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Hi, I'm Adam Gidwitz, host of Grimm, Grimmer, Grimmist.

On every episode, we tell a grim fairy tale.

Not the cute, sweet versions of the fairy tales that your children have heard so many times.

No. We tell the real grim fairy tales. They're funny. They're weird. Sometimes they're a little bit

scary. But don't worry. We rate every episode grim, grimmer, or grimist. So you, your child,

your family can choose the episode that's the right level of scary for you.

Tune in to Grim, Grimmer, Grimmist, and our new season, available now.

If you're a people pleaser like me, it might be really hard to say no when somebody

asks for help, but sometimes you get that gut feeling

that something's just a little off. And this story might make you reconsider, always saying yes.

Music. During the COVID-19 pandemic, my friend Julie and I got into roller skating as a hobby. It was something we could do

outdoors, less exhausting than running, and also kind of a challenge. Roller skating had been super

easy when we were children, but now it seemed so much harder. As children, we tripped and fell

all the time, but as adults, every fall can potentially result in an injury. So I struggled a little,

especially with keeping my balance. When autumn and then winter came, we couldn't skate outside

anymore. There wasn't a roller rink in our city because it wasn't that popular of a sport anymore,

and all the places had closed down back in like the 80s. But there was still a small community of roller skaters around.

We connected on Instagram and they invited us to join their weekly free training sessions at a local community center.

Amazing.

It wasn't far from the area where we both lived, just a bus ride of about 15 minutes.

But the area was admittedly kind of sketchy. There were these

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