Hey, hi!

It's your old buddy, Alli Ward.

Your old weird dad wearing corduroy pants coming to you from a hotel room in Portland,

Oregon, overlooking a bus stop in a variety of dumpsters.

But in this episode, we'll all be transported to Rome and a small theater in Texas and

Mesopotamia and the Underworld and the Amazon and Detroit.

Because mythology.

Let's talk about myths.

There are two things.

There are sweeping epic tales that transcend time and culture and then there's also weird

school yard lies like tongue kissing will make you pregnant.

For this episode, we're focusing on the sweeping epics.

So where does myth come from?

Well, in short, it's Greek.

It means story or word.

So narratives.

Now, before we meet ourologist, I do want to tell you a story about this lady who makes

a podcast.

And every week, she would creep into a cave.

So known as her closet filled with laundry and read all of the magical reviews that beautiful

elves with ears would leave her and it would make her so happy and like a clarion call.

It would make the podcast go up in the charts and alert everyone in the land to listen.

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