Hello and I'm Lauren Bulgalbaum and today we've got an episode for you about console and Gretel including a reading of said story. Yes it's another food fairy tale it's

been a minute since we've done one of these.

Yeah, we meant to get one together for Alice in Wonderland.

Way back when the quarantine started, we started talking about that that and then it never happened because as it turns

out we're busy and the world is on fire and that was all distracting.

Yes, but we do intend to do that. It's there. It's right there. It's the outline exists.

Oh, yeah, we've done some preliminary casting. I think it's going to be great.

It is, yeah.

But in the meantime, though, we're not doing that when we're doing Hoxel and Gretel.

For Halloween, because as this comes out, hopefully it's Halloween-ish, approximately.

You know, schedules are weird, but that's the goal.

And this is a pretty freaky story.

It is.

It's been adapted into many a horror movie.

Also many a children's story.

And so I love that line. I love that line of like is it fun for kids or is it

gonna just scare the absolute pants off of you yeah that is a fun line but yeah

these are one of our very favorite things to do. So we got to work with some of our excellent coworkers who you'll hear.

Yes. Yes, very, very excited. But I guess we should get to our question.

Hansle and Gretel. What is it?

Well, Hansle and Gretel is a story made famous by the brothers Grimm, aka

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. These two were born in the 1780s in Germany and helped

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