404: Rapunzel and the Golden Ass

Guide to the Unknown

Kristen Anderson and William Rogers

Tv & Film, Arts, Comedy

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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0:00.0	Do you know they make pumpkin spice dude wipes?
0:03.0	Like they for real do. It's not just like a meme that I misunderstood.
0:11.1	Hello, welcome to Guide to the Unknown. I'm Kristen.
0:14.0	And I'm her little brother William.
0:15.8	And this week we are heading back to talk to the brothers Grimm about some of their messed up tales.
0:20.9	Yes, yes, those nasty, dirty, scary, bloody Grimm's fairy tales.
0:25.6	Yeah, we talked about them last in episode 381, and we came back for more.
0:30.9	Couldn't resist.
0:31.9	No.
0:32.2	How could we?
0:33.0	Yeah.
0:34.2	I'm thrilled this week.
0:36.3	We made it our mission to, you've got, I think, a familiar one to people out there, but like looking back at the bloody original Grimm's fairy tales is very fun.
0:45.9	Yeah.
0:46.3	And I made it my mission. I wanted to find a story that I'd never heard of before because the Grimm's fairy tales, like I feel like everybody thinks about like Hansel and Gretel. Yeah, they're the big ones. The big ones. There are also like a gazillion ones that no one's ever heard of. And my thesis statement was essentially like, why not? Yeah. What is it about all the other Grimm's fairy tales that has made them not stand the test of time? Is it possible that they are too gnarly? Sure. I wonder if some are too gnarly and some are maybe not that good. Could it be? Could be, right? That's a good theory. Because there are so many. There have to be some that are like bangers and some that are clunkers.
1:28.2	Bangers and mash.
1:30.0	There's a whole bunch of mash.
1:31.7	Yeah, yeah.
1:32.2	But I think about Grimm's fairy tales is like, you know, this is where like Disney got there start with animation, basically. Like these stories were in the public domain. and Walt Disney shrewdly was just like, well, what if we just made a Snow White story?
1:28.2	Right.
1:28.7	No one's going to stop us.
1:30.0	Yeah.
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