Welcome to Spirits Episode 3, straight at you from the Philippines, with the Aswang.

You'll kind of see how we have some pronunciation issues with that.

We don't claim to be experts.

We just like to give you good stories.

Whether or not we pronounce it exactly correct.

You know, we need some room to improve over time.

We can't come right out of the gate with the perfect podcast.

Pronunciation is not really our thing anyway.

There's also some excellent attempts at phoneticizing some interesting animal sounds. You'll get there.

I'm also excited that we're seeing a different part of the world.

It's not the British Isles in Ireland, which we know well.

It's not the States.

It's not the Greeks.

It's somewhere that, at least to me, was new to hear about.

And we look forward over the next few episodes to kind of introduce you guys to places that maybe you don't know so much about.

Exactly.

We'll kind of bounce between the classics and the newbies or places that are a little bit more obscure in the, you know, canonical education.

Or new to us, because we don't claim to be experts, and we're kind of looking for new information to bring you guys as we learn it.

It's an educational journey with booze.

So today we're drinking a blood-orange

bellini, so sparkling wine and blood orange juice, which kind of goes well with our

Philippine blood sucker. Hint, hint, blood is the metaphor. Blood is the metaphor. And again,

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