What The Folklore?

We're back to Ancient China this week, reading "Journey to the West," to find out what's been happening to the Monkey King since we last saw him. Or, more specifically, we're starting to build out the rest of his posse in this episode. It's a constant guessing game as to who's actually going to be important, come on and play along! Suggested talking points: Grand Duke, Filly-Buster, Sea Something, Say Something, Human Binky, Premium Baby, Secret Ghost Cannibal, Flamous & Plopular, Sith Camp 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.

Excerpts of unused material from episode 75 of "What the Folklore?", wherein we briefly discuss the plaid-demic facing the modern male wardrobe, and then reinvent family crests and identification systems. 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.

What might have started out as a joke about name choices in Iceland quickly turns into an emotional ride at the hands of a probably warlock named "Habogi," which is also the name of our story this week. His motives can only be guessed at, but it's either a strange form of revenge, or possibly just an innate love of chaos. Suggested talking points: Ye olde ponyoff, scurs, ventriloquist pests, a sheep for every baby, beautiful cows, envy sandwich, David Blaine: the Fairy Tale, the ventriloquist theory 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.

On this week's ramblecast, we offer some pro Overwatch strategies, and reflect on the dads of video games, in honor of Father's Day. 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 story comes really close to having the most metal ending of any story we've read thus far, but just misses the mark. Introducing a cast of interesting characters that do nothing, while we stick with the boring ones, this week we read "Vasilisa the Beautiful." Suggested talking points: Literal Ghost Town, Mint in Box, A Sandler-esque Grasp of Time, And Her Name Is…, Born of Marshmallow Flesh, Potty Time Baby Doll, “Childhood Songs For Children,” Street-racing Knights, A Treatise on Bobba Fett, Tree Kinks, A Doll, a Girl, and a Human Skull 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.

Excerpts of unused material from episode 73 of "What the Folklore?", wherein we mix and match where animals' necks should go, try to incept bird-like mating rituals into the Pick-up Artist community, and try our damnedest to actually start the show 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.

The true heart of this episode, in which we read "Vasilisa Golden Tress" is a business plan for an Animal Planet revamp, featuring snakes doing people things and generally being unleashed where they shouldn't be. The fairy tale sort of builds around it, and involves either a bunch of idiots, or one very savvy ghost, depending on your interpretation. Suggested talking points: Fairy tale puberty, Chess: the Ghost Musical, the beauty of the gerduun, time to stolen, the day the old people were proven wrong by wind, Randy Savage Serpent, the new Animal Planet, the foe Peeman 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.

It's ramble time again! This week we talk about how farm animals can be used to implant ideas in consumers' minds, and discuss the machinations of children from Carman's summer camp.

If you, like us, thought that "Iron Henry" seemed like a pretty cool guy and that you were going to get to find out all about his adventures, then you're in for some disappointment. Iron Henry's contributions are a little lackluster, giving us some room to discuss Other Things (TM). Suggested talking points: Treasurer of the Mission, Heckle Friends, IRON HENRY, Pervy Sun, Bawling at the Cashier, Ol’ Watah Splashah, Gaussian Blur Family, 1-877-Kids4Trolls, Sex Positive Animal Clinic 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.

Excerpts of unused material from episode 71 of "What the Folklore?", wherein we inexplicably discuss Alvin and the Chipmunks, which inexplicably transitions into us cramming any property we can think of into the Total War franchise, which inexplicably becomes a Tycoon game about raising baby Blockbuster Videos. 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.

What if you found a magic piece of paper that would give you whatever you asked for? That sounds pretty good, right? Now what if that piece of paper was connected to the most passive-aggressive ghost who ever existed, who went out of his way just to make sure you knew how much effort he put into it? Maybe not as appealing. This week's story, "Lars My Lad," gives us a peek at what that might look like. Suggested talking points: Plato's baby fairytale cave, pork and starburst, boat sense, scooby doo meet cute, sleep-wishing, ye olde TMZ, secret king handshake 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.

In this week's episode we try to figure out what caused the ASMR boom, while layering in a little of our own; we also work on creating the world's first movie completely spoken in Lorem Ipsum, naturally resulting in Shallow Hal 2. 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 to do a couple quick gear-shifts through the possible meanings of this story's name, and once it gets going it's... either very light, or terrifying depending on how you picture it. A perfect illustration of the true dichotomy of the duck. In episode 66 of "What the Folklore," we read "Drake's Tail." Suggested talking points: Symbol of the Beat, Blind Story Draw, Dungeons and Ducklings, Ducktales Begins, Hobo King, Drahkus-tael, Duckstep, Cookout Hacks, “Can’t Do It, I’m a Duck,” Rebound King, Prime Time for Duck Redemption 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.

Excerpts of unused material from episode 69 of "What the Folklore?", wherein we morn further proof of our latent psychic abilities, become Office Space Riddlers, and critique the aesthetic value of Sonic the Hedgehog 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 story "The Miraculous Banyan Tree" is our effort to #SaveKanye: giving him the role he so desperately needs. Guided by a gravity tree spaceship, maybe Kanye can find his destiny, or maybe he'll be destroyed by the very people he came to save. Suggested talking points: Shanghaied elevator pitches, the Meme of Dorian Gray, the gravity tree, tree pervert, the real ending of the Fountain, the Giver Tree, the war on botany, the mushroom sciences, Vietnamesus, Crystal Germs 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.

In this week's ramblecast, we get deep into Sonic the Hedgehog: his place in the universe, his legacy, and most specifically the movie directed by Don Bluth and mandated by the Anime Police Academy. 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.

Our story this week, "The Witch and Her Four Sons," is a little more straightforward as they go, but the Perennial Question keeps looming over our heads, the one that has baffled philosophers through the ages from Socrates to Zoltar machine from Big: "Why Any?" Suggested talking points: Raptor Granny, Dirk Toe, Salmon Party Tricks, Tumblr Squaws, Boy-Band Braves, SlapChop Murder Spree, The Best Beefo, Corpse Stump Soup, Clamshell Roofie, Demonic Foot Fetish 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.

Excerpts of unused material from episode 67 of "What the Folklore?", wherein we decide who would best serve as an emergency contact, and pitch a Rube-Goldbergian Super Hero 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 is our first episode after The Move (tm) so we're still a little out of it, which led us to some interesting places in our discussion. Our story this week, "The Flying Ship," concerns a man who basically wanders onto a cool flying airship, and gets a bunch of weirdos to come along for the ride. Suggested talking points: ​Surefire boat percentage, hookworm messiah, journey bread, super solider besties, Joe the guy who owns normal straw, the best episode of Fear Factor, smarties suit, Prince goes to a farm 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.

Do you know what the sound of a writer missing his deadline is? It sounds like the end of this story "The Story of the Hero Makoma," which has some pretty crazy elements ramping up to a whole lot of nothing. In other words, par for the course for us. Suggested talking points: Brownie Arms Race, Unstuck From the Audio, Ash Twig, The Hero: Glaucoma, Crocodile Combo, Lethargic Children’s Show, A Wandering Gaia, A Sentient Hair, Spirit Yoinked, Bunny Foo Foo Remix, Damn You, Granny Croc 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.