Mark Gagnon
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That is just a regular six.
For you, I mean, come on.
That's what I mean.
This is a fascinating story, truly.
I mean, Alexander the Great, that's kind of my purview into this.
I never actually read Iliad, the Odyssey, any of that.
I mean, no, I read the Odyssey.
I never read the Iliad.
But I understand that, you know, Alexander the Great wanted to be Achilles.
That was his thing.
He was like, I am destined to be Achilles.
I'm literally the guy in the book.
Like, that is a wild amount of influence.
And for the longest time, people were like, oh, yeah, this is just a story.
But according to some current records, the line between what is real and what is fake has been blurred.
And today we're figuring that all out.
So first, let's understand the Trojan War.
We have to understand the mythos around it.
And really, we got to understand the ancient Greeks, which...
No one has ever done in history, but we're going to give it our best shot, all right?