Happy holidays! Merry Christmas, happy Hanukkah, joyous Kwanzaa, and a wonderful Yule to all of you dear listeners! For our final episode of the year, we discuss some of the holiday traditions in our families. We hope the holidays are good to a
Happy Halloween! Here's a special episode for our recently celebrated holiday. Stay tuned this month as we have another birthday episode, and a special episode to celebrate Native American Heritage Month.
If you're going to try to turn your kids against their other parent, you should probably be blunt about your expectations.... We continue October's theme of the creepy, kooky, mysterious, and spooky with a story about fairies and the mess that
As Halloween rapidly approaches, we dive into tales of the creepy, the haunted, and the downright spooky. What better way to start than with a tale of a rolling, cannibalistic head? Lots of talk of blood in this one - enjoy! Website: findingthe
When a random fish starts talking to you, good things are coming your way! This week, we read and discuss a Yoruba folktale. Hospitality, abundance, and the King of the Fish - all here on today's episode!
One brave son of a peach. No really - this kid was born from fruit. We kick off September with a folktale from Japan. This week we discuss food as both energy and bonding, get off topic about some of our favorite childhood movies, and debate th
Imelda takes the lead for part two of our summer read along! This week, we continue exploring The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly. Imelda takes us through chapters 13-23. Email us at [email protected].
Email us at [email protected]. This episode, Lauren discusses The Book of Lost Things, chapters 1-12. Discussion includes fantasy tropes, staples of retellings, and X-rated werewolf origin stories.
Email us at [email protected]! Lots of sound differentiation because we recorded this in different places! This week we talk about famous snakes/wyrms/dragons, and how sometimes success is the best payback.
Today we tell an Anansi story, and in the discussion we talk about hospitality, tricksters who get what's coming to them, and how you probably shouldn't ask any of us to share our food. Join the conversation at findingthefantasticpodcast.com
This month is tricksters! We start off by discussing a tale from Korea, how we sometimes root for the trickster figure, the power of showing people themselves, and #yummyfruit.
In an effort to get our grad school lives together, we're giving you a quick break episode. Rapid fire trivia with everyone's favorite adaptation machine - Disney!
Disclaimer: This episode contains adult content. Today we tell a story from Kenya. This story includes bean-stealing monkeys, fairy godmothers in the Underworld, and magical #relationshipgoals.
Correction: Our email is [email protected] to my computer eating this week's real episode, we've got a bonus episode for you while we regroup. See you in March!
February's theme is death and mourning, and in this episode's story explores the origin of death. We tell the Caddo story of Coyote and the Origin of Death, and discuss the concept of the soul, lessons we can take away from myths, and Death as