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🗓️ 18 August 2021
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Lay your head down, close your eyes, and drift off to dreamland as we talk about the mythological stories and figures that inhabit your dreams! Also, dream interpretation via...puns?
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Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of medical complications, nightmares, intrusive thoughts, drug use, sex, violence, death, feces/excrement, child endangerment, body horror, kidnapping, and cultural appropriation.
Housekeeping
- Recommendation: This week, Julia recommends This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone.
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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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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Spirits Podcast, a boozy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore. |
| 0:04.5 | Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world. |
| 0:07.8 | I'm Julia. Amanda's on holiday. Good for her. And this is episode 245. Dreams. I am really, |
| 0:14.2 | really excited. I've been thinking a lot about my dreams lately. And I think that you guys are going to |
| 0:19.5 | have a dreamlike experience listening to this |
| 0:22.8 | episode. Is that self-congratulatory? Maybe a little bit. I don't really mind. But I am going to |
| 0:28.1 | congratulate the people who joined our Patreon this week. Alexandra, the Stubby Tech, and Richard, |
| 0:34.4 | you guys help us make this podcast, our jobs, and let us keep making what is |
| 0:39.9 | going to soon be 250 episodes? Wild. Absolutely wild. And they join the ranks of our |
| 0:45.9 | supporting producer-level patrons, Alicia, Allison, Brian, Deborah, Hannah, Jack Marie, Jane, |
| 0:52.2 | Jessica Stewart, Justin Keegan, Nieslikens, Megan Moon, |
| 0:56.3 | Phil Fresh, Captain Jonathan Malachi Cosmos, Sarah, Scott, and Zazi as well as our legend-level patrons, |
| 1:03.2 | the patrons of our dreams, Audra, Clara, Drew, Jay-Bay, Key, Lada, Lexus Morgan, Morgan, |
| 1:10.2 | H, Mother of Vikings, Necro royalty, and BME Up Scotty. |
| 1:14.2 | Now, this is the part usually where Amanda will ask me, hey, Julia, what are you watching, listening |
| 1:18.9 | to, reading lately? And I have been absolutely just viving so hard with my library app on my phone, |
| 1:26.9 | and I blew through this incredible book called |
| 1:29.6 | This Is How You L. Time War by Amal El Mottar and Max Gladstone. And oh my God, if you like |
| 1:36.8 | time travel, if you like letters between lovers, if you like just slow burn romance where |
| 1:43.8 | people aren't in the same room but somehow they're still |
| 1:46.4 | falling in love, this is the book for you. It's extremely fun. It's very, very good. You know what else is |
| 1:51.7 | also extremely good and very, very fun? Taking surveys. I know for some people that might not be the |
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