3- A Typhon Approaches

After the downfall of her children, Gaia has a trick up her sleeve- Typhon, her monstrous child with Tartarus. Get ready for a story of lullabies, single combat and far too much impromptu surgery, plus confusion between the podcasters about which son of Zeus is actually which!

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NOTE: As we touched upon in the episode, echidnas are spiny monotremes living in Australia which split from the platypus approximately sometime between 17 and 88.9 million years ago.

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