21 min listen
Episode 88 - The Quest for Immortality
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21 minutes
Released:
Feb 7, 2015
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Podcast episode
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This week; a mad emperor on a quest to live forever, and the sorcerer who led an expedition to make it happen and may just have founded Japanese civilization in the process (but probably not). It's the likely untrue but still fun and interesting story of Xu Fu!
Released:
Feb 7, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode
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