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The podcast where we explore how old tales are made new! Whether it's the fairytales we heard as children, the classic literature we read in high school, or the most ancient of mythologies, it seems creators can't help but keep putting their own spin on old stories, and we're going to tackle every flavor we can get our nerdy hands on.
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Welcome to Brainchild, a podcast where potentials are unlocked in our careers and in life, inspired by conversations with others who are proud parents of their own creations. In each episode, we will connect with a guest to talk about what makes them tick and how they turned a passion into a project in various industries including hospitality, media, and technology. You will find with me insight, entertainment, and your "ah-ha" moment in the most unexpected places.
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Send us a text Monster Month 2: The Dead Are Rising continues with giggling slumber party energy as Jas, River, Callie, Kyle, and Charley all discuss the rare instant cult classic, Lisa Frankenstein, and how it's a more faithful adaptation of the original novel than even the host initially thought, how it also replicates the dynamic of Mary and Per…
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Send us a text Welcome to Monster Month 2: The Dead are Rising, and a new world of gods and monsters! For our very first wish episode, as requested by Callie, we are beginning October with a discussion of the much reviled Tom Cruise vehicle disguised as what could've started the Dark Universe franchise, The Mummy (2017). Join Jas, Callie, and newco…
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Send us a text This week was 90 pages long and very heavy in terms of subject matter. On the one hand, all of the people who want to fight Dracula for Lucy's memory are getting together. On the other hand, Renfield finally gets some depth just before his death and Mina is Dracula's next victim... The following podcast is for entertainment purposes …
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Send us a text Once again we're running a little late on future episodes, so enjoy some outtakes from the Stray Gods episode! Find my guests and their stuff! River https://twitter.com/DreamsRebel https://filmlion.wordpress.com/ https://boxd.it/CHDR Ellie https://twitter.com/elessar42 https://footballintuxedos.tumblr.com https://open.spotify.com/sho…
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Send us a text Good news: Ellie finally admits to actually being Carmilla, the Harkers know that Dracula was real, and Van Helsing continues to be a cinnamon roll among vampire slayers. Bad News: Laura has been kidnapped by Dracula, Seward is a stubborn skeptic, and Lucy is probably eating kids. Surely Dracula can be defeated under these conditions…
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Send us a text Jas and Callie may be despondent over happenings on a whole other podcast, but not to worry, there's plenty of misery to go around in Dracula as well, with a whopping four deaths, including our beloved Lucy Westenra. About the only levity we have is Callie's silly jokes and one very good wolfy boy...and also Jas, Shami, and Callie ar…
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Send us a text It's the week of Friday the 13th and no one's luck in this novel has improved at all. Lucy continues to fade away, and Van Helsing desperately tries to save her from not just Dracula, but her own mother's attempts to get rid of her garlic flowers. Additionally, we suggest that vampire hunters should start more restaurants with lots o…
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Send us a text On the 23rd day in the month of September, in a year from a decade not too long before our own, a threat to the sanctity of a cult classic musical came into being...or did it? Dear listeners, your host did not expect her friends to be so eager to read her silly little sequel to one of her favorite musicals, but they did, and now you …
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Send us a text It is now officially the equinox and sadly Hadestown (Act II) is still in progress, but the good news is there's a whole hour of bonus goofs and tangents that I can share while Hades and Persephone reunite and hopefully bring autumn to the land instead of rising temperatures that remind us that sadly no, Orpheus did not stop climate …
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Send us a text We may have forgotten a little thing called spring, but that doesn't mean we can't still discuss the highly acclaimed and highly popular musical adaptation of the tragedy of Orpheus and Eurydice, that also saw fit to make it all about the reason for the autumn season, Hades & Persephone. In the kind of jam packed episode we will neve…
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Send us a text Because talking about 10 Things I Hate About You made us yearn for a simpler time when mid budget movies that set Shakespeare plays in high school existed, we've decided to pitch our own versions! Could King Lear be about Texas high school football? Can you thread the needle between the very different moods of a Measure for Measure a…
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Send us a text It's the 13th episode, and perhaps that's why Dr. Seward's having such a rough week between potentially watching the girl he loves die, and Renfield having more and more mental breakdowns because Dracula abandoned him...but truthfully, we don't care so much about Seward, so Jas, Ellie, and Shami find themselves discussing Van Helsing…
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Send us a text It's officially back to school season, and without a strike to stop us, we can finally discuss the absolute high school rom com classic, 10 Things I Hate About You. Join Jas, Sam, Callie, and River in discussing how Petruchio wishes he was Patrick Verona, how much we long for the return of the mid budget movie, especially rom coms, a…
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Send us a text Good news, Shami's back, and is torturing Dracula with disco music. Bad news, this is a fairly short segment again where Arthur finally admits something's wrong with his fiancee. So instead we end up talking a lot about vampiric animals, where the hell Quincey's been, and how we promise we're not sponsored by Are You Afraid of the Da…
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Send us a text Lightning Thief Month comes to an end with arguably the adaptation that finally did this story justice, the Disney+ series Percy Jackson and the Olympians. Here Jas, River, Leif, and for the very first time Edric, will discuss all the ways this brilliant series is both loyal to its source material, and manages to update it in a way t…
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Send us a text This week it would seem that our attempts to thwart Dracula have put a target on our beloved Shami's back, so she sadly could not join Jas, Ellie, and Callie this week. To distract ourselves and MAYBE find a solution, we explore how Renfield is a desperate wannabe member of the Evil Polycule, Mina and Jonathan being relationship goal…
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Send us a text In the penultimate episode of Lightning Thief Month, we discuss the musical adaptation, and it's honestly a little surprising that it exists, and Jas questions whether or not this adaptation is much better than the despised film adaptation in spite of taking just as many liberties, and River and Meredith help explain why the fanbase …
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Send us a text It's just Jas and Callie today, and the good news is Jonathan's alive! The bad news is Mina and Lucy have no idea of the danger they're in. About the only comfort we have is how gay they're still being, and plotting all the ways we're going to beat up Dracula. The following podcast is for entertainment purposes only. The views and op…
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Send us a text Fourteen years ago, Jasmine's family had a movie night, and discovered the director of two films Jasmine had a great fondness for at the time had done a similar film about the children of Greek gods, and had a pretty decent time, blissfully unaware of the fandom outrage. Now, Jasmine, River, Leif, and Callie discuss whether or not th…
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Send us a text Between the major character deaths, the ill fated puppies, and Dracula's first bite out of Lucy, it's a harrowing week in the Dracula novel this week. Join Jas, Ellie, Shami, and Callie as we discover our comic relief had hidden depths just before we lost him, and that the SPCA has existed for 200 years (and if you can you should 100…
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Send us a text Surprise bonus episode, although does it really count when it's belated? But hey, this episode gets to come out on the anniversary of its subject matter, the beautifully sung, beautifully animated roleplaying game (or is it a visual novel? Jury's still out) where a metaphorical boat lost at sea must clear her name in the murder of th…
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Send us a text "Look, I didn't want to be a half blood." Nearly 20 years ago, that simple sentence renewed youthful interest in Greek mythology, and shockingly, there have been three adaptations (four if you count the graphic novel) of this modern myth about a troubled preteen boy who discovers he's a descendant of the Greek gods, and this month, w…
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Send us a text The Captain of the Demeter is wrong about his first mate, the older gentleman Lucy and Mina met might be right about not being so precious about the dead, and maybe the way to shake up the Dracula story is by incorporating lesser known vampire myths. The following podcast is for entertainment purposes only. The views and opinions exp…
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