427: Hansel & Gretel & More GRIMM Tales
Guide to the Unknown
Kristen Anderson and William Rogers
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🗓️ 23 January 2026
⏱️ 81 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | They think they hear the sound of an axe, which would be their parents working, but the dad actually tied a branch to a tree for the wind to knock it around to make a sound. |
| 0:08.9 | So it seems like the parents are still doing something while they got the hell out of dodge. |
| 0:12.7 | Smart. |
| 0:13.4 | Smart. |
| 0:18.8 | Hello, welcome to you guys the unknown. I'm Kristen. And I'm her little brother William. And this |
| 0:23.9 | week we are back to crack in open those Grimm's fairy tales, that dusty book, sniffing the book. |
| 0:31.8 | Yes, which I have right here. Yes. Long time guides the unknown listeners will know that as a quote |
| 0:37.4 | from our mom calling us during a live recording because the chat was saying sniff the book because old books smell good. |
| 0:44.9 | And we're talking about some messed up fairy tales. |
| 0:47.6 | Yes. |
| 0:48.5 | I was excited for this. |
| 0:51.3 | I love to read these fairy tales that are purportedly for children, but are very, |
| 0:55.0 | very frightening or violent or... Grim indeed. Grim and, oh yes. It's not just the name of the authors. |
| 1:03.2 | No. It's also the content of the tales. How fortuitous. That is really fortuitous. The brothers |
| 1:09.7 | grim wrote stories that are themselves grim. |
| 1:13.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:13.7 | That's like a publisher's dream. I know. It worked out. Yeah. But so yeah, I've got a couple of |
| 1:19.6 | stories that I looked up. One of them is like, oh my God. Yeah. This is a longie. And I researched |
| 1:26.1 | that one second. It was like, oh no. The first one I looked up was called Goose Girl-huh. And I researched that one second. Yeah. It was like, oh, no. |
| 1:28.7 | The first one I looked up was called Goose Girl. |
| 1:30.6 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:31.2 | And I was like, that sounds silly. I don't know why I chose silly for our show. Splashing around. I leaned into. We didn't over weird things, too. Yeah, that's true. But the second one that I picked, I was just like, holy guacamole. |
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