Hocus Pocus | Myth Movie Night
Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2019
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
For Julia, nothing says Halloween quite like Hocus Pocus. For Amanda... she’s never seen it. Shocker. We dive into the Salem-inspired Disney Halloween classic, fall in love with Binx, question how a musical number could happen, and dream of a New England Halloween.
This week, Julia recommends Folk Magic and Healing by Fez Inkwright.
Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about kidnapping, child endangerment/death, hanging, burning, animal death, sexual harassment, and mind control.
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Spirits was created by Julia Schifini, Amanda McLoughlin and Eric Schneider. We are founding members of Multitude, a production collective of indie audio professionals. Our music is "Danger Storm" by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Spirits Podcast, a boozy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore. |
| 0:04.3 | Every week, we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world. |
| 0:07.7 | I'm Amanda. |
| 0:08.4 | And I'm Julia. |
| 0:09.4 | And this is episode 151, Myth Movie Night, Hocus Pocus. |
| 0:13.5 | I still cannot believe that you never watched this as part of your childhood. |
| 0:16.8 | I feel like in a lot of ways, you are max in that you had to spend most of your childhood taking care of your younger sibling. So I understand it, but I still, it's wild to me. Well, I thoroughly enjoyed myself as one of my favorite myth movie nights to date. And we get really into witchcraft, into history. We recommend some primary sources. So absolutely, we hope that everyone else enjoys it too. |
| 0:38.4 | Yeah, no, it's going to be a lot of fun. |
| 0:40.3 | And if you love everything witchy and Halloween season, Hocus Bocus is a very nostalgic movie for that. |
| 0:48.1 | You know who I would follow into a closed and haunted museum? |
| 0:53.3 | A bold choice, would it be our new patrons? |
| 0:56.1 | Our new patrons! Morgan, Alpha Dogs, Quinn the Unicorn, Talia, Carla, Anna, Lindsay, and new dude. |
| 1:02.4 | Welcome. You joined the ranks of such illustrious and exploratory patrons as our supporting |
| 1:07.9 | producer-level supporters, Deborah, Molly, Megan, Skyla, Samantha, Sammy, |
| 1:12.9 | Josie, Neil, Jessica, and Phil Fresh, and our legend-level patrons, Emily, James, B.M. Me Up, Scotty, |
| 1:19.3 | Audra, Chris, Mark, Aila, Cody, Mr. Fulk, Sarah, and Jack Marie. Yeah, I would crack open a bottle |
| 1:24.9 | of wine with any of those folks that you just listed. |
| 1:29.9 | Speaking of which, our wine was so good this episode, Julia. |
| 1:31.1 | Tell the people all about it. |
| 1:36.0 | Thank you. It was the Flora Springs Ghost Winery Red, which I stumbled across. |
| 1:42.0 | And usually I don't buy wine just because of the label and the name, but the label is so good here. |
| 1:46.9 | The label design on the bottle looks as if Matisse designed a Halloween feast. |
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