Stop! Homer Time: The Odyssey (2026)

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**Craig** (2:17)
Hey everybody, welcome to Overdue. It's a podcast about the books you've been meaning to read. My name is Craig.

**Andrew** (2:23)
My name is Andrew.

**Craig** (2:25)
And we are here to discuss The Odyssey 2026 Andrew, I have some pull quotes from a review that I found. I'd just like to share them with you real quick.
Solid, better than expected, surprisingly delightful, generally attractive, lots of room, button heavy center, providing abundant space for people and their things.

**Andrew** (2:59)
Are you describing the movie or are you describing me?

**Craig** (3:02)
This is a review of the 2026 Honda Odyssey. That's what we're here to talk about?

**Andrew** (3:08)
That's a funny bit. That's a funny bit that you did.

**Craig** (3:12)
We're not talking about that car anymore?

**Andrew** (3:14)
No, we're not talking about the car anymore. We've in fact never...
It would make more sense for us to do an experimental episode about a car because that would be like a new thing that we haven't done recently.

**Craig** (3:27)
We could call it car talk because we're going to talk about the car.

**Andrew** (3:29)
We could call it car talk because we're going to get to talk about the cars and we're like a couple of funny guys. We are, we're cut ups. You're right.
But no, this is so, remember in April when we did Twilight? Oh, we were kind of giving ourselves a break that month. And then this and then this month we're back with another Robert Pattinson movie called The Odyssey, directed by Christopher Nolan.

**Kyle Mooney** (3:55)
Oh, that Odyssey.

**Andrew** (3:57)
There was some, there was some, that was funny when we did that in the theater. There was some debate behind the scenes as to whether it would be cool to do another movie for our book podcast where normally each week one of us reads a book that we never read before and tells the other person about it.
But we have spent a lot of episodes talking about Homer.

**Craig** (4:18)
Yeah, we feel like we wanted to talk about this movie.

**Andrew** (4:21)
And The Odyssey and the Iliad, and specifically translator Emily Wilson's takes on those two works. We interviewed her twice. I feel comfortable describing her as a friend of the show.

**Craig** (4:31)
Yeah.

**Andrew** (4:32)
And not in like a funny, like jokey joke way.

**Craig** (4:36)
No, I feel like we got, I can think of at least one anecdote from a listener saying that they mentioned the show to her at a book signing and she remembered who we were.

**Andrew** (4:48)
Yeah, I think our camps are friendly.

**Craig** (4:50)
Yeah, yes. We are on the same side of the Trojan wall, let's say.

**Andrew** (4:55)
And this, and this, and which side is it? You'll have to find out. Yep. But yeah, this, this movie came out. It's been, it's, it's done pretty well.