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Spirits

What are the MOUTH PROPORTIONS?! | Your Urban Legends 109

Spirits

Multitude

Myths, Folklore, Society & Culture, Alcohol, Legends, Learning, Urbanlegends, Mythology, Comedy, History, Education, Gods, Educational, Drunkhistory

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Some kids are gay. Some kids are obsessed with death. Some kids are gay AND obsessed with death. And we love that for them! Also featuring astral projecting to family functions and helping your family break the cycle of buying haunted houses.


Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of defecation, drug use, death, misogyny, and violence.


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Cast & Crew

- Co-Hosts: Julia Schifini and Amanda McLoughlin

- Editor: Bren Frederick

- Music: Brandon Grugle, based on "Danger Storm" by Kevin MacLeod

- Artwork: Allyson Wakeman

- Multitude: multitude.productions


About Us

Spirits is a boozy podcast about mythology, legends, and folklore. Every episode, co-hosts Julia and Amanda mix a drink and discuss a new story or character from a wide range of places, eras, and cultures. Learn brand-new stories and enjoy retellings of your favorite myths, served over ice every week, on Spirits.



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Transcript

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0:00.0

The Welcome to Spirits podcast, a boozy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore.

0:33.1

Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world.

0:36.8

I'm Amanda.

0:37.7

And I'm Julia. And I'm Julia and Amanda.

0:39.4

Hey, it's another hometown urban legends episode.

0:44.8

Wow, I'm loving this like 70s scatting.

0:49.6

Not that.

0:50.6

Scat.

0:51.1

Do you call it scatting when you say you sing scats yeah when you do

0:55.4

goop-b-bop-bop-bap-bap yeah that's scatting julia why why it the same as a poop word i don't i

1:01.3

don't know you know what we got to do julia when i get gretchen mcculloch back on the show

1:08.6

and uh ask her all about the haunted etymologies,

1:13.0

by which I mean both cringy ones that she can't believe her true and also like literally the

1:17.6

etymologies of words like haunting in spirits.

1:20.3

That would be very fun.

1:21.8

Check out Gretchen's podcast, Lingthusiasm, because it is great, and it is mostly about

1:25.9

that kind of stuff.

1:26.9

But I do think that we could

1:28.5

kind of come up with a series of words for Gretchen to tell us the origins of that are ghostly

1:35.0

or vaguely ghostly related. I believe in us. I think this is a great idea. I think that would be fun.

1:40.6

But in the meantime, not thinking about research that I have to do in order to do

1:44.9

that episode, why don't we talk about some stories that were submitted by our listeners? I'm happy

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