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to hear a grim fairy tale? I

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I can't hear you. So let me help you

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decide. On a

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scale of grim, grimmer, and

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grim-ist, this story is grim-er.

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There's a lot of blood, but it's all

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chicken blood. I'm not sure how you feel

2:21

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warn you. If I get

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to feel scared or uncomfortable, this is

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I'm about to join the session. There

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grim fairy tale. So

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are you coming in? Yes. Grim,

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grimmer, grim-ist. Oh,

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it's the boy with the nose. All right. And

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now we should tell a fairy tale. Yes,

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thank goodness. This

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is a story by the Brothers Grimm that I've

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adapted, and I will warn all of

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you. This one has some pretty dark

3:32

moments. Ooh, blood. I

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have a question. Already? I haven't even

3:40

started yet. Well, I'm

3:42

question-y. OK, go ahead. First

3:45

of all, will there be any crying

3:47

involved in us? Will there be any blood

3:49

involved in our souls? And will we have

3:51

to bleach out our minds? You

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may have to bleach out your minds. There

3:56

will be blood, and yeah, there are some sad parts. Yeah,

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yeah, like sad things. Well,

4:00

you'll probably like the story. Like, sad,

4:02

like, move these kinds. Have a

4:05

happy ending. You'll have to

4:07

find out. The tower and

4:09

the flower. Once

4:11

upon a time, there was a queen. And

4:14

all she wanted in the world was... A

4:17

child! A child is

4:19

right. It's always a child. Why

4:21

is it always a child? I

4:24

don't know. Because children

4:28

are loved. So

4:30

the queen wanted a child. Every

4:32

day she went into the garden and prayed for

4:34

one. And finally, one

4:37

day, a dove appeared before her

4:40

and spoke. And the queen was like...

4:43

A talking bird? But

4:45

then she listened to what the dove was saying.

4:48

It said... You shall give

4:50

birth to a baby boy.

4:54

And he will have the power to

4:56

wish for anything he wants. But

4:59

he must wish carefully. For

5:03

he will only have seven

5:05

wishes. I thought it was going

5:07

to be three. I thought it was going to be

5:10

three too, right? Seven is like a pretty good deal. Usually it's

5:12

three. Yeah. The

5:14

queen was overjoyed. And that

5:17

night, during dinner, she told her husband, the

5:19

king, that they would soon have a son.

5:22

And this son would have seven wishes.

5:25

The king wept tears of joy. He

5:27

kept crying and crying and

5:30

crying and crying. He

5:32

was really making a scene. And

5:35

the queen was eventually like... Okay, calm

5:37

down. Stop crying. This

5:41

is a happy thing. And the king was like...

5:44

I know. I just get very emotional.

5:46

And the queen was like... I

5:48

know you do, but this is ridiculous. Well,

5:51

the king made such a commotion that the royal

5:53

cook came and listened at the door as the

5:55

king and queen discussed what the bird had said.

5:59

The cook's name... was Herr Schwein,

6:02

which means... Anyone have a guess

6:04

what that means in German? Herr Schwein? Pig

6:06

butts. You think it means pig

6:08

butts? You're not that

6:10

far off. Herr Schwein means

6:12

Mr. Pig. But

6:16

he wasn't a pig. He was a human cook. That

6:19

is so cute. As Herr

6:21

Schwein listened at the door, he heard the Queen

6:23

tell the King about the seven wishes. And

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he had a very evil idea. Some

6:30

months later, the baby boy was born, and

6:32

he was the light of his parents' lives.

6:35

The Queen took him everywhere she went. She loved

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him so much. One day, she

6:39

took him out to the garden, sat down under

6:41

a tree, and fell asleep with the baby in

6:43

her arms. Well,

6:46

just behind a nearby bush

6:49

stood Herr Schwein. You

6:51

see, he had been following

6:53

the Queen whenever he got the

6:55

chance, waiting for just such a

6:58

moment. Oh, my chance at last.

7:01

Herr Schwein thought to himself. He

7:04

crept up, took the baby boy

7:06

from the sleeping Queen's arms, and

7:08

hid him. Then he

7:11

brought chicken, and he tore the chicken

7:13

apart and spattered the blood on the

7:15

Queen's dress and face. Why

7:18

do they want to think that she

7:21

got, like, murdered? I

7:23

think they want to think that the boy got murdered. The

7:25

Queen didn't wake up. Which is surprising,

7:27

because someone had just thrown chicken blood

7:30

all over her. Anyway, Herr

7:32

Schwein ran to the King, wailing,

7:34

The Queen devoured your child!

7:36

I saw it happen! She

7:38

ate her baby! Rawr! I

7:43

like how he emphasizes on raw, like

7:45

you're supposed to cook a baby and even eat

7:47

it. That's a good point.

7:50

The King couldn't believe it, but

7:52

Herr Schwein brought him to the garden,

7:54

and the King saw the sleeping Queen

7:57

covered in blood and bones in her

7:59

lap looked like

8:01

baby bones. Are they baby bones?

8:03

No, they're chicken bones. The

8:07

king was beside himself with grief. Ah!

8:11

When the queen woke up, she swore she would

8:13

never, could never do such a thing. I

8:16

loved my baby more than anything in the

8:18

world, more than life

8:21

itself. But the evidence was

8:23

all over her clothes and

8:25

their son was nowhere to be found.

8:29

As punishment for her evil deed, the

8:32

king declared that the queen should be

8:34

imprisoned in a tower and

8:36

that the tower should be impenetrable with

8:38

only a teeny tiny window way up

8:40

at the top, just barely big enough

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for a plate of food to pass

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through. The tower

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Herr Schwein ran off with the

11:02

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11:04

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11:06

few years and taught the boy to speak. And

11:09

he taught him never to say

11:11

the words, I wish, unless he,

11:13

Herr Schwein, told him to. Why?

11:16

Probably he didn't want him to

11:18

say, I wish, because

11:21

he didn't want him making any

11:23

dumb or weird wishes.

11:27

I think that's right. Like if he said, I

11:29

wish to be with my mother

11:31

or father, he would

11:34

like teleport. Oh,

11:36

yeah, exactly. And then he'd lose him. Finally,

11:38

when the boy was old enough that Herr

11:40

Schwein was sure he could make the wish

11:42

just right without any mistakes, he told the

11:45

boy to say, I wish for

11:47

a majestic castle stocked with

11:49

everything a majestic castle should

11:51

have, including a kitchen that

11:53

is always full of delicious

11:55

food. And so the

11:58

boy did. I wish.

12:00

for a majestic castle. Stocked

12:03

with everything a majestic castle

12:05

should have, including

12:08

a kitchen that is

12:10

always full of delicious food.

12:13

And instantly, Hirschwein and the boy were

12:15

living in a splendid castle with great

12:17

rooms and fluffy beds and a kitchen

12:20

that was always stocked with delicious food.

12:23

All right, that was the boy's first wish. How

12:26

many wishes does he have left? Six. Hirschwein

12:29

and the boy lived in that castle for

12:32

a few years more, and the boy had

12:34

no idea what his own sad story was.

12:37

But he did soon realize that he

12:39

was lonely, because Hirschwein never let him

12:41

go anywhere or meet anyone. The

12:44

boy didn't know why. It

12:46

was because people might recognize him.

12:49

Hirschwein feared that people would recognize the

12:51

lost prince, but of course, he didn't

12:53

tell the boy that. So being stuck

12:56

in the castle all day made the prince

12:58

lonely. So lonely, in

13:00

fact, that one day he wished he

13:02

had a friend. Oh,

13:05

I wish I had a friend. No

13:08

sooner had he said these words than

13:10

a bright, smiling girl just his age

13:12

appeared beside him, and instantly they became

13:14

the best of friends. How

13:17

many wishes does he have now? Five. He

13:21

made two, but he had five left.

13:24

And everything should have been fine and gone

13:26

on just that way. The boy

13:28

and his best friend were happy, and Hirschwein was

13:30

happy too, living in his grand palace with all

13:33

the food he could ever want. At

13:35

least, Hirschwein was happy for

13:38

a while. You

13:40

see, guilt has a way

13:42

of staying silent for only so long.

13:45

After a time, like a rat, guilt

13:48

will gnaw its way into your cellar,

13:51

and then your kitchen, and then

13:53

your attic, until it is running around

13:55

in every room of your house. This

13:58

is what happened to Hirschwein. Hirschfein. His

14:01

guilt gnawed away at him, until it was

14:03

running through his mind like a rat under

14:05

the floorboards. And, as

14:07

guilt will so often do, it

14:10

turned to fear. Hirschfein

14:13

realized, H-what if,

14:16

heaven forbid, the boy finds out

14:18

what I've done? With

14:20

his wishing power, the boy could

14:22

instantly wish me dead. It will

14:25

be far safer to do away with

14:27

the boy. A.K.A.

14:30

Kill. Kill him. Muahahaha.

14:35

Do the stabu stabu. But

14:38

Hirschfein didn't dare do it himself. What

14:40

if he realizes what I'm up to? Oh no,

14:43

that would go badly for me. Very,

14:45

very badly. Oh, but

14:48

what if? That

14:51

afternoon, Hirschfein took the boy's

14:53

best friend aside. And

14:55

he said to her, Tonight when the

14:57

boy is sleeping, go

14:59

into his bedroom and plunge this knife

15:02

into his heart.

15:04

Then bring me his tongue and

15:06

his eyeballs, or

15:08

else I will do the same to you. Okay,

15:11

now that's weird. Hahahaha. And

15:14

that's like blackmail. Yeah. I

15:16

didn't like doing the stab stab, but

15:19

I didn't expect like bringing his eyeballs

15:21

and his tongue and his leg. Maybe

15:24

so that he can do his power. Oh,

15:27

that's interesting. Maybe he could use his tongue to

15:29

make the wishes. That had not occurred to me.

15:31

Like move his tongue. Just put

15:33

it in his mouth and be like, ahh, what the

15:36

hell. That's really weird.

15:40

The girl didn't want to kill her best

15:43

friend, but she was

15:45

terrified of Hirschfein. So,

15:47

crying, she took the knife Hirschfein

15:49

had given her. That

15:52

night, the girl went quietly into

15:54

the boy's room and

15:56

closed the door behind her. Then

16:00

she returned to Herr Schwein with

16:03

blood on her hands. Have you

16:05

done it? Herr Schwein asked, terrified

16:07

and excited. The girl

16:10

nodded. But where are the eyeballs

16:13

and tongue? Come see. Was

16:15

all the girl said. And

16:17

she led Herr Schwein to the boy's room. The

16:20

boy's bed was a bloody mess. The

16:24

girl pointed to a plate with a bloody

16:26

knife on it and two eyeballs and

16:28

a tongue. There. I

16:31

think that she like brought him the

16:33

tongue and eyeballs of something else, like

16:35

an animal or something. Yeah, like

16:38

a chicken. A chicken. Herr

16:41

Schwein looked at the two eyeballs and the tongue.

16:45

And he saw that they were

16:47

way too small to be the

16:49

boy's eyes and tongue. These, these

16:51

are from a chicken. Cried Herr

16:53

Schwein. Chicken. Parma.

16:57

Did you think you could fool me

16:59

with chicken parts? I

17:02

know all about dead chickens. You'll

17:04

pay for this with your

17:06

life. And he grabbed the

17:09

bloody knife and raised it above his

17:11

head. At just

17:13

that moment, the boy threw back the

17:15

covers on his bed. He

17:17

cried. You big jerk. Why

17:19

did you want me dead? And Herr Schwein

17:21

said, What do you mean why? Because

17:24

when I found out you had wishing power,

17:26

I stole you from your parents, the

17:28

king and queen. Oops. I

17:31

probably shouldn't have said that. Well,

17:37

for a moment, the boy was stunned.

17:40

But then he became very angry.

17:42

Schwein is too good for you.

17:44

He bellowed. What does Schwein mean

17:46

again? Schwein

17:49

is too good for you. I

17:51

wish that you were a poodle. Wait,

17:58

is poodle really worse than a pig? I don't know. No.

18:02

Yes. Poodles are much worse.

18:05

In fact, I wish

18:07

that you were a poodle that

18:09

ate burning coals until flames came

18:12

spewing out of your... Butt.

18:14

Butt. Your butt.

18:16

Whoa, whoa, whoa. What? Butt?

18:20

No. Mouth! What is

18:22

wrong with you? Geez. Geez.

18:24

Geez. He could be a rocket

18:26

ship. All right. That's enough. The

18:30

boy wished that Hirschfein would become a

18:32

poodle and eat burning coals until flames

18:35

came out of his mouth. In

18:37

fact, I wish that you

18:39

were a poodle that ate burning

18:42

coals until flames came spewing out

18:44

of your mouth. And

18:46

instantly Hirschfein became hair poodle, and

18:49

burning coals appeared and hair poodle

18:51

ate them until flames came out

18:53

of his mouth. He was

18:55

like burping flames. But he

18:57

didn't die. He just had serious

18:59

flaming indigestion. Oh, whoa. Okay. Wish

19:02

check. How many wishes

19:04

are left? Four. Four?

19:07

Four? Four. So

19:10

he wished for a friend. He

19:12

wished for something before that, too,

19:14

I think. The castle. And

19:17

then, yeah, he wished that he

19:20

was a poodle that ate burning

19:22

coals and spit it out in

19:24

his butt. No, his mouth.

19:27

His butt. The

19:31

boy put a golden collar around her poodle's

19:33

neck. Then he thanked the girl

19:35

for saving his life. You see,

19:37

the whole chicken thing had been her idea.

19:40

That was a good idea. Thanks. No,

19:43

thank you. Next, the boy

19:45

announced, we've got to go to the king and

19:47

the queen. They're my parents. But

19:49

the girl said, I don't think I can

19:51

go. What?

19:53

But we're best friends. You've got to

19:56

come with me. I need you. But

19:58

the girl explained. gone anywhere

20:00

since you wished me into being. I've

20:03

never left the castle. I've never

20:05

even met anyone other than you

20:07

and Hish Line. I mean, here,

20:10

poodle. I can't. I

20:13

just can't. You see,

20:15

a sudden, crippling shyness had overcome the

20:17

girl. Do any of you ever get

20:19

shy? I

20:22

used to. Yeah, you used to. I

20:24

get shy all the time because

20:26

sometimes I act too introverted towards

20:28

people that I don't know. Like,

20:32

way too introverted, like hiding

20:34

behind my mom introverted. Really?

20:37

Yeah. What does it feel like inside when

20:39

you want to do that? Mom, please

20:41

give me a hug. Yeah.

20:44

As much as the boy begged his best friend

20:46

to come, she insisted that she just could not

20:48

face meeting new people. But

20:51

she also could not bear to be apart from

20:53

her only friend in the whole world. So,

20:56

at last, she came up

20:58

with a plan. Why don't you wish

21:00

me into a flower? Then

21:02

you can carry me with you wherever you go.

21:06

And when we come back home, you can wish

21:08

me back into human form again. Besides,

21:11

I've always wondered what it feels like to be

21:13

a beautiful flower. Well, the boy

21:16

was nervous about this plan. But

21:18

the girl reassured him. And at

21:20

last, he wished his best friend into

21:22

a flower. Wow, what

21:25

does sunlight taste like? Radiation

21:27

and fire. All

21:30

right, wish check. Three wishes left.

21:33

And then there's going to be two, and then

21:36

he's going to do something stupid with them. Let's

21:39

find out. And then what

21:41

if he doesn't have enough wishes left to make

21:43

her back into a human? So,

21:46

the boy placed his best friend into the buttonhole of

21:49

his coat. And set out toward

21:51

the palace at the heart of the kingdom,

21:53

leading on a golden chain, a poodle who

21:55

burped flames. So

24:00

many happy tears were being shed through the

24:02

tiny window that you'd have thought it was

24:04

raining inside the tower. My

24:07

boy. The boy and the queen

24:09

told each other their stories until they

24:11

both understood everything that had happened. I

24:14

will go to the king now and get him

24:16

to release you and we shall be

24:18

a happy family again. Cried the

24:20

boy, but the queen replied

24:22

the king sees no one. I

24:25

fear he will not see you even if you

24:27

claim to be his son. He

24:30

has become cruel in his sorrow and

24:32

grief. Then I wish

24:34

to be a wealthy duke from a

24:36

faraway land. Now he

24:38

will see me. Suddenly he had a

24:41

fancy hat, fancy boots, and the pink flower

24:43

in a buttonhole of a new fancy jacket.

24:46

The queen said, Uh, you know you

24:48

only get seven wishes for your whole life,

24:50

right? What? No

24:52

one told me that. How

24:55

many times have you wished for something? The

24:58

boy did some quick calculations on his

25:00

fingers. Uh, six?

25:03

Yeah, this guy is really wasting his

25:05

wishes. Wish count. One.

25:09

He only has one wish left. And

25:11

if he doesn't wish for his friend

25:13

to turn back, then um, then...

25:16

She's stuck. Yeah. When

25:22

the boy, now dressed as a fancy duke,

25:24

presented himself to the guards of the castle,

25:26

he demanded to dine with the king. If

25:29

the king does not dine with me, there

25:31

will surely be war between our lands.

25:34

The king, upon receiving this

25:36

strange and somewhat threatening request,

25:38

agreed. So

25:43

that evening, the boy, disguised as a wealthy

25:45

duke with a pink flower in his buttonhole,

25:48

was seated beside the grumpy king at the banquet

25:50

table. In the middle

25:52

of the feast, the boy turned to his

25:54

father, the king, and said, it's

25:56

really a shame that we sit here

25:58

feasting while the... A queen is starving

26:00

to death in that tower. A gasp

26:03

ran down the great table. The

26:07

king turned as red as chicken blood.

26:10

How dare you mention

26:12

that monster? No

26:14

one may speak of her. Why

26:16

not? Asked the boy innocently. Why

26:19

not? She killed and

26:22

devoured our beloved son. Are

26:24

you sure? Said the boy. He

26:27

paused. Then he said. Because

26:29

I'm sitting right here. A

26:31

gasp. And

26:33

the boy told the king and all the

26:35

court what had really happened. And

26:37

about his wishing power. And he showed them

26:39

the poodle. He yanked on the

26:42

chain. And the former Herr Schwein, now Herr

26:44

Poodle, spewed fire from his mouth. His butt.

26:47

Or that. Well, the king wept

26:49

even more tears than the queen had. Because

26:51

we've established that he's a crier, right? Yeah.

26:54

And his tears were both guilty and

26:56

happy. Guilty because the queen was

26:58

innocent and he'd locked her up. But happy

27:01

because the queen was innocent. And his son

27:03

was alive. When the

27:05

boy finally calmed the king down, he encouraged

27:07

him to go and release the queen from

27:09

the tower right away. The

27:12

king froze. But I

27:15

can't. The tower

27:17

has no door. And it

27:20

is indestructible. But

27:22

surely you can just wish

27:24

her out. Yes. Said the

27:26

boy. And

27:28

he was about to. When he

27:31

stopped. No way. Oh

27:33

no. Oh no. Oh no. The

27:36

boy remembered the flower in his

27:38

buttonhole and that he had only

27:40

one wish left. And

27:43

the boy did not know what to

27:45

do. What would you do? I

27:48

feel like I would choose a flower because he

27:50

was the one who turned the flower and promised. And

27:55

he promised. I think since he

27:58

probably loves his mom. and

28:01

he loves his friend as a friend,

28:04

then just say, I wish that

28:06

everybody I love was free. The

28:09

boy thought, and he thought, and

28:12

he thought, his mother or his

28:15

best friend. And he

28:17

could not choose. So

28:20

he did the only thing he could think of to do, ask

28:23

his mother. The

28:27

boy climbed the tall ladder, and

28:29

with sorrow in his stomach and worry

28:31

in his throat, he asked his mother

28:33

what he should do. She

28:36

thought about it for exactly four

28:39

seconds. One, two, three,

28:41

four. And then she said,

28:44

All I have ever wanted is a

28:46

child who would grow and live and

28:48

be happy. And

28:50

now here you are, and you

28:52

have a best friend, a bright, smiling,

28:54

faithful best friend who risked her own

28:56

life to save yours. I

28:59

want you to live, son. It's all

29:01

I've ever wanted. Between the

29:03

tower and the flower, choose

29:05

the flower. No. Check

29:09

the doors, pal. There's no doors.

29:12

Well, the queen had spoken,

29:15

and she was his mother. On

29:18

the other hand, she was his

29:20

mother. He looked down

29:22

at the flower and into

29:25

the tower. He took a deep breath,

29:28

and he said, I

29:30

wish that everyone

29:33

I love was free. And

29:35

so they were. The

29:39

tower very slowly sank into the

29:41

earth, and the queen and

29:43

the boy were left standing on a bare patch of

29:45

grass where the tower had been. And

29:48

just behind the boy, a

29:50

small voice said, Hi there. It

29:53

was his best friend. No

29:56

longer a flower, but back in her true

29:58

form. The queen

30:00

embraced her son and said, How

30:03

did you think of that? And

30:05

the boy said, I don't know. It

30:08

was like I heard a little voice in my ear.

30:12

I realized between the tower and

30:14

the flower, I

30:16

had to choose both. The

30:19

boy introduced his friend to his mother and

30:22

the girl's shyness slowly evaporated.

30:25

They talked for a long time. Then

30:28

the king arrived and he fell to his

30:30

knees and begged the queen's forgiveness. I'm

30:33

so sorry I didn't trust

30:35

you. I'm

30:37

so, so sorry. And he

30:39

cried a lot. Like

30:42

a lot, a lot. It was

30:44

really ridiculous. When

30:46

he finally stopped crying, a great celebration

30:48

was held in the kingdom and they

30:50

were all glad at last. Except

30:53

for her poodle. He kept

30:56

burping flames. But

30:58

everyone else lived happily ever after.

31:02

The end. Oh,

31:05

they lived grimmer after after. Of

31:08

course, where is this taking place? It

31:11

is taking place once upon a time. Where?

31:14

Yeah, that's also a place. I don't

31:16

think so. No? Grim

31:22

Grimmer Grimist is a pinna

31:24

original production created, written, and

31:26

narrated by me, Adam Gidwitz.

31:28

Author of A Tale Dark

31:30

and Grim. Co-written by Allie

31:32

Horn. Produced and edited by

31:34

Ilana Milner. Casting by Paula

31:36

Gaiman Wilson. Voice direction by

31:38

Ilana Milner and Paula Gaiman

31:40

Wilson. Sound design and mixing

31:42

by Beat Street NYC. Executive

31:44

produced by Anne Richards. Production

31:46

support by Ashley Beecher and

31:48

Thaddeus Dankwa. Characters voiced by

31:50

Arlando Smith, Billy Bob Thompson,

31:53

Carolina Dove, Colin Ryan, Erica

31:55

Schroeder, Jason Udall, Kaitlyn Clinton,

31:57

Marion Tora, Michael Krah. Crouch,

32:00

Rob Moreira, Samantha Cooper, and Walker

32:02

Breeland. Special thanks to all

32:05

the kids who joined us for our storytelling

32:07

sessions. You guys are awesome. The

32:18

Boar Night, a fantasy musical podcast suitable

32:20

for all ages. Brought to you

32:22

by Foolin' Scholar Productions. Follow

32:25

Nathaniel the Boar Night, and the friends he

32:27

meets along his journey as he's bitten by

32:29

a wereman. And must break the curse before

32:31

the full moon. Listen to The Boar Night

32:33

wherever you get your podcasts, or learn more

32:35

at foolinscholar.com.