LP0050 Q&A

Legendary Passages #0050 - Q&A - A very special episode of Legendary Passages.     Hi there, my name is Joel, I am the long time host of this podcast, and I have with me here my sister Aly.     "Hello everyone!"     So, I'm going to have my sister Aly ask me why I'm doing this and all sorts of other things that'll spring to her mind.     "Alright, so I guess my first question is: what made you so interested in Greek Mythology to begin with?"     Ah! I've been interested in Greek Mythology probably ever since the Hercules and Xena era of television. So, ah, I just started doing some light reading, researching. And then I discovered, wait a minute, all these stories don't really make sense and work well together. And that kinda turned into a project were I was gonna write a book about the Amazons and the Argonauts and how those adventures happened at the same time. And I discovered all these other things that were going to happen before that, so I started writing a book called BASTARD HEROES, and I was doing research on that and I was like, well I could just turn this research project into a podcast just so I could keep everything straight. And that's how this whole thing kinda got started.     "Wow, that's awesome. So what is your end goal in all this?"     Oh, goodness. While it's rich and complex and vast and contradictory... there actually isn't a whole lot of it. So it's theoretically possible to say it all out loud, have it be in public spaces, and people can take a little here, and a little there, and a little here and get the gist of it, or they could go in depth.     "Great. So in your podcasts, you often use, um, groups of six- why do you do that?"     I like to have a focal point- I like telling one story and various different angles on it I can find. Because most of these texts are just- this happened, then this happened, and this happened; sometimes its just kind of an anthology that will jump around completely random. I want to know what the actual story behind all these texts were. I'm trying to triangulate on it, and six seemed like an even number...     "Great. You also mentioned a book named BASTARD HEROES- what is that?"     It is currently the story of Theseus and Hercules and their initial adventures- and it will lead up through with the adventures with the Argonauts. And eventually those stories will come to their natural conclusions, and I will move on to stuff that happens before the Trojan War, then the Trojan War itself, then the Odyssey....     I'm not just trying to do a podcast about all these things, I'm actually trying to write a book that has, not quite official but orderly version of all this, that is comprehensible to people like myself and any other intense mythology geeks or whatever!     "Um, lets see..."     How about I ask you a question?     "Sure!"     Do you have any interest in Greek Mythology?     "I do, and it started from a very early age, with me pretending to be Xena..."     I remember this-     "...when I was very young. And I think I- I would watch it with you, if I'm not mistaken."     Yep, way back in the nineties.     "Yeah, so that was my initial peak. And then, during the same time, the Disney version of Hercules came out too. So, from just from a very early age, television has kinda influenced my looking into Greek mythology."     Well that was kinda the only avenue you had to at the-     "Yeah."     The texts themselves are obscure, and annoying to read, and archaic. And that Hercules movie- they took some dramatic liberties, considering just how violent Hercules is. Anyone that's listened to some of the Hercules ep