Wholesome Urban Legends w/ Ronald Young Jr.
Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Sometimes we have a guest who just does not want to be scared! That’s why we’re breaking out some incredible yet wholesome hometown urban legends to share with friend of the pod, Ronald Young Jr. Featuring kindergarten paleontologists, bottomless lakes of fire, and how to make pirates even scarier!
Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of animal death, war, and teeth.
Guest
Ronald Young Jr. is an audio producer, storyteller and host based in Alexandria, VA. He created and produces the podcast Weight For It, a narrative show about navigating the world as a fat person.
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- Co-Hosts: Julia Schifini and Amanda McLoughlin
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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 | I'm a |
| 0:07.0 | The 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. |
| 0:38.2 | And we are joined today for a very special summertime, wholesome Urban Legends episode with |
| 0:43.4 | a friend of the pod, friend of podcasting, host of Wait Forit and Leaving the Theater. It's Ronald Young Jr. |
| 0:49.1 | Ronald, welcome to the show. Hello, hello. I'm so happy to be here. I'm so happy to be invited, even though I'm a big old security cat. |
| 0:55.9 | That's okay, because you know what? Sometimes we can have urban legends that aren't actually extremely scary incidents, you know? |
| 1:03.6 | It's good to know. We try to balance things out. You know, there's the magical among the mythical. You know what I mean? There's magic among the super, super scary stuff. |
| 1:12.6 | Julia, that's like a book subtitle. It's very good. Thank you. Thank you. The first one sounded better. |
| 1:18.7 | The second one was more accurate, I would say. Ronald, we always begin by asking our guests, |
| 1:23.8 | what kinds of stories, urban legends, morality tales you grew up hearing. So tell us a |
| 1:29.4 | bit about how you grew up and what scary stories you were telling at sleepovers, if any. |
| 1:33.8 | Listen, I grew up in the church. It was a Pentecostal church. And so the stories we grew up that |
| 1:39.3 | were scary were about hell and Bible stories about horrible things happening to people who crossed God. |
| 1:46.8 | There's a story in the Bible about a prophet named Samuel who was walking one day |
| 1:52.0 | and some young people came out and started making fun of him from being bald. |
| 1:55.8 | And two bears came out of the woods and ate those kids. |
| 1:59.0 | And of course, they were like, that's why you don't disrespect the preacher. |
| 2:02.2 | And I was like, nah, you're right. That's, uh, because I'm like, I'm reading it. It's right there in the Bible. And I'm like, hey, yo, God, what was this story about like, what were we going for here? Why are the bears? Yeah, yeah. Why bears? Why was it the bold insult that just put you over the edge? |
| 2:00.3 | Like, what was it there? |
| 2:01.9 | Yeah. |
| 2:02.3 | Now, did you over the edge? |
| 2:18.9 | Like, what was it there? |
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