Dragons, Revisited
Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
We’ve got a lot of dragons in pop culture; funny dragons, scary dragons, wise dragons, vicious dragons. But who is the BEST dragon? Amanda and Julia are doing another bracket to figure it out!
Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of death and immolation.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm |
| 0:02.0 | M. |
| 0:05.0 | The Welcome to Spirits podcast, a boozy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore. |
| 0:33.2 | Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world. |
| 0:36.6 | I'm Amanda. |
| 0:37.2 | And I'm Julia. And I'm |
| 0:37.5 | Julia. And this, I'm told, is something to do with dragons? It is. Amanda, at the time of release, |
| 0:44.5 | we should be about halfway through the first season of the House of the Dragon on HBO, which I have |
| 0:51.4 | been watching and loving the hell out of. I am reserving judgment to see how the season ends, but yes, I am also very much enjoying it. |
| 0:59.7 | You know, it reminds me of a Julia younger, a younger me, a simpler time, an easier time |
| 1:06.2 | here in America where all we really talked about at work was not the various impending dooms, but what happened on Game of Thrones last night? |
| 1:13.4 | And, you know, I'm here for a cultural moment. |
| 1:16.0 | It's exciting to have something to unify us. |
| 1:18.9 | And, you know, I didn't think I'd care about this medieval motherfuckers, but I care about them. |
| 1:23.1 | And most of all, I care about their dragons, where the technology of like, who has dragons, what that |
| 1:28.3 | means and how it is used in the project of nation building is incredibly interesting to my |
| 1:34.2 | fantasy, not just a fantasy nerd mind, but like a fantasy infrastructure nerd mind. Like that is what |
| 1:40.5 | I'm here for. I love that. I can't wait to talk more about this. This is going to be great. |
| 1:45.0 | So I was looking at our old episodes because I was like, well, I'm thinking a lot about dragons |
| 1:49.3 | because I'm watching House of the Dragon. And I went back in our archives. And the last time we |
| 1:56.0 | covered dragons on the show was when Game of Thrones ended. It can't be true. |
| 2:01.6 | That was, what, five years ago? |
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