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Sarah (00:00):
The parade chase we demonstrated.

Mark (00:17):
Hey, maniacs.

Sarah (00:19):
Hey, maniacs. Welcome to mystery maniacs, a comedy recap
podcast focused on mystery TV.Each week, we dig into an
episode and talk about themurder, the mayhem, the loonies,
and everything else we love. Andthis week, we are talking about
Broken Woods season eightepisode five, good as gold. I'm

(00:39):
Sarah.

Mark (00:40):
And I'm Mark. And you can let your kids listen to the
podcast if you let them go tothe Creek Stream River and pan
for gold. Unsuccessfully foryears. Yes.

Sarah (00:52):
Or have a feud. Decades. A family feud. Decades. These
people don't know where goldcomes from.
No. They don't. Before we diveinto that, something that we've
been waiting for for a long timewas finally released this week,
the Thursday Murder Club movie.

Mark (01:11):
Yes. On Netflix, the Thursday Murder Club movie. Murr
Murr

Sarah (01:18):
Murrvi? Murrvi? Is that a murder movie?

Mark (01:20):
It's a murder movie.

Sarah (01:21):
Based on Richard Osmond's book of the same name, which I
really liked. I've liked all ofthem in the series.

Mark (01:26):
Yes.

Sarah (01:27):
It's got Pierce Brosnan, Helen Mirren.

Mark (01:30):
Who else? Ben Kingsley.

Sarah (01:32):
Ben Kingsley and the lady who was in a Midsummer and a
Christie who said, you do it inthe streets.

Mark (01:38):
What is her name? Cecilia Ermes.

Sarah (01:40):
Thank you. To me, she will forever be that woman who
said the nasty things over thephone.

Mark (01:47):
Yes. Midsummer familiar, people would find that Tom
Ellis, Celia, Paul Freeman,otherwise known as Bellocque
Mhmm. Ruth Sheen, and KatieBrand are in this movie as well
as Midsommar's. Now Katie Brandis interesting.

Sarah (02:07):
We've talked about Katie Brand before. She's not Joe
Brand's daughter.

Mark (02:10):
No. And she's not in the movie. She wrote the movie.

Sarah (02:14):
She did the screenplay for

Mark (02:15):
it. She did in the She

Sarah (02:16):
and Richard Osmond are buddies, I think. Okay. Richard
Osmond, he is what? Seven feettall?

Mark (02:22):
Yes. Her and a woman named Suzanne Heathcote wrote it.

Sarah (02:26):
I think it was perfectly cast. Yes. We're not gonna give
anything away. We spoil we'regonna spoil Brokenwood, but we
are not gonna spoil ThursdayMurder Club. But just a little
review just to tell you whetheryou should watch it or not,
which, know, don't listen to us.
You should watch it if you wantto, of course. As a version of
the book, as a translation ofthe book for film, I give it

(02:49):
seven out 10.

Mark (02:50):
It's rushed.

Sarah (02:52):
But as just a British movie with murders, nine out of
10.

Mark (02:57):
If we had seen that movie without knowing about the book
Mhmm. It would be all glowing.It's unfortunate that we read
the book because I feel it wouldhave been better as a series.

Sarah (03:10):
Yes.

Mark (03:10):
Now, I also think

Sarah (03:12):
But that's a common thing when

Mark (03:13):
That Damon Helen Mirren doesn't do television series.
Yeah. She does movies. And sothat's why we have a movie and
not a series.

Sarah (03:23):
But that's what makes it a good book because there's a
lot of plot. And they justcouldn't fit it all into two
hours.

Mark (03:28):
Another

Sarah (03:29):
But they did fit in all the things about the characters
that you really like if you'veread the book, the setting.
Like, those things are there.That's really important. Without
those, it would have been awful.

Mark (03:42):
There was a review about it where this individual said
that the movie was asdisappointing as a stale scone
because it didn't understandaging. I'm like, this is the
freshest take on aging I've seenin a while.

Sarah (04:01):
I'm old, but I'm not that old. So I don't know if it
understands aging or not. Yeah.I liked the view of aging that
it presents. I like the way thebook presents it.
It's realistic without, you

Mark (04:12):
know When I started reading the book, I said to
Sarah, Richard Osmond knowsthese people because they're
real, feel very real people.Yeah. They're not I'm a scratchy
old person.

Sarah (04:25):
I will say Pierce Brosnan is gold. He's just fantastic. I
mean, Helen Mirren's great, butthat's what you expect from her.
Yeah. I was surprised by PierceBrosnan, and he was great.

Mark (04:38):
There's a there's a scene, and this is not giving anything
away, where one of thecharacters comes to get Pierce
Brosnan who is in the pool doinghis daily exercises.

Sarah (04:50):
Doing water aerobics. Water aerobics.

Mark (04:52):
With a with a number of old ladies. And this, there you
have never seen happier oldladies to be in the pool with
Pierce Brosnan. Because you younever hear anything about that
guy other than he's thegreatest, nicest person ever.

Sarah (05:07):
Yeah.

Mark (05:08):
And I'm sure he was like the utmost gentleman in the
pool. Yeah.

Sarah (05:13):
And was like But very different from the last role we
saw him in, which was that TomHardy show. Yes. What was that
called? Mobland?

Mark (05:22):
Mobland.

Sarah (05:24):
Where he is cutthroat. Yeah. And and Helen Mirren.

Mark (05:27):
Helen Mirren is in that hell.

Sarah (05:28):
She's very different than that too.

Mark (05:30):
Why didn't they make it a series? She did

Sarah (05:34):
TV. She did a

Mark (05:34):
series recently.

Sarah (05:35):
That puts lie to what you said. Anyway

Mark (05:38):
I was wrong.

Sarah (05:39):
They made a movie because they made a movie.

Mark (05:41):
It should have been a series.

Sarah (05:42):
But it's good. Yeah. It's well worth watching if you like
British murder. And if you don'tlike British murder, why are you
here? Yeah.
Why you listening to this? Is itan accident or something? Tracy
Gray, otherwise known as Trudyfrom Brokenwood, posted some
photos online So of filming thenext season of Brokenwood.

Mark (06:03):
So I messaged her and said, hey, it was great to see
that they're filming anotherseason. She also posted a great
video of the scene from seasoneleven where Frodo's dancing on
the table at the trivia episodeMhmm. And how they have one guy
lying on the floor Stabilizingthe table. And that there's this

(06:24):
huge pile of foam that Frodo canFrodo can fall into. It's it is
excellent.
But she also has new stuff andI'm I mentioned that to her
because, know, Tracy and I.

Sarah (06:36):
They're your best friends now. And

Mark (06:43):
she said, oh, I've been saving some pictures for you to
send. I was like, okay. So shesent us three pictures. She sent
us a close-up of the missingposter for the Kingswood. So in
season eleven, and this is not aspoiler.

Sarah (07:01):
When Mike's car gets stolen, they put posters up.

Mark (07:04):
Yes. It's like a missing poster. Yeah. And we have a
close-up of that more than youever see in the show.

Sarah (07:11):
Yeah.

Mark (07:12):
And then she sent a couple of pictures from the bar. So,
the bar, like any bar as we'vementioned before in Midsummer or
any other show we've covered,they cannot show any actual
liquor labels. Right. They can'tshow real beer taps, they can't
show anything.

Sarah (07:31):
No real brands.

Mark (07:32):
No real brands. Mostly because like they don't have a
deal with those brands. Right.Right? So every single bottle
that you see in behind the barhas

Sarah (07:43):
a different Cheetah.

Mark (07:44):
Has a different label on it. Yeah. And she sent us a
close-up of two of them that shesaid we wouldn't show up.

Sarah (07:52):
Because she knows we're nerds for for signs

Mark (07:55):
and So posters and the first one

Sarah (08:02):
And we're gonna post these pictures.

Mark (08:04):
Yeah. We'll post these pictures. Is Voot and Fein,
which is the finest name inIrish whiskey and it has a stock
picture of like a drawing of abull's head and fine old Irish
whiskey distilled, blended andbottled.

Sarah (08:23):
It sounds very Irish.

Mark (08:25):
Yeah. Voot and fang. And, I think this is probably a
theme. All of them are somewhateither cat or reptile or
amphibian related. Really?
For

Sarah (08:39):
the frog and cheetah?

Mark (08:40):
No. Yes, because the next one is reptile reserve rum from
the private distilleryestablished in 1738. It has a
big old snake on it.

Sarah (08:54):
Somebody spends a lot of time making those things,
printing them out, peeling themoff, sticking them on. I think
That's a lot of work.

Mark (09:01):
I think they do fantastic work.

Sarah (09:03):
And we appreciate their work.

Mark (09:04):
We do indeed. Season 12 of Midsummer is filming, season 12
of Brokenwood is filming rightnow, so we should probably get
those maybe March, April Yeah.Sometime.

Sarah (09:20):
That's what I would guess. But who knows? Are you
ready to talk about Broken Wood,Good as Gold?

Mark (09:25):
Yes.

Sarah (09:25):
Alright.

Mark (09:26):
Originally aired the 07/25/2022, directed by Carolyn
Bell, no relation Booth, andSarah Kate Lynch. I have to
think that the subtle subtext ofmisunderstanding of the
intricacies of women is goofingin this episode. Considering it

(09:48):
was written by a woman

Sarah (09:50):
And directed by a woman.

Mark (09:51):
Directed by a woman. There's a code?

Sarah (09:54):
We are going to spoil it. So if you haven't watched this
episode, stop right now. We'regonna ruin it for you. It can be
summarized pretty easily. It's,the Hatfields and McCoys meets
Romeo and Juliet and oneamazingly horrible mother.

Mark (10:10):
Plus the promotion of Canadian musicians. Wow. Yeah.
Brokenwood's good

Sarah (10:15):
with the music.

Mark (10:15):
Yes.

Sarah (10:16):
But that's it. Yeah. That is really it. Forbidden love
between two feuding families anda mother who clearly cannot
control herself. You shoved me,I'm going to kill you.
The end.

Mark (10:29):
Like I've been shoved in my life. Did you shoot somebody
for didn't immediately look forand pick up a 22.

Sarah (10:39):
Like Well and She's out of control.

Mark (10:43):
So the mother is the killer. She's doing this Polly.
To get a gold nugget so to feedher daughter's gambling habit
basically. And yet, her friend,and we'll talk about this when
we get to it, her friend has amuch better response to her
gambling addiction than hermother does.

Sarah (11:02):
Yeah. But she gets killed. So so it's two farms.
Right? And Jane, the woman whogets killed, she's a Ferguson,
and the other family are theHollins.
Yes. And the Ferguson farm isbeautiful. The house is
beautiful. Yep. But did you takea look at the porch?
It's very strange.

Mark (11:22):
Yeah.

Sarah (11:23):
Right next to the front door are a couple of pitchforks
and a topiary that's clearlyhiding something. Yep. I don't
know what it's covering up, butit is the most misshapen, weird
topiary I have ever seen.

Mark (11:38):
I know exactly what it's covering up. What? The dad.
Because the dad shows up Jock?Jock shows up Once.
Mumbles something,

Sarah (11:48):
kinda? Gets taken back to the house and never seen again.

Mark (11:51):
Never seen again.

Sarah (11:54):
So you you think that's Jock standing on the porch
covered in ivy looking like atopiary? Ugh. It's it's just
weird. And, of course, ToddTaylor, is recurring like a bad
penny, works at the Fergusonfarm.

Mark (12:10):
Okay. Again, though Todd looks a bit like a lazy person
in this episode, He's gettingpaid to fish.

Sarah (12:18):
Yeah.

Mark (12:19):
He has a million jobs.

Sarah (12:21):
Yeah. But he doesn't do any of them with his whole ass.

Mark (12:24):
He's all half assed. He's all 100% half assed. He says
that the other sisters' gorsepockets, which is like Scrooge.

Sarah (12:34):
Prickly pockets. Yeah. Like it hurts to put your hand
in Yeah. Like we used to saythat my dad's wallet creaked
when you opened it and bats flewout because he was so tight with
cats.

Mark (12:45):
Lucky. You saw the walnuts. Rarely.

Sarah (12:48):
I got a new view of Chalmers, and I'm not crazy
about it. Why? Okay. First ofall, he's got on his typical
short sleeve button up shirt.Yes.
But did you notice what'sdifferent about it?

Mark (13:01):
It has bands on the sleeves.

Sarah (13:04):
And polka dots all over it.

Mark (13:07):
Oh, I did not know that.

Sarah (13:08):
The body of the shirt's white with blue polka dots, and
the little sleeve cuffs are bluewith white polka dots. But then
he says he likes avocado toast.

Mark (13:16):
He does say he likes avocado toast.

Sarah (13:19):
Come on.

Mark (13:20):
And first of all, that nugget's bigger than an avocado.

Sarah (13:24):
It's like a small football.

Mark (13:25):
The small football. Or rugby ball. Second of all, I
don't like that he likes avocadotoast.

Sarah (13:33):
I don't know about where you're from, listener, but where
we're from, avocado toast peopleare a certain kind of snob
hippie kind of.

Mark (13:41):
Kinda.

Sarah (13:42):
Or kind

Mark (13:42):
of a rude Some people might just like avocado.

Sarah (13:45):
I think it's one thing if you make it yourself, it's
different if you purchase itsomewhere.

Mark (13:50):
I have no doubt that he absolutely makes it himself. If
he

Sarah (13:55):
makes it himself, I'm less judgy about it.

Mark (13:57):
The thing that I am upset about this episode happens right
near the beginning. And what Iam upset is, is we don't have a
five minute montage of itbecause I would have enjoyed it
much more. And that is the quadbikes.

Sarah (14:15):
Sims and Chalmers get on the quad bikes.

Mark (14:17):
When Sims and Chalmers riding the quad bikes through
the hills of New Zealand.

Sarah (14:25):
Racing, jumping, running each other off the road.

Mark (14:30):
Is that what you've everybody else is there, and
Mike gets there, and there areno quad bikes involved. No. But
the two of them are off on theirquad bikes.

Sarah (14:40):
Well, it's far enough away that Jane rides a horse
there.

Mark (14:43):
Yes.

Sarah (14:43):
Her poor horse is tied to a tree and she's dead.

Mark (14:46):
Todd Taylor says he's in the great outdoors. That's a
phrase that is wrought withcontroversy.

Sarah (14:53):
Oh, yeah?

Mark (14:53):
You'd think it wasn't, but it's a it's a manufactured term
of the thirties of marketingpeople that is to instill in
white people the notion that outof doors is theirs to explore.

Sarah (15:11):
Oh. Not just, hey, you should get outside, but outside
is yours, go take it. GreatYeah.

Mark (15:20):
And so that's problematic to, oh I don't know, the people
who were there before.

Sarah (15:24):
Maybe. They might be a little bitter about that.

Mark (15:28):
You can't tell the difference between a Romney
Marsh and a Hampshire down. Twosheep named for places in
England.

Sarah (15:37):
Well, that's where they came from.

Mark (15:38):
Yes.

Sarah (15:40):
Which is clearly indicative of how dumb Todd is
because one of them is a blackfaced sheep and one of them is a
white faced sheep. Yes. Like Icould tell. I might not know
what they are, but I could tellthe difference between those two
sheep. Yes.
Though I mean I had to look themup. I'm not that intimate with
sheep.

Mark (15:56):
No. No. No. We had to look them up.

Sarah (15:58):
But I'm not working on a farm in New Zealand.

Mark (16:00):
Well, this farm is interesting because we have to
ride quad bikes to this locationand yet there's electricity for
a record. How is that possible?That's the longest extension
cord ever. Don't run over itwith your quad bike. Hydro.

(16:21):
Hydro powered.

Sarah (16:22):
She's got a little water wheel down the freak.

Mark (16:24):
So Sarah and I right before the episode made a
mistake of trying to look up thedifference between stream, creek
and river. Again fraught withcontroversy. A creek is smaller
than a

Sarah (16:36):
stream but it's a kind of stream.

Mark (16:38):
Yes.

Sarah (16:39):
And a stream is a small river. To me What?

Mark (16:42):
This is a creek that is sometimes a river.

Sarah (16:45):
I wouldn't even say that. Yeah. It's a creek. Yeah. You
could jump over it most placesand you could definitely walk
across it.

Mark (16:52):
Mike's like, how could you get across it? And Sims is like,
six kilometers that way. I'mlike Walk? Hike up your Take
your shoes

Sarah (17:01):
off and walk across. Yeah. Yeah. It's if you had
boots on, they your feetwouldn't even get wet. Yeah.
I don't know a lot about goldpanning. Yes. And maybe my view
of it is Western United Statesbiased.

Mark (17:16):
Yes.

Sarah (17:17):
But my understanding of the reason you pan for gold,
rather than mining, that'sdifferent, but panning for gold
is that gold is lighter than therocks, the bottom of whatever
body of moving water you're in.And by scooping up the sediment
at the bottom of the water andshaking it, you see tiny bits of

(17:40):
gold flex, and you get them out.But the water has to be moving
for those to be distributed likethat. They're coming from
somewhere higher up. Yes.
This water is not moving.

Mark (17:53):
It's not moving.

Sarah (17:54):
It is the most stagnant creek I've ever seen, and Jane
has been down there forever,every day, panning the same
spot. She's got to be panningthe same gravel over and over
again.

Mark (18:05):
And okay, the idea is this, that there was a nugget
that was lost, and that there

Sarah (18:13):
That nugget never came from that water, I'm sorry. That
is a you mind it nugget, don'tyou think?

Mark (18:19):
Yeah. Oh, definitely.

Sarah (18:20):
Well, okay. It's something painted gold is what
it is. Yes. But

Mark (18:26):
But like, if that showed up in your tray, you would
notice it right away.

Sarah (18:32):
No. You'd have to shake it a little bit. Get the get the
sand off of it. What's thatthere you got?

Mark (18:38):
A nugget. It it

Sarah (18:39):
The size of my head.

Mark (18:41):
It it doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

Sarah (18:43):
The feud thing just doesn't make sense. Though, you
know, people with mining claims,going back in history, have
often gotten quite the fightsabout them.

Mark (18:53):
Yes. What the

Sarah (18:54):
Isn't there a Murdoch about that?

Mark (18:55):
Yes. There there is a Murdoch about that. And the
thing that I like that the feudbrings is the fine acting by Roy
Billing. Roy Billing plays thedad. The Holland dad in the The
Holland dad.
Dan. And he's been in a bunch ofAustralian and New things. I

(19:16):
think he's originally fromTasmania.

Sarah (19:18):
He's a great actor. Looks kind of like a toad in the chair
though.

Mark (19:22):
Kinda looks like a toad, but that's the kind of thing he
plays. He was in a show calledunderground underbelly. Sorry.
Which is a great Australian

Sarah (19:32):
There's lots crime of different underbellies,

Mark (19:34):
aren't There's different time periods.

Sarah (19:35):
Yeah.

Mark (19:35):
But he played Aussie Bob Aussie Bob Trimble in one, and
he was really good.

Sarah (19:41):
They just it's I You can keep that, because it kind of
captures what I'm feeling. I'mgonna say this wrong, but
there's like a stereotype ofpeople who live on farms, no
matter where they are in theworld, that they're a bit
trigger happy, a little too gunfriendly. And

Mark (20:01):
that, you know

Sarah (20:02):
And and Dan whipping his rifle out to to threaten Annie
with the cops standing literallyin front of him.

Mark (20:11):
Yeah. Like, he's going to the pokey.

Sarah (20:13):
What is wrong with you?

Mark (20:15):
Like my dad was a farmer through and through fifth
generation farmer absolute.

Sarah (20:21):
Did he have a rifle?

Mark (20:22):
No. My brother had two guns that he kept in the house
as kind of recreation things andwe had a lot of property. So,
what would happen is every yearfor deer season, every once
every couple years there wouldbe some guys who we knew were
hunters would come to the houseand ask my dad if they could

(20:44):
hunt on our property because wehad a whole bunch of property
that had a whole bunch ofanimals on it. And, sometimes
he'd let them and sometimes he'dsay, oh I'm doing something in
the back so I'd prefer you notdo it this year or something
like that. But he I've never sawmy father with a gun.

Sarah (21:02):
These people take guns just to go down to pan for gold.
No. Take your gun with you.

Mark (21:08):
These other people are gonna shoot you? Apparently.
Okay. You need to get legalrepresentation involved. These
And we know that there is legalrepresentation in Broken.

Sarah (21:20):
Wait a minute, though. There's a bigger hole than that.
These other people, the Hollins,is Bill because Dan is in a
wheelchair. He is not riding ahorse down to the river to shoot
you.

Mark (21:33):
No. And Bill's stooping your daughter.

Sarah (21:35):
It's just Bill. So though Annie thinks Jane should be
armed all the time, I don't knowwhy, Jane knows better because
the only person who might shootat her is Bill, and she's
stripping Bill.

Mark (21:49):
Yes. So it's

Sarah (21:51):
not a threat.

Mark (21:53):
Annie is there to be frustrated and angry. That's all

Sarah (21:56):
she sibling doing all the work herself.

Mark (22:00):
If if I found out that my sister had been stooping
somebody that she said she hatedfor twenty years, I would be
incredibly upset, but notbecause I can't believe you're
stooping him. I would be like,why didn't you just tell me?

(22:20):
Like, why why do you have tokeep that secret?

Sarah (22:23):
No. No. Worse than that. Wait a minute. You mean this
feud could have been over twentyyears ago?

Mark (22:29):
What the hell were you doing panning gold?

Sarah (22:31):
Why could if we'd known this, we could

Mark (22:34):
have You didn't really go to that horse farm on the South
Island. You were preggers.

Sarah (22:43):
You weren't at the gynecologist. You were doing
mini trampoline jumping. What?Oh, you were at the love shack.

Mark (22:52):
Okay. Where

Sarah (22:54):
there's another How record does

Mark (22:56):
the power get to the love shack?

Sarah (23:00):
I'm telling you, the horse is out there walking on a
treadmill. Oh, okay. Or maybethey hook it up to the battery
of the the quad bike.

Mark (23:08):
The the problem with driving quad bikes around here
is you're gonna run over all theextension cords.

Sarah (23:13):
It's a battery operated record player. I'm sure they
exist. They're probably made byFisher Price, but they probably
exist. There's no way Janehauled all that stuff that she's
got down there on her horse thatday. Like, that's her little
camp down

Mark (23:28):
there. She has a little camp and everything.

Sarah (23:31):
Like there's milk jugs down there, like those big metal
milk

Mark (23:35):
jugs. And there's like her little tent thing.

Sarah (23:37):
It's just decoration.

Mark (23:39):
Yeah, she is like a she shack down there.

Sarah (23:41):
She does. Never mind the love shack, she's got her she
shack. And later Missy has likesurprise picnic, ta da,
underneath camo blankets. Butshe's got a vehicle anyway.

Mark (23:54):
I guess.

Sarah (23:55):
That poor horse is carrying everything. We're so
off the range here. Frodo's linedancing.

Mark (24:05):
Okay. Okay. Things we have to talk about. Okay. Before we
get to the gynecologist, becausethat's a whole scene and a half.
Before we have to talk aboutdrenching. About what?
Drenching. What's that?

Sarah (24:25):
So Is that a gynecologist thing? No. So because I've never
heard of that.

Mark (24:35):
Sarah comes into the music room to find out what I'm doing.
And on my screen, there's apicture of a guy forcibly
inserting something into asheep's mouth. To be clear, the
way you had the picture scrolledup on your monitor

Sarah (24:52):
Yep. I couldn't see the guy.

Mark (24:54):
Could

Sarah (24:54):
Oh. Could just see the sheep's head and something being
shoved down its throat. And Idid not know what you were
looking at.

Mark (25:01):
And the headline wasn't there. No. The headline is can
the new can New Zealand sheepfarmers survive drench
resistance? So the drenching isthis anti warming thing you have
to do with sheep. Okay.
Okay. By the way, I know I'vetalked about this before, but
not enough people know aboutthis. The care of animals Is

(25:23):
gross. And their medical care isgross.

Sarah (25:26):
Go watch

Mark (25:27):
All Creatures Great and Yeah. Okay? And this is not

Sarah (25:33):
So they

Mark (25:34):
This is not factory farming?

Sarah (25:36):
No, no, no.

Mark (25:36):
This is normal care of animals. They have to

Sarah (25:39):
give the sheep some kind of medication to prevent them
from getting worms. Becausethey're outside all day. Right.
And they're becoming resistantto it. Yes.
Okay.

Mark (25:48):
So this is what Annie is saying Jane isn't doing enough.
I think Jane should be like, oh,you gotta go down and pan gold.
If

Sarah (26:00):
the other option is force feeding sheep medicine Yeah. I
think I'd rather be panning forgold.

Mark (26:06):
Yeah. I I think so too. So the gynecologist's office, when
Mike walks out of thegynecologist's office because
what's her name?

Sarah (26:15):
Casey.

Mark (26:16):
Casey uses it as

Sarah (26:18):
Her alibi.

Mark (26:19):
Her alibi because she doesn't think Mike will check.

Sarah (26:21):
Right.

Mark (26:22):
Which is Immature. Immature. So Mike just goes over
to the gynecologist

Sarah (26:28):
To see if she had an appointment, which they probably
wouldn't tell him anyway.

Mark (26:32):
But anyway But as he's leaving Runs into Trudy.

Sarah (26:34):
Trudy's like, are you lost?

Mark (26:36):
Trudy comes in, and the look on her face is like,

Sarah (26:39):
Remember, this is an audio medium. People can't see
the face you're making.

Mark (26:45):
And then powerful face. And then she brings up the narc.

Sarah (26:52):
Well, I'm no narc at the gyno, but

Mark (26:54):
Oh, can I name the episode no narc at the gyno?

Sarah (26:58):
No. You cannot name it that. You have to call it
drenching the love shack. Drenchresistant love shack. So Gina
knows that Mike has a girlfriendnow.
Yes. Right? She's met Beth atthe auction of women who were

(27:20):
dumped by Russian brides.Russian brides who were dumped.
So now she's like, I have togive Mike space.
I don't want to be the otherwoman. So now all of a sudden
she is okay with Sims.

Mark (27:33):
And it's like Sims' best friend. Yes. It's like they're
gonna move Foreshadowing.

Sarah (27:38):
Yes. Gina ends up living at Sims' house. It's crazy.
Anyway

Mark (27:42):
And the only better part of that is the resolution to
that involves an odes.

Sarah (27:48):
Yes. Gina says that she can give Sims the time of death
because of a secret having to dowith fingernails, a rubber band,
and the arc of the sun. Inreality, it's rigor mortis.

Mark (28:03):
Yes.

Sarah (28:03):
Right? And that's what she says. But what what is the
joke with the fingernails andthe rubber band and the arc of
the sun? What is that joke thatshe's making? I don't get it.

Mark (28:13):
The only thing I could think of, it was like it's a a
Boy Scout thing that if you'relost, you use the arc of the sun
and a twig to find the shadow tofind out which direction you're
going.

Sarah (28:26):
And your fingernails?

Mark (28:27):
Something, I don't.

Sarah (28:30):
Fingernails grow after you die? That's not true by the
way. She may as well have justsaid, you know it's a woman
thing or something. I don'tknow. I can tell.
It's rigor mortis, it's thebottom line.

Mark (28:43):
So Casey, the idea is this.

Sarah (28:46):
McAlpine, because Alpine's not a good enough last
name. Let's put Mick on it.McAlpine. Is Which just makes me
think of Kalpai.

Mark (28:54):
She was left at the altar.

Sarah (28:55):
Yes, by Sean.

Mark (28:57):
By Sean.

Sarah (28:58):
The scum sucking clam.

Mark (29:01):
And how do you know this about him? Because I stalk him
on Facebook like a normalperson.

Sarah (29:06):
I like that line. I cannot believe Casey's mom,
Polly, keeps her wedding dresson a mannequin in the house.

Mark (29:13):
In the house.

Sarah (29:14):
That is cruel.

Mark (29:16):
To Casey, he wasn't into you anyway. He was yarning on me
and it was just your mom. Like,it's a very short sentence. But
like this Sean guy was not even

Sarah (29:31):
No. Into this.

Mark (29:32):
No. So I don't I then don't blame clam sucking Sean.

Sarah (29:37):
For getting out of there? Yeah. Especially now that he
dances at a men's review.

Mark (29:40):
No. That's the other boyfriend. Oh. That's twerk.
Twerk.
Hiny twerk. What's his firstname? Hiny McTwerk. No. His
name's not Hiny McTwerk.

Sarah (29:53):
His name is Wyatt.

Mark (29:56):
Wyatt. So this is supposedly Jane's boyfriend.

Sarah (29:59):
He's the male review version of Wyatt Earp.

Mark (30:02):
The determinism of

Sarah (30:04):
Twork. Yes. Polly is really well written. She rubs
you the wrong way from themoment she speaks to Mike at
Frodo's coffee cart.

Mark (30:13):
Oh my gosh.

Sarah (30:14):
Like, she opens her mouth and you dislike her. And And yet
she's smiling and nice andpretty and cordial and yet just
despicable.

Mark (30:24):
She's just terrific and Frodo is the exact opposite.
Yes. He's delusional buthelpful.

Sarah (30:31):
Yes.

Mark (30:35):
And I I feel bad for Frodes because I think Frodez
knows, right, that Jane's nothis girlfriend.

Sarah (30:44):
That they were never a thing, that they went to a dance
together in high school and thatwas it.

Mark (30:48):
But I think Frodez is swayed by the notions of what
he's supposed to be.

Sarah (30:53):
I think he thinks it's impressive to other people to
claim that somebody like Janewent out on a date with him.
Yes. It makes him feel betterabout himself. Yes. So when
confronted with, so are youfather of her baby?
No. No. No. No. No.
No.

Mark (31:09):
No.

Sarah (31:09):
He always tells the truth.

Mark (31:10):
Yes. And I think I wish for happiness for Frodes.

Sarah (31:15):
Yep. I do. Well, his not girlfriend, bingo

Mark (31:19):
Yeah.

Sarah (31:20):
Has moved to the big city now.

Mark (31:21):
So Yes. So maybe What did you think of the feed and

Sarah (31:25):
grain store where Casey works?

Mark (31:27):
It was unlike any feed and grain store I'd ever been in.

Sarah (31:31):
How so?

Mark (31:32):
It didn't have the smell of the feed and grain store,
which

Sarah (31:35):
But you can't smell on TV.

Mark (31:37):
If you've been in any actual feed and grain store, you
smell it. It is also notpopulated by old white men
because that's the feed store.

Sarah (31:46):
They were inside. Yes. What did you think about the
special sign out front?

Mark (31:49):
What did the special sign? Oh, there was

Sarah (31:52):
It's a banner that's supposed to look like a
chalkboard that's got a list ofthings that are on sale that are
a mix of vegetables and animalfood.

Mark (32:02):
Yes. That's right.

Sarah (32:03):
It's like brown onions, chicken pellets Yeah. All on
sale. Free free range mule feed.I don't know. It's somebody like
googled like water feed andgrain store specials.
Okay. Just use those.

Mark (32:22):
Now I know that you've talked about Chalmers shirt.

Sarah (32:26):
Mhmm.

Mark (32:27):
And I know you've talked about Chalmers diet. And we've
talked about Chalmers on thequad bike. Mhmm. But we really
need to talk about the drinkthat will forever now be known
as the Chalmers.

Sarah (32:39):
Yes. A Fanta in Malibu.

Mark (32:41):
Xander created that drink.

Sarah (32:44):
One of our children?

Mark (32:45):
One of our children. That is a drink he would drink.

Sarah (32:48):
I actually think it sounds good. You do? Yeah. I
would totally

Mark (32:52):
drink Is it coconut rum? Yeah. Like that. Orange and
coconut? Of course, me.
Anything in coconut is bleh.

Sarah (32:59):
Yeah. But you like a fruity girly drink.

Mark (33:03):
I do like a

Sarah (33:03):
fruity I don't girly like coconut, but if it was if it
wasn't coconut Malibu.

Mark (33:09):
There's a code? I

Sarah (33:12):
like that Chalmers starts to pick up on Gina and Sims' new
relationship Yes. And saysthey're like Thelma and Louise.
And she's like, yeah, but theydrove off a cliff. He goes, but
they were holding hands.

Mark (33:26):
Chalmers with the the movie reference.

Sarah (33:28):
Yeah. He's he's so little brother. Except okay. He does
Chalmers is a good policeman,but he commits a mortal sin
Uh-oh. When he picks up thatgun.

Mark (33:40):
Oh, yeah. Oh my gosh. What is he doing? At least Mike knows
to put a glove on top of hishand to pick up the gun.

Sarah (33:48):
Not only does he pick it up, he picks it up

Mark (33:51):
And he looks the trigger. Barrel.

Sarah (33:53):
Looks, I mean, he's got to check to make sure it's not
loaded. Don't you mean, evenFrodo has a hanky. It's gross,
but he's got one. Pick it upwith something to He's check
just like, let me touch itwherever the killer might have
touched it. Here, here, here,here.
I'm gonna spit shine this part.Put some more DNA on it.

Mark (34:18):
So now, faithful listeners, if you know us, you
know we have four children, onein Seattle, one in Indianapolis,
two live at home who aregainfully unemployed right now,
currently.

Sarah (34:31):
They're doing volunteer work.

Mark (34:32):
They're doing volunteer work. We're going about this
getting a job thing in the wrongway.

Sarah (34:36):
Oh, yeah?

Mark (34:37):
We should have them cry on a dock.

Sarah (34:41):
Well, if you're a cute 16 year old and Frodo comes up,
that's how you get a job.

Mark (34:45):
Okay. Okay. She can't make coffee, but she makes tea really
well.

Sarah (34:50):
Though I do have to tell you guys, this is the greatest
mom coup ever. Okay. They dohave jobs.

Mark (34:56):
Yes. They do.

Sarah (34:57):
They're newly employed at Spirit Halloween. As seasonal
workers.

Mark (35:02):
It's fantastic. I will be getting a discount.

Sarah (35:08):
Do I get the two kids work here double discount?

Mark (35:10):
You should. I should. I could get the store now.

Sarah (35:15):
So the girl crying on the dock is Maude who is Jane's
daughter who she put up foradoption when she was supposed
to be working on the sheep farm.

Mark (35:24):
Did you notice that when Sims goes to talk to Annie, I
know we're bouncing all over theplace but that doesn't matter.
When Sims goes to talk to Annie,she makes her coffee?

Sarah (35:34):
No. I didn't notice that.

Mark (35:35):
You didn't notice because Annie doesn't drink a single sip
of it.

Sarah (35:39):
Does Annie know about Maude? Does she know that Jane
had a daughter and gave her up?No. So Jane kept that totally to
herself.

Mark (35:46):
Totally to herself.

Sarah (35:48):
Bill never knew, nobody knew.

Mark (35:51):
I think Jane's mom and her boyfriend's mom took off
together, Thelma and the Weenleystyle holding hands because the
moms are non existent in thisstory.

Sarah (36:04):
Well, Jane and Annie's mom's dead. But Supposedly. You
know, Wyatt Twerk's mom Yeah.Could have run off with Bill's
mom. So She cries to the point Iworry about her hydration
levels.
Frodo's so funny.

Mark (36:18):
Frodo, grief counselor.

Sarah (36:20):
He's so nice though.

Mark (36:22):
Frodo is awesome.

Sarah (36:24):
She's crying and he's like, have a dirty hanky. Can
can I help you? And lets her tryto make coffee. Yeah. And I
don't think he's hitting on heror anything.

Mark (36:35):
No. No. No.

Sarah (36:36):
No. I think She's young, and I think he just feels bad
for her.

Mark (36:39):
I think he feels bad for her and needs somebody to work
at the shop.

Sarah (36:43):
Over and over in my notes, it says, can we slap
Polly? Can we slap her now? CanPolly be hit at this point?

Mark (36:51):
So then we have the secret undershow, which is Canadian
musician Tammy Nielsen. So therecord that they both share.

Sarah (37:01):
Who is the music for Broken Wood all the time?

Mark (37:05):
Well, you know why she's the music for Broken Wood all
the time? No. Because herbrother does the music for the
show. Her brother and her movedto New Zealand together. I think
she moved there to be with herfuture husband.

Sarah (37:20):
Mhmm. And She's a great singer.

Mark (37:22):
Yes.

Sarah (37:22):
And she's got a style.

Mark (37:24):
Yes. And that she was part of the Nielsons, which is a a
well known Canadian countrymusic family. Ah. So so that's
why she's in this episode and Ithink it's a I I don't mind it
at all. I don't think it'sshoehorned in or anything like
that.
I think it I think It works. Itends fantastically. And Trudy

(37:47):
gets the line of the episode.Don't you think?

Sarah (37:49):
The come on weirdos.

Mark (37:51):
Come on weirdos.

Sarah (37:52):
Why does Jane put Bill's love letters in a box and bury
it?

Mark (37:56):
I that's what powers the radio's the record player.

Sarah (38:01):
Underground power lines from the from Bill's love
letters in a box? Like, doesn'tshe have a room where she can
put things?

Mark (38:09):
I would think

Sarah (38:10):
Why couldn't she keep them at the love shack?

Mark (38:12):
Why doesn't she why does she still live on the farm?
Like, they're like, we should gotrapped.

Sarah (38:18):
Why why are they trapped?

Mark (38:20):
Just just leave. We should go away together like normal
people.

Sarah (38:24):
They're like 36.

Mark (38:26):
Yeah.

Sarah (38:26):
Just go. Yeah. Take the nugget and go. Oh, no. The
nugget would be, you know, worthsomething.
I'll just throw it in the water.Cash that baby in and get out.

Mark (38:38):
Yeah. Definitely. And we haven't even talked about
Chalmers Missy.

Sarah (38:43):
Missy.

Mark (38:44):
I love that.

Sarah (38:45):
I can't tell whether they're supposed to be like
romantic tension between them orlike sibling tension. But she's
awesome.

Mark (38:53):
I think she's fantastic. I think it's supposed to be
romantic tension. She's in twoother episodes. Yeah. She's
meant She's to be

Sarah (39:02):
really good actress.

Mark (39:03):
She's meant to be a red herring here, but she is
certainly an interest forChalmers.

Sarah (39:08):
It's too small of a town for her to live there and them
not ever have run into eachother. I don't understand how
that's supposed to work.

Mark (39:16):
I agree.

Sarah (39:17):
But I love the way she stands up to him. Are you going
to arrest me for this? For that?For this? No?
Okay, then I'm going.

Mark (39:24):
Yeah, she's totally You want to frit her? Yeah. Where do
you get the I'm a littleobsessed with power

Sarah (39:33):
in this. Well, she's got a butane burner there.

Mark (39:36):
Yeah. But still

Sarah (39:37):
Or propane or something like She

Mark (39:39):
came prepared. Portable kitchen or

Sarah (39:41):
something that, guess. She brings her own butter. I
have known many a fisherman whobring everything they need to
start a campfire and fillet fishthat they catch and bread them
and fry them right there.

Mark (39:56):
I guess that's true. It's good.

Sarah (39:58):
They didn't make fritters but it was good.

Mark (40:01):
So we find out that Annie has an not Annie, sorry. We find
out that Casey has an addiction,a gambling addiction. Mhmm. And
there are clues laid in theepisode and they go over them
and they're very nice.

Sarah (40:14):
Yeah. Like the fact that she owes Trudy money Yes. At the
bar.

Mark (40:17):
What I like is her friend on this creek side says, I'll do
anything to get you help.

Sarah (40:26):
Anything that's mine is yours. Whatever you need.

Mark (40:29):
Including, let's go to a meeting. Yeah. That is how you
react when your friend

Sarah (40:34):
Not or loved one. You're getting too old to have babies,
have have a wedding dress, marrythe first person you see.

Mark (40:40):
Yeah. Like the Poly. The difference between Poly and Jane
in the reaction to the addictionis it's so weird. I also think
in a total meta way, I was like,gambling addiction is the
perfect metaphor because say shewas addicted to smack or cocaine

Sarah (41:01):
Mhmm.

Mark (41:01):
That's a hard drug and a hard thing to deal with in the
nutmeg villa of Brokenwood. Yes.But gambling, that's something
that You can just do on yourphone. Yeah. It makes it so easy
to understand.
Yeah. It's a good it's a goodtool to make a sympathetic

(41:22):
person who has an addiction.Though

Sarah (41:26):
when they confront Casey and Polly together and Casey
admits that she has anaddiction, and before you know
that, it's weird that she says,and this is Donna, my support
person. Like Yes. Why do youhave a support person?

Mark (41:42):
I have a note here that says, why do you have Donna, the
support person?

Sarah (41:47):
Donna's her sponsor. Yes.

Mark (41:49):
And then she says then Mike says, while you were down
by the river killing Jane, andSims is like, what?

Sarah (41:58):
Didn't you What? Didn't you see her shoe? Duh. Duh.
Polly's so dense, she doesn'teven notice she's got a shotgun
shell wedged in her Would you

Mark (42:08):
not notice that right away? It would

Sarah (42:11):
be so uncomfortable. It would

Mark (42:12):
be incredibly uncomfortable.

Sarah (42:14):
How do you feel about line dancing?

Mark (42:16):
What's in the box? Power. Yes. Power is in the box. I am
no fan of doing anything inunison.
Why? Because both Nazis andMichael Jackson videos have it.
I just don't like groups doingthings in unison.

Sarah (42:35):
Were you beaten by a marching band as a child or
something? No. You're is it isit your anti joiner No. DNA
there?

Mark (42:43):
It just it yeah. Maybe. I just don't like it. I don't like
large groups of people moving inunison. Sorry.

Sarah (42:55):
Mark was traumatized as a parade as a child. No.

Mark (43:00):
Yes. A

Sarah (43:00):
parade chase we'd have a straight up. I have been line
dancing, and it was fun when youif you know how to do it Yeah.
Like, you feel kind ofaccomplished. Like, I'm keeping
up.

Mark (43:13):
I can understand all that, but it's country music aerobics
is what it is.

Sarah (43:17):
It is. It is. But it does the opposite of how you feel
about people doing things inunison. When you are one of
those people, you feel part ofsomething, and that's kind of
fun. Especially when it involvesstomping and It's stuff.
Fun. Yep. Would I do it now? No.I wish But it was fun when

Mark (43:36):
we did it. I wish Chalmers and Sims had joined in. Yeah.
That would have been fun.

Sarah (43:42):
They look like sorry sports for not Yeah. For being
so like unwilling to give it atry. But I'm glad Beth shows up
with a fringy shirt on Beth? Andgrabs Gina like,

Mark (43:54):
come on. There's two things I love about Beth in this
episode. The first thing isMike's phone rings and he says
he's gotta go. And she is, Iknow what it's like. Yep.
I know what I'm in for.

Sarah (44:05):
Yep.

Mark (44:05):
Go. It's your job. You don't have to apologize. She

Sarah (44:08):
doesn't apologize. Uh-huh. No. We were

Mark (44:11):
in the middle of absolutely She understanding.
Yep. Then she shows up, grabsGina's hand, and is like Let's
go, sir. What's doing this?

Sarah (44:22):
Yeah. Weirdos. Yep. Trudy knows where the money's at
though. Yeah.
She's gonna suck up the factthat they're weirdos because
they buy drinks.

Mark (44:32):
Trudy's all about the money.

Sarah (44:35):
But she hates line dancing at night.

Mark (44:36):
She so does. Trudy is classic rock all the way, I
would think.

Sarah (44:43):
I would say so too. Yeah. If she even deigns to listen to
music. I don't know. She mightbe kind of a Wagner moody Maybe.
Brooding music. Maybe it's NineInch Nails all day. Rob Zombie.
Well. That is good as gold.
Next we have,

Mark (45:04):
well before we do next we should do after the show, after
the episode because we do havean implication of after the
episode. Yeah. Which is thatMaude and her father are
reunited and form an actualrelationship.

Sarah (45:21):
Is Bill her dad?

Mark (45:23):
Yes.

Sarah (45:23):
For sure? Yes. Okay. I wasn't totally clear on that.

Mark (45:27):
If she's so in love with him to keep quiet for twenty
years and not like a, oh, I knowI'll have sex with you, but we
shouldn't go out in public. Sheobviously loved him.

Sarah (45:39):
If Bill is definitely Maude's dad, Jane was a bad
person because she never toldhim.

Mark (45:45):
How do you keep a secret like that for twenty years from
someone you love?

Sarah (45:50):
I especially if it was their child too. Yeah. That's
bad.

Mark (45:54):
Yeah. Like I wish there was a moment where mom and dad
made me do this or something.Because she was 16.

Sarah (46:01):
She should have still told him all this time and she
never admitted You have a childdown Again. Jane just doesn't
have control over her own life.Yeah. Like the fact that she
wants to keep Maude a secret.Like what do you have to lose?
Just go tell your sister thatyou have a daughter. Yeah. What
is she gonna do?

Mark (46:19):
To be angry about sheep.

Sarah (46:21):
Kick you off the farm. Okay.

Mark (46:23):
Okay. I'm out of here. I'm gonna leave with my new daughter
and and husband. Goodbye.Goodbye.

Sarah (46:29):
Weiner. Casey's gonna be all right. I also suffer Polly's
gonna run the prison.

Mark (46:36):
I also suffer suffer from the notion that it's foreign to
me that people wanna stay on thefarm. I know.

Sarah (46:44):
Polly is going to go to that Brokenwood women's jail and
run the place. She's going to bedoing etiquette classes and, I
don't know, poise classes.

Mark (46:53):
Is she going to have the wedding dress on the mannequin
in her cell?

Sarah (46:57):
No. No. Casey's gonna burn it as soon

Mark (47:00):
as they put her away. I hope

Sarah (47:02):
so. What about Annie?

Mark (47:04):
Annie's in a tough spot because, like, she was obviously
depending on Jane to help herwith the farm.

Sarah (47:12):
Mhmm. Because it One person cannot

Mark (47:15):
do it. Difficult to run a farm.

Sarah (47:16):
They have horses, they have sheep.

Mark (47:18):
Todd is no help. No.

Sarah (47:22):
Jock should go to a home Yes. And get the care that he
needs, and Annie should get areliable partner, like a
business partner Yeah. To runthe farm.

Mark (47:33):
Yeah.

Sarah (47:33):
Or sell it.

Mark (47:34):
Or sell it.

Sarah (47:35):
If she doesn't want to do it. Yes. The end.

Mark (47:38):
Yeah. I totally agree. I've seen too many people
trapped by farms. Yeah. It justhurt.

Sarah (47:43):
By tradition. I hate it.

Mark (47:45):
Yeah. When you get through that notion that tradition is
It's been dead to our family.Dead people telling you what to
do Yeah. You lose a value intradition. Yeah.

Sarah (47:57):
You get over it. Alright. What's season eight episode six?

Mark (48:02):
Four fires and a funeral. And it starts with volunteer
firemen. Well, I think theymight be actual firemen, but
they may be also volunteersbecause Doctor Murder Magnet is
one of the people who

Sarah (48:20):
The psychiatrist.

Mark (48:21):
Goes to help with the fire, the the emergency.

Sarah (48:25):
He would join the volunteer firefighters just so
he could be around burly menbecause that's what he's like,
even though he's with the revs.

Mark (48:33):
I understand that, but there are no burly men as far as
I saw in this firefighting.

Sarah (48:37):
Oh, there's no sexy firefighters.

Mark (48:39):
No. That's right. The next episode started already. So like
when I was watching this one, soI was like, oh, oh, what is the
doctor doing there? Oh, somebodydied.
Of course. Yeah.

Sarah (48:51):
He's he he is a murder magnet.

Mark (48:53):
And so this is a play on four weddings and a funeral.
Yes. Just the way that themidsummer episode four funerals
and a wedding is a play on that.

Sarah (49:03):
Right.

Mark (49:03):
Which is like is almost the notion that Four Weddings
and a Funeral, the great movie,it's a fantastic movie, is this
this egg that everything camefrom. Yeah. And when you watch
it, it kinda is. Yeah. Becauseremember

Sarah (49:24):
because everybody's in it.

Mark (49:25):
Everyone is in it, including Rowan Atkins as the
vicar.

Sarah (49:30):
Mister Bean is the vicar.

Mark (49:32):
Which is fantastic. The notion of duck face comes from
that movie. Yes. A notion thatis fundamental to our podcast.
This magical thing that if youhaven't seen that movie, you
should see that movie.

Sarah (49:45):
It's also just a handy title.

Mark (49:47):
Yeah. It's a handy title.

Sarah (49:48):
It's a

Mark (49:48):
fun time.

Sarah (49:49):
It's better than, you know, two murders, one cup or
something.

Mark (49:53):
Well, I think that think that all these people who wrote
this were about the age thatthey would love that movie when
it came out.

Sarah (50:02):
I agree. So that'll be out in two weeks since we're
going every other week until theOctober. So until then, bye,
maniacs.

Mark (50:11):
Bye, maniacs. Thanks for joining us on the mystery
maniacs podcast. If you enjoyedour crazy podcast today, don't
miss out on future episodes.Follow us on social media for
updates, beyond the scenescontent, and exclusive sneak
peeks. Subscribe, like, andshare to spread the word.
Bye, Maniacs. Yeah, it was.

Sarah (50:32):
We're nosy old people now.

Mark (50:33):
Yes, we are.

Sarah (50:34):
Sorry. We were just noticing some dude on the street
doing weird things. Yep. Anyway.

Mark (50:38):
Back to the show.
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