Mermaids, Magic, and Murder w/ Maggie Tokuda-Hall
Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2021
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
This week, author Maggie Tokuda-Hall joins us to talk about all things murder and magic. From the exploration of gender, to werewolves as a metaphor for trauma, and everything in between, this interview has it all!
Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of fire, body image, drug use, blood, imperialism, fascism, racism, gender dysphoria, homophobia, transphobia, eating disorders, sexual assault, rape, trauma, and sex.
Housekeeping
- Live Show: Join us October 27th at 8:00 EST for a LIVE virtual show! Get your tickets at spiritspodcast.com/live!
- Recommendation: This week, Julia recommends The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix.
- Books: Check out our previous book recommendations, guests’ books, and more at spiritspodcast.com/books
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Guest
Maggie Tokuda-Hall is the author Also an Octopus, illustrated by Benji Davies, The Mermaid, The Witch and The Sea, Squad, illustrated by Lisa Sterle, and Love in the Library illustrated by Yas Imamura with more books forthcoming. She lives in Oakland, California with her husband, son, and objectively perfect dog. You can follow her on Twitter, @emteehall or on Instagram @maggietokudahall.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | 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 this is episode 254, Mermaids Magic and Murder with Maggie Takuda Hall. Julia titles the episodes. And Julia, I think you've had done yourself. I don't think you've ever had a title as good as this one. And we'll have to see what tops it. |
| 0:21.1 | I'm extremely flattered by that. |
| 0:22.8 | And I'm also extremely flattered that Maggie took the time to come on the show. |
| 0:26.5 | She is an author that I kind of discovered during quarantine when I picked up her first book. |
| 0:31.7 | And the fact that we get to talk to her now, both about that book and her newest graphic novel is really, really exciting. |
| 0:38.2 | Yes, we talked to her months ago, and I had that thing that you see on the internet where we were able to get a galley of the book. |
| 0:44.6 | And I was like, I have never wanted to brag as much as I want to brag right now about reading this book. |
| 0:49.4 | Because, guys, it's so good. |
| 0:50.4 | You're going to love it. |
| 0:51.1 | The graphic novel is so good that we got the galley, but I also |
| 0:54.6 | pre-ordered my own physical copy. That's how good this graphic novel is. 100%. And also so good, |
| 1:00.5 | Julia, you know it's our new patrons, Allegra, Matt, Brittany, and Solo. Thank you all for joining us. |
| 1:05.7 | We're so happy that you join the ranks of our supporting producer level patrons. Alicia Alice and Brian, Deborah, Hannah, |
| 1:15.6 | Jack Marie, Jane, Jessica Stewart, Nieselkins, Megan Moon, Phil Fresh, Captain Jonathan, Malachi, Cosmos, |
| 1:21.1 | Sarah, Scott, Theo, and Zazi, and the legend-level patrons. Audra, Clara, Drew, Jay, Bay, |
| 1:29.0 | Kay, Lexus, Mary, Morgan, Morgan H, Mother of Vikings, Sarah, and B.M.M.E. Up Scotty. All fantastic people with a lot of magic and hopefully not murder in their lives, but we hope if you want to learn about murder, you have it in life. I don't know. |
| 1:36.7 | That got away from me. Well, we love spiritually hanging out with them as our beloved patrons, |
| 1:42.0 | and we look forward to hanging out with some of you next week |
| 1:45.1 | for our live show. Julia, I can't believe spooky season is here. We're in the midst of it. My powers are |
| 1:51.6 | returning. And we're going to be having a live show that you can also watch after the fact, |
| 1:55.9 | BT-dubs if you can't make it or you're in a different time zone, October 27th at 8 p.m. Eastern. |
| 2:00.5 | And tickets are at |
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