The Holiday RomCom
Spirits
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
We’re bombarded every year by various holiday romcoms, so Amanda has offered to take us by the hand and lead us through the tropes that make these movies both terrible and incredibly enjoyable.
Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of heteronormativity, infidelity, surgery, strained family relationships, dismemberment, and foreclosure.
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Spirits was created by Julia Schifini, Amanda McLoughlin and Eric Schneider. We are founding members of Multitude, an independent podcast collective and production studio. Our music is "Danger Storm" by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Spirits Podcast, a boosy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore. |
| 0:04.5 | Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world. |
| 0:07.8 | I'm Amanda. |
| 0:08.3 | And I'm Julia. |
| 0:09.3 | In this episode 263, the holiday rom-com and all its mythologies and ups and downs and glory and heartache and a game, there's a lot to love here, folks. |
| 0:18.1 | There really is. |
| 0:18.9 | And it's a bit of a departure from what we usually do for these kind of myth movie night episodes. |
| 0:24.0 | And we're trying some things different that we're hoping to take over into the new year. |
| 0:28.0 | So we hope you like it. |
| 0:29.9 | We do hope you like it. |
| 0:31.4 | We know, though, that we like our new patrons, Candice, Zoe, Tabitha, and Casey, thank you so very much for pledging your hard-earned human dollars to support a small business, independent creators like us. We so appreciate it. Thanks to our supporting producer-level patrons. |
| 0:44.9 | Alicia, Hannah, Jack Marie, Jane, Jessica Kinzer, Jessica Stewart, Measelkins, Megan Moon, Phil Fresh, Captain Jonathan Malachi, Cosmos, Sarah Scott, and Zazi, and our legend-level patrons, Audra, Bex, Clara, |
| 0:55.7 | J. Bay Bay, Lexus, Mary, Morgan, mother of Vikings, Sarah, Taylor, and B.M. Yep, Scottie. |
| 1:00.4 | You all, I hope that if you want to, you can be taken away to a Christmas town and fall in love |
| 1:07.4 | with, I don't know, like an architect or something? Who knows? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just like |
| 1:11.0 | wake up in the third generation of a small family business that is struggling, but maybe through |
| 1:15.5 | the media, but maybe through the magic of like, I don't know, TikTok could suddenly find a whole |
| 1:19.2 | new audience. I love that. Now, Julia, before the call, you were really, really excited to tell me |
| 1:23.5 | about the book you're reading. Why don't you share with me and with the conspirators what you've been enjoying? Oh, Amanda, it's called Black Sun by Rebecca Rhonehorse. And oh, gosh, it's got everything. |
| 1:33.8 | It's got like indigenous North American mythology. It's got different clans. It's got different |
| 1:40.9 | character perspectives and point of view, which I know you love and I love, |
| 1:45.0 | I love switching things up. Oh, yeah. And I am just like, I'm at the climax of the story right now |
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