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Amy Stephenson and Casey Childers are writers who like to tell stories. Our current timeline is baffling, and so we're looking back to some very old stories to see if they can help us figure out what the moral of our wacky present might be. Will we find it? Dust a ring of salt around yourself and join us to find out.

Beauty and the Beak

Today in Yugoslavia, a manic pixie dream princess is trying to spend ten thousand hours practicing embroidery, but her parents keep bugging her to mar...
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Unlimited Breadsticks

Welcome back to Russia, where one Ivan pulls ahead of the pack. He has to kill some pretty standard-issue monsters, but the monsters' parents find out...
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Inglourious Wizerds

Today we're in New Zealand to hear a tale of two wizards, both of them jerks. What starts with a lost fish hook rapidly escalates into a wizard vs wiz...
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Declassified: Haypennies, volume 4

This episode marks the conclusion of our lil vacation, and of our raid on the patron-exclusives vault. If you like it, consider joining the club for f...
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Declassified: Haypennies, volume 3

Our three-week hiatus continues. Like last week, we're pleased to share our patron-exclusive episode, this one from October of 2021. Here's how we des...
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Declassified: Haypennies, volume 2

We're taking a little break for the remainder of the month. We're going to enjoy it, and we'd like you to enjoy it, too. So for the next three weeks w...
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Rod is My Co-Pilot

We've got a Celtic story today about a guy on a hot streak. When he finally loses at cards, he'll get sucked into some drama between his opponent and ...
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No Mulligans, Son

Today we're in Russia where a prince ends up with a frog for a wife because he sucks at archery. His attempts to hasten the end of her curse make thin...
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And We'll Never Be Royals

We're in Haiti today to hear about a boy who decides to be a hunter. That's going well for him until he bonds with a particular bird, not realizing it...
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Snakes on a Plain

Today we're in the Colorado River Valley to meet a great hunter who is otherwise incapable of taking care of himself. He sets out with his sister, but...
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