Old Wives

Our four-week hiatus ends with this final rerun, and it's one of our favorites. We'll be back next week with the fresh...ages-old folktales you crave, but until then please gring your teeth on this pizza tale from November of 2020:

We're in Italy this week to hear about two women, their two daughters, and two little pizzas. The good daughter shares her pizza at the wellspring, but the bad daughter refuses and is cursed. The king sends for the good daughter and gets the cursed one instead, and it'll take a choir of giant ducks to clear things up. But when the king realizes his error and finds the right daughter? Baby, you might say That's Amore.

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Our brief disappearance from the world stage continues for this, the most July of months in the year 2022. In our absence, please accept this insane story from September, 2020:

We're in Scotland this week for a bizarre Upstairs, Downstairs-style caper complete with pratfalls and prop humor. Meet the king's bard, who is hell-bent on destroying his nemesis: the steward to the king. Each passing year, the bard's schemes to sink the steward grow more absurd, as he enlists a crow, a witch, and a trout to help him. Will one of his compatriots betray him? Can he ever outsmart the steward? And which way does that sun rise, anyway? Join us for all this and more!

For sources and links, support us on Patreon, or follow on Twitter. Our theme music is from Carnaval des Animaux, performed by Aitua.

It's still July, 2022, and we're still on break. Fret not, we've got just the classic episode to clear your summertime blues. This little fella is coming in hot from November of 2019 (holy crap we've been doing this that long?):

This week, we tackle misery. No, not the feeling you have every time you log into Twitter, the literal personification of Misery, a tiny scraggly Russian man who sings back-up to your spite-tune, a constant companion whether you like it or not. Who is he? What's he like to have a drink with? Let's get anthropomorphic!

For sources and links, support us on Patreon, or follow on Twitter. Our theme music is from Carnaval des Animaux, performed by Aitua.

We're on break for the rest of the month (July, 2022). In our absence we're bumping some old hits from the stacks like this gem from June, 2020. Let's see how well these old pants fit:

This week in Iceland, we meet a good boy who's afraid of nothing. He lives in his haunted house, simmering his mutton soup for ghosts. He makes the bed and does the chores, and never hesitates to fling himself into battle. He even walks, drunk, headlong into death, all for the love of his friends. But that's where things take a turn. Will his fearlessness prevail? Can we join this fraternity? Join us as we stare fear directly in the backwards face.

For sources and links, support us on Patreon, or follow on Twitter. Our theme music is from Carnaval des Animaux, performed by Aitua.

We're in Wales this week for a witchy story about a millennial fairy looking for her piece of the dream. She barters for a house and a vengeanceur, but she won't be satisfied until the Area Witch is stopped in her tracks for good. To do it, she'll have to conga for her life around the maypole with her 300 closest friends.

For sources and links, check out our Patreon, or follow on Twitter. Our theme music is from Carnaval des Animaux, performed by Aitua.

We're in North America today to meet a man in desperate need of a makeover. Lucky for him, some beavers take him in for the winter and teach him the power of song and also of dressing for the job you want (husband). When his education is complete, he leaves with a fancy new coat and a magical stick with some strange abilities. Hopefully, his beloved still likes him with a little hair on his chest.

For sources and links, check out our Patreon, or follow on Twitter. Our theme music is from Carnaval des Animaux, performed by Aitua.

Today we're in India where a prince and a vizier's son are exiled from the country, and they decide to go out hand in hand. It should be the first day of the rest of their lives, but the prince stumbles across a fairy from The Ivory City, and now he's gotta find her. The vizier's son gets it done for him, even if his methods are a little unorthodox. And circuitous. And byzantine.

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We're in Ireland to meet three neighbors in a dead heat to be the town's premier moving business. Dan pulls ahead, so the other two team up to sabotage him. But Dan is wily, witty, and thinks quickly on his feet. At every turn he comes out ahead—even when his own mother dies. Maybe the other two could stand to learn from him. If they're up to it.

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We're in northwest Canada this week to meet Great Whirlpool Maker, a fickle god in charge of rough seas. But his power is derived from an unexpected place: a bitchy little bird that lives in his hat. When Great Whirlpool Maker's son steals the hat to impress a girl, he takes the bird with him, and all hell breaks loose in one unfortunate village.

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We're in Sicily this week, where seven sisters are cited for loitering, which proves to be their gateway to a lifetime of recidivism. They blow town and live together until one sister seizes main character status by marrying a king. But the king wastes no time deploying his new wife as his personal thief, forcing her to rob a powerful(?) sorcerer(??). Queue the training montage!

For sources and links, check out our Patreon, or follow on Twitter. Our theme music is from Carnaval des Animaux, performed by Aitua.