Hello, beloved patrons, and welcome to Nocturnal Transmissions, the fortnightly podcast, blah, blah, blah, blah. You know, sometimes I feel like we just don't cater to the children, nearly enough.

I mean, we provide endless hours of adult-oriented entertainment, but where is the

youngster-friendly content?

Eh?

Surely there must be some source of cheery, harmless, kiddie-friendly stories out there.

We can draw on to entertain this short, but nevertheless important demographic.

Please do excuse this interruption, but we have a brief announcement.

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All right, thank you for your time.

And now, on with the show.

Why didn't I think of it before?

The brothers grim.

Their tales are always so bright, bubbly, and benign.

What could possibly go wrong?

Nocturnal transmissions is proud to present the three snake leaves, courtesy of Jacob

and Wilhelm, the brothers grim. There was once a man who was so poor that he could hardly earn enough to keep himself and his son from starving.

One day the boy said to him,

Dear father, I see you going about every day

"'looking so sad and tired

"'that I am determined to go out into the world

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