74-Japanese Folklore: Do You Really Want to Live Forever? (ad-free)
The story of Sentaro the Millionaire* and his quest to live forever
Member Episode 21: It’s a Kind of Magic
A story from Japanese folklore about a young girl whose father disappears...and brings back something magical.
73-Japanese Folklore: I will find you (ad-free)
A young woman's father is taken, and she decided to go to the edges of the known world to get him back, to a faraway island harboring a dark and terrible secret. The creature this week is skunk ape! He's 0% skunk, 0% ape, and 100% into stealing your produce. Sponsors: Carvana: now you can buy [...]
71C-Sinbad: There and Back and There and Back Again (ad-free)
The conclusion of the Sinbad stories. In which Sinbad concludes he is awesome.
71B-Sinbad: Snake Eyes (ad-free)
Whether it's deadly literary references, sticky cows, or extremely inappropriate eulogies, the stories of Sinbad have it all...as long as by "it all" you're looking for a story of how a rich (and, let's face it, not-so-smart) guy for whom everything pretty much always works out. It's like Mr. Magoo without the nearsightedness and with much, [...]
71A-Sinbad the Sailor: Venture (ad-free)
Sinbad (no, not that Sinbad) is probably the 3rd most famous story from a collection titled "One Thousand and One Nights". It's a story of loss, hardship, and redemption...and then partying so hard that you forget all that loss, hardship, and redemption and need to do it all over again. Six more times. On the plus side, [...]
Member episode 20-Native American Folklore: Your Friendly Neighborhood Iktomi
Today's story is about a man who is also a spider. A spider....person... from Native American folklore. I'm not sure if trademark law prohibits me from describing an anthropomorphic male spider in the most succinct terms, but we're going to be safe. Anyway, Iktomi does whatever a spider can, and also a few things a spider [...]
70-Ugly Duckling: Fowl Play (ad-free)
The surprisingly brutal original story of the ugly duckling
69-Midas: You Got the Touch! (ad-free)
Don't, under any circumstances, trust the Midas touch. The king of unforced errors, Midas is a well-known figure in mythology mainly because of horrible decision making and lack of foresight. They say any publicity is good publicity, and I hope that is the case for Midas, who took a bad choice and used it to propel himself to everlasting notoriety. [...]
68B-Morgan le Fay: Her Majesty (ad-free)
Wrapping up this two-part series on Morgan le Fay, we'll see her devious schemes within schemes come to fruition with one aim in mind: killing King Arthur and seizing the throne for herself. The creature this week is fish man, from Spain. He's kind of like a superhero if all superheroes did was lay around and [...]