Once Upon A Time…

Spirits

Multitude

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

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Every story has to start somewhere. Whether it’s with “once upon a time” or “when tigers used to smoke tobacco”, storytellers have been setting the scene for their audiences in beautiful and interesting ways. Join us as we dig into the origins of story beginnings AND endings!

Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of totalitarian rule, state kidnapping, drowning, enslavement, and imperialism.

Housekeeping

- See us LIVE! Buy a ticket to our March 23 live show in Portland at spiritspodcast.com/live.

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Find Us Online

- Website & Transcripts: spiritspodcast.com

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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.
0:32.5	Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world.
0:36.1	I'm Amanda.
0:36.8	And I'm Julia. Julia,
0:38.7	let me just tell you a little bit of a story today. Oh, okay. Once upon a time, there was a
0:45.2	almost 10-year-old podcast. Our podcast is kind of considering middle school now. We had a wonderful
0:51.5	Patreon filled with supporters who make this our jobs and make it possible to do this and pay researchers and editors and social media people to help us run this podcast.
1:01.7	And we decided to make that podcast and its Patreon even better.
1:08.6	Are you interested in hearing more about the story? Amanda, I, like, hearing more about the story?
1:11.9	Amanda, I would love to hear more about that story. What an engaging beginning to a classic
1:16.6	story. And don't worry, guys, this is a full episode of Spear. It's all about the beginnings
1:20.2	of stories and fairy tales, which I'm so excited to learn about. But first, I do want to tell
1:24.7	you that we have some cool new spring cleaning and refreshments
1:28.6	coming on over to the Patreon, starting with, Julia, you know how we've been doing recommendations
1:33.1	in the show, in the midroll for the last four years?
1:37.5	Pretty much forever.
1:38.5	Pretty much forever.
1:39.7	We want to do that in newsletter form.
1:42.5	Yes, we do.
1:43.5	And so we are going to be doing a monthly
1:45.8	recommendation newsletter instead of our recs in the episode for all paid patrons. So if you are
1:52.1	at any tier on the Patreon, you're going to be getting this once a month of a couple of different
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