Welcome to Spears 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 am Amanda. And I'm Julia. This is episode 77, Calavala with Elena Vari. Now, this episode is over an hour long. You read that correctly, but I promise it is super duper worth it. It is like someone sat down and told us,

hey, I'm going to tell you the entire odyssey over drinks. In my mind, it's as if we watched

like two Thor movies, only we're learning about Finnish mythology instead. That's about

it. It is the dopest. And in fact, there are so many incredible characters in this story that on our Patreon,

we made a public post so everybody can read it where we listed all of the characters.

And Elena's very funny, like, pivy summaries about each of them as well as there are some music.

There's like some traditional Finnish music, like songs about these stories.

And then fine art, like links to, you know,

paintings of them. That's at patreon.com slash spirits podcast and in the description of this episode.

Also pictures of her cat, who is adorable. I know. It's just, we are like so enriched and hashtag

blessed by everything that Elena has to offer. Thank you, Elena. You know who else is hashtag blessed?

Would that be our new patrons?

Yes.

Alex, Dylan, Michelle, Himula, Sophie, Natania, Vilma, Mika, Mizu, and Lasas.

You can dance whenever you want to, and no one can tell you otherwise.

And you know what?

I think that more people who never show up

like bedraggled and wet to meet their future spouses, that would be our supporting producer

level patrons. Neil, Philip, Julie, Christina, Josh, Eeyore, Jessica, Maria, Cammy, Ryan, Phil

Fresh, and Deborah. And thanks always to the bards of our hearts.

Our legend level patrons, Mercedes, Ashley, Buggy, Rachel, Sandra, Ashley Marie, Leanne, and Cassie.

Mizzu, Lasos, and Janice.

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