Rachael Dosen and Ansel Johnson
Sherlock Says
Two lifelong Holmes maniacs accost various Minneapolis luminaries with all things Sherlock Holmes. Covering the canon stories, adaptations, and everything else you can imagine, your hosts Ansel and Rachael will get to the bottom of what makes a Holmes story good, what makes a Holmes adaptation work, and what the actual hell was going on with Arthur Conan Doyle's brain.
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Rachael Dosen and Ansel Johnson
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Latest episode
Jul 7, 2026
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Episodes
E79 Sherlock Says: What's Wrong With Your Face?!? 24.06.2025 1:43:15
This week on a slightly late (sorry!) Sherlock Says , your hosts Ansel and Rachael are joined by comic artist Kat Baumann to suffer through Sherlock Holmes vs Harry Houdini , a true titan in the world of nonsensical art and trite writing. But don't let all that fool you: this work contains a TWIST that you'll want to be here for! Check out Kat on Bluesky! https://bsky.app/profile/katbau...
E78 Sherlock Says: Where's My Himbo Watson? 10.06.2025 1:30:22
Good news! Between last episode of this show and now, the producers of Enola Holmes took our suggestions to heart and made a better movie, just for us! This week on Sherlock Says, Rachael and Ansel watched Enola Holmes 2 and have fewer notes. Not none, but fewer. Contact the pod! Linktree at: https://linktr.ee/sherlocksayspod?fbclid=PAAaalIOau9IFlX3ixKFo3lsvmq6U1pYn8m3cf7N6aOqkqUGCljCO0R00KZ3E
E77 Sherlock Says: Teenagers Scare the Living S#&@ Outta Me 27.05.2025 1:22:21
This week on Sherlock Says, your hosts Ansel and Rachael have watched the 2020 Warner Bros. film Enola Holmes , and have some criticisms about it. But hey, it's not the worst example of a "Sherlock Holmes has a sister" plotline ever filmed. We're coming for you, Steve . Contact the pod! Linktree at: https://linktr.ee/sherlocksayspod?fbclid=PAAaalIOau9IFlX3ixKFo3lsvmq6U1pYn8m3...
E76 Sherlock Says: I Aten't Dead 13.05.2025 1:31:15
Weeeeeeeeeellllll git along little doggies! This week on this here poddin' cast, yer rootin-tootin host-falootins Rachael and Ansel are fixin' a gander at a purdy lil novel called Holmes on the Range ! It's a cowboy mystery what done got sprinkled with that there Sherlock Holmes flavor. That actually hurt to write a little bit. Help out the Minnesota Renaissance Festival! https://rc...
E75 Sherlock Says: Fine, But I'm Keeping My Shoes On 29.04.2025 1:47:51
You take those shoes off when you come inside you goblin This week on Sherlock Says, your hosts Ansel and Rachael are joined by Minneapolis theater director and actor Hadley Evans Nash to discuss the 2018 Japanese adaptation Miss Sherlock , which asks the brave question: 'What if there were women?' Content Warning: Discussions of mental illness and suicide, including the suicide of a spe...
E74 Sherlock Says: I Don't Bounce 15.04.2025 1:57:29
This week on Sherlock Says , Rachael and Ansel continue their grim death march through BBC Sherlock by covering the last episode of Season 2, The Reichenbach Fall , an episode of television famed much more for what its successors fail to do than for anything actually in it, because nobody on earth can remember what's in it. Well, except that one scene. Contact the pod! Linktree at: https://li...
E73 Sherlock Says: My "Chemical Weapons" T-Shirt is Raising a Lot of Questions Already Answered By the Shirt 01.04.2025 1:29:11
Thank you all for joining us in our government-mandated 2010s Magneto Prison for another episode of Sherlock Says. Your hosts Ansel and Rachael are continuing their coverage of BBC Sherlock Series 2 with episode 2: The Hounds of Baskerville which, while stupid, is much less painful than the last one. It's also where the dumb Mind Palace bit comes from so be ready for that. Content Warning: Su...
E72 Sherlock Says: It Was a F%$#ING BOOMERANG 18.03.2025 1:59:07
Listen, we all knew this day would come, we just really didn't want it to. Reluctantly join your hosts Rachael and Ansel as they dive back into BBClock with Season 2 Episode 1: A Scandal in Belgravia God have mercy, it's worse than remembered. Contact the pod! Linktree at: https://linktr.ee/sherlocksayspod?fbclid=PAAaalIOau9IFlX3ixKFo3lsvmq6U1pYn8m3cf7N6aOqkqUGCljCO0R00KZ3E
[Bonus] And the Winner Is... 11.03.2025 11:14
Welcome to a special bonus Sherlock Says! The snow is melting, the birds are singing, and Winter slumbering in the open air wears on his smiling face a dream of Spring! We've reached the end of Winter of the Wolf and it's time for your hosts to tally up the numbers and choose empirically which adaptation of Hound is the best of the best. Contact the pod! Linktree at: https://linktr.ee/sh...
E71 Sherlock Says: HENRY!!! 04.03.2025 1:24:08
My favorite part of Hound is when Henry says "It's Henrin' Time" and Hens all over the place. Check out Whitney's stuff! Msstreeter.com Contact the pod! Linktree at: https://linktr.ee/sherlocksayspod?fbclid=PAAaalIOau9IFlX3ixKFo3lsvmq6U1pYn8m3cf7N6aOqkqUGCljCO0R00KZ3E
E70 Sherlock Says: Dogless in Durgapur 18.02.2025 1:28:20
Welcome back to Sherlock Says: Winter of the Wolf! On this week's episode, our doggone hosts Ansel and Rachael are joined by local actor and filmmaker Zach Sain. Together, they're running in dogged pursuit of the best adaptations of Hound of the Baskervilles and have sniffed out an Indian adaptation from 1951, Jighansa . It's so exciting to explore the narrative through the lens of...
E69 Sherlock Says: Who's a Good Boy? 04.02.2025 1:09:29
This week on Sherlock Says, your hosts Rachael and Ansel are joined by... oops, there was a scheduling misadventure and they're joined by nobody! So it's up to your fearless hosts to conquer the first Hound adaptation - the 1914 silent German film Der Hund von Baskerville - on their own! Much like Holmes is in this movie because Watson just doesn't come to the moor for some reason....
E68 Sherlock Says: The John Watson F#$@s Club 21.01.2025 1:21:47
After a longer-than-intended winter break (the plague, etc.) your favorite hosts Rachael and Ansel are back for another Hound adaptation on this week's Sherlock Says ! And it's time for special guest Jenna Papke of the Phoenix Theater to join our hosts in apologizing to Basil Rathbone because it turns out, when he wasn't burned absolutely out on cranking out these adaptations like h...
E67 Sherlock Says: Viewers Like You 24.12.2024 1:06:56
NOTICE: We will be taking some time off for the holidays, so the next episode will be on Jan 21st. Hold on to your furculae everyone, because we're going to nostalgia town! This week on Sherlock Says, your hosts Rachael and Ansel are joined by returning guest Rowan Toppin to watch the 1995 Wishbone episode about Hound of the Baskervilles ! It may be a somewhat thematically incoherent mashup o...
E66 Sherlock Says: (Barely) Animated 10.12.2024 57:15
Lawrence of Arabia? More like..... uh.... Bore-ance..... of...... um...... A-lame-bia? Never mind! On this week's Sherlock Says , your long-suffering hosts Rachael and Ansel are joined by special guest Rob Ward to watch 1983's Sherlock Holmes and the Baskerville Curse , an allegedly animated version of Hound that has so little going for it that even before cuts the raw audio for this epi...
E65 Sherlock Says: Sponsored by Walking Sticks 26.11.2024 1:19:20
Welcome back to Winter of the Wolf , the Hound of the Baskervilles adaptation showdown tournament we made up and committed to! On this episode, Rachael and Ansel are joined by returning guest Brian Watson Jones to cover the 1983 Hound of the Baskervilles TV Film and pit it against the Hammer Horror 1959 version. This version is purported to have the scariest version of the hound that was ever put...
E64 Sherlock Says: Resevoir Dogged 12.11.2024 1:25:35
Qapla'! It's time for Sherlock Says! This week, your hosts Ansel and Rachael are joined by Minneapolis writer and composer Angela Fox to discuss the 1959 Hammer Horror adaptation of Hound of the Baskervilles starring Peter Goddamn Cushing and Christopher Goddamn Lee. What are you still doing here? Why aren't you already watching it based on those names alone? Come see I'll Be...
E63 Sherlock Says: Dog Days Are Over 29.10.2024 2:10:55
The Winter of the Wolf is upon us here at Sherlock Says, and your hosts Rachael and Ansel are truly feeling the chill! In this double-Decker of an episode, your hosts finish reading the Hound of the Baskervilles and prepare to move on to its various and sundry adaptations. But First, Rachael has some intriguing conclusions to share about the end of this novel. Was Sherlock Holmes wrong? Is the vil...
E62 Sherlock Says: Bittern Work 15.10.2024 1:39:15
Terror abounds on this episode of Sherlock Says as your hosts Ansel and Rachael continue to read The Hound of the Baskervilles and remember that Doyle wrote pretty well when he could be bothered to! From his eerie narration about late-night stakeouts to his overly-complementarily spooky description of the weirdest bird you've ever heard, these five chapters do a lot of the heavy lifting for t...
E61 Sherlock Says: BIG DOG 08.10.2024 1:31:38
EDITOR'S NOTE: Sorry this episode is late! Something went wrong in the upload process and I completely missed that it hadn't come out. Next episode is next week as per our usual schedule. It's Much Ado About Knotting this episode as we begin the WINTER OF THE WOLF . Your hosts Rachael and Ansel are doing Hound of the Baskervilles and its various adaptations and rehashes for the rest...
E60 Anime Beach Summer: Tantei Opera Milky Holmes 17.09.2024 1:18:09
We here at Sherlock Says Incorporated, LLC, would like to formally apologize for covering the 2010 anime Tantei Opera Milky Holmes . Your hosts Ansel and Rachael would like to extend their genuine sympathies to anyone who has been negatively affected by this historic tragedy, and its uncomfortably horny happenings. At least there's a little Lupin in it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Content Warning: sexual assau...
E59 Anime Beach Summer: Moriarty the Patriot (Part 2) 03.09.2024 1:09:22
There is a specter haunting Europe.... the specter of Yaoi. In this week's Sherlock says, Ansel and Rachael discuss the second half of Moriarty the Patriot , wherein a lot of stupid shit happens and not much of it makes sense, but in a less fun and interesting way than when that happened in the first half. Join your friends James, James, James, and James to make Kill James Bond' s heads...
E58 Anime Beach Summer: Moriarty the Patriot (Part 1) 20.08.2024 1:07:25
Think you were coming back here for more cutesy animated dog fun? THINK AGAIN! We only serve the finest Yaoibait on this feed! This week, Rachael and Ansel dive into the first half of the 2020 anime Moriarty the Patriot and explore the concept of society re: whether or not we live in one with our new friends, James Moriarty, James Moriarty, and their youngest brother, James Moriarty! Content Warni...
Local Highlight: Minnesota Fringe - A Murder on the Great Grimpen Mire Express 30.07.2024 51:08
In this bonus episode of Sherlock Says, Rachael and Ansel are joined by Tim Wick and Edwin Strout for a special interview episode about their upcoming Minnesota Fringe show Murder on the Great Grimpen Mire Express , a crossover mystery wherein Hercule Poirot must step in for Sherlock Holmes to solve the Baskerville case. They also play Who Would Win between famous fictional detectives and classic...
E57 Anime Beach Summer: Sherlock Hound 16.07.2024 1:15:37
Time for a summer beach arc of Sherlock Says! Ansel and Rachael are back to beat the heat and prove Miyazaki right when he said anime was a mistake with the finest in Sherlock Holmes related anime series! Speaking of Miyazaki, this week, we're exploring the 1984 anime series Sherlock Hound , aka Meitantei Hōmuzu , which Miyazaki cut his teeth on before moving on to do all that stuff he did. C...
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