The Shape of Water | Myth Movie Night
Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2020
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
You probably know that Guillermo del Toro was inspired by The Creature from the Black Lagoon, but do you know what inspired that? We’re here to discuss the origin of our favorite Gill-Men, the party where that would lead to the Creature, and a couple of other Fishmen that might have laid the groundwork.
Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of gun violence, espionage, the Cold War, misogyny (in the workplace), racism, homophobia, enslavement, colonization, body mutilation, family member’s death, drowning, exorcism, interrogation, and HP Lovecraft.
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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 boozy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore. |
| 0:04.1 | Every week, we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world. |
| 0:07.4 | I'm Amanda. |
| 0:08.1 | And I'm Julia. |
| 0:09.1 | And this is episode 184, The Shape of Water for Myth Movie Night. |
| 0:13.1 | The last couple of Myth Movie Nights I've really, really enjoyed because I like doing the deep |
| 0:17.3 | dives into like the history of how our fiction is shaped by mythology. And these |
| 0:22.4 | ones have been really, really fun to get into. I learned so much and went down so many |
| 0:27.7 | Wikipedia rabbit holes. So I think everybody is going to really enjoy this episode. I think so too. |
| 0:32.7 | Do you know who I would follow down any internet research rabbit hole? I bet it's our new patrons. |
| 0:37.1 | Our new patrons, Eden, |
| 0:38.6 | Keegan, Leslie, Laura, Ivy Delaney, Kira, Nicole, and Madison. And Amanda, I think I would |
| 0:44.6 | follow our supporting and legend level patrons into like a creepy, like moss-covered ancient |
| 0:53.4 | temple. The kind of thing that I would take a picture and put on |
| 0:56.5 | Twitter and say don't enter the fairy temple. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. That would be Landon Bazz, |
| 1:02.0 | Mr. Fulk, Jen, Hannah, Alicia, Sarah, Nikki, Megan, Deborah, Molly, Skyla, Samantha, Neil, Jessica, |
| 1:08.0 | and Phil Fresh. Thank you so much for your support. You make it possible for us to do the show, |
| 1:12.3 | along with our superlative legend-level patrons. Drew, Avonlea, Ashley, Clara, Stephen, Francis, Josie, Kylie, |
| 1:20.8 | Morgan, BME up, Scotty, Audra, Chris, Mark, Sarah, and Jack Marie. We don't even care if we're |
| 1:26.4 | taken by the Faye. We love you guys that much. |
| 1:28.7 | It's worth it. |
| 1:29.4 | Worth it. |
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