349: Your Urban Legends LXXXI - Clawfoot Tub Full of Pasta (with Brandon Grugle)
Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
We’ve dragged our good friend Brandon Grugle onto the show, to talk to him about his love of the supernatural, creepy long shadow fingers, “pleasure caves”, and a clawfoot tub FULL of pasta!
Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of racism, death, suicide, ableism, murder, gun violence, domestic violence, and home invasion.
Guest
Brandon Grugle is the Head of Production at Multitude, as well as a composer and sound designer who's worked on podcasts for Marvel, Stranger Things, Netflix, Sony, Wondery, and Atypical Artists, among others. His work has been featured at the Tribeca Film Festival, in countless publications, and even on a Times Square billboard. He lives in Seattle, where he rooftop gardens and collects too much audio gear.
Housekeeping
- Recommendation: This week, Julia recommends Artfully Yours by Joanna Lowell!
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Cast & Crew
- Co-Hosts: Julia Schifini and Amanda McLoughlin
- Editors: Eric Schneider and Brandon Grugle
- Music: Brandon Grugle, based on "Danger Storm" by Kevin MacLeod
- Artwork: Allyson Wakeman
- Multitude: multitude.productions
About Us
Spirits is a boozy podcast about mythology, legends, and folklore. Every episode, co-hosts Julia and Amanda mix a drink and discuss a new story or character from a wide range of places, eras, and cultures. Learn brand-new stories and enjoy retellings of your favorite myths, served over ice every week, on Spirits.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Ha-ha-ha-ha! |
| 0:01.9 | Welcome to Spirits Podcast, a boozey diamond to mythology. |
| 0:31.9 | Legends and folklore every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from |
| 0:36.0 | around the world. I'm Amanda and I'm Julia and we are here for another |
| 0:40.0 | edition of Home Town Urban Legends, your urban legends in fact with our |
| 0:44.3 | friend and colleague, Brandon Gruegel, Brandon Harry, but I'm a ghost. Oh, |
| 0:51.4 | Brandon, when did you become a ghost? I thought I'd like joined in the the |
| 0:57.2 | spirit in the mood, you know, so I died last night. That was really kind of you |
| 1:01.8 | to really get on brand. Like I feel like a lot of times when people guest on |
| 1:05.9 | podcasts, you know, they really don't prepare. They just kind of go on and |
| 1:09.6 | they're like, Oh, I'm just going to talk and answer questions. No, Brandon came |
| 1:12.8 | prepared. I go all in. Amanda, I died by sheer force of will. Great. Yeah. |
| 1:19.3 | It's a good start. So now it's coffee ghost and regular ghost. Yes. |
| 1:24.9 | Normally, Brandon's partner shows up in the background of our join the party |
| 1:28.0 | recording because of course Brandon is not just head of production at |
| 1:30.3 | multitude, but our co-host and the editor and sound designer of join the |
| 1:33.7 | party and composer for that matter. But we typically just hear her making |
| 1:37.5 | coffee downstairs. And so she is of course the coffee ghost. And sometimes an |
| 1:41.3 | arm just appears through the doorway behind Brandon hands and a cup of |
| 1:44.6 | coffee and we're like, Oh, the coffee ghost is delivering today. Very good |
| 1:48.0 | Brandon. And honestly, if she doesn't have coffee, she is a ghost. So it |
| 1:53.0 | works for multiple. That was great. Yeah. Makes sense. |
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