Old Wives

This week, what starts as a simple tale of love interrupted escalates as Casey takes us through three iterations, culminating in some sort of All Hallow's Eve satanic hemp sowing incantation. We bounce from Denmark to Victorian England through frozen water and cemetery grounds, on haunted horses and shiny coffins, chasing teen lovers bound by destiny. Will literally everyone die? And which way should you face your corpse? Join us to find out!

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This week, Amy and Casey head way down under the ground to find a spinning hut on chicken legs in Amy's latest installment of Love Isn't Blind: An Anthology of Reluctant Wifes. When her brother's magic ring fits only her finger, Catherine uses some cursed dolls to open a hole in the earth and disappear. But her adventure doesn't end there—she's still got the infamous Baba Yaga to contend with. Will her embroidery skills be enough to furnish her escape? All this plus a brief check-in with The Stubborn Wife on this week's episode.

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Amy and Casey got together on Valentine's Day to dunk on r/marriage for this week's episode. These are their stories. Also they're the stories of a couple of Danish couples that could arguably be the stories of any couple of couples in the history of living together. Come for the winnowing. Stay for the widowing.

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This week, Amy presents a double-header of True Science Facts about The Sea. From Brazil, we have a little princess with a big sea monster as a best friend. When wife-dom comes knocking, she takes to the waves, but will she escape her fate? And then briefly to Norway, where A Man With A Ham goes straight to hell to bargain with the devil for a cursed hand-mill. Will he lose control of the hand-mill once it starts making endless quantities of herring soup? Is herring soup real? Answers to these questions and more on this week's adventure. Join us!

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This week we journey to Bavaria to join a soldier, a miller, and a tailor as they stumble upon a hidden castle filled with dancing goats and cats. Why are the cats playing fiddles? Why do the goats have three legs? Why are they partying if they've been cursed? And most importantly: will someone get a wife? Load up on pocket rations, light some candles, and join us as Casey presents The Three-Legged Goat.

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The new queen is not what was promised. She's dull and ignorant, and for some reason she keeps eyeballs in her pockets, what's that about? The king probably won't figure it out, but luckily for ... the kingdom, I guess, the merchant's daughter is on the case. As soon as she wakes up. Join us this week for a quintessentially Russian tale: The Blind Maiden, or, The Merchant's Daughter and the Maidservant. You'll be glad you can't afford a live-in maid.

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This week, we have a 70s concept album of a story for you: when the moon disappears, where does it go? Casey takes us deep into the bogs of a faraway land, where the moon has disappeared on a dark night. The townspeople confer with their wisest oldest witch to try to find the creature who sits on her coffin made of stone. Join us to find out if the townsfolk ever get to take the rocks out of their mouths (cryptic!).

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Amy takes us on a whirlwind journey to Norwegia on this week's quest for a literal dream wife. Featuring not one but TWO sets of three trials, no fewer than four trolls, a mystery man frozen into a block of ice somehow, and three milk baths. You'll laugh; you'll cry; you'll wonder how one epic could ever be so extra. Presenting: The Companion.

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This week, join us for the heir-bowl of the decade, a three-brother amazing race for half a kingdom and a golden wife. We'll follow a certain youngest brother on an adventure involving golden apples and fire-horses and the plainest daughter of all time. Can he win the crown whilst never once heeding the words of his magical fox companion? Is his princess in this castle? Tune in to find out.

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The Goblin Market is primarily a story about getting very horny for various fruits, told in verse, proving once and for all that applying poetry is the quickest way to make any subject real weird. Amy talks about sisters Liz and Laura, the contours of their fruit lust, and vows to never EVER stray into a glen after dark.

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