Faithful Companions
Spirits
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2022
⏱️ 47 minutes
🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Didn’t you want a magical animal companion as a kid? We know we did! Amanda revisits her childhood favorite example, the daemons from the His Dark Materials series, while Julia brings her fave myth pups, horses, and birds.
Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of animal death, decapitation, death, and war.
Housekeeping
- MERCH! Get the Mothman Crewneck at spiritspodcast.com/merch!
- Recommendation: This week, Amanda recommends The Big Fat Quiz of the Year.
- Books: Check out our previous book recommendations, guests’ books, and more at spiritspodcast.com/books
- Call to Action: Check out The Newest Olympian: Join Mike Schubert, a first-time PJO reader, on his quest to find out if Percy Jackson is the YA series we should’ve been reading all along! Search for The Newest Olympian in your podcast app or go to thenewestolympian.com to start listening!
Sponsors
- BetterHelp is a secure online counseling service. Get 10% off your first month at betterhelp.com/spirits
- Calm is the #1 app to help you reduce your anxiety and stress and help you sleep better. Get 40% off a Calm Premium subscription at calm.com/spirits.
- Skillshare is an online learning community where you can learn—and teach—just about anything. Explore your creativity at Skillshare.com/spirits and get a free trial of Premium Membership. This week Amanda recommends “Podcast Marketing”, her own Skillshare class!
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.
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Spirits Podcast, a boozy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore. |
| 0:10.8 | Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world. |
| 0:14.1 | I'm Amanda. |
| 0:15.1 | And I'm Julia. |
| 0:16.1 | And this is episode 266, faithful companions, just like you are to me, Julia. |
| 0:20.5 | Aw, Amanda, that's so sweet. I love that. Thank you. Thank you, friend. |
| 0:24.8 | So this week I wanted to talk about something that we've talked about on the show before, |
| 0:28.4 | but I've always liked the idea of the animal companion. Maybe because it was a big part of the |
| 0:35.6 | fantasy novels that I read when I was younger or the idea of just |
| 0:38.7 | like walking through the woods one day and knowing that I would come across a talking |
| 0:43.2 | wolf that would reveal my destiny and always be by my side. Wasn't that like every kid's dream |
| 0:48.2 | at some point? I think it was and I think it was especially your dream, Julia, because I had little |
| 0:53.1 | siblings at home who needed me all the time and that sucked. You were an animal kid. You liked bugs. You liked lizards. You'd a sweet dog. You liked going places and thinking about wolves and reading books about horses and wolves and all the fun animals out there. So I think this is a particularly you thing, but it's also a universal love. So I'm really excited to dive into it. Yeah, just for the listener's sake, I had a reptile birthday party when I was |
| 1:16.0 | a child where my dad's friend was a biology teacher that rescued and rehabbed reptiles. And he just |
| 1:21.9 | like brought a bunch of snakes to my house and we like hung out with them. Yeah, my image of Julia |
| 1:27.0 | as a child is like |
| 1:28.5 | slightly shorter than shoulder length hair, a little dirty, like holding a snake like with |
| 1:32.9 | some books next to her. And I'm just like, I want to be friends with that girl. That's the |
| 1:37.0 | energy I try to bring into my adulthood as well that I was that kind of child. Yeah, you're |
| 1:42.2 | manifesting lizard queer, quicker and quicker in your |
| 1:45.1 | life. Thank you. I do my best. You're welcome. We can either talk about the kind of origins of |
| 1:51.7 | the like familiar or animal companion and a couple examples from mythology or folklore. Or we can |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Multitude, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Multitude and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.