UPDATE: Technology Failed Me

This is an update where Liv explains how technology failed her, and you all, and why the next Odyssey reading will be slightly delayed. UGH!!!! Pre-order Liv's Odyssey adaptation (!!!), The Odyssey: a Modern Retelling. https://geni.us/TheOdysseyBook Submit your question for the next Q&A via email http://mythsbaby.com/questions or a voice note https://www.speakpipe.com/LTAMB. Get ad-free episodes and so, so much more, by subscribing to the Oracle Edition at patreon.com/mythsbaby http://patreon.com/mythsbaby. Enter ourpodcast guest https://www.mythsbaby.com/contact form if you'd like to be on the show as a conversation guest! Standard Episode: CW/TW: far too many Greek myths involve assault. I try to provide direct warnings when there is reference to anything with overtly traumatic themes but be aware that Greek mythology regularly features assault, death, and many other potentially triggering events. Attributions and licensing information for music used in the podcast can be found here:mythsbaby.com/sources-attributions http://mythsbaby.com/sources-attributions. Learn more about Liv's next group trips https://travelbugxlivalbert.my.canva.site/ to GREECE! Application deadline is November 30 (Subject to change due to demand). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy https://acast.com/privacy for more information.

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• 0:00Liv Albert?

  Hey nerds, really quick note from me. I want to tell you that we now have the applications open for the next set of listener group trips. This is us going back to the original, the trips that we have held in the past that have been so much fun, so successful and pretty affordable in terms of wandering around Greece with a bunch of nerds. So check out the details and get your applications in at mythsbaby.com slash group trip.

• 0:43Speaker 01

  State Fair food is getting smaller and pricier.

• 0:47Speaker 02

  We'll have room for fried cookies.

• 0:48Speaker 01

  Okay, you'd never overspend on food. What's your deal?

• 0:52Speaker 03

  What's his deal? He went to Metro and got $450 in value on the new Samsung Galaxy 837 5G for free and no activation fees.

• 1:00Speaker 01

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• 1:39Liv Albert?

  Oh, hi there. Hello.

• 1:44Liv Albert?

  This is Let's Talk About Myths, baby, and I'm your host Liv. And I'm just here with a quick update right now because I literally just spent almost an hour and a half doing a really, really fun read through of book 12 and the first half of book 13 of The Odyssey. I answered some really fun questions in the middle. I was literally so excited and I just scrolled through to be like, oh, how close am I to being done? Oh, my God, we got two episodes in the, or two books in this episode. It's gonna be so good. I'm so, so happy. And then literally for the first time in years, years.

• 2:26Liv Albert?

  The program I use, like, literally, just in the middle of it, I was, I was just in. And it just blipped and it gave me this error that was like, some kind of backup failed. And then it was just gone. It was just gone. The whole recording was just gone. Um, the only thing left were the labels I had made. Um, so I could make it easier to edit. But those are useless without the audio recording. And also, I put this off because I've been very anxious and also very excited because my book has came out yesterday in the UK. And so I'm recording this on Friday morning. And so I literally woke up at like eight fifteen in the morning to record this. And I was like, this is gonna be great. I'm feeling really good. It's, look, look, look.

• 3:05Liv Albert?

  Anyway, it's gone. It's gone. And I've just been talking for an hour and a half straight. And so if I were to try to do that again, I would both go a little crazy and also destroy my voice. Because one person shouldn't talk for three hours straight.

• 3:19Liv Albert?

  Anyway, so I'm, this is the update because I have to put something out. And I'm so sad and so frustrated and so annoyed. And I don't have an episode for you all. I don't want to do another re-air because I just wanted to read the Odyssey.

• 3:35Liv Albert?

  I think I'll try again tomorrow. So here's your update for now. Um.

• 3:42Liv Albert?

  I hope you're at least laughing because I'm so annoyed. Uh, um, well, what I'm telling you now. Um, as a little bit of a, I don't know, consolation. So I also, this is now a peek behind the curtains, might as well. What else am I gonna do today's episode? I don't have anything.

• 4:03Liv Albert?

  I am going to be releasing, um, and a clip it, a clip it, a snippet, a clip of the audiobook of my modern retelling of the Odyssey for children. And I'm really excited about it. And the audiobook was so fun to record, speaking of speaking for hours. I guess in that case, I did speak for about hour, eight hours straight. But guess what? I don't feel like doing it again today. I have, I have so much else to do. Oh, I was almost done. It was so good. I had such fun. I was doing, I was getting a good vibes. It was, that was a good one.

• 4:37Liv Albert?

  Anyway, I can't bring myself to learn a new recording software. So here we are. Um, this is what we got. Uh, so that's all to say, hey, would you all let me know what bit of the Odyssey would be most fun to hear the audiobook from? Basically, I can play any moment and I'm gonna share as long as I can. I think it's gonna be pretty good. Um, I can also put together a couple different moments into one episode as a teaser for this audiobook. So let me know what bits of the Odyssey you'd like to hear from my audiobook, not the reading as usual, but my audiobook, which is of course,

• 5:20Liv Albert?

  read by me and is so much fun. It was great. It was another good day where I had a great recording session, but that one wasn't lost. Cause a professional was doing it. Thank God. Um, anyway, so, uh, share that and I will hopefully I'm gonna try, I think, to, to record this tomorrow morning instead. So, uh, you may just have, uh, your next reading episode. Um, a day or so late. For now though, I hope you've at least been able to laugh a little at my pain. I am able to laugh at my pain, but I'm also very sad and annoyed because it was really good. And how do I know it's gonna be as good again? And ugh.

• 6:04Liv Albert?

  Thank you all. Um, stay tuned for more. I am Liv and I love this shit and I love you all for dealing with this and hopefully at least laughing at my pain just a little.

• 6:31Speaker 01

  State Fair food is getting smaller and pricier.

• 6:35Speaker 02

  We'll have room for fried cookies.

• 6:36Speaker 01

  Okay, you never overspend on food. What's your deal?

• 6:39Speaker 03

  What's his deal? He went to Metro and got $450 in value on the new Samsung Galaxy 837. 5G for free and no activation fees.

• 6:48Speaker 01

  Free phone? Oh, sign me up.

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