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The Bull Pups are talking about Sherlock, John, and Marianna's adventures in ancient temple exploration in the latest Sherlock & Co. podcast. And that's about it.
Is there anyone out there that will listen to an hour of raving reviews of Sherlock & Co.'s adaptation of Sign of the Four just to get to "The Literary Agent's Ten Percent"? Because those are the two things you're getting this week. Just wait until January when we have multiple Watsons to go on about! You might get THREE different things in an episode. "Might."
After some news of the coming Watson, we rave about what at least one bull pup calls the best episode of a Sherlockian podcast ever, and then we test Watsonians on their knowledge of Watson's horrors. A lot of listening for the Watson lover in you!
A bit of news, a whole lot of discussion of part two of Sherlock & Co.'s Sign of Four, thanks to the always-problematic Miss Mary Morstan. (Even in Original Canon!) And, after all that, just a touch of Hollamy shipping to wind up the episode.
We were very anxious to talk about Sherlock & Co.'s new adaptation of The Sign of the Four starting up, but Sherlockiana had one of its rare controversies that had to be mentioned first. And it seems to be Baskerville season!
Not even going to explain the title this week, you're just going to have to take the ride. The last part of Sherlock & Co.'s "Resident Patient" gets its Bull Pup review, Sarah Bernhardt gets her moment in the Literary Agent's Ten Percent, and . . . need we say more? Naw. You know how this works.
The bull pups of the John H. Watson Society finally had their September meeting and the Hound of the Baskervilles casting draft to pitch the best Hound ever took place. And the Bull Pups & Co. run through one of the speediest Sherlock & Co. episodes ever -- who knew a resident patient could move so fast?
A forgetful host actually remembers to do a podcast at the last minute after forgetting the meeting of the John H. Watson Society. A special guest who wants to not be know for this episode joins the bull pups to discuss part one of Sherlock & Co.'s "Resident Patient." And Watson's literary agent . . . well, he gets his ten percent.
The Bull Pups review the final part of Sherlock & Co's adaptation (?) of "The Red Circle." Not much else going on this episode!
Can you retell one of Dr. Watson famous tales in thirty seconds? Can a member of the John H. Watson Society do it AND include details deemed relevant by a certain podcast host? This episode, we find out. Also, our review of part 3 of Sherlock & Co.'s adaptation of "The Red Circle."
This week we discover who might have been John Watson fiercest Canonical enemy, and also address his ongoing microphone issues on his gangster podcast. Beyond that, what might Moriartian forces have done to discredit Watson in 1922? Not going to tell you here, that's for sure!
If you were hoping for some John H. Watson Society audio already, you might have to wait another week. Somehow the Bull Pups & Co. manage to make talking about a very short episode of Sherlock & Co. run twice as long as the thing they're talking about.
Okay, we're mainly going to talk about the glorious finale to "The Three Students" adaptation from Sherlock & Co., if you can believe that story now has a glorious finale. Otherwise, the usual stuff. Enjoy!
A little news, complete with a tune, and then we get into what happens when Holmes and Watson go on campus in the latest Sherlock & Co. And then there's a bit of 1903.
It's August and that means one thing for the John H. Watson Society, and it's not a trip to Scotland to look for jellyfish. Watson news, a very long review of Sherlock & Co's "Lion's Mane" finale, and maybe a touch of harmonica to round out the week.
What happens when we take the show to Minneapolis (and a bit of Wisconsin)? Really, not much but some iffy audio. We visit 221B, review part two of Sherlock & Co.'s "Lion's Mane," and report a little bit on the weekend. Not as long as usual, so plan a second activity for when it's done!
Okay, this episode had very little editing because a certain podcaster is on vacation and just not spending the time. So you've going to get some full-on sound of a John H. Watson Society meeting game and the Bull Pups discussing Lion's Mane part one. Just relax and take it all in, it's a long one!
A little bit of news and we're off to hear the Bull Pups on part three of Shoscombe Old Place, as the week flew by as quickly as John having a car-to-car conversation with Bobby Nob-head. So here you go!
It doesn't take much to set a Watsonian or a Sherlockian on the trail of a certain professor of mathematics, and last week's Sherlock & Co. definitely triggered the alarms! But we do mention Watson a few times . . .
Bull pups Calder and Beacon shop for books, and then bull pups Maddie and Starlight show up for the usual review of the latest episode of Sherlock & Co., with everything we've now learned about John Watson!
Okay, let's just admit it -- this is mostly going to be a review of part three of Sherlock & Co.'s "Dancing Men" adaptation. But there is talk of Guy Ritchie's upcoming Young Sherlock series and Watson's Literary Agent's relationship with seals. so there's that. The podcast year is half over with this episode, though, so you still have that to cling to.
A Watson app, a bit of excitement over the Home Secretary, a certain bull pup gets more fascinated by bullets than one might expect, and what was up with Watson and his literary agent in 1897? Here we go again!
How is Watson connecting with Star Trek this week, and why is he singing? Was that the reason he had (Spoiler Alert!] sex with so many clients? And what was his literary agent up to in 1914? Do you really want the answers? Do you? Okay.
A little news, a little explanation about Watson's watch from Bull Pup Buck, then it's on to part two of "A Case of Identity" discussion about Sherlock & Co. Will it be what you expect? I sure don't know.
Many Watsons enter the ring, only one Watson leaves.
The John H. Watson Society spends half the show extolling various Watsons, and then the Bull Pups take over the last half of the show and just go on about Sherlock & Co.'s Watson doing so fabulously in his latest episode. ("A Case of Identity"). See if any of those bits change your mind about the greatest Watson out there!
This one has it all! Big Watson news, pronunciations of all sorts, some love for Sherlock & Co.'s Reigate Squire episode, a new Moriarty theory, celebrity cricket, and, inevitably, the end of the episode and that point you have to listen to something else until next week.
We're all over the place this week, which isn't that unusual. Attempting to find a movie that connects actor Harvey Keitel to a Watson character? That might be. Venezualan food, a TV show from the mind of a Baker Street Irregular, and Watson's literary agent taking on a grammar school are just a few of the places the pod goes this week, so buckle up and listen in. You'll hear at least one thing you haven't heard before.
What can I say? We just kept talking after the Silver Blaze discussion on the May 6, 2024 episode. So if you really just want to hear bull pups Mooch, Maddie, Starlight, and Calder chatting about random Sherlockian things, including THAT movie, here you go.
There’s a whole lot of horse race talk in this week’s episode as four Americans try to wrap their heads around a more fully realized adaptation of “Silver Blaze” at the Grand Nationals.
If you’d like to see just the sort of race Silver Blaze would have run in, here’s a link that our guest bull pup: https://youtu.be/8q6ewCO4tB4?si=u6nTLvnQPiaKON9T
Talk of the John H. Watson Society journal, a Watson we don't care much for, Watson having three of something instead of two, and the third part of Silver Blaze's latest modern adaptation is reviewed. And we might all still be recovering from a certain con.
Buckle up for a full hour of bull pup chatter, ranging from a new waffle based Sherlockian society, through artists we saw at 221B Con, to the usual goings on about the second part of "Silver Blaze" from Sherlock & Co. The game is afoot . . . well unless you're reading bull pup Buck's copy of A Study in Scarlet. You'll see.
While some podcasts use a venue like 221B Con to get some good content, The Watsonian Weekly once again just gets random audio that somehow is just a messy version of our usual show. But we got an episode out!
The Valley of Fear, New Zealand, and household plumbing systems -- you never know what you'll find in any of them! But we touch on each before we spend more time than the show we're reviewing lasts to discuss the second part of Sherlock & Co.'s "Retired Colourman." Arf arf!
It's our April Fool's Day episode, where you just never know what to believe and what not to believe -- oh, wait, that's every episode. It's Watson news, reviews, and random possibly connected bits, as always. Good luck!
I hope you have a good breakfast before you listen to this one. And we talk about a sadder end for Professor Presbury than getting gnawd on by a dog. It's a pretty long episode for just those two thing, I'd think, but give it a go!
We've got bull pups working out Watson's greatest characteristic, we've got bull pup Buck explaining Watson's final fate, we've got bull pups Starlight and Maddie going on about that Watson podcast in the middle of its Creeping. But we don't have is a long discussion on bonobo apes, just one of the big lot of audio that fell to the cutting room floor this week. But don't worry, you're still getting more Watson than you'll need for this week!
Once bull pup Buck brings up pizza, we just can't stop thinking about it, at least until Sherlock & Co. does its weekly distraction. Hope you have pizza in your future.
Bull pup Buck is back to help us celebrate the most important day of the Sherlockian year, and it's not Hug a Holmesian Day on March 11th! Also, we get a note from bull pup Louie that leads us into the next review by Bull Pups & Co. of the second Solitary Cyclist episode of Sherlock & Co.
It's an extra long dose of Watson medicine this week, as bull pup Maddie interviews comics guru Joanna Draper Carlson, and then Bull Pups & Company takes John Watson to task for the revelations of his first part of the "Solitary Cyclist" investigation. Also, what was Watson's Literary Agent doing at the scene of the Jack the Ripper murders? And a little John H. Watson Society club business, just to round out the hour and ten minutes. Dive in, the podcasting is . . . well, maybe not fine, but fair!
There's a new Sherlock Holmes fan community going on out there whom Watson has adopted as his own, and this week bull pup Evidently Harmless joins us with the details. There's a new TV show coming that basically puts Watson in a box with Schrodinger's cat for the time being. Why did Watson's literary agent meet a client of Sherlock Holmes in the really real world? And then we get down to talking about the second part of Sherlock & Co.'s "Gloria Scott." And talking. And talking. With a hearfelt moment about Star Wars episode 3, if you're really so into Star Wars that you'll listen to a whole Watson podcast just for that. Come on it, the Watson is fine!
Our evolution into just becoming a "Sherlock & Co." fan podcast continues, as we spend a whole half hour talking about a single podcast episode that doesn't last that long -- the first party of their "Gloria Scott" adaptation. Hope you're up for it, because we sure were.
It's another long commentary on Watson's podcast "Sherlock & Co." and its version of "Red-Headed League," but bull pup Buck still gets in some thought on Watson's Ford and Conan Doyle does something weird with A Study in Scarlet. Fill your ears!
Who was Watson named after? What kind of TV shows could Watson have as the featured character? And where did Watson break into sixteen businesses over the last year or so? You can hear it all on the John H. Watson Society's podcast this week!
Rob Nunn is back on the pod, and bringing second-generation Sherlockian Peter Eckrich with him! Also, Watson's Patreon, Watson's Fingers, a Watsonian's New York weekend, and . . . isn't that enough? More than twice as long as our normal episode!
A little bit from New York and a whole lot from bull pups on the latest Sherlock & Co. adaptation. Johanna Draper Carlson sits in as our special guest!
Spoiler! Going to talk a little bit about the same news story on every entertainment site with no new information! Bull pup Buck lets us know about Watson's ongoing love of Chinese pottery, and that's about it. But we'll get back to talking about Sherlock & Co. soon enough!
We start season six with a gangbuster of an episode because we can't stop talking about Sherlock & Co. and its amazing Watson -- and one of the bull pups is not afraid to offend Martin Freeman fans in praising Paul Waggott's Watson! (Even though Paul doesn't get mentioned by name in this episode. We'll remedy that soon.) Our own Paul, of the Thomas Miller variety, gets into Watson's least favorite client, and do you know who Arthur Guiterman is? Well, he's a poet we'll hear from this week. Start your new year off right with almost an hour of the Watsonian Weekly!
In the final episode of our fifth season, the John H. Watson Society does an a capella somewhat musical number, bull pup Buck ponder's Watson's favorite client, a goose poem is ready by bull pup Sherry, and Watson's Literary Agent's belief in a certain red-suited legend is considered. So give it a listen and give us your "Compliments on the season!" because that's what Watson would do this time of year, wouldn't he?
What's up with Watson and statues? Well, the stone is unpinchable for one thing, but we're going to spend a lot of time talking about pinching or pince-ing this episode. "Golden pince-ing" to be exact, as we go one and on about Watson's Sherlock & Co. take on the familiar tale. Buckle up! It's Watson time!
There's news of the John H. Watson Society evolving, matters involving Watson's agent, and a lot of talk about Sherlock & Company's solving of Thor Bridge.
A few thoughts on Watson's Wives and Watson's wives, still more thoughts on Watson podcasting the new Thor Bridge, and why January 6 is a day to toast a Watson.
This week we have a little of the usual and a whole lot of two Texans talking about schoolboy John H. Watson, roaming the country, and a Sherlockian to admire. Buckle up!
A bit of our usual news, bull pup Buck, and then three Watsonians go on about recent "Sherlock & Co." episodes for so long that we forget to give the Literary Agent his 10%. But in memory of Joss Ackland, I'm going to declare "DIP-lomatic immunity!" here in the notes.
A lot more talk with Margie Deck about writing Conan Doyle-ish works. And a moment on sausages. Maybe something else?
Bull pup Gwen, a.k.a. Margie Deck, returns to the Watsonian Weekly to tells us about her new books, how both Watson and his Literary Agent have inspired her, and more. Meanwhile, bull pup Buck holds a mini dog show to pick the goodest boy of the Canon. Also does a wound show who your true friends are? It's Watson time!
In this episode, recorded from somewhere in the Detroit suburbs, bull pups Maddy and Calder attempt to do an entire episode just using an iPhone after seeing the Ken Ludwig play Moriarty at the Meadow Brook Theatre. (Someone packed every bit of equipment EXCEPT his laptop for the trip, so you'll have to wait for next week, bull pup Buck fans -- he'll be back, singing and answering then!) But for now, blame any deficiencies in this one on Moriarty, as it truly is his fault.
Could Watson be a criminal? Could Watson be an elephant? Many questions get answered and Sherlock Holmes seems to hate Jungian analysis. All that and more, this week as we get our first "Watson Consultation" with Rob Nunn as the patient subject.
Having learned that John H. Watson is doing his own podcast about life with Sherlock Holmes, we've devoted a special triple-length episode to fanning on about Watson's work. Go listen to "Sherlock & Co." wherever podcasts are downloaded, then come back and hear Madeline, Heather, and Brad going on about how great it is. Back to our regular show next week, but this week it's all about "Sherlock & Co." because . . . well, give it a listen and you'll see why we're excited!
You never know when ghosts are going to show up, except when the podcast description forewarns you. What does John H. Watson have to do with Watsonville, California? Is Watson a slowpoke? Who might be rumored to having tried to recreate "The Speckled Band" on Halloween? There are secrets a-plenty in this episode, and you simply have to give it a listen! You have to!
Bullpup Calder only has a half hour to put together a podcast, and bull pups Buck, Roxie, and a mystery pup help him fill the time. Don't get your hopes up for this one!
Was Watson jealous of a certain U.S. president? And what's the deal with typewriters? And Mrs. Turner? It's a short but sweet episode of the Watsonian Weekly, so grab that Watson while you can!
The John H. Watson Society is encouraged to be very superficial this week as they comment on the looks of three potential real Watsons. Ellie gets a second strike from our dear Buck. And why DID Watson take Holmes to Cornwall in 1897? You're going to want to know.
Between the end of the John H. Watson Treasure Hunt, Dear Buck's weekly feature, and a question from the last JHWS online gathering, a lot of questions are being answered this week, and we also get one opinion that no one asked for in a new editorial feature!
There are a few little sound issues at the heart of this week's episode, along with some of that pawky Watsonian humor that might make you wish there were a few more sound issues. But we've got Alisha Shea on Wondering about Watson, and actual listener mail, with a Max theory on Watson's middle name . . . and we don't mean "Max" the streaming service!
Those travelling Sherlockians of note, Monica Schmidt and Greg Ruby, come to visit the studio of the Watsonian Weekly, and we just leave the microphone on . . . for a little while. It's not your normal episode, but when is it ever?
It's a slow week in the world of Watson, but we find a few reasons to keep talking for your weekly does of things somehow related to our favorite Victorian doctor/author. You might want to listen to this one in bed, as side effects make cause drowsiness.
A bit of a light week, but Watson's middle name comes up again, one more eternally unsettled questions of Dr. Watson's existence. There's a little new of the John H. Watson Treasure Hunt, a bit about Watson and a demon, and we're back to a "word of the week?" What's next, bees? (Inside joke for early, early, early listeners.)
We mostly hear about Holmes in the Heartland this past weekend, which was heaven for a lot of folks this weekend, but Bull Pup hits the opposite topic before we finish the show. Enjoy!
The John H. Watson Treasure Hunt's master of the hunt tasks the assembled bull pups with five questions to prepare for the annual August hunt, and then asks a question of our greatest answerer of Watson questions. This is a very Rich episode!
A smaller episode as most of the crew is trying hard to keep up with a busy July. Can you have a story discussion that focuses on Watson and not the other guy? Can a guy who answers Watson questions with a single word write a five hundred page book? You might find these things out in these eight minutes.
We barely made eleven minutes this week, but it's a good eleven minutes. The ramifications of trying to place Watson's birthday on a particular date are discussed, as well as an ingenious hybrid fic that gives us double the Watson. And bull pup Buck has a word that we might want to have a word with him about. Here you go!
After a little chat with Kristin Mertz, who will be speaking on Colonel Moran at the upcoming Holmes in the Heartland event, bull pup Buck sends the podcast down a whole rabbit hole by simply answering the question "What did Watson weigh?" It's a holiday week in America, so some of you have plenty of time to spend an extra fifteen with Watson!
This week, the John H. Watson Society had a whole lot of opinions about whether or not Watson had any enemies, which, due to a very busy weekend here at the Watsonian Weekly studio, winds up being most of the episode. But don't worry, bull pup Buck fans! You can listen to him first.
More talk of Holmes in the Heartland this episode, with some Sherlockian observations from Cindy Brown, one of the speakers at that conference. Bull pup Buck explains cigarettes, and a new discovery about Watson's own bull pup from . . . a Fox? All this and the usual Watson rambles, so call it: It's Watson time!
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!
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 like Sherlock Holmes as we know they certainly are. Compliments of the season!
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!
This week, we've got not one, but two special guests on the podcast thanks to the gregarious Bull Pup Maddy! We learn of some Bull Pups that came before the John H. Watson Society breed, learn what "a thick 'un" is, and fill out a whole half hour this time in doing so.
The episode might be a little short, but there's a pig Watson, a punchy Watson, a doppelganger Watson, and Watson's actual shoe size along the way. One to next week!
Nothing to see here but a normal Watsonian Weekly, but at the place where the show normally ends, Rob Nunn shows up to discuss Enola Holmes 2. So you can listen to most of the episode spoiler free, if you worry about such things. Unless you worry about a certain literary agent's reputation too, then you might get bogged down about the time Bull Pup Buck shows up . . . but test your limits! It's Watsonian Weekly time!
Since we never plan special holiday episodes, everyone is pretty normal except the host, and . . . well, you know how he is. The Watson facts and fun are flying like a witch on a broom, though, so let your ears have a trick or treat with the Watsonian Weekly!
The John H. Watson Society spends some time talking about Watson's potential as a monster, Buck gets a question about wipers, Roxy waxes poetic, and Maddy tosses a popular Watson on to the rugby field. All that and 10% more! It's Watson time!
John H. Watson, monster-killer, ladies man, and a few other things that will come up this week as we give our hero his Monday morning fifteen minutes of fame.
With news this past week of a brand new TV series about John Watson in development, bull pups Buck, Maddie, and Calder get together on Zoom for a round table on what that could mean, making a long arm and sweeping all the normal features off onto the floor for this week to discuss it.
Have you spent enough time thinking about Watson this week? Have any of us? Here's another fifteen minutes for you to add to your weekly Watson resume with . . . oh, it's just fifteen minutes, listen and find out!
We get through the Watson news pretty quick in this extra long episode, but then we test our listeners' endurance with a reader's theatrical adaptation of a novel by one of Watson's favorite writers. Take the Clark Russell Challenger and see if you can make it to the end of this week's episode!
Which Watson taught Holmes, what was Watson's favorite colour, and why are we talking about greeting cards? Most of those answers are in the title of this episode, but it'll only cost you ten minutes to find out the rest, as the host is having a bit of an off week. It's Watson time!
More mentions of tomatoes on this week's podcast that in the entire first forty years of Sherlockian publishing! And the return of the non-Watson author that we love to talk about, especially in September.
How does the musical ear of Josh Harvey hear a meeting of the John H. Watson Society? Who had a tendo achilles? Do mice play rugby? And why did Watson's friends take him to the movies in 1927? Quite a week for the Watsonians this Weekly!
The John H. Watson Society works out the worst Watson on screens, bull pup Maddie works out a Granada Watson's rugby skills, bull pup Roxie rhymes the Musgrave story, bull pup Buck gives Watson's real middle name, and what might Watson's literary agent have done in 1900 to get on the doctor's good side? All this and . . . well, all that . . . this week on the Watsonian Weekly.
Did some villain send an American to seduce Sherlock Holmes away from Watson? What do symposiums on Watson's works talk about when they're not talking about Watson? These questions and more, possibly answered this week.
What's the hardest part of the John H. Watson Society's annual treasure hunt? Who can baffle the Best of Blackheath decider? And what do cucumbers have to do with anything?
These, and other answers to questions you didn't really care about, but will listen to for fifteen minutes. (Or thereabouts.)
We've got a treasure hunt master as a guest, some live reporting from Indiana, and an actual rugby player explaining rugby for American listerners. Your fifteen minutes of Watson is here!
This episode wanders all over the map in its pursuit of John H. Watson, so buckly up. Still, only about fifteen minutes, so the ride will be over pretty quickly.
Bull Pup Maddie gives the scoop on the latest and greatest Doctor Watson, Bull Pup Roxie has a shocking poetic revelation about the Honourable Philip Green, and Bull Pups Buck and Calder have it out over whose headcanon Watson is the worst. You may want to listen to this one, just so you know what the Sherlockians at the water cooler are going on about this Monday.
Somehow if you put all this together, a surprising assassin in Afghanistan turned Watson sexy. And yet Maddy is unsure if one of him could do rugby. Is it all connected? Have you listened to this podcast before? Of course not. But here ya go!
Bull pup Maddie gets our news feed up to date with some events catch-up, bull pup Roxie double-takes "A Case of Identity," bull pup Buck has info on Holmes and bees you've NEVER heard before, and bull pup Calder should be fired for at least two things on this episode. It's an extra long one! (Well, for us!)
While it might be an American holiday weekend, Doctor Watson is still on his rounds. Sandy Kozinn does give us a version of Hound that poetically suits the Fourth, Paul answers Rob Nunn's burning question, and Madeline speculates on a Russian Watson's potential for rugby. Think the Literary Agent isn't taking ten percent of an episode like that? Think again!
This week we hear from the John H. Watson Society, who would clearly rather talk about Watson's army pension than his summer beach parties. Bull Pup Buck gives us a final, authoritative answer about Watson running with a wounded leg. Bull Pup Maddie decides a certain unpopped pea fan's sporty potential. And Bull Pup Roxie poetically chases the Hound. All this and the necessary ten percent cut for the Literary Agent, as always, the Colonel Tom Parker of Watson's Elvis-like literary stardom. (Disclaimer: Neither Parker nor Presley are mentioned in this episode. Move along.)
Are we slightly off our game this week? Well, some are some aren't, but here's your weekly dose of Watson, even if personally I think it needs a little ketchup.
This week, our Watson topics hit on a Broadway leading man, a royal execution, a guy named Arthur, and someone who had violet eyes but was not named "Violet." And it's all Watson lore and legend, as it should be! It's Watson time!
There was a meeting of the John H. Watson Society this week, so things get a little more random than usual. Eggs come up a lot. Watson's drink of choice. Nigel Bruce. Five Orange Pips. And that's just for starters.
In this episode, we come to the realization that Mary Morstan Watson isn't getting enough attention, and still pay more attention to a Watson's rugby, his literary agent, and even furze bushes without giving the woman a regular feature.
Watson's many facets take us quite a few places this week -- from Kipling to a pirate we've never heard of to the atheleticism of Colin Blakely. And remember, once you've paid attention to something, you can't get a refund!
"What four patients did Dr. Watson would not want to have on his rounds?" is the Jeopardy answer to this week's title. You also get Valhalla and the real reason Moran shot at Holmes, in addition to those things, so now you definitely have to listen.
May is a sort of vacation time for Watson we find, along with his best rugby version, a friendly bear, and perhaps the inspiration for him writing up his memoirs?
It's a full bull pup pack this week, with all our regulars, as well as the John H. Watson Society, a secret Rathbone appearance, and a taste of this month's missing episode. If you ever think the Watson isn't going well at any point in this episode, hold on! It will definitely get worse!
In a double-host, double-sized episode, bull pups Calder and Maddy review as much of 221B Con 2022 as they could remember -- though there's always more con than anything less than a full team could cover. Also, Watson and exit-ramp restaurants.
It's the week before 221B Con, and that's where the attention is focused this week. How much Watson can we expect at the con? Let's look!
After a smattering of news, we get into a bit of the thoughts on Watson's final day out there, his friend Stamford, and the Crooked and Creeping choices for longevity. Also, "gaunt."
Having missed our regular features last week, we're going all in with Roxy's Bull Pup Poetry Corner, Bull Pup Buck's Friends of Watson, and even a Watson's Word of the Week!
The annual Dayton, Ohio conference "Holmes, Doyle & Friends" was back in person this year, and we managed to get a little audio from presenters and attendees at the conference. WARNING: It was pretty much all recorded in a karaoke bar and the ambiance will definitely reflect that.
Is this episode practically all about Lomax, Watson's pal at the London Library? Yes, it is. And we find a possible schism between Holmes and Watson along the way. Got ten minutes? That's all this one takes!
This week, we're just letting the John H. Watson talk about how very, very, very bad Watson could possibly have been, if he was secretly a serial killer. Yep, this one's dark.
One of our bull pups has made a mess on Watson's virtue this week, and another pup can't keep from rolling in it. There's a Whitney, a Garrideb, and a whole lot of murders coming at you this week!
With a rare find in an 1893 newspaper, Paul Thomas Miller gives us a reading of Watson's arrest after "Final Problem" came out in The Strand Magazine. And there is some wild stuff here!
A little shorter episode this week abounding with tests of Watson knowlege, a touch or two of "Three Students," and an exquisite word of the week.
It's a short episode this week, featuring Henry Baskerville, a vampire manuscript, a Boscombe poem, and an old Avenger. Go for it, it won't take long.
There's some weird speculation in the middle of this one, but it gets back to business by the end, looking into a "peculiar" point in Holmes and Watson's relationship. Paul sings, Sandy recites, and Brad just goes on.
As Sherlockians and Watsonians gathered to celebrate Sherlock's birthday, the John H. Watson Society and friends got together to do some serious chats about John Watson. An extra-long episode to give you travelers a little more to listen to this week.
Another new feature tests Watson's bod for rugby potential, then we look at his rugby friend, try to tie a limerick to the them, and find out how Watson's correspondent almost made rugby America's major autumnal sport. Here's the Weekly!
It's season four of The Watsonian Weekly!
You want Watson news? We've got it!
You want new features? We've got them!
You want Watson's number? It may not be what you're hoping for, but we have that, too!
It's 2022, and we're starting the year off with a bang!
Well, bull pup Calder seems very confused about which day the second day after Christmas is, but it's a Blue Carbuncle heavy episode to celebrate that day, along with Moriarty the Patriot's Watson, and Watson's last hat to finish up 2021. Compliments of the season, Watsonians!
Better listen closely this time around, kids, as the voices come fast and furious with a dozen guests from the John H. Watson Society. Some talk of whippoorwills and holly, and a little surprise visit from that jolly fellow we adore at the end of our little Christmas parade.
Yep, it's Blue Carbuncle time, and we've got a few takes, along with other Watson, hat, and goose work, along with a dash of Irregular activity for seasoning.
Did I just type the whole description in the title? Pretty close! Walking through the fall issue of The Watsonian, mispronouncing names, and wondering about a few things until the regulars come in and do the real work of the show. Enjoy!
It's a short but sweet episode with updates on the John H. Watson Society, a feline Watson of the week, the good doctor modeling some glittery headwear, and how the nineties almost corrupted our old friend. Take twelve minutes and catch up with Watson!
We go on a bit this week as Watson leads us to NASA, Denny Dobry, and . . . Fratton? Well, there was a wrong turn there somewhere, but semi-regulars Rob Nunn and Tink the cat join us once again, in addition to Paul Thomas Miller and Madeline Quinones. I have got to finish these earlier.
Desperate times call for desperate features from two of our three podcasters this week, so we start pulling in Watson's from friendly sources. Bull pup Buck is well-prepared as usual, though, and has Watson trying on a certain single lady's hat. It's Watson time!
This episode features a goodly amount of bull pup Maddie's first trip to see Ken Ludwig's "Baskerville," along with the usual tidbits.
In which we talk about that upstart society of Watson's agent, a hat, a sonnet, a Hammer time Watson, and the woman who actually beat Sherlock Holmes, at least according to Moriarty. (Really!)
Get you some Watson!
It's an extra-long one this week, as we ad a little bit from the latest meeting of the John H. Watson Society (but not the part where a certain member allegedly plotted to kill Sherlockians just to get into an exclusive club . . . oops . . . that's not in this episode). All our regulars, no sea captains, just the way you like it.
We're all over the place this week: a Noble Bachelor's hat, a Priory poem, a Force-full Watson, and the end of a saga. All like something from a dream dreamt by a man named John.
Wondering how many wives Watson had? We have answers! Which Watson was his Holmes's arms? We have that answer! Who do you get to do Clark Russell Corner when you can't get Captain Basil? That answer too! And something about squirrels gone bad that may be somebody's answer to something.
Hang on, it's Watson time!
Really short episode this week, as the host had some family functions to deal with, but you get a hat and a wannabe! Take a break and check in on the doctor.
I just blew through recording this episode so fast that I can't even describe it! It's last thing on Sunday night and the Watsonian Weekly rides again!
This week we pay tribute to some Watsonian winners a couple of times, hear a little about Empty House, John Rhys Davies, shipboard marriage, seals, and could a podcast crossover be coming? Listen and let us know.
This week we wander through Watson's reading, his wife, a certain hat, an Obiwatson Kenobi, and the case where Watson was really the brains of the operation. Don't believe it? Listen to this . . .
Today was the deadline for the John H. Watson Society's annual month-long Treasure Hunt trivia quiz, and a certain podcast host waited until the final day to even start it when he should have been working on the podcast. The result? You get to listen to someone working on a trivia quiz while podcasting. (And the regulars, Paul, Madeline, and Sandy, who aren't distracted by the quiz.)
All sorts of news about the John H. Watson Society, Watson puts on a panama, one Watson will we never get to see, Clark Russell might sink another ship, poetry, and a somewhat dramatic reading from a Saturday performance. This one's . . . well, better than a lot of them!
Bull pups Buck, Maddie, Roxy, Beacon, and Calder bark up a . . . wait, you do remember that members of the John H. Watson Society are called bull pups, right? Anyway, rats, a vocal Watson, a classic CR storm, a Final poem, and books!
Watson's doppelganger, the last of Doctor Who's Watsons, the anti-Watson's opera hat, a brandy verse, and then Clark Russell takes us down a pretty criminal sea lane.
In our longest episode in a very long time, we are joined by bull pups Roxie and Beacon for poetry and shopping. Regular pups Maddy and Buck hit their usual high notes. And special guest Tim Johnson joins in for a look at this past Saturday's online symposium of Sherlockian goodness. All that plus Clark Russell, an unpublished Watson that might surprise, and more! Join us, won't you?
It's a very special episode of the Watsonian Weekly, at least it thinks it is. But who gets to define "special" anyway? Watson puts on an very surprising cap, bull pup Maddie has a very surprising hope for a Watson, and . . . well, it's a special episode.
Well, no July meeting content from the Watsonians, but we finally finish that book by Watson's favorite writer. Also a potential Watson and what happens when animals date above their weight.
We moust-ache you to bear with what the host thinks should go on a weekly podcast about John H. Watson. It's that kind of week!
Short episode this week, but we manage to talk about monkeys, St. Bernards, the desire for a Star Wars actor to become a Watson, and Clark Russell still gets mentioned. You know, the author, Clark Russell? Watson's favorite?
Watson puts on a deerstalker, has a mind palace of a certain "cheese," and needs to get to Australia so quickly that it takes about twelve people to discuss it.
The usual features, plus a whole lot of discussion from the latest meeting of the John H. Watson Society about Watson's younger days. And Mongooses. And washing machine noise. It's the WATSONIAN WEEKLY!
This week's Watson of the Week takes an extended look at the two Watsons who spun off into their own series, but before that, you get Watson trying to put a too-small hat on, and more of his reading material. You could ask for more, but you'll have to come back next week to get it!
Bull Pup Calder leans heavily on the rest of the Bull Pack this week, and you have to sit through Clark Russell right off the bat, but for you, our most loyal fan, here's your weekly dose of Watson!
It's a holiday weekend at Watsonian Weekly podcast studios, and things go a little off the rails. Recipes, bad science, grieving Watson, and Watson reads about the worst thing to do after you pick up a woman. You're a hearty Watsonian if you make it through this one!
This week, it's Paddington, the Watson named Winslow, and an entirely new Watson wearing hats for bull pup Buck to go on about. All that, and news of the latest meeting of the John H. Watson Society, the current state of the ship Lady Emma, and more! (But not much more!)
If you leave this week's podcast more Nigel Bruce than Ben Kingsley, we will certain understand. But we still love you anyway.
Thrawn's Watson, Scowrers, wild cats, and maybe even the name(s) of Watson's mother await you in this, the latest weekly Watson wanderings!
In these times when so little makes sense, why not tune into a podcast that pertains to nothing serious in the world at all and just think about Watson for a while, and those things somehow tied to him? (Which is about everything, really.)
Beaches full of good-looking women come up, but not how you would expect . . . or would you? . . . in a Doctor Watson podcast. Peter Capaldi's Watson, a brief chunk of a long John H. Watson Society meeting, Watson news, and . . . well, it's only twenty minutes, what more do you want? Jackals? Okay, jackals.
The title really says it all in this one, but there's also a bunch of Watson news, a shipwrecked couple, and the Canon's secret psychic all here as well. Enjoy!
It's long and it's live and there is a special guest we've been trying to get on the show for two years! (But he's very shy, so don't expect too much.) Bullpup Calder mixes the drink Watson invented, Bullpup Mopsy returns with Word of the Week, Bullpups Dawson and Maddie both do a Watson of the Week, and Bullpup Destiny joins in a game of Four Watsons. We're a couple of bullpups shy of a full house, and we had to miss a 221B Con panel to record it, but one hundred episodes!!!!
Someone was playing Sweet's "Fox on the Run" while uploading this episode, and you'll soon see why as we careen through a frozen sailors, pranks, convict-eating mammals, and inspire you to imagine a moustache-off between Royce Pierreson and Charles Prepolec, neither of whom appear in this episode. (What, you're expecting guests?) Yep, pretty much your average episode of the Watsonian Weekly!
For a podcast about Watson, you'd think we'd have a lot more content about the new Netflix Watson of the series "The Irregulars," but one of us was far too busy binging the thing to do much podcasting! But kill a dozen minutes with us anyway, just like every week.
We're one hand short this week, but we still get the scoop on body-less deer, what Watson is missing in Sherlock Holmes Year One, how long a makeshift mast lasts on the good ship Lady Emma, and that special place in Paddington where Watson was happy for a time.
Somebody is sneaking some Sherlock Holmes into this episode . . . or maybe another sibling for the fellow, but there's still that Watson data you crave. Have a medicinal brandy and join us, won't you?
Plenty of news, a little bit more Shoscombe Old Place than you'd expect, a bit more Doctor Who-atson, and the good ship Lady Emma has a ghost problem. All over the place as always, but taking Watson there with us!
It's a short one this week, especially for such a historic Watson occasion as took place this week, but here it is!
While no mentions of Doctor Dawson, there's a whole lot of rodents scurrying about this episode, including a Watson who once was called "Mouse." Even our Clark Russell moment has a Swedish seaman talking about shipboard rodents. The one thing you won't find mentioned, as we didn't know it was going to be a rodent themed episode, what that John B. Watson made the baby afraid of a white rat. What does that even mean? You'll have to listen and find out!
We don't even mention British football this episode, as we bring the Watson to several other topics, and deliver a good bit of Watson news.
We've got the stock market, neck-ties, Jenny Flint, cheetahs, and Miss Marie Otway finally boards the Lady Emma before Watson goes to bed. Enjoy, you howling Watsonians!
Waiting for the U.S. president to talk about Watson again, murder ponies, more Clark Russell, Gnome Watson, canaries, and more! You don't have to love Watson to listen to the Watsonian Weekly, but what the heck is going on that you don't love Dr. Watson? Sheesh! Get on the Watson wagon, weekly!
Join Brad, Paul, Margie, Robert, and Madeline on a Watsonian cruise through unexpected waters this week. Keep your harpoons at the ready, because thar a whale of an episode blows, matey!
Recovering from the big Sherlock Holmes January Weekend and America's worst week in a while, the Watsonian Weekly still returns to being fully staffed with Margie Deck, Robert Perrett, Paul Thomas Miller, Madeline Quiñones, and guest toaster Sandra Little! (And Brad Keefauver, your fumbling-through-some-last-minute-recording host.) We're talking Watson here!
Watson is into all kinds of curious things as be begin our third year of reporting upon Watsonish things. A lot of subbing for regulars this week, but you still get the full Weekly.
It's a lazy holiday weekend episode with two regulars off and Madeline Quiñones stepping in for Watson's Word of the Week. Hear the bittern boom, find out what happened to the first bull pup, and how a four-in-one featured Watson of the Week works. It's the last episode of season two, and . . .
(That's your cliffhanger.)
In this Watsonian Weekly Christmas Eve special, we give you a bit of the usual and a little Christmas story that spins off of "Speckled Band." If nothing else, it might help you drift off before Santa shows up at your house.
Somehow, one member of the team going on Christmas break sends the podcast spinning into . . . well, just a shorter podcast. Just eleven minutes and thirty-six seconds, at which point it's definitely over and you should turn off your app, close the web page, or whatever your method of listening is.
While we do hit Christmas, drunkenness in the Canon, and boars, there's a whole lot of chat about Watson's three continental "breakfasts" from the John H. Watson Society.
No on-the-scene reports this week, but some good, solid Watson work anyway, on his coat, classic Watsoniana, and the Watson with the most recorded monkey attacks. It's under twenty minutes, so what have you got to lose?
This week we have an astonishing live remote from Portsmouth where the 140th anniversary of Watson returning home from war on the troopship Orontes! Does it make up for some horrid sound editing on another part of the show? Well, you'll have to find out the hard way. Welcome to the Watsonian Weekly!
Really, I just want to write the description for the next "Sherlock Holmes is Real" right now, but here we are. Roll into one nation's Thanksgiving with a big scoop of mashed Watson.
You may enjoy hearing some toasts, a Irish John Watson, bisons, or the rising shade against the writer of "Watsoniana," but where else are your going to hear a podcaster that had to fight off a cat during the show?
Some of us are subtle with mail and things said "joe-cosely," and some of us are not at all, but this is a good week to be bidin' your time with the Watsonian Weekly, if you catch my drift. And if you make it past everything else, you might even find out where the term "Watsonian" first appeared in reference to our friend John H. Watson. So pitter-patter . . .
Take a moment from your stressful week and enjoy talk of cesspools, shocking night creature revelations, and John Watson going out to the terrace to die. (We don't mention the terrace part on the podcast, but . . . yeah.) The Watsonian Weekly is here for you in numbing your time of political dread!
This week, we feature Denmark's capital city, its second largest land predator, Victorian liberalism, and dog policies of tenant housing. And yet, this is still the most entertaining podcast focused on that cutey John H. Watson that you're going to get this week!
Is it Holmesoween or Hallowatson? Either way, you're getting tricks and treats in this wildly fish-tailing episode of somehow Watson-related miscellanea, all presented in a lazy Sunday fashion.
Want to hear about sisters COMMA , asses COMMA, snackling COMMA, and a gathering of Sherlockians that didn't have any of those? It's our Left Coast Sherlockian Symposium follow-up episode, with special guests Phil Bergem, Heather Hinson, and the not-quite-as-special-because-he's-on-a-lot Rob Nunn.
Feeling a bit chaffered? A bit red in the head? Does Watson ape a few folks, and it that a fair assessment? Give us ten minutes or so and you can find out.
No twaddle, but some Twidle this episode as we also talk about Enola, hats, and not much else. It's a short one!
What kind of music did Watson like? What would people sing about Watson? What would Watson himself sing about? And can we have a Watson concert based on all this someday? Time to find out!
After a good bit of John H. Watson Society breaking news, some bits on Portland, Madrid, a menangerie, and Uffa, we present a reader's theater production of "Watson's Lion's Mane," with one of the most diversely voiced casts on a Sherlock Holmes play you will hear this year!
A little later than usual, but we've got winners, we've got pate de foie gras pie, and we've got those chubby little faces you want to see at your Labor Day festivities. It's Watson time!
This week, we find it hard to do Watson news without getting sidetracked on that old East wind. And for the love of Baker Street, somebody get Watson some chocolate!
Two new voices on the podcast this week give us a book review and a 1980s take on Watson as a husband, whilst the old familiars take us down some different alleys in Watsontown.
There's snakes, boxing, caganers, a disappearing Watson, and Watsonians attempting that which must not be attempted. Other podcasts may give you more detailed episode notes, but we . . . well, we don't.
Heavenly bodies align to flavor your wine.
Only a fool could make a hunt so cruel.
Some banter for the mendicanter.
And, no, we weren't stuttering when we said this episode would be a lot like Sussexual Sherlock!
The search for Watson's treasure begin, a cat Watson, a known Parker, an unknown Anderson, a rappin' Watson, the mystery of how Watson's clothes were clean, and the clients we really wonder about. Hope his red pants are clean enough for Monday, because it's here!
There's talk of Bertillon, magazines, the sun, a Watson that froze Sherlock, and somehow we find our way to Star Wars, and Watson's agent obviously stanning it. Oh, what a tangled web we weave when Watson comes tugging at our sleeve!
This week, the Watsonian Weekly regulars record the podcast together for the first time, and we learn about Richards, gloves, birds and lighthouses, Howard Marion Crawford, Jack Hawkins, and visiting Sherlockian sites (but don't get your hopes up -- we think "Chicago" counts). Actual human interaction this week, give it a listen!
What hath the second meeting of the John H. Watson Society brought to the podcast party? Why so many birds? Bad podcast organization, a good diary entry, and a mysterious movie that only one person is known to have seen? And we had to stop at a half hour for this one, because our Watsonian cup is overflowing!
Let's not bury the lead: Watson is Canonically naked, the exposed facts this episode! Also, a pleasant conversation with Beth Gallego, the Buttons of the John H. Watson Society, many of Watson's words of the week, a slop shop deciphered, and can you really head down to Watsontown? It's all here!
Watson's word of the week may be "sour," but he still seems to have an interest in music halls and lintels. We get to hear a lot of things about foreign editions from Don Hobbs, Sherlockiana's foremost expert on the subject, and if you stick around to the end of this longer-than-usual episode, you might even get a happy little song shipping Doctor Watson with one of the best potential mates in the Canon.
Bull pups, hounds, an almanac, and "My God! It's Watson!"
Even if it's Watson, Oklahoma, you'll find a little tiger in your Watson. And this episode, we actually talk to each other!
A little report on this year's online Scintillation of Scions symposium, poetry, Canonical characters in their forties, a movie Watson in his childhood, Vicar Roundhay, and more! (Watson as a muskrat.)
Think a podcast about John H. Watson can't find a way to talk about racism this week? Have you read what he wrote? Some seriousness and some of the usual silliness as well this week, so buckle up . . . it's still not a very long podcast, in any case.
Breaking news on Watson being replaced by a younger man with a similar first name adds to the chaos of the world at the moment, and we turn to poetry, Violet Hunter, and Australia for comfort.
We range from the poetic to the pro wrestling in our praise of Watsons this week, and there's plenty of news and even Mycroft gets a bit, so join us, won't you?
The Watsonians met this week, so there's good news there! We've got Watson's education, his poetry, and even an alien encounter for the good doctor?
The lower-case animal crossing gets a little weird in this one, and there's a Watson who isn't human (mammal) and one who isn't human (flower). How that theme got into this episode, I don't know, but at least there's none of that Dr. Moreau stuff going on here!