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Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore

Stonehenge w/ Lauren Shippen

Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore

Multitude

Mythology, Drunkhistory, Legends, Urbanlegends, Society & Culture, Educational, Folklore, Myths, Comedy, History, Gods, Alcohol, Learning

4.8 • 2K Ratings

šŸ—“ļø 14 September 2016

ā±ļø 38 minutes

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Summary

Across the misty moors of Wales and England, we stumble across the Druids' most mysterious landmark: Stonehenge. Follow us into the shadowed origins of this ancient formation and speculate with us about its purpose. Special guest Lauren Shippen, creator of the wildly successful podcast The Bright Sessions, takes us through options from aliens, to human sacrifice, to archaeoacoustics. Stumble with us through our favorite theories behind one of England's most notable landmarks!

Find Lauren on Twitter @LaurenShippen and The Bright Sessions @brightpodcast.Ā Be sure to subscribe to The Bright Sessions in your favorite podcast app -- the new season premieres soon!

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0:00.0

Welcome to Spears podcast episode 17, Stonehenge with Lauren Shippin of the Bright Sessions.

0:05.5

But we'll get to that in a second. This has been a crazy week, listeners. As of this recording,

0:09.7

we are number 33 in all of iTunes, society, and culture charts. And we're number 161. Overall in all

0:19.0

of iTunes. What is happening? The iTunes chart. Like we're 161 in the iTunes chart.

0:24.1

We just passed Alice isn't dead. What does it happen? We love you guys so much. Thank you very much.

0:28.4

Thank you for listening. Thank you. Welcome. We hope that you stick around and tell your friends.

0:34.0

You guys have been writing some really, really nice ratings and reviews for us on

0:38.9

iTunes. If you haven't already, please do that. The more you rate and review us, the more people we

0:44.0

get to tell drunk stories to, and we love that. Maybe get that top 100, maybe get some super

0:50.1

cool high profile guests on the show. I mean, that would be so bad. Listen, you know, we're just dreaming big here.

0:55.6

And we've also heard from you on Twitter and Facebook, so we just want to shout out a few of you.

0:58.8

Luke Bozerman, Nocturnal Druid, Philip Ellis, Grace Reloda, Kate Smith, who had some beautiful

1:04.5

bird woman fan art.

1:06.1

You guys are making us fan art?

1:07.6

What is happening?

1:08.6

So cool.

1:09.3

We love fan art? What is happening? So cool. We love fan art. Make us whatever you want. We will tweet

1:12.7

it. We'll put it on Facebook. We will send it to our moms. I might get a tattoo of one of them in the future.

1:17.8

I mean, she probably will. We'll get drunk and she'll go get a tattoo. I don't condone drunk tattooing.

1:22.6

Anyway, continuing. Violent Nichols, Mimi Vasker, Tiny Dino, who had some very cool, kind of creepy, kind of cool fan art.

1:30.8

That was the first one and we're just obsessed with it.

1:32.8

Yeah, we're definitely going to make some T-shirts in the future and I think kind of creepy, kind of cool has to be on one of them.

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