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Snippet of first episode for BBC · Mooney's Mythic Podcast

• 0:00
  SPEAKER_00: Hello, and welcome to this glorious first podcast.
• 0:05
  SPEAKER_00: And thank you, thank you, thank you for listening.
• 0:08
  SPEAKER_00: And thank you for being here in this birthing moment,
• 0:10
  SPEAKER_00: you know,
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  SPEAKER_00: where the light of creation is all around us,
• 0:14
  SPEAKER_00: but also there's probably a bit of blood and pain as it comes through.
• 0:19
  SPEAKER_00: And this has been a pretty long labor,
• 0:22
  SPEAKER_00: because I decided I would love to do a podcast about storytelling,
• 0:27
  SPEAKER_00: about the deeper meaning of stories,
• 0:29
  SPEAKER_00: a kind of
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  SPEAKER_00: ramble around into the landscape of myself and I lit my fire and I said some
• 0:35
  SPEAKER_00: prayers and I set all the work up and and then I pressed record not a word except
• 0:41
  SPEAKER_00: for this burgeoning feeling that I had absolutely nothing to say I had absolutely
• 0:48
  SPEAKER_00: no right to speak
• 0:50
  SPEAKER_00: And I think that's very old, certainly in my bones.
• 0:53
  SPEAKER_00: I think that's bone deep.
• 0:56
  SPEAKER_00: And I was remembering this morning that I was talking to my mum on this big kitchen table.
• 1:02
  SPEAKER_00: I was having a chat with my mum and we were just having a really open talk.
• 1:07
  SPEAKER_00: I can't remember what we were talking about, but it was deep and it was sincere.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then my boyfriend at the time came in,
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  SPEAKER_00: he opened the door and my mum just stood up really quickly and said,
• 1:16
  SPEAKER_00: don't mind us,
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  SPEAKER_00: we're just talking nonsense.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I said, no, we're not, mum, we weren't.
• 1:21
  SPEAKER_00: And it's an old place, this sort of...
• 1:24
  SPEAKER_00: diminishing ourselves in front of the masculine and also the deep core belief that
• 1:31
  SPEAKER_00: we've got nothing to say.
• 1:33
  SPEAKER_00: It's the end of April.
• 1:35
  SPEAKER_00: We're revving up to celebrate Beltane in Glastonbury.
• 1:38
  SPEAKER_00: That's where I'm recording this.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's where I live.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I feel the energy coming
• 1:43
  SPEAKER_00: really racing through me, like really fucking racing through me.
• 1:47
  SPEAKER_00: And I have to be really careful this time of year,
• 1:50
  SPEAKER_00: I've realised,
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  SPEAKER_00: because I can just get a bit too excited.
• 1:55
  SPEAKER_00: And I remember the first time I went to Glastonbury Festival,
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  SPEAKER_00: I didn't sleep for like the four days I was there.
• 2:01
  SPEAKER_00: I just ate it all.
• 2:05
  SPEAKER_00: And I thought...
• 2:06
  SPEAKER_00: Well, what if, you know, I recorded a podcast and it was good company for someone?
• 2:12
  SPEAKER_00: That's all we're really here for, isn't it?
• 2:14
  SPEAKER_00: For connection.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the more connected that we feel,
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  SPEAKER_00: the more that we can find our way back to the village,
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  SPEAKER_00: the more that we can,
• 2:22
  SPEAKER_00: you know,
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  SPEAKER_00: contradict that place that's like,
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  SPEAKER_00: that's not my business or nothing to do with me and get involved,
• 2:28
  SPEAKER_00: you know,
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  SPEAKER_00: keep getting involved and getting involved and getting involved.
• 2:31
  SPEAKER_00: So this story.
• 2:33
  SPEAKER_00: Dub.
• 2:36
  SPEAKER_00: which I am going to tell quite soon.
• 2:38
  SPEAKER_00: Should I just tell it first?
• 2:42
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 2:43
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, sometimes this is just to give you a window into my process.
• 2:47
  SPEAKER_00: Like the story has just sort of arrived in my belly.
• 2:54
  SPEAKER_00: I want to say womb, but I thought it just sounds too much like an idiot.
• 2:57
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm not sure it quite is, but definitely it sort of arrived, like it's suddenly ready to be told.
• 3:05
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm just going to get my drum.
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  SPEAKER_00: But it's only behind me.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm not leaving the room.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't worry.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'll just see it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's a bit tight, so I don't know how it's going to sound.
• 3:18
  SPEAKER_00: Often when I imagine myself storytelling, I'm holding my drum.
• 3:24
  SPEAKER_00: But in truth, I'm terrible at playing and talking at the same time.
• 3:29
  SPEAKER_00: So I often don't.
• 3:52
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm just singing through.
• 3:53
  SPEAKER_00: I just find like making sounds helps the story to kind of like come through in all its colours.
• 4:01
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know,
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  SPEAKER_00: making any sense or I'm not in this moment like trying to entertain you with my singing.
• 4:10
  SPEAKER_00: I'm just singing.
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  SPEAKER_00: bringing through the colours of the story, like creating a landscape.
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  SPEAKER_00: With my sound, I'm creating a landscape so that when I begin telling the story, it's somehow all arrived.
• 4:29
  SPEAKER_00: MUSIC PLAYS
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  SPEAKER_00: And then before I know it, that kind of like, just becomes, turns into Once Upon a Time.
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  SPEAKER_00: There was a delicious little girl.
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  SPEAKER_00: And she was loved by everyone who saw her,
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  SPEAKER_00: but most of all by her grandmother,
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  SPEAKER_00: who was always giving her sweet treats and smiling at her and had effortless time
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  SPEAKER_00: for her,
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  SPEAKER_00: effortless time to witness and watch.
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  SPEAKER_00: And she could do things over and over and over and over again for her grandmother.
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  SPEAKER_00: And her grandmother never got bored of watching her.
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  SPEAKER_00: And grandmother was poorly.
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  SPEAKER_00: Grandmother's life force was dimming.
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  SPEAKER_00: And mum was stressed.
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  SPEAKER_00: And mum was stressed because life was busy.
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  SPEAKER_00: But she was also hiding in that stress.
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  SPEAKER_00: She was hiding in it because her daughter was growing up.
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  SPEAKER_00: And she wasn't quite sure how to manage the feelings that were going on inside her.
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  SPEAKER_00: And she wasn't quite sure how to manage what was going on outside of her.
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  SPEAKER_00: And life wasn't giving her the time.