Riddling Spirits
Spirits
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Riddles have captivated fiction and mythology alike for thousands of years! From sphinxes and gods to kings and princesses, we’ve been posing riddles to each other for longer than we can remember. But why? That’s the real riddle we’re looking to solve this episode!
Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of genitalia, religious persecution, death, animal attacks, suicide, decapitation, insects, hanging, and torture.
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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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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The Welcome to Spirits podcast, Boozy Diamond to mythology, legends, and folklore. |
| 0:33.0 | Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world. |
| 0:36.7 | I'm Amanda. |
| 0:37.3 | And I'm Julia. And I'm |
| 0:37.9 | Julia and Amanda, when first I appear I seem mysterious, but when explained, I'm nothing serious. What am I? |
| 0:45.3 | Well, shit. You're a surprise during my routine. Appear nothing serious and then what? When first I |
| 0:52.8 | appear, I seem mysterious, but when explained, I'm nothing serious. |
| 0:56.8 | What am I? |
| 0:57.9 | A fog. |
| 0:58.8 | Interesting. |
| 0:59.6 | No. |
| 1:00.6 | Is it a riddle? |
| 1:02.0 | It is a riddle. |
| 1:03.1 | Hey! |
| 1:04.4 | Fuck, I should have known that one right away. |
| 1:05.9 | You know what I meant? |
| 1:06.6 | I've heard that said so many times in my listenings to Into the Woods and my viewings of Into the Woods |
| 1:12.8 | and only realized like a couple years ago that it first was a riddle and that the answer was a riddle. |
| 1:21.6 | Our man Sondheim loved a self-referential text. |
| 1:26.7 | And it makes utter sense that he would write in a riddle about riddles. |
| 1:30.6 | Yeah, especially a riddle about riddles in a musical about fairy tales. |
| 1:36.2 | It makes a lot of sense. |
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