What The Folklore?

We have a special guest with us this week, Andrew McKee of the Brobdingnagian Bards (aka the ones what done our theme song). He's here just in time to hear a story that's very... goose shit-centric, called "The Goose." There's no way around it, just strap in and get ready. Accelerated Tomfoolery, Meanwhile, This Goose, A Wallet You Can Ride, Hoard or Whores, Eye-bugging All Around, A Dee...

You've heard the story of Little Red Riding Hood already, but have you heard the story of the gaslighting panther version? Or the version where a panther desperately wants to be the mother to two vicious little girls? We have, and it's this week's story, called "The Panther." Suggested talking points: A choose-your-own-adventure waterslide filled with human dregs, tamogatchy boy, panther...

Happy labor day! We're diving into a new ghost-centric business this week, which includes ghost uber services, ghost juries, ghost tours, and ghost cleanings. 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...

We've got another listener-suggested story for you this week, called "The Firebird," and it's another Shakespeare-Professor-Authorized (TM) story, fresh off the presses from Russia. This is a Russian story that somehow does not feature a Vasilisa, so we're in uncharted territory. Suggested talking points: A+ in Streaking,Subsisting on Gold, Appliances Fueled by Goblin Magic, Lotto Couch,...

Excerpts of unused material from episode 84 of "What the Folklore?", wherein we find Clippy down on his luck, redefine Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, find Crocs in Pandora's Box, and uncover the US Postal Services' centuries-old pyramid scheme. 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 g...

We have a listener-suggested story this week, carefully decoded from Scottish Brogue, though it didn't make a lot more sense once decoded. This week's story is "The Ballad of Tam Lin." Suggested taking points: MTV's Pimp My Ride for fairy tales, Yatzee Chess, mech horse, the fairy people's capability, man is taxes, primo boy, Halloween taxes, a pokestop for babes If you like our show, fi...

In this week's ramblecast we completely revamp the NFL: from new team naming conventions to new rules and layers, to team themes that must be obeyed. 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.wtfol...

We skipped last week, so we kind of forgot how to do this. This episode is kind of a slow build, like a Lovecraft story or that Phil Collins song people seem to like. This week we're reading "The King Who Wanted to See Paradise." Suggested talking points: Cold open, 8 Seconds of Pretty Slow Drums, Simulated Skype Experience, The Plot of Rear Window, A Sixth Sense for Wrinkles, Skitchin’,...

Excerpts of unused material from episode 82 of "What the Folklore?", wherein we discuss the "Torture Porn Spectrum", lobby new indexing methods, create a government agency chain-gang, and uncover the hidden fifty-fifth state of the union, Sacwatoga 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...

Due to scheduling conflicts with our recording last week, we've assembled a collection of clips from the following episodes: Bouncing Baby Abomination, Chekov's Loaded Midwife, Doctorlope MD, If You Like It You Better Put a Pube On It, The Unicorn Situation, Super Strong Punch Boys, The Westbirdo Bapnest Birch, Owl: The Only Movie Ever Made, Ancient Chinese Good Will Hunting, Terminally Quenched,...

WARNING MAJOR STRANGER THINGS SPOILERS. If you don't want to find out who's aging backwards, and who is secretly his own father's ghost, don't listen to the first five minutes. We could also be way off base with our theories. Our story this week is another from the Skagit area, deceptively called "The Maiden of Deception Pass." It's not a Western though, we tried. We also tried our best...

In this week's ramblecast we speculate about some new potential pokemon types and rules, misremember the Spanish-American War, and create a whole new set of countries. 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...

Prepare for the future of the Food Network, as the casting of this week's fairy tale "The Woman Who Flummoxed the Fairies" gives birth to a reality show made of pure gold. Saddle up Alton Brown, your calling awaits you! Suggested talking points: 8% Analogy, Hannah Swensen Mysteries, Schluppo’s Bakery, Your Average Fairy-Whaler, Cyanide Baby, Fickle Fairies, Cacophony Focus Group , Hibach...

Excerpts of unused material from episode 76 of "What the Folklore?", wherein we leverage Buzzfeed against itself, invent Spider-Cars, and re-brand the Oscars as challenge-based trophies. 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...

We've got a short one for you this week, another selection from Longhouse Legends, in which we take a look at what the world could have been like without Wile E. Coyote's contributions to technology and the world. This week we're reading "Coyote and the Evil Witches." Suggested talking points: Evil witch defense point, random hexes, Nintendo is witches, the ol' Shamrock Shake fishing tri...

On today's agenda this week is the wide world of science! From how to relocate the oceans into the atmosphere, to how to recreate Pangea, to which animals have meetings and why, we're covering it all. 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 merc...

We realized that this week's story, boringly titled "Fate," is a perfect Adam Sandler movie, and it reads about as well as you'd expect. To be fair, this is what we get for choosing a story based on a random word in the title which happened to be "boots." So that's on us folks. Suggested talking points: Flipjock the Barbersmith, Hissing, Boots, or Ale, Summer Santa, The Other 1...

Excerpts of unused material from episode 77 of "What the Folklore?", wherein we enlist further help from the animal kingdom for our police forces, customize llamas, and christen a new Truther/Yu-Gi-Oh fansite 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....

This week's story might sound a little bit familiar, and there's a good reason for that. It turns out that back in Ye Olden Times, fairy tale authors were much less litigious and didn't check for plagiarism that often. We're reading "The Story of the Seven Simons." Suggested talking points: Castle math, palace building strategies, the Armstrong Council, the Sphinx's nonsense riddle, prin...

This week we talk about more ways to make crimes legal, coming up with a service that steals things from your house, and create an identity for a fictional robber. 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 sho...

We're back to Ancient China this week, reading "Journey to the West," to find out what's been happening to the Monkey King since we last saw him. Or, more specifically, we're starting to build out the rest of his posse in this episode. It's a constant guessing game as to who's actually going to be important, come on and play along! Suggested talking points: Grand Duke, Filly-Buster, Sea...

Excerpts of unused material from episode 75 of "What the Folklore?", wherein we briefly discuss the plaid-demic facing the modern male wardrobe, and then reinvent family crests and identification systems. 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...

What might have started out as a joke about name choices in Iceland quickly turns into an emotional ride at the hands of a probably warlock named "Habogi," which is also the name of our story this week. His motives can only be guessed at, but it's either a strange form of revenge, or possibly just an innate love of chaos. Suggested talking points: Ye olde ponyoff, scurs, ventriloquist pe...

On this week's ramblecast, we offer some pro Overwatch strategies, and reflect on the dads of video games, in honor of Father's Day. 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 story comes really close to having the most metal ending of any story we've read thus far, but just misses the mark. Introducing a cast of interesting characters that do nothing, while we stick with the boring ones, this week we read "Vasilisa the Beautiful." Suggested talking points: Literal Ghost Town, Mint in Box, A Sandler-esque Grasp of Time, And Her Name Is…, Born of Marshmall...