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Greeced Lightning Podcast
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A podcast about myths, movies, and one doctor of classics teaching two dumb idiots about history and mythology
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It’s the end of Season 3, and your hosts speculate about the future of civilization in 2025 while discussing the Peloponnesian War: peace agreements, ancient plague, a bag of dicks, and a look back on the season.

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May 27, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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We continue our Age of Empires 2 campaign with the Persian Wars! Join Sara and Sam for ostracism procedures, wily old Themistocles, and Sara’s waning tolerance for podcasting while pregnant.

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May 12, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Back in the Game Room, your hosts tackle Part 1 of the Chronicles: Battle for Greece in Age of Empires 2. Join us to discuss Europeans stealing historical treasures, ancient tyrants, and the Ionian revolt.

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April 28, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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We’re going back to our Greeced Lightning roots and revisiting the Trojan War! Join us for the Troy: Fall of a City for the correct usage of chariots, birth plans, Bjӧrk-ified Helen, and distracting bowl cuts.

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April 14, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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t’s Macedonian War time in the Greeced Lightning Game Room! Join Sara and Sam to discuss the Battle of Pydna, layoffs and unions, war elephants, and Total War: Rome II.

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March 31, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Sara and Sam dive into Broadway with Hadestown. After a brief recap of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, we’ll dig into wedding night ceremonies, opera adaptations, unionizing, and the trouble with the perfect song.

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March 17, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Sara and Sam upgrade to a Game Room for Caesar III. Travel back to the era when “online” was still two words for: surprisingly horny video games, accidental slums, ancient fire brigades, and multipurpose holes.

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March 3, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Sam and Sara take on Pompey and Julius Caesar’s civil war: populist politics, Cicero’s foibles, the sluttification of a model Roman matron, respect for ancient doctors, and the drama (and nudity) of HBO’s Rome.

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February 17, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Today we’re in Sam’s Video Game Corner! Sam takes Sara through Age of Mythology: Retold. Discussion includes Plato’s Atlantis, early bedtimes, the collapse of civilizations, and a hard no on ancient aliens.

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February 3, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Season 3 of Greeced Lightning is here! Join us as we cover the Netflix series Kaos, including: Prometheus vs. Zeus, trans people in myth, the dangers of prophecy interpretation, and Hera’s creepy tongue room.

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January 20, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Sam and Sara bring you this special broadcast for the release of Gladiator 2! Join us for historically inaccurate weaponry, tyrannical brother emperors, unusual animal appearances, and a rip roaring good time.

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November 25, 2024 at 8:50 PM
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It’s the Season 2 finale and we’re going out with a comedic bang! Join Sara and Sam for Oscar Wilde’s riff on Plautus, including ass tattoos, our preferred Colin Firths, and talking the highs and lows of this season.

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August 26, 2024 at 7:38 PM
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Sam and Sara learn about Boudica, Queen of the Iceni. Learn just how little we know about this badass and brutal leader as well as temples to modern politicians and advice from child ghosts. CW: rape, physical abuse

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August 12, 2024 at 3:08 PM
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Sara and Sam explore the sitcoms of the ancient world: the Roman comedies by Plautus. Join us to learn about vibe translations, Buster Keaton’s criminally brief storyline, camel-related compliments, the hosts’ breakfasts of choice, and more!

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July 29, 2024 at 7:32 PM
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We can’t quit you, Legio IX! Sara and Sam explore the decline of the Western Roman Empire with topics like Germanic invasions, the last Western emperor, incorrect inscriptions, and white supremacist-adjacent legends!

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July 15, 2024 at 3:24 PM
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In our most chaotic episode yet, Sara and Sam dish up a big bowl of myth soup with Percy Jackson. Ingredients include: venereal disease, pasta water on tap, and Sam and Sara’s top priorities for social & political reforms.

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July 1, 2024 at 4:13 PM
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Sara and Sam return to Roman Britain to discuss the conquering governor Agricola and the ultimate fate of the mysterious 9th Legion. Join us for conversation about military inscriptions, outdated female archetypes, and Bush era filmmaking.

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June 17, 2024 at 2:28 PM
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Sara and Sam tackle the Roman conquest of Britain! Join us for travel tidbits, border walls, special trips to Sam’s Video Game Corner, and how far your hosts would go to prevent starvation on the moors.

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May 20, 2024 at 3:55 PM
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This episode, we dive back into the wonderful world of Homer’s Odyssey! Join and learn about the supporting characters of the Odyssey, along with ancient fanfiction, seduction by dairy products, more Kirk Douglas and questionable audio-dubbing choices.

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May 6, 2024 at 3:50 PM
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Sara and Sam reminisce about their introduction to Mel Brooks, then discuss the wild and violent life of Emperor Nero, including: mediocre arts talent, gay marriage, murdering family members, and more! CW: murders, suicides.

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April 22, 2024 at 6:17 PM
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The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return. Or maybe it’s the myth of Orpheus. This #MythMonday, special guest Jackie Banigan joins us for the rock star of Greece, 19th century Parisian demimonde and marching band confessions.

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April 8, 2024 at 5:54 PM
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CW: suicide. After starting this super-sized episode with some good old-fashioned Plato-bashing, Sara and Sam consider Cleopatra’s connections to the Roman civil wars, drunken Richard Burton, and royal bedroom exploits of multiple genders.

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March 25, 2024 at 4:23 PM
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Today Sam and Sara dive into the world of the Amazons, including: misogynistic geographers, Artemis/Diana’s rage, poorly designed armor, chaotic special effects, and crimes against the voice of David Thewlis.

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March 11, 2024 at 8:44 PM
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I’m Spartacus! You’re Spartacus! Today we’re taking a deep dive on Roman slavery and Spartacus’s revolt. Join us for the brutality of the rich, paganism-Judaism crossovers, ancient grooming practices, and a little objectification of classic film stars.

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February 26, 2024 at 8:27 PM
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This #MythMonday, Sara and Sam discuss Theseus, also known as Heracles 2.0 and Ancient Greece’s chief asshole. Sara mangles Greek geography and bemoans the genre of myth soup movies. Sam finds a new model of fatherhood. The hosts drool over Henry Cavill.

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February 12, 2024 at 4:40 PM