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Mystery Maniacs Episode! In Podcast 239, a stunt driver, a front line brand ambassador, unlicensed delivery driver, and a dog try to rob a bank. Also, a message from our new friend of the show! 


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Mark (00:00):
Dismount tens from the Russian judge. We're done.

Sarah (00:21):
Hey, maniacs.

Mark (00:22):
Hey, mystery maniacs. Mystery maniacs

Sarah (00:26):
is Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait.
I'm too excited.

Mark (00:30):
We are too excited to do the intro.

Sarah (00:33):
I'm too excited to let you do the intro.

Mark (00:35):
Oh my gosh.

Sarah (00:37):
Guys, we have something so epic, so incredible. Well, we
we just have to play it forthem.

Mark (00:43):
We'll play it for you. So listen closely Listen, guys. To
this.

Tracy (00:49):
Hey, maniacs. I'm no narc, but you're listening to
the mystery maniacs podcast.It's aspirational.

Mark (00:55):
Oh my gosh.

Sarah (00:56):
Did you recognize that voice?

Mark (00:59):
Oh my gosh. I recognized her as our new friend, Tracy. As
our new friend, Tracy Lee Gray.

Sarah (01:08):
Otherwise known as Trudy Nielsen from Broken Wood.

Mark (01:12):
Oh my god.

Sarah (01:16):
So Hi, Tracy.

Mark (01:18):
Last yes. Hi, Tracy. Last Saturday night, we're sitting in
the living room as we normallydo on Saturday nights after we
record, and I am furiouslychecking things on my phone.

Sarah (01:30):
I was like, what are you doing? And you're like, I need
to know. I need to know if it'sreally her. It might not be her.
I don't know if it's her.

Mark (01:36):
I'm like, what are you talking about? Because I had
received a message from alistener answering a question.

Sarah (01:44):
We had asked a couple episodes ago. We had asked,
like, how many businesses hasRay owned? Like, he's had, like,
the frog and cheetah and thesnake and tiger and porky
pigeon. And then you got aFacebook message.

Mark (02:01):
I got a Facebook message from Tracy Lee Gray, which said,
hey, maniacs.

Sarah (02:07):
She loves That

Mark (02:08):
alone is amazing. I think I'm qualified to answer this
question for you. The fouraspirational establishments that
Ray and Trudy own are frog andcheetah, toad and lion, snake
and tiger, crocodile andpanther, and last and very much
least, Gourmet Ray's PorkyPigeon Pizzeria. Thanks for

(02:31):
watching. Keep safe from thosetornadoes trying to steal your
birthday cake.

Sarah (02:37):
So we knew if this was the real Tracy Gray, not only
was she answering her question,but she must have listened to at
least one episode when we talkedabout my cake.

Mark (02:47):
I cannot believe the story of the cake continues.

Sarah (02:55):
I know. So you messaged her back?

Mark (03:01):
I messaged her back, stunned that Trudy had messaged
us, telling her how great it wasto hear from her, that we did a
little dance maybe. Well, we didkind of big dance. That we asked
her, first of all, is it okay ifwe talked about her messaging us
in the podcast? And of course.

Sarah (03:20):
We And how did she hear about the podcast? Yes. Because
she clearly listened to at leastpart of one episode. Yes. And
she said what?
It was a costume designer?

Mark (03:32):
So she she returned first of all and said that her the
publicity department had givenher the okay to do a little
voice hit for us. And that'swhat you heard. Yes. Which you
will hear a gazillion timesbecause now we are endorsed by
No. Tracy Lee Gray.

(03:55):
To hear her say, Hey, maniacs

Sarah (03:57):
That's so fun.

Mark (03:58):
Is just so much fun. So we asked her how she had heard
about the show, and she said itwas on a Facebook fan page,
which means she is lurking onFacebook fan pages.

Sarah (04:09):
Which is fun. I would if I were her. I mean, if she's got
the time, I would certainlywanna know what people thought
of the show I was on.

Mark (04:17):
And their incredible costume designer, that's her
words, I have all sorts offantastic words for, Tanya
Clowens. I hope I'm pronouncingthat right. Who also wrote the
Seance episode. She also wrotethe episode, the Day of the Dead
episode from the season So she'swritten two episodes. She is one

(04:38):
of the premier costume designersin New Zealand for television.
She just does amazing work.She's won awards for it. That's
awesome. She obviously, inparticular, loves this episode.
It is the first picture on herapp on her website, the Dog Day
afternoon episode.

(05:00):
Dog Day Morning. Sorry. ThenTracy just just took it to
another level. She said, youwere discussing the Scarecrow
episode. It's fun listening toyour perspectives on episodes,
particularly the prison episode,because I find interesting to
know what viewers are for oragainst Trudy's behavior.

(05:21):
I think it says more about theviewers themselves. It's a
complex episode, and you guysget a gold star for that one,
obviously. Dismount tens fromthe Russian judge. We're done.
We're out.
Perfection.

Sarah (05:41):
I would say Trudy is the most complex character on
Brokenwood.

Mark (05:45):
I would absolutely agree. And I

Sarah (05:48):
And I have liked her, and I have disliked her, and I have
rooted for her, and I havewanted to slap her. And more
often than not, I have thatgirl's back. I'm like, you go,
Trudy.

Mark (05:59):
Yes. Absolutely. We know for well, we know a couple of
things about Trudy. We knowshe's no narc right away.

Sarah (06:08):
It's aspirational.

Mark (06:09):
And it's aspirational what she's doing. In the latest
episode of season eleven, whichhas ties to this episode, last
week It's weird. Yeah. We wenton and on about how season seven
and eleven are tied. This againis ties.
Yeah. The last episode, the OdesChristmas special, which is what

(06:29):
I'm calling it now. Or Frodogets his cracker. Tracy's part
in that episode is perfection.Yeah.
It is the right tone it needs tobe. Yep. In terms of
seriousness.

Sarah (06:43):
The writers did a really good job and she does a great
job.

Mark (06:46):
Fantastic actress. And she's super fun

Sarah (06:49):
in the episode that we're talking about this week, which
is season seven episode three,Dog Day Morning. So She single
handedly takes on a bank robberbecause she takes no crap off of
anybody. Be prepared

Mark (07:01):
for us to mention every time we mention Pruy, friend of
the show, Tracy Gray.

Sarah (07:10):
Oh, I hope you guys thought that was as fun as we
did.

Mark (07:12):
I care.

Sarah (07:13):
I'm really stoked.

Mark (07:14):
I'm absolutely stunned. I still can't believe it.

Sarah (07:18):
Now I just want her to walk around the set with her
phone and just get, you know, afew more people to

Mark (07:23):
record something. Gosh.

Sarah (07:26):
Okay. Not not that I'm begging

Mark (07:28):
for gotten excellent responses from Tracy.

Sarah (07:33):
Absolutely Not asking her for anything else. Unless she
just wants to.

Mark (07:36):
Unless she wants to.

Sarah (07:37):
Yeah. We won't say no. Alright. Back to where we were
Speaking of season eleven.

Mark (07:45):
Mystery Maniacs is a comedy recap podcast dedicated
to mystery TV. Each week, we diginto an episode of the show
including the murders, themayhems, the loonies, and
everything else we love,especially our new friends. This
week, the Brokenwood MysteriesDog Day Morning season seven
episode three. I'm Mark. I'mSarah.

(08:07):
If you let your children

Sarah (08:09):
Rob Banks.

Mark (08:09):
Rob Banks with Dog masks. Masks on, they can listen to the
podcast? We

Sarah (08:15):
do spoil it.

Mark (08:15):
We do spoil it.

Sarah (08:17):
Going back to season eleven, we've been doing mini
episodes for those How to WatchLike a Maniac, and the last
season eleven minutei is nowlive.

Mark (08:26):
Yes. So we have done 12 episodes in a month and a half.
In six weeks, we will have done12 episodes.

Sarah (08:35):
It's all good. It's all

Mark (08:36):
It's crazy. May, we knew was going to be crazy, and we
know that probably December willbe crazy or January will be
crazy.

Sarah (08:45):
If if we get a new season of midsummer.

Mark (08:47):
A new season of midsummer.

Sarah (08:48):
When we think we're going to. Last week, we talked

Mark (08:51):
about I'm just saying, Fiona, we haven't heard from
you. Yeah. I'm just saying.Fiona Dohlman. Yeah.
Haven't heard from you.

Sarah (08:58):
Sarah Barnaby. Last week, we talked about Witches of
Brokenwood, and we were kind ofat a loss on whether or not Gren
was actually trying to kill hiswife, Joy, with the Saint John's
wort extract because he went inand he he stole it out of her
room at the spa. And was hetrying to kill her or not? Was
it an accident or not? Maybe hegot her the extract, and it was

(09:23):
stronger than he thought, blah,blah, blah, blah.
And SouthCucumber9532 on Reddit,I think, has the right answer to
this question. So what they sayis that Gren did intend to
overdose joy. That's hard tosay, overdois joy

Mark (09:42):
Yes.

Sarah (09:43):
But changed his mind when they met at the coffee cart, and
she said she wanted to get backtogether.

Mark (09:49):
So then

Sarah (09:49):
he had to break in That's why he snuck in to take it out,
because he didn't want tooverdose her after all. But had
she not wanted to get with him,he would have been happy to have
killed her apparently.

Mark (09:59):
Yes.

Sarah (10:00):
And I think South Cucumber is right about that.

Mark (10:03):
She also loves our idea of the passive aggressive tree
house.

Sarah (10:07):
Yes. But thanks for sending us that answer because I
think that's that's the rightexplanation and it makes
everything make sense.

Mark (10:13):
The big hit off of the top of the show was supposed to be
Department Q.

Sarah (10:19):
Mhmm. On Netflix.

Mark (10:20):
Which is fantastic. There are nine episodes on Netflix.

Sarah (10:25):
It's based on the novels by UC Adler Olsen. Yes. If
you've not read the books andyou decide to watch the show,
I'm just gonna say the firstepisode is not as gripping as it
could be. Give it two episodesbefore you make up your mind.
Yep.
They have a lot of worldbuilding to do in the first
episode. I was fine with thatbecause I love the books, and I

(10:48):
knew what was going

Mark (10:48):
to happen. We knew where it was going.

Sarah (10:50):
But if you don't know where it's going, you might get
a little impatient. Yep. But washis name Matthew Good? Yes. Is
that right?
He's he's nice to look at.Sorry, honey. It's okay. But
he's really, really good in it,and give it a shot. That's
Department q

Mark (11:05):
on The individual play who plays Karl Mork in we listen to
the books. Yeah. So that's howthey say

Sarah (11:11):
it in

Mark (11:12):
the book.

Sarah (11:12):
Yeah. Because they're Swedish.

Mark (11:13):
In the Swedish movies, is that perfect amount of star good
looks and not attractive at thesame time.

Sarah (11:21):
He looks like he's been noogieed all the time.

Mark (11:23):
Like, Matured Good's a little too good looking

Sarah (11:26):
for He's off pretty. Yeah.

Mark (11:27):
But I think the dialogue is excellent and I think the the
adaptation so far. Now, this isan ending. They have to stick.

Sarah (11:37):
Yep. And we've not made it to

Mark (11:39):
the ninth episode to the ending yet. So we can't speak on
that. We'll speak on that nextweek or whenever we have another
episode. We might need to take abreak. But

Sarah (11:52):
It's well worth watching. But like I said, make it through
the know that the first episodeis is not like mystery right in
your face. Yep. It's a nineepisode series that covers one
story. Yes.
So they've gotta lay somegroundwork Yeah. In the first
episode. It's the first book.But it's well worth Yeah. Well
worth your time.

Mark (12:12):
This episode of Brokenwood

Sarah (12:15):
Dog Day Morning.

Mark (12:16):
Dog Day Morning was released on 04/05/2021. Mark
Beasley directed it.

Sarah (12:23):
Co written by Nick Sampson. Tim Ginger Ranger.

Mark (12:26):
And Ginger Ranger wrote it.

Sarah (12:27):
He he leaves his last episode and starts co writing
episodes.

Mark (12:32):
So Dog Day Afternoon is a movie from 1975 starring Al
Pacino about a bank robbery thatgoes badly. Now, they're at
least semi prepared as opposedto these bank robbers. This
episode should really beentitled How Not to Rob a Bank.

Sarah (12:52):
All I know is that there are so many funny lines in this
episode. I thought that the lastthe last season eleven episode
had a lot of zingers in it. Yes.But this one has just as many.

Mark (13:04):
This this especially for end of the show, Tracy Trudy. Is
excellent, but Frodo just stepsto the front of the stage and is
a comedic god in this episode.

Sarah (13:18):
Well, just the interaction between the bank
robbers. They are so inept. Butthey're not just bad at being
bank robbers, they're justidiots. They are. You know?
True, stuff that they say toeach other is so funny. And
there's too many odes involvedin it too. One ode is too many
odes. Yes, but there's two. SoNo, mean, in the bank robbery.
Yes. Just the fact that Reese isone of the bank robbers means

(13:41):
the level of IQ just went downfor all of them.

Mark (13:44):
So Trudy's going to the bank, and we have a season
eleven connection right away.And I'm gonna I think we can we
can break this. So one of thequestions we asked in the season
eleven episode six, Watch Like aManiac was what animal is
outside of the cop shop and why?Mhmm. We didn't know the why at

(14:06):
this point in

Sarah (14:07):
time. No. No. No. Not until we rewatched this episode.

Mark (14:10):
And as soon as I saw this episode, I'm like, it's the goat
from the savings and loans.

Sarah (14:14):
Yeah. There's a phone booth in front of the cop shop
that has an ad on the side of itwith the goat on it, and you're
like, what's that goat doingthere? It's It's an ad for the
bank.

Mark (14:25):
It's there four seasons later. Yeah. Fantastic. Yeah.
Boy, are these boys trying tolook cool.

Sarah (14:32):
Before we get to the bank robbers, did you notice the
coffee cart that's across thestreet before they go in?

Mark (14:39):
There's two coffee carts across the street. There's one
that's yellow that I could neverget.

Sarah (14:45):
It's the black one I was interested in. It says feed the
addiction.

Mark (14:49):
Yes. So this is from thecoffeestore.c0.nz.

Sarah (14:54):
Oh, is that real?

Mark (14:55):
Yes. Oh. They are the people who provide, I'm
assuming, the coffee for theshow as well On set. As Frodo's
coffee truck.

Sarah (15:05):
Oh.

Mark (15:07):
So they have dressed one of their coffee carts to look
like Frodo's coffee cart. Nice.So and I have more on that
later. I'll put their website inthe show notes. Go support these
people if you live in NZ.

Sarah (15:22):
Feed the addiction.

Mark (15:23):
Feed the addiction. They clearly are cool people and they
have fun with what they'redoing. So they they should on
their website say, I've seen inBroken Woods.

Sarah (15:33):
Yeah. Really?

Mark (15:34):
But yeah. Frodo's coffee cart. The same sign is on
Frodo's coffee cart, so the theand the bucket latte is still
there.

Sarah (15:46):
Yep.

Mark (15:46):
But there's a new sign on Frodo's coffee cart. There's a
there's a chalkboard, which,again, signs of things to come.

Sarah (15:55):
Mhmm.

Mark (15:56):
And on this

Sarah (15:57):
Frodo's super relaxed coffee.

Mark (15:59):
It's Frodo's super relaxing coffee.

Sarah (16:04):
That's kind of the anti addiction one.

Mark (16:08):
It's so weird.

Sarah (16:09):
So the guys do the I've never seen Dog Day Afternoon. Do
they wear suits?

Mark (16:14):
No. They do not wear suits.

Sarah (16:16):
So this almost like a pulp fiction thing going This

Mark (16:18):
is Reservoir Dogs.

Sarah (16:20):
Oh, that's right. Reservoir Dogs. The black suit
with the white shirt and blackAnd

Mark (16:25):
they do look cool coming out of the car.

Sarah (16:29):
Except that they park across the street and then look
for traffic

Mark (16:32):
and street. And I used the image on the reminder of them in
the costumes Mhmm. Which is thesame on the costume and designer
website. I think it's afantastic shot that

Sarah (16:46):
But as soon as they enter the bank, the dumbness starts.

Mark (16:48):
It's just the dumbness starts right away.

Sarah (16:52):
That what's the gaming console in the tote bag?

Mark (16:55):
It's an Xbox.

Sarah (16:56):
So they've got an Xbox that they claim is a bomb.

Mark (16:58):
It's an Xbox. I have in my notes.

Sarah (17:01):
It's a bomb.

Mark (17:01):
And it's covered in dust. That's the the

Sarah (17:04):
It's brilliant

Mark (17:05):
thing is that it is

Sarah (17:08):
It's a junky old

Mark (17:09):
Xbox. Xbox.

Sarah (17:11):
Yeah. And one of them picks up a potted plant Yep. And
threatens to hit people with it.They immediately start calling
each other by name. Yep.
The teller recognizes the voiceof Devin right off the bat.

Mark (17:24):
Truly, in heaven,

Sarah (17:26):
none of it. You cannot rob a bank in a small town No.
If you are from that small town.

Mark (17:31):
No. Everyone would know you.

Sarah (17:33):
They would be like, well, there's 25 men who are between
19 and 20 in this town, and theywere all missing at this time.
So it must be them. Like, justtoo easy to figure out.

Mark (17:44):
The teller says reads the note and says, we have a bone.
She's like, well, you're dressedas dogs.

Sarah (17:52):
The importance of handwriting. Yes.

Mark (17:54):
Because Trudy has the take from the night before. That's
gonna be a big bag of money.Mhmm. Now I gotta say, might as
well have a little dollar signon the outside of it.

Sarah (18:05):
Yeah. But who's gonna mess with Trudy?

Mark (18:07):
Apparently, these guys

Sarah (18:09):
do. If she wants to take a a canvas sack of money into
the bank every Friday Yeah.Nobody's gonna get in her way.

Mark (18:15):
There's machinations which involve them going into the
backroom, opening up safetydeposit boxes, and then there's
a gunshot that surpriseseveryone. The three of them
leave and get in the car withthe fourth getaway driver.

Sarah (18:32):
Which is out of gas.

Mark (18:33):
Which quickly runs out of gas.

Sarah (18:36):
Because old SC only puts a liter at a time into it. It's
bad for the environment to leavetoo much gas in the tank.

Mark (18:45):
So then they take off. Right? Again, this is Sarah's
bugaboo of where are they gonnago?

Sarah (18:51):
Well, at least they scatter.

Mark (18:53):
At least they scatter.

Sarah (18:54):
But none of them is smart enough to take the damn suit
off. No. Like, change yourclothes, idiot.

Mark (19:00):
Trudy doesn't have to spend a lot of brain cells to
get detective work here to find.No.

Sarah (19:06):
She basically slow walks and catches up with Eli hiding
hiding in the playoffs.

Mark (19:12):
So now we're gonna stop the description of all that
which happened and move that towhen we deal with their
testimonies. Yeah. Because nowwe switch to scene of the crime,
and Sims and Daniel are on thecase. Mhmm. And they show up.
And did you catch the tinylittle thing that Daniel

(19:34):
Chalmers says about Brokenwood?No. That he had left twenty
years ago.

Sarah (19:40):
Oh, that's right. Because later on, Sims says, how is it
how is it to be back?

Mark (19:45):
Yeah. So we had I completely had forgotten that.

Sarah (19:49):
He went to the big city.

Mark (19:50):
Yeah. He went to the big smoke

Sarah (19:52):
and So you think he would have come back with a higher
rank? You would think so. He's adetective constable, right?

Mark (19:58):
It it usually takes six years in most police forces to
get out of uniform if you'rereally trying four.

Sarah (20:06):
Mhmm.

Mark (20:06):
And but maybe he didn't join the police till later on.

Sarah (20:10):
That's true. It's not like the assumption I mean, how
how old can he be? What? 35?

Mark (20:16):
Yeah. Maybe? Maybe.

Sarah (20:17):
So he wasn't like a maybe he wasn't an adult when he left.

Mark (20:20):
Mike arrives and doesn't know what an Xbox is.

Sarah (20:26):
What does he think it is? He opens the bag and he goes,
oh, a VCR or I don't rememberwhat he says. But poor Bernie is
face down in his cake on hislast day of work before he
retires. It's the worst. I mean,everybody talks about, oh, you
retire, and then you drop deadsoon after.
Yep. But, like, on his the dayJan made him a cake.

Mark (20:47):
Yeah. And Bernie

Sarah (20:48):
And Bernie's we

Mark (20:49):
find out, Bernie is salt of the earth. Yeah. Super good
guy. Absolutely fantastic.Nicholas goes, yeah, one of the
guys was Devin Barnes.
Totally gives him up right away.

Sarah (21:03):
Why would you not? Yes. But Nicholas, I was suspicious
of. I remember the first time

Mark (21:09):
They do

Sarah (21:09):
a really good we watched it. I was sure he was involved.

Mark (21:12):
They do a good job of showing what Nicholas like, I
don't think it's a bad characterthing that Nicholas is scared
and he runs away.

Sarah (21:23):
Well, so the robbers are in black suits, black ties, and
white shirts. And Nicholas iswearing a very dark navy suit
with a navy tie and a whiteshirt. On black and white CCTV,
it would be identical. He couldeasily slip in the back and put
a mask on and join them. Hecould have easily been part of
it, no question.

(21:44):
He's not, but he could havebeen. So it was a good red
herring, I think.

Mark (21:49):
I would say

Sarah (21:50):
that's And I would completely trust these guys to
whack him too hard with a gunwhen they were not supposed to.
Yeah. You know, like they werejust supposed to like lightly
tap him.

Mark (21:58):
I would say that's probably friend of the show,
Tanya's. Excellent costume work.

Sarah (22:03):
Yeah. It's thoughtful. Yeah. Because it means that he
could be one of them. Yes.
You you get to consider it.

Mark (22:09):
And Devin Barnes has a job though, sort of.

Sarah (22:12):
Well, he got fired three weeks ago from the Porky Pigeon
because he was a delivery driverwith no license. What a dummy.
He goes and puts on the sandwichboard. Like, that's gonna hide
the fact that he's selling hisshirt and

Mark (22:23):
tie. First of all, Ray, are you not checking a license
before?

Sarah (22:29):
When you hire somebody?

Mark (22:30):
When you're hiring somebody. So he's the sign guy
now, which he's not, and he hasthe dog mask in the in the
trash.

Sarah (22:40):
This is how dumb he is. Right? He gets away from the
bank, goes to a place where he'salready been fired, and I can
only think that that sandwichboard was set up more like an
easel out front the restaurant,and he runs up and puts it on,
and then walks in front of therestaurant. Like, at least go
inside if you're going to try tohide. He's like, oh, no.

(23:02):
I've been at work all morning.The burglary was at nine The
Porky Pigeon probably isn't evenopen yet.

Mark (23:08):
In addition to all the other things we said, this is
another episode in which a groupof people think they're way
smarter than the cops. Yeah.Much like the Odds family
Christmas.

Sarah (23:21):
Yeah. They're just dumb dumbs.

Mark (23:23):
The car is left at the scene, so they know whose car it

Sarah (23:27):
is. Mhmm.

Mark (23:28):
So they trundle on over to the house of the To see of the
old Essie. So did you see ReeseOates is her driving instructor?

Sarah (23:40):
Why he's qualified to teach anybody anything, I don't
know.

Mark (23:43):
Did you see his card?

Sarah (23:45):
It was handwritten.

Mark (23:46):
But you didn't see the detail at the very end? No. It
has Reese Oates. It has hisphone number. It has driving
instructor slash.
Can you guess what comes afterthe slash?

Sarah (23:59):
Ambulance driver.

Mark (24:01):
Stunt driver. That is a beautiful little nugget that
only maniacs get.

Sarah (24:13):
Maybe he is a good driver. He ends up being an
ambulance driver later.

Mark (24:16):
He doesn't

Sarah (24:17):
Maybe he's actually good at it. When they do talk to
Frodo

Mark (24:21):
and his coffee cart His name is also Odes. Yeah. Because
Christian's

Sarah (24:26):
I know He's parked in front of the bank. I know an
Odes. They're like, well, do youknow about Reese? He's like, why
would I know where Reese is?Well, come to think of it, he is
my brother.
Well, my stepbrother, well, halfstepbrother. Well, my stepmom
married my uncle. What?

Mark (24:44):
Frodo says this. Frodo says his stepmom married his
uncle after she left his dad.Mhmm. We still don't know about
Frodo's mom. No.
We know who his dad is. And nowwe know who his uncle is.

Sarah (25:02):
And uncle. We don't know if it's the same There might be
more than one brother. SinceFrodo's dad is so prodigious
He's 13 children by 10 women.

Mark (25:12):
Maybe

Sarah (25:13):
We find out.

Mark (25:14):
We have lots of uncles.

Sarah (25:16):
There could be more than one uncle.

Mark (25:17):
I love how that's introduced. Well, he's my
brother.

Sarah (25:21):
Yeah. If anybody wants to take on the project of creating
the Odes family tree, go for it.

Mark (25:27):
Yes. The delivery from Frodo here is fantastic comic
timing.

Sarah (25:32):
When did you see him last? Oh, I haven't seen him for
ages. Well, not since thismorning.

Mark (25:37):
Yeah. Just just great line delivery, great lines, and great
line delivery.

Sarah (25:44):
Not as good as when Chalmers goes into the pub for
the first time to meet Trudy,and he introduces himself, and
she says, didn't you used tohave red hair? And he just gives
her the look like, I got you. Iknow who you are now.

Mark (26:01):
I know everything about you already. Because Sims warns
him. She's like,

Sarah (26:06):
Well, kind of. She wants him. She doesn't warn him in
advance. She's like, oh, no, yougo talk to her. But then when he
comes back, she's like, well,she's never very cooperative.
And he's like, oh, no, I gotlots of stuff.

Mark (26:18):
Yeah, she's super nice to me.

Sarah (26:20):
There's no problem.

Mark (26:20):
I didn't even have to take my coat off. Come on.

Sarah (26:23):
How? I mean, yeah, you do the guns, his arms. His arms are
so bulky that his little shortsleeve shirts, the cuff of the
sleeves have a little split in

Mark (26:34):
them Yep.

Sarah (26:35):
To accommodate his guns. Yes. Now what I wanna know is if
Chalmers went in to see Gina,whether Gina would be as nice to
him.

Mark (26:44):
Well, it would depend if he mentioned pinball and or sex.

Sarah (26:48):
That's true.

Mark (26:49):
So we find out that Gina likes pinball, which all good
people like pinball.

Sarah (26:56):
Nothing says tasty pigeon like a giant mangy pigeon. There
are so many good lines in this.Oh. Eli, so he he's one of the
robbers. He's the one that Trudychases to the playhouse and,
like, breaks his arm and takesher So

Mark (27:15):
let's cover that part of the story.

Sarah (27:17):
She has fantastic hair.

Mark (27:20):
First of all, fantastic hair.

Sarah (27:22):
How does he fit it in that mask?

Mark (27:23):
How does he fit it in the mask? And then there's one point
later on, really, really lowlevel, he goes, like, almost as
an afterthought, goes, you can'tsee in those masks anyway. I'm
like, because your hair is allover your face, dude.

Sarah (27:41):
We we happen to have a nearly identical mask Yeah. To
that mask, and you cannot seeout

Mark (27:47):
of it. You cannot see out of it. Don't ask us why. We have

Sarah (27:51):
It was for a stage play of the thing. Does that answer
your question? Now you know.

Mark (27:57):
Now you know. So Eli runs away, and he hides in a Wendy
house.

Sarah (28:04):
Poorly. He's doing his best. He's limping and out of
breath.

Mark (28:12):
Because he has Trudy's bag. How Tracy Gray is not
laughing. Oh, I'm so excited.Then gets action Tracy. Yeah.
Right? She breaks his arm andthat's

Sarah (28:27):
She has lessons from prison.

Mark (28:29):
Like that's like, oh, I don't like Trudy breaking his
arm, but he did steal a bunchlike her wages are

Sarah (28:38):
in Yeah. You hear the crunch.

Mark (28:41):
Yep. It's it's very well done.

Sarah (28:44):
I think he got off light. She could've done more.

Mark (28:46):
So Eli runs home after being and and then he's later
identified and the cops show upat his house. He's still in the
suit.

Sarah (28:56):
Well, can't change clothes, his arm's broken.

Mark (28:58):
He can't change

Sarah (28:59):
I can't imagine how much that would

Mark (29:00):
But he shoved the dog mask down his pants. Yeah. Which
Chalmers pulls out immediately.

Sarah (29:06):
He's not smart.

Mark (29:07):
He is told his girlfriend, a porky pie, he's told her that
they've won the lottery.

Sarah (29:15):
She's not much sharper than he is.

Mark (29:17):
No. And they have gone to the bank to get a loan, but they
were refused getting the loan.

Sarah (29:24):
Bernie was a nice guy.

Mark (29:26):
He I'm sure Bernie went out of his way to try to get
them a loan. Yeah. And I lovehow it's implied that that he
doesn't come across as thesleazy No. Guy at all.

Sarah (29:40):
They have a credit score. It's a it's a quantitative
thing. I'm sure he's not allowedto do it if it's below a certain
point, and it is, and he can'tdo anything about it.

Mark (29:50):
The ad the address they give for Eli's house is a real
address in Auckland.

Sarah (29:55):
Well Caleb lives on Dead Rabbit Lane.

Mark (29:58):
Dead 16 Dead Rabbit Lane.

Sarah (30:00):
Who names a road Dead Rabbit Lane? I do

Mark (30:03):
not know.

Sarah (30:04):
Like is that how they name roads in New Zealand? The
first thing you see when youwalk down it is with the name of
it? Well, there's a Dead rabbiton the side of the road. Let's
call it Dead Rabbit Lane.

Mark (30:14):
You have questioned already the Oates family tree.

Sarah (30:19):
Mhmm.

Mark (30:20):
I have another family tree that we need to investigate.

Sarah (30:23):
Okay.

Mark (30:23):
The Dennis Buchanan family tree. Because he says when they
arrive at Caleb's housesomething about his five year
old nephew. Mhmm. Now, if youremember Dennis Buchanan's
brother is married to a horse.Yeah.
How does he have a five year oldnephew?

Sarah (30:43):
I think he's just lying.

Mark (30:44):
I I guess.

Sarah (30:45):
He's just making it

Mark (30:46):
up. Maybe?

Sarah (30:49):
I'm like because there are no other siblings.

Mark (30:52):
We know there are no It's

Sarah (30:55):
just Kim and his brother who's married to a horse. And we
say that like, that makes sensein reality. Cause if there was
another sibling, we would havefound out in that episode and we
didn't. So I think he's justmaking it up. I was like, what?

Mark (31:11):
Five year old nephew? How did that come about? Next,
Kristen gets shot.

Sarah (31:17):
Yeah. They play that off.

Mark (31:19):
So they go to Kristen.

Sarah (31:20):
She gets shot with an assault rifle style paintball
gun at about five feet.

Mark (31:26):
Which would have really freaking She had

Sarah (31:28):
a giant bruise. I looked it up.

Mark (31:31):
Oh, absolutely. And it's Kristen. She would have went
home and changed.

Sarah (31:35):
I don't know. She's hot on the trail of a murderer.

Mark (31:38):
I suppose.

Sarah (31:39):
It's just a little spot of paint. Though it would be a
much bigger spot of paint,wouldn't it?

Mark (31:44):
It would be.

Sarah (31:44):
I just love Plus, Crazy Tony is a moron. Last time we
saw him, he was wearing a duckhat.

Mark (31:50):
Crazy Tony has been in a ton of episodes. I keep
forgetting that Crazy Tony'sbeen in a ton of episodes.

Sarah (31:56):
It's most fun to shoot humans.

Mark (31:59):
I mean, but for like paintball, you know. He's in the
duck hunting episode.

Sarah (32:04):
Yeah. We get that gross scene of Caleb shooting a dead
possum over and Yeah. He'screepy.

Mark (32:13):
Yeah. I don't I don't. Caleb is really weird. At this
point in time, I think Dennisanswers the phone and he says
that he's the barrister to thestars. There are no stars.
No. Now he should say barristerto royalty.

Sarah (32:34):
That's true. But he's not. No. We know that he's not.
The earl.
He's not really an earl.

Mark (32:40):
We find that Devon's grandfather tried to rob this
bank.

Sarah (32:43):
In 1976.

Mark (32:45):
And he's reminiscing with him about this and giving him
the idea Mhmm. With the world'sworst scrapbook.

Sarah (32:53):
Mhmm.

Mark (32:54):
So the world's worst Scrapbook on the page before the
robbery includes the followingheadlines on articles. Seal saga
continues. Like like aquaticseals? Yes.

Sarah (33:08):
Okay.

Mark (33:09):
And then local pumpkin wins.

Sarah (33:14):
Okay. Why do you think he clipped those news stories for
his scrapbook?

Mark (33:18):
Then it's right to the next page to the article that
we've seen before, and thatarticle is full of information
including that Bernie was theteller that he took into the
bank vault.

Sarah (33:32):
Mhmm.

Mark (33:33):
So all that information is in that

Sarah (33:35):
So like so Kenny's like, I'm gonna make a scrapbook about
my failed bank robbery. But onpage one, I'm gonna put the
headlines from the day before Iguess. To remember what life was
like before I robbed the bank. Iguess. Seals and pumpkins.
That that was the biggest deal.

Mark (33:52):
Then we are transported to the magical world of nineteen
seventies. Broken wood.

Sarah (33:58):
Sideburns and polyester and disco music equal 1976.

Mark (34:03):
The bank posters have changed. They have a fantastic
sort of vintage poster right inthe middle where the tellers
are.

Sarah (34:11):
I was alive in 1976. You could almost drive.

Mark (34:15):
I could remember 1976.

Sarah (34:19):
You were seven. You were probably seeing movies you
shouldn't have on your own.

Mark (34:23):
Totally got his finger in his coat. Yeah.

Sarah (34:26):
It's a gun.

Mark (34:27):
It's a gun.

Sarah (34:28):
So they take Eli to the hospital under guard, right,
from his house because his armis broken. Yep. And then they
got him in the cop shop, andhe's got his cast on. Yeah. It's
such a good touch.
It says love from Snuggie on it.

Mark (34:44):
Love from Snuggie. Yeah. That's the only thing on the

Sarah (34:49):
cast. But Sam, his fiancee, girlfriend, pregnant
girlfriend, has written lovefrom Snoogee in marker on his
arm. And the sling is thinenough that you can read it.

Mark (35:02):
I know that Eli's probably gonna go up the river a little
bit. But

Sarah (35:08):
I feel bad for Sam. She's gonna have that baby on

Mark (35:12):
her own. I hope those kids make it. I do. I feel for them.

Sarah (35:15):
They're not smart enough. I don't know. I won the lottery.
You did? Okay.

Mark (35:21):
Well, he always has a job as a frontline brand ambassador.

Sarah (35:26):
That's true.

Mark (35:27):
That is that is such fantastic business school speech
right I have to admit that. Wewe work at a business school
here in Indiana, and that isfantastic business school speech
because what they are talkingabout is Eli wears the costume.

Sarah (35:46):
Yes. Pigeon. Pigeon costume.

Mark (35:48):
Now, I wasn't sure, but it is the same costume that Ray is
shown in in episode one of thisseries.

Sarah (35:57):
They give us a little flashback of the one scene of
the robbery

Mark (36:02):
Yes.

Sarah (36:03):
That is a perfect example of how dumb these guys are. Yes.
Two of them run into each other.They collide.

Mark (36:09):
They almost knock each other down.

Sarah (36:10):
And I think it's Eli says, go get Caleb. And the
other one says, I'm Caleb, anddon't say my name, you idiot. Go
get Devin. They're they're sostupid.

Mark (36:25):
They're so incredibly stupid. They also don't close
their browser as we'll get tothe culprit of the the event.

Sarah (36:34):
Yeah. So Kenny can open it. But they're on the dark web,
Mark.

Mark (36:37):
No, they're not. They're on supervillain.co.nz. Not a
real website.

Sarah (36:46):
That's the supervillain store? What else do they sell
besides plastic masks?

Mark (36:50):
They sell a dragon mask, green mask, a yellow mask, a
clown mask, and a Frankenstein

Sarah (36:56):
That's just the mask page of supervillain. They're They've
got to have like a laser gunpage and like a spaceship It's

Mark (37:04):
all costume stuff like that.

Sarah (37:06):
Oh, that's no fun. Why would that be on the dark web?

Mark (37:09):
I don't know. It's not real super villains. They paid
way too much for these masks.When they walked up to the the
computer to order the masks, Iwas really scared that they were
gonna go to Archie McPheebecause you could buy this mask

Sarah (37:26):
Yeah. At Archie McPhee. Where I got it.

Mark (37:28):
I think so.

Sarah (37:29):
I think that's why we have one is that's where I got
it.

Mark (37:32):
Archie McPhee, if you don't know, is the greatest
importer of useless crap.Novelty. Novelty.

Sarah (37:39):
And the Rubber Chicken Museum.

Mark (37:40):
Yeah. Rubber Chicken Museum, which I went to in

Sarah (37:43):
Seattle. It's fantastic.

Mark (37:45):
It is indeed.

Sarah (37:46):
They they want well, okay. After Frodo offers to be
Reese's lawyer and puts on asuit that's five sizes too big
for him and brings in a nauticallaw Maritime

Mark (37:56):
law Yeah. Third edition.

Sarah (37:58):
They decide to put all of the culprits in one room
together and let them be stupidand out each other, and they do,
of course. But at the end, Reesestands up and he says, I peed on
my car. Like, there, I said it.I did it. I peed on my car.
Which, of course, Frodo has saidis totally legal because it was

(38:19):
his car, so it's fine. Yeah.It's fine.

Mark (38:21):
It's okay to do that. How would you know that, Frodo? I
know.

Sarah (38:25):
It's okay to pee on your own car.

Mark (38:26):
Mike makes a visit to doctor hypothetical.
Hypothetically, if this happened

Sarah (38:31):
I think she's the only doctor in Brokenwood.

Mark (38:33):
I think so.

Sarah (38:34):
She runs that whole hospital

Mark (38:35):
All by herself. She's she's doing scheduling. Yeah.
What doctor do you know that youSchedules their own
appointments. And we find outthat everybody loves Stamps
who's 50 in this episode.

Sarah (38:51):
Men 50.

Mark (38:53):
Men 50.

Sarah (38:54):
Because Angelique, Kenny's wife, she's not into
stamps. Nope. She's into beingon the job.

Mark (39:00):
And we find that she gave up all that. We find that there
are important stamps. Now, is athing that I think happens, I
want you to confirm or denythis.

Sarah (39:17):
Okay.

Mark (39:19):
The Devin keeps saying Box 42, Box 40 2, Box 40 2. Mhmm.
Right? He says it a milliontimes.

Sarah (39:26):
Mhmm.

Mark (39:27):
And when Bernie goes into the to confront, sorry.

Sarah (39:32):
When Kenny

Mark (39:32):
When Kenny in to confront Bernie, he asks for box 24.

Sarah (39:37):
Mhmm.

Mark (39:38):
Do you think Devin has dyslexia?

Sarah (39:41):
Kenny's been lying to him

Mark (39:42):
Oh, okay. All this time? Kenny's been lying

Sarah (39:44):
to him?

Mark (39:44):
Abs Okay.

Sarah (39:45):
He has absolutely set up his own grandson

Mark (39:48):
Okay.

Sarah (39:48):
Because he's an asshole.

Mark (39:50):
Yes. Kenny is fantastically evil. He is He's
the worst. He's horrible. Yeah.
First of all, very first of all,he he doesn't have a good enough
relationship with his exprostitute wife that she can
tell him that she's sick.

Sarah (40:07):
Mhmm.

Mark (40:08):
And he hasn't even noticed. Yep. He's so self
absorbed.

Sarah (40:12):
He's been faking being more disabled than he is and
letting her take care of him.

Mark (40:17):
Cancer diagnosis like she gets, it's difficult to fake not
being sick when you're thatsick.

Sarah (40:24):
Mhmm.

Mark (40:25):
So that. She's taking care of him. Yeah. Like, he doesn't
need any of that. No.
Like, when they all leave thehouse, he must be up dancing
jigs

Sarah (40:35):
and Doing whatever he wants.

Mark (40:36):
Doing whatever he wants. And then he frames his grandson.

Sarah (40:40):
Yeah. He's just Plants the idea in

Mark (40:42):
his killing somebody.

Sarah (40:44):
Yeah. Plants the idea in his head so that he can pull off
the caper that he regrets notpulling off.

Mark (40:52):
Which is some weird, like vanity

Sarah (40:55):
thing. It's totally vanity.

Mark (40:56):
And Mike plays into it so well at the Yeah.

Sarah (41:00):
He does the whole, well, you failed. Yep. Everybody
knows, oh, now there's twogenerations of failed bank
robbers in your family. Yep. AndBernie is just doing his job and
wants to retire and have a cake.
Yeah. And has been sitting onthose inverted Kakapo stamps for
forty five years.

Mark (41:20):
And, like, they're his stamps.

Sarah (41:22):
Yeah.

Mark (41:23):
And they're his retirement

Sarah (41:25):
It's not like he stole them from Kenny. No. Kenny was
too stupid to realize theirvalue back in 1976

Mark (41:31):
I'll tell you And

Sarah (41:32):
left him behind.

Mark (41:33):
I'll tell you the ultimate stupidity. So Devin wears a wire
Mhmm. So the cops are nearbylistening. They hear a scuffle
and they come running into thehouse. And in the middle of this
intense action scene where weget Action Mike, Action Sims,
and and Action Daniel.
I'm like, wait a minute. There'sa box there that says

(41:56):
supervillains.com. They didn'teven put away the boxes?

Sarah (42:03):
That's Kenny. Cause Kenny ordered a mask after they did.
Yep. He absolutely goads himinto confessing.

Mark (42:09):
Then he goes to grab the gun and action Sims tackles him.

Sarah (42:13):
I shot myself in the arse.

Mark (42:15):
I shot myself in the arse.

Sarah (42:18):
He deserves that too.

Mark (42:20):
Does indeed deserve that. Mike makes a Nadia Comanichi
reference, which Sims andChalmers are like, who?

Sarah (42:31):
Yeah. They know gymnasts.

Mark (42:34):
I don't know. That's nineteen seventy six Olympics.

Sarah (42:37):
But they get the joke. Maybe. Yeah. So

Mark (42:40):
Simms almost gets shot twice, she gets shot once.

Sarah (42:44):
I feel so bad for Devin though. Yeah. Because he wears
that wire because he's surethey're wrong about his
grandfather.

Mark (42:50):
They're sure

Sarah (42:51):
he And they are not wrong. That is so devastating. I
mean, he's been raised by hisgrandpa and his step grandma,
you know, and his parents areout of the picture. And this is
the person who he's looked up toand he finds out that he was
willing to let him go to prison

Mark (43:10):
And they do murder. Such a good job in this episode of
serious and non serious. Yeah.Like let's be honest, this is
dog day afternoon, reservoirdogs, snatch all put together.

Sarah (43:24):
Mhmm.

Mark (43:25):
Right? With

Sarah (43:27):
With a big dose of dumb.

Mark (43:28):
With a big dose of dumb. Right, altogether, and deals
with that loss of grandpa in away that makes you feel sorry
for Devin at the end.

Sarah (43:40):
Well, both Nicholas and Devin have lost their They
should be friends.

Mark (43:45):
Like, Nicholas has a really tough life.

Sarah (43:48):
Yeah. And he, like Looked up to Bernie, and Bernie was
shot Yeah. For no good reason.

Mark (43:56):
Absolutely not. Greed. No. Ego. And he couldn't

Sarah (44:00):
Why does Kenny tape the stamps to his chest?

Mark (44:02):
I don't know. It's like super stamps Kenny.

Sarah (44:05):
I thought he was gonna open his shirt and have like a
bomb under there or something.

Mark (44:09):
An Xbox.

Sarah (44:12):
Just the controller taped to his chest with the buttons.

Mark (44:15):
Okay. So we have a ton to do in cleanup for this episode.
Okay? Yeah. So first of all,let's cover some of the after
the credits.
Yes. Okay. Trudy performed bythe amazing Tracy Gray goes on
and does amazing things

Sarah (44:34):
Mhmm.

Mark (44:35):
With her brother Ray. Yep. Ray's almost a sub character
now.

Sarah (44:39):
Yeah. It's the TV show.

Mark (44:41):
It's the TV show. So Eli and his girlfriend.

Sarah (44:44):
Well, let's just talk about the the four burglars.

Mark (44:47):
The four burglars.

Sarah (44:48):
Reese, Devin, Caleb, and Eli.

Mark (44:51):
I think if anybody's not going up the pogie, it's Reese.
Right. Right? And we see Reeseagain in more episodes. So we

Sarah (45:01):
Devin and Caleb are definitely the most culpable.

Mark (45:04):
And I think go up the pogie.

Sarah (45:06):
Yeah. I think they go to prison.

Mark (45:08):
Yep.

Sarah (45:09):
Not for a huge amount of time, but for some. Though
Caleb's got money, so he may buyhimself out of

Mark (45:18):
it. He also is the barrister to the stars. Yes. So
I think that that's the othermovie I was thinking this
reminds me of. It's very muchlike Raising Arizona because
they don't have deadly weapons.
Right? So they they're trying toget away from being charged with
armed robbery. Because that'sthe whole pretense of part of

(45:41):
raising Arizona is that hedoesn't have a loaded weapon, so
it's not armed robbery. Right.Also stupid robbery.

Sarah (45:48):
I don't think Eli's going away for long. Maybe six months
or something. Maybe. He's got apretty minimal part, and they
weren't successful,

Mark (45:56):
you know? And he's got a broken arm to deal with.

Sarah (45:58):
But Kenny is going to jail for murder.

Mark (46:00):
Kenny is going to jail for murder and robbery again.

Sarah (46:04):
Yeah. In in Aggravated robbery.

Mark (46:07):
The US, it would be felony murder because he committed the
murder and

Sarah (46:11):
While committing another felony.

Mark (46:12):
While committing a felony.

Sarah (46:13):
Yeah. And I think Angelique is gonna visit Devin
in jail, prison, but not Kenny.

Mark (46:18):
I think so.

Sarah (46:19):
She's done with him.

Mark (46:20):
She's gotta be done with him.

Sarah (46:22):
She calls him out.

Mark (46:23):
It does follow the rule that anyone who shows up in a
wheelchair in a televisionepisode eventually gets up from
that wheelchair and movesaround. Unless you're in an
Agatha Christie episode wherethey play on that playing on.

Sarah (46:37):
They They do the double slip.

Mark (46:38):
They do the double slip. Sorry for the spoilers for a
twenty five year old show, but

Sarah (46:43):
Sam's gonna have the baby and I think Eli's not gonna be
there, but shortly after he'llbe there.

Mark (46:49):
I think so. Will he continue to work as the brand
ambassador?

Sarah (46:52):
Maybe he'll get a new job as a brand ambassador.

Mark (46:55):
Well, we don't see much of Ray's establishment anymore.

Sarah (47:01):
The Porky Pigeon?

Mark (47:02):
We see the boxes. Yeah. But we don't see

Sarah (47:05):
the put more of his entrepreneurial focus on the
pubs.

Mark (47:10):
Yes. And making them aspirational. Yes. I know we're
hitting this pretty hard, butjust to give you an indication
of Tracy's maniac behavior, sheposted on her Instagram all
posters in the latest episode ofseason eleven, all the posters

(47:30):
that were in the pub. Nice.
Like close ups of those posters.

Sarah (47:34):
Thanks Tracy, that's helpful to us.

Mark (47:35):
I'm like,

Sarah (47:36):
Yes please.

Mark (47:40):
Dennis Buchanan goes on to be the fantastic Dennis
Buchanan.

Sarah (47:46):
Race goes on to be an ambulance driver after he does
any time. I don't know if hedoes any time.

Mark (47:51):
I think Dennis Buchanan's in every season. Maybe. I think
so. Chalmers goes on to beexcellent, popping his guns.

Sarah (48:00):
This is another episode where there are firearms and
Mike says no thanks. Yes. Healways turns down a gun.

Mark (48:08):
Yep. He always does. And Chalmers like, okay. I'll get
two fisted now.

Sarah (48:13):
Well, he came from the big smoke.

Mark (48:14):
He comes from the big smoke.

Sarah (48:15):
He knows about violence.

Mark (48:17):
He knows about those gangs and things.

Sarah (48:21):
So that is dog day morning.

Mark (48:23):
Wow.

Sarah (48:24):
What's our next one? What's season seven episode
four?

Mark (48:27):
Season seven episode four is entitled something nasty in
the market. Oh. Which I think isa direct reference to the book
and movie, which is Cold ComfortFarm, which if you haven't seen
it, is fantastic. Rufus Sewell.Rufus Sewell, Ian McKellen.

(48:50):
Yeah. It's Everybody. Justfantastic.

Sarah (48:53):
It's such a good movie. I can't say anything about the
story of the book wheneverdidn't read it, but the the
movie is fantastic.

Mark (48:59):
But the line is repeated several times in the movie and
the book, there's somethingnasty in the woodshed. Yes.
Until the greatest comeback lineof all time is said back to
that, that she had seenSomething Nasty in the Woodshed.
So I think it's a directreference to that. It's a
farmer's market episode.

Sarah (49:21):
Mhmm.

Mark (49:22):
So there are all sorts of fun things to go along with
that.

Sarah (49:27):
So what have we learned from this episode? We've learned
don't do bank robberies withmorons.

Mark (49:32):
Yes. We've learned that an Xbox is not a bomb. Yes. We've
learned that when you stealthings, tape them to your chest.

Sarah (49:40):
And don't try to steal from Trudy because she will get
you. She will kick your ass.Chase you all the way to the
Wendy house, all the way to theplayhouse, take you down.
Alright. Until next week.
Bye, maniacs.

Mark (49:54):
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. We find out thatNicholas' grandfather tried to

(50:17):
rob this bank.

Sarah (50:18):
No. Devin.

Mark (50:19):
Oh, sorry.

Sarah (50:19):
Nicholas is the bank teller.

Mark (50:21):
Okay.
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