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It's the season of the witch this week, but also, it's always the season of the witch, cause time travel or something. Kids trade in their traumatic memories for ghosts that shoot lightning and a teenager falls in love with the comatose girl he carries like a backpack for 1/4 of the story. You know, just Final Fantasy things.   Special Thanks to Eric for joining us again on this one! Music in chro...

The story so nice, they made it seven times. This week, Tyler regales his captives (and by extension, You!) with the tale of Final Fantasy VII, a story that is in no way convoluted or terrifying, which is why it's the most popular one! Get ready for big swords, bigger dreams, and two different flavors of talking cat.   Special Thanks to Eric for joining us again on this one! Music in chronological...

Well, I've got egg on my face, don't I? There's a...there's another Final Fantasy...but this one has to be the last, for sure! It's got like a bazillion characters, an angry clown, a ghost train, an opera, and...well...the ending seems pretty definitive. I can't see this coming back to bite me again...   Special Thanks to Eric for joining us again on this one! Music in chronological order: Victory...

Join us again friends, for two more of the last stories ever told: one about a moon-man's war crimes, and the other about an angry, inter-dimensional tree. Special Thanks to Eric for joining us again on this one! Music in chronological order: Victory Fanfare (Holder & Ephixa Remix) Final Fantasy IV Overworld Theme, Clash on the Big Bridge and Final Fantasy Ending Theme by Nobuo Uematsu   If you li...

Tyler is fed up with this podcast, so he vows to finally end it by telling the last story ever. Then he tells the sequel to that story...and then also the sequel to THAT one.   Special Thanks to Eric for joining us on this one!   Music in chronological order: Victory Fanfare (Holder & Ephixa Remix) Final Fantasy Opening Theme, Final Fantasy 2 Main Theme, Eternal Wind, and Final Fantasy Ending Them...

Gordie is still being waylaid by the responsibilities of life, so in the interim we'll be taking some time to mess around with this feed like the Cat in the Hat. For now though, it's just time for a clipshow. Please enjoy this foray back to 2017! contains clips from: The Hula Hoop of Destiny, Multipass Fasion Pack, A Half-Empty Horse Receptacle, Gordie's Awkward Party Corner, Cake Boss Makes You a...

A quick announcement.

Carman saw Cats. The whole movie.   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

"The Serpent Slayer" has one big issue with it, and it is the big yucky snake. Lucky there are some people with plans to get rid of it. This episode brought to you by executive producer Nacyl E., Aarne-Thompson type 1317, "The Blind Men and the Elephant" Suggested talking points: a suspicious vibe, aardvark sorcerer, a big friend, dream detectives, snake business, the dystopian win scenario, poten...

Tyler's audio does a very weird thing at the end of this one, but before it does we cover some podcast new year's resolutions. 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.

Which of three celebrities do you picture when you think of "Jack Frost?" And did one of them kill the dinosaurs? Suggested talking points: Keaton dad, Goop thoughts, Tyler's writing class, cheese butter girl, a dancy gift shark, funeral pancakes 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...

"A Legend of Saint Nicholas" is our second covering of a country's holiday story. At the rate of one a year, we'll be doing this show for over two more centuries. Suggested talking points: the wherewithal to spend money, Santa for the lonely, the whimbus gun, bishop-level threat, a friendly marvel at a neighbor, the Neo of improv, mall boys,   If you like our show, find us online to help spread th...

"The Lad Who Went to the North Wind" is the first of our winter holiday stories this year, featuring some good conflict resolution and various infinity pranks. This episode brought to you by executive producer Ella Stanborough, Aarne-Thompson type 463, "The Witch In the Stone Boat" Suggested talking points: blipdaddy, diarrheice, a dining safe, infinite picnic blanket, infinity grandpa, a summer h...

Heading down to the media corner to get a couple of pitches, and also trying to figure out our new TV show "Game Moms." 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.

"Little Tiny" ends up being a familiar story with a Don Bluth adaptation, but brings up a lot of important questions along the way, like "would you marry a toad just for the company?" This episode brought to you by executive producer Jax,Aarne-Thompson type 442, "The Woman In the Wood" Suggested talking points: puce thumb, stamen command, smolley, grandma scratcher, toad marriage, imaginary friend...

Some sleepy letter association that leads to a lot of talk about dinosaurs and a new Adam Sandler movie. 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.

Google already made a lot of the edits to "Otesanek" for us, through a wonderful and bizarre translation that makes us wish Google could write a book of fairy tales just for us. This episode brought to you by executive producer Nick Patchett, Aarne-Thompson type 161, "Betrayed by a Pointer Finger" Suggested talking points: a new erudite lifestyle, the human billboard, babies and their tank tops, a...

An in-depth critique of a new robotics product, that for some reason exists. 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.

"The Princess and the Magical Hat" has a lot of solid bird stuff going on, as well as some solid mouse stuff happening. And a little bit of rumpology magic. This episode brought to you by executive producer Spaghetto Depressi, Aarne-Thompson type 163, "The Singing Wolf" Suggested talking points: triple entendre, rumpology.edu, Sam Anus, a hodgepodge of stats, mouse woman and the mischief makers, s...

A pair of book reports: on Death Stranding, and Cats the Musical. 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.

We're wrapping up "The Ivory City and Its Fairy Princess" and you'll finally get to know why the flat horse mattered! And why all of the things from part I mattered. Because they definitely, definitely do. Suggested talking points: garbage princess, Dark Fortnite, retro UI design, Internet Classic,  jealousy murders, dead uncle rice, Dadwise Gamgee, horse blood types, old lady punch code, book DLC...

"The Ivory City and Its Fairy Princess" does a thing that fairy tales like to do, which is just stop the story for awhile for no reason. Which is really our job. Suggested talking points: dog truthers, the multiplicity of dogs, a sexy scar for later, arrow guns, piss and taxes, Gullbasaur, a pit called rock and roll If you like our show, find us online to help spread the word! Follow us on Twitter...

This is our Death Stranding anticipation episode, a thing none of us really understand yet. 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.

We've got a Russian double-header coming to you this week in the form of "Marichka" and "The Heron and the Crane." Can we make them connect to each other though? This episode brought to you by executive producer Kobiskat, Aarne-Thompson type 313, "The Magic Flight" Suggested talking points: big weird chickens, the flavor profile of stories, blood thrifting, from Russia with owl, pecked to death by...

Are you tired of creepypastas? Why not try some Givemspastas or Kringlepastas instead? 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.