What The Folklore?

Halloween is almost here! Enjoy a spookyish collection of short folk tales. Suggested talking points: Halloween Participation Award, Trick or Treat Patch Notes, Little Chore Monsters, Wicked Witch Watchlist, Porklighting, Icky Swimming Corncob, “And Her Ghost Business, Plentiful,” Casper The Unemployed Ghost, A Breastfeeding Car Wash, Gallows Gachapon , Cricket Abstains If you like our show, find...

Excerpts of unused material from episode 92 of "What the Folklore?", wherein we "Make Oz Great Again" 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.

Tyler and Gordie's power has once again been taken away by a listener who suggested "The Golden Crab." It's been a tough week for us, there are a lot of outstanding questions, there's a dog and a man and a long diversion at the end. Come join the party! Suggested talking points: Lore-Oozers, Midas' questing finger, most woke king, knife crabs, musings on Disney kings, a crisis of species...

In this week's ramblecast, we consider our place in the Bearenstein/Bearenstain multiverse, steal some animal powers, and make some suggestions to improve Apple's demonstrations. 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 informatio...

We might have our worst main character yet this week, a fun mix of an extremely petulant child, and general uncaring incompetent adult. He's also "The King of Waterfalls", which is the title of our story, but there are no waterfalls in this story. Go figure. Suggested talking points: What the Yolklore, The Eggman, The Quick Brown Fox Jumped Over the Stupid River, Manic Pixie Crop Head, 1...

Excerpts of unused material from episode 90 of "What the Folklore?", wherein we check in on Bizzaro Gordie, brah, retool the Onesie, and figure out what to do with ALL THIS CORDUROY! 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...

Some weeks you just don't want to talk about the story much: in this case "The Girl Without Hands." It could be because it's full of a cast of characters resignedly going through the motions of the plot, or because you've hit on some great folklore themed party games, and developed certain suspicions about the children's toy Mr. Bucket. Suggested talking points: survival of the shittest,...

In this week's ramblecast, our team of experts joins minds to improve and combine the sports curling, hockey, scuba diving, and a little bit of vaping thrown in. 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 episode about the story "Golden Hair" is half story, half game show as contestants Gordie and Tyler bid against each other to get their way during the show and discussion. Immortal Bony resurfaces, and the inner cruelties of man are all exposed. Lost Episode ARG, Cutthroat Folklore, White Snake, KingCon 2016, Like a Gusher but Poison, Snake Pâté, Owl Gang Wars, King Midas’ Re...

Excerpts of unused material from episode 88 of "What the Folklore?", wherein we check in with the Animal News Team, open up competing airports, and create modular Ikea bodies. 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 inf...

Tyler had to make several chicken-related puns to get us through "The Three Sisters Who Were Entrapped Into a Mountain." It's a wasteland out there kids. Don't go alone. Suggested talking points: What the Hoaxlore, tired of farmers, touch fuzzy get dizzy, transcendent fries, how many rot, henoirs, 3 ditch-women move to the big city, very jangly fish, hen pimping If you like our show, fin...

Go on a walk down memory lane with us as we reminisce about the Search Engines of Old! Guess what's still around? Dogpile. 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 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...