196: Scooby-Doo! and the Loch Ness Monster (Myth Movie Night)

Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore

Multitude

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

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Who would have guessed that Scooby Doo would have us go deeper than Loch Ness itself? Was the Loch Ness Monster just a marketing scheme? And what, exactly, is the definition of cryptid? We’re gonna answer these questions, without terrible Scottish accents.

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Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of drug use, drowning, animal/monster attacks, hoaxes in the press, animal remains, Covid-19, and cultural appropriation.

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About Us

Spirits was created by Julia Schifini, Amanda McLoughlin and Eric Schneider. We are founding members of Multitude, an independent podcast collective and production studio. 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.
0:03.8	Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world.
0:07.2	I'm Amanda.
0:08.0	And I'm Julia.
0:09.2	And this is episode 196, Scoopi Do in Loch Ness Monster, for Myth Movie Night.
0:14.3	Oh, it's Scooby-Doo time again, Amanda.
0:16.6	Scooby-Doo, the heart and soul of our podcast.
0:20.5	You know, it's just a really fun excuse to watch a calming movie talk a little bit about
0:26.4	ridiculous shenanigans and then get into the mythology of the Loch Ness Monster, which if you
0:30.7	enjoyed our mothman episode, you're going to enjoy this one as well because there's lots of quoting lots of sources we have a very good time
0:36.5	This is less horny though than the mothman episode. I just want to clarify much less marketly less horny yes doedly less horny, yes.
0:42.5	Do you know who I would definitely invite on a Loch Ness monster sighting trip to Scotland?
0:48.5	I bet it's our patrons.
0:50.3	Our patrons, thank you so much to our supporting producer level patrons, Philip, Alicia, Deborah
0:55.3	Hannah, Jen, Jessica, Gigan Landon, Megan, Megan Linger, Megan Moon, Molly, Mr Fulk,
1:00.5	Neil, Nicky, Phil Fresh, Polly, Riley, Sarah, and Skyla, as well as our legend level patrons,
1:06.2	Audrey, Chelsea, Clara, Donald, Drew, Eden, Francis, Jack Marie, Josie,
1:10.0	Lata, Mark, Morgan, Necro Fancy, Sarah and Miami up Scotty.
1:13.7	I'm really glad that the Meggans have now become like a like a triple goddess kind of aspect
1:18.8	in our supporting producer-level patrons. There's three of them now and we love them all equally and they also represent
1:24.8	the Virgin, the Crome, and the mistress.
1:28.5	Absolutely.
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