Sharks w/ Melissa Marquez
Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2018
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
It’s Shark Week, but we’re not here for shots of Great Whites (mostly because we’re an audio medium). We’re joined by Melissa Marquez, who specializes in the intersection of shark folklore and conservation. We chat about making scientific education accessible, human infested beaches, and what a shark-filled Big Brother house would look like!
Guest
Melissa Marquez is the founder of The Fins United Initiative and hosts the Spanish language podcast, ConCiencia Azul, which interviews Spanish-speaking marine scientists, conservationists, grad students, photographers, and more from around the world. You can find out more at her website, or follow her on Twitter.
Sponsor
Skillshare is an online learning community where you can learn—and teach—just about anything. Visit skillshare.com/spirits to get two months of Skillshare Premium for $0.99!
Our favorite Skillshare class this week is “Write a Fantasy Adventure: Discover Mythology and Create Your Epic Tale.”
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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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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Spirr's podcast, a boozy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore. Every week we pour a drink and learn a new story from around the world. I'm Amanda. And I'm Julia. And this is episode 88, Sharks with Melissa Marquez. Yeah, currently, Eric, our wonderful, wonderful editor is one mile away from where they filmed the movie Jaws. There had been a bunch of shark sightings happening |
| 0:21.7 | at our favorite beaches here on the island. And it's Shark Week. It is actually Shark Week. |
| 0:27.4 | And we are very excited not just to bring you an expert in sharks, an actual expert about actual |
| 0:34.5 | shark animals here in the world, but also someone who studies the folklore of her |
| 0:39.8 | subject as like part of her career. Melissa is one of my favorite people now, even though we just |
| 0:44.9 | met the day that we recorded this episode. And I think she's amazing. Yeah, she was incredibly cool, |
| 0:50.5 | incredibly well spoken. And the topic that she's chosen to investigate and study |
| 0:55.6 | is just one of the coolest things I've ever told people about. And I'm really excited for her. |
| 1:01.8 | We are also really excited to welcome our newest patrons, Sam, Jessica, Brittany, Morgan, |
| 1:06.7 | and St. Sweet Sir Stereo. What a name. That is quite a name. |
| 1:19.3 | As well as our supporting producer level patrons, Philip, Julie, Christina, Josh, Eeyore Ella, Ashley Marie, Neil, Jessica, Maria, Ryan, Phil Fresh, and Deborah. |
| 1:30.7 | They all never get sand in their flip-flops when they first get to the beach, and so they have to immediately take the flip-flops off, but then the sand is too hot and it burns the bottom of your feet. That never happens to them. Oh yeah, never, ever, ever, ever. And folks who can walk on sand of any temperature |
| 1:37.1 | at any time would be our legend-level patrons. Cassie, Sandra, Audra, Mercedes, Jack Marie, |
| 1:42.3 | and Leanne Davis. Yeah, they are all wonderful, wonderful |
| 1:45.2 | human beings who have feet made of steel. Absolutely. Julie, what are we drinking during this episode? |
| 1:51.0 | Sharp bites, which is a wonderful, wonderful cocktail that if you are a patron and you get the recipe |
| 1:57.7 | cards, that is what our recipe card is this week. Yeah, every single week, Julia makes delicious cocktails, one alcoholic and one non-alcoholic for those that support us on Patreon at patreon.com slash spirits podcast. |
| 2:10.8 | They are great and you should check them out. |
| 2:13.0 | Yeah. Also, this week, we are sponsored by Skillshare. |
| 2:17.3 | Skillshare is an online learning community where you can learn and teach just about anything. |
| 2:21.8 | Visit Skillshare.com slash spirits to get two months of Skillshare premium for just 99 cents. |
| 2:28.3 | And we'll tell you a little bit more about our favorite class this week later on the episode. |
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