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Episode 471: The Purge, but for Plumbers Dec 23, 2025

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After a quiet December of very little posting, we've returned with a gift for the holidays as we read The Wooden Shoes of Little Wolff.

Suggested talking points: Gordiesmas, Golfception, Pulp Fiction: The Grandma Cut, The Krampus is Now Literate, The Year Without a Monkey King, A Record-Breaking Tangent, The First Grilled Cheese, Have Yourself a Merry Little Radical Day

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Episode 470: Wine, Horse, and Husband Insurance Dec 02, 2025

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Content Warning: The story this week revolves around the central plot point of a dog's death.
This week on WTFolklore, we read The Dog and the Sparrow, another Grimm tale that has somehow yet alluded our eyeballs...but no longer!

Suggested talking points: The Tortoise and the Highlander, A Private Collection of Spheres, KrampusCon, Bart Simpson's God-Fearing Face, Maintaining the Crime Ecosystem, A Cactus Does Not Grow on Gossip Alone, Cornborne

Check out Gordie's TTRPG, Mythomorphosis
If you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthings

Episode 469: The Corn is a Metaphor for Corn Nov 25, 2025

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This week on WTFolklore, we read The Lambikin, originally an Indian story, retold as an Irish story, that we then wrestle into the shape of a Thanksgiving story.

Suggested talking points: Gordie's House of Pain, Garfield Shrugged, Bored Halfway Through a Burger, Sillybles, Spending Corn to Make Corn, Patrick Bateman Visits Grandma, A Turkey in the Background for Legal Reasons, Tom Bombadil Disease

Check out Gordie's TTRPG, Mythomorphosis
If you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthings

Episode 468: The Five-Second-Rule for Poison Nov 11, 2025

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This week on WTFolklore, we read Vukub-Cakix, a Mayan tale that purports to be about "Twin Hero-Wizards". We purport they are neither.

Suggested talking points: Make N' Shake, Forgive Me For the Blow Dart (and the Strangling...), Nobody Eats Plums, We Are Famous Doctors Trust Us, Licensed to Stethoscope, It Sounds Like Overkill Because It Is, Mountain Dribbling

Check out Gordie's TTRPG, Mythomorphosis
If you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthings

Episode 467: Two Birds, One Stone, and Also One is a Cat Nov 04, 2025

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It's back to business-as-usual this week on WTFolklore as we re-calibrate our fairy tale senses with some good ol' fashion eastern european fare, The Glass Mountain, which stars a guy dressed as Hugh Jackman, who is dressed as Jack Black, who is dressed as a school boy.

Suggested talking points: A Farquaad Wandering Amongst the Furries, Schrödinger's Wizard, Everything is Shaped like Jack Black, Unmade by Apples, The Line Between "Wonder" and "Nightmare", Prison in the Shape of a Prize

Check out Gordie's TTRPG, Mythomorphosis
If you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthings

Episode 466: Thanks for the Sandwiches, My Whole Family Died Oct 28, 2025

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DISCLAIMER: Gordie lost about half of his audio recording this week, so we had to improvise. See if you can guess the parts that got re-recorded!
Spooklore 2025 draws to a close this week, and we have another WTFolklore-exclusive, custom made Cryptid tale for you! Join us as we venture to the most terrifying location in North America...New Jersey...

Suggested talking points: Bricked My Toothbrush, Bobo or Bust, Paranormal Beach Vacation, Cryptid Support Group, "Please! Our Pigs are Brainless!", A Surprising Amount of Kangaroo

Check out Gordie's TTRPG, Mythomorphosis
If you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthings

Episode 465: Bed Bath & Unnamed Dread Oct 21, 2025

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Spooklore 2025 continues this week, with a bit of a twist. Rather than continually avoiding every instance of a "This is a THING, and here are it's SCARY FEATURES" type stories, Carman has elected to assemble her own folktale about one such THING, The Santa Compaña. So enjoy this custom-made spooky story!

Suggested talking points: Spooktralizer Prime, Facebook Marketplace: Post-Apocalypse Edition, Vitamin Weird, Dr. Eepy, Megastitious, Cauldron Cooties, Ghosts Vs. Machines That Beep

Check out Gordie's TTRPG, Mythomorphosis
If you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthings

Episode 464: The Joann Fabrics Power Vacuum Oct 14, 2025

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Spooklore begins in earnest this week, as we read what may well be the earliest-recorded Found Footage ghost story, The Haunting of Athenodorus, or as we elected to call it, "Ghost Hunters: Ancient Athens Edition".

Suggested talking points: A Barbershop Quartet of Air Horns, A Gas Station for Mimes, Eldritch Horny, The Clanking of the Whimbus, Haunt Me In a Second, My Spooky Wagon of Ghost Milk, Unbarbered In Their Dying Moments.

Check out Gordie's TTRPG, Mythomorphosis
If you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthings

Episode 463: The Legend of Pork City Oct 07, 2025

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On what is TECHNICALLY the first Spooklore installment of the year...we got a little distracted. Thankfully, our spooky instincts kicked in and we accidentally turn The Vision of Mac Conglinne into a ghost story anyway.

Suggested talking points: Sorry About the Belly Ghost, Whetstone Dentistry, Applesauce IV, Creamgate, Consider the Butter, Cloudy With a Chance of Post-Apocalypse

Check out Gordie's TTRPG, Mythomorphosis
If you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthings

Episode 462: Give us Uppies, or Give us Death! Sep 30, 2025

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This week we return to our good friend Carl Sandburg for a Rootabega-adjacent story, The Haystack Cricket, and How Things Are Different Up in the Moon Towns. If you like random sounds strung together with no evident rhyme or reason, buddy look no further than a Carl Sandburg story...

Suggested talking points: A Lamp Shaped Like a Scary Arm, A Leather Homunculus, Hummadummadarmanda, DJ of the Corn, Wave Goodbye to the Corntanic, Headaches with Pictures

Check out Gordie's TTRPG, Mythomorphosis
If you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthings

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