Mythical Beings
Cajal Bodies produces Mythical Beings, a long-form interview podcast published on Substack, taking each recorded conversation through editing, subtitling, artwork and release.
Mythical Beings is an interview show about people who changed direction. The four published episodes are with a lawyer who left the law to restore coral, a cabin-crew veteran of ten years who moved to the jungle, a dog trainer who stopped using treats after twenty-seven years and six thousand dogs, and an astrologer the show titles The Atheist Astrologer.
Cajal Bodies does the post-production. Four multitrack recordings came in raw and went out as finished episodes: edit passes that removed the sound checks, the filler and the long pauses, a repair to audio and video that had drifted out of sync, and burned-in subtitles cut locally rather than through the recording platform, because the platform's own captions could not be relied on to survive the export.
The written side ships with it: episode titles, show notes ready to paste, and a set of episode posters for Instagram drawn in a single cinematic direction so the four read as one show rather than four unrelated posts.
The show carries a sponsor credit for GaiaOne Boutique Diving.
Episodes
What 31,000 Corals Taught Me About Being Alive
A lawyer who left the law for reef restoration, and has since planted 31,000 corals and pulled 21 tons of trash out of the water.
Listen to episode 1 on Substack · Watch episode 1 on YouTube
Done With the Rat Race: He Traded City Life for Three Years in the Jungle
Ten years as cabin crew, then three years living in the jungle, and what the swap actually cost.
Listen to episode 2 on Substack · Watch episode 2 on YouTube
Stop Bribing Your Dog: Lessons from 6,000 Dogs and 27 Years of Training
Twenty-seven years and roughly six thousand dogs into a training method that does not run on treats.
Listen to episode 3 on Substack · Watch episode 3 on YouTube
The Atheist Astrologer
An astrologer on reading charts for a living without believing the thing he is reading.
Listen to episode 4 on Substack · Watch episode 4 on YouTube
What we made
- Four episodes edited and released
- Burned-in subtitles on every episode
- Audio and video sync repair across four multitrack recordings
- Episode titles and paste-ready show notes
- Episode posters for Instagram
Made with
- Riverside
- ffmpeg
- Whisper
- Substack
Questions people ask
Who produces the Mythical Beings podcast?
Cajal Bodies produces it. That covers the edit, the audio and video sync, the burned-in subtitles, the titles and show notes, and the episode artwork. The show publishes on Substack.
Where can I listen to Mythical Beings?
The episodes are published on Substack at doniv4.substack.com, as video with burned-in subtitles.
What is Mythical Beings about?
Long-form interviews with people who changed direction: a lawyer turned reef restorer, a cabin-crew veteran turned jungle dweller, a dog trainer who works without treats, and an astrologer who calls himself an atheist. Four episodes are out.