Guinevere
Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2026
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
We love mess, and Queen Guinevere of Arthurian legend? There’s a lot of mess there! There’s scandal, there’s infidelity, AND AN EVIL TWIN!! We discuss a woman that a lot of Arthurian scholars and writers simply don’t know what to do with.
Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of infidelity, misogyny, abduction, death, immolation, sexual assault, sexual content, and violence.
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- 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 I'm going to be. Welcome the spirits, a boozy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore. |
| 0:32.5 | Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world. |
| 0:36.2 | I'm Amanda. |
| 0:37.1 | And I'm Julia. |
| 0:38.5 | And Amanda, I think we all love a little drama in our lives, right? Maybe not in our... |
| 0:44.8 | Oh, I'm a messy bitch, Julia. You know this about me. Maybe not in our personal lives, but like |
| 0:49.8 | watching other people's drama, I think appeals to a lot of people. It's why reality TV has dominated pop culture for the last going on 30 years. |
| 0:59.6 | Yes. And I think that's also part of the reason why the Arthurian legend is so appealing to people. |
| 1:08.4 | Because Amanda, we're back. We're back to the Arthurian series. |
| 1:11.7 | A name. |
| 1:12.4 | I did not come up with this week, but if you have one off the top of the dome, go for it. |
| 1:17.6 | Like, uh, round table, web of deceit, colon, the Arthurian series. |
| 1:24.3 | Honestly, pretty accurate for this episode. |
| 1:27.2 | Hey. |
| 1:30.0 | I'm not going to lie. All right. You teed me up and I tried to take a good swing. I appreciate it. I appreciate it. I think this is sort of the |
| 1:35.3 | drama of everything is sort of what appeals to people about Arthurian legend. There's the whole |
| 1:39.9 | courtly love thing, which is great and all, but we crave the drama. We crave the betrayals and the |
| 1:45.4 | love triangles, which is probably why one of the most popular and long-lasting characters within |
| 1:51.1 | Arthurian legend is also one of the more complicated ones, and sort of unsurprisingly, one of the |
| 1:58.1 | few women in the story. That makes a lot of sense to me. |
| 2:01.5 | We rarely canonize women that are straightforwardly a hero. |
| 2:06.6 | And to be fair, very few of the people in Arthurian legend are straightforward to begin with. |
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