Old Wives
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
The Gender Neutral Horse Milk Hotel
06 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today we're in Romania, where a young princess unknowingly embarks on a never-ending adventure. With the help of her horse Sunbeam, she'll outwit her ...
House of Seven Sufjans
29 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today we're in Italy attending a 17th century gender reveal party, as seven sons demand their mother produce a sister for them. The gender reveal goes...
She Blinded Me (With Lions)
22 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're in Bavaria to meet a giant and his stepson Hans. When Hans finds an enchanted sash that makes him strong, his parents get suspicious a...
The Opposite of Snakes
15 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We're in India today to hear about some small dumb animals working together and being friends. A standard issue Human Son buys a cat, a dog, and a sna...
The Show-Me Kingdom
08 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We're in Scotland this week for a bizarre Upstairs, Downstairs-style caper complete with pratfalls and prop humor. Meet the king's bard, who is hell-b...
The Secret of HIMBO
01 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We're in Hungary this week to meet a lad with a curious appendage hanging from his side and a secret he won't tell. Despite kings threatening him, wom...
The Four Olive Workweek
25 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We're in Turkey today to meet a woodcutter and his wife. He's content with a humble life, but she sees more potential in him. She pushes him to be a s...
Sister Golden Hair Surprise
18 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Greetings from the Slavic lands, where we meet The Maid with the Hair of Gold, a titular woman with no speaking lines whatsoever. Lowly servant George...
WAP (Wet Ass Princess)
11 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today we visit the Celts to discuss The Black Horse, a tale of The Youngest Son and his exploits in the Kingdom Under Waves. The Youngest Son starts h...
Bowl for Initiative
04 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In Brazil this week, a bowl-maker is deeply distressed after his three daughters have been cruelly *checks notes* traded for money by *checks notes ag...
22 Short Films About Russia
28 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A devil, a warlock, a soldier, and a fiddler walk into Russia's unluckiest wedding. The fiddler plays while the devil waits, and the soldier and the w...
Bet Your Bottom Biscuit
21 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It is Tuesday, we are in Russia, and hell is empty because all the devils are in an abandoned castle near the tavern. A retired soldier may have what ...
Lars and the Royal Girl
14 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today's story is about a piece of paper and a little man named Lars who's here to help you do rich guy stuff. After a cottage transforms into a castle...
Fish & Chicks, or, The Some Wizard and the Sea
07 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A mermaid queen grants our Fish Heroine magical abilities, but she must batter herself to access them. The queen sends her to confishcate a crown from...
Socialized Veterinarianism
30 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we meet Ferko, the world's prettiest son, as he scrambles to outrun his older meaner brothers. Lost and wounded, Ferko overhears some gossi...
St. John's Warp
24 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Happy St. John's Eve, listeners! We're in Ukraine this week for a get-rich-quick scheme gone terribly wrong. On the only night of the year when the fe...
Two Bad Neighbors
16 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're in Naples to visit two houses, each with seven children, one with only sons and one with only daughters. As their rivalry spurs a race...
Enormous Woodpecker Lady? Haven't Heard That Name in Years
09 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
When the thing you want the most—since your very birth—finally comes to you, will you even notice? Will you stop to feel it, to know it? Or will i...
Every Good Boy Doesn't Fear
02 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week in Iceland, we meet a good boy who's afraid of nothing. He lives in his haunted house, simmering his mutton soup for ghosts. He makes the be...
Peik's Pique
26 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the fjelds of Norway this week, Casey and Amy meet a cheeky twin named Peik, who is attempting to prank his way up the social ladder. Unfortunately...
Some David That I Used to Know
19 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a young man coming of age must be in want of a boat. When this week's Large Adult Son David Cotterson fina...
Saint Flavorburg, Russia
12 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we try to imagine a world without salt. Dishes are tasteless. Exfoliants are all but useless. When a cocky young merchant Ivan and his drun...
Untitled Pigeon Episode
05 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we're in Old Timey Romania to follow a pigeon into the wild unknown. Is the pigeon an insomniac hallucination? Or is it a soothsayer? Perha...
The Queen with Four Stomachs
28 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
WE ARE BACK. This week, we're in Armenia, where we'll meet a second-born son with such Big King Energy that he's the one handing out magical items to ...
Happy Wifes, Happy Life
14 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today we travel to Afghanistan to meet Olad, a lovable scamp trying to follow his dreams (literally). When the king's daughter mistakes him for her pa...
We Have Always Imagined the Castle
07 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today on Old Wives, we're trapped in a castle of our own minds. One dumb kid's first internship goes south fast, and a slow striptease toward destiny ...
Aase Get Your Goose
31 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today, we discuss a skeptical prince, a primitive tinder profile, and a magic floor tile that does background checks as we head to Norway to meet Aase...
She's Miss United Snakes
24 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
To Spain, and to Doña Pepa, a woman so singularly mysterious and intimidating that the whole town won't stop talking about her. We discuss a looming ...
My Name Is Earl, Jr.
17 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Join us in Ireland, where Casey recounts The Earl's Son from the Sea, a harrowing tale of stalking and familial curses. A lonely girl hears a harp by ...
I Wanna Dance with Somebody
10 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're in Czechoslovakia, where Amy introduces us to Katcha, a woman just trying to have it all. She works hard, has her own money, enjoys an...
Lenny's Popular Gentleman's Magazine
03 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week, what starts as a simple tale of love interrupted escalates as Casey takes us through three iterations, culminating in some sort of All Hall...
The Witchcomber
25 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Amy and Casey head way down under the ground to find a spinning hut on chicken legs in Amy's latest installment of Love Isn't Blind: An Ant...
Ol' Green Eyes and the Shoemaker Duo
18 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Amy and Casey got together on Valentine's Day to dunk on r/marriage for this week's episode. These are their stories. Also they're the stories of a co...
Say Yes To Three Dress
11 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Amy presents a double-header of True Science Facts about The Sea. From Brazil, we have a little princess with a big sea monster as a best f...
Miller, Tailor, Soldier, Bye!
04 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week we journey to Bavaria to join a soldier, a miller, and a tailor as they stumble upon a hidden castle filled with dancing goats and cats. Why...
She's a Killer Queen
28 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The new queen is not what was promised. She's dull and ignorant, and for some reason she keeps eyeballs in her pockets, what's that about? The king pr...
Doun by wor a' in bogs
21 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we have a 70s concept album of a story for you: when the moon disappears, where does it go? Casey takes us deep into the bogs of a faraway ...
Yonder Be My Wife
14 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Amy takes us on a whirlwind journey to Norwegia on this week's quest for a literal dream wife. Featuring not one but TWO sets of three trials, no fewe...
Oppositional Defiant Disorder
07 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week, join us for the heir-bowl of the decade, a three-brother amazing race for half a kingdom and a golden wife. We'll follow a certain youngest...
We Need to Talk About Heaven
31 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Goblin Market is primarily a story about getting very horny for various fruits, told in verse, proving once and for all that applying poetry is th...
Go Eat Your Frog Sandwich
24 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Silesia is a tiny mountain pass in central Europe comprising Poland, Germany, and the Czech Republic, and you've never heard of it which is fine. In t...
Law & Order: Goat Crimes
17 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
What's it like to have a child made of snow? There are a few schools of thought, but, as usual in the world of fairy tales, none of them end well for ...
The Varsity Blues Effect
10 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Meow, meow! Meet Lady Kitty. She lives in a weird castle and she wants you to beat her with a switch every day, but she makes a great cable knit and k...
Call Mr. Plow
03 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It's officially Christmas, so let's talk about Jack Frost. More specifically, let's talk about the girl whose bad dad leaves her in the snow in the wo...
Just Get a New Hen
26 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week's story is about a hen who disappears. Casey and Amy follow three sisters down into a mountain to find it—down because the mountain has a ...
Someday My Prince Won't Come
19 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we look at The Necklace of Princess Fiorimonde and the beautiful beads that keep appearing on it as if by magic. She's no ordinary princess...
Stay Gold, Pony Boy
12 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we journey to Slovakia to meet Janko, his 11 brothers, and some boiling milk. We learn that when your bossy horse starts issuing commands, ...
Little Master Thom Glumb
05 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we tackle misery. No, not the feeling you have every time you log into Twitter, the literal personification of Misery, a tiny scraggly Russ...
A Mooncusser in Old Ipswich Town
29 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Spooky season continues! This week, Amy and Casey try not to say 'um' as they explore the strange shores and cursed land pirates of Old Ipswich Town, ...
Classic Hackelberg
22 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Let's get spooky: Amy and Casey talk headless horsepeople—the one who terrorized sad boy Ichabod, the one in Ireland with the corpse cart, and the o...
The Two-Column Problem
15 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Who is the King of the Animals? No, but seriously, what's his deal? This week, Amy and Casey talk about a baffling and surprisingly fragile king with ...
Neither Wife Nor Woman Be
08 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
For episode 1, Amy and Casey look at Sif, wife of Thor, and sister-in-law to Untitled Norse God Loki (this is an untitled goose joke and if it doesnt'...