This ramblecast is a little longer because we're completing a very important task: finishing our complete taxonomy of the animal kingdom, and mapping it to the alphabet. One animal group per letter.

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We're switching it up on you this week, and breaking one of our cardinal rules: we're bringing you a choice platter of Aesop's Fables, and we're determined to mine all of the wisdom they have in them. And some wisdom that isn't in them.

Suggested talking points: an existential crisis, egg lessons, beach dogs, underground birds , bird lecture series, clapfish, fish reclassification, ocean turf battle, whale propaganda, Spongebob brass knuckles, hyper-specific morales, the body assembly line

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In this week's ramblecast, we dig into why praying mantis' are eating bird brains, try to create some movie fusions, and design a better version of "Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?"

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This week we're reading "Intelligence and Luck," and it plays out much as we expected, because fairy tales generally don't like characters who can just handle their own business.

Suggested talking points: war mayors, were-mayors, hotty hotcakes, what the teens are into, extracting the memes, blue-billed hoggleswogs, a true story about a fake bird, a map of DeviantArt, placebo peasant, all I know to do is plow

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This week we're talking about one of our favorite things: card games, and how to design a new one that replaces all human communication.

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In this week's story "How the Devil Married Three Sisters," we're finally getting some answers. And some more questions, mostly about how the devil can be so un-devil-like during the course of these events.

Suggested talking points: title-finding, the old basement bit, a true-woo, a debate on flowers, Tyler tricks, Margarita!, jr. Devils

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This week brings you the true story of Vanna White's origins, as well as Intern Cricket's contribution to a design project we have in mind.

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This week we're reading "The Seven Ravens," despite the objections of a two-thirds majority. This story turned out to be... not quite what we expected. There are some good nuggets buried in there.

Suggested talking points: the bird threshold, a dry bird well, Exhibit A: the tie, concurrent fairy tales, podcast constitution, gossip gag order, a very strong application, a new wave of feminism

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This week, we've invented a totally new type of art. We're also checking in on band names, and what the Tweens are up to these days.

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Quick editor's note: there's going to be some rough audio at the beginning of this one, but it gets fixed partway in. So when the sound changes, don't freak out. Other than technical issues, it's smooth sailing in fairy tale land with "The Bairn and the Sidhe," and all of the Bop-It secrets therein.

Suggested talking points: 5 feet a man, Scottish boats, human IRAs, the full talk, Bop-It fetish, harvest the butt with Pet Fur Co, the supplest regions, fattening up for the devils, Bob-it identities

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