In Each Retelling

Send us Fan Mail Our dive into the original Universal Monster movies continues with yet another entry by gay horror icon James Whale, and as the disembodied lips in Rocky Horror once said, Claude Rains was The Invisible Man. Join Jas, Conor, Alex, Krissy, and Micah as we discuss how this is one of the original horror comedies, how this is even more Star Wars than everything already is (hi there Sa...

Send us Fan Mail Our Season of Monsters continues with yet another long overdue classic, this time with the one original monster who is still steeped in a tale as old as time, the Creature from the Black Lagoon! Join Jas, Sam, River, and Meredith on an intrepid exploration of what the Gillman has to do with Amazon River Dolphins, the true origins of the creature's designs, and why we all fuck...

Send us Fan Mail Our darling Ellie (known to some as Carmilla Karnstein's humansona) has appeared on this podcast more than 25 times, and that means she gets to celebrate everyone's favorite lesbian vampire by making her friends Gillian, Violet, Jas, and for the very first time Anthony pitch their own takes on the vastly underrated horror icon. The following podcast is for entertainment...

Send us Fan Mail We're, alas, about a week late for the 21st day of the month of September, but we still continue our Season of Monsters with a celebration of one of the greatest musical, B-movie homage romantic tragicomedies ever put to film! Join Jas, Bex, Micah, Ella...and Ella's new strange and interesting plant friend (surely nothing could go wrong there?) in an exploration of how i...

Send us Fan Mail For our inaugural episode of Retellings Radio, Jas, Sam, Conor, and Katie are telling you all about the worldwide daikaiju, courtesy of one nerdy Gizmodic employee and his robot friends! Join them in analyzing the monsters referenced in "Every Country Has a Monster" from the pilot of the Netflix revival of Mystery Science Theatre 3000 !  The following podcast is for ente...

Send us Fan Mail Our Frankenstein double feature continues with Krissy's first wish for us to cover one of the original superior sequels that finally allowed the Bride that Mary Shelley only alluded to to come to life...if only for five minutes. Join Jas, Krissy, Gillian, Justin, and Alex to once again explore the themes of isolation and otherness inherent in these creatures, the extinction o...

Send us Fan Mail Today is Frankenstein Day, and it's past time this podcast finally ventured to the original Universal Monster movies, and we are here to celebrate the face that launched a thousand Halloween ephemera and decry one of the worst deadbeat dads in all of fiction. Join Jas, Gillian, Justin, Alex, and for the very first time Krissy as we gush over the ever iconic visuals, ponder wh...

Send us Fan Mail Dearly beloved listeners, we are gathered here today because it has been a REALLY bad summer, and not only do we want to air some grievances, but we decided in protest we are jumpstarting our autumnal festivities early. Come listen to some members of the IER family tell off the Grim Reaper, and a preview of the near future of this very podcast... Special thanks to Sam Marchiony, R...

Send us Fan Mail On August 18th 2026, Maire Roche, author of this year's Bromantasy, will be releasing her first middle grade novel, Little Monsters, which reimagines the March sisters of Little Women fame as foster children with secret monstrous forms. Set just outside Salem as Halloween, and apparently another mysterious monster approaches, the story blends mystery, humor, heart, and supern...

Send us Fan Mail Well, since last week was an Odyssey of tangents, it makes sense that some long lost outtakes would resurface. These are from over a year ago, including our  Dracula Weekly finale, and our episodes on  Muppet Classic Theatre and  Portrait of a Lady on Fire. Clips Used Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/hartzmann/overture License code: WKQ68ZDNUBJ6VX8D S...

Send us Fan Mail After multiple oceanic journeys, this podcast could use a break, so here! Have some silly outtakes from, among others, the recent Moana , Spongebob , Earnest , and The Life of Brian episodes! Clips Used "A Song About an Anglerfish" by Hank Green Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/hartzmann/overture License code: WKQ68ZDNUBJ6VX8D Support the sh...

Send us Fan Mail Much like Odysseus’ journey, this episode is a little late for both the release of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey , as well as Spongebob Day, but that’s no reason to not enjoy Jas, a relative newcomer to the Spongebob oeuvre being dragged by some of the goofiest goobers she knows, Alex, Jen, Rhaps, and DGil, through a Mad Libs journey of bubble parties, mermaid magic, and David H...

Send us Fan Mail Hey dear listeners! Wanna remember how good the original Moana was while its live action remake underperforms at the box office? Then join us as we are once again setting sail, this time to ancient Polynesia. Try as Jas might, this became a little less about the mythical figure Maui and his various eel killing, sun threatening adventures, and more about her, Ellie, Conor, Gillian,...

Send us Fan Mail On July 7th, award winning journalist Amanda Connolly is set to debut her first foray into authordom with The Lure of Wolves and Whispers , a romantic fantasy novel inspired by Irish mythology centering a young girl in the Isle of Eireann, ruled by a tyrannical, bloodthirsty royal family set against the magic that once thrived. Maeve saves her sister by buying illegal magic, but t...

Send us Fan Mail Pride Month 4: We're Coming Out of the Vault ends with a bang (in more ways than one if the staging is anything to go on) with the racially diverse and extremely gay production of Oscar Wilde's (the original sassy gay) The Importance of Being Earnest starring Ncuti Gatwa! Join Jas, River, Gillian, Syd, and Alex as we discuss the folly of bored rich people, the appropriat...

Send us Fan Mail Well, happy birthday IER, sorry your party's so late. But better late than never to continue our journey as to why our dear hostess' brain is broken this way with a nostalgic item she struggles to defend. Join her, Shami, Gillian, and for the very first time Jen Seggio as we discuss the attempts to make an engaging fairytale musical, the admirable efforts by the actors,...

Send us Fan Mail Technically it's still been less than a month since Nick's birthday, and this episode's topic is very gay, so this episode is now the start of our belated Pride Month festivities with Pride Month 4: We're Coming Out of the Vault and our discussion of the first two seasons of the controversial animated musical series  Hazbin Hotel for Nick's second wish! Jo...

Send us Fan Mail In the fair  Verily a New Hope episode where we lay some scenes that didn't make the final cut, as well as bits of discussion between Sam, River, and I, two new monologues written by Sam Marchiony inspired by the ever brilliant Carrie Fisher,  and finally a preview of our upcoming episode! A very special thank you to Sam Marchiony, River Lane, Shamila Karunakaran, Bijou Daae,...

Send us Fan Mail It is once again time to celebrate May the 4th, and it's also high time we talked about one of the most perfect intersections of nerdy interests out there, the works of Ian Doescher--er, I mean, William Shakespeare as it pertains to the space wizard franchise that surrounds us, binds us, and penetrates us in the landscape of cinema. Join Jas, Sam, River, and a NUMBER of surpr...

Send us Fan Mail Whether 4/20 is a day you celebrate or not, it is always a good idea to celebrate Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical ruthlessly satirizing not just the anti drug PSA of the same name, but the culture that created it. Join Jas, Charlotte, Ella, Gillian, Conor, and Katie in a discussion of the dangerous power of propaganda, and how sometimes making fun of it is the best weapon we hav...

Send us Fan Mail This year's belated Passover episode is full of nostalgia, with both the iconic "A Rugrats Passover" and the much less known Season 2, Episode 9 "Stranger in a Strange Land" of the almost lost media show  Mentors ! Join Jas, Bex, and Shami as we explore the deep meaning this holiday holds for the Jewish people, as well as get a lot of laughs out of the she...

Send us Fan Mail This belated Easter, this is not the Messiah, it's a very naughty podcast! Here Jas, the Duffys, Grady, and Beth have a surprisingly philosophical discussion about the Pythons' farcical take on the life of Jesus Christ, bemoan how relevant the absurdist commentary remains nearly 50 years later, and learn just what the Beatles had to do with all of this! The following pod...

Send us Fan Mail We've been forgetting a little thing called Spring for far too long, and while we're still being haunted by  Hadestown , Jas and River have gathered Sam, Gillian, Alex, Ellie, and for the very first time, Mikey, to retell the story of Hades & Persephone. No kidnappings here, just romance, whether it's through stop motion animation, a good old fashioned rom com,...

Send us Fan Mail Well, it wouldn't be an Odyssey month without a late arrival to the end, would it? At last, we complete our journey through the Sea of Monsters with the second season of  Percy Jackson and the Olympians. Jas continues to marvel at how lucky kids are to grow up with this show, River is still losing it/crying/weeping like a bay-bey, Sam is swearing on both the River Styx and Ri...

Send us Fan Mail In our very first IOR in over a year, we continue Sea of Monsters Month, but we're giving our teenage demigods a break from all the drama! Instead, for a belated Valentine's Day treat, we are pitching romantic comedies involving characters from  The Odyssey ! Grab some popcorn and leftover chocolate, and turn on the movie theatre in your brain for reality dating shows ho...