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

Thank you to Dani for joining us on this particular ride!

Suggested talking points: Slowly Returning to Baby, We're Doin' Shrek, The Raddest Croissant, D'Aulnoy Walked so AO3 Could Run, Counting is Not a Frog Power, Juggling With Punches, All Signs Point to Eaten, A Concentrated Frog-Punch

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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 our dear, dear friend, Madame d'Aulnoy.

Thank you to Dani for joining us on this particular ride!

Suggested talking points: Fae Notary, Technofecalism, The Fortnite of Cookies, Goo That Is Alive, The Unrelenting Postman, The Delivery Olympics, Meat in an Envelope

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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 threatens to remain with us for some time to come, The Cats' Arabian Nights, or, King Grimalkum

Suggested talking points: A Folklore Receptacle, The Return of Ichabod, I Can Has Mammothburger?, Our Annual Cat-Meme Reunion, The Ever-Present Custard Pie, Secondhand Grievances

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

Suggested talking points: The Super Toilet Bowl, Secret Treaty (to Defeat Gordie), All of the Beach Happening To You at Once, The Franz Kafka University of Turning Into Things, Good But Worse LLC, Hauntings Are Just Your Soulmate Missing You

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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 tale from Japan.

Suggested talking points: Nary a Goof, Boat% Speedrun, The Adventure Famine, Yowllicle Cats™, Stinky-Girl Pageant, The Boy Who Left His Yard to Climb a Rock and Didn't Even Punch a Robber

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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.

Suggested talking points: The Price is Wrong, Speaking of Brain Diseases, Going Backwards on the Simba Log, My Other Horse is a Bus, Dentures and Draggins, When the Apple Trees Nap, A Garage of Many-Winged Horses, More Porker Than Man

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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 connective tissue to one another: traveling occurs in both.

Suggested talking points: BYOB(omb), Self Actualized Pokémon Card, Doxxing Hans Christian Andersen, Any Tree; Giving or Otherwise, Hans Christian Andersen's PCP Shower Thoughts, The Cult of Corn

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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 Dave, Jayson, Matt and Melissa for all joining in on this one, and Thank YOU for listening to another year of this show. See you all in 2026!

Music used was "Auld Lang Syne Instrumental Jazz", provided royalty free by E's Jammy Jams

Check out Gordie's TTRPG, Mythomorphosis
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