Do You Want to Be a Pickle Man?! | Your Urban Legends 54

Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore

Multitude

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

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Children in dangerous situations, children being scared by pickles, the kids are creepy but alright! The new urban legends episode features many holes, and NONE of them are good.

Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of missing persons, child endangerment, religious persecution, car accidents, death, animal death/entrails, nuclear meltdown/Chernobyl, sex, and grandparent death.

Housekeeping

- Recommendation: This week, Amanda recommends the work of Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg. Check out her book, Surprised by God.

- Books: Check out our previous book recommendations, guests’ books, and more at spiritspodcast.com/books

- Call to Action: The Newest Olympian! Is Percy Jackson the YA series we should’ve been reading all along? Join Mike Schubert as he reads through the books for the first time with the help of longtime PJO fans. Whether you're looking for an excuse to finally read these books, or want to re-read an old favorite with a digital book club, grab your blue chocolate chip cookies and listen along. New episodes every Monday!

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Find Us Online

If you like Spirits, help us grow by spreading the word! Follow us @SpiritsPodcast on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Goodreads. You can support us on Patreon (http://patreon.com/spiritspodcast) to unlock bonus Your Urban Legends episodes, director’s commentaries, custom recipe cards, and so much more. We also have lists of our book recommendations and previous guests’ books at http://spiritspodcast.com/books.

Transcripts are available at http://spiritspodcast.com/episodes. To buy merch, hear us on other podcasts, contact us, find our mailing address, or download our press kit, head on over to http://spiritspodcast.com.

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 of Boosy Dive into Mythology, Legends, and Folklore.
0:04.3	Every week, we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world.
0:07.6	I'm Amanda.
0:08.2	And I'm Julia.
0:09.1	In this episode 248, your Urban Legends number 54.
0:13.2	Oh, the title kind of gives it away, but we have a discussion about pickles.
0:20.3	I love these episodes. I love getting to chat with you guys. And I love
0:24.2	the stories that our listeners submit. So everybody, thank you so much for doing that. Yeah,
0:28.3	I really love the silly ones as much as I love the intensely scary ones. So I think this is a
0:33.1	good balance of that. I think so too. And I think people who just are like well balanced generally
0:37.8	are our new patrons, Matt, Catherine, Edwin, Masha, and Mira. Thank you so much for joining.
0:42.9	And thanks as well to our supporting producer level patrons, Alicia Allison, Brian, Deborah, Hannah,
0:48.2	Jack Marie, Jane, Jessica Stewart, Justin, Keegan, Nieselkins, Megan Linger, Megan Moon,
0:52.7	Phil Fresh, Captain Jonathan, Malachi Cosmos, Sarah, Scott, and Zazi.
0:56.0	And Amanda, the people who I would take camping with, if I was an 18-year-old in the woods, you'll see about it later,
1:03.8	would be our legend-level patrons. Audra, Clara, Drew, Jay, Babe, Kay, Lexus, Mary, Morgan, Morgan, Jay, Babeay, Key, Lexus, Mary, Morgan, Morgan H, mother of Viking, Sarah, and BMEY up Scotty.
1:13.1	We are sustained by your support just like we are sustained by the silly and scary stories that conspirators email into us.
1:22.0	So thank you patrons so much.
1:23.4	And as always, if you would care to have your name read on the show and become a patron of Spirits, you can do that at patreon.com slash Spirits podcast.
1:30.3	It's great. Do it. Let us make more podcasts.
1:33.7	Hooray. Amanda, speaking of making more podcasts, sometimes we take a break from making podcasts and we read things, we watch things, we listen to things.
1:41.8	What have you been reading, watching, listening to lately? Well, Julia, it is Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, and I could not recommend more
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