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The 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'm Julia.

And we are here for another edition of hometown urban legends, your urban legends, in fact, with our friend and colleague, Brandon Gruegel.

Brandon, how are you?

Yes, me, but I'm a ghost.

Oh, Brandon, when did you become a ghost?

I thought I'd, like, join in the spirit in the mood, you know? So I died last night.

That was really kind of you to really get on brand. Like, I feel like a lot of times when people guest on podcasts, you know, they really don't prepare. They just kind of go on and they're like, oh, I'm just going to talk and answer questions. No, Brandon came prepared.

I go all in. Amanda, I died by sheer force of will. Great. Yeah. It's a good start. So now it's coffee ghost and regular ghost.

That's very good. Normally, Brandon's partner shows up in the background of our join the party recordings because of course, Brandon is not just head of production at Multitude, but our co-host and the editor and sound designer of Join the Party and composer, for that matter. But we typically just hear her making coffee downstairs. And so she is, of course, the coffee ghost.

And sometimes an arm just appears through the doorway behind Brandon, hands him a cup of coffee. And we're like, oh, the coffee ghost is delivering today. Very good, Brandon. And honestly, if she doesn't have coffee, she is a ghost. So it works for multiple levels. It's great. Yeah. Makes sense. It makes sense. So Brandon, apart from cohabitating with one, what is your relationship to the supernatural? I know of you as a very rational person, someone very interested in science, but you are also from the most haunted state,

Texas. So can you tell us a bit about your relationship with ghost stories, urban legends, and the

supernatural? Yeah, I realized I was thinking about this this morning when I was getting ready,

and I realize I don't think we've talked about this but I very am a rational like logical

thinker but I fucking love the supernatural like nice it is my favorite my favorite podcast at least

one of my favorite podcast is spooked I love a ghost story even though I may not like believe in any of

stuff like because of that rational side of me i want ghosts and cryptids and uh wizards and

uh whizzards and shit to exist so badly that i just listened to all of it i want it to happen i love it

it's my favorite thing hell yeah brandon i love that you know sometimes you can love a thing

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