What The Folklore?

It's the first week of October, which means we're back to What The Spooklore(TM)! We're kicking things off with a set of short tales about were-wolves, covering all the iterations of "guess who's the werewolf" you could want. Suggested talking points: werewolf spookitude, a werewolf infomercial, how to safely experiment with werewolfism, equal employment and monsterfication, ease of crim...

This week we're responding to an email with a request for skateboarding lessons, and have thrown together a skateboarding academy to accommodate. 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.wtfolklor...

We have a double header coming to you this week, suggested by Carl with a C: "The Sea Serpent" and "The Legend of the Lost Talisman" go together to inform on the real Illuminati trying to take over the world with giant snake bones. Suggested talking points: Meet the Waterbottles, a spooky hat cavern, the Vancouververse, the white man's gift, my gun cleanliness, the pun cowboy,...

This week we're discussing some ways to get away from hurricanes, what "It" the movie part 2 might look like, and how Gordie could find his way onto the the US Men's National Team at the next World Cup. 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 c...

This week's listener-suggested story "The Cauldron-Headed Axe-Toothed Sister" has given us a couple of crazy theories to chew over. Some are probably more right than others. Suggested talking points: math nerd street artist, the 26-month calendar, peanut butter daughter, a one-person slaughterhouse, The Neon, adaptive horse mobility, Old Roadrunner: Fastest Horse Alive, loaded date pits...

This week we're trying to figure out why people take a canary own a mine, and we discover a powerful new force: The Neon. 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.

This week, the gang decided to take another look back at some favorite moments and characters from past episodes contains clips from: Four Square Hustle, 'Cha Boi and Savior, The Bony Connection, The Shaun White Mystery Machine, Robber Girl's Nightly Knife-Tickles, Reverse Matilda, The Church of the Knife, The Woke Folk, The Ariel Parallel, and Kanky Spanks. Sometimes you get a pretty good story,...

Sometimes you get a pretty good story, and "The Moon Fairy" is one of them. Even if there is a weird crow-based subplot to start with. We learned a lot about villains' motives in the process. Suggested talking points: crazy cat lady sun, butt fairies, the farmer king, good numbers, cute meat, the Moon Dad, birds getting swole, feathered gorillas, busy sun-slayer, the sniper king, how sta...

This week we're talking about affectations, specifically hats. Who needs them, and who deserves them? 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.

There are some exciting new develops for this week's story "The Three Little Men In the Wood;" Gordie has a listener-suggested title, and Tyler was shown (for some reason) an online encyclopedia of bad puns. The story follows in much the same fashion. Also Carman will be at Dragon Con this weekend at the art show, so look for her there! Suggested talking points: the Bureaucromancer, a se...

We did a last-minute swaparooni to avoid dying by 10,000 lightning strikes to make sure that this week's story "the Wishes"would get out to the people. We're doing a new thing where you can suggest Gordie's title each week with the hashtag #whatamGordie so make sure you do that to spare him the existential crisis every week. Suggested talking points: thank you John Waterbottle, #whatamGo...

This week we're reading "The Lass Who Went Out at the Cry of Dawn." This is a good one if you like magical hijinks and the rare competent protagonist. You may not like it if you're a wizard with a pretty weird operation up on a hill somewhere. Suggested talking points: Don't the Dew, fairy tale spy kit, mindfreak sorcerer, wizard takedown, knife miracles, ding dong deaded a wizard If you...

What's the next big streaming service going to be? We know what it is, and how to implement it. Don't even worry about it, but someone get Jeff Bezos on the horn. 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...

This week's story "Cinder Jack" is another one we've been putting off for a long time for no real reason. Was that justified? We're about to find out: and force some connections to some other fairy tales that were almost certainly not intended. Suggested talking points: a fair bit of mancying, Little Debbie cake economy, ding-dong loving frog, crop conspiracy, a new tower defense game, p...

This week we're recapping the news for the past 10 days or so, discussing what you legally can and can't yell in a crowded theater, and playing a game involving Tom Clancy book titles. 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 info...

The title of this week's story remains a mystery: possessing of a murky quality only matched by the characters and plot of story. Our executive producer for this episode is Heather Sinke, so thank you Heather! Suggested talking points: the meaning of grout, title remembrance, the Bremen Sound Experiment, "Hey There Old Shaver" by Bob Dylan, animal acapella, the robber life, Pitch Perfect...

This week we're codifying the laws of fortune cookies, and exploring some better delivery mechanisms; which leads to a new business idea. 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...

We're back with another round of Aesop's fables. We get through more than three this time too. But not too many more than three. About as few as you can get more than three. We did four. Suggested talking points: river baths, ass decisions, startup ass rental, Lyft perks, butterfly wizards, transforming gnats, D&D Antz: the Movie, Spartacus pizza, the adventures of liar guy and truth guy If yo...

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. 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 mercha...

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 batt...

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?" 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 merchand...

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, al...

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. 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....

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 If you like our show, find us online to help sprea...

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. 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.wtfolklorepodca...