# 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.

## Overview

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

- Episode 1: What 31,000 Corals Taught Me About Being Alive (Noortasha Devi) — 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.
- Episode 2: Done With the Rat Race: He Traded City Life for Three Years in the Jungle (Tareq) — Ten years as cabin crew, then three years living in the jungle, and what the swap actually cost.
- Episode 3: Stop Bribing Your Dog: Lessons from 6,000 Dogs and 27 Years of Training (Prasath Logan) — Twenty-seven years and roughly six thousand dogs into a training method that does not run on treats.
- Episode 4: The Atheist Astrologer (Jyotisha Ravi) — An astrologer on reading charts for a living without believing the thing he is reading.

## 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

**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.

## Links

- [Listen to Mythical Beings](https://doniv4.substack.com)