Hephaestus | It's All Greek to Me
Spirits
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Next time you’re buying pottery or some cool jewelry, remember that Hephaestus is to thank for that and SO much more. Learn how the Greeks did Hephaestus dirty, and how he’s even cooler than you even knew.
Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of ableism, eugenics, illness, abuse, the military/war, violence, sex, pregnancy/birth, and sexual assault/rape.
Resources for Disability research: Disability Visibility Project, Alice Wong, Amanda Leduc, Sara Deris, Haley R. Graham, Jay Dolmage, and Dr. William Ebenstein.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Spirits Podcast, a boosy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore. |
| 0:10.8 | Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm Amanda. |
| 0:14.6 | And I'm Julia. |
| 0:15.6 | In this episode 281, Hephaestis as part of art, it's all Greek to me. |
| 0:20.1 | Finally fulfilling the promise of Spirits |
| 0:22.0 | Podcast by Spirits Podcasts series. I feel like there should be a colon somewhere in there. |
| 0:25.8 | I feel like we messed up by not having colon somewhere. It's all Greek to me colon. I just didn't |
| 0:30.1 | say the word colon because I feel like, I don't know, some part of me is a 12 year old in my seventh |
| 0:34.7 | grade English classroom reading Shakespeare and mispronouncing a word |
| 0:38.0 | and everyone laughs at me. Did that happen? Yes. Am I 30 now? Yes. And is it still with me? You know it. |
| 0:43.4 | I remember if it makes you feel any better. I remember saying a word that I had never heard out loud |
| 0:49.9 | before, but it only read to a guy that I had a crush on. And I said, instead of ethereal, I said |
| 0:57.1 | urethral. That's pretty good, Julia, actually. That makes me feel a lot better. Thank you. Okay. Great, |
| 1:01.2 | great, great. So it's not just this podcast. I mess up words all the time. Listen, it happens, |
| 1:06.6 | especially I think for bookish kids like us. Like we, you know, much of our play dates were reading |
| 1:10.8 | silently in the same room. Much of my socializing as a kid was reading. And sometimes you read a word, |
| 1:16.2 | you're 30, and you hear it out loud. And you're like, oh, that's how that works. Yeah, you know what? |
| 1:20.8 | I feel like that was a lot of like kids experience in that way. And I feel like, you know, in general, like, we shouldn't feel ashamed about that. No. |
| 1:27.8 | Just because we read words instead of hearing them in our real life, like, that's not anything to be |
| 1:32.6 | ashamed about. |
| 1:33.3 | There are many, many thousands of words out there, and that's if you only speak one language. |
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