Anything with a narrative can have depths worth exploring. There’s no better way to explore them than in needlessly deep conversations with your friends. As your new friends, we’ll be diving into books, movies, music, and TV shows, even if at first glance they don’t seem worth exploring. Join us for new episodes, new stories, new spelunks two Wednesdays a month!
Anything with a narrative can have depths worth exploring. There’s no better way to explore them than in needlessly deep conversations with your friends. As your new friends, we’ll be diving into books, movies, music, and TV shows, even if at first glance they don’t seem worth exploring. Join us for new episodes, new stories, new spelunks two Wednesdays a month!

From Gilgamesh to Frodo and Odysseus to Harry Potter, there is nothing new under the sun when it comes to the narrative journey great heroes must take. Pop cinema revolutionary George Lucas knew this well when creating 1977's A New Hope. Join us as we take a shallow dip into the bottomless waters of exploring Star Wars to find out just how deeply ingrained the Hero’s Journey is into this story.
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