It’s Giving Hat Man | Your Urban Legends 105
Spirits
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
What if you got to dream of an urban legends episode that never actually existed? Well, it happened! Also featuring several food superstition follow-ups, two grannies blessing marriages, and an off-the-grid ghost!
Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of bodily functions, hanging, death, war, PTSD, fire, child death, car accidents, and misogyny.
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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
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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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| 0:00.0 | The Why is it the minute I hit record, I immediately burp every single time? |
| 0:33.6 | It's like, it's like my body is like, don't panic. |
| 0:39.8 | I get that, Julia, when I sit down, |
| 0:42.7 | this is Spirits, podcast, a Bozzie Diving Anthology, Legends of the Folklore. Every week we portrait can learn about a news story from around the world. I'm Amanda, that's Julia. And Julia, |
| 0:46.5 | that happens to me whenever I sit down on a plane. Now, I'm a plus size person. I'm a plus-sized person. I'm a bigger than average person. I have a lot of anxiety around, you know, fitting in planes, fitting in seats, going to bathrooms, things like that. I'm even like a smaller fat person. And so this is definitely like an issue that other people deal with a lot more than me. I pee before I get on a plane every single time. And yet the moment I sit down, my bladder's like, got to go again. I think that sucks. |
| 1:11.3 | Amanda, if it's any consolation, the same thing happens to me every time, too. And obviously, |
| 1:16.0 | it's a different situation for me. But yeah, the minute, I will pee immediately before getting |
| 1:21.7 | into line for the boarding process. And then as soon as I sit down, I'm like, how long until they'll let me get |
| 1:29.8 | back up again? How long? Well, folks, that might be a specter haunting you. But today in your |
| 1:36.5 | podcast feed, we're here to bring you some hometown urban legends that are haunting your fellow |
| 1:41.4 | listeners of spirits podcast. Yes, yes, we are. |
| 1:45.5 | Though, Amanda, before we really get into that, |
| 1:47.8 | I wanted to share a couple of follow-ups in regards to the food superstitions that people |
| 1:53.7 | wrote into us about. |
| 1:55.2 | Hey, we are firmly into the new year. |
| 1:57.5 | It feels like 14 years since we recorded our last Urban Legends episode. It's |
| 2:02.7 | been a, I don't know, eventful four to five weeks here in the U.S. and consequently the rest of the |
| 2:07.5 | world. Julia, let's focus on something we can control, which is our food superstitions. |
| 2:12.6 | Yeah, something nice, something light, something that may lead to depth, but, you know, |
| 2:17.2 | doesn't necessarily have to. |
| 2:18.8 | Yeah. What a nice change. What a nice change. My first one here is from Clements. They write, |
| 2:25.5 | Hi, wonderful people. I love your podcast so much. I'm not that into folklore or cocktails. Let's |
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