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Ramblecast 191 Sep 23, 2018

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Carman's stuck at home without a car, and we have a TV show pitch to keep her company. We're also renaming our fridge, which is... sort of related.

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Episode 190: Clifford the Big Red Deadly Scorpion Sep 18, 2018

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"The Story of a Scorpion Who Was the Son of Adam" is what we're reading this week, with periodic interruptions of Very Good Ideas that the right people on Twitter needed to know about immediately. The story itself is the result of someone really crunching to make a deadline.

This episode brought to you by executive producer Mcatnip, Aarne-Thompson type 2033, "Henny Penny Thinks the Sky Is Falling"

Suggested talking points: Mister Minister Minster, medieval gun, gunchucks from Monster Hunter, advanced haggling, tupperware goblet, ye olde thermos, dad wine kisses, scorpion swears, piggy bits, a botched rule of threes, keep it in your fig

Ramblecast 190 Sep 16, 2018

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Freaky Friday might have missed the possibility that one side of that agreement would not care about the social pressures of their new role, which brings us to this question: would you Freaky Friday with a cat?

Episode 189: Unprecedented Access to Fruit: The Goddess of Mercy Part II Sep 11, 2018

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We're finishing up "The Goddess of Mercy: a Biography of the Bodhisattva" this week, though honestly, we probably could have just called it last week and it would have been fine. Tiger makes a comeback, which gives us something to hang on to throughout the many twists and turns of this story.

Suggested talking points: the tiger temp, the sweet science of perfection, the Who album recommendations, mountain pirates, Ghost Buddies by Steven King, tricked out Buddha, priest shell, the stewmancer

Episode 188: Live Like the First Two Are Mulligans: The Goddess of Mercy Part I Sep 04, 2018

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We're reading part one of "The Goddess of Mercy: a Biography of the Bodhisattva," a long and complicated Chinese story about nuns and transforming hell, and a Tiger who just can't catch a break, and... there's a lot of it.

Suggested talking points: portmanteau mushrooms, a birthday month PSA, trickle down justice, cool prison sentences, Dr. Compromise, Home Depot Tiger, bird cackles, the HyperBuddha, stock in eggs

Episode 187: Bony Begins Aug 28, 2018

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Hans Christian Andersen's "Garden of Paradise" is another one of those stories that fundamentally changes our overly tangled web of fairy tale interconnectedness. Hans with the heat again: lots of Immortal Bony/Project Birdfall meat for everyone!

This episode brought to you by executive producer Ida, Aarne-Thompson type 670a, "the Woman Who Understood Animal Languages"

Suggested talking points: overshadowed by crime, Donkey Moon-Moon, sniff some math, d'Aulnoy Giuliani, the physics twinkie, pig head worm body, sitrep from birdtown, stealing from fairy tools, suckered by Cotton-Eye Joe, death trick shot, proto-fairies, Windmom

Ramblecast 187 Aug 26, 2018

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Did they ever ban dogs from playing basketball after Air Bud? Apparently that rule patch never went through, because that franchise ends up with dogs with full personhood.

Episode 186: Original Bird Sin Aug 21, 2018

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"The Three Languages" is a Grimm story that needs a lot of fixing up. Sure there's a super weird Pope ceremony at the end, but what happened to the dogs and frogs? It's a story that demands some grasping at straws to fill in the gaps.

This episode brought to you by executive producer Jake, Aarne-Thompson type 766, "the Magic Sleep"

Suggested talking points: them Magic Beauty sleeping curses, curse me up man, twilight zone monkey paw wish, the Count's feeding habits, Big Bird vampire, dog language, bird knowing jobs, it's ribbit jackass!, filled by peanut butter, Three Is Company dog treasure, the dog codex, unkillable animal whisperer, lord Daddy, the bird bounty on David Blaine, Final Fuddruckers

Ramblecast 186 Aug 19, 2018

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We were sent a theory about Immortal Bony that we might have missed, and get into casting our own biopic and figuring out which fairy tale we'd actually want to live in.

Episode 185: Double Married Baby Husband Aug 14, 2018

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"A Tale of Two Brothers" just has too much going on, and not enough of it is focused on the children's card game at the center of the conflict. There's a lot that needs to be cut away from this story, and that leaves a lot of room for other, better stuff to fill it back up.

This episode brought to you by executive producer Roast Rabbit, Aarne-Thompson type 471, "The Bridge to Another World"

Suggested talking points: OzzyBourniest, Yugi Muto's Da Vinci Code, shadow game with Tom Hanks, cows drug habits, five bushel boy, nicklebag, consenting to shame, Highlander baby, music video swaparoo, a line of dilbos, a sword with no name

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