253: Apollo
Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2021
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
We’re back visiting the Olympian gods and this time it’s finance bro Apollo. We talk about all the women (and men!) Apollo has wronged, and of course, celebrate SoupFest 2021. You’re welcome, Apollo.
Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of animal death, intoxication, misogyny, sexual assault, pregnancy, war, death, disease/plague, kidnapping, slavery, fighting, infedelity, grief, and incest.
Housekeeping
- Live Show: Join us October 27th at 8:00 EST for a LIVE virtual show! Get your tickets at spiritspodcast.com/live!
- Recommendation: This week, Amanda recommends celebrating Fall!
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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 Spirits Podcast, a boozy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore. |
| 0:03.7 | Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Amanda. And I'm Julia. And this is episode 253 or the second installment in |
| 0:12.2 | finally fulfilling the promise of Spirits Podcast by Spirits Podcast. |
| 0:15.6 | Colin, it's all great to me. Colin, a follow. |
| 0:18.1 | Sure is, sure is. I am always so happy that both you and the listeners seem very excited for |
| 0:24.1 | our, it's all great to me episodes. And I am stoked to be hitting another one. |
| 0:29.4 | You know, Julia, sometimes you have to go back to basics. I'm saying is if this wasn't your |
| 0:32.6 | idea and it wasn't a very good God that it was. And you just got to be like, a follow. What the |
| 0:36.4 | fuck? And that's what this episode is really. And we're very excited about it. It's a lot of what |
| 0:40.2 | the fuck. And thank you, Julia, for taking on the podcast duties last week while I got away. And |
| 0:46.2 | I just have to open up this episode. We normally don't do it in this order. But like, I just |
| 0:50.2 | got to recommend fall shit, whether it's looking at like one yellow leaf outside your window, |
| 0:54.5 | or if this is not fall in your hemisphere or area, I mean, look up pictures of leaves or wait |
| 0:59.7 | for your fall and I can joy spring, I guess. But just, you know, lead into it. Eat pumpkin stuff, |
| 1:04.6 | go apple picking, buy cider and mull it. The stuff's on the shelves. It won't be after too long. |
| 1:09.1 | So do it. Do fall shit. Do it. Do it. I went for a hike after drinking a pumpkin spice latte |
| 1:13.4 | yesterday. It was fantastic. The dream. I drank a pumpkin spice cider on my couch. And that was |
| 1:18.4 | also good. Yeah. Everything is good. If it's fall related, everything is good. And Julia, |
| 1:23.8 | do you know what should definitely be part of your fall activities this year? Is it our live show? |
| 1:29.0 | It's our live show on October 27th at 8 p.m. Eastern. This is a virtual live show. You can attend a |
| 1:34.3 | matter where in the world you are. And also no matter what time zone you're in, because you can |
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