Leader of the Birds
5/12/202621 min
Carolyn Michelle Smith (Familiar Touch, The Chi) and Christopher Rivas (Brown Enough, Rubirosa) headline a Maya tale about lies having short legs... and long tails!
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 10:00
WBUR podcasts. Boston.
Rebecca Sheir· Host0:03
There's an old Spanish saying, Las mentiras tienen las patas cortas. Translated to English, it means lies have short legs. In other words, falsehoods and fibs can't get far without being caught. As we'll hear in today's tale, sometimes lies don't just have short legs, they have long tails, too. [flute music playing] I'm Rebecca Sheir, and welcome to Circle Round, where story time happens all the time. Today our story is called Leader of the Birds. It was inspired by tales from the Maya, an indigenous people from a region including modern-day Guatemala and Belize, plus parts of southern Mexico, Honduras, and El Salvador. Some really great people came together to bring you our story, including Carolyn Michelle Smith and Christopher Rivas. Carolyn Michelle Smith has appeared on such TV shows as The Chi and Just Like That... and Russian Doll. Her newest film is Familiar Touch. Christopher Rivas wrote the picture book You're a Good Swimmer, the memoir Brown Enough, and hosts the podcasts Ruby Rosa and Brown Enough. He also starred in a Circle Round episode from 2022. We'll reveal which one at the end of the story. So circle round, everyone,