This Episode is Full of Lies: Lucian's A True...

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⁠Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! ⁠ In this episode, we’ll delve into the mystery of Aokigahara, known in Japanese as the Sea of Trees—and to the rest of the world as the Suicide Forest. After the Golden Gate Bridge, it is the second most popular suicid ...  Show more

Liv reads Lucian's True History, translated by Francis Hickes. In a satirical novel of epic proportions, Lucian invents a world featuring rivers of wine and trips (and resulting wars!) to the moon and the sun.This is not a standard narrative story episode, it's a reading of an an ...  Show more

Liv reads Lucian's True History, translated by Francis Hickes. In a satirical novel of epic proportions, on the Island of the Blessed Lucian meets (and gossips about) all the most famous men of myth and history. Then, who's in Tartarus anyway?This is not a standard narrative stor ...  Show more

Liv reads Lucian's True History, translated by Francis Hickes. In a satirical novel of epic proportions, Lucian and his companions get eaten by a whale, fight a war inside, before they eventually land on the island of the blessed...This is not a standard narrative story episode, ...  Show more