Buckle up, Watsonians, this one is not only three times the normal length, it's full of some very lively ideas as Ross Davies takes "Wondering About Watson" to all new heights, and we still take some time to talk to Steve Mason about an upcoming July evening. (And don't worry -- Paul's still here, too!)
Do you know who Dr. Lyndon Parker is? Well, if you don't we're going to explain it to you this week. And when we get done talking Praed (as in 7B Praed Street, where Parker lived), we might eventually get to our Watson's Word of the Week, "pride," but it's a long and winding road. Here we go!
The John H. Watson Society gathers to let us know what gifts they'd bring a pregnant Mrs. Watson at her baby shower, bull pup Buck tells where Watson got married, and bull pup Maddy asks Bruce Harris the five big questions all Watsonians must answer.
Three different famous writers about Sherlock Holmes get their birthday mentioned this week, and one of them is definitely still alive! Also, Vincent Wright, Sherlockiana's master chronologist, stops by for bull pup Maddy's Wondering About Watson intervew.
This week, we celebrate the past weekend's Eurovision finals with a look into Watson fics, ridiculous limericks, and a John H. Watson Society discussion of Watson's birthday. Is this just the beginning of the "Eurusvision Limerick Contest" or a strange moment soon to be forgot? You just never know with the Watsonian Weekly!
It's an early review of Ken Ludwig's play Moriarty! Of course, you have to deal with the rest of our podcast to get there, and our host is plainly not fully invested in the podcast at one point, but give it a listen anyway!
Reichenbach Day is coming and we have a little talk about that, an appropriate question for bull pup Buck, a fitting fic of the week, and bull pup Maddy interviews Naching Kassa about her Watson proclivities. Get to listening before Watson gets called back to the hotel for a sick patient!
It may sound like bull pup Maddie stayed at 221B Con, like bull pup Buck was affected forever by someone he met there, and that robots are replacing podcast cast members, but have no fear! We'll see if we can fix all that by next week's podcast, so enjoy this very special episode of the Watsonian Weekly. (But aren't they all?)
Other podcasts do some of their best recording at cons. Many have done great episodes from 221B Con in Atlanta. The Watsonian Weekly, however, dares to find members of the John H. Watson Society at their most un-recordable and call it a podcast! Cover the ears of any impressionable youth nearby, because no one needs the misery and suffering found herein. John H. Watson would . . . well, he wouldn't listen because they didn't have podcasts on wax cylinders, now, did they?
What does a Dutch writer have to do with Watson's biggest date night? This episode wanders where no Watsonian podcast has wandered before, since it's the week before 221B Con and we're just a bit mad with excitement. And there's Watson news. So listen!
Going from bull pup Buck's take on Watson dancing to bull pup Maddy's deep Watson dive with Ray Betzner to bull pup Roxie's sonnet on our main man, this episode takes a while and might actually be worth the overtime! Get ready to spend some quality time with Watson!
What happened in Dayton, Ohio this weekend? What Sherlockian podcast celebrity is bull pup Maddy asking her Watson questions this week? Is Watson still alive? (SPOILER ALERT: The answers are "stuff," "Scott Monty," and "yes." But listen anyway!)
The head office of the Watsonian Weekly is not entirely sure what is in this episode due to it being put together in the most rushed fashion possible. Danna Mancini should be heard from, and there might be something about Watson's childhood. Oh, and how does Watson's literary agent have wings before Red Bull started giving them out? Let's all find out together, shall we?
We hear about Watson's relationship with local mice, moustache fic, Arthur Cadogan West, and then bull pup Maddy talks to John Sherwood about Watson for long enough that you might mistake us for another, more respected podcast. But as any good Watson fan knows, you're either going to gamble on the horse races or podcasts this week, so why not this one?
What historical figures was a Watson a true fan of? We might have an answer or two on that, including an amazing revelation about Watson and his Literary Agent that could set the Literary Agentean world on its ear! And, the most Watson-centric version of "Silver Blaze" you've ever heard.
This week bull pup Maddie rounds up Steve Mason for his thoughts on Watson, bull pup Buck looks at Watson as a cowboy, and all sorts of other silliness ensues. (Somebody may be feeling a little tuneful this episode.)
This week starts off with a report of a swamp-based organization who seems to need to love Watson a little more, gets to Watson's facial hair, and just generally wanders the Watsonian landscape in seach of news and mildly smutty reviews.
Do we need a verse for each of Watson's six wives? No, but we're getting one anyway. Sandra Little stops by as bull pup Maddy's Wondering About Watson guest, bull pup Buck gives Watson's husband rating, bull pup Roxie has a twisted limerick, and we even get a new feature about a new fic that popped up this week on AO3. Oh, and the Literary Agent's 10% speaks on athletic abstinence. It's all the Watson you didn't know you wanted!
In an unusually short episode, not much happens.
We get to hear about "My Dear Watson," the modern dance adaptation by the Big Muddy Dance Company, bull pup Maddie sees what Derrick Belanger thinks about Watson, and some other things happen to still remind you that this isn't a podcast you should take seriously.
Wandering about the Watson landscape, we realize something about his bull pup, find out the truth about his relationship with Mrs. Hudson, touch on a scheme by his literary agent's son, and just mention the new editor of The Baker Street Journal, possibly just to get on his good side early. Another fifteen minutes, or thereabouts, will pass in your life while this podcast happens -- that's our guarantee!
This week we take a break from all of our usual fare and just let Beth Gallego and Madeline Quinones talk about their week in New York celebrating Sherlock Holmes's birthday. A second podcast could be made just from all the glee we had to cut out of this recording, but trust us, there's still plenty to be had!
Typical busy-weekend, shorter episode with a really poor fill-in for one of our regulars, a new suggestion for Watson's date of birth, his opinion on a country he may or may not have lived in, and boys who like Freeman. Pot luck podcasting, as ever!
Probably no news you haven't already heard and heard again this week, but always something you didn't expect to hear. Also, author Margaret Walsh chats with bull pup Maddy, and "Speed 2: Cruise Control" comes up for a reason you won't believe (and probably shouldn't!). It's Watson time!
For Blue Carnuncle eve, bull pup Calder gives a reading of "A Christmas Goose" by Mary O'Reilly. Gather your Watsonian family around the radio and enjoy!
Bull pup Maddie finds David McDowell Blue for her Watson questions this week, bull pup Buck answers a question about food, bull pup Roxie finds a pickle in the Canon, and who was that young footballer who . . . well, we just won't think such things of Mrs. Watson, no, sir! Compliments of the season, it's Watson time!
This week, we fulfull that part of our theme song about audio crime, as technical difficulties make the sound less than perfect in one segment, and a musical with only thirty minutes of rehearsal and a cast so limited the director sings most of the songs (and not well). One of our cast was actually performing to win a bet. But you still want to hear the part about Watson and babies, right? As Sherlock Holmes once said, "It is the season of forgiveness," and we hope our all listeners are as much ...
If Watson could time travel, would he listen to this episode? It might not be his first choice, but eventually he might want to hear what Olivia Kirkendall thought about him. That, and no mention of Deshaun Watson at all, this week in Watsonian Weekly's fifteen minutes of pod!
Josh Harvey is Bull Pup Maddy's special guest on "Wondering About Watson" this week, Bull Pup Buck takes an old Sherlockian art form to new levels, Bull Pup Roxie rhymes of Watson's wife, and what else was Watson's Literary Agent trying as a side gig this time? The game is a-Watson!
A suprise guest reminds us of one of Watson's oddest friends. The John H. Watson Society guesses at Holmes's laconic messages. And bull pup Buck fulfills a bull pup's bull pup wish with an amazing swiftness. And what do you stuff Turkey with in the early 1900s? Plenty to find out about this week!
