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                    <![CDATA[The Common Tales — Ep 10: The Night I Ate Lamb]]>
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                                            <![CDATA[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 all that waiting is actually for. Plus a song called 'Nobody Here Delivers.']]>
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                    <![CDATA[The Common Tales — Ep 9: Everything Here Outlives Me]]>
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                                            <![CDATA[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 be replaced. Plus a song called 'Built to Be Kept.']]>
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                                            <![CDATA[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 broken take and the one that landed.]]>
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                                            <![CDATA[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 floor of it. Plus the mutated version another bard is singing two towns over — badly.]]>
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                    <![CDATA[The Common Tales — Ep 6: Field Recording: This Happened Today]]>
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                                            <![CDATA[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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                    <![CDATA[The Common Tales — Ep 5: The Man With Two Chairs]]>
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                                            <![CDATA[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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                                            <![CDATA[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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                    <![CDATA[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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                    <![CDATA[The Common Tales — Ep 3: The First Time I Saw It Work]]>
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                                            <![CDATA[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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                    <![CDATA[The Common Tales — Ep 2: The Night Football Started a Bar Fight]]>
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                                            <![CDATA[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 fight song for a team nobody here will ever see.]]>
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                    <![CDATA[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 fight song for a team nobody here will ever see.]]>
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