Baby listeners, this week we're comparing Peter Heller's The Dog Stars with Ridley Scott's film adaptation, and somehow a story about the end of civilization left us mostly fighting for our lives against the pacing. We're talking Jacob Elordi's one-note grief, Josh Brolin being way too lovable to be Bangley, why Jasper is the actual star of this entire thing, and the exact moment Grand Junction turns into Alien with cannibals.

Plus, Rebekah declares war on quotation-mark-free prose, Tim listens to an audiobook at unprecedented speeds, and we ask the most important question of the apocalypse: Why are you walking onto a stranger's property WITH A GUN?

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This week, baby listeners, we're comparing Leonie Swann's Three Bags Full with The Sheep Detectives, two stories that technically begin the same way—George is dead and his sheep decide to investigate—and then promptly wander into completely different meadows. The Shee p DetectivesWe're talking Mopple vs. Maple, the book's approximately seventeen thousand sheep, a Guinness-drinking alcoholic ram, the big invisible lamb-beaver made of bread, and why a murder mystery probably shouldn't end with, "Surprise! Nobody murdered him."

And for once, there is basically no family argument over the final verdict.

Which honestly feels suspicious.

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Baby listeners, we have THOUGHTS.

We’re digging into the bizarre, brutal, occasionally cannibalistic epic poem and Nolan’s massive adaptation, including why Matt Damon’s Odysseus feels like a completely different man, whether Tom Holland was wildly miscast, the Circe scene we absolutely loved, the deeply depressing dog on the dung pile, and why kicking said dog means you obviously deserve to visit Hades first.

We also read four different translations of The Odyssey, which means we technically all read the same book while somehow not reading the same book at all. And after nearly 3,000 years of waiting, we finally answer the question Homer was definitely asking: Is the book actually better?

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