Mermaids
Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2018
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Summer is finally here, which means one thing: BEACH BABES TIME! We’re celebrating with a roundup of the best mermaids and fish folk the world has to offer. From buff mermaid moms to outcast mermaid communities to the types of mermaids that prevent disease and bring long life, we’ve got it all! Also featuring reflections on human sacrifice, crushing on wrestlers, and our favorite moments from Alan Menken movies.
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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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| 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 83, |
| 0:11.3 | Mermaids, plain and simple. Just Mermaids, y'all. Plain and simple. I just, I love a good mermaid. I love a good roundup. |
| 0:17.9 | It is the perfect way to start the summer. Easy, breezy, beautiful |
| 0:22.6 | mermaids that might tear your flesh off. That's my new slogan for just life in general. Thank you. |
| 0:28.0 | Thank you for that. You're very welcome. People who also have super strong life slogans are our newest patrons, |
| 0:33.6 | Heather, Corey and Lane, Mimi, Christy, and Paul, as well as our supporting producer-level patrons, |
| 0:39.7 | Philip, Julie, Christina, Josh, Eeyore, Neal, Jessica, Maria, Ryan, Phil Fresh, and Deborah. |
| 0:45.7 | You all can join the mermaid girl gang that we started in this episode. |
| 0:53.3 | I'm very serious about it. I want bomber jackets. |
| 0:55.3 | I want them so bad. At least a patch. Like at least a good patch to go on our leather |
| 0:59.8 | slash jean jackets. Yeah. We may or may not have some things in the works for our patrons. |
| 1:05.8 | So keep an ear out. We'll see. And the first people to receive any patches that we may or may not be |
| 1:12.4 | planning would be our legend level patrons, Sandra, Audra, Mercedes, Jack, Marie, Ashley Marie, |
| 1:19.2 | Ashley, Leanne, and Cassie. Our legend level patrons always have little tiny, tiki drink |
| 1:24.2 | umbrellas in their hair, the little paper ones. You know what I'm talking about. That coordinate perfectly with their outfits. |
| 1:29.2 | Yes, always, every time. And that coordinates perfectly with our drinks for this episode. |
| 1:34.4 | I made us teaky drinks. Tiki drinks. I only had like ceramic mugs to serve them in, but, you know, |
| 1:42.3 | I like a good ceramic mug with my teaky drink. |
| 1:48.5 | I have a good teaky drink story if our listeners and you will indulge me, Amanda. |
| 1:55.0 | Please. So this past weekend, I was in L.A. doing podcaster things, which I like that I can say that as a thing that I can actually do. And I went to a podcaster meetup on Wednesday night. |
| 2:03.2 | And at the bar we were at, we discovered a secret tiki bar. |
| 2:06.9 | And I might have actually cried when I found it. |
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