Somewhere in the Known Wet — a world of five oceans connected by impossible waterfalls, sailed by fruit, vegetables, and creatures who are all, in their own way, just trying to get on with things — stories are happening that nobody thought to write down.

Tales of the Known Wet fixes that.

The Known Wet is a place that takes itself completely seriously, which is impressive given that its harbourmasters are sea cucumbers, its grandest cities float on a golden ocean where the light is always late afternoon and faintly unsettling, and somewhere in the middle of everything there is a storm that has been going for four hundred years and shows no sign of stopping. Ships ride impossible upward waterfalls daily. Harbourmasters file the paperwork. The world gets on with things.

At the centre of it all — eventually — is Captain Cobsworth: a corn cob, a dented cooking pot hat, a wooden spoon, and an unearned confidence in his own navigation that the ocean has never once managed to shake. But this podcast isn't always about him. The Known Wet is full of people who have their own stories, their own reasons for being where they are, and their own complicated feelings about waterfalls.

Each episode, your Narrator takes you somewhere in this world: a dock at the wrong hour, a city that smells of spice and poor decisions, a ship before its captain arrived, a den beneath the old quarter walls where ceremony and salvage are treated with equal reverence. Short stories. Self-contained. Some funny. Some quietly something else. All of them set in a world that is warm and strange and occasionally very silly.

If you love the wit of Terry Pratchett, the warmth of Studio Ghibli, and stories that treat their characters with genuine affection even when — especially when — those characters are making everything significantly worse for themselves, this is the podcast for you.

No prior knowledge of the world required. New listeners welcome. Start anywhere.

Just find somewhere comfortable to sit and something hot to drink.

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