Episodes

  • Story: Aesop's Fables 3

    Story: Aesop's Fables 3
    Mar 30 2022
    This is the third continuation of Aesop's Fables, I am not seriously thinking about continuing this adventure right now
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    9,903 hrs and 13 mins
  • Story: Aesop's Fables 2

    Story: Aesop's Fables 2
    Mar 30 2022
    This is the second continuation of Aesop's Fables, I have recorded a third one, but I am going to rethink the rest of the book - good grief it's long
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    9,903 hrs and 13 mins
  • Discussion: Aesop's Fables

    Discussion: Aesop's Fables
    Mar 6 2022
    Aesop, who was he and why have his fables had so much traction through history. We have been telling and retelling his stories for thousands of years. let's explore what it is about these tales that gives them so much traction
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    3,174 hrs and 51 mins
  • Story: Aesop's Fables 1

    Story: Aesop's Fables 1
    Mar 6 2022
    As promised in my Blog, I am reading from Aesop's Fables, these are very different from the tales I have been reading. Aesop's name seems to attract stories to it, especially when there is no proof of ownership. The collection of fables attributed to Aesop date back to ancient Greece, but they maintain their relevance across time and culture because they touch on something that is deeply human in all times and places.
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    10,602 hrs and 16 mins
  • Story: Cinderella

    Story: Cinderella
    Feb 26 2022
    This is an early version of Cinderella that most modern readers won't recognize. The slipper is not glass but rather gold. There is no Fairy God Mother no pumpkin, but it's still a version of the story that was told for centuries.
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    8,155 hrs and 35 mins
  • Discussion: Cinderella

    Discussion: Cinderella
    Feb 25 2022
    Cinderella is not a story about a girl with a glass slipper, it's a story of classism, sexism, misogyny, and the patriarchy. The reason this story gets so much traction is history is replete with young women with how can identify with Cinderella
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    2,854 hrs and 27 mins
  • Story: The Red Shoes

    Story: The Red Shoes
    Feb 21 2022
    The story of the Red Shoes by Hans Christian Andersen is a frightening tale about the consequences of the sin of pride. This story is moralistic beyond imagination. The standard of piety is beyond imagination today. For simply taking pride in her red shoes a poor orphan is doomed to dance and dance until she begs to have her feet chopped off lest she die from the punishment of being forced to endlessly dance and dance.
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    7,165 hrs and 16 mins
  • Story: The little goose girl

    Story: The little goose girl
    Feb 19 2022
    A cute little story about a meek and humble princess that is ill-used by her maid as they travel, but the good king uncovers the evil plot and all is well. Except of course for the villain who dies a horrible death. As is the case with so many of these tales, the good are very good the bad are very bad and the punishments are medieval.
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    6,233 hrs and 12 mins