Early morning prayer rituals! Bitter, beautiful bean juice! Ova of poultry! Sentence starters!

Spirits and Tongues

Early

Some daily Viking vocab! The beverage of choice in Valhalla! Soup, but for Vikings! A magical spiritual practice (loosely) tied to Norse tradition!

Viking

A peek into English spelling weirdness! A seasonal fruit... uh... vegetable? uhhhhh ... squash! The beverage of autumn! The observance of time passing!

Autumn

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! For derecho disaster relief, donate at gcrcf.org/derecho-disaster-recovery or volunteer at iowastormhelp.com.

Taboo

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!

'Murica

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!

Rainbow

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!

Protest

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!

Fancy

The best hot toddy recipe! Chicken soup for the food snob! The reason you talk funny when you're congested! Faith healing!

Episode 8: Sick

A magical beverage of probiotics and fizziness! Hanging out with trees as a spiritual practice! Mom's granola! Words that go crunch!

Episode 7: Crunchy

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!

Episode 6: Feline

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!

Episode 5: Empty

A sparkling holiday mocktail! Words that only pretend to be friends! Meat-like substances! A spiritual practice for the secular among us! 

Episode 4: Faux

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!

Episode 3: Counterintuitive

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.