The Invisible Man | Myth Movie Night
Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2020
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
The Invisible Man has been scaring us since 1897, but invisibility has been used for nefarious purposes in myths and legends since way before that. Our survey of invisibility spans past centuries all the way to the modern day as we examine what exactly makes invisibility scary—and what might be next.
Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of mental institutions, gaslighting, abusive relationships, murder, physical and mental abuse, suicide, military industrail complex, stalking, human/medical testing, terrorism, grave robbing, racism, and gun violence.
Housekeeping
- Recommendation: This week, Amanda recommends the podcast Bad Queers. Check out our previous book recommendations, guests’ books, and more at spiritspodcast.com/books
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Find Us Online
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About Us
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 boozy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore. |
| 0:03.7 | Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world. |
| 0:07.2 | I'm Amanda. |
| 0:07.9 | And I'm Julia. |
| 0:08.9 | And this is episode 192, The Invisible Man for Myth Movie Night. |
| 0:13.1 | Myth Movie Night. |
| 0:14.5 | Amanda, I'm very excited to hear what you thought about this movie because I really like it. |
| 0:19.5 | Totally. |
| 0:20.0 | It is an absolutely devastating portrayal of abuse, |
| 0:23.3 | gaslighting, and like lots of horrible side effects that comes with that. So knowing that, |
| 0:29.0 | it was a great horror movie. Yes. And we would definitely like to encourage as every week, |
| 0:32.9 | we include some content warnings and descriptions in the description of this episode. And if it's not something |
| 0:37.9 | that will make your week or day better, then feel free to go ahead and skip it. We'll have a new |
| 0:41.6 | episode next week like we have for the last 192 weeks. Ooh, oh boy, so many weeks. We've been doing |
| 0:48.3 | this for so long. And it's a joy, Julia, every week to be able to connect with you and sometimes |
| 0:53.6 | Eric Schneider and to do our |
| 0:55.8 | thing and talk about ghosts and it's fabulous. I love talking about ghosts and spooky things. |
| 1:00.8 | I also love that we get to enjoy that with new people every week. And I want to thank in particular |
| 1:06.3 | our newest patrons, Christian Thomas, Julia, Nicola, Timo, Chenet, Andy, Danielle, California, and Artemis. What wonderful names. What good patrons. Christian Thomas, Julia, Nicola, Timo, Chenay, Andy, Danielle, California, and |
| 1:12.5 | Artemis. What wonderful names. What good patrons. They join the ranks of hundreds of people |
| 1:17.5 | who give up a few dollars a month to help us make this our living, and we are so grateful for each |
| 1:23.4 | and every one of you, particularly our supporting producer-level patrons, Philip, Alicia, Deborah, Hannah, Jen, Jessica, Keegan, Landon, Megan Lander, Megan Moon, Molly, Mr. Folk, Neil, Nicky, Fell Fresh, Polly, Sarah, and Skyla, and our legend-level patrons for whom I get to pick a wonderful gift. I almost said delicious. Sometimes they are delicious. Every month. Audra, Chelsea, Clara, |
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