Welcome to Spirits Podcast. Our last episode of 2021, it's a boozy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore. Every week, you know it. We pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world. I am still, Amanda. I'm still Julia. And this is episode 264. Your Urban Legends number 58. Can you believe, Julia, 58 episodes of your Urban Legends?

It feels right that we're ending the year on an Urban Legends episode. I know. It's our bread and

butter, isn't it in so many ways? It is. It's just wonderful. I love it so much. The three of us get

together. We read stories that the conspirators send in to Spirits at gmail.com anytime poe folks you can write to us and it's just it's

always so much fun it's always a highlight of my week to get to record these and I love seeing

people's reactions on social as well just makes me feel closer to our listeners as well you know what I

mean I feel like we're in the room telling you these stories and that's what makes it so special

to me absolutely and we are taking a little bit of time off here at the

end of the year. But because we love you and we know that you build your routines and your lives

like we do around the podcast that we listen to, you're still getting this brand new episode.

But we are going to be doing things like thanking our patrons and doing any other timely, you know,

announcements in the next episode. But it's going to sound a little different because, listen, we

started the show. We started planning it in 2015. That's like 100 years ago in podcast terms.

And the show came out in 2016. Here we are with 260 new episodes. And if we were to design the

show now, we might do some things a little differently, such as it's nice to be able to get

right into the episode.

Don't you like that, Julie, when you turn on a new episode of a podcast and you're like,

hmm, what are we getting into today? They kind of like, they go right for it. Yeah, yeah. I like it.

They just grab it by the throat and they tell me about spooky stuff. Yeah. And a minute into the show, you're enjoying the podcast and not listening to two hosts who you don't know catch up with each other and recommend books to you. So for that reason, starting with episode 265, the next episode, our first episode of 2022, we're going to be doing all of our checking in, our housekeeping, our thinking of patrons, our announcing of merch and recommending of books and our ads all in one nice chunky little

break in the middle of the episode. Yeah. So that way we can just get to the heart of what you're

here for, which is spooky-ass shit. Spooky-ass shit coming to you quicker, hotter, fresher than ever.

So that'll start next episode. So you want to give you a little heads up so you are not taken

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