What The Folklore?

What The Folklore?

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What The Folklore? episodes

  • Episode 368: Bring Me Your Hungriest, Thirstiest Boy

    This week on WTFolklore we read The Flaming Horse: The Story of a Country Where The Sun Never Shines, which is ACTUALLY the story of a man who loves two things most in life: Books and Murder.

    Suggested talking points: Lost the Rights to Sunshine, Regicide: Round 2, Good Ol' Fashioned Imagination Fight, Backup Plans are for Chumps, Sun Love Horse, Horse Love Sun, Murder Is Usually It's Own Reward


    If you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthings

    If you like our show, find us online to help spread the word! Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube. Support us on Patreon to help the show grow at www.patreon.com/wtfolklore. You can find merchandise and information about the show at www.wtfolklorepodcast.com.

    1 hr
  • Episode 367: The Franz Ferdinand of Birds (Princess Nobody Part 2)

    This week on WTFolklore we conclude reading Princess Nobody, Andrew Lang's fanfic about some of Richard Doyle's paintings AND A Midsummer Night's Dream,  apparently. We also stumble on the potential catalyst for all the strife between birds and fairies we've documented since the podcast began...

    Suggested talking points: The Tenants of Carpetpunk, Laughter FAQ, Hair Pasketti, Royally Dusted, Big Bad Beetle-Bat Bar, Is it a Crime to do One Crime?


    If you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthings

    If you like our show, find us online to help spread the word! Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube. Support us on Patreon to help the show grow at www.patreon.com/wtfolklore. You can find merchandise and information about the show at www.wtfolklorepodcast.com.

    1 hr 5 min
  • Episode 366: Something as Trivial as a Ghost-Giant War (Princess Nobody Part 1)

    This week on WTFolklore we begin reading Princess Nobody, Andrew Lang's fanfic about some of Richard Doyle's paintings. It also has some serious Kingdom Hearts energy.

    Suggested talking points: A Two-Year Degree in "Sun", Speaking of Goblin Messes…, Fairy Heist of the Century, Constant Gallivanting, Pondering Princess Strats


    If you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthings

    If you like our show, find us online to help spread the word! Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube. Support us on Patreon to help the show grow at www.patreon.com/wtfolklore. You can find merchandise and information about the show at www.wtfolklorepodcast.com.

    54 min
  • Episode 365: Dutch Goku

    Wow! 365 Episodes! You've got one for every day of the year now!

    This week on WTFolklore we read The Boy Who Wanted More Cheese, which is frankly a reasonable position to have.

    Suggested talking points: This Episode Brought To You By Carpets, Non-Tenured Adjunct Professor Laminate, The Raunchiness of Cheese, You Have To Earn Pockets, Paws at the Threshold, THE CHEESE HOUSE WAS A METAPHOR


    If you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthings

    If you like our show, find us online to help spread the word! Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube. Support us on Patreon to help the show grow at www.patreon.com/wtfolklore. You can find merchandise and information about the show at www.wtfolklorepodcast.com.

    42 min
  • Episode 364: So Much For Nuance

    This week on WTFolklore, after a little bit of education on the storied profession of Butling, we read The Disobedient Son, which continues OUR storied tradition of misnomers.

    Suggested talking points: Dr. Carpets, Practical Butling, Little Devil Dormitory, We Don't Know Anything, Nudged Toward "Acceptable"


    If you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthings

    If you like our show, find us online to help spread the word! Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube. Support us on Patreon to help the show grow at www.patreon.com/wtfolklore. You can find merchandise and information about the show at www.wtfolklorepodcast.com.

    51 min
  • Episode 363: The Time is Sweden, the Space is Sweden

    This week on WTFolklore, we read The Barrel Bung, A Swedish tale about jump scares and glory holes, and we peppered in a light dusting of Satanic Panic at the end, for flavor.

    Suggested talking points: The Timescale of Omens, Jumpscare Jenny, The One Thing a Bat Cannot Tolerate, BURN THE BUNG, Son of Pikachu, Down the Satanic Panic Hole


    If you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthings

    If you like our show, find us online to help spread the word! Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube. Support us on Patreon to help the show grow at www.patreon.com/wtfolklore. You can find merchandise and information about the show at www.wtfolklorepodcast.com.

    54 min
  • Episode 362: Don't Look a Kiss-Horse in the Mouth

    This week on WTFolklore, we read Hans Christian Andersen's The Swineherd, which may or may not even feature a swine herd in it...

    Suggested talking points: Crime-Awareness Fighter, The Minimum Square Footage for Wedding, Free Bird! (Imperative), A Stack of Pigs to the Sky, Efficient Ways to Rot the Brain, Instinctual Curtsy


    If you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthings

    If you like our show, find us online to help spread the word! Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube. Support us on Patreon to help the show grow at www.patreon.com/wtfolklore. You can find merchandise and information about the show at www.wtfolklorepodcast.com.

    48 min
  • Episode 361: Chekhov's Hidden Spatula

    This week on WTFolklore, we read The Legend of Leech, which is a blink-and-you'll-miss-it titular detail.

    Suggested talking points: Posthumous Donut Title, When Your Blood Goes Away, Woke Up Married, Coconut Lard, Turn Off the World 'til Tomorrow


    If you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthings

    If you like our show, find us online to help spread the word! Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube. Support us on Patreon to help the show grow at www.patreon.com/wtfolklore. You can find merchandise and information about the show at www.wtfolklorepodcast.com.

    48 min
  • Episode 360: A Glass Shovel and a 6PM Deadline

    This week on WTFolklore, we read The Two Kings' Children, Another Grimm tale. Gotta be honest, the boys REALLY phoned it in on this one. We'd have been better off if the prophecy in the beginning actually came true...

    Suggested talking points: Now That's What I Call Folklore!, Begging to be Final Destination'd, Stag Is Man, Man is Drag, Drag is Food, A Bobble Head to Split the Earth, Kid ROI, The King of Questions


    If you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthings

    If you like our show, find us online to help spread the word! Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube. Support us on Patreon to help the show grow at www.patreon.com/wtfolklore. You can find merchandise and information about the show at www.wtfolklorepodcast.com.

    1 hr
  • Episode 359: Princess Quests Really Change a Man (Fair Goldilocks Part II)

    We'll be honest, we got a little smug this week. We felt confidant in our abilities to predict where a story featuring an Animal A-

    Team would go. We forgot who we were dealing with...

    Thanks to Mars for joining us this week! You can also catch him streaming "Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms"

    Suggested talking points: See and Omen, Say an Omen, A Very Big Monday, Holding onto Whimsy Like a Wolf Holds a Rabbit, Judy Bloom's Childrens Bust-Em-Up Book Awards, An Implied Somersault, Special Secret Execution Water


    If you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthings

    If you like our show, find us online to help spread the word! Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube. Support us on Patreon to help the show grow at www.patreon.com/wtfolklore. You can find merchandise and information about the show at www.wtfolklorepodcast.com.

    1 hr 5 min

About What The Folklore?

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A comedy podcast that exposes the absurd side of folklore. Each week we read a story, fix plotholes and create new ones, and invent unintended connections between tales.

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