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90. A Circle of Jerks (we love you, Boo Mama)

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Hello and welcome to our 90th episode!!! Today Max is going to teach us that mother-in-law jokes work in every species, and Janey is going to make us cry our eyes out with a spooky mountain tale about moms! Enjoy!

Janey’s Sources - Boo Mama

The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patricia M. McKissack

Max’s Sources - The Husband of the Rat's Daughter

Andrew Lang's "Brown Fairy Book"

"The Mouse who was to Marry the Sun" - fables of type ATU 2031C, analyzed by D.L. Ashliman

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