Amy Nicholson
speaker
5,140 appearances
14 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 10 Sep
Amy Nicholson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Telemachus is like a gambler, kind of betting that maybe Athena is inside of all of these people until he gets swatted bound down by his dad, who's like, stop looking for gods and men.
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Yeah.
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That if we don't understand what somebody is doing, we can make a wager that they're being made to do it.
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Is that what you mean?
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Or
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you're picking that example too, because so much of how we think of Helen is through did the gods make her do this?
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Did Aphrodite make her leave her husband in the first place?
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Aphrodite is gonna make you like
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Whisk away from your husband and now have sex with Paris again.
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You know, I was really wrestling with the casting of Helen in this, not for all the stupid Elon Musk made up reasons of being mad about things, but because they double cast Lupita and Yango as both Helen and her twin sister Clyde Amnestor.
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They're not twins in the original, but whatever.
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And I I've been really going back and forth on this because I've seen Odyssey twice now.
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I'm a nerd, I have to.
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I was thinking
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Wait, what's the point of having the most beautiful woman in the world be Helen if you have a second one right there, side of Nestra?
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So I was really annoyed by that, the first watch.
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And then the second watch, I thought, oh, maybe that's the point.
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Maybe Christopher Nolan is like, there's two of them.
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Like, why are we even you were just using Helen as a pretext for a war that you already wanted to fight in the first place?
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Agamemnon was just after the trade routes.
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