What The Folklore?

Some of the most terrifying things come from right around your neighborhood, as we discovered with this week's story "Whistlin' Jimmy," which is basically what would happen if Mark Twain and HP Lovecraft had some kind of horrible, horrible baby.

Suggested talking points: animal corpse puppetry, farm business techniques, a horrific Tom Sawyer, secret pastry locations, dark-powered wedding crashers, cow skin oracle, open wagon animal bits

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Introducing Martin Scorsese's next project: a gritty story of insurance fraud and murder, starring a bird who can't get it together enacting vengeance upon his roommates: a mouse, and a sausage. It's kind of like Goodfellas, but with animals and meat instead of gangsters. This week we read a really strange one: "The Bird, the Mouse, and the Sausage."

Suggested talking points: Animals plus meat, surrounded by ladybirds, macaroni pelican, salt and butter bodysuit, emu/robin, bird gamer tags, Gardner & Son, meat-friends, gaming sausages, sausage forgeries, wood tantrum

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A clip of unused material taken from episode 26 of "What the Folklore?" in which we discuss what is and is not an emergency, and how to deal with a wide variety of emergency situations.

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See those birds outside your window? Those are not ordinary birds. Those birds are part of the Brotherhood: the birds that guide humanity through the pitfalls of our lives, who help protect us from the secret threat growing. Trust the birds. They know better than you or I what horror the future may bring. In this week's story "The Goldspinners" we uncover something big: the thread that links all of these seemingly random stories together.

Embroidered Manifestos, A Dude Comes Along, Fairytale Union Breaks, Royalty Playpens, Passive-Aggressive Woodland Critters, Truther Birds, Nautical Horses, Secret Finnish Travel Brochure, Wizard WiFi, The Grinch’s Sweatshop, Hyperbolic Time Castle, Magical IT Squad, Project Birdfall

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An excerpt of unused material taken from episode 25 of "What the Folklore?" in which we read "The Gold-Spinners" wherein we reflect on the merits and/or sexiness of Osmosis Jones, are forlorn at the realization that UPN closed a decade ago, propose a new content delivery service for TV, and debate just how similar Citizen Kane and Space Jam 2 will be.

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Introducing the latest in home security systems: a man-sized effigy with bells tied onto it. Placing one of these in your home will absolutely guarantee-with no chance of failure-that intruders will run into it. If that sounds completely, totally crazy to you: you're probably smarter than our fairy tale characters from this week, in the story "Rolando and Brunilde."

Italian Hippie Cautionary Tale, The king of birthdays, Ear quarter fortune, Brain yachts, Sweet nerdy woodcutter, The Alpha Magician, Middle-aged business fairies, Fairying them tiny, Dead magician taxes

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An excerpt of unused material taken from episode 24 of "What the Folklore?" in which we read "Rolando and Brunilde." wherein we discuss an Austrian man from the future-past, the specter of Nihilism, rock paper scissors presidency, throwing sponge, Trump vs. Potato Salad, pre-allegories

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The nose was the most important medieval symbol of political power, symbolizing everything from virility to long life to the potential for prosperity. Noted historian/author of Beauty & the Beast (and some much weirder stories) delves deep into the socio-economic consequences of this nose preoccupation in this week's story "Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess." What does your nose say about you? Join us for an uncomfortable journey of self-discovery!

Suggested talking points: Fairy Tale B-track, Mr Bean's Excellent Adventure, Cursing the Countryside, Baby Face Molding, Pavlovian Nose Laughter, Banishment Consolation Gift Card, Take the Reins, Black Magic Circus, Carbon Dating Witches, Lovingly Framed Nose Shots

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An excerpt of unused material taken from episode 23 of "What the Folklore?" In which we read "Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess", wherein we discuss art school boot camp, human-sized gerbil feeders, a pharaoh's tomb full of trail mix, Tyler's patently insane system for categorizing foods, and Forbe's interest in Dragon Ball.

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Being a teenager is a tough deal. You just miss meeting the love of your life in the food court, you cry yourself blind as a result: you know the drill. This week we read the Feudal Japanese version of that, entitled "the Love of Asagao." It's a dramatic tale of one brave girl's journey of failing to make and keep appointments, her Tamagotchi husband, and the trail of inconsequential bodies left in her wake.

Suggested talking points: Heavy boat lovin, Schrodinger's husband, crying yourself blind, so blind you guys, bumpin' fans, “Jurassic Bark” cry scale, parental assassination scheme, finding a new certain place, Minnesota: Japan

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