🌞From Corfu to Patmos and Meteora, Madonna has been moving around Greece, and the religious significance of those places is hard to ignore.

So let's follow her journey while we talk about Confessions...! ⛵

💥August 15th commemorates the Dormition of Virgin Mary. Or maybe the Assumption...?

* What if the most important woman in the New Testament simply vanished from history without a single bone left behind?

* Did Mary actually die, or is a single Latin word the real reason Christianity split in half?

* Why do millions celebrate a second Easter in the middle of August for someone whose burial location nobody can prove?

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💥 Did you know that Helen was murdered by another woman?

💥That Hercules had African roots?

💥That the gods used to make holograms?

💥What's the deal with Nolan's "artistic license" with Black Helen?

💥 And what's an egg got to do with all this???

👉🏻 Episode mentioned (Dune & ancient Greece): https://pod.fo/e/2c200b

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💥Now that the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest is over let's go on an incredible ride into its politics!

* How threatening could a song be to require a bulletproof vest?

* Does Israel deliberately lose and finish in 2nd place?

* Which country participated one and only time?

* A bitter name dispute ends, and a scoreboard instantly explodes. Coincidence?

* Which king banned his country to never return?

* Could Greece's history teach Bulgaria something?

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💥Turkey's rhetoric against Greece is at its finest again.

💥At the same time, May 19 commemorates the Greek Pontic Genocide.

💥Let's find out a few things about the Turkish president who is dreaming of a 'blue homeland' and who could even have... Greek roots!

* How does a boy who sold sesame bread in the streets become the most powerful man in Turkey?

* Why would a poem be enough to throw him in prison?

* How Turkish is Erdogan's homeland?

* And how did one night in 2016 change the fate of 80 million people forever?

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💥 April 19th marks the anniversary since Lord Byron's death.

💥 In this episode, we compare the 🇬🇷 Greek-loving poet Byron 🇬🇧 and the 🇹🇷 Turkish-loving writer Pierre Loti 🇲🇫

* Did the gods Athena and Poseidon get their revenge in the 1800s?

* How did a man who inspired a famous opera become a villain in Greek history?

* Was Byron a true hero of the revolution, or just a bored aristocrat?

* Why did a French officer feel more at home in a fake mosque?

* Why did Lord Byron give his life for a reality that Pierre Loti tried to ignore?

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💥 Who said that size doesn't matter? In this episode we compare the greatest Orthodox church with catholic churches and mosques!

* How did a 6th-century church defined architecture for the next 1,000 years?

* Did the Greeks build the world’s largest dome 1,800 years before Hagia Sophia?

* Which European church "stole" the title of the largest church from Hagia Sophia?

* Which modern mosque changed the Istanbul skyline just a few years ago? and

* Which is really the biggest church in the world?

💥 Stick around until the end to find out the building that actually holds the world records today!

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💥 In this episode we see what Greeks and Romans said about Jesus before the Gospels:

* Is the earliest Crucifixion drawing a cruel piece of "wall art"?

* How did a spelling error prove that Jesus was already known in Rome soon after his he died?

* What was so "deadly" about a group that met at dawn to sing hymns?

* How did a Greek philosopher's book written to destroy the memory of Jesus actually become the reason his own name survived history?

👉🏻 Easter episode: https://pod.fo/e/2c7e1c

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💥A two-part Korea series starts with K-Pop Demon Hunters... and ends with a war!

💥 Two countries, 8,000 kilometers apart, ended up living the same Cold War script: civil war, foreign intervention, and dictatorships wrapped in the language of 'freedom'.

Part 1 👇🏻

https://pod.fo/e/35027a

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* Why did naked men chase women with goat-skin thongs?

* Could a birth control plant be the reason why we draw hearts the way we do today?

* Is your 'soulmate' just a fix for a wound caused by Zeus?

* Why did the Greeks fear Eros as a dangerous 'madness'?

* Where can you find the real relics of Saint Valentine?

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