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The Welcome to Spirits podcast, a boozy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore.

For the last 10 years, people, for the last decade, we have been pouring a drink every week

and learning about a new story from around the world.

I remain Amanda.

I am also still somehow Julia.

Hooray!

Julia, happy anniversary.

Happy anniversary.

Amanda, I cannot believe it has been 10 years since we released the first

episode of Spirits. After one too many cocktails at the Jekyll and Hyde Club, RIP, in Times Square,

where we drew the logo on a napkin and talked about the podcast we wanted to make together after

being in the same city together again for the first time since we left high

school here we are here we are and amanda i have to ask do you remember what that first episode was

i will never forget both because it comes up by default a lot on podcast apps when you select the show

and also because when i share the show with people and they look through the episodes,

they go, oh, love it. It's Persephone and Hades. It is. And, you know, the story of Persephone

and Hades has always had a very special place in my heart from when I first started learning about

mythology. I just really loved this idea of a goddess that represented life and death, like could be both,

could contain multitudes, if you will. And I very distinctly remember some sort of book. It

wasn't Edith Hamilton's mythology, but it was one that I think my mom bought me because I

wouldn't stop talking about Greek mythology.

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