120: Names (with Gretchen McCulloch)

Spirits

Multitude

Myths, Folklore, Society & Culture, Alcohol, Legends, Learning, Urbanlegends, Mythology, Comedy, History, Education, Gods, Educational, Drunkhistory

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2019

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

We’re getting meta in this episode featuring Internet Linguist Gretchen McCulloch. Learn why names are important not only in mythology and folklore, but in our own lives (including online lives!) as well. Also featuring the Amanda Sins Podcast, a podcast within a podcast, so many throwbacks to the 90s, and what kind of kids did the Bloody Mary thing at sleepovers.

This week, Julia recommended CARAVAN and Windfall.

Guest

- Gretchen McCulloch is an internet linguist: She analyzes the language of the internet, for the people of the internet. You can visit her website, listen to her podcast, Lingthusiasm, follow her @GretchenAMcC on Twitter, and you can preorder her book, Because Internet, here!

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Spirits was created by Julia Schifini, Amanda McLoughlin and Eric Schneider. We are founding members of Multitude, a production collective of indie audio professionals. Our music is "Danger Storm" by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Spirit's podcast, a boosy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore.
0:04.0	Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world.
0:07.5	I'm Amanda. And I'm Julia.
0:09.4	And this is episode 120, Names, with Gretchen McCulloch. I feel like this is very like
0:15.6	much an esoteric episode of spirits but in the best possible way. Oh yeah we go on
0:21.3	about how much we admire Gretchen and this really was one of my favorite conversations that we've had in a long time. So I am stoked and I'm trying to think here Julia, I don't think I would ever ask the true name of any of our new patrons
0:35.5	because that would give me too much power. That's fair. So welcome and keep your name to yourself,
0:40.5	Michaela and Haley as well as our supporting producer-level patrons, Philip,
0:44.9	E. or Christopher, Alicia, Kathy, Vinny, Danica, Marissa, Sammy, Josie, Neil,
0:49.7	Jessica, Phil Fresh, and Deborah.
0:51.6	Oh, Amanda, I think that you know who we've already given our true names too.
0:56.7	Is that our legend level patrons? Sarah James Jess, Sarah P, Sandra, Audrey, Mercedes, Jack Marie, and Leanne. Sarah,
1:03.0	Audra, Mercedes, Jack Marie, and Leanne.
1:05.0	And Llan Davis definitely knows my true name.
1:07.0	Oh, yeah, Lian knows my heart and my soul.
1:10.0	What's up, Leanne?
1:11.0	This is the support that makes our show happen. It's what lets us keep our names
1:16.4	hidden in our oras powerful every day.
1:18.8	I don't disagree with that. And this week we'd really love to encourage anyone who likes spirits to check out our
1:23.9	Patreon just have a look see a cute photo of all of us that was taken in Portland
1:28.0	that I just put up on the patreon page it's adorable that's patreon
1:31.8	dot com slash spirits podcast and if you can spare even it's adorable. That's Patreon. That's Patreon on even $1 an episode that goes a long way toward letting us do fun things like
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