Sinbad the Sailor (Part 2)
Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2021
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Ahoy! Is that the return of Sinbad the Sailor? It is! We’re judging the luckiest/unluckiest man in folklore this week, as well as talking about the economics of coconuts and monkeys.
Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of xenophobia, drug use, natural disaster, drowning, cannibalism, death, murder, violence against women, illness, being buried alive, starvation, animal death, strangulation, slavery, poaching, and graverobbing.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Spear's podcast, a boosy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore. |
| 0:03.9 | Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world. |
| 0:07.1 | I'm Amanda. |
| 0:07.6 | And I'm Julia. |
| 0:08.6 | And is episode 237, Sinbad the Sailor, Part 2. |
| 0:12.0 | Julia, we're finally up the other side of our cliffhanger. |
| 0:14.8 | We're back at it. |
| 0:15.7 | We're back at it with the world's luckiest and most unlucky man. |
| 0:19.9 | And here we go. I am so enriched by knowing the end of this |
| 0:22.7 | journey. And I know that you patrons and listeners will be too. But first and especially, thank you |
| 0:27.8 | and welcome to our newest patrons. Taylor, with two exclamation points, Scott, Jessica, and Shane. |
| 0:33.1 | Thank you so very much for making room in your budget each month to support creators, specifically |
| 0:37.2 | these creators. |
| 0:38.4 | It's us. |
| 0:39.2 | And thank you to our supporting producer level patrons. |
| 0:41.5 | Alicia Allison, Ryan, Deborah, Hannah, Jane, Jessica K, Jessica S, Justin Kagan, Nieselkins, Megan Linger, Megan Moon, Philfresh, Polly, |
| 0:49.7 | Captain Jonathan, Malachi, Cosmos, Sarah, Scott, and Zazi, and, of course, Julia, don't forget, |
| 0:55.2 | the legend-level patrons, each of whom I think has, like, a smallish body of water in their |
| 1:00.3 | home state or country where there's just a shadow under the lake occasionally, and then people |
| 1:05.4 | take photos of it, and then the hashtag is like, Nessie, question question mark only it's instead Audra chimera or change clara drew jack |
| 1:12.3 | marie jbay jay bae lauda morgan morgan h necker royalty taylor bm me up scottie i wasn't sure where |
| 1:18.9 | you're going with that one but i love it it's like hashtag bm e scottie citing question mark |
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