The Odyssey

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Brought up on Modern Wisdom, Bad Friends, Drink Champs, The Daily Stoic, The Joe Budden Podcast and Good Hang with Amy Poehler, most recently on 2026-08-29 — 6 shows, 12 episodes.

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Where it came up

• Modern Wisdom · Mexican Batman, Britain’s Downfall, Mr Bean’s Comeback & Jimmy Carr - Rabbit Hole #5 · at 22:00 · 2026-08-29

  “I had Alex Pekkas on the show and he did a breakdown of the Odyssey, because he can read the original Greek, able to get much more a rich explanation.”Discussed

• Bad Friends · Manic Edging | Ep 334 | Bad Friends · at 14:25 · 2026-08-17

  “It was a poem by the way. It's an epic poem by Homer. And it was told, it wasn't written.”Discussed

• Drink Champs · Earn Your Leisure on Drink Champs - Building Wealth Through Hip-Hop! · at 1:23:37 · 2026-08-17

  “They got um Lupita Younger in the Odyssey and he was on a whole thing of like why is she in the Odyssey?”Discussed

• Modern Wisdom · Q&A: Becoming A Dad, Favourite Peptides & Red Rising · at 3:02 · 2026-08-08

  “You can sit back and enjoy an amazing retelling of the Odyssey by a guy with a beautiful voice for two and a half hours.”Mentioned

• The Daily Stoic · 11 Final Takeaways From The Odyssey · at 0:00 · 2026-08-04

  “What is a 3,000 year-old poem about gods and goddesses, monsters, shipwrecks? What could this possibly teach us here today in the present moment? The answer is everything.”Discussed

• The Joe Budden Podcast · The Joe Budden Podcast Episode 947 | Dragons and Dinosaurs · at 30:30 · 2026-07-19

  “We was reading some of this from a child then read them again as an adult they could literally quote the thing backward and forward”Discussed

• Modern Wisdom · The True Story Of The Odyssey (and why it matters) - Alex Petkas · at 0:00 · 2026-07-18

  “Why is the Odyssey such an important story? Well, it's a story that has affected a lot of people.”Discussed

• The Daily Stoic · The Fall Of The Roman Republic With Barry Strauss · at 47:10 · 2026-07-18

  “My nine-year-old's obsessed with Greek history and having these discussions about the Odyssey”Discussed

• Good Hang with Amy Poehler · Matt Damon | Good Hang with Amy Poehler · at 2:45 · 2026-07-07

  “How do you compete with the imagination of people who have read and studied the Odyssey? I mean, it's like you're competing with the idea of the Odyssey in a way.”Discussed

• The Daily Stoic · How To Think Better in the Age of AI (From the Stoics) · at 25:40 · 2026-05-11

  “In Seneca's time, he was talking about how people will read the Odyssey and debate these arcane points about Odysseus”Discussed

• The Daily Stoic · Arthur Brooks' Ultimate Philosophy Masterclass | The Daily Stoic Podcast · at 47:47 · 2026-03-28

  “It's like the Odyssey basically. The epic adventure of Lord Krishna is the hero's journey but from India”Discussed

• The Daily Stoic · The Complete Stoic Playbook To MASTER Your Emotions · at 21:38 · 2026-03-02

  “The Odyssey is a story about perseverance.”Discussed

Also mentioned in those episodes

• · The HobbitJ.R.R. Tolkien Modern Wisdom
• · The Lord of the RingsJ.R.R. Tolkien Modern Wisdom
• · The hero with a thousand facesJoseph Campbell Modern Wisdom
• · The epic of GilgameshBenjamin R. Foster Modern Wisdom
• · The Great GatsbyF. Scott Fitzgerald Modern Wisdom
• · East of EdenJohn Steinbeck Modern Wisdom
• · Nuclear WarAnnie Jacobsen Modern Wisdom
• · The Anxious GenerationJonathan Haidt Modern Wisdom
• · StonerJohn Williams Modern Wisdom
• · You Deserve to Be RichRashad Bilal Drink Champs
• · The Obstacle is the WayRyan Holiday Modern Wisdom
• · Art of ResilienceRoss Edgley Modern Wisdom

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