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- Episode 8: Sick
The best hot toddy recipe!
Chicken soup for the food snob!
The reason you talk funny when you're congested!
Faith healing!
24 min - Episode 7: Crunchy
A magical beverage of probiotics and fizziness!
Hanging out with trees as a spiritual practice!
Mom's granola!
Words that go crunch!
26 min - Episode 6: Feline
Cat language according to the internet!
Fish!
Cat wine!
And a poetic meditation on the Divine as revealed through sweet sweet Jeoffry, a 18th century feline companion!
A few quick notes:
Paper: "I can haz language play: The construction of language and identity in LOLspeak" by Lauren Gawne and Jill Vaughan
Instructions for a good ILikTheBred meme poem: https://www.reddit.com/r/ilikthebred/comments/84lkuj/how_to_write_a_good_i_lik_the_bred_poem/
Poem: Jubilate Agno, Fragment B, [For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry] by Christopher Smart (1722-1771)
Finally, Niki and I were so entranced by the poem that we both didn't hear my phone ding loudly in the middle of the last segment.
Happy holidays and we'll be back again in the new year!
27 min - Episode 5: Empty
The empty space in language that means so much!
A spiritual practice for the busiest time of year!
A zero-calorie magic food!
A spirit brewed and distilled to be empty of all the extras!
18 min - Episode 4: Faux
A sparkling holiday mocktail!
Words that only pretend to be friends!
Meat-like substances!
A spiritual practice for the secular among us!
17 min - Episode 3: Counterintuitive
A cocktail recipe that shouldn't work!
A flavor combination greater than the sum of its parts!
A spiritual practice that only works when you stop trying so hard!
A kind of sentence that doesn't mean what it's supposed to!
17 min - Episode 2: Spooky
A terrifying appetizer!
A "bloody" brunch cocktail!
A community practice in both Wicca and the Church of Satan! (Honestly, it's spooky we don't all have this as a required practice.)
Language DEATH!!!!
Guest host: Niki Metzger
Content warning: We discuss animal phobias and sex. Not together. And nothing explicit. But, be warned.
Episode 3 will be released on Friday, November 14.
27 min - Episode 1: Basic
The 15 basic sounds that (nearly) every language has!
The food staple everyone's got in their pantries!
The basic-est of beverages!
A basic spiritual practice that you can do every day!
18 min - Episode 0: Human
Hi! This is the pilot episode for Spirits and Tongues!
Listen to figure out what this podcast is all about. (I mean, "Spirits and Tongues"?! What could that even be talking about?)
Maybe you'll laugh. Maybe you'll stick around for another episode or two. Maybe you'll have an existential crisis while considering the question of what it means to be a human.
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About Spirits and Tongues
From the publisher's feed
Spirits and Tongues is a podcast about food and drink, language and spirituality, written and edited by a couple of language nerds who are obsessed with all of the good things in life.