Before They Were Live

Helene has intervened, and we need to beg off for another month. 

We're back at long last, Michial having fished his book out of one of his many moving boxes. Today we'll discuss the following stories:

The Gnome
The Water of Life
Bearskin
The Wren and the Bear
The Two Travelers
Hans My Hedgehog
The Bright Sun Will Bring It to Light
The Three Army Surgeons

Join us next month when we talk about the following ten stories:

The Iron Stove
One Eye, Two Eyes and Three Eyes
The Worn-Out Dancing Shoes
The Six Servants
The White Bride and the Black White
The Donkey
The Turnip
The Stolen Pennies
Snow White and Rose Red
The Glass Coffin

This time we are reasonably sure we'll be back September 5.

We'll (hopefully) be back August 1!

Josh and Michial are back to talk about seven Grimms' fairy tales, none of which we'd ever read before:

The Golden Bird
The Two Brothers
The Twelve Huntsmen
The Three Sons of Fortune
The Wolf and the Fox
Brother Lustig
The Goose Girl 

Come and find out what happens when you put a spinning wheel in the room with a woman pretending to be a man!

Next month, we'll be discussing the following eight stories:

The Gnome
The Water of Life
Bearskin
The Wren and the Bear
The Two Travelers
Hans My Hedgehog
The Bright Sun Will Bring It to Light
The Three Army Surgeons

Josh and Michial discuss nine more Grimms' fairy tales:

- The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs
- The Maiden without Hands
- The Magic Table, the Golden Donkey, and the Club in the Sack
- Thumbling
- The Elves
- The Juniper Tree
- The Six Swans 
- King Thrushbeard
- Sweetheart Roland

We'll be back the first week in June with another episode, on the following stories:

- The Golden Bird
- The Two Brothers 
- The Twelve Huntsmen
- The Three Sons of Fortune
- The Wolf and the Fox
- Brother Lustig
- The Goose Girl

We keep promising, and we keep failing to deliver. But we will be back next week with more Grimms' Fairy Tales!

Our next Grimms' episode is going to have to be delayed for a month because of scheduling issues--we apologize! But we'll be talking about the following stories:

The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs
The Maiden without Hands
The Magic Table (etc.)
Thumbling
The Elves
The Juniper Tree
The Six Swans
King Thrushbeard
Sweetheart Roland

See you in May!

Josh and Michial return to talk about nine of Grimms' fairy tales:

The Companionship of the Cat and the Mouse (Katze und Maus in Gesellschaft)
A Tale of the Boy Who Went Forth to Find Out What Fear Was (Märchen von einem, der auszog das Fürchten zu lernen)
The Marvelous Minstrel (Der wunderliche Spielmann)
The Three Little Gnomes in the Woods (Die drei Männlein im Walde)
The Three Spinners (Die drei Spinnerinnen)
The Three Snake Leaves (Die drei Schlangenblätter)
The Fisherman and His Wife (Von dem Fischer und seiner Frau)
The Brave Little Tailor (Das tapfere Schneiderlein)

Along the way, they dream up a new Goofy cartoon and badmouth Zootopia, so something of the old Before They Were Live survives!

We're glad to be back, and we hope you're glad, too! Thanks for your patience. 

It's been a while, and it'll be a little longer, but Josh and Michial will be back on March 7 with the first in their series of episodes on Grimm's Fairy Tales. In March, they'll be discussing:

The Companionship of the Cat and the Mouse
A Tale About a Boy Who Went Out to Learn What Fear Was
The Marvelous Minstrel
The Three Spinners
The Three Little Gnomes
The Three Snake Leaves
The Fisherman and His Wife
The Brave Little Tailor
The Town Musicians of Bremen