Sherlock Says

Well, we did the con and it was fun, but we failed to record the audio correctly (we tried!) so this was what we got. It's going up for archival and schedule keeping purposes, but it's borderline unlistenable so don't feel the need to push through if it makes your ears bleed. Speaking of schedules, the aforesaid con has upset schedules! We'll be pushing our next episode back a...

Welcome back to Sherlock Says! This week, Ansel and Rachael are rejoined by friend of the pod Rob Ward to discuss The Adventure of the Priory School , a short story about estranged relations between fathers and sons that seems....... a bit familiar? Arthur? Do you read these stories back to yourself at all? Check out Rob's stuff!  https://www.robwardcreative.com/ Contact the pod! Linktree at:...

Welcome back to Sherlock Says! In this episode, Rachael and Ansel are rejoined by friend of the pod John Bode to re-enter they Meyerverse with the 1976 film adaptation of The Seven Per Cent Solution . Get ready for cocaine, new and disappointing racism, and the most intelligent horses in the world - but watch out! Come see Rachael in King John here! Contact the pod! Linktree at: https://linktr.ee/...

Time to pop the poppers and open the weird confetti dispenser ball things, because it's our centenary episode of Sherlock Says! This week, Ansel and Rachael are joined by the Artistic Director of the Walking Shadow Theatre Company John Heimbuch to discuss an all-time favorite Holmes story,  The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton . Which is named ambiguously because he doesn't have a...

Welcome back to Sherlock Says! This week, your hosts Rachael and Ansel and guest Bridget Foy continue their discussion of season 1 of Young Sherlock  except it really should have been about Moriarty instead. Check out Bridget's stuff at Thin Air Theater: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61550913847535 Contact the pod! Linktree at: https://linktr.ee/sherlocksayspod?fbclid=PAAaalIOau9IFl...

Welcome back to Sherlock Says! This week, your hosts Rachael and Ansel are joined by Twin Cities thespian Bridget Foy to dive back into the Richieverse with a viewing of season 1 of Young Sherlock . Honestly? It's kinda just a less interesting Moriarty the Patriot. Check out Bridget's stuff at Thin Air Theater: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61550913847535 Contact the pod! Linkt...

Welcome back to our regularly scheduled programming! This week, your hosts Ansel and Rachael return with a vengeance to the canon Sherlock Holmes with his own grand return in  The Adventure of the Empty House ! In this, they are joined by all-around thespian extraordinaire Zoe Rose Jennings! Topics include how not to reveal you faked your death to your boyfriend, the improbability or lackthereof o...

Continuing where the last episode left off, Rachael and Ansel are joined by friend of the pod Elena Stabile to conclude discussion of  The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King. We talked about the creepy groomer stuff a lot in part 1, so this one focuses on all the other ways it hasn't aged very well. Content warning: Grooming, pedophilia, age gap, everything that comes along with al...

Welcome back to Sherlock Says! This week, Ansel and Rachael are joined by local thespian and friend of the pod Elena Stabile to talk about the 1994 Holmes fanfiction novel  The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King. And uh. Holmes grooms a child in this one. So. That's gonna be most of what they talk about. Content warning: Grooming, pedophilia, age gap, everything that comes along wi...

Listen. Stay with us on this one. This week, Rachael and Ansel are joined by local actor Robb Krueger to talk about George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion and its musical adaptation My Fair Lady , neither of which has anything to do with Sherlock Holmes. ... or do they? Contact the pod! Linktree at: https://linktr.ee/sherlocksayspod?fbclid=PAAaalIOau9IFlX3ixKFo3lsvmq6U1pYn8m3cf7N6aOqkqUGCljCO0R...

Welcome back to Sherlock Says! This week, Rachael and Ansel are joined by Denzel Belin to discuss the 1970 film The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes , a film in which Holmes plainly states he's gay for Watson. Sound too good to be true, shippers? Well... kinda yeah, but still, listen in for a fun romp. There's a Loch Ness Monster in it, okay? Editor's Note: the audio for this one is...

Welcome back from a longer break than we, Sherlock Says , anticipated! Your hosts Ansel and Rachael return with a vengeance to play the Frogwares video game Sherlock Holmes: Year One , a video game mostly notable for an unnecessary open world, a dumb ghost companion, and the time you dress up a balloon as a sexy lady elephant in order to lure a different elephant into his execution by hanging. At...

Look out, Sherlock Says is going back to the Holmes at 3 AM for more Hound. This time, it's the Granada version with Our Boy Jeremy. Unfortunately, they didn't have the juice this time, but we have an idea who might... NOTE: Sherlock Says is going on a brief holiday break after this episode! We'll be back in mid-to-late January with an episode about the Frogwares game Sherlock Holme...

Damn, we might have an all-new highest scorer on the HOUND scale, displacing the previous champion, the inimitable [DATA NOT FOUND]. Sherlock Says with Rachael and Ansel is back with friend of the pod John Bode to finish discussing  The Seven-Per-Cent Solution by Nicholas Meyer. Contact the pod! Linktree at: https://linktr.ee/sherlocksayspod?fbclid=PAAaalIOau9IFlX3ixKFo3lsvmq6U1pYn8m3cf7N6aOqkqUGC...

Hold your horses on those cocaine-bottles, folks, it's time for Sherlock Says! This week, your hosts Ansel and Rachael are joined by friend of the pod John Bode to discuss The Seven-Per-Cent Solution by Nicholas Meyer! It's the book brave enough to ask the big questions, like "what if the Final Problem was actually written as a cover for Holmes going into addiction therapy with Sigm...

Welcome back to Sherlock Says! This week, your hosts Rachael and Ansel read Roger Zelazny's novel, A Night in the Lonesome October , a delightfully Halloweeny tale of magical mystery narrated by [checks notes] Jack the Ripper's dog? Contact the pod! Linktree at: https://linktr.ee/sherlocksayspod?fbclid=PAAaalIOau9IFlX3ixKFo3lsvmq6U1pYn8m3cf7N6aOqkqUGCljCO0R00KZ3E 

How come this SHERLOCK HOLMES  show has a HELLMOUTH in it Come see Rachael in The Neverland at the Twin Cities Horror Fest! https://tix.gobo.show/events/event/KYdyasvA1wtk7nBTKlVQ Contact the pod! Linktree at: https://linktr.ee/sherlocksayspod?fbclid=PAAaalIOau9IFlX3ixKFo3lsvmq6U1pYn8m3cf7N6aOqkqUGCljCO0R00KZ3E 

Listen, you batch of street ruffians hanging out on the stoop across from this podcast. I'm going to blackmail you into a job: listening to this week's Sherlock Says . Rachael and Ansel are here discussing The Irregulars , or, what it would be like if the creative teams behind Disney's Descendants and that one horrible TV adaptation of Discworld's City Watch series did a fusion...

Your podcast addiction has gotten out of hand, listeners. Sherlock Says is here to be your designated sober companion. Your hosts Rachael and Ansel are joined by local thespian Taelin Gore to discuss season 1 of the CBS mystery series Elementary , the first show brave enough to ask the question "What if Watson was Lucy Liu?" Honestly, anything it does, Bones does better. Check out Taelin...

Welcome back, podcast people! This week on Sherlock Says , your hosts Ansel and Rachael are going out on the downs today, and they're in for a pleasant surprise: The Beekeeper's Picnic  by Afoot Games! This pixel art point and click adventure game starring everyone's favorite Mantis Man pits a retired Sherlock Holmes against his greatest foe yet: social grace! Also you can make the...

Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to listen at the Altar of Deduction for the words our Lord Sherlock Says . Your usual deacons Ansel and Rachael are joined today by guest sub-deacon 13th grade Boris Smelov to discuss the Sherlock Holmes boardgame called Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective - The Baker Street Irregulars that our clergy found most uplifting. Lo, though we walk through the...

Welcome back, Doctors. In this week's morbidity and mortality conference - I mean episode of Sherlock Says , Rachael and Ansel are completing their coverage of the (shockingly renewed) first season of CBS's Watson . And....... man, it's just House , it's just an objectively worse version of House , it's embarrassing how badly this wants to be House . Contact the pod! Linkt...

Well hello, you devious bastards. This week on Sherlock Says, Rachael and Ansel have tackled the CBS medical drama Watson , a show about What If when Holmes died, Watson... moved to Pittsburgh and started a genetics clinic? That's weird. But not as weird as who they got to voice Holmes. They had a lot to say (what else is new) so this is part 1 where they discuss the premise and characters. N...

In this week's Sherlock Says, your co-experts in residence had to tap out for a con, so your humble editor Ryan fulfilled the requirements of his Dark Pact and reviewed the godawful 2018 film Holmes and Watson "starring" Will Ferrel and John C Reilly. Contact the pod! Linktree at: https://linktr.ee/sherlocksayspod?fbclid=PAAaalIOau9IFlX3ixKFo3lsvmq6U1pYn8m3cf7N6aOqkqUGCljCO0R00KZ3E 

We're having a Poedown today on Sherlock Says ! Your hosts Rachael and Ansel are going back to the common ancestor from which most detective fiction evolved, Edgar Allan Poe's Murders in the Rue Morgue , the first of his Dupin stories. Ready to find out where Doyle ripped his whole jam off from? Content Warning: graphic descriptions of murder Contact the pod! Linktree at: https://linktr....