What's the Story? with Gillian and Shana

It's the first basketball game of the season for Joe's team — will he be able to lead the team to a big win? Prince Hal also wonders about this in Henry IV Part 1, by William Shakespeare, as he struggles to be seen as the leader he believes he can be.

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We are back from our hiatus! The kids face a Rube Goldberg machine and encounter the spookiest parts of Oakdale to complete the Halloween scavenger hunt. Ichabod Crane has his own spooky encounter at the end of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, by Washington Irving.

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Welcome to season 2, and thank you for being with us as we celebrate one year of the podcast! 

In the first episode of this two-part season opener, the kids chase down clues hidden all over Oakdale in a Halloween scavenger hunt with a big prize. Joe is superstitious about the start of basketball season, but Ichabod Crane is confident he understands all the spooky happenings in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, by Washington Irving.

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Join us on the last episode of Wishbone season 1 as we approach the first anniversary of the show! Wishbone leads us through recaps of a few of the dozens of stories we've learned about, and we discuss our thoughts on the first year of the podcast.

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Wishbone becomes the face of a hugely popular dog treat brand, but he's worried his family and friends have forgotten that underneath the kilt and bagpipes he's still Wishbone. On the other hand, in the play The Inspector General, by Nikolai Gogol, a clerk is mistaken for a high level government official and leans into this mistaken identity to hilarious effect.

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Talbot family friend Lee is holding an event at the library about Navajo culture and storytelling, and Joe is inspired to learn about his father when he agrees to tell a story about his dad at the event. As Joe gets agitated over his disconnect with his father's memory, Lee shares a story from a Dakota tribe about how the song of a warrior lives on. Content warning: Joe's father died when Joe was a young child.

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The kids suspect there may be a ghost afoot at the library and they initiate a stakeout to protect Joe's mom from foul play. We also learn about the musical paranormal mysteries in a grand opera hall in Paris in the Phantom of the Opera, by Gaston Leroux. Our guest is Danny from the podcast Encyclopodia, and we announced that we have joined the Encyclopodia Network!

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Joe starts running a grocery delivery service in Oakdale well before Instacart was founded, but he isn't treating David and Sam as the trusted advisors and confidants and friends they've always been to him. This reminds Wishbone of the story of King Midas and his too good to be true golden touch.

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Joe tries to prove to his mother that he loves her best, and family friend Señora Julia encourages him to remember that just being Joe Talbot is enough. Señora Julia helps Wishbone teach us about legends of Mexico from hundreds of years ago.

Sam is stumped over a gift for her dad's 40th birthday and she goes on a quest for the perfect present, which leaves her hands and pockets full of phones. Wishbone recounts the mortals, demigods, gods, and Titans that Hercules encounters while searching for the Golden Apples.