Episode 501: READY THE WOMAN CATAPULT!
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Welcome to Season 2! Our inaugural story is Cherry the Frog Bride, a Grimm tale that starts silly and becomes increasingly...well...Grimm.
Suggested talking points: Time for Numbers to Go on Vacation, Mandatory Internet Buddy-System, Specializing in Guilt and Shame, Eavesdropping on a Pig Race, Corn Jacuzzi, Double-Negative Taxes, Welcome to Dog-Corpse Island
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You're listening to "What the Folklore" making sense of "Sense's Tales." You can support us on Patreon and join our Discord server at patreon.com/wtfolklore. [MUSIC] [MUSIC] Hello everyone and welcome to season two of "What the Folklore." I'm your storyteller, Carmen. -Grami for Tyler. -I didn't even think about a season 2.0 name. -You can reinvent yourself now. -Well, this one's episode 500. -No, that doesn't sound right. -I know I just told you that numbers and words don't mean anything to me anymore, but I thought we just did 500. -Well, we did an episode, but we kind of didn't do an episode because we didn't do a story in it, so this will be the 500th story. -Are we sure that we've done one in every other episode? -I don't think we can accurately count the number of actual stories. -No, that is true because there's so many multi-partners and sometimes we double up. -I don't think it's a one-to-one the rest of the time. This is episode whatever it says on the 10. -The one after 500. -Check your DVD insert. -Yeah, I'm I'm gory. I just count here. I think that's all I can do. I can just count. -I thought numbers weren't making sense to you anymore. -They don't, but I can... Do you know what I mean? I can still just kind of be aware of some of them. I know all of the numbers. -They just kind of float around like an assessment street episode. -Yes, I've learned I've learned every number for season two. So if you ask me, if you ask me if I know a number, I can tell you yes. -That's really impressive. -But just on its own. Don't not doing any stuff to it. You know what I mean? -Sure. -Yeah. -But each one on its own I'm more or less on terms with. -I think it's about time that we let numbers just exist and stop expecting work out of them. We should appreciate numbers just as they are. -Time for numbers to go on vacation. -Yeah. Like we keep imposing meaning on numbers. Like this number means I get to eat this week. And that's a lot to put on numbers. And I think we should press. So yeah, season two of what the folklore numbers can just be. -Don't worry about it numbers. -Just chill. -We've got this one. Oh sorry, I just said the number. -I don't know how to navigate that. If you say a number, this is sort of relevant for this and all episodes going forward. If you hear us say a number, just be aware that it might actually be a different number. -Number's are did-o's now. -Just imagine a little asterisk next to every number that says maybe it's a different one. I know we did just count time using a clock. -A couple times because I fucked it up. -A couple times. A couple times. Boy, it is bad when numbers stop meaning things, huh? -Is it bad or is it the path to happiness? -I don't know. I'm feeling both right now. -There's going to be growing pains maybe. -Yeah. -Before you feel true freedom. -I never fully trusted numbers in the first place. -Sure, yeah. -I'm fine to cut them out. -We are acquaintances, numbers and I. I don't like call to hang out with numbers. I just nod at numbers when I see them anywhere. -I get numbers, Facebook feeds occasionally. I see that numbers are up to some fucking hijinks and I do not want to get involved. -Before season two begins, I do have a bit of business that I wanted to address. -Okay. -I know that I am slowly but surely becoming an old man. It is inevitable and I don't like being one of the kind of people who's like kids these days shake head but I got it this time because I read something this weekend that upset me. -It's time to shake your face. -About the use. -Yes. Children on the internet are using AI to send threatening images and videos to each other featuring Mike Myers as the cat in the hat. -Wait. -What? -Sorry, start over. -Children on the internet are creating AI images and videos to threaten one another or their schools or just anything really utilizing the likeness of Mike Myers as the cat in the hat. -Which Mike Myers? -The one that played the cat in the hat in 2003. -So see you think live action cat in the hat? -Yes. -AI generated images to like
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Welcome to Season 2! Our inaugural story is "Cherry the Frog Bride", a Grimm tale that starts silly and becomes increasingly...well...Grimm.