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This week on WTFolkore, we read Salt, Sauce, and Spice, Onion Leaves, Pepper, and Drippings , a Hausa tale from Northern Nigeria. We spend a considerable amount of the episode reflecting on soup and it's metaphorical capabilities, going so far as to radically change the one presented in a story. Ironically, we forgot a core component of any soup: Evil Spirits. Suggested talking points: Download In...

This week on WTFolklore, we read Tunjur, Tunjur , a Palestinian Arabic tale that presents the world with some exciting new challenges in parenting. It also allows us to reexamine the lasting trauma of being born as an inanimate object. Suggested talking points: Husband Juice, Classic Verbal Memes, The Storkitron, Human Kilns, Crave Paintings, Inanimate Object Support Group If you like our show, fi...

Tyler continues his Focus to explain the plot of every Final Fantasy to his captive co-hosts this week, lest a vengeful Pulse Fal'Cie come along and make a motorcycle jetplane dragon lady burst out of his tattoo to turn him a Cieth. Tuesdays, amirite?   Special Thanks to Eric for joining us again on this one!   Music in chronological order: Victory Fanfare (Holder & Ephixa Remix) Blinded by Light...

This week on WTFolklore, we're covering Achol and Her Wild Mother , a Sudanese tale that we think is an absolutely perfect fit for the brand new and not at all desperate new streaming platform, Quibi! Suggested talking points: Accidental EGOT, Entry-Level Lion, Bits of Important Limbs, Well-Rassled Steaks, For Quibi's Consideration If you like our show, find us online to help spread the word! Foll...

This week on WTFolklore we're reading The Enchanter and The Enchantress,   a story so poorly titled it'll make your head spin.  It does, however, sport some very compelling characters and some sexy, sexy magic. Suggested talking points: Gendertoad, Scrambled Dog Eggs (with Ketchup), Internally-screamed Magic Spells, Myth-times Walmart, Crimebelina If you like our show, find us online to help sprea...

This week we're reading the Haitian tale, The Gizzard , which may sound at first like well-worn territory for us, but in fact comes with many advancements in Gizzard Tech, as well as cautionary information about Yard Devils Suggested talking points: Fart Margins, Oompa Boompas, The Bacon Flap, GizzPizz, Non-Consensual Blood Brotherhood, Boynana Sundaes, Brain Swag If you like our show, find us onl...

Spoilers: You will hear 12 loud, unpleasant sounds played in succession from 43:13-43:52, if you would like to skip it. This week on WTFolklore we're covering Final Fanta..mphg ghppphf splrf (sound of being gagged) , (sound of being tied up with ropes) This week on WTFolklore we're covering The Story of Mo-e Mo-e: Also a Story About Po-o and About Kau-hu-hu the Shark-God, and About Mo-e Moe's Son,...

Have you ever wished that Star Wars was about magic rocks, took place entirely on land, and had names like Zargabaath and Bhujerba? Wish no more!    Special Thanks to Eric for joining us again on this one!   Music in chronological order: Victory Fanfare (Holder & Ephixa Remix) Final Fantasy XII Boss Theme by Hitoshi Sakimoto  Final Fantasy Ending Theme by Nobuo Uematsu   If you like our show, find...

This week, Tyler tells the gang a story he's INTIMATELY familiar with.   Music in chronological order: Victory Fanfare (Holder & Ephixa Remix) Vana'diel March by Naoshi Mizuta Hikari (PlantiB Remix) by Utada Hikaru  Final Fantasy Ending Theme by Nobuo Uematsu   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 hel...

We're keeping it overall very simple this week, light and fluffy, just your average run-of-the-mill story about zombies, sports, big cats, time travel, whales, racism and religion! Special Thanks to Eric for joining us again on this one!   Music in chronological order: Victory Fanfare (Holder & Ephixa Remix) A Fleeting Dream and Final Fantasy Ending Theme by Nobuo Uematsu   If you like our show, f...

You know what they say: ninth time's the charm. Nothing exemplifies that more than Final Fantasy IX, a story about virtue, existentialism, frogs, bugs, rat people, airships, canaries, wizard build-a-bears, two planets eating eachother, multiple dimensions, The Darkness of Eternity, and a crystal that manifested life as we know it. It don't get more Final than that.   Special Thanks to Eric for joi...

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.