The Death of Heroes w/ Christopher Dole
Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2019
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Every Hero’s Journey has to come to an end eventually. We invited Christopher Dole to tell us five tales of heroes who lived their best lives and how they ended. Also featuring marrying beautiful giants and our Wishbone Fancast.
This week, Julia recommends a classic, The Golden Compass.
Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about death, mentions of rape, and mentions of incest.
Guest
Christopher Dole is a podcaster and co-creator of Arden Podcast. Follow him on Twitter @chrisdole86.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Spirits Podcast, a boozy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore. |
| 0:04.3 | Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world. |
| 0:07.6 | I'm Amanda. |
| 0:08.3 | And I'm Julia. |
| 0:09.7 | And this is episode 132, The Death of Heroes with Christopher Dole. |
| 0:13.5 | Yeah, we pour one out for a bunch of different heroes from a bunch of different mythologies from around the world. |
| 0:19.0 | And it is a really, really interesting dive |
| 0:21.2 | into kind of the unifying factors of deaths of heroes. And I would definitely pour one out for |
| 0:28.3 | both our new patron Morgan, welcome Morgan, and our supporting producer level patrons, |
| 0:33.7 | Philip Eor, Christi Mercedes, Samantha, Danica, Marissa, Sammy, Josie, Neal, Jessica, and Phil Fresh. |
| 0:40.5 | Not because they died or anything, just because they're so cool. |
| 0:43.0 | They're not in our presence. They deserve to have one poured out for them. |
| 0:46.8 | They super do. As do our legend level patrons. Kelly, Cody, Mr. Folk, Talia, Haley, James, Jess, Sarah, Sandra, Audra, and Jack Marie. |
| 0:56.7 | I'd pour out a whole bottle of champagne for all of those patients. It would cost us a lot of money, |
| 1:00.9 | but they're worth it. Yeah, sometimes you got to just do the thing that is a little bit frivolous, |
| 1:05.6 | but definitely worth it. Yeah. Speaking of pouring out drinks, I poured us a very nice bottle of red wine, one of my favorite, Smith & Hook. I think I've mentioned it before on the show, but it's like a really, really great Washington Cabernet Savignon. Highly recommend it. Please go check it out. It's delicious. |
| 1:23.2 | Yum. And Julia, do you have any kind of pairing to recommend with that red wine, maybe a podcast, |
| 1:28.9 | a book, a TV show? You know what, Amanda? I actually recently picked up because I don't think |
| 1:34.2 | I've ever read the first book in its entirety, but I picked up the Golden Compass for the first |
| 1:39.3 | time. Yes. And I purchased it and I am now four or five chapters in after buying it on Sunday. And I'm absolutely delighted. It's very good. I can see why it's one of your favorite book series. |
| 1:51.0 | Excellent. I'm so glad to hear it. And I actually just recorded a guest episode for my friends Nicole and Mari's podcast Snark Squad about the subtle knife, which is the second book in that series. |
| 2:02.3 | Yeah, it seems really cool. |
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