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I guess Nick is just a great guest for 3 parters? This week, host Zion Lashua and special guest Nicholas Cohn conclude Lucian's A True Story! Thank you all so much for joining us these past 3 episodes! This week, there will be a magical marshmallow, phalluses used as masts, and another person turns into a donkey! Join us and learn that anything can be water if you believe hard enough!

It's the second part of the whackiest story that we have covered yet! Check out last week's episode for the beginning, because this time we truly venture into the belly of the beast...literally! Lucian's A True Story continues with host Zion Lashua and special guest Nicholas Cohn! This episode look forward to underwater igloos, grand theft dolphin, and a lactose-intolerant person's worst nightmare! 

Sorry for the delay, but now we are back and better than ever! Join host Zion Lashua and special guest and science fiction expert Nicholas Cohn as the two examine the first ever piece of science fiction literature! Lucian's a True Story is full of whacky adventures too big to fit into a single episode! This is the first section filled with Bacchus' secret wine laboratory, a true war of the worlds, and a lesson in anatomy! 

You read that title right! What Helen is there other than the Helen of Troy you ask? Well, just look to your buddy Euripides, who presents an alternate version of the story of the Trojan war! This is two episodes in a row of Euripides, what can I say? I'm a fan! Join host Zion Lashua with special guest Jordi Fernandez as the two explore snake unicorns, bubble buddy from Spongebob, and how you really can't trust anything! 

Euripides is quite the playwright and today host Zion Lashua and special guest Olivia Page discuss Alcestis, one of Euripides' earliest plays! What would you do if you could live forever? All it costs is having the person who you love most in the world die instead?? Interested? Then this play is for you! Join the pair as they discuss ancient haircuts, the ethics of Minecraft vegetarianism, and how lopsided a cart would be if it was pulled by a lion and a boar!

It's a Novis episode! Shawn is hosting again and this week we're talking about math? You read that right! Join temporary host Shawn Choi as he leads Zion Lashua through the history of Calculus! While this is not our usual territory, it just goes to show that history is everywhere and can make anything interesting, we hope? Join the pair as they talk about pizza, math duels, and the true secret behind the apple that fell on Newton's head! 

Welcome back! We took a bit of a break for the holidays but we are starting 2022 off strong! This week, join host Zion Lashua joined by Shawn Choi as the two explore Norse mythology for the first full episode focusing on it! This is the story of Kvasir, the super duper smart god made of spit?? Explore gamers in valhalla, dwarf punting, and how salmon got their tail fins! 

Welcome back! This week host Zion Lashua is joined by special guest Jordi Fernandez! Join the two as they explore the Acts of Saint Philip! This boisterous apostle certainly gets up to a lot of trouble! Today theres dragons, blindness, and a talking cat?! 

Welcome back! This week, host Zion Lashua guides special guest Shawn Choi through the story of the founding of Rome! Join the pair as they discuss animal fun facts, floating ghost phalluses, and why you should never make fun of your brother's trench. 

Welcome back to It's a Classic! This week, host Zion Lashua is joined by special guest Nicholas Cohn in order to investigate the mysterious affair of Alexander of Abonoteichos! I'm sure he would've gotten away with it too, if not for you meddling listeners! Enjoy as the pair explore goose eggs filled with snakes, lions swimming across the Danube, and a puppet dictating law within ancient Rome! Thanks again for listening! 

We are back in Ancient Greece! This time we are exploring a first for the podcast, an Athenian comedy! Aristophanes' The Clouds is a hilarious (in Zion's opinion) parody of Socrates and his followers. Join Host Zion Lashua and very special guest Shawn Choi as the two explore fart jokes, the gender of pigeons, and how great this play would work if it was set in the 1980's!

Hey everybody! Today the episode is a venture into late Roman history! Join Host Zion Lashua and special guest Hannah as the two explore the intricacies of the Byzantine Empire through the eyes of a mysterious man named Procopius! They will learn the proper way to dispose of tongues, what you should never say to an emperor, and why sometimes, it's best to just run away and become a monk! 

Melanie is back as a special guest this episode! Host Zion Lashua is joined by his lovely girlfriend Melanie Cruz! Last time they talked about Cupid and Psyche, but this time what else could they talk about but spiders and hubris! Join them as they find out what you have to do to get turned into a magpie, how much one should respect the gods, and why you should always allow a mysterious stranger to drink from your spring. 

Today Host Zion Lashua and very very special guest Shawn Choi (he's earned that second very) examine Crito, the Socratic dialogue that follows the Apology and rounds off this pseudo-trilogy of Greek Philosophy! Today the pair compares Colonial American and Ancient Greek dental habits, enjoy another of Socrates' famous metaphors and are even joined by a third guest?! 

Last time Host Zion Lashua and very very special guest Shawn Choi examined Euthyphro, today is the continuation of that with Plato's Apology! Join them as they ask burning questions such as: Is Wendy's the new Socrates? What punishment does Socrates deserve? and just how heavy handed are those God's not Dead movies? 

It's a Classic is back in Ancient Greece! This time host Zion Lashua and very very special guest Shawn Choi discuss Euthyphro, one of the Socratic dialogues. Will they discover the very nature of piety? Will Socrates ever stop annoying people? Will they ever stop talking about balls? 

It's another episode of History or BS-Story! This time host Zion Lashua is joined by special guest Nicholas Cohn! Will Nick be able to outperform Shawn from the last episode? To do so, he'll have to know what Aristotle thought about octopi, the details of Egyptian monsters, and what fig leaves have to say about the ocean! 

It's about time we talked about Egypt! Join host Zion Lashua as he is accompanied by Emma Dominguez! The two will explore Egyptian birthing practices, Scrooge McDuck (again somehow) and most importantly, Hatshepsut, the woman king of ancient Egypt. 

Welcome back to It’s a Classic! It’s about time that we covered some stories from India, and where better to start than the Ramayana? It’s the Hindu epic that has everything from giant fire demons to a beautiful wedding! Join host Zion Lashua and guest Shawn Choi as they explore the beginning of the journey of Rama as he quests to save the world! 

This week, it's a Novis episode! Join host Shawn Choi as he guides Zion Lashua through an assortment of Korean fairy and folk tales! Learn about underworld journeys, a crazy hungry tiger, and the origin of the rooster!