Mushrooms and Modern Horror w/ Jenna Stoeber
Spirits
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Mushrooms and horror go together like peanut butter and jelly, and we’ve brought on our local horror expert, Jenna Stoeber to talk us through the history of mushrooms, horror, video games, and more!
Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of body horror, xenophobia, racism, death, psychological horror, drug use, sex, insects, and illness/infection.
Guest
Jenna Stoeber is a video essayist, streamer, and podcaster. She has a Master's Degree in Media and Culture, which she mostly uses to write really erudite dick jokes. Her videos cover topics like internet culture, better living through media literacy, and The Wicker Man. She streams cozy games, horror games, and, on occasion, cozy horror games. She plays Astra Blep on the hilarious actual play podcast Burnt Cook Book Party, and hosts the podcast Big Game Hunger, where each week she and a guest use random prompts to make the big next game.
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- Co-Hosts: Julia Schifini and Amanda McLoughlin
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Spirits is a boozy podcast about mythology, legends, and folklore. Every episode, co-hosts Julia and Amanda mix a drink and discuss a new story or character from a wide range of places, eras, and cultures. Learn brand-new stories and enjoy retellings of your favorite myths, served over ice every week, on Spirits.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The Welcome to Spirits podcast, a boozy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore. |
| 0:33.6 | Oh, shit, I should have said mycology, legends and folklore. |
| 0:36.6 | Fuck! |
| 0:37.1 | It's too late now. No going back. It's only been 30 seconds. |
| 0:40.9 | Every week, we have a drink and learn about a new story from around the world. I'm Amanda. |
| 0:45.6 | And I'm Julia. And if you didn't check the title of this episode before you clicked on it, |
| 0:51.6 | hey, thanks for loving us so much that you don't care what the topic is. |
| 0:54.4 | But also, it's Mushroom Modern Horror Time. And I am so excited to talk about this. As we kind of laid out in our |
| 1:02.3 | Mushroom Folklore Roundup episode, a lot of mushroom folklore, as we know it in modernity, |
| 1:08.3 | is more of a modern creation. And I am so excited to have someone on the |
| 1:13.9 | podcast to talk about these like modern mushroom horror, someone who I believe has a master's |
| 1:19.8 | in horror. Is that correct, Jenna? That is accurate from University of Wisconsin-Madison. Shout out. |
| 1:25.8 | Shout out. And shout out to our good friend Jenna Stee, who is here to talk about all those cool things with us. |
| 1:32.1 | Hello. |
| 1:33.2 | I'm here to talk about mushrooms as a horror icon, not as a food, because I do not care for them as a food. |
| 1:39.6 | I feel that. |
| 1:41.3 | I get it. |
| 1:42.2 | What is the turnoff for you as a food? Texturally, taste-wise, bad texture. |
| 1:48.5 | Taste-wise, I find mushrooms to be unnoteworthy. I don't feel like they have a ton of taste. |
| 1:53.6 | Yeah. It really is just the texture when I bite into one and it goes squish. I'm like, oh, well, there's the horror. |
| 2:00.7 | I found it. |
| 2:01.7 | I found the terror. |
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