Ghosts Hate Dubstep | Your Urban Legends 86 w/ The Reading Party Podcast
Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2023
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
From haunted doors to haunted castles, this urban legends episode is sure to have SOMETHING that would scare a child version of yourself (or an adult version, who are we to judge!). Also ghost sharks, dub-step hating ghosts, and spooky text message alerts.
Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of death, vomiting, violence, creepy dolls, accidental death, and sharks.
Guests
Megan Lewis and Lexie Henning are the hosts of The Reading Party Podcast, where they read, watch, snack & chat their way through books and films set in the ancient world.
Housekeeping
- Recommendation: This week, Julia recommends Bringing Down the Duke by Evie Dunmore
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Cast & Crew
- Co-Hosts: Julia Schifini and Amanda McLoughlin
- Editor: Bren Frederick
- Music: Brandon Grugle, based on "Danger Storm" by Kevin MacLeod
- Artwork: Allyson Wakeman
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About Us
Spirits is a boozy podcast about mythology, legends, and folklore. Every episode, co-hosts Julia and Amanda mix a drink and discuss a new story or character from a wide range of places, eras, and cultures. Learn brand-new stories and enjoy retellings of your favorite myths, served over ice every week, on Spirits.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The Welcome to Spirits podcast, a boozy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore. Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world. I'm Amanda and I'm Julia and we are so |
| 0:38.8 | pleased to have our new friends Lexi and Megan on the show. Lexi Megan, welcome. Tell all the |
| 0:43.7 | conspirators who you are and what podcast you make. Thank you so much for having us. I am Megan. I am an |
| 0:50.1 | seriologist so I specialize in the cultures, languages, literature of ancient Mesopotamia. |
| 0:55.5 | I run a YouTube channel and I host the Reading Party podcast with Lexi, which is an ancient |
| 1:01.0 | media inspired podcast review kind of thing. We get together and we talk about books, films, |
| 1:08.1 | TV shows inspired by the ancient world. Season two is coming out on starting 16th of January and we will be looking at ancient |
| 1:16.0 | Egypt which is neither of our speciality so we've bugged a whole bunch of our friends into |
| 1:21.0 | coming and helping us record that. But my other projects I run the digital Hamrabi |
| 1:27.1 | YouTube channel which is Mesopotamia |
| 1:28.9 | focused. And I also host a podcast, a New Testament podcast called Misquoting Jesus. So I spend a lot |
| 1:36.7 | of time reading a lot of ancient stuff. It's the best life I could have. That honestly sounds like |
| 1:41.9 | the dream. Oh, we love it. And I am Lexi. I am the other half of the |
| 1:46.8 | Reading Party podcast, which was a really fun thing that we decided to start because we complained |
| 1:52.1 | that we didn't, you know, do enough with the ancient world, obviously. But yeah, on the side, |
| 1:57.6 | I actually work at UCLA, but that's not important. What we care about is the fact that I actually host two other podcasts. I host the Legacies of Ancient Persia podcast, which is all about the reception of ancient Persia. And I also host ancient office hours, which is my baby, my first podcast. And that is where I interview academics and grad students and people from |
| 2:18.4 | the sort of media entertainment industry and just talk about how history and mythology sort of |
| 2:23.4 | impacts them and their careers. And it's been pretty, pretty cool. And Amanda's even been on |
| 2:29.4 | it. So that's been pretty fun. So check out that episode eventually when it comes out, which I don't remember is when, but it'll be there. |
| 2:36.9 | Hopefully at this point it will be out, but we're excited regardless. And Lexi, people might recognize your voice from our Iliad and Homer episode. |
| 2:44.8 | So if you haven't listened to that one, hey, pause this, go and listen to that one. And then you can come back and enjoy some urban legends. Good stuff. I have an absolute non-sequitur of a question for Megan before we get |
| 2:55.4 | into the urban legends today. Megan, is the like popular conception of the Code of Hamarabi |
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