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232-Robin Hood: Public Enemy
Robin decides that, you know what he needs? To walk directly into the home of his greatest enemies. Nothing bad can come from this. Nothing bad at al…
4 years, 10 months ago
231-Irish Folklore: Challenge Accepted
Two stories from Ireland. On the first, Finn McCool, a giant Irish here, isn't scared! He totally isn't! He's just speed walking away from that guy h…
4 years, 11 months ago
230-Grimm: A Hairy Situation
A story from the Brothers Grimm about an evil king and a bad penny of a kid who's apparently unkillable. Oh, and prophesied to marry his daughter.
T…
4 years, 11 months ago
229-Monkey King: Forbidden Fruit
We're back in the story of the Monkey King and the Journey to the West. After picking up Sandy, the sand monster and final member of their party, the…
4 years, 11 months ago
THE OPPORTUNIST SEASON TWO IS AVAILABLE NOW!
Robert Courtney was an upstanding Kansas City pharmacist and family man who was deeply devoted to his church. Courtney owned and operated two pharmac…
4 years, 11 months ago
228-Italian Folklore: Full Circle
Two stories from the Italian writer Giovanni Francesco Straparola, who earns the title of one of the earliest fairy tale writers, putting tales down …
4 years, 11 months ago
227-Greek/Roman Mythology: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Olympus
Two stories from Greek/Roman mythology this week with the (not remotely) love story of Apollo and Daphne as well as the tale of Pyramus and Thisbe, w…
5 years ago
226-European Folklore: Failing Upward
This week, it's the story of Fortunatus, the man who, bet you could never guess from his name, was given an inexhaustible fortune, and how things kin…
5 years ago
225-Egyptian Folklore: Kitchen Nightmare
The Egyptian folktale of a young woman who's not messing around. After fleeing her home, she only sees one way to live free: become a monster that ha…
5 years ago
224-African Folklore: It's the Great Pumpkin, Kiali
This week, it's a story from Africa (more specifically the Nilamba people in northern Tanzania) about a hunt for a murderer that goes off the rails v…
5 years ago