The Butterfly Lovers w/ Linda
Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2017
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Doomed love has never been so fun to talk about! Special guest Linda takes us through one of the most famous love stories in the Chinese cultural canon, with twists, turns, and detours to Dana Scully’s shoulder pads, Amanda’s graveyard traditions, and Julia’s favorite IRL treasure hunt. We promise to fill you with only a little bit of existential sadness at the end.
Our recommendations this week: focused.af and Wynonna Erp. You can listen to us praise ‘She’s the Man’ on our friend Caroline’s podcast Loose Canon, and read up on the 1994 film ‘The Lovers’ on Wikipedia or IMDB.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Spirits Podcast Episode 32, The Butterfly Lovers with Linda. |
| 0:04.0 | That's such a cute name for such a sad, sad, sad story. |
| 0:07.3 | It is super sad. |
| 0:08.3 | It's mad tragic. |
| 0:09.5 | It is really bad. |
| 0:10.7 | And it also has the benefit of being a myth that you didn't know the end of it. |
| 0:14.4 | No. |
| 0:15.0 | It was really delightful to kind of watch you experience and guess like I do every week about what this myth actually is. So Linda did a great job. |
| 0:21.9 | Yes, Linda did amazing. And we're really excited for you to hear it. But first, we got to take care of some |
| 0:26.4 | stuff. Housekeeping. Yes, housekeeping. Let's look at the list. So welcome first and foremost to |
| 0:31.5 | our newest patrons, Chan, Olivia, Laura, Tristan, Amanda, not me, Madeline, John, Jessica and Kimberly, |
| 0:40.7 | and to MCF, who upgraded to be a $10 level patron. |
| 0:41.5 | Thank you. |
| 0:42.1 | Thank you. |
| 0:50.6 | And as always, to our supporting producer level patrons, Leanne Davis, Shannon Alford, Phil Fresh, Catherine Addington, Christina Rogers, and Griffin Meckleberg. |
| 0:53.0 | Our happiest butterfly people. |
| 0:55.8 | Yes, happy green butterflies and not sad white death butterflies. You'll see. Ideally. You'll see. If you haven't been following us on |
| 0:59.7 | Twitter, we are now on Instagram and SoundCloud. If you listen to your podcast on SoundCloud, |
| 1:05.2 | you can now listen to this, this thing right here on SoundCloud. You can share the playlist |
| 1:10.0 | with all our episodes to your friends. |
| 1:11.5 | You can rock out. |
| 1:13.0 | And on Sunday, when we were playing D&D, hashtag SpiritsD, with Julia, Jake, Eric Silver, |
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