It’s the last episode of the year and the week of Christmas and the hosts have a bad case of senioritis. Niamh is fully checked out. Em wishes she was checked out but has to keep working. We do the damn pod anyway, because we’re professionals.

Things Discussed: home purchasing over?, phone adventures, the Odyssey trailer, no episode next week, health discomfort, Yule celebration, Nodame Cantabile, busy life, Umamusume, a surprise announcement?

See the show schedule here! This’ll tell you which versions of books and which sections of those books we’re reading each week.

Niamh podcasts on Export Audio with Ghost Divers and Ornate Stairwells. Fae posts on bluesky at foxmomnia.exportaud.io and on twitter @foxmomnia

Em hosts Abnormal Mapping and Repertory Screenings on abnormalmapping.com and also is the Pokemon Master of Ceremonies on The Great Gundam Project. She posts on bluesky at shirokumahi.me and on twitter @em_being

Next episode: The Iliad, book 11, from The Iliad, Homer, trans. Emily Wilson (W. W. Norton & Company)