What The Folklore? - Episode 479: Intorducing "Nary Frog" (The Benevolent Frog, Part 2)

We continue our Journey through "The Benevolent Frog", and, unfortunately, this section DOES include a frog. Its benevolence, however, is up for debate.

Duration: 1h 3m
Broadcast on: 03 Mar 2026
Audio Format: other

We continue our Journey through The Benevolent Frog, and, unfortunately, this section DOES include a frog. Its benevolence, however, is up for debate.

Thank you to Dani for joining us on this particular ride!

Suggested talking points: Slowly Returning to Baby, We're Doin' Shrek, The Raddest Croissant, D'Aulnoy Walked so AO3 Could Run, Counting is Not a Frog Power, Juggling With Punches, All Signs Point to Eaten, A Concentrated Frog-Punch

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You're listening to "What the Folklore", making sense of "Senses Tales". You can support us on Patreon and join our Discord server at patreon.com/wtfolklore. [Music] Hello everyone and welcome to "What the Folklore", making sense of "Senses Tales". I'm your storyteller, Carmen. I think I'm never sure if I'm supposed to jump in or if there's like an announcement that there's like another person jump on in. I'm Danny. Yeah, you should because then I don't have to say anything else. Okay, cool. Nailed it. Excellent. We're back in the Dolnokalips celebrating another year of people not stopping us from talking on the internet. This is, as the title might suggest, I assume, I don't write the titles. This is the second part of the story that we're reading, the benevolent frog. So if you've not listened to the first part, what are you doing here? Go back. Yes, silly. Maybe some people are only in it for act two of anything. If you want to give yourself like a weird, I don't know, pulp fiction version of this, I guess you can do that. Yeah, we don't actually have any control over your choices, so have fun with that. It might be fine to just step into this one right now. We're reading the benevolent frog as Tyler predicted last episode before we began reading it. We have not encountered a frog yet. So we have yonder toad, hithertoad, and now nary frog, which is kind of the absence of frog. So quick recap for those of you who don't remember last week, because that is a problem that I often have. We had a king who likes to make war, but then war showed up at his doorstep, so he plopped his queen into a carriage and sent her off to a difficult to get to Castle, where she wailed a lot until she decided to scheme and make a one-person chariot to get back to him. Except she can't drive chariot super well, so she had a big chariot accident, and now a bulky lioness skin wearing fairy who can also be a lioness has kidnapped her to a grotto that is apparently underground, but also has a mountain in it. The mountain has a stream that is made by the tears of shed by unhappy lovers, and a quick silver lake full of monsters, and there are owls and birds everywhere. She doesn't like it. And that took an hour of airtime, originally, to tell, but that's where we are at. There were still toilets in there somewhere, too, we took a couple of time. There was additional value. We did procrastinate starting, but now we're into business, because it is still the same day that we recorded that episode. We are focused and the whimbus is bearing down on gordy with threatening gnashing of teeth. Bomb cyclone is the phrase that is being used. So we're in a race against time. Before I get started, do any of you three have predictions about what we might encounter in this section of this story? Okay, that we're, oh, maybe a quarter of the way through. That knowledge of hands, I'm going to say still no frog. Honestly, same. I don't think the frog shows up. Yes. Riggle, advisor, and directory are my predictions. What was the first word? Riggle, Riggle, advisor, directory. Just that these words will show up or...

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We continue our Journey through "The Benevolent Frog", and, unfortunately, this section DOES include a frog. Its benevolence, however, is up for debate.