Toth, Leto, and Hephaestus | Advice from Folklore w/ Dr. Moiya McTier
Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Moiya is back to help Julia channel the gods and give advice to our Conspiriters about science, relationships, and what wild animals to feed. Also, if a crow started talking to you, would you listen?
Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of anxiety, toxic relationships, strained parental relationships, divorce, transphobia, birth and pregnancy, ableism, death, hanging, and wild animals fighting.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Spirits Podcast, a boozy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore. |
| 0:04.3 | Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world. |
| 0:07.5 | I'm Amanda. |
| 0:08.1 | And I'm Julia. |
| 0:09.1 | And this is episode 231, advice from folklore, third edition, with Dr. Moia McTeer. |
| 0:14.6 | Dr. Moia, I just got off a recording with Dr. Moia, one of my favorite people in the whole world and the fact that we are |
| 0:20.9 | recording the intro to this episode at the same time. Very exciting. Absolutely. These are some of my |
| 0:25.6 | favorite episodes to do. And I just love hearing your perspective, Julia, Moia's perspective, |
| 0:31.1 | and then my own two cents on problems that like, I've heard other people who do advice type |
| 0:36.2 | podcasts and columns say this like it really |
| 0:38.2 | means something for folks to trust us with the deepest problems you know that are kind of in front of |
| 0:42.8 | them or quandaries like really important decisions and it's just an honor to be able to give you our two |
| 0:46.7 | sense and to channel some advice from folklore and the gods well Amanda if I wasn't getting my |
| 0:51.2 | advice from the gods I would want my advice from you. So that feels |
| 0:56.4 | right. Beautiful. And do you know who I would like drop anything I was doing to give them advice and kind of |
| 1:01.7 | listen to their woes? It's our new patrons. Our new patrons, Jules, Michaela, Spoopy Boy, and J.P. |
| 1:08.3 | The Envy. Oh, folks, we love your names. We love your support. We so appreciate it. |
| 1:13.7 | And thanks as well to our supporting producer level patrons. Alicia, Allison, Ryan, Deborah, Hannah, Jane, Jessica |
| 1:19.4 | Kins, Jessica Stewart, Justin Keegan, Measelkins, Liz, Megan Linger, Megan Moon, Phil Fresh, Polly, |
| 1:25.1 | Captain Jonathan Malachi Cosmos, Sarah, Scott, Skyla, and Zazi. |
| 1:29.1 | What wonderful, folks. I want the gods to come down and give them advice on even the littlest |
| 1:34.4 | things. Like, hey, hey, Apollo, what should I eat for lunch today? |
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