Donkeyskin, Anaisa Pye, and Prometheus | Advice from Folklore w/ Dr. Moiya McTier
Spirits
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2022
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
The gods have a lot in store for us this week. Amanda talks about being dragged out of the “dank woods”, Moiya suggests finding a third beaker, and Julia gets marriage advice from Hades of all people.
Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of spiders, animal death, incest, death, depression, grief, family death, ableism, war, and animal violence.
Guest
Dr. Moiya McTier is a New York-based astrophysicist who studies planets outside of our solar system. She’s also a folklorist who specializes in using science and logic to build fictional worlds. You can hear all about the worlds she’s built on her podcast, Exolore, where she imagines, discusses, and reviews fictional worlds, often with expert guests. You can learn more about Moiya and her work on her website, moiyamctier.com.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Spirits Podcast, a boozy dime into mythology, legends, and folklore. |
| 0:12.2 | Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world. |
| 0:15.6 | I'm Amanda. |
| 0:16.2 | And I'm Julia. |
| 0:17.3 | And I'm Moia. |
| 0:18.9 | Yay! |
| 0:20.0 | Moia's here. |
| 0:20.7 | And this is another installment of advice Moia. Yay! Moia's here! |
| 0:25.1 | And this is another installment of advice from folklore. Yay! |
| 0:25.4 | Yay! |
| 0:30.1 | Dr. McTeer! Dr. McTeer here again. |
| 0:34.7 | If only I was better at rhyming, I could have made that into here and McTeer. |
| 0:36.8 | Would have been perfect. Would have been wonderful. |
| 0:38.1 | I still loved it. |
| 0:45.0 | It was such a nice little jingle. I love a song, get things going. And I love that we can set aside an hour-ish of our day to think about what the gods want for us. And I would love to bring to our |
| 0:51.6 | tribunal today, our Trinity, our mother, sister, best friend, goddess, |
| 0:56.4 | trio of how to set boundaries with my family without feeling like I'm being selfish and a pain, |
| 1:03.1 | which comes to us from Caitlin. Amanda, have you been watching a lot of survivor lately just because |
| 1:07.4 | you mentioned the word tribunal? Julia, I did indeed find a way to begin |
| 1:12.0 | Australian survivor colon, blood versus water, which premiered as of this recording yesterday in Australia. |
| 1:19.3 | I'm just riding the high. I'm riding the high. Moja shared a photo of Cosmo in the Slack. Like, |
| 1:23.3 | I couldn't be more excited. Good things happening. I do need to ask what the concept for blood |
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