We've got a short, sweet nugget of a story this week in "The Slaying of the Tanuki," but there's juice in this nugget. And some of that juice is a solution that could fix many, many plotholes for many fairy tales.

This episode brought to you by executive producer The Day Dude, Aarne-Thompson type 898, "Daughter of the Sun"

This episode sponsored by "The Legend of Griff" by Richard Sparrow, available now

Suggested talking points: new year's resolution, hare wife, tanuki schacks, what animal friends are, the folklore restaurant, culinary vore, ointment purposes, hatchet walks, the OG sick burn, common law hare marriage, get you a bunny who does both, woods murder jazz, big rock solutions, big big rock

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