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This week on WTFolklore, your three favorite hosts who are unchanged from last week, read The Snake Princess, from Russia. Shoulders are briefly brushed with old friend Koschei, but things take a philosophical turn when we discover, once and for all, what True Happiness is.Suggested talking points: Lore Reset, The Fall of Wobbles, Threatened to Bravery, Fire Go UP, Snake Go DOWN, The Great Punch Incident, Negcessary 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 on WTFolklore, we read several, related Rabbit tales from The Bird Who Cleans the World and Other Mayan Fables, collected by Victor Montejo. These stories, when paired together, paint the picture of a tragic downfall for the Trickster Rabbit, who undergoes a mental break not dissimilar to what's happening currently to at least one of the co-hosts.Suggested talking points: Sunk Cost Fallacy in Motion, Headknife, Tired and Full of Nightmares, Relitigating Trees, The Antler-Shaped Hole in our Hearts, Bedsnax 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's episode is like a scattered dream, or perhaps a far-off memory. We try to line the pieces up. Music in chronological order:Victory Fanfare (Holder & Ephixa Remix)Deep Dive by Yoko Shimomura 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 help the show grow at www.patreon.com/wtfolklore. You can find merchandise and information about the show at www.wtfolklorepodcast.com.

This week on WTFolkore, we read The Rebel Princess, a Ukrainian tale. What begins as your average Boy Meets Girl, Boy and Girl pour over ancient manuscripts, Girl becomes feral tree person story rapidly escalates to a high seas adventure for a bookclub of drunk lady pirates. It's pretty rad.Suggested talking points: Agen-C, Smash Glass in case of Life, True Stank, Very Fancy Babies, Fantasy King FOMO, Flute Fingers, King SATs, Water Harvard, Ancient Crime ManuscriptsIf 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 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 Integrity, Drinkable Whimsy, Condolences to Drippings Spice, the Scoville Level of Abs, What if the World was Soup?, Spice as a Metaphor for WarAs mentioned at the end of the episode, we'll be donating our June patreon contributions (and making personal donations as well) evenly between Color of Change and The National Center for Transgender Equality. Please follow these links if you'd like to learn more and make donations of your own!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

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 GroupIf 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.

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 by Masashi Hamauzu 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 help the show grow at www.patreon.com/wtfolklore. You can find merchandise and information about the show at www.wtfolklorepodcast.com.

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 ConsiderationIf 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 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, CrimebelinaIf 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 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 DevilsSuggested talking points: Fart Margins, Oompa Boompas, The Bacon Flap, GizzPizz, Non-Consensual Blood Brotherhood, Boynana Sundaes, Brain SwagIf 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.

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, The Man Who Was Bold in His Wish, A delightful tale within a tale within a tale within a tale from Hawaii. It's about a spear that can feel love, we think.Suggested talking points: boat rope, "normal fast" AKA "slow", godsharks, a cascade of belongings, gendered wishes, babies vs. genies, Chekov's callout post 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.

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 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, 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 MizutaHikari (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 help the show grow at www.patreon.com/wtfolklore. You can find merchandise and information about the show at www.wtfolklorepodcast.com.

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, 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.

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 joining us again on this one!Music in chronological order:Victory Fanfare (Holder & Ephixa Remix)Something To Protect  and 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 help the show grow at www.patreon.com/wtfolklore. You can find

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 chronological order:Victory Fanfare (Holder & Ephixa Remix)Liberi Fatali  and 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 help the show grow at www.patreon.com/wtfolklore. You can find

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 order:Victory Fanfare (Holder & Ephixa Remix)Bombing Mission and 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 help the show grow at www.patreon.com/wtfolklore. You can find

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 Fanfare (Holder & Ephixa Remix)Terra's Theme and 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 help the show grow at www.patreon.com/wtfolklore. You can find

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 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

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 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 help the show grow at www.patreon.com/wtfolklore. You can find merchandise and information about the show at www.wtfolklorepodcast.com.