OSPod Episode 146: Gods of Greece, Living Weapons, and Bad Boy Cat Debates!

What you'll learn

• 1 (01:19) **Blue and Red's 30s & Greece Trip Stories** - Blue turned 30 and Red recently did too; Red recounts a wild encounter with a Greek tour guide who threatened to call the police for giving an "illegal tour" to family.
• 2 (07:54) **Gods of Greece Mega Compilation Reflection** - Red discusses the process of compiling a 10-year retrospective video, feeling proud of the growth but also the pain of revisiting older, less rigorous work.
• 3 (14:40) **Living Weapons Video Breakdown** - Red explains the genesis of her Living Weapons trope video, starting from a walk where she connected Motoko Kusanagi's name (after a sword) to the trope.
• 4 (21:53) **Plugs and Personal Updates** - Blue plugs the Venezia book campaign shipping soon, and Red announces her first audiobook (Eros Takes a Bow, written by her dad).
• 5 (23:59) **Q&A: Should the other host have tackled a topic?** - Red says the Mummy video felt like it should have been Blue's because of the historical/victorian context; Blue notes that for his Hesiod video, he can carve off the mythological explanation because Red already covered it.
• 6 (26:00) **Q&A: Learning Greek (and Language Learning Struggles)** - Blue laments his lifelong failure to learn Greek, blaming interference from Ancient Greek and lack of immersion; Red contrasts this with her success in Italian after a study abroad.
• 7 (32:59) **Q&A: Favorite Living Weapons** - Red picks Wolverine (especially in "dad mode"), while Blue struggles and eventually settles on Gideon from *Gideon the Ninth*.

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