Welcome to Spirits Podcast episode 84, Talking Badgers with Adel Refai. Yeah, I'm very excited for this

episode for a number of reasons, mostly that Adel is a wonderful human being, and we were really,

really lucky to have him on the show. Yeah, Julia did some excellent work in being like, wait,

what if we talked about mythology with Adler 5? And I was like,

damn, yes, let's do it. We really, really love the shows that he's on. We talk a little bit

about it in the actual episode. But this is a really cool mix, I think, of like the mythology

of a project that a person does. And also, like, their personal stories. So I think,

Julie, you did a really great job preparing for this one. Thank you. Thank you. I'm, I'm very excited for y'all to hear it. But first, we got to talk about

our new patrons. Hey, hi, hello. Welcome to Leanne, Janessa, Amara, Rachel, Katrina, Shelby, Joe,

and Darcy. Yeah, welcome. Your dads aren't hunger ghosts, but, uh but I think you're going to find them interesting anyway.

And thank you so much to the people who truly helped to make this show happen, talking animals and all. Our supporting producer level patrons, Philip, Julie, Christina, Josh, Eeyore, Neil, Jessica, Maria, Ryan, Phil Fresh, and Deborah, as well as our legend-level patrons,

Sandra Audra, Mercedes, Jack, Marie, Ashley Marie, Leanne, and Cassie.

Thank you all so much. You are wonderful human beings, and we appreciate you every single

goddamn day. We truly, truly do. We also appreciate Shaker and Spoon, which is our sponsor

for this week. They are a monthly cocktail subscription box that you can get in on the fun at shaker

and spoon.com slash spirits, but we'll tell you more about that later. Yeah, we'll get there eventually.

Got to get through some good, good badger lore first. Very important. I don't remember

what you were drinking for this one, but I can tell you later about the shaker and spoon cocktail that I

made while we were recording this, but we'll get there. Yeah, I never remember anything that we talk about

or drink or do during episodes. So, you know, it's actually pretty fun because I get to enjoy the show as a listener and be like, yo, mermaids are great.

And the person in the episode happens to also sound like me. So, you know, it's all good. Yeah, it's wonderful.

This is truly an action-filled and exciting episode. So we're going to let you get right to it. This is Spirits podcast episode

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