The Worst Question We’ve Ever Asked | Your Urban Legends 42
Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2020
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Sometimes we ask a question on this show that simply does not have an answer. And that’s probably for the best. We talk hair-styling witches, flipping haunted homes, and… well you’ll just have to wait to find out.
Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of sex, Covid-19, curses, war/violence/conquering, genitals, masturbation, ageism, religious persecution, ableism, “Satanism”, mental illness, death, plane crashes, and injury.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Spirits Podcast, a boozy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore. Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world. I'm Amanda. And I'm Julia. And this is episode 210, your Urban Legends, number 42. That seems not right in terms of numbers. You know, it's just time marches on. And here we are. Just organisms in the universe doing our best. |
| 0:23.6 | We really are. |
| 0:24.5 | And this episode, I think we did our best. |
| 0:27.6 | I think we really did our best. |
| 0:29.1 | We brought some bold questions to the four, had a rollicking discussion, had a much-needed drink halfway through. |
| 0:35.2 | And, you know, we hope that this brings you a laugh, |
| 0:38.7 | conspirators. Certainly brought us a laugh. It did. And what brought a smile to our face was seeing |
| 0:44.0 | the new patrons who joined us, Katie, Erica, Castor, Lindsay, and someone who is very creatively named |
| 0:50.0 | Little Vomit Spiders running around. Honestly, very evocative. Extremely creepy. We really appreciate your support. |
| 0:56.3 | Thank you so, so much. |
| 0:57.4 | And thank you to our supporting producer-level patrons. |
| 0:59.9 | Alicia, Allison, Deborah, Hannah, Jen, Jessica, Kegan, Nieselkins, Liz, Megan Linger, |
| 1:05.0 | Megan Moon, Phil Fresh, Polly, Sarah, Skyla, Sammy Todd, and Alex. |
| 1:09.7 | Alex, welcome, Alex. |
| 1:10.7 | Well, welcome. And of course, we are |
| 1:13.1 | fully in love with and would ask strange questions of all of our legend level patrons, Audra, |
| 1:19.1 | Chelsea, Drew, Francis, Jack Marie, Key, Lada, Mark, Morgan, Necrowfancy, Renegade, and B&Me Up Scotty. |
| 1:25.4 | Y'all are absolutely the best, and we so appreciate you |
| 1:28.0 | taking the time out of your human days with your human dollars to support a podcast you love. |
| 1:33.2 | If you have, you know, Faye days and Faye dollars, I'm not sure how we would take those from you. |
| 1:38.9 | I figure it's something like we leave it in a, leave it in a tree and then, yeah, yeah, something like that. |
| 1:45.0 | Yeah, we would not eat any fruit you gave us, but we would gratefully accept your gifts. |
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