Spirits and Tongues: Recent Episodes
Kezia Walker-Cecil
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.
Special episode alert!
Scribbles in margins!
Garnishes on plates!
Connection to other people!
Some daily Viking vocab!
The beverage of choice in Valhalla!
Soup, but for Vikings!
A magical spiritual practice (loosely) tied to Norse tradition!
A peek into English spelling weirdness!
A seasonal fruit... uh... vegetable? uhhhhh ... squash!
The beverage of autumn!
The observance of time passing!
Words we say when we mean other things that we don't want to say!
Things we don't eat!
The forbidden sausage!
Definitely don't drink this!
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Dylan and Kezia talk about:
The American-ness of apple pie!
Weird things people say in different states!
"America's greatest idea"!
America's great contribution to the liquor cabinet!
Language families!
Twin sacred reading practices!
The answer to whether sweet taters and yams are related!
The cocktail family Martini!
A classic rainbow myth (I mean, Bible story)!
A veritable cornucopia of colorful plants!
Words that are made by smashing other words together!
A tasty, sugary drink that tastes like celebration!
The etymology of some key vocabulary of current events!
Connections between spirituality and protests!
A hero in the kitchen and in the Civil Rights Movement!
A cocktail to sip while spilling the tea!
Early morning prayer rituals!
Bitter, beautiful bean juice!
Ova of poultry!
Sentence starters!
The formality in the little things in language!
The fanciness of a high liturgy service!
A dessert that involves French and fire!
A cocktail for fancy celebrations!
The best hot toddy recipe!
Chicken soup for the food snob!
The reason you talk funny when you're congested!
Faith healing!
A magical beverage of probiotics and fizziness!
Hanging out with trees as a spiritual practice!
Mom's granola!
Words that go crunch!
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!
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!
A sparkling holiday mocktail!
Words that only pretend to be friends!
Meat-like substances!
A spiritual practice for the secular among us!
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!
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.
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!
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.