Ridiculous Revisions

Chris Hellkamp

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What happened after Goldilocks ran out of the three bears' house? How did Cinderella's marriage hold up? Why did those elves help out that shoemaker in the first place? This podcast shoves classic children's stories through the meat grinder to give you original short stories that you probably won't want to tell to your kids. Welcome to Ridiculous Revisions, bedtime stories for the disturbed!

23/06/2021

Episode 8: More

Jack Spriggins, of Jack and the Beanstalk fame, continues to be rewarded for his limitless greed at the expense of others.

31 min
09/06/2021

Episode 7: Can't Outrun the Gingerbread Man

Fifty years after a gingerbread man mysteriously came to life and died on the same day, an old farmhand is brutally murdered.

34 min
26/05/2021

Episode 6: Fast Living

The classic fable The Tortoise and the Hare taught us that "slow and steady wins the race", but is that really the lesson to be learned? Come see how the tortoise's life changed after his famous win against the hare.

18 min
12/05/2021

Episode 5: Hair

For Rapunzel's hair to get as long as it did, it would have had to grow a lot faster than anyone else's. Maybe she would have even been something of a medical oddity. Maybe the witch thought she was doing Rapunzel a favor by taking her from her parents. Join me as we imagine a completely new version of the Rapunzel story!

22 min
25/04/2021

Episode 4: Hansel, Gretel, and the Sugary Void

You remember Hansel and Gretel, right? Two children are left to die in the woods by their parents. Ah, those were the days! The children get caught by an evil witch who uses a house made of tasty treats to lure her victims in. One kid gets caged and fattened up for the kill. The other kid is kept around for slave labor until she has an opportunity to kill the witch and escape. As hard as this story is to believe, what if it actually covers up a much more bi...

24 min
13/04/2021

Episode 3: Unsavory Bargain

This episode, we tackle the tale of The Elves and the Shoemaker. In the original tale, a shoemaker falls on hard times, but a group of elves starts showing up in the middle of the night to make his products for him and the business climbs out of the red. Did you ever wonder why the elves helped out the shoemaker in the first place? Well, maybe the elves had their own reasons. Maybe the shoemaker was just a means to an end.

21 min
04/04/2021

Episode 2: After the Glass Slippers

No one ever mentions anything of Cinderella after she settled into life at the royal palace. It’s a life that changes a person, and not normally for the better.

15 min
27/03/2021

Episode 1: The Goldilocks Incident

For our first episode, we butcher the tale of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. In the modern story, a little girl called Goldilocks finds a house in the woods. She finds no one at home with the door unlocked, so she just strolls right in and helps herself. She breaks a chair by sitting in it, eats some porridge left out to cool on the table, and falls asleep in one of three beds only to wake up to the inhabitants of the home, a family of talking bears, looking at her. G...

16 min

8 Episodes

What happened after Goldilocks ran out of the three bears' house? How did Cinderella's marriage hold up? Why did those elves help out that shoemaker in the first place? This podcast shoves classic children's stories through the meat grinder to give you original short stories that you probably won't want to tell to your kids. Welcome to Ridiculous Revisions, bedtime stories for the disturbed!

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Chris Hellkamp
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2K
Episodes

8
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Clean
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Ridiculous Revisions

Ridiculous Revisions

Episodes

Episode 8: More

Episode 7: Can't Outrun the Gingerbread Man

Episode 6: Fast Living

Episode 5: Hair

Episode 4: Hansel, Gretel, and the Sugary Void

Episode 3: Unsavory Bargain

Episode 2: After the Glass Slippers

Episode 1: The Goldilocks Incident

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