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Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore

La Lechuza

Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore

Multitude

Mythology, Drunkhistory, Legends, Urbanlegends, Society & Culture, Educational, Folklore, Myths, Comedy, History, Gods, Alcohol, Learning

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2017

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

#Creeptober might be over, but that doesn’t mean we’re done telling scary stories. Driving along the dark highways on the border of the United States and Mexico, keep your eye on the sky. You never know when La Lechuza will swoop down out of the darkness. We also chat about the evils of colonialism, the transfer of matter in magic, pitch a horrifying spin off to Spirits, and tell more owl stories from around the world. 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Spirits Podcast, episode 49, Lalachusa.

0:03.5

I'm going to say right at the top here, my pronunciation was pretty good at the beginning.

0:08.2

It dissolved into nonsense by the end, and I apologize because it was bad.

0:14.3

I think it is sometimes lost on people that we are actually drinking while we record these episodes.

0:20.8

Oh, and I just,

0:21.4

lose it. And we also just like play off each other's energy and just get kind of silly as time goes

0:25.7

on, uh, or just get really wrapped up in the story and like pronunciation, you know, isn't our key

0:31.0

priority. It becomes secondary. Yeah. So like if, if it, if it, if it hurts your heart that we mispronounce words from languages that you speak, I'm very sorry.

0:37.9

I also don't want to know about it on Twitter.

0:39.2

Yeah, sorry.

0:39.9

Sorry.

0:40.1

Sorry.

0:40.2

Sorry.

0:41.3

But you know who never complains about pronunciation on Twitter?

0:44.0

Who?

0:44.4

Our wonderful patrons.

0:45.5

Oh, they sure don't.

0:47.0

And they're the absolute best.

0:48.5

We want to welcome our newest additions to our patron family, Jonathan, J., Kevin, Rachel, Katrina, Elliot, Adam, Nerris,

0:56.2

and Brian. You guys are wonderful. Thank you for joining the team. I hope a giant owl doesn't

1:02.9

come and get you in the night. Or if it does, it's like avenging you and destroying your

1:06.9

enemies. Yes, ideally. I also hope that mythical creatures destroyed the enemies of our

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