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!
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Episode 8: More
Jack Spriggins, of Jack and the Beanstalk fame, continues to be rewarded for his limitless greed at the expense of others.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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 bizarre and horrible truth?
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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.
Customer Reviews
A Fun Romp!
A fun romp through some popular tales, with unexpected (yes! Actually unexpected! Not just a retelling of the often macabre original-original source material) twists. I love the deadpan humour in making these stories a bit more true to life.
I LOLed.
I don't often laugh out loud but this podcast has made me do so on SEVERAL occassions. The sound is good, the writing is good, and it's a creative concept! I like the information added to the stories, it all feels plausible and consistent with the oral tradition the stories are rooted in.
Cure for Polyannaism
With the additional details the bedtime stories I heard as a child are finally adding up :)