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The Common Tales
by Mark Oehler
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Episodes
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The Common Tales — Ep 10: The Night I Ate Lamb
A man with a chemistry degree attempts to reconstruct a pizza in a world that has never heard of a tomato. It goes exactly as well as that sounds. Then, the same week, the first lamb Phil ever ate — cooked over four hours by people who had no other way to do it — and the slow discovery of what…
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The Common Tales — Ep 9: Everything Here Outlives Me
A complaint about shoes that gets away from Phil. Four pairs in three years, a cobbler who takes it personally, and a world where a man's boots were his father's and nothing — nothing — gets thrown out. Somewhere in there Phil works out what it means to come from a place that built everything to…
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The Common Tales — Ep 8: Engines in the Dark
The first song Phil ever played here that came from home — a highway anthem about engines, performed for a room where nobody has ever seen a car. It went wrong the first time and then it went very, very right, and Phil still tells himself it was the mead. Featuring one song in two states: the...
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The Common Tales — Ep 7: The Man in the Tower
The first story Phil ever told in this world wasn't his, wasn't true, and had a plot hole he had to perform his way out of live. A man alone in a tower, an army of thieves below him, and a room full of people who had seen plenty of towers and never once a building with people living on every…
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The Common Tales — Ep 6: Field Recording: This Happened Today
Not a story — this one just happened. A few hours ago Phil did something careless and paid for it, and Rurik patched him up with the good potion, the kind you save. Recorded the same night, still a little raw. The field-recording episode.
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The Common Tales — Ep 5: The Man With Two Chairs
The day Phil met Lord Edwyn Cassel — a genuinely good man who liked him on sight, for no reason Phil could name, and never once produced the catch Phil kept waiting for. A story about being welcomed when you don't think you've earned it. Plus a song called 'The Chair by the Fire.'
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The Common Tales — Ep 4: The Day I Met the Bird
The day Phil met Wren — a ranger who out-tracked him, out-shot him, corrected him to the name she chose, and has been everything-but-that to him ever since. A story about the people who get under your guard. Plus a song called 'Every Name But Yours.'
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The Common Tales — Ep 3: The First Time I Saw It Work
The day a clay cup broke on a tavern floor, someone knelt to mend it with their hands, and the last thing Phil was sure about quietly stopped being true. A chemist runs out of explanations. Plus a song about the day the rules broke.
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The Common Tales — Ep 2: The Night Football Started a Bar Fight
Phil tells the Cosset about the night he tried to explain college football to a room full of people who'd never heard of it — and watched a tavern come apart over a game that doesn't exist in this world. A comedy about tribalism, homesickness, and the parts of home you can't put down. Plus a…
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The Common Tales — Ep 1: The Night I Arrived
Phil tells the Cosset about the night everything changed: a dive bar in Youngstown, a stranger in a t-shirt that said THE MAGIC IS REAL, and the argument he lost more completely than anything before or since. The first of the recordings he never meant for anyone to hear.
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