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Episode 364: So Much For Nuance Feb 28, 2023

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This week on WTFolklore, after a little bit of education on the storied profession of Butling, we read The Disobedient Son, which continues OUR storied tradition of misnomers.

Suggested talking points: Dr. Carpets, Practical Butling, Little Devil Dormitory, We Don't Know Anything, Nudged Toward "Acceptable"

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Episode 363: The Time is Sweden, the Space is Sweden Feb 21, 2023

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This week on WTFolklore, we read The Barrel Bung, A Swedish tale about jump scares and glory holes, and we peppered in a light dusting of Satanic Panic at the end, for flavor.

Suggested talking points: The Timescale of Omens, Jumpscare Jenny, The One Thing a Bat Cannot Tolerate, BURN THE BUNG, Son of Pikachu, Down the Satanic Panic Hole

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Episode 362: Don't Look a Kiss-Horse in the Mouth Feb 14, 2023

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This week on WTFolklore, we read Hans Christian Andersen's The Swineherd, which may or may not even feature a swine herd in it...

Suggested talking points: Crime-Awareness Fighter, The Minimum Square Footage for Wedding, Free Bird! (Imperative), A Stack of Pigs to the Sky, Efficient Ways to Rot the Brain, Instinctual Curtsy

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Episode 361: Chekhov's Hidden Spatula Feb 07, 2023

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This week on WTFolklore, we read The Legend of Leech, which is a blink-and-you'll-miss-it titular detail.

Suggested talking points: Posthumous Donut Title, When Your Blood Goes Away, Woke Up Married, Coconut Lard, Turn Off the World 'til Tomorrow

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Episode 360: A Glass Shovel and a 6PM Deadline Jan 31, 2023

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This week on WTFolklore, we read The Two Kings' Children, Another Grimm tale. Gotta be honest, the boys REALLY phoned it in on this one. We'd have been better off if the prophecy in the beginning actually came true...

Suggested talking points: Now That's What I Call Folklore!, Begging to be Final Destination'd, Stag Is Man, Man is Drag, Drag is Food, A Bobble Head to Split the Earth, Kid ROI, The King of Questions

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Episode 359: Princess Quests Really Change a Man (Fair Goldilocks Part II) Jan 24, 2023

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We'll be honest, we got a little smug this week. We felt confidant in our abilities to predict where a story featuring an Animal A-

Team would go. We forgot who we were dealing with...

Thanks to Mars for joining us this week! You can also catch him streaming "Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms"

Suggested talking points: See and Omen, Say an Omen, A Very Big Monday, Holding onto Whimsy Like a Wolf Holds a Rabbit, Judy Bloom's Childrens Bust-Em-Up Book Awards, An Implied Somersault, Special Secret Execution Water

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Episode 358: Just Magic Fish Stuff (Fair Goldilocks Part I) Jan 17, 2023

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Well, Here we are, right on time, in the first week of 2023. Time to rev up the ol' Folklore machine again, after it's winter slumber. For some reason, we've decided the best way to shake off the cobwebs is the read another Madame d'Aulnoy tale, Fair Goldilocks...but we're gonna need some help.

Thanks to Mars for joining us this week! You can also catch him streaming "Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms"

Suggested talking points: Madame d'Aulnoy's Best-Fit Cesspit, Before We Invented Babies, Birthname Fastpass, Handsomeguypunzle, Smorgasbord of Violence, No Part Of What I Said Is True

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Episode 357: The Fine Line Between Horror and Whimsy Dec 20, 2022

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Don't let the title fool you, this is DEFINITELY a Christmas themed episode, and it is chock-full, jam-packed with 3 different tales of holiday cheer, just for you dear listeners. Just don't think to hard about the mysteries of Santa Claus...

Suggested talking points: Advent Calendar of Robbery, Festive From a Turkey's Point of View, Off to Kid Mountain, Toy Slough, Stew is Chew, Soup is Goop

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Episode 356: Salt Isn't Weather Dec 13, 2022

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This week we read Why the Sea is Salt, courtesy of Asbjornsen and Moe. The answer is much, much closer to "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" than anyone could've possibly anticipated.

Suggested talking points: Cheerleader Zamboni, The Sandwich Wars Accord, Brothers on Brothers on Brothers, Bacon Hot Takes, The Piss-cific Ocean

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Episode 355: If You Give a Goat a Gatling Gun Dec 06, 2022

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This week we read The Goat of Mr. Seguin, and in the process accidently dredge up a centuries-old subtweet from an extremely bitter windmill adressed to a semi-fictional character. Oh yeah, and Gordie is back.

Suggested talking points: H.P. Amorcraft's "Le Cthuleaux", Not a Windmill in the Classical Sense, The Mastertruck Chronicles, Number One In Raising Children Wrong, Goat Nirvana, The Shape of What Letters Could Be

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