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BONUS: What Makes an Epic, Well, Epic?
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BONUS: What Makes an Epic, Well, Epic?

Friday’s bonus episode on Sunday!

Programming note: due to an unforeseen keyboard incident leading to the replacement of, well, the entire keyboard on my laptop, this week’s bonus episode is coming to you a couple days late. Many apologies!

On this week’s special members-only bonus episode, the gang discusses their favorite historical epics and try to suss out what makes an epic an epic

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