Multimedia Mythmaking w/ Carmen Maria Machado
Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2019
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
We’re joined by author and fabulist (our new favorite word) Carmen Maria Machado as we delve into the stories and urban legends that inspire her, how video games and relaxing TV are more in depth than we’d imagined, and her favorite biblical insult.
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Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about hypochondria, urban legends surrounding contamination/infection, AIDS/HIV, child endangerment, poison, sexual assault/rape, domestic violence, gun violence, school shootings, #MeToo, biblical/religious references, video game violence, and animal death.
Please reach out to the National Sexual Assault Hotline for confidential support if you have experienced sexual assault.
Guest
- Carmen Maria Machado is a fabulist and the author of the memoir In the Dream House and the short story collection Her Body and Other Parties. Follow her on Twitter @CarmenMMachado.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Speard's 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. |
| 0:07.6 | I'm Amanda. |
| 0:08.2 | And I'm Julia. |
| 0:09.5 | And this is episode 153, Multimedia MythMaking with Carmen Maria Machado. |
| 0:15.3 | You've really been killing it with the guests lately. |
| 0:17.7 | I'm very, very impressed. |
| 0:19.1 | Thank you. |
| 0:19.7 | I am also impressed with myself that I did not |
| 0:22.3 | fall all over myself when Carmen came to visit us in the studio. I have loved her writing for a long |
| 0:29.4 | time. And this is one of my favorite interviews, I think we've ever done, about like modern myths, |
| 0:34.9 | about TV and film and Gordon Ramsey and also like sexual assault and surviving |
| 0:39.5 | abuse. We definitely get into some heavier topics. So check out those content warnings in the |
| 0:43.8 | description that Julia puts together for each episode just so you can be informed and, you know, |
| 0:47.6 | make a good choice for you. But I was absolutely floored and I love it and I hope that you love it |
| 0:52.9 | too. Do you know who else makes |
| 0:54.8 | really good choices, Amanda? Is it our new patrons, Ray, Ria, 50 Bad Zongs, Christine, Janine, and |
| 1:00.8 | Wild Geese? Yes, yes it is. As well as our supporting producer level patrons, Philip, Alpha |
| 1:06.7 | Dogs, Deborah, Molly, Megan, Skyla, Samantha, Sammy, Josie, Neal, Jessica, and Phil Fresh. |
| 1:12.8 | They are absolutely wonderful, and they socialize all the time watching their favorite food |
| 1:19.1 | TV with our legend-level patrons. Morgan, Emily, James, B.M.Yep, Scotty, Audra, Chris, Mark, |
| 1:24.9 | Cody, Mr. Folk, Sarah, and Jack Marie. Yeah, they're all lovely people. |
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