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(Sort of) The Story
Two best friends tell each other stories they heard and read that week (and also, you are here!)
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190. The Clip-Clop of a Woman (get this toad an inhaler)
Send us Fan Mail Hello and happy episode 190! This week Max is going to scary us with a spooky tale about a skeleton that's a little weird, and Janey is going…
(Sort of) The Story34. (Sort of) Off Topic: Julie d’Aubigny, La Maupin (literally just a girl)
Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome to another Off Topic! This week, Max is going to tell us all about the French opera singing- dueling- disaster bisexual…
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189. Birds Are SO Uncomplicated (give them a Nintendo!)
Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome to another episode! This week, Janey is going to tell us one of the most unhinged Norse myths we've ever heard, and Max is…
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188. I Am Not a Pickle (let's get dirty!)
Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome to another week of stories! This week, Max is going to give us an origin for a story most of us know very well, and Janey is…
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33. (Sort of) Off Topic: How Juliane Koepcke Survived a Plane Crash in the Amazon
Send us Fan Mail Hello! This week, Janey is going off topic to talk about a woman who not only survived a horrific plane crash at 17, but then also survived 11…
(Sort of) The Story32. (Sort of) Off Topic: New York's Secret Subway
Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to another magical week of Off Topics! Today, Janey is going to tell us the story of a hot nerd who tunneled his way under the…
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187. A Hottie Boom Body (digging for trouser treasures)
Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome back to another episode! Today we're telling two stories that remind of us one fundamental fact of life: Italians are weird…
(Sort of) The Story31. (Sort of) Off Topic: Katy Perry's Biggest Controversies
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to another Off Topic season! This week, Janey is going to deep-dive into all the craziest things mega-pop star Katy Perry has ever…
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186. I Hate Melon Woman (and hot singles in your slippers)
Send us Fan Mail Hello and happy September! This week, Max will tell us a baffling tale about a beautiful woman who looks like a poop tooth (yes, you read that…
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185. Sexy-Neutral (how do I make my bro immortal?)
Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome to the podcast! This week, Janey is going to tell us a sweet little story about a monster that eats moons, and Max is going…
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184. CRAPitalism (a bottomless crone hack)
Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome back from summer break!!! This week, Max is jumping back in with a story about an insane lizard-rock-woman who has a very…
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183. Buckets of Ducats (Buffer the Nut Fairy) from the BONUS EPISODE vault!
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to our last episode before our summer break! This week, we're unlocking one of our favorite bonus episodes, released way back in…
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182. Werewolves and Wendigos (a monster episode!) with Jessica Freeburg and Natalie Fowler
Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome to a monstrously themed episode! Today we are discussing werewolves and wendigos, and finally getting some much-needed…
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181. Bethink About It (short king)
Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome! This week, Janey is going to tell us a shorty-baby-cutie story about a woman who doesn't know how to bargain, and Max is…
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180. Worm It In (just so)
Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome! This week Max is going to tell us a story that may or may not explain something we may or may not need to know (and also…
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179. Certainly Bisexual (I fish for fun!)
Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome! It's another sleep-deprived/low-oxygen episode, so you're welcome (or we're sorry?) This week, Janey is going to tell us…
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178. Lake Sasquatch (I’m completely hare-less)
Send us Fan Mail Hello! This week we're celebrating spring's triumphant return with Max's story about what can only be described as "some sort of lake yeti"…
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177. A Final Earthly Bone (and a tale of flying soft serves)
Send us Fan Mail Cowabunga, everybody! This week, Janey is going to tell us about a disloyal knight with a surprising secret, and Max is going to tell us an…
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176. Moldy Cheese Nick (red flags everywhere) with the You Two Scare Me Podcast!
Send us Fan Mail Hello and happy spoooOOOOookyy March! This week, we're bringing out our scariest Irish tales to impress Andi and Feliz, the hosts of the "You…
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175. Not Everybody Needs to Wang Chung Tonight (Grandpa has anxiety)
Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome to another episode! This week Janey is going to tell us about a man who will go to great lengths to get his boss laid, and…
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174. Revenge of the Stories (silly together forever)
Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome to yet another week of life! This week, Max is going to tell us the dangers of letting a good story languish on the shelf…
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173. Cheat On Your Cannibal Husband (the "Take My Wife" episode)
Send us Fan Mail Hello and happy Thursday! This week, Max is going to tell us a story about a salty sea-scrub whose wife deserves better, and Janey is going to…
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172. I’m a Human, I’m Just Sad (relatable queen)
Send us Fan Mail Hello everyone! This week we're catching ya'll up on some life stuff and saying goodbye to an old friend. Then Max is going to tell us a…
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171. One Jelly Meat Suit (a perma-stank situation) with Liz Gotauco!
Send us Fan Mail HELLO! Today we have an amazing guest, the Cosbrarian herself-- LIZ GOTAUCO! Liz is the creator behind the series "F*cked Up Fairytales with…
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170. I Don't Care That He's Invisible (put that man in a tower!)
Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome to our LAST episode of 2025! On this episode, Max is going to tell us a story about a girl who can see the important things…
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169. Historical Sexting (Don't Wash)
Send us Fan Mail Hello, you dirty birds! On this very special "69" episode, we're doing a deep dive into historical love letters from two very specific…
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168. New England Bean Time (Sai! Sai! Sai!)
Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome back! This week Max is going to tell us about how wicked smart people from New Hampshire are, and Janey is going to tell us…
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167. Knife Brothers (welcome to Chekhov's Hole)
Send us Fan Mail This week, Janey is going to bring us the final story in The Arabian Nights, about a man who just hates this baby... and Max is going to tell…
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166. Old and wrinkly (a poisonous no-no)
Send us Fan Mail Hello and happy Halloween (eve)! Today Janey is going to scare you with a tale about the oldest, wrinkliest woman in the world, and Max is…
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165. Examine Your Handwriting (and learn to play the oboe)
Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome to another episode! This week, Janey is going to teach us a valuable lesson about the importance of writing complex…
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30. (Sort of) Off Topic: Nicholas Cage and his Fabulous Wealth
Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome to the shocking conclusion of this the 2025 Off Topic Season. This week, Max is closing us out with the truly baffling list…
(Sort of) The Story29. (Sort of) Off Topic: The Assassination of Kim Jong Nam
Send us Fan Mail Buckle up, babes! Janey's going to tell us about the most insane assassination you may have never heard of! Let us know if you followed this…
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164. How Much Do Girls Eat? (I refuse to look up golfing)
Send us Fan Mail Hello and happy first episode of October!!!! This week, Max is going to tell us a wonder tale about a sexy bear and the weirdo prince who…
(Sort of) The Story28. (Sort of) Off Topic: Mary Shelley and the Creation of Frankenstein
Send us Fan Mail It's alive! IT'S ALIVE! ("It" being another Off Topic episode!) Welcome back, gals and ghouls! This week, Max is telling us all about the…
(Sort of) The Story27. (Sort of) Off Topic: Scientology, the Trouble with Ghouls
Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome! This week, Janey is going waayyyyy off topic to talk about something that freaked her out so bad, she felt the need to make…
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163. Green and Oddly-Shaped (the Hexmaster General)
Send us Fan Mail On today's episode, Janey is going to tell us about a girl who CHOOSES to look that way (it's not an accident, so stop trying to fix her…
(Sort of) The Story26. (Sort of) Off Topic: The British Premonitions Bureau
Send us Fan Mail Happy 2nd Off Topic! This week, Max is going to tell us about an organization in search of people who could predict disasters. (We have a…
(Sort of) The Story25. (Sort of) Off Topic: Medieval Times
Send us Fan Mail It's open season on topics, and Janey's starting us off with a bunch of facts about the Medieval Times dinner theater that nobody asked for!…
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162. This One’s for the Juans (witches is tricky)
Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome back! This week, Max is going to tell us a Filipino story about a man with questionable reasoning skills, and Janey is going…
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161. Kickin' Boys (keeps the rheumatism away)
Send us Fan Mail On this week's episode, Janey is going to tell a story about a boy-kicker who got the last stomp, and Max is going to tell us about a little…
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160. Disco Hedgehog (let’s wrestle Grandma)
Send us Fan Mail Hello! We're back from summer break and excited to tell you two brand new stories! This week Max is going to tell us about a radioactive…
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159. Latin American Stories RE-RELEASE (Abolish ICE)
Send us Fan Mail Hello! We hope you're having a good summer. Things have been crazy, and we just wanted to pop in from our summer break and leave you all a…
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158. We’re the Hero Twins (why is there only one bed in this cave?)
Send us Fan Mail Hello and happy last-episode-before-summer-break! This week, Max is going to tell us a Mayan tale about two little scamps who learn the…
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157. That's That Me Manchego (this princess has ADHD)
Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome back! On this week's episode, Janey is going to tell us about a helpful little mouse who can do it all, and Max is going to…
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156. The Labyrinth was a Maze (Justice for Ariadne)
Send us Fan Mail Hello and happy Part 2 of our Mythology episode! This week Max is going to tell us the story of Theseus, Ariadne, and the Minotaur! Get ready…
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155. Justice for Medea (everybody wants a hot goth girlfriend until…)
Send us Fan Mail Hello! Our theme for the next two episodes is "mythology", and Janey is kicking us off with the Greek story of Jason and Medea. We're going to…
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154. High Value Beans (here comes my story finger!)
Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome to the end of March! This week, Max is going to change the way we think about Jack and the Beanstalk, and Janey is going to…
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153. Finn McCool and the Gang (and the OG Booktok girlie)
Send us Fan Mail Happy St. Patrick's Day! This week we're telling Irish stories! Janey is going to tell us about a man who runs away to fairy land, and Max is…
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152. I Be Akimbo (Scrimbus Malfoy)
Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to another episode! This week, Max is going to tell us about a man who can't stop touching rocks, and Janey is going to tell us…
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151. Your Tallest, Mustachioed Girlfriend (the most popular girl at the party)
Send us Fan Mail Welcome back, friend! On this episode, we're taking a break from talking to the invisible king to bring you two tales of women in love!…
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150. Flummoxed! (do you speak German?)
Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome to our very special LIVE episode! This week, we told our stories to all the lovely people on our Discord (and only had very…
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149. A Garden of Heads (and an infestation of witches)
Send us Fan Mail On today's episode, Janey is going to tell us about a woman with a deadly bush, and Max is going to give us some tips on how to get rid of…
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148. Bisect, Divide, Sunder ('twas I that set the house ablaze!)
Send us Fan Mail Hello and Happy New Year! We're starting 2025 off strong with Max's tale of the worst boy, and Janey's tale of the best boy! That's right…
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It: Chapter Goo (Holiday Re-Release!)
Send us Fan Mail Hello and happy holidays! Today we're re-releasing a story Max told on episode 106, called "Boneless", from Robert D. San Souci's Short and…
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147. So Big, So Ugly (please tell Gerky to come outside)
Send us Fan Mail Hello and happy almost-holidays, everyone! Today Janey we are so absolutely overwhelmed by our emotions today because Hans Christian Andersen…
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146. Sufficiently Icked (wee-sa babies)
Send us Fan Mail Hello (we're sorry!) On this week's episode, Max is going to tell us possibly the most upsetting story we've ever heard (ick!). Then Janey is…
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145. Hefty Little Apple Baby (Popeye’s spicy 16-year-old sandwich)
Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome to another episode! Today we're drowning our collective sorrows in folklore. Janey is going to tell us about the devil's…
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144. Chekhov’s Man-Bear (this is my girl-tooth)
Send us Fan Mail Happy November everybody! On this week's episode, we're both telling stories about man-bears! In Max's story, we're going to learn the…
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143. Paw Proof (don't be afraid of the park)
Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome to our Halloween episode! This week we're celebrating with the spookiest stories we could find. Janey will remind us all to…