The Invisible One, Tir, and Jörmungandr | Advice from Folklore w/ Dr. Moiya McTier
Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2021
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
The gods are back to give advice, with advice dealing with angsty teenagers from a teacher of gods, to learning to become fluent in fae speak to get out of uncomfortable conversations. Just in time for the holidays!
Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of arranged marriage, abuse, burning, ableism, pregnancy, misogyny, apocalypse, climate change, and racism.
Guest
Dr. Moiya McTier is a New York-based astrophysicist who studies planets outside of our solar system. She’s also a folklorist who specializes in using science and logic to build fictional worlds. You can hear all about the worlds she’s built on her podcast, Exolore, where she imagines, discusses, and reviews fictional worlds, often with expert guests. You can learn more about Moiya and her work on her website, moiyamctier.com.
Housekeeping
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- Recommendation: This week, Julia recommends My Best Friend’s Exorcism by Grady Hendrix.
- Books: Check out our previous book recommendations, guests’ books, and more at spiritspodcast.com/books
- Call to Action: Check out Join the Party, a collaborative storytelling and roleplaying podcast co-hosted in part by Julia and Amanda. Search for Join the Party in your podcast app, or go to jointhepartypod.com.
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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 boosy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore. |
| 0:04.7 | Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world. |
| 0:07.8 | I'm Julia. |
| 0:08.6 | Amanda has started her Thanksgiving vacation a little early, and this is episode 259, |
| 0:13.9 | advice from folklore number six with Dr. Moia McTeer. |
| 0:17.7 | I really love these episodes, honestly. |
| 0:19.4 | It's so much fun to get to channel the gods and to hear some incredible insight from both of my friends. So thank you, Moia, as always, |
| 0:26.8 | for being on these episodes. And thank you to our newest patrons, Kat and Amy. They join the ranks |
| 0:32.6 | of our supporting producer-lova patrons like Alicia, Brian, Hannah, Jack Marie, Jane, Jessica |
| 0:38.4 | Stewart, Nieselkins, Megan Moon, Phil Fresh, Captain Jonathan Malachi Cosmos, Sarah, Scott |
| 0:43.6 | and Zazi, as well as our legend-level patrons. Audra, Bex, Clara, Drew, Jay-Bay, Lexis, |
| 0:50.2 | Mary, Morgan, Morgan, Each, Mother of Vikings, Sarah, Taylor, and BMEY up Scotty. |
| 0:55.1 | Now, this is the part where Amanda usually asks me what I've been watching, reading, or listening to lately. |
| 1:00.6 | And I have to say, I have been really using my Libby app. |
| 1:04.3 | I have been taken out some real great e-books from my library. |
| 1:07.4 | And this week I want to recommend to you my best friend's exorcism by Brady Hendricks |
| 1:12.1 | because, oh boy, not only is it a great book, but really just made me value and love my friends a lot more. |
| 1:19.0 | So if that's something that you feel like you should have a little bit of a refresher on, |
| 1:24.2 | it's a great book for that. And if that leaves you wanting more recommendations, |
| 1:28.1 | let me recommend a show from Multitude. Join the Party is a collaborative storytelling and role-playing |
| 1:33.7 | podcast powered by the Rules of Dungeons and Dragons that Amanda and I are both players on. |
| 1:38.3 | The first campaign is a high fantasy adventure with intrigue and magic and drama and a gay |
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