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Episode 48O: The Benevolent Lack of Frog (The Benevolent Frog, Part 3)

Episode 483

We conclude our Journey through The Benevolent Frog, and come to the unanimous consensus: to improve the story, the frog must go.

Thank you once mor…

3 months, 1 week ago

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Episode 479: Intorducing "Nary Frog" (The Benevolent Frog, Part 2)

Episode 482

We continue our Journey through The Benevolent Frog, and, unfortunately, this section DOES include a frog. Its benevolence, however, is up for debate…

3 months, 2 weeks ago

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Episode 478: Prepare for War, Jeff (The Benevolent Frog, Part 1)

Episode 481

The time has come, once more. The clock has rolled over again, another year has passed, and to usher us into Year 11 of WTFolklore is none other than…

3 months, 4 weeks ago

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Episode 477: The Terrible Burden of Human Consciousness

Episode 480

This week, after celebrating our own brand of "Big Game", we dive into one of the Four Great Folktales of China, The Butterfly Lovers

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4 months, 1 week ago

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Episode 476: Chekhov's Armory

Episode 479

A slightly-less-but-still-bite-sized episode of WTFolklore as the Whimbus continues to throw its tantrums on us. This time we crack open a tome that …

4 months, 2 weeks ago

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Episode 475: Yet Another Win for Big Big Rock

Episode 478

It's a bite-sized episode this week on WTFolklore as we race against the sky to complete a recording. Not all of us made it...
we read Shippeitaro, a …

4 months, 3 weeks ago

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Episode 474: A Very Divorceable Man

Episode 477

This week on WTFolklore we read The Bad Mother, a Romani tale so chock-a-block full of chaotic magic, it may well be our Primordial Fairy Tale. 

Sugge…

5 months, 1 week ago

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Episode 473: Extremely, Rigorously Peer-Reviewed Hypnotist

Episode 476

We return in 2026, kicking things off with two short tales, one from Hans Christian Andersen, the other a Grimm, with the sliveriest of slivers for c…

5 months, 2 weeks ago

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Episode 472: Ancient Chinese Old Spice Commercial

Episode 475

We cut it VERY CLOSE this year, but it wouldn't be a year of What The Folklore without us dipping in to another chapter of The Journey West.

Thanks to…

5 months, 3 weeks ago

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Episode 471: The Purge, but for Plumbers

Episode 474

After a quiet December of very little posting, we've returned with a gift for the holidays as we read The Wooden Shoes of Little Wolff.

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6 months ago

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