Idle Hour and the Royal Fraternity of Master Metaphysicians
Spirits
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Since it’s nearing Thanksgiving, Julia presents a hyper local cult that’s been fascinating her - The Royal Fraternity of Master Metaphysicians and their attempt to raise an Immortal Baby. That’s all we’re giving you. Buckle up.
Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of colonization, eugenics, cults, racism, fire, death, unequal sexual power dynamics, child endangerment, incarceration, and suicide.
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- Co-Hosts: Julia Schifini and Amanda McLoughlin
- Editor: Bren Frederick
- Music: Brandon Grugle, based on "Danger Storm" by Kevin MacLeod
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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 | The Welcome to Spirits podcast, a boozy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore. |
| 0:33.7 | Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world. |
| 0:55.5 | Now, before I tell you that I'm Amanda and that's Julia, I do just want to point out that folks, I go into these episodes not knowing what they're about, same as you. You and I are starting at the exact same level here, which is the title of the episode. You even get something more than me, which is a little bit of a description if you want to read it before you begin listening. |
| 1:02.8 | And so today's episode, when I read the title in the calendar invite that Julia sent me for this recording, made me go, hey what now? |
| 1:05.1 | So that's where we're all starting. |
| 1:05.9 | I'm Amanda. |
| 1:09.0 | And I'm Julia and Amanda. |
| 1:17.3 | The original hometown urban legends episode that we did on the podcast came out in November of 2016. |
| 1:19.1 | It was episode 22. |
| 1:20.5 | Whoa, oh, baby. |
| 1:20.8 | Okay. |
| 1:21.3 | Great. |
| 1:24.1 | Well, happy two presidential term anniversary, Julia. |
| 1:31.4 | Anyway, one of the reasons that I had wanted to do the hometown urban legends episode in the first place was I was kind of like acknowledging the feeling of going |
| 1:36.9 | home for Thanksgiving, sort of revisiting your hometown. You know what I mean? Absolutely. |
| 1:42.0 | My mom sends me memes about the Montauk Monster constantly, and that's not even where I'm from. |
| 1:47.5 | Well, in that episode, Amanda, I don't know if you remember what we covered, but we covered |
| 1:51.6 | stuff like Sweet Hollow Road, Kings Park Psychiatric Center, and obviously the Amityville horror. |
| 1:58.6 | Amazing. |
| 1:59.8 | But after the Oneida Community episode that we did for episode 400, I was thinking more about |
| 2:06.4 | the sort of weird history of Long Island. |
| 2:10.0 | It's a weird place. |
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