259: Advice from Folklore VI (with Dr. Moiya McTier)
Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
The gods are back to give advice, with advice dealing with angsty teenagers from a teacher of gods, to learning to become fluent in fae speak to get out of uncomfortable conversations. Just in time for the holidays!
Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of arranged marriage, abuse, burning, ableism, pregnancy, misogyny, apocalypse, climate change, and racism.
Guest
Dr. Moiya McTier is a New York-based astrophysicist who studies planets outside of our solar system. She’s also a folklorist who specializes in using science and logic to build fictional worlds. You can hear all about the worlds she’s built on her podcast, Exolore, where she imagines, discusses, and reviews fictional worlds, often with expert guests. You can learn more about Moiya and her work on her website, moiyamctier.com.
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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. |
| 0:04.8 | Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world. |
| 0:07.7 | I'm Julia, Amanda has started her Thanksgiving vacation a little early, and this is episode |
| 0:12.8 | 259, Advice from folklore number six with Dr. Moia McTier. |
| 0:17.7 | I really love these episodes, honestly. |
| 0:19.4 | It's so much fun to get to channel the gods and to hear some incredible insight from |
| 0:23.4 | both of my friends. |
| 0:24.6 | So thank you, Moia, as always, for being on these episodes. |
| 0:28.2 | And thank you to our newest patrons, Kat and Amy. |
| 0:31.8 | They join the ranks of our supporting producer, love of patrons like Alicia, Brian, Hannah, |
| 0:36.9 | Jack Marie, Jane, Jessica Stewart, Nezel Kins, Megan Moon, Philfresh, Captain Jonathan |
| 0:41.9 | Malchai, Cosmo, Sarah, Scott and Zazie, as well as our legend, level patrons, Audra, |
| 0:47.4 | Bex, Clara, Drew, Jbebe, Lexus, Mary Morgan, Morgan, each, Mother of Viking, Sarah, Taylor, |
| 0:54.0 | and BME Episcoddy. |
| 0:55.2 | Now this is the part where Amanda usually asks me what I have been watching, reading or |
| 0:59.5 | listening to lately, and I have to say, I have been really using my Libby app. |
| 1:04.2 | I have been taken out some real great e-books from my library, and this week I want to recommend |
| 1:08.4 | to you my best friend's exorcism by Brady Hendrix because, oh boy, not only is it a great |
| 1:15.4 | book, but really just made me value and love my friends a lot more. |
| 1:19.0 | So if that's something that you feel like you should have a little bit of a refresher |
| 1:23.6 | on. |
| 1:25.6 | And if that leaves you wanting more recommendations, let me recommend a show from multitude. |
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