A Christmas Carol w/ Emily VanDerWerff

Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore

Multitude

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

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

A year ago, we said we’d have Emily VanDerWerff on to talk about A Christmas Carol, and damn it, we delivered! We talk cozy ghost stories, bringing back the tradition of wrecking the homes of the rich, and how trickle down economics ruined A Christmas Carol.

Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of death, social inequality, trauma, Covid-19, capitalism, politics, cultural erasure, religious persecution, and depression.

Guest

Emily VanDerWerff is Critic at Large for Vox and co-creator of the podcast Arden. Follow her on Twitter @Emilyvdw.

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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.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Spirits Podcast, a boozy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore. Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world. I'm Amanda, and I am doing the intro solo this week because Julia's taking some well-deserved time off. Welcome to episode 2.11, A Christmas Carol with Emily Vanderwerf. We joked slash threatened that we would have Emily back at the end of last year for this year's Christmas time episode.
0:24.7	Sure enough, we came through and we talk extremely enthusiastically all about Christmas, Christmas media, what that means, compulsory Christmas celebrating in America and how we sort of export that to the entire world.
0:36.8	So if you want to engage with the sort of cultural
0:39.0	force that is Christmas and Christmas media, this is the episode for you. And listen, if you are over
0:43.6	it, if you don't want to talk more about Christmas, that's not a holiday you celebrate and you're like,
0:48.7	damn, I can't believe that we talk about Christmas nonstop for two months. You don't have to listen to it. That's really okay.
0:54.6	I'm giving you permission.
0:55.6	Don't worry.
0:56.2	But do you know who would never make you talk about a holiday?
0:58.8	You don't celebrate or imply that that is the only meaning of being American?
1:02.3	It's our new patrons.
1:03.3	Gerald, Casey, and AJ, thank you so, so much for joining us.
1:06.1	We really appreciate it this time of year.
1:07.3	There's lots of stuff to buy, and we really appreciate that you put your money to supporting our podcast. It's how we have jobs, and we are extremely grateful for it now and every week,
1:15.6	including to our supporting producer-level patrons, Alicia, Allison, Deborah, Hannah, Jen, Jessica,
1:20.7	Keegan, Naisalkins, Liz, Megan Linger, Megan Moon, Phil Fresh, Polly, Sarah, Skyla, Samney Todd, and Alex Forbes. And huge thanks to our legend-level patrons, Audra, Chelsea, Drew, Francis, Jack Marie,
1:32.3	Key, Lada, Mark Morgan, Necrowfancy, Renegade, and BME Up Scotty.
1:36.7	I've been spending a lot of time recently playing Stardue Valley on my Switch and watching
1:42.0	comforting TV.
1:43.4	And for me, that might mean rewatching shows that I love,
1:46.5	which all of you know, is primarily elementary, the excellent procedural on CBS that is now
1:53.6	over Rip, but stars Lucy Lou and to Johnny Lee Miller. It's incredible. But I also started watching
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