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Ok so my inner June is a little confused and worried that MC Gainly said he raised his children in the tour van. Do you think he thinks of that chicken as his child? Did he possibly have more than one? Or were actual human children raised in this van and I'm having a spaghetti robot moment? Either way I have questions and am UPSET

Thank you! I thought maybe I misheard it at first but I guess I didn't. it was such a bizarre line. The only explanation I can think of is that pandas are really popular? That still doesn't excuse bear racism though. Which makes me wonder about if the bear community deals with racism and did they have their own civil rights movement inside the community? Did they have one to be recognized as citizens?

So this movie means that we get to talk about my favorite week of the year! FAT BEAR WEEK!!! Every year in the fall Katmai National Park in Alaska holds a March Madness style competition online to see which of their Brown Bears is going to be the reigning champion and be the fattest, most chonkiest, Absolute Unit of a bear they can possibly become before hibernate kicks in. It's truly an amazing time. Last year's winner was the magnificently corpulent BEADNOSE! I can't wait for this year's event!

She has mentioned being at the Factory as a kid....

So while you can't get drunk off honey you CAN get high.There's a form of honey from the black sea region of eastern Turkey and parts of Nepal that has hallucinogens in it from the natural neurotoxin grayanotoxin in some rhododendrons nector. It's know as "Mad Honey". It's been around for millennia and has even been used as a tool of war. In B.C.E. 67 Pompey the Great lost over a 1,000 men in a battle with the Persian King Mithridates after they were tricked by the pots of honey the Persians had left out for them to eat . The men were too sick and weak to fight back . In parts of Turkey and Nepal mad honey is used as a form of traditional medicine. It's used as a way to get a boost of energy, relive hypertension,and is seen as a form of natural Viagra. Mad honey gives you a sense of euphoria, lightheadedness, and sometimes hallucinations . However the honey can have unfortunate side effects like vomiting, diarrhea, loss of consciousness, seizures and although rare, it can be fatal if you eat too much. It's also one of the most expensive honeys in the world at $60 to $80+ a pound .

This is everything I never knew I wanted?! Please talk about how disturbingly long and supermodel like Tom Selleck's legs are? Heidi Klum who?! Also clearly Jessica is the world's GREATEST serial killer.

It's in my shopping cart. My cat is a weirdo and loves mostly dry food but sometimes I but him canned tuna or salmon in water as a treat. To this day I don't like using salad forks because my mom would use them for the cat food.

Are you trying to tell me Sexy Space Iguana Goddess is not THE look?! Lies! Blasphemy! I thought she looked like a retro Martian from some weird old timey space musical of MGM's. It's better than two spray painted seashells, a thong, and a necklace of toilet paper though. Speaking of outfits can we talk about Circe's upsetting vagina fringe on her leotard?

When he mentioned his labyrinth I thought for sure that at the end we would see Herc wrestle with a muscle man Minotaur with like a robo bull head or something

Yeah now that you being it up I thought his power was from the Phoenix? Maybe they used the sword to contain it?

I thought that it was at the Temple so it was the gods. I assumed he was using it as an excuse to seize power and kill him. To be like " Look he stole the sacred sword! I had to kill him he was a sacrilegious monster who knows what he would use it for! " to get the rest of the army and populace on his side?

So I don't know as much about Norse myth but from what I remember Hel is actually where most of the dead end up in Norse mythology. There are three places you could go: Valhalla if you were a warrior presided over by Odin and the Aesir gods , Folkvang a warm meadow that the other half of warriors ruled by Freya who was a part of the second clan of the gods the Vanir, and then Hel if you didn't die as a warrior. It sounds like a better version of the Fields of Asphodel .

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Ah but of course!

So of the two who do you think would win in a choir off: The Fighting Temptations of the choir from Joyful Noise? I mean on the one hand Beyonce ....but on the other Dolly. Fudging. Parton

Hades is the God of the underworld and has become synonymous with his domain You would be judged by a council of three dead kings who were the judges of the dead, Aeacus, Minos, and Rhadamanthus. ( why they let fucking Minos on the tribunal I will never understand) If you were truly evil you wound up in the worst part of the underworld Tartarus. (It should be noted that the very ancient Greeks actually viewed Tartarus as something much different than what the later classical Greeks did. To them it was a place apart from Hades and underneath it . It was the exclusive jail of the Titans ) . There you would find classic punishments such as Tantulus stuck in a pool of water with a fruit tree hanging just above him that are both always out of his grasp ( He dared host the gods and then tricked them into eating human flesh). But on the whole most people ended up in the bland Fields of Asphodel where your shade just floats around aimlessly for all eternity. This of course assumes you were given the proper burial rights and had been given money to give to be ferried across the river Styx. If you didn't your shade would be forced to haunt the bank of the river for eternity. They could also return to earth and haunt people until they were properly buried. But on the whole the shades had very little substance to them and needed to have a blood sacrifice to help them be more present because as mentioned the Fields of Asphodel kind of dulled their senses so they were just mindless wisps. Not sure if that applies to the dead who weren't buried right through? I get the sense that the Greeks feared the dead but not TOO much.

I'm the movie they show a few of these. There's the cleaning of the stables that he does by moving the river in the myth as well. They mixed the hydra and Cerberus because The Goodest Boi is the TRUE guardian of the gates of the underworld to keep shades from escaping.

The whole reason Hercules is NAMED Hercules was to appease Hera. Hercules is the Roman version of his name which is really Heraklês. Like " Sorry your husband raped me please don't torture me or my child! Here we named him for you please just have a little mercy!! " He seems to be her most hated of Zeus's offspring. Like she just SNAPPED when it came to him. She started attacking him while he was still in the womb by delaying his birth so he misses out on Zeus's decree that the next male child born that day will be lord over everything or something. She makes sure another child is born prematurely as well and them Hercules had to serve him. Then while he's an infant she sends to snakes to kill him. Like girl. Maybe chill a wee bit? Of course she drives him mad and he murders his wife and children... As you do. Extra awkward that when he becomes a God he ended up marrying her daughter Hebe (his third wife. his second one accidentally killed him. Who among us hasn't believed the evil centaur who kidnapped us and tried to assult us when he says his blood will save your marriage from infidelity! I exclusively take marriage advice and love potions ONLY in this scenario! Dr. Phil who?!) I wonder how dinner with the in laws works in that family. Granted it's a giant incest knot of relations so it's gonna be awkward. Also Bubo the owl is EVERYTHING And I still have a crush on Callisto from Xena. She deserved a more interesting Xena like redemption than becoming an angel and all that insanity.

I need June to talk about these costumes.

Did Hercules ever actually find out why he's so strong? Seems like he got waylaid there a bit...

As a life long Greek mythology nerd I have to say this film was wild. I think my favorite ( ie I could enjoy and not want to yell at the screen about it being incorrect because I 'm *THAT* nerd. Harry Potter movies are a real experience with me let's just say...) Was that they turned Daedalus into a fun campy Martian lady with a fondness for automatons that look like you can buy them at Toys R Us. An improvement on the eventually bitter and cruel inventor of the Labyrinth. not that I wouldn't be bitter if I was forced to make my queen a cow fuck suit so she could seduce a bull them have to build, and eventually be imprisoned because of building, a deadly labyrinth for her monstrous child, only to escape but to have my son son die in the process in part due to my invention. I don't think I would murder my nephew because I couldn't bare the thought of having someone else be as clever as me but you know we all grieve differently. Martian Lady is much more fun.

Did anyone else notice at the start of the movie when they show Hercules floating in the stars while making him he's fully nude and has no dick. He looks like a Ken doll . Even the way his arms are posed looks like a doll. Is this a doll?? Like did they make a doll to sell or something and used it?

Poor Callisto. I always felt so bad for her. The myth I read had Artemis turning her into a bear for lying about losing her virginity. either way Callisto could not catch a break! She was a follower of Artemis and Zeus tricks her into sleeping with him by morphing into her ( using the image of your daughter to rape someone... Stay classy Zeus) then she gets kicked out for losing her virginity, is turned into a bear, and her fucking son kills her.

So the ancient Greeks actually had myths about automatons aka robots. https://www.theoi.com/Ther/Automotones.html This is a great list of several of them ( I might read this site for fun when bored). Almost all the Automatons were built by the God of the Forge Hephaestus or have been attributed to the creator of the Labyrinth Daedalus. During Jason and the Argonauts they come up against Talos a bronze man who was made by Hephaestus to protect Crete. There's the fire breathing horses He made for some of his son's that are called the Horses of the Cabeiri, as well as fire breathing bronze bulls Jason has to use to plow a field to plant Dragon teeth that turn into skeleton warriors. ( As you do). He also made the eagle that eats Prometheus's liver every day. (I always thought that was a live eagle not one made of bronze) On a lighter note Hephaestus made the Golden Celedones who were gold singing women for the temple of Delphi . He also built what has basically sets of table roombas called Golden Tripods that wheeled themselves around Olympus during feasts whenever gods wanted them. Because it's got to be hard to get cater waiters on Mount Olympus. I did a quick Google search and it also looks like there were some automatons in Greek history as well. Notably there was a steam powered pigeon made by the Greek philosopher/ mathematician Archytas.

I mean I guess if the town was small enough and the church was THE social place it could happen if they decided she wasn't welcome in the church. I'm just confused because now I want to know if the entire congregation is banned from listening to secular music? Like is this the most Christian town ever??