What The Folklore?

Accidental crime is on our minds this week: have we committed any? How big of a crime is it to forget a taxes? What if you totally meant to do something, and it just... got away from you, is that a crime? Where do you check these things? Also included: a tale of deportation.

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Our story this week, "Life's Secret," makes a big claim. It's right there in the title. But does it deliver? Of COURSE not.

This episode brought to you by executive producer Whisper Biscuit, Aarne-Thompson type 1626, "Dream Bread"

Suggested talking points: ADIDAB, the vertebrate limit, shrimp slumlord, King's First Disappointment, fixer-upper racehorse, pomegranate hot, dating site metrics, my favorite sport pigeons, bread + time = dead, ESPigeoN, dreams of bread, Fifty First Deads, dead teen marriage

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This week we're checking in on how the World Cup-sometimes known as the Big Kick-is going so far, review Carman's first day devoted to podcast duties, and lil Jerry has some thoughts on faces.

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"The Four Feathers" is a bizarre narrative featuring some (probably unintentional) surrealist horror. But that's what you get when you put a four-year-old in charge of things.

This episode brought to you by executive producer Christopher, Aarne-Thompson type 106, "Talking Like an Animal "

Suggested talking points: a chance for German, German name fluency, a cool kind of begot, baby laundering, hot bod god dad, the good word of basic hygiene, the true story of Yankee Doodle, the toddler hierarchy of needs, a horse's destiny, a silent yler, Macy's day bug-out bag, a bony pony

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We're trying to assess Cricket's job performance, and... there's no way around it, she's just not meeting performance goals. There's also a section on our favorite billboards, and some fun new ways to go about getting a massage.

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This week's story, "The Bamboo Cutter and the Moon Child," was the inspiration for the movie Princess Kaguya. What we ended up with is not exactly that movie, which is great.

This episode brought to you by executive producer Kyle, Aarne-Thompson type 207C, "The Bell of Justice "

Suggested talking points: bamboo bling, Zoloft Jr., Call of Duty: Again, the most dedicated peeping toms, the solar flare self-defense, Stare-ano Bamboogerac, OkBuddha.com, please appraise my hopping teen, doing a driveby on some islands, peekabo signals, rejections by poem

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What's wrong with the old barter system? Why do we need money? There are some sweet trades available if you keep your eye out. This week we're talking about some of the good barters we've done recently.

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Come for the weird asbestos water, stay for the hero who fights off witches with a spoon: we're reading "Tatterhood" this week. It's a story with a whole bunch of interesting stuff waiting at the periphery.

This episode brought to you by executive producer Timothy, Aarne-Thompson type 675, "The fool whose wishes always came true"

Suggested talking points: David Bowie's best album, bicycle-licking days, the star child of folklore, 30 minute child delivery, Tatter McClain, beggar trash friend, practice kids

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This week we're discussing what it would be like if we turned the government over to mice, and about a plan to convince the people that fish traveled over land to achieve manifest destiny.

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We're back in Grimmland this week with "The Crows." It's a story with a much better story going on in the margins about one woman's total control over a town, and a possible nemesis. How much of that did we add? Folklore changes, it's an oral tradition. Which means it's all canon.

This episode brought to you by executive producer Dom, Aarne-Thompson type 1313, "The Man Who Thought Himself Dead"

Music from: My Heart Will Go On - Recorder By Candlelight by Matt Mulholland

Suggested talking points: merc with a mouth, Old News the stripper, the stripper hegemony, Ghengis Khan Realties, supermugging, crucified lite, Yonder-Toad, a Chuck-E Cheese crucifixion, Old News' secret police, Chekhov's loaded blind dew

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