Can you remind us, for those who might not remember or maybe hasn't, haven't listened to that previous episode, what is One Thousand and One Arabian Nights?

Absolutely.

So the Arabian Nights are a collection of stories that were passed down orally from a whole host of countries, so think the Middle East, South Asia, and Europe, and they were collected into what we now know as the Book of the One Thousand and One Arabian Nights.

But the premise of the story is this: There's a princess named Scheherazade, and the only way that she prevents her husband the king from killing her each night is by telling him a story, but not finishing the story until the next day.

And so she tells stories after stories after stories.

For years and years, they have kids, and now the king loves her.

And so storytelling saved her life.

How did it work back then?