one of the bottom I was just about
• 49:15
  to say in the bottom right. Okay, okay, you got me on
• 49:19
  that one, dead bet, Echo, you're on one point. The Delphic
• 49:22
  Oracles, you were on two points. Okay, but our one point was
• 49:25
  a great point. Sure, that's what you gotta tell yourself. Hope next
• 49:30
  is round two. But before that, here are some commercials for olives,
• 49:35
  wine and something called ambrosia, ambrosia nectar of the gods. After this,
• 49:44
  not to be that guy, but I thought ambrosia was food of the gods
• 49:46
  and nectar was the drink of the gods. Ah, that's probably correct.
• 49:52
  See this is why I don't play the games. That's great. Round two
• 50:06
  is called flash fiction. It's the game where our teams must compose original pieces
• 50:09
  of fan fiction, this time about the gods of the Greek pantheon. Although
• 50:15
  to make things just a little bit more difficult, they must compose the fan
• 50:19
  fiction one word at a time, back and forth between teammates. They'll have
• 50:23
  some direction, though, I will give a short prompt that will reveal the
• 50:28
  characters that are involved, and then the teammates here in the studio will roll
• 50:32
  the dice of destiny, and if that team's thick matches the mood and tone
• 50:39
  of what's on the dice, they'll score on maximum points. And teams will
• 50:44
  also score points for law accuracy and for making me laugh. I'm a simple
• 50:47
  guy. Uh. Just for context, Audre, do you want to read
• 50:51
  the six words that are on the dice of destiny this time? Well,
• 50:54
  the one facing me now is horny, horny, tipsy, romantic, romantic,
• 51:02
  heroic. I don't why I'm repeating. It's waste of time. You're
• 51:07
  just the chorus the Greek summarize the things that have been said? Verse,
• 51:15
  tragic? What have I not said? Romantic? One of them? Did
• 51:22
  you say one of them was verse? One of them is? Verse?
• 51:27
  For that one, if you can make it rhyme in any way, or
• 51:29
  at least feel like Greek poetry, points for that one, really turning up
• 51:37
  on the game. So you're all right hoping as you started to read them
• 51:40
  they would all just be horny. I could do that. It's Greek mythology,
• 51:45
  it's all. So we will begin with a deadbeat echo. You were
• 51:52
  up first. We will follow on from this this sentence orpheous glanced at you,
• 51:58
  ridicy, and but Jason, what theme is your fit going to be?
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  Give a little give a little drop on the floor there. Yeah,
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  God, damn it, it's a verse. It's it's us. Okay.
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  Now, Aaron is good at rhyming on the fly. I am frozen by
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  it. But we'll try our best. All right. That's good because rhyming
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  every other word would be great. Yeah, that's true. That's true,
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  that's true. That would be a verse. So, Jason, if you
• 52:28
  want to kick things off. After I read this sentence, Orpheus glanced at
• 52:30
  Youridicy and gazed longingly at her little break comma sorry, ok yeah, yeah,
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  she said, uh, what was the sorry? What was the last
• 52:45
  word that you said when we did the comma love her? Yeah? Oh
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  it's her cool. Sh got a rhyme with her, sick. Jason's very
• 52:52
  bad at this. That's so hard. Leave it today, leave it to
• 52:57
  me. Sorry, what was the last word? She said? Okay?
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  She said, Sun, do you think I'm looking fly in skirt? That's
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  that's okay, that's skirt to rhyme with her? Yeah, I did.
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  I did a gang, all right, Orpheus said of her, coma okay,
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  uh, I do find you hot? There we go, all right,
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  well let's here. Here is your here's your flash fiction of Greek mythology.
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  Obvious glanced at you Ridicy and gazed longingly at her. She said,
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  Sup, do you think I'm looking fly in my skirt? Orpheus said of
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  her, I do find you hotur and skirt did did kind kind of rhyme?
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  You did roll the hardest prompt on the dice. I loved it.
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  I don't know why. Aaron's got his head and oh it's sad. There
• 54:27
  were like so I tried to like lobb you opportunities to just pass it back
• 54:31
  to me, and then I killed we killed it. Here's the thing they
• 54:43
  did. Used to wear skirt like things back then. So you'll get points
• 54:45
  for accuracy. And you did make me laugh, so I'm going to give
• 54:47
  you two points. Then he says it's out a five five. Yeah,
• 54:54
  but you rolled the hardest prompt. That's the look of the dice. That's
• 54:57
  the way it goes. All right, we are going to move on over
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  to the Delphic Oracles, and your first prompt is Zeus Cold to Ganny Mead
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  and and then Audra's gonna roll the dice. Heroic got it. So Audrey,
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  if you want to pick up from Zeus Cold to Ganny Mead and bade
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  her come hither. War War. There's quotes. Okay, we're starting sitting
• 55:34
  quotations War. I love it, I don't I hate it? Wait,
• 55:37
  where's the quotes? The quotes are before war before open quotation. War is
• 55:45
  upon olympus exclamation point, nice close quotes or no, not yet, okay,
• 55:53
  fetch my lightning bolt. Close quotations us. All right, you go
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  one more sentence. Ganymede grabbed the sack broically. That's certainly a way of
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  scoring some points. Here is your flash fiction. Zeus called to Ganymede and
• 56:25
  bade her come hither. War is upon Olympus. Fetch my lightning bolt.
• 56:31
  Ganymade grabbed the sack heroically, And so a couple definitely definitely started to get
• 56:42
  a little bit horney, especially as I think ganny Meade is Zeus's gay lover.
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  Is that whoa, Yes, the only one of his lovers he ever
• 56:52
  made immortal so that they could be on Olympus with him forever. Wow,
• 56:58
  I'm sort of any nickname. What's going to say is lightning bolt. Well,
• 57:05
  with that caveat is now with the interpretation of what the author is saying.
• 57:08
  I was going to say, like I was going to take points off
• 57:12
  for her for lack of accuracy, and I thought I was going to bring
• 57:14
  them back. When you said grab the sack, I thought I thought we
• 57:17
  were going to come back around there. But no, I mean it was
• 57:21
  look, it was a it was a little bit more coherent and order played
• 57:23
  a very clever card there saying heroically. So I'm going to give you three
• 57:28
  points for that one. Nice, Okay, Jason, we've learned we just
• 57:31
  need to say the word that's on the die got it verse? All right?
• 57:38
  Now? Rhyme with verse worse? Oh, that's better either. There's
• 57:46
  going to be one more chance to compose some flash fiction for each team,
• 57:51
  Jason, if you want to take the dice there, I will read your
• 57:52
  prompt if it's one of the two prompts we've had already, re roll it,
• 57:57
  and your prompt is aphrodite acknowledge, aes and nice. Oh is it
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  what I think it is? It's not optimal, but it is romantic romantic
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  okaymantic some classic fan fiction stuff, horny, but not quite there yet.
• 58:19
  Maybe we can finish strong. So you have aphrodite acknowledged aries and and Aaron.
• 58:25
  If you want to follow on from that, Nope, first, first
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  guest, best guess? Uh fingered? Oh God, is it aphrodite?
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  Is the subject aphrodity acknowledged aries and fingered and fingered towards is Oh? No,
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  Helm, Yeah, that's what he calls it. Open quotes, yes,
• 58:59
  darling, Oh that's not my word. Darling, what a great helm
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  you have? Oh the words, see you've got you've got darling. Yea
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  of the quotation I love you dressed oh like a I don't want to the
• 59:29
  first thing that comes to the head. Okay fine small warrior? Okay?
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  Yeah's are we saying? That's the end of the quotations one most got one
• 59:49
  more sentence? Does does every say anything back? Yeah? Uh? Aries
• 1:00:00
  replied, do you mean my stop? Stop? You stop? Finish?
• 1:00:19
  Do you mean my heart? Oh? Brought it back all right, so
• 1:00:31
  easily, but managed to stay within the realms of romantic. Your latest piece
• 1:00:37
  of ancient Greek flash fiction reads like this aphrodite, acknowledged Aries and fingered towards
• 1:00:43
  his helm. Darling, I love you dressed like a small warrior, Aries
• 1:00:47
  replied, do you mean my heart? It's I love it is nice.
• 1:00:59
  We killed it story. Yeah. I think if you'd have taken it too
• 1:01:02
  horny at the end there, I might have docked points. But you kept
• 1:01:06
  it romantic, just like all all couples say to each other. I love
• 1:01:09
  when you dressed like a small warrior, but I genuine look, genuinely it
• 1:01:15
  was touching, and you did a good job going back there. It's I
• 1:01:25
  think it's a very clippables a reaction. It's just like, oh, wonderful
• 1:01:35
  stuff. Okay, well we must roll the dice of destiny one more time.
• 1:01:40
  Order if you reroll until you get a new a new topic, and
• 1:01:44
  you're prompt the delphic oracles, is Poseidon approached Medusa and or was just re
• 1:01:52
  rolling the same prompt? Oh tragic, Oh tragic. That's like the perfect
• 1:02:00
  thing that you could have pulled the great great tragedy. I rolled romantic three
• 1:02:05
  times. That would have been That would have been nice too. But this
• 1:02:07
  is honestly better considering the context of the myth. All right, so Ben,
• 1:02:13
  are you ready to take this one away? Poseidon approached Medusa and unsheathed
• 1:02:21
  straight for the jugular butter knife. All right, I'll take it. Open
• 1:02:35
  quotes if you won't eat this, but what do you even gonna know?
• 1:02:54
  As'll kill your cat? Is that close quotation? Close quotation marks Yep,
• 1:03:10
  Medusa gobbled the peanut butter. That is definitely not one word. If you
• 1:03:25
  say it right, it is if you say it with a mouthful of peanut
• 1:03:30
  butter, it is one word. He's stolen this last sentence Meduica gobbled the
• 1:03:37
  peanut butter. Oh god, oh peanut butter. Peanut butter tears no streaming
• 1:03:46
  down her face? Her? Sorry, that's definitely sad. Sad. One
• 1:03:59
  last word her sad uh? What said? Tea is streaming down her sad
• 1:04:05
  and we got one last word? Yeah, her sad uh? Don't lead
• 1:04:12
  the witness. Sorry, what did you say? Ben? Visage? Visage?
• 1:04:17
  Okay, just a word I was hoping for. I was like,
• 1:04:24
  I was like, this is a chance he could say face or I'd probably
• 1:04:28
  say visage. I was singing snakes. Yeah, we can tell from what.
• 1:04:34
  Okay, the tragedy is she's allergic to peanuts, by the way,
• 1:04:39
  but I'm afraid that wasn't in the in the the flash fiction books. Okay,
• 1:04:45
  yeah, everyone knows snakes can't handle peanut butter. Yeah, you know,
• 1:04:48
  I don't know enough about snakes to say whether that's not true. Here
• 1:04:53
  is your piece of flash fiction. Poseidon approached Medusa and unsheathed his butter knife.
• 1:05:00
  If you won't eat this peanut butter, I'll kill your cat. Medusa
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  gobbled the peanut butter. Tea is streaming down a sad visage. God,
• 1:05:12
  Look, there was some very liberal use of what constitutes a word. Then
• 1:05:15
  from Ben So, I feel like I definitely have to mark you down for
• 1:05:21
  that, but I can't deny there was a tragic image to end things with.
• 1:05:27
  So I'm gonna be you three points for that one. Thank you.
• 1:05:30
  I would think that would hit home for you too, Matt, like just
• 1:05:31
  being forced. But's a nightmare for you. Yeah, that's true. We're
• 1:05:35
  breaking all kinds of rules using multiple words. I see what's happening here.
• 1:05:41
  It's favoritism for your wife's team, and look, favoritismism big and Greek mythology.
• 1:05:45
  So if it's so good, well done, and carry he's nothing if
• 1:05:55
  not on theme. All right, that's the end of the round. Let's
• 1:05:58
  ask the wise God to calculate the latest scores. I really hope she answers,
• 1:06:03
  unlike the last god I believed in. WHOA. Look, considering the
• 1:06:14
  accusations of favoritism, the scores are pretty close. We have a deadbeat Echo
• 1:06:17
  on seven points and the Delphi Horacles on eight points. Okay, ooh,
• 1:06:23
  Round three next, But first, some more pesky commercials. We prefer if
• 1:06:28
  you let them play, but if you want to cause players, Kronos and
• 1:06:30
  hit that thirty second skip button. I won't blame you back soon. Round
• 1:06:41
  three is called the pop Culture Pantheon. L Rick Rydon and his friend Percy
• 1:06:45
  aren't the only creatives to use Greek mythology in their work. In fact,
• 1:06:49
  it may surprise you to learn that Greek mythology is all over pop culture,
• 1:06:56
  as though it's the bedrock for mainstream storytelling or something. So in I think
• 1:07:02
  we had the right attitude there. Yeah, the joke conved. So in
• 1:07:05
  a rare Round three test of your broader pop culture knowledge, I have in
• 1:07:11
  front of me a board of twelve clues to something from modern culture that takes
• 1:07:15
  its influence or inspiration from Greek mythology. Those clues are broken up into three
• 1:07:21
  difficulty categories for questions in each. You've got the easier clues. These are
• 1:07:27
  known as a persy piece of piss, and they're worth one points. You've
• 1:07:31
  got the medium clues. These are known as an Anabeth average, which she's
• 1:07:35
  not but it's alliteration, yeah, and are worth two points. Or you
• 1:07:40
  could go for the difficult Grover gamble and earn three points for a correct answer.
• 1:07:46
  So we're going to begin with a deadbeat echo which clue would you like?
• 1:07:49
  Would you like a persy piece of piss, an Anabeth average or a
• 1:07:54
  Grover gamble? You want to warm into this erin you want to like?
• 1:07:57
  I mean, on the one hand, we're behind uh, and on the
• 1:08:00
  other I love really hard puzzles, So okay, I would go three.
• 1:08:06
  But I don't blame you at all if you think we should start off with
• 1:08:10
  something a little lighter. Ah. Now we're in it for the glory,
• 1:08:14
  am I right? Let's do it like the Titans. We are, we
• 1:08:16
  got We're going to do this, sir? Yeah? Oh yes, reference
• 1:08:20
  reference reference. Okay, here is your first clue. It is to something
• 1:08:27
  that is in modern culture that is inspired by Greek mythology. Many people start
• 1:08:32
  their day with this. James Caleb Jackson would insist, what do people start
• 1:08:39
  their day with? It's chief, it's coffered by I don't know who that
• 1:08:44
  is, Yeah, James kills. Jason does not ring any bells at all,
• 1:08:49
  putting their pants on, taking their underwear off, putting the pants on,
• 1:08:55
  then taking their underwear off. Is this the magic? So culture?
• 1:09:00
  You don't necessarily mean like a TV show or a book? Read? Yeah,
• 1:09:04
  I and modern culture is the is the wood I've used so well,
• 1:09:08
  so it could be anything in modern it could be could be anything. Yeah,
• 1:09:12
  you bastards, this was a lot the three points. That was a
• 1:09:18
  lot harder than I was expecting. Dude, I'm like clocked out. I
• 1:09:21
  got nothing. Yeah. If I knew who that guy was, I might
• 1:09:25
  be able to hazard a guess. But as it is, many people start
• 1:09:28
  their day with this. Is there any like Greek breakfast eatery or something like
• 1:09:31
  that? Because I usually people usually start their day off of coffee or bagels
• 1:09:35
  or something like that, Greek food? Is there anything like fast food that's
• 1:09:41
  based off of a Greek thing? Wait? Is Starbucks fucking Greek? Wait?
• 1:09:45
  It's a siren? But I like, that's my best guess. Is
• 1:09:47
  fucking a cup of Starbucks. That's the best fucking guess I have. Uh,
• 1:09:51
  I can't remember where the name Starbucks comes from. It's a it's a
• 1:09:56
  Greek thing. I do we used to work at Starbucks. I think it's
• 1:10:01
  a great guess. Actually, okay, all right, Starbucks. It's no
• 1:10:05
  Starbucks, but that is a good guess. And to be honest, if
• 1:10:09
  I didn't have James Caleb Jackson and that I'd probably have to give you it
• 1:10:12
  because many people do start that day with it. It's the answer is cerealal
• 1:10:17
  it comes from the god of grain series or series cereal is Did you know
• 1:10:25
  that? Why are you laughing like that? No, it's just because serious
• 1:10:29
  Aaron's muse. Oh yeah, okay, there's a lot of there's a lot
• 1:10:36
  of names that sounds. I was thinking. I was trying to think of
• 1:10:41
  like a breakfast cereal like mascot, like Lucky from Lucky Charms. That was
• 1:10:45
  Greek, but I could. I was like, I don't think of any
• 1:10:47
  of them, but it was I start every day with a little Caesar's pizza.
• 1:10:51
  But that's Rome, guys. All right, Still so many clues left
• 1:11:00
  on the board the Delphic Oracles. Maybe let's go Annabeth average Yeah, yeah,
• 1:11:05
  I'm okay with that. This company appears to do jewelry and music streaming.
• 1:11:12
  I guess I'll have to open the package and find out which this one
• 1:11:15
  is. Pandora. I know this, Oh yes, definitely Diamonds aimed music.
• 1:11:20
  Ye, it is indeed Pandora. Yeah, it is absolutely Pandora.
• 1:11:25
  There you go. It's two points to the Delphic Oracles. There back on
• 1:11:29
  over to a deadbeat echo. We gotta do Annabeth, average man? Do
• 1:11:32
  we there are two points up on us. You want to do another Grover
• 1:11:36
  gamble? Okay, I feel like I feel like I've gotten new choice now
• 1:11:43
  and I got to try and redeem myself after that last time. I like
• 1:11:45
  me and Aaron as a duo, by the way, because I seem to
• 1:11:47
  just be go with the flow and in a sea tragedy, I that's where
• 1:11:53
  I belong. It's Greek mythology. Come on, there we go. So
• 1:11:57
  you you're flying too close to the sun. Just don't go. I respect
• 1:12:01
  it so much. Here is your Grover gamble clue. This video game series
• 1:12:08
  takes place in angel Land, and the fact it took twenty one years for
• 1:12:12
  the third game to be released is something of a pitfalls. Yeah, kidicusus,
• 1:12:18
  nice good stuff it is, thank you super mushros. Oh there you
• 1:12:24
  go, there you go. It is a bit more popularity for kids.
• 1:12:27
  That's that's three points. I played the original way back in the day and
• 1:12:31
  never beat it. That it's hard. I beat it with every every Nintendo
• 1:12:42
  Entertainment System gamer's best friend nice good knowled Jaron all right, and Jason,
• 1:12:46
  you had it as well. I don't know, ye I knew, I
• 1:12:50
  knew you were talking about all right, back on over to the Delphic Oracles.
• 1:12:54
  Yes, I mean we got to get in on one of these grover
• 1:12:58
  gambles, don't Yeah, I know they there. We can't let them show
• 1:13:00
  us up. Okay, we're taking our third grove of gamble. Clue here
• 1:13:05
  it is. This film from the Red Curtain trilogy features a musician ahead of
• 1:13:13
  his time, but they did not can Can It's can? I don't no
• 1:13:18
  from the Red Curtain? What did you say? Yeah? This this film
• 1:13:23
  from the Red Curtain trilogy features a musician ahead of his time, but they
• 1:13:28
  did not can Can. It's can dance at the film festival. I mean
• 1:13:32
  we can go I can't remember if she's like the Muse of Dance, but
• 1:13:39
  we can go with the one Muse that I remember off the top of my
• 1:13:42
  head and just say Calliope. That feels like that could be a can film
• 1:13:47
  Festival movie, right, I have nothing so with oh Kalliope. It's not
• 1:14:00
  Calliope or Calliope. The answer is mulamb Bruge, which is based on the
• 1:14:04
  story of Orpheus. Oh wow, Wow, Wow. They didn't win at
• 1:14:11
  Can when they hoped to, and the film has lots of can Can happening
• 1:14:14
  in there. There's a lot of great clues. I'm sure someone screaming yeah
• 1:14:19
  r right now on their Phonemo fan out there. I was. I was
• 1:14:26
  trying to come up with it, like, what would be in a Red
• 1:14:28
  Curtain trilogy? Is it it like a Russian movie about a musician? I'm
• 1:14:31
  like, I legitimately didn't Communist musicals. I love him, listen, I
• 1:14:38
  I would understand of a Russian trilogy of movies was about artists on stage or
• 1:14:43
  whatever was called the Red Curtain, Oh for sure. Anyway, that was
• 1:14:46
  just my thought process having heard that question. Are you sure you want to
• 1:14:51
  do another Grovery gamble right now? We are? We are? But I
• 1:14:58
  knew that one cold, and I think that's the only reason why, like
• 1:15:00
  don't, Yeah, we got the ciders one. Let's do an anabev average
• 1:15:04
  or or Jason horns up, hon Yeah, yeah, sure, horns up.
• 1:15:15
  You know what they say, always always rest on your laurels, So
• 1:15:20
  that's what they always say. Let's do it all right? So the final
• 1:15:26
  Grover Gamble more immaculate than the Wooden Ride it replaced. This floorless roller coaster
• 1:15:32
  can be found in one of the oldest Commonwealth settlements. Ew I don't like
• 1:15:40
  this one at all. Is the Commonwealth like the Northeast. It's like,
• 1:15:47
  uh, British territory is Canada, Australia. I don't know exact like full
• 1:15:55
  makeup, but I will say within this context, it is the American Commonwealth.
• 1:16:00
  Oh okay, not not the British commedy. Well yeah, yeah,
• 1:16:05
  the colonies were in the were part of the Commonwealth at one Yeah, there's
• 1:16:10
  some states that still define themselves I think. Is so the kid. The
• 1:16:13
  word that's jumping out at me is immaculate. That feels like a deliberate hint
• 1:16:17
  at something in Greek mythology. What was immaculate? I'm just trying to think
• 1:16:23
  of any roller coaster as anything to do with Greece as well. Well,
• 1:16:27
  I'm pretty sure that this is going to be a ride that's literally named after
• 1:16:30
  a Greek yeah kiro or goddess or something, but it's it's it was that
• 1:16:36
  very deliberate word choice of immaculate, because why would why why would you use
• 1:16:43
  that to describe something that replaced a wooden roller coaster so there has to be
• 1:16:48
  a link between that and the actual name, the actual thing. But I'm
• 1:16:55
  struggling to come up with something in Greek that's immaculate, like in Catholics.
• 1:17:00
  I'm sure maculate conception, all that nonsense, nonsense, sorry Catholics. I'm
• 1:17:06
  just trying to think of any Greek god's names in relation to a roller coaster
• 1:17:10
  as well. Apollo, I could see Poseidon for a water ride, but
• 1:17:14
  overside, but Sidon would be an absence, especially if it was near to
• 1:17:19
  the water. Yeah, and then like a drop to Haites is something like
• 1:17:23
  I can think of as well. But I don't know if anythings are real,
• 1:17:27
  and I can't think of any amusing parks in the Commonwealth, specifically,
• 1:17:30
  Florida's not no Florida, Let's the world. Let's go with Apollo. Okay
• 1:17:41
  with Apollo? Is some is a name I would use to name a roller
• 1:17:44
  coaster. Yeah, it's like Apollo's sunrise or something. Yeah, that sounds
• 1:17:47
  good enough. It's it's not that, but it's a good guess. Yeah,
• 1:17:50
  to be fat it's Hydra the Revenge. Oh yeah, no, no,
• 1:17:56
  not even close. Immaculate was as a play on floorless, but it's
• 1:18:00
  actually flawless, as in like a flawless roller coaster, and it was just
• 1:18:04
  it was replacing something pretty and painted. Uh, because there used to be
• 1:18:11
  a wooden ride there called Hercules the ride. I know, I need to
• 1:18:14
  stop looking into things that Max said, play the deep word playing. I
• 1:18:21
  chose Immacula because it matches flawless. There is deep points that Aaron. It's
• 1:18:30
  based on Mets floorless floorless. Yes, I absolutely could not tell because of
• 1:18:41
  your absence. I picked it up. I think I've been friends with Matt
• 1:18:45
  long enough that I did pick it up. I did that. Look,
• 1:18:48
  it's the girl of a gamble. There's going to be trickery. I'm aware
• 1:18:53
  that was next to impossible. There's there's a floorless roller coaster near me called
• 1:18:57
  Medusa, but it's definitely not in the Commonwealth. So oh, there you
• 1:19:00
  go, there you go. Yes, it's a floorless it's one of those
• 1:19:04
  ones that straps. Yeah. Yeah, you sit and there's a thing that
• 1:19:09
  you wear and you just sit in your legs just dangle. Oh it means
• 1:19:15
  there's no floor Yeah, all right, there is fear delphic horracles. We
• 1:19:21
  still have seven questions left on the board, split between Percy Piece of Piss,
• 1:19:26
  which no one's taken yet, and Annabeth Average, let's have some more
• 1:19:29
  rapid fire questions and answers. Name, let's go in rapid fire, Percy
• 1:19:31
  piece of piss? Are you down for it? Uh? We're going rapid
• 1:19:35
  fire. Yeah, we're gonna go. Yeah, sure, why not?
• 1:19:40
  Okay, lovely and rapid from you both. There, it's not how we
• 1:19:45
  roll, Matt. Here is your clue. This athletic apparel company is so
• 1:19:53
  horny they're always telling everyone to just do it. Nike. Next question,
• 1:19:57
  it absolutely is Nike. There's a point over to a deadbe echo. It's
• 1:20:00
  your choice of the board. Give us, Anabeth Average, Yeah, backing
• 1:20:05
  off. Now there's no war and there's no wars. Yeah, don't let
• 1:20:15
  this guy on Sesame Street take all the grovers. Listen. I did I
• 1:20:20
  love the hard puzzles? Okay, I just can't. Oh, I'll make
• 1:20:25
  some more in the off time. But now here is your Annabeth Average.
• 1:20:29
  This video game series sees the gods as soft, not hard, and Percy
• 1:20:34
  Jackson isn't the only series that will have to recast the late Great Lance Riddick.
• 1:20:39
  So Lance Reddick has been in Horizon Zero don oh, and those have
• 1:20:43
  Medusa and Hades. No, it's a Horizondon. My bad. I was
• 1:20:45
  gonna say Destiny, but Destiny is not soft and does not have as many
• 1:20:49
  as many Greek references the gods soft in Horizon. There, there's there.
• 1:20:56
  Ai is what they are? Oh software ah yeah, yeah, fair enough?
• 1:21:01
  Is that good enough wood play for your Oh that's excellent, sir,
• 1:21:03
  that is excellent. That is tol and that is two points for your team.
• 1:21:08
  Welcome, nicely done. Jeez, thank you. All right, Delphi
• 1:21:12
  Carcles, You're up next? Are there any more Anna? Annabeth's just yeah,
• 1:21:16
  there are two more Annabeth averages. Yeah, I went. I went
• 1:21:19
  for the Percy one because I was like, he was like, let's let's
• 1:21:23
  go, let's go quick, and so I went for the easy one.
• 1:21:25
  But there's points on the board. Yeah, absolutely sorry. Yep, Annabeth,
• 1:21:30
  you were right to hesitate in acknowledging the I'm glad we spent more time
• 1:21:35
  on it. Okay, here is your question. This sci fi TV series
• 1:21:40
  has had a couple of runs, but I've seen none of it, so
• 1:21:43
  I don't know if they ever found the thirteenth colony Stargate. Possibly. I
• 1:21:48
  know there's definitely. They definitely have like a Nubis and stuff in that,
• 1:21:50
  and I don't know if they like, Yeah, I didn't watch it all
• 1:21:53
  the way through, so it wouldn't surprise me if Yeah, Stargate Atlantis.
• 1:21:56
  Probably Atlantis because Atlantis is Greek. Miss it's pretty Greek, so and a
• 1:22:00
  couple of runs it definitely had, you know, had the original one and
• 1:22:03
  then Atlantis, and I think there was a third one that I didn't watch.
• 1:22:06
  So let's go for it, going with Stargate Atlantis specifically. You said
• 1:22:14
  you said series is had a couple of runs, so I just it would
• 1:22:16
  just be Stargate, right like any of them would account because of the thirteenth
• 1:22:20
  Colony thing being a key thing of this franchise. I'm not going to give
• 1:22:23
  you it, but I did just quickly google. The only thing is like
• 1:22:27
  a fan fiction crossover between Stargate and this. The answer is Battlestar galacticall tons
• 1:22:35
  of Greek mythology references throughout, and their their whole goal is that they're looking
• 1:22:40
  for Earth, which is the thirteenth Colony. Oh dang, so sorry,
• 1:22:45
  no points there. Give us the last Annabeth. You want the last Annabeth?
• 1:22:49
  Average here it is this American football team has appeared in just one Super
• 1:22:56
  Bowl, But at least it sounds cheap to watch them, at least from
• 1:23:00
  this Britt's perspective. What's cheap in because we're not sports fans. I'm just
• 1:23:08
  going to say that for the listeners. The Tennessee Titans are definitely inspired by
• 1:23:14
  Greek mythology. But I don't know why he would say they sound cheap to
• 1:23:16
  play. Did you say they only showed up in one Super Bowl? Is
• 1:23:21
  just one super Bowl? Okay? What are the other sports teams? Oh?
• 1:23:29
  Boy, we're going to be here, all of them. You list
• 1:23:32
  all of them, Tennessee Titans. They're the ones that came first to mind.
• 1:23:36
  I don't think it's right, though, is the problem. It's not
• 1:23:40
  going to be it's not gonna be the Buffalo Bills. It's not going to
• 1:23:43
  be the New York Jets. It's not gonna be the Okay, it's not
• 1:23:46
  going to be the Detroit Lions. It's definitely not gonna be the Cleveland Browns,
• 1:23:54
  Seattle Seahawks. You don't think the Chiefs Dallas reference Denver bron Goes Chiefs
• 1:24:00
  is more of a reference to Native American culture. I thought I could be
• 1:24:04
  wrong. I mean, what is a cowboy if not they got them horns
• 1:24:12
  on those on the cowboy hats. What is a chief if not? I
• 1:24:18
  don't know. If we want to finish it, can I can I just
• 1:24:24
  theorize I don't think a seahawk is like a no Titan. Titan is a
• 1:24:29
  blatant Greek mythology reference. And not to mention Matt and I hate to say
• 1:24:34
  this because I feel like it's a cheap joke that he could have made.
• 1:24:40
  And I don't want to say he would make a cheap joke, but it
• 1:24:43
  could be that he meant they were tend to see Tennessee tend to see it's
• 1:24:47
  cheap. That's actually solidified in my mind. Because you guys have to go
• 1:24:50
  back and forth. Let's just go. Let's just saying that, yes,
• 1:25:00
  yes, it is. I thought it might be easy, if easier for
• 1:25:02
  a football fans, so I'd throw in an extra little twist on there to
• 1:25:05
  make it an Anabeth average. But yeah, that is two points. That
• 1:25:09
  is the Tennessee Titans. Absolutely, yes, all right, what is a
• 1:25:13
  raider if not barbaria? You know, just just from a forty nine er?
• 1:25:19
  If not a Greek if forty nine ers, it's for forty nine BC,
• 1:25:27
  right, yeah, yeah, back on over to the horror course you've
• 1:25:34
  they're all persy piece of pisses. So I guess that's what you get.
• 1:25:38
  This video game series asks you to unleash your rage and more recently, your
• 1:25:43
  paternal instincts. Got war. Yeah, it is indeed God of War.
• 1:25:47
  There is your points, all right, Another persy piece of piss for a
• 1:25:53
  deadbeat echo. This nineties TV series is a spin off with a strong lead
• 1:25:59
  and a cult following, which is surprising given how lowless this series is.
• 1:26:04
  I was not cognisant during the nineties. I just want the listeners to know
• 1:26:11
  that this nineties I don't think I suppose was a spin off and oh fucking
• 1:26:18
  Hercules off of Xena the Warrior Princess. Oh no, price, Xena was
• 1:26:24
  the spin off of Hercules all the way around. Okay, so it's Xena
• 1:26:27
  say it again? Oh no, no, never mind, he doesn't have
• 1:26:30
  to. It is Zena, he said, lawless, Lucy lawss it's Zena.
• 1:26:32
  It is Zena. It is Zena. Good stuff. There you go.
• 1:26:35
  I was cognizant during the next You're all idiots. I was gus,
• 1:26:42
  I was already in kindergarten and I was only four years old. Guys,
• 1:26:45
  you're brilliant. I mean, the little boy's gonna pick up on anything.
• 1:26:49
  Zena's not not too low on the list. Mm hmm. That's true.
• 1:26:55
  That's true. Although you can tell you weren't cognizant in the nineties because the
• 1:26:58
  Female Lets series wouldn't have come first, right, Okay, that means one
• 1:27:04
  last clue left for the Delphi Oracles here it is. This genre defining novel
• 1:27:10
  came to life from a contest organized by Lord Byron. Just make sure you
• 1:27:15
  remember who is man and who is monster? I mean, I'd like to
• 1:27:18
  say Frankenstein Frankenstein Mythology, but it's definitely like a I don't know if it
• 1:27:27
  was a contest, but like Lord Byron was involved and Mary Shelley wrote it,
• 1:27:30
  and it's definitely man and monster confusion. Like it's got to be Frankenstein.
• 1:27:33
  I don't get the connection, but I'm down to go with it.
• 1:27:36
  Prometheus bringing humans to life from dirt? Are going with Frankenstein? We can
• 1:27:42
  go with Frankenstein. Yeah it is Frankenstein. Yeah. Yeah. The full
• 1:27:48
  title of the novel is Frankenstein or the modern Prometheus, and it was meant
• 1:27:51
  to explore that Greek. So yeah, good, nice, Wow, there
• 1:27:56
  is a points you learned something new, and that is the end of round
• 1:28:00
  three. Let's just give theseus a quick call to see if he has the
• 1:28:03
  latest scores. Yeah, what is you're actually calling someone? Uh huh?
• 1:28:11
  All right, mate? How you doing a what? Well? If he's
• 1:28:15
  a minor, you probably shouldn't be Oh a minor, all I see?
• 1:28:18
  Yeah, No, the signal is pretty the signal is pretty bad. You
• 1:28:23
  must be in like a labyrinth or something. Yeah, no worries, mate,
• 1:28:26
  just some quick masses. I'll call you back later. It's fine,
• 1:28:28
  it's fine. Bye bye bye bye bye, love you bye. That was
• 1:28:30
  great acting. I love that. Oh thanks, he's busy. I'll do
• 1:28:35
  the touch. The scores is gonna fuck you over. Don't tell me how
• 1:28:46
  the story ends. The Delphic Horracles are on thirteen points. A deadbeat Echo
• 1:28:55
  have taken the lead. They're on fifteen points. The Grover Gambles, Grover
• 1:29:00
  Gambles, did it lovely stuff? Okay, anyone could still win. But
• 1:29:04
  before we get to the quick fire around, let's talk prizes. This episode
• 1:29:09
  star Prize. It's the concept of myth making. Systems of power are only
• 1:29:14
  as strong as the number of people who believe in them. So if you
• 1:29:17
  want to change the world, start telling some myths of your own. And
• 1:29:21
  whatever story you choose to tell, remember to throw in a few pegasus.
• 1:29:25
  Everyone loves a pegasus. But our winning team will also receive the entire teachings
• 1:29:30
  of Socrates on audio book. But it's two hundred hours long and read by
• 1:29:35
  Jordan Peterson. I'm so so sorry, Oh God, I prefer to lose.
• 1:29:44
  Now's your chance. Up Next is our crucial quick fire around, But
• 1:29:49
  first we must play one final set of ads. Zeus demands it. He
• 1:29:54
  says if we don't, he'll give the world Pandora's Box two. And we
• 1:29:59
  all know that sequel set and Pandora are usually worse. So now the answers.
• 1:30:10
  Our final quick fire around will test your broader pop culture knowledge, and
• 1:30:15
  it's called the God Squad. Greek mythology is filled with gods, but this
• 1:30:21
  time I'll be testing our player's knowledge of fictional gods. Calm down, atheists,
• 1:30:27
  all right, I know what you're thinking. Aren't all God's fictional?
• 1:30:31
  You're hilarious. Get it? In this game, I will give our players
• 1:30:39
  clues to a deity slash god from pop culture history. Those clues will be
• 1:30:44
  given in the style of an earnest why a protagonist asking their god for help.
• 1:30:48
  And of course there's a classic gate leapers twist. You need to say
• 1:30:51
  I worship THEE after your answer. So the answer to the question followed by
• 1:30:57
  I worship THEE or I can't give you the point? Well I could,
• 1:31:00
  but I won't. It's it's quick fire, so buzz in by yelling out
• 1:31:04
  your team name. Let's practice that now, all right? So Oracles,
• 1:31:10
  I heard Oracles versus That is what we've got here, Horror. We're better.
• 1:31:15
  No one's shouting. It's nice. Okay. I'll give you an example,
• 1:31:20
  just to give you an idea. Dear God, me and my cousins
• 1:31:25
  are in a lot of trouble right now. There's a witch and a wardrobe,
• 1:31:28
  and well calls yes, Ordre Aslan, I worship thee. It is
• 1:31:35
  Aslan, the lion god, and you do worship him. That would have
• 1:31:40
  been a point were a real question. Do we get it? Are we
• 1:31:43
  understanding? Yes? It's a tough list. I'm not gonna lie to you.
• 1:31:47
  I got my right answer out of the way, Okay, I'll start
• 1:31:53
  the timer. Here we go. Dear God, O, lord of the
• 1:31:57
  North Wind and King of the Platinum Dragons as ruler of good dragon kind.
• 1:32:03
  Yes, Oldra Bahamed, I worship thee. It is Bahama from dungeons and
• 1:32:09
  dragons. Yeah, the dragon God. I got it. Like a second
• 1:32:12
  later, Dear God, I need your ominous octopus embrace you might usually worshiped.
• 1:32:19
  Yes, ben Cthulhu, I worship thee. It is Cthulhu. Yes
• 1:32:25
  for me and buzz in sooner, wake up Jason, Jesus Christ. Dear
• 1:32:31
  Gods, I need all seven of you right now. And believe it or
• 1:32:36
  not, this is the first time I've asked for seven d's at once,
• 1:32:41
  but I do appreciate you were created by a gay man horacles. Yes,
• 1:32:45
  Oldra, I don't actually know what they're called as a group. I know
• 1:32:51
  what they're from. I'm look, this is God, so I'm gonna need
• 1:32:58
  I'm gonna need God's names for this one. I think I think it's you've
• 1:33:01
  got it to shift to name all seven gods or the group the group,
• 1:33:05
  or if you name some gods from it then oh, destiny, desire,
• 1:33:11
  death, dream, Oh, fuck me God, all I can think of
• 1:33:18
  is the eternals, and I know it's not the eternals. I worship THEE.
• 1:33:23
  You said enough of them, you said a lot of individual gods there
• 1:33:25
  in. Then I'm gonna give you the point. It is the endless from
• 1:33:28
  Sandman there, that's the endless for everything like that. Okay, next one
• 1:33:33
  on, Jason, I really do enjoy it, dear God. Wow to
• 1:33:40
  you powerful green skins. I know one of you is brutal but cunning and
• 1:33:44
  the other is cunning but brutal, but either of you will do waw echo.
• 1:33:53
  Yes, Aaron, I'm gonna say this is disturbed. I worship THEE
• 1:33:58
  because they go wow. That's a good answer. It's a good answer.
• 1:34:06
  Yes, forgot nothing, dude. I was thinking Warrior too, and that's
• 1:34:12
  so do you know what my my, my wa sounds a bit too much
• 1:34:15
  like Warrior. It's not. It's not Warrior. Any any guests from Delphi
• 1:34:21
  Oracles or is this one to pass? I think it's gonna have to be
• 1:34:25
  a past. Yeah. This is Gork and Mark, the Orc gods of
• 1:34:30
  Warhammer forty thousand or forty k O forty k Okay, the Orc Gods.
• 1:34:36
  Yeah, I knew that Orcs in World the warcraft went art, so I
• 1:34:41
  was like, they don't say wah, but that that makes sense. It's
• 1:34:44
  a big Orc community thing. Yeah. The only thing I know for warhammer
• 1:34:49
  mm hmm maybe skulls for the Crown of or for the Throne of Skulls or
• 1:34:55
  something like that. Yeah, yeah, that sounds right. That sounds like
• 1:34:59
  it feels like work. Okay, here's your next clue. Dear God,
• 1:35:02
  you are more than just an heir to a great house, and you're so
• 1:35:06
  good at riding worm, so please help us. Yes, Jason, I
• 1:35:11
  don't fucking know his because he has like five names. But Shi Halla Halla,
• 1:35:16
  how you know what I'm trying to say. You know what I'm trying
• 1:35:20
  to say? Do you give Deep I worship Thee? Like that's another one
• 1:35:26
  of his names? That is that's one of his names, right, yeah,
• 1:35:29
  Deep and Shi Hall. So you're you're so close on two of them
• 1:35:34
  and you said I worshiped Thee. Yeah, this is this is Paul Trydes
• 1:35:38
  from Dene. Yeah, good stuff. That's the point. You know what
• 1:35:44
  you're doing? Yes, sir, we got this storm Papa's bringing you home.
• 1:35:49
  Dear God, Oh, supreme authority of the multiverse. I need the
• 1:35:55
  real you, not just the version that's Jack Kirby's meta pencil coming down from
• 1:35:59
  the panels. Oh, echo, fuck me, Yes, the one above
• 1:36:03
  all. I worship THEE. It is from Marvel, the One above all.
• 1:36:08
  Yeah, Dear God, it feels wrong to pray to you, but
• 1:36:13
  you predate existence itself and that's like totally rad and you'll win in the fight
• 1:36:18
  because our enemy only slays vampires. Echo, Yes, Aaron the first,
• 1:36:25
  I worship THEE. Yeah, yeah, the first or the first evil from
• 1:36:29
  Buffy. Absolutely, yes, yeah. I gotta lock back in. Dear
• 1:36:42
  God, you don't get involved that much, and most people in all of
• 1:36:46
  ear and Arda don't even know your name. I'm gonna keep reading Alluvatar,
• 1:37:00
  I worshiped the Yes. Oh it's sucking. Oh it's Lord of the Rings.
• 1:37:09
  That's one for the clip show. Dear God, please don't consume our
• 1:37:19
  planet for fuel. You existracles. I think that's just Jason. I think
• 1:37:25
  that's just Jason. Galactus. I worship THEE. It's not Galactus. I'm
• 1:37:30
  so sorry. I don't know. Ben. Do you want to take it.
• 1:37:34
  You read more of the clue before you buzz in. Yeah, go
• 1:37:38
  for it, because I was thinking you exist outside the matrix of leadership for
• 1:37:45
  a reason. Can I get a second or it is it's Ben's guest.
• 1:37:50
  First show. You show your dark god's strength and then I don't know I
• 1:37:57
  can drive you or whatever these toys do. I'm bored reading this clue.
• 1:38:00
  Oh oh fuck ship uh man, I worship theeicron. Jason. It is
• 1:38:15
  unicorn. I can't believe I'm gonna lose in the fucking Greek with Theology episode
• 1:38:26
  all thanks to a transformer's question. Because of a transformer question, I didn't
• 1:38:32
  even know. I didn't even know you could get a second kiss. It
• 1:38:38
  is when you fuck up your your your take back. Yeah, it's chaos,
• 1:38:44
  all right. Next next clue. Dear God, please provide your butter
• 1:38:48
  knife smooth voice over work to my Penguin documentary. You helped your carry and
• 1:38:53
  sties Jason Morgan Freeman. I worshiped thee yes Morgan Freeman in My die is
• 1:39:02
  the gold we were looking for that. Dear Gods, your status might be
• 1:39:06
  a scheme, but you've blazed a trail to get here and these people believe
• 1:39:12
  in you. I don't even care that you used loaded dice. Oh horricle
• 1:39:19
  yes, Uldre, Tulio and Miguel say it properly, might be mighty and
• 1:39:26
  powerful gods. I wish yes, yes, yes, my impowerful gods.
• 1:39:30
  What is that rotel Dorado? Oh? I first, Tulio and Miguel.
• 1:39:35
  Wow, in my brain, I thought you were talking about like scientology.
• 1:39:40
  I was like, what is the scientology? I think the thing that lives
• 1:39:43
  in the volcano? What is it like something? No, Ben, that's
• 1:39:47
  real. Okay, quick before the buzza, dear god, nepotism is kind
• 1:39:55
  of your thing. And incest, which is of course kind of nept yes
• 1:40:00
  aarons worship the It is Zeus, This is indeed Zeus, and that's the
• 1:40:05
  buzzer. Nepotism incest is the worst kind of nepotism a time. Literally,
• 1:40:14
  It's all I needed to hear was nepotism and incest, and I'm like,
• 1:40:16
  it's Zeus, It's Zeus. Who else could it be? Wow? That
• 1:40:20
  was a close one. Okay, whoa. Before we get to the final
• 1:40:26
  scores, I'd like to thank our players. You've all been heroes of this
• 1:40:30
  minor myth. Thank you for playing your part in the story. Aaron,
• 1:40:33
  your debut novel, Thane is available. Now, what's it about? Yes,
• 1:40:38
  why can our lessoners find it? It is? It is. It's
• 1:40:41
  actually very mythological in the fact that it's not mythological at all, but it
• 1:40:47
  does feature seven strangers trapped in a in a strange compound with a computer voice
• 1:40:51
  that tells them they need to perform tasks to leave, and if they fail
• 1:40:56
  to do that or break the rules, they get to strike. First two
• 1:40:58
  strikes are pain, the third strike is death, and there's naturally more going
• 1:41:02
  on than even they realize. So it's I think it's an exciting and good
• 1:41:06
  yarn and I'm excited to get this kickstarter off the ground for the audiobook because
• 1:41:12
  there's I'm a theater major, so I wrote it kind of like a stage
• 1:41:15
  play almost in that there's a lot of dialogue scenes. So I think when
• 1:41:19
  I get a full cast doing it, it's gonna be awesome. And I'm
• 1:41:21
  so excited, dude. It's gonna be so strong. The dialogue, especially
• 1:41:26
  in your book, is so strong and like very realistic and so of hearing.
• 1:41:30
  It will be amazing I'm stoked, dude, I cannot wait. Nice
• 1:41:35
  and of course your excellent podcast, because fuck you, that's why. Yes,
• 1:41:40
  what's all about? Where can people listen to it? It is a
• 1:41:43
  podcast, It's sorry. It is a panel show inspired podcast. It is
• 1:41:46
  one of the two greatest it is one of the two greatest panel show inspired
• 1:41:49
  podcasts in the universe. And it's a lot of fun. It's me Stevie
• 1:41:54
  and Augie and we're not so much with the themes, but we do play
• 1:41:58
  a lot of silly games and we have a lot of fun. And so
• 1:42:00
  it is. It is very similar to your show, except you are cooler.
• 1:42:08
  You're uh, you'll make it worse. Episode that you did recently was
• 1:42:11
  very funny. Oh god, we we love that new game. Make it
• 1:42:15
  worse. Just take something and make it worse a little bit at a time,
• 1:42:17
  but you have to keep escalating how much worse it gets as you go,
• 1:42:23
  and it becomes Can you get too ambitious right away? No? No,
• 1:42:27
  But it winds up, It winds up in just this just this beautiful
• 1:42:30
  millunge of ridiculousness, and I love it. Yeah, it's it's fantastic.
• 1:42:35
  Links to Thane and b fytw in the show notes of this very podcast.
• 1:42:40
  Thank you kindly. Ben. Where can our listeners get issues of Space Oddities
• 1:42:45
  and you want to sell our listeners on Space Oddities? Oh yeah, yes,
• 1:42:47
  you can go to Space auditiescomic dot com. It's basically a sci fi
• 1:42:53
  comedy adventure story about the cruise ship called the f Tosa where they kind of
• 1:42:58
  the Jorgem, Sanchez and Dirk pick up a like stowaway essentially that ends up
• 1:43:05
  getting them in a lot of trouble and leading to some fun hijinks. And
• 1:43:11
  I think John's been kicking ass drawing it. So uh, I think we're
• 1:43:15
  looking for an early summer, late spring kickstarter for issue three, so we're
• 1:43:21
  kind of back and moving. This is yes, Yes, so save your
• 1:43:27
  money leap Frogs, Yes, and Geek Exploration as well. Still drop in
• 1:43:32
  some new episodes occasionally. Yeah. I've got a new one on Tuesday that
• 1:43:36
  I think we recorded two weeks ago that I still haven't edited, so it's
• 1:43:41
  uh, yes, it will be coming out uh probably before this does.
• 1:43:45
  So this one. I'm editing this one overnight and releasing it tomorrow. So
• 1:43:49
  hot damn yeah, I'm going to die hot off the presses. Extra extra
• 1:43:57
  read all about it. Thank you so much. Ben links to both Space
• 1:44:01
  Oddities and g Exploration in the show notes. Jason, how can our listeners
• 1:44:06
  support your food truck business Studio Munchie. Yeah absolutely, Capitalism is like sissivis
• 1:44:11
  rolling a bowlder up the hill. But my food is to day for So
• 1:44:16
  you can follow us on Instagram and Facebook at Studio Munchie. That's m u
• 1:44:20
  n chi E. That'll be in the show notes just like stuff and if
• 1:44:26
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  to be. Oh well, I think I think my ass is going to
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  the only one with lightning bolts, Matt keeping their lead. We have a
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