What The Folklore?

Have you ever gotten a recommendation based on a false premise that still turned out good? Tyler has. 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 done with spooky stories for another year, but our story this week "Biancabella and the Snake" is a pretty wild ride. Snakes are into some super weird stuff. But we do get some new fun side characters to sustain us. Suggested talking points: garbage Netflix, the page fondlers, subtle windings, a milk sting, sultry spice, Narcing G-Ma, the king of tennis, ugly daughter penalties, th...

Should podcasts have laugh tracks? They shouldn't, but you can learn about where they do belong (nowhere). We're also trying to lock down our creative projects for November. 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 abo...

We have a pair of spooky stories to round out our month of What the Spooklore, so strap in! We're going to hear more about werewolves (though that's not even the spookiest part) and hear the OG ghost story, according to some guy. Suggested talking points: waiting for the spook to drop, the werewolf pool, the thrilling spookclusion, the cryptid slurry, gene silos, children combo bonus, used daughte...

What kind of crimes can you do with stolen paper? And what all is available from those 4am infomercials? We have some ideas. 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 good spooky story in "The Painted Skin," a story featuring an incompetent priest, some characters that almost have understandable motives, and a little tie-in to one of our favorite reoccurring characters. Suggested talking points: listener leaderboards, the Spooktrolyzer's fate, the Arrested Development Narrator's career, normal motives, exorcism money, giant dumb witches, alt...

There's a pretty abrupt shift in conversation halfway through, which has been preserved because it's exactly how it happened naturally. We're not sure how many of you have considered the "Bring It On" universe recently, but you should. 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...

Our train of spooky stories continues, so climb aboard for this week's offering "The Fiend" from Russia, and enjoy the rich cast of side characters that crop up in this one, as well as some pretty strained theories about what's happening. Suggested talking points: fiend meat, Scrooge's innoculation, all these Marys with their problems, an Uberlad, the spider puppetmaster, a deep analysis...

Have you ever wanted a Mother Goose MOBA? Well it's here, and it's amazing. 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.

Halloween month continues with "The Lover's Ghost," a story that's about 80% rocky parts, and about 20% cool witch godmother outfoxing the police who want to take her human skulls. Suggested talking points: titanium pantaloons, dadsbund, the hot dad cutoff, the two Santa rule, the Santa dropoff, a parkour stunts wedding, seeking with skulls, magic cops, the origin of the graveyard, godma...

There's a card game for everyone, somewhere out there. Even for computers. We're trying to figure out which games computers might WANT to learn, and Tyler and Gordie try to sell Carman on a new kind of card game. 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...

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...