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Sarah (00:00):
It's like a phallus in a shell. Yes. They're nasty. Hey,
maniacs.

Mark (00:20):
Hey, maniacs. Welcome to Mystery Maniacs.

Sarah (00:24):
You were a little Wolfman Jack there for a second.

Mark (00:26):
I was a little Wolfman.

Sarah (00:27):
Hey, maniacs.

Mark (00:28):
Only our listeners would know who Wolfman Jack is.

Sarah (00:33):
Anybody under 30 is googling Wolfman Jack right now.

Mark (00:35):
Oh my god.

Sarah (00:36):
Anyhow, welcome to Mystery Maniacs.

Mark (00:39):
Mystery Maniacs is a comedy recap podcast dedicated
to mystery TV. Each week, we diginto an episode of the show
including the murders, themayhem, the loonies, and
everything else we love.

Sarah (00:50):
This week, Broken Woods season six episode three, Dead
Man Don't Shoot Ducks. I'm Mark.Babies. I'm Sarah. I'm not
Wolfman Jack.
I'm sure all of you old enoughto recognize that voice were
probably fooled. Wow. How didthey bring Wolfman Jack back
from the dead and put him on theradio? Put him on the podcast.

(01:12):
It's amazing.
It's a miracle.

Mark (01:13):
I was completely enamored with him as a child.

Sarah (01:16):
It was just me.

Mark (01:17):
He was a DJ who was like a celebrity. I know. I was like It

Sarah (01:20):
was him and Casey Case.

Mark (01:22):
My gosh. I wanna be that person.

Sarah (01:24):
We are immediately off topic. Yes. Dead men don't shoot
ducks.

Mark (01:28):
This is a spoiler podcast. So if you haven't watched the
episode, go watch the episodeand then listen to us. And if
you let your kids go to duckblinds and shoot at protesters.

Sarah (01:40):
That one dude does. I guess. Sorta. Tony Carrot.

Mark (01:45):
I did like how they portrayed him as both
knowledgeable about what he wasdoing and a good parent.

Sarah (01:53):
Okay. But his his shop is called Blood Sports

Mark (01:56):
with a Blood Sports. We haven't had an episode in a
while, so let's talk about whatwe've been doing

Sarah (02:04):
other

Mark (02:05):
than being Oh my gosh.

Sarah (02:08):
We finished Ludwig. Yes. Which everybody should watch. If
you haven't watched it, check itout. We've watched

Mark (02:13):
They're already working on season two. The ending of season
one was fantastic.

Sarah (02:18):
It was very good. I was kind of watching those episodes
in fear of what the end of theseason was going to I wasn't
sure how they were going to tieit up, but what they did was
really good.

Mark (02:29):
The last episode

Sarah (02:30):
was And not at all what I expected them to do.

Mark (02:33):
Extremely well written. We've been watching The Cleaner.
We watched the first twoepisodes.

Sarah (02:37):
Because I love Greg Davis.

Mark (02:39):
Oh my god.

Sarah (02:39):
That giant Steve Funny man.

Mark (02:41):
Pemberton is hilarious. So good in episode two.

Sarah (02:46):
Chelsea detective, those new episodes have been really,
really good.

Mark (02:49):
Yes. Including missus Hall being

Sarah (02:52):
sultry? A normal modern person is kinda it's kinda weird
to see Kinda weird. The thehousekeeper from All Creatures
Great and Small in NormalClothes. Yes. We've also been
watching the new episodes ofBrokenwood season 11.

Mark (03:05):
Yes. They released on Acorn the first episode last
Monday and the next episode willbe releasing on April 28 when
the day that this podcast drops.

Sarah (03:16):
And because there are new episodes of a show that we're
talking about, we're doing whatwe've always done, which is
releasing mini spoiler freeepisodes that you can listen to
before you watch to get tipsabout how to watch it like a
maniac.

Mark (03:30):
And that was mini episode number 28. I can't believe we
have 28

Sarah (03:35):
I know. Mini episodes. I know.

Mark (03:38):
And it's called two by two and bad tattoos.

Sarah (03:41):
So if you're if you're kinda new to the podcast, if you
weren't around with us withinmidsummer when new midsummers
were coming out, we do thesemini episodes because we think
it's fun to we don't spoil theepisode. We really don't even
talk about the plot. We justgive you some things to look
for, some little like puzzles or

Mark (04:00):
Indications of how we watch Questions

Sarah (04:02):
to try to answer. Yeah. So that when you watch it, you
can look for those things, whichmakes it a little bit more fun
to watch. And then we're onseason six of Broken Wood now,
but when we get to seasoneleven, we will then do a full
normal episode.

Mark (04:15):
And we answer all

Sarah (04:16):
the questions. Answer the questions. So you might be
waiting a while, but

Mark (04:19):
We wrote down the answers.

Sarah (04:21):
We did. One time I didn't write down the answers, and by
the time we got around likeseven seasons later, I was like,
I

Mark (04:28):
don't know. I gotta watch this again. Don't remember.
Can't watch the episode againand watch the mini again.

Sarah (04:34):
Yeah. To remember the question. But yeah, the first
one came out last week. So ifyou didn't check it out, check
it out and go watch the episode.

Mark (04:42):
And there's six episodes in this new season.

Sarah (04:45):
Yeah. If season eleven isn't available to you, don't
worry. We'll keep the mini upand posted. And when it becomes
available to you, you can listento it then.

Mark (04:53):
Yes. Absolutely. So just a little scheduling thing, we
won't have an episode next weekbecause it's free comic book day
on Saturday, the day that werecord and Melissa, the artist
who draws my spirit comic bookand I are special guests at our
local comic book shop to dosignings and all sorts

Sarah (05:13):
of giving away free comic books to kids. That's a great
thing to books

Mark (05:16):
to to kids and coloring books and all sorts of it's a
fun day.

Sarah (05:20):
This week has not been fun though. No. Just on a little
side note because you guys know,I mean, we're mystery maniacs
but we can't our lives are kindof maniacal. Yeah. Kind of crazy
sometimes.

Mark (05:34):
Some of you may not even know that we have four children
the same age.

Sarah (05:38):
Yesterday No. Yes. Yesterday.

Mark (05:42):
Yes. I

Sarah (05:42):
don't even know what day it is anymore.

Mark (05:43):
It was yesterday.

Sarah (05:44):
On Friday, we had a $35,000 lunch break. Yes. Our
air conditioner started for theseason and it wasn't working so
well.

Mark (05:58):
So we pay for this service to have Checkups.

Sarah (06:03):
Checkups done every year. Because we have two water
heaters, two furnaces, and twoair conditioners

Mark (06:10):
Yep. We are

Sarah (06:10):
our big freaky house.

Mark (06:11):
A two zone big freaky house.

Sarah (06:14):
It wasn't working so efficiently. We didn't think the
air was cool. We thought it'stime for the checkup. It's time
for the checkup. Wasn't checkup.
It was a terminal diagnosis.Yes. And Dude came and said They

Mark (06:27):
were they were very nice. They were very nice.

Sarah (06:30):
Said not only is this air conditioner dead, but so is the
other one.

Mark (06:37):
Yes.

Sarah (06:38):
And so are the furnaces that are attached to them.

Mark (06:41):
So Friday afternoon Here's

Sarah (06:43):
a photo of the sizzling smoking wires that are inside of
them. And oh by the way, theywere installed shortly after
Sarah graduated from highschool. They are that old.

Mark (06:56):
Before the birth of our children, before we had even
met, these furnaces wereinstalled in our house.

Sarah (07:03):
And it will cost you a mere $35,000 to replace both of
Yes.

Mark (07:08):
I had purchased two air conditioning units and two
furnaces.

Sarah (07:12):
I'm still sort of freaking out about it. It's it
needed to happen. And I have tomove all the Halloween stuff so
they can get into the place itin the garage.

Mark (07:26):
So it's in the garage, the one furnace is in the garage and
one is in the basement. Both ofthese are filled with Halloween
decorations.

Sarah (07:34):
Yeah. It's like, how can I shift the corpses from one
place to the other if they'regonna be in both places? I've
been looking forward torecording this morning because
it's a little bit of time when Ithought I wouldn't be thinking
of the $35,000 lunch break.

Mark (07:51):
And hey, you can now join our $35,000 HVAC Patreon. No,
not seriously. No, we're notdoing it.

Sarah (08:00):
We're gonna pay for it a nickel at a time out on the
street with a can shaking it.Can you shake your booty for a
nickel at a time?

Mark (08:08):
Just saying that maybe if you could like and subscribe
this video on YouTube

Sarah (08:13):
We could at least get that fat YouTube dollar cash.
Oh, yeah. We get like $4 a monthor something from YouTube.

Mark (08:22):
Oh, no. We do better on YouTube than that.

Sarah (08:25):
Oh, enough to pay for that $35,000

Mark (08:29):
furnace. No, no.

Sarah (08:33):
Y'all can tell I'm a little stuck on it. Anyhow, so
how about shooting them ducks?

Mark (08:40):
We just wanna reiterate, this was a known expense. Maybe
it wasn't known as much as itwas, and we were already
planning

Sarah (08:51):
Wait a minute. It wasn't it known. It was like, yeah,
they're old. We'll have toreplace them soon. Well, we But
not on Tuesday all at the sameNo.

Mark (09:01):
No. We expected to have to replace all this equipment in
about eighteen months when we dosome major renovations. When we
had secured a home equity book.

Sarah (09:16):
I laugh so I don't cry. It's okay. How about the ducks?
Is this nom or a duck hunt?

Mark (09:25):
I don't know.

Sarah (09:26):
Because it looks like nom. They got the face paint.
Like ducks are gonna see theirskin and go, that's a person.
Yes. You gotta paint your skinup in camo like realistic camo.

Mark (09:37):
I guess.

Sarah (09:38):
To hide in your my my your duck hide. You're already
in a hide in the dark in the fogand you got to put the face
paint on.

Mark (09:45):
Man, like I'm not a hunter. I don't fish. I don't
hunt. It's never been a thing.

Sarah (09:51):
The closest thing you do to hunting is going to the
grocery store and choosing theright chicken.

Mark (09:55):
And my father never let hunters be on our property. It
was just not something I wasraised in and not part of my
culture. I understand

Sarah (10:04):
that I went fishing as a kid but we didn't paint up camo
to go fishing.

Mark (10:08):
But but this is serious and I looked into duck season in
New Zealand.

Sarah (10:14):
It's six weeks.

Mark (10:15):
And It's short. It's right now. Oh. Like it's getting ready
right now and

Sarah (10:20):
So it's a fall thing?

Mark (10:22):
You know there are times when you think that a certain
country and a certain lunaticare the entire world but this is
not the case. Because they had arather lovely explanation of
securing the Mai Mai that youwanted. It it really was
understanding and reflective of

Sarah (10:44):
You mean on like the New Zealand hunting website or Maori

Mark (10:47):
values

Sarah (10:48):
So the whole world's not full of assholes right now? No.
It's hard not to think that.

Mark (10:53):
It is

Sarah (10:54):
indeed. They're kind people. So you don't own your my
my and say this is mine. And Imean it's a my my.

Mark (11:01):
It's not a my my.

Sarah (11:03):
It's not a your my my. It's my my my.

Mark (11:07):
Okay. That was maybe not the most cultural leap.

Sarah (11:14):
I just assumed that if you built it on land that you
had access to, that you wouldn'thave to claim it. It's yours.
That But maybe not.

Mark (11:21):
They just had a page about making sure that you staked out
your claim early on.

Sarah (11:26):
Oh, that's nice. And that you were considerate of other
people and Yeah. They have allsorts Because other people have
guns and you shouldn't make themmad.

Mark (11:34):
Well they have crazy rules like they didn't mention them in
here but like you're onlyallowed three shots at a time
because they want to lower thenumber of wounded birds. They
want to increase the number ofkills.

Sarah (11:49):
Right. That makes sense. So you can't take out your AK to
go duck hunting.

Mark (11:54):
Yeah, that's You're only allowed three shots.

Sarah (11:57):
That's nice. It's sad that that's nice.

Mark (12:03):
Birds lives matter. What do you think of that?

Sarah (12:06):
Leslie's a moron. I'm glad she at least plays some
music to announce herself.

Mark (12:13):
That was the right thing to do.

Sarah (12:15):
But like she should have been out there when they got
there splashing around scaringthe ducks away from the get go.
You know what I mean? Yeah. Sothe ducks were never anywhere
nearby. That's what I would havethought.

Mark (12:27):
So I had a friend who used to ask me all the time to go
fishing with him and I was neverinterested in fishing with him.
I grew up on a lake in thesummers, right? And so what I
would do is go out with him inthe boat and I'd sit and read
and when I got bored reading,because we talk and stuff, you
know, it was fellowship

Sarah (12:47):
Let me guess, you go swimming

Mark (12:49):
I go swimming.

Sarah (12:49):
And scare the fish off.

Mark (12:50):
I swim under the boat and scare all

Sarah (12:53):
the

Mark (12:53):
fish You're not catching anything?

Sarah (12:57):
Do you swim under the boat?

Mark (12:59):
Oh yeah.

Sarah (13:01):
No. No. Just the idea of that scares the bejesus out of
me. What if you got caught? Whatdid you No.

Mark (13:12):
This is when I was in the water.

Sarah (13:14):
Don't like water. Can't see the bottom

Mark (13:16):
This is when I was in water and round boats all the
time, like when I was waterskiing every day.

Sarah (13:23):
I used to go fishing a lot because my dad is like a
fishing addict. Like he had toget his hit every day. He'd go
fishing for like an hour afterwork. And when my sister and I
were little, we would go and hewould have his little aluminum
boat not a big boat, like a boatyou put on the top of the in the
back of the truck or whatever.

Mark (13:41):
That's all this boat was.

Sarah (13:43):
I know. Still, don't swim under it. It's still got an
outboard. Would go out on theboat. He couldn't leave us on
the edge of the pond.
So we would be in the boat. AndI'd be like five and my sister
be like, you know, nine. Andinevitably one of us would have
to pee. Yep. Well, dad couldjust go off the side of the
boat.
Yes. But he'd have to take usback. Yep. To the bank, get off,

(14:07):
go pee, get back on, go out tothe middle of the lake. And then
the other one would go, no, Ihave to go now.
I'm gonna go back. Soon he waslike, hold it. Just hold it.

Mark (14:17):
Just hold it.

Sarah (14:18):
When when both of you have to go then we'll go. It was
pretty miserable. But he madereally good peanut butter and
honey sandwiches so we we didn'tmind going. Anyway

Mark (14:28):
So Leslie Garrett

Sarah (14:30):
Is a moron and gets shot in her little boat. Yes. Because
she puts herself between herkiller sister and some ducks.

Mark (14:39):
So her sister who is the killer, we're we're we're we're
letting you in on that.

Sarah (14:44):
Jenny. You know she's the killer right away because she
starts to smother the widower,Ollie. Yes. As soon as her
sister her sister's not evencold and she's like, what can I
do for you, Ollie? Can I helpyou, Ollie?
Stay away from Ollie. You don'tneed to question Ollie right
now. And you're like, yeah,you're the killer, aren't you?

Mark (14:58):
Yeah. Yeah. So I guess she told her sister that she was
gonna do this?

Sarah (15:03):
Yes. Leslie told Jenny she was gonna go out and do it.

Mark (15:06):
And then she devised this plan, but okay. The whole idea
of this is that Jenny is so inlove with Ollie that she's
willing to kill your kill hersister. Yeah. That's a strange
thing.

Sarah (15:21):
I would have thought that would have surfaced in other
ways before this. And you knowme,

Mark (15:27):
I'm always banging on inciting incident. Yeah. What is
the inciting incident of this?It's not this. She just didn't
think because this ispremeditated.
She has a whole plan

Sarah (15:38):
Oh, yeah. She's before she gets decided she's gonna
pretend to be a ghost. So Like,she's got a costume. So She had
to find that bowler hatsomewhere. This is very
premeditated.

Mark (15:49):
I would gotten away with it if it wasn't for you. Yeah.
You kids and your Bowler hats.

Sarah (15:55):
Yep. Like She could have just as easily been three or
four kids stacked on top of eachother in a big coat. But

Mark (16:01):
Or Scooby Doo. Yeah. But the why now? There's no reason
about why now.

Sarah (16:06):
It's not Ollie's affair.

Mark (16:08):
No. Because she finds out about that later.

Sarah (16:10):
With mother ducker.

Mark (16:12):
Yes. Because

Sarah (16:14):
she doesn't know about that yet.

Mark (16:16):
Yeah. So what is the inciting incident here?

Sarah (16:19):
I don't know. May maybe we'll maybe we'll figure it out
as we go through here.

Mark (16:23):
Okay.

Sarah (16:23):
So they're all members of the Duck Stalkers Association.

Mark (16:27):
Yeah. There there's a lot of wordplay in this episode.

Sarah (16:30):
Duck Stalker, it just I feel like you can stalk a deer,
you can stalk a bear, somethingbig, a buffalo.

Mark (16:38):
Yep. But a duck. It's hard to stalk a duck.

Sarah (16:42):
Like you gotta find out where it lives and Yeah. Like
take photos of it through thewindow and And this You don't
creep up on them. Yeah. You sitand wait for them to come to
you.

Mark (16:54):
Yeah. And this is a So there's sort of a bunch of
little groups here. Mhmm. Right?There's Don Ducker who is the
head duck stalker.
Don Ducker the third. The third.Then there is the guy who runs
the gun shop Tony. And hischildren.

Sarah (17:15):
Mhmm. Then there's Jared and his uncle Walter, who's the
one that has Parkinson's. We'vemet him And his uncle Tomaty.

Mark (17:22):
And it's implied that maybe his Parkinson's, he's
shaking. Yeah. Might have beensomething here.

Sarah (17:27):
And Jared didn't even have a gun. He's just there to
support his uncle.

Mark (17:31):
And then there's the poorest individual of the entire
episode.

Sarah (17:35):
Who should not be there. Frodo should not be there.

Mark (17:38):
No. Frodo has finally overcome

Sarah (17:41):
No. He

Mark (17:42):
hasn't. His trauma enough that he's gone to the

Sarah (17:47):
Duck hunt in honor of his friend Hayden who was killed at
his own bachelor party.

Mark (17:51):
So let's just recap. The first thing with guns and Frodo
is he shot himself in the foot.Yes. And his friends didn't want
to hang out with him then.

Sarah (18:01):
Right.

Mark (18:02):
That's traumatic enough.

Sarah (18:03):
Mhmm.

Mark (18:04):
Then at his friend's bachelor party when he's finally
allowed to get guns back

Sarah (18:10):
Mhmm.

Mark (18:10):
His friend gets shot. Yes. And Frodo legitimately worries
that for part of the episode

Sarah (18:18):
That he will be

Mark (18:19):
in trouble

Sarah (18:21):
for it.

Mark (18:22):
Or that he is somehow in danger.

Sarah (18:25):
Yeah.

Mark (18:26):
Throws his guns into the river.

Sarah (18:28):
Right.

Mark (18:28):
I'm done with guns.

Sarah (18:30):
But now time has passed.

Mark (18:31):
Time has passed.

Sarah (18:32):
And he's gonna instead of pouring out a 40 for his friend,
he's gonna shoot some ducks forhis friend using his friend's
old bullets.

Mark (18:40):
And it's weird that his friend has his girlfriend's
picture in a bikini and thething but In the duck hide. Men
are weird.

Sarah (18:50):
Okay. Don't forget the asshat on the jet ski.

Mark (18:53):
Yes.

Sarah (18:53):
Lance Guilford, who is just useless in the entire
episode. Yes. He's not even ared herring because you never
really suspect him.

Mark (19:00):
No. And he doesn't have any cool posters in this All

Sarah (19:04):
he does is rip off tourists.

Mark (19:06):
Yes.

Sarah (19:07):
That's all he does.

Mark (19:08):
But Frodo is then immediately dealt with the
trauma of seeing another persondie by gunfire, which he could
have possibly been involvedYeah.

Sarah (19:19):
You would think I mean, no matter how high you know you
shot, it would still be like,well, what if I, you know, what
if my shot Yep. Fell, you know,and hit her. And What if I
pulled earlier than

Mark (19:33):
Frodo has a big heart. Yeah. Frodo's got a big heart.

Sarah (19:37):
You'd feel bad.

Mark (19:39):
Reaction is played for comedy but it's actually kind of
real and traumatic.

Sarah (19:44):
What's funny is the way Frodo deals with that sadness or
that upset by getting totallyrat faced Yes. And stumbling
around town and going to theaspirational establishment of
the toad and lion where peoplelike to be happy. Where they
aspire

Mark (20:03):
Trudy To be

Sarah (20:04):
more than they are.

Mark (20:06):
Trudy and Ray are fantastic in this episode and
fantastic in the new episode.

Sarah (20:13):
Yeah. Are you surprised that they let Ollie see Leslie's
body when they haven't evencleaned her face off yet?

Mark (20:19):
I have a note that says she's got big lead blood on her.
Maybe you shouldn't be showingher to her sister.

Sarah (20:29):
Like wipe her face off. Yeah. When Gina's like, well he
can spend another minute withher, but he's gotta hurry
because I need to get on. AndJenny's like, And Sims is like,
she's Russian. Like that's allyou need to say is she's
Russian.
Yep. And that explainseverything about how rude she
is.

Mark (20:47):
What important UK figure is in one of the duck blinds?
There's a picture of them.

Sarah (20:54):
I don't know. Baden Powell. There's a picture of
Baden Powell in there? Yep. Doyou want to tell people who he
is?

Mark (20:59):
He is the man who started scouting.

Sarah (21:02):
Are you surprised that the Duck Stalkers Association,
the DSA Yes. Has their very ownclubhouse? They don't just rent
a room, they've got a clubhouse.

Mark (21:12):
It's than the like the detectorists just use the town
hall.

Sarah (21:17):
Yeah. No, this is their place. There's a big sign on the
wall and they've got theirtrophies up and dead ducks
everywhere and it's like apermanent place for for
something you do six weeks outof the year.

Mark (21:29):
Yeah. It seems

Sarah (21:29):
What do they do with it for the other forty eight?

Mark (21:32):
It it seems weirdly Forty six. Sorry. Like inheritance
based, like if if my grandfatherwas in this club then I'm in
this club. Yeah. There's not alot of clubs that work like
that.

Sarah (21:45):
No, they're usually Ivy League school related clubs.
Mrs. Marlowe Speaking

Mark (21:49):
of things that are uncomfortable, would you want to
drive around with that many eggssitting in your front seats?

Sarah (21:55):
I think, you know, I think if you're around eggs, you
know how tough they actuallyare.

Mark (22:00):
Well, plus that's 357,000 You could have paid for the HVAC
issues with the all those eggs.Give me those eggs.

Sarah (22:11):
I mean, you notice when they go to Ollie's house and
they're at the dining room tablethat there's two big baskets of
eggs on the table

Mark (22:18):
too? Giant baskets of eggs.

Sarah (22:20):
One well, one basket is a basket of giant eggs Yes. And
the other basket is of tinyeggs. Like, he's the egg
magnate. He's got He's

Mark (22:29):
the egg man. He's got Cook and chew.

Sarah (22:32):
He's got pigs. He's got ducks. He must have some
ostriches around theresomewhere. I don't know. Maybe
that's why those big birds areare extinct now because he's
stealing all their big eggs.
Missus Marlow is awesome in thisepisode. Yes. Because she's
again the I know everything butI'm not involved. But Yes. Run

(22:53):
into me and I'll tell youimportant things like how to
make coffee.
We will we will.

Mark (23:00):
And and again, like this is really a very good callback
to the brand new episode becausein the new episode, they're
still finding interesting waysto make fun of Sims and her
coffee. That's that's notcoffee.

Sarah (23:14):
She does not learn the lesson. No.

Mark (23:17):
She does not.

Sarah (23:18):
Because if she did that that would be the end of it.
Right? Yes. Did you know thatmissus Marlowe's husband was
named Rufus?

Mark (23:24):
No. I did not.

Sarah (23:25):
I'd never caught that before if she said I

Mark (23:27):
did not know that.

Sarah (23:28):
It would be hard for me to be in love with a man named
Rufus.

Mark (23:32):
Rufus. And then she sings Rufus. A duff.

Sarah (23:35):
She talks about how her husband was part of the DSA.

Mark (23:40):
Yes.

Sarah (23:41):
And she's not a hunter. Nope. But he was very successful
at hunting, and she had to pluckall of the ducks. Yes. Eight
ducks.
You don't just have to pluckthem though. You have to like
pull the shot out of them.Right? Otherwise, might find it
while you're eating it? Yeah.
That sounds tedious.

Mark (24:00):
It kinda is. Have you ever plucked a No.

Sarah (24:06):
I've never skinned or plucked anything. Well, catfish.

Mark (24:09):
In the long line of really disgusting things I had to deal
with as a child, I never had todo this, but I had to sit
outside while my mother did it.I don't know why she wanted me
to sit outside. Company. But

Sarah (24:22):
Or she was worried about what you were gonna do inside
while she was outside.

Mark (24:25):
She had like a dozen chickens that were brought to us
alive. She killed them andplucked them.

Sarah (24:34):
Didn't know Madonna was that hardcore.

Mark (24:36):
She killed Hardcore. Yeah. Yeah.

Sarah (24:38):
Did she cut their heads off or snap their necks?

Mark (24:40):
Snap their necks and then cut their heads off. Wow. Yeah,
like That's hardcore. Too manyof my memories as a childhood of
the farm involve animal blood.

Sarah (24:56):
Well, missus Marlow has funny rhymes Yes. To keep her
company while she's pluckingducks.

Mark (25:04):
Yes. And these are called tongue twisters. Are they? Yes.

Sarah (25:08):
Thank you for telling

Mark (25:09):
us that. Well, know, some people might not call them
tongue twisters.

Sarah (25:12):
It's based on how much wood would a woodchuck chuck if
a woodchuck could chuck wood.

Mark (25:16):
Which is of course there to make you not say certain
words.

Sarah (25:20):
Yeah. Not to slip up and say f. Yeah. But she does how
many ducks does a duck pluckerpluck when a duck plucker does
pluck ducks?

Mark (25:29):
And that's a hard one, man. I don't know if I could do
that one with that.

Sarah (25:33):
Then she does how many clucks can a pluck duck cluck
when a pluck duck does cluckcluck? Yes. You don't think you
can do it?

Mark (25:41):
I I well, they're hard.

Sarah (25:45):
I've got some for you.

Mark (25:46):
Oh, you have other ones?

Sarah (25:48):
I have

Mark (25:48):
Now did you find these or do you

Sarah (25:49):
even have written some.

Mark (25:50):
You have written some.

Sarah (25:51):
There's not even AI involved Oh, excellent. Are you
ready? Yes. We'll see if you cando

Mark (25:56):
it. Okay.

Sarah (25:58):
How many pluckers would the ducks choose to smother if
the ducks could smother thepluckers?

Mark (26:04):
Okay. How many?

Sarah (26:06):
the ducks could smother thepluckers?

Mark (26:10):
the ducks could smother the duckpluckers?

Sarah (26:18):
Very good.

Mark (26:19):
Okay. Wow. There were no beeps in that.

Sarah (26:24):
You didn't say it very fast though. No. You want to try
another one? Yeah. How manyducks would pluck plums with a
plumber if a duck could pluckplums with a plumber?
How many ducks

Mark (26:38):
would pluck Are you throw sheets in there? Many Split
sheets?

Sarah (26:44):
How many ducks would pluck plums with a plumber if a
duck could pluck plums with aplumber?

Mark (26:49):
How many ducks would pluck plums with a plumber if ducks
could pluck plums with aplumber?

Sarah (26:57):
A plumber?

Mark (26:58):
A plumber.

Sarah (26:59):
A plumber bummer. Very good. Excellent. I'll save the
other ones. I won't torture youfor right now.

Mark (27:04):
Okay.

Sarah (27:06):
Ollie is always surrounded by eggs. Always. And
it it makes me think he is asfragile as the eggs. Yes.
Because he sort of is.

Mark (27:17):
But okay. Yes he is, but also like okay. I feel sympathy
for missus Duck of the Duckers.

Sarah (27:27):
Marion Ducker?

Mark (27:28):
I feel sympathy for her. Her husband is horrific.

Sarah (27:32):
Get in the kitchen woman.

Mark (27:34):
And at one point in he's in the police station and is
standing in front of a domesticviolence poster. And I don't
think it's an accident.

Sarah (27:45):
I don't think he's physically abusive. I just think
he has a category that he putsher in, and she seems to be
willing to conform to thatrather than upset him.

Mark (27:57):
I would say at the very least he's emotionally abusive.

Sarah (28:00):
Wow. He's not giving her all the options in her life that
she could And

Mark (28:04):
certainly verbally abusive. Yeah. Okay. That being
said, okay, there are lots ofmen in Brokenwood, including
Mike Mhmm. Would be a betteropportunity for her.

Sarah (28:18):
She doesn't have to stay with Ducker Duck Ducker.

Mark (28:21):
No. But the eggman cuckoo coochoo is maybe a poor choice
because his sister-in-law ispsychotic and his wife kinda is
too.

Sarah (28:31):
But he's the eggman. He's like the milk man, he comes to
the door.

Mark (28:35):
He's the milkman.

Sarah (28:36):
With his six who gets six eggs?

Mark (28:39):
Who gets six eggs?

Sarah (28:40):
Not if you're a baker you don't.

Mark (28:42):
But I tell you what Sims has that figured out in like two
seconds.

Sarah (28:45):
Yeah.

Mark (28:45):
She's like on the This episode It's not hard. This
episode is Sims coming out.Yeah. She is fantastic in this
episode.

Sarah (28:56):
They they get the shells, not the shells, the pellets

Mark (29:00):
from Leslie Not the eggshells. No. The gun shells.

Sarah (29:03):
If she was killed with eggs shot from a gun, it'd be a
lot easier to solve the crime.

Mark (29:07):
Oh, she's got yolk all over her.

Sarah (29:10):
Trauma. Trauma. The ducks would be so upset. So do,

Mark (29:15):
no, not the yolks again.

Sarah (29:19):
Just imagine how traumatic that would be for the
ducks. Like, you used to justkill us, but now you're shooting
our babies at

Mark (29:28):
each other in front of Yeah, yeah, they're throwing our
babies at us.

Sarah (29:32):
Wow. That's just cold people. Yeah. They got the
pallets and they're like, it'llbe easy. Yes.
We'll know who shot her.

Mark (29:40):
Yes.

Sarah (29:41):
And then you find out Ducker gave everybody a box of
shells. Totally

Mark (29:48):
unrelated to the crime.

Sarah (29:49):
Innocuously. Yeah. You know? But like, there goes that.

Mark (29:54):
Except for Frodo who's shooting the old ammunition and
the kids who have the smallerammunition. Ammunition. An
aminal mission.

Sarah (30:04):
Well Jenny claims to not be shooting that ammo either
because she's shooting adifferent gun. Yes. They do a
good job explaining guns in thisfor us people who have no idea
what the difference is betweenthose The

Mark (30:17):
gun shop scene mixes humor, parenting and exposition
really well.

Sarah (30:22):
Well and even Jenny is kind of helpful in explaining
she shoots with a four ten orwhatever it is.

Mark (30:28):
Yes.

Sarah (30:29):
I thought it was funny that Don Ducker's family made
all their money manufacturinglinoleum. Like, it's such a
claim to fame.

Mark (30:40):
Well, like that is a common trope of these detective
shows. Okay? So the the mainaudience of these detective
shows, I would say, are womenfrom the ages 35 to 65. There's
their target market.

Sarah (30:59):
Right. And they're into linoleum? Is that what you're
saying?

Mark (31:01):
No. I'm saying

Sarah (31:03):
They like guys named Don who make linoleum?

Mark (31:05):
No. I'm saying that

Sarah (31:08):
If you can't shoot them block them.

Mark (31:11):
Insecure, boisterous men are meant to look foolish. Yes.
Which they should be. Yes. Ihave no problem with

Sarah (31:20):
that. Yes.

Mark (31:21):
But the linoleum and his name and all that stuff is not
meant to justify his treatmentof his wife. No. It's meant to
show that he is insecure in allaspects of

Sarah (31:32):
his And has been for generations.

Mark (31:33):
And has been for generations.

Sarah (31:35):
We were Donald Duck before Donald Duck. Yeah. Yeah.
If you can't shoot them pluckthem.

Mark (31:41):
Meanwhile the

Sarah (31:42):
Mowry Tony's Duck hat is awesome too by the way.

Mark (31:44):
Tony's Duck hat is awesome and the Mowry show up and talk
about birds.

Sarah (31:49):
Well uncle Walter knows his stuff. Yes he does. That
blue duck. Yeah. The

Mark (31:57):
Yeah. W H I O. A word that is hard to say.

Sarah (32:02):
It's like a whistle. It's a word.

Mark (32:03):
It's a word that lacks a consonant at the

Sarah (32:06):
end. Mhmm. But I love how they list all the birds. They're
like, no that one's extinct.That's not that's not around.
Then it's not that one. No notthat one.

Mark (32:14):
And all those birds like, I don't wanna say anything, but
all those birds are listed onthe New Zealand bird hunting
website. Yeah. Like, that I wentto.

Sarah (32:25):
Like, you think the writers just, like, googled bird
hunting and got

Mark (32:28):
the list? I think what happened is Tim Baum written
one. Tim Baum said, I knowpeople who are into duck
hunting. I should do a duckhunting episode.

Sarah (32:38):
Mhmm.

Mark (32:38):
It's a big thing here. Yep. So if I'm gonna do a duck
hunting episode, I should have awoman protesting the duck
hunting because that I'm surethere were stories about this.

Sarah (32:50):
Oh yes.

Mark (32:51):
And wouldn't that be interesting to hide a murder
where somebody was protestingduck hunting and they got
killed. And murder is hidden inthat. I'm 100% sure that that is
the genesis of this story, whichis a valid genesis of the story.
The problem is there's noinciting incident and you have

(33:12):
to assume that the sister isLooney McTooney.

Sarah (33:15):
I know what the inciting incident is.

Mark (33:17):
Okay. What's the exciting incident?

Sarah (33:18):
It's return of the spirit of Wild Bill Baker pretending to
be a ghost.

Mark (33:23):
But but she's the ghost.

Sarah (33:26):
She's possessed by his hat.

Mark (33:27):
Oh, she's possessed by his hat.

Sarah (33:31):
No. I just I love Did not know. How his uncle says, I
don't believe in ghosts, but Ibelieve in spirits. And maybe he
came back as a ghost.

Mark (33:39):
And then the sister who is Looney Tooney, Jenny, drops the
guilt on Mike. Do you have asister? When was the last time
you talked to her?

Sarah (33:47):
I don't know, sister killer. Who are you

Mark (33:50):
to talk? Whatever. You were so in love with your sister
you managed to kill her to getto her husband.

Sarah (33:57):
She should have spent more time in the toad and lion.
An aspirational establishment.She might have met a nice man. I
love that the uncles have thetheory about how Wild Bill Baker
died from a bird dropping ontohis face. Yes.
Into his face and killing him.

Mark (34:15):
Like and

Sarah (34:15):
all Nobody was there to see it but it had to have
happened that way cause that'sthe most epic way we can
imagine. Yes. And he was epic,so he definitely died in an epic
way even though nobody wasthere.

Mark (34:26):
All know people who are like that.

Sarah (34:28):
Because he was a legend.

Mark (34:29):
Yep. Those sort of local legend people are always
interesting to me.

Sarah (34:35):
Mrs. M gets an almond and turmeric macchiato. Yes. And I
was like, surely that'ssomething they made up. No.
No, people do drink turmeric intheir coffee. Yep. It's got to
taste like a roast dinner.

Mark (34:51):
I don't know. I guess.

Sarah (34:52):
Don't think I would like that. Heart stalking. Do you
want that shirt? Those touristssure do. They get a free t
shirt.
Tourists never make out well inBrokenwood. Chinese tourists.

Mark (35:09):
Yeah. We need a shirt in the shop. We need more merch by
the way. Yeah. By

Sarah (35:14):
Are you trying to pay for the furnace? We don't make any
money off the merch.

Mark (35:19):
We need a t shirt in the shop that says, I was a fake
Chinese tourist on Broken Floor.

Sarah (35:26):
And all I got was a stupid t shirt.

Mark (35:28):
All I got was a stupid t shirt.

Sarah (35:34):
I was attacked by a giant spider in Brokenwood and all I
got was a stupid t shirt.

Mark (35:39):
Yes.

Sarah (35:40):
And not the shark fin soup I expected to have.

Mark (35:42):
What does this episode need more of? Well, mister
Buchanan. Dennis Buchanan ofcourse. He's here for The
Hobbit. They're so mean to Frodoin his time of need.

Sarah (35:57):
He's he's struggling. He's so hungover. He's really
sad. He thinks he might havekilled somebody. And there are
days in it.

Mark (36:07):
Title in my note that says poor drunk Frodo.

Sarah (36:10):
No. Really, he should be wearing one of the iHeart
stocking shirts.

Mark (36:14):
Yes. The shooter sign, like the best shooters of the
year sign Mhmm. Is made of woodand has names going back to the
middle of the nineteenthtwentieth century.

Sarah (36:29):
Mhmm.

Mark (36:29):
There is a lot of work put in that sign that shows up in
one scene for about fourseconds.

Sarah (36:35):
But none of them are Ducker.

Mark (36:37):
Nope. Let's have a reference to Gallipoli because
we're AustralianNew Zealandpeople.

Sarah (36:44):
Well, Jenny has the family gun on the wall. Yes. Do
you think she's the oldersister?

Mark (36:51):
I think she is.

Sarah (36:52):
So she's the keeper of the family history?

Mark (36:54):
Because first of all, as we all know, youngest siblings
are smart enough not to kill offother siblings. That's true. We
would we would never do that.

Sarah (37:03):
No, we wouldn't. So? We're We're youngest siblings
and we We We are wise.

Mark (37:08):
We we are very wise.

Sarah (37:10):
We learn from the screw ups of our older siblings.

Mark (37:12):
We are never spoiled. We know that we are never spoiled.

Sarah (37:15):
And we're

Mark (37:16):
And we had it the roughest. It's just the truth.

Sarah (37:19):
And that's what makes us the smartest. Yes. Yeah,
absolutely. So she's got thefamily gun, but she says it's
decommissioned. Yes.
But she never checked. No.Whatever. Whatever. I'm not
buying it.
And she's clearly studied quitea bit of military history.

Mark (37:37):
Yeah she has.

Sarah (37:37):
Because she rigs up the super gadget with the rusty
wire.

Mark (37:44):
Yes. So this is where Dawn comes in and stands in front of
the domestic violence poster andwe're meant to have an ironic
moment there.

Sarah (37:53):
He might be a bit controlling and stereotypical,
but he's also legitimately upsetthat his wife was shtuping the
eggman.

Mark (37:59):
Coo coo coo choo.

Sarah (38:01):
Maybe he could have been a

Mark (38:02):
better This episode needed an intimacy coordinator.

Sarah (38:05):
Yeah. There was some intimacy going on.

Mark (38:09):
There I was just waiting for the moment where she put her
hand back and broke an egg. Oh.It's a metaphor.

Sarah (38:17):
Like she's on the counter and she breaks an egg?

Mark (38:20):
Yes. So this is where we get to the serious portion of
the episode.

Sarah (38:25):
How many mothers pluck ducks with their brother if a
mother could duck pluck duckswith their brother?

Mark (38:31):
If the last one has mother duckers in, I'm out. Mother
duckers.

Sarah (38:37):
Hughes shows up and Mrs. M. And Breen are practicing. How
many mothers would pluck duckswith their and he's like, I
don't wanna interrupt you.

Mark (38:47):
The comedy of Breen and Missus Marlowe. Missus Marlowe
and the Hughes walking in.

Sarah (38:56):
Is perfect here. Well, Hughes walks in in thirty
seconds goes, wasn't Frodo. Bye.

Mark (39:01):
Yeah. I'm out. Well, and Hughes Hughes does a great job.
They do a really good job offilming this because you
immediately know even thoughHughes is in his uniform who he
is and that he's in charge.

Sarah (39:15):
Yeah. He carries himself. Yeah. He's also incredibly tall.

Mark (39:18):
He is indeed. I forgot because I watched an earlier
episode because I had to preparefor the mini episode. Mhmm. He
had a beard in one episode.Yeah.
Yeah. I forgot he was in abeard, so. Ready for this?

Sarah (39:34):
Yes. How many strings would a string strummer pluck if
a string strummer could pluckstrings?

Mark (39:39):
How many strings would a string strummer pluck if a
string strummer could pluckstrings?

Sarah (39:43):
You did that one very well. Yes. How much muck would a
gooey duck chuck if a gooey duckcould chuck muck?

Mark (39:53):
How much muck would a mothered gooey duck mother gooey
duck could chuck gooey duck

Sarah (40:02):
much muck would a gooey duck chuck if a gooey duck chuck
could chuck muck? No. I'm out.You can't do it?

Mark (40:11):
I'm tapping out.

Sarah (40:16):
I love getting gooey duck into things.

Mark (40:18):
Well, and you just think about what it looks like too.

Sarah (40:21):
Like a phallus in a shell? Yes. They're nasty. They
would chuck muck if they couldbecause they're gross. They're
gross.
People eat them. If you don'tknow what a gooey duck is,
Google it.

Mark (40:32):
It's not a duck.

Sarah (40:33):
It's spelled g e o duck. It's not geoduck.

Mark (40:38):
No. It's gooey duck. It's gooey duck.

Sarah (40:40):
And they're gross. Yes. So Hugh shows up, frees Frodo,
and then they're like, oh wellif it wasn't Frodo, it was
Jenny. Yes. Like, Mike just getsit, everything clicks.
So what does he do?

Mark (40:54):
He puts himself in mortal danger.

Sarah (40:55):
Goes to her place so she can try to kill him.

Mark (40:59):
Yes. Oh, we forgot. We need to go back.

Sarah (41:02):
Okay.

Mark (41:03):
Because Dawn's wife gets shot.

Sarah (41:06):
Oh, that's right. Never mind. Missus Ducker, mother
Ducker gets shot. And becausethey do have kids. The kids have
been sent to the city.
And it She is a mother Ducker.

Mark (41:26):
So she shoots mother ducker right in the muck. Yeah.
Right in her driveway. Right inher driveway.

Sarah (41:32):
Dressed like the ghost of Baker.

Mark (41:34):
And immediately go, oh, that's Jenny.

Sarah (41:37):
Of course it

Mark (41:38):
is. You absolutely know. In broad daylight. In broad day
she is Looney McTooney.

Sarah (41:45):
With Ducker's gun. Yeah. She doesn't die that we know of.
She's it's serious, but she'snot dead. Yeah.
I cannot imagine how traumaticand terrifying it would be to be
in close proximity to somebodywho has a gun that big pointed
at you, who is that crazy, whohas already shot two people Yep.

(42:08):
And is threatening you.

Mark (42:10):
Mike is extremely brave here.

Sarah (42:12):
I I think I would puke everywhere Yep. And it would
kind of ruin the mood.

Mark (42:16):
Sims is excellent. Mhmm. She listens to Hughes and Hughes
trusts her.

Sarah (42:22):
Yep.

Mark (42:22):
And Hughes gives her Hughes is the

Sarah (42:25):
And Ollie screws everything up. Eggman is like, I
I love you. Like, come on, dude.Somebody's life is on the line.
Be convincing.

Mark (42:34):
The the best part to me of the whole end scene is Sims is
allowed to show leadership andHugh shows leadership and
believing in her

Sarah (42:44):
leadership. Mhmm.

Mark (42:45):
And checks in, are you good with this? Yeah. She goes,
I'm good. Yeah. And that's allhe needs.
Nope. So that's fantastic. Yeah.The but

Sarah (42:56):
the But mean, swear. But the guys with the guns do
materialize out of nowhere.

Mark (43:00):
Like actual says Bertie Dern, which is rare for this
show Yeah. And rare for any showthat we watch. What does he say?
He said I think he says shit.Oh.

Sarah (43:14):
And dun dun dun. Mike is being held at gunpoint by an

Mark (43:20):
inspirational person. Breen is frustrated. Yeah. But
also I like that Breen isn'tlike I'm gonna go in there and
shoot it up. No.
He is like we follow procedure.

Sarah (43:32):
Yeah. Does have to go find Ollie.

Mark (43:34):
And Sims is in control. So what Sims says, I do. Yeah. I
don't argue with her.

Sarah (43:40):
I don't But she's superior to him, so he has to.
Yeah. Yeah. Then Ollie comes andthe Eggman screws everything up.

Mark (43:45):
He screws it all up.

Sarah (43:48):
Like I know he's upset because she killed his wife and
shot his girlfriend. I get it.Yes. But somebody else's life is
on the line now.

Mark (43:58):
Yes.

Sarah (43:59):
So fake it dude. Suck it If

Mark (44:02):
if you're gonna be bait, be good bait.

Sarah (44:05):
Yeah. Or don't do it at all. Yeah. Either say, I've
always loved you of course, youknow. Like how hard is that?

Mark (44:12):
Yeah. Like he totally doesn't know how to fake it.

Sarah (44:16):
Then Mike has to be off screen super heroic. Yes.
Because he clearly dives for herwhen she's about to shoot
herself and the bullet goes intothe ceiling and gets plaster all
over her So

Mark (44:28):
what happens is Ollie is bad so she decides that maybe
I'm in a bit of spot of botherhere.

Sarah (44:36):
Things are not going to go back to normal just because I
wish it.

Mark (44:39):
So she decides that maybe shooting herself might be a
solution to this problem. Andthankfully, Mike does Mike
things and stops her. Which Butwe But it's great how it's
portrayed.

Sarah (44:53):
I'm glad that he stopped her from killing her self, but
it would not have been the worstthing. He would have felt bad.

Mark (44:59):
He would have felt bad.

Sarah (45:01):
But she's gonna go to prison forever.

Mark (45:04):
She is going to prison forever. Hopefully. This
incident has ruined this DuckClub.

Sarah (45:12):
The DSA is done.

Mark (45:14):
I can only imagine.

Sarah (45:16):
Though I don't know because here's what I think
happens after the credits. Okay.I think

Mark (45:22):
Well Mike calls his sister. We know that happened.

Sarah (45:25):
That happens before the credits. Yeah. I think Don
Ducker and Mother Ducker getsplit up. Well yeah. Right?
I think they go their separateways, amicably, but they go
their separate ways. And then Ithink

Mark (45:37):
I would think that he would be insecure and be like,
well I don't want you now. Andshe'd be like, okay.

Sarah (45:43):
Oh darn.

Mark (45:44):
I'm moving to town. But then I

Sarah (45:46):
think Don Ducker really needs the club. Oh, think he
does. So maybe the club sticksaround but it's kinda sad
because it's dawn desperate forfriends. Six weeks a year.

Mark (45:58):
I would like to think that the next year Frodo gets the
prize for the best duck guy. ButI also don't want Frodo going
anywhere near weapons any

Sarah (46:10):
The next year, Frodo should should compete in the
duck butter sculpturecompetition.

Mark (46:16):
Is there something?

Sarah (46:17):
No. Not shooting involved. No. No. Like best duck
flavored coffee.

Mark (46:23):
The sister is going up the river. Way up

Sarah (46:25):
the river. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Jenny's Jenny's going to
prison.

Mark (46:28):
Ollie's life is completely ruined. Because I don't think
missus Ducker

Sarah (46:35):
who Mother Ducker. He's When she gets out of the
hospital.

Mark (46:41):
He's a Ducker Muff. I'm trying to say this.

Sarah (46:46):
He's a he's a Mother Ducker effort. Effort. Beep.

Mark (46:54):
But I don't think she's gonna want a lot to do with him
after this.

Sarah (46:58):
He he owes her something. Well, okay. His sister-in-law
shot her because they had a funegg afternoon. That put her in
the targets of the crazy lady.

Mark (47:13):
I realize all that, but I think she's probably gonna be
like, I don't want anything todo with you.

Sarah (47:19):
Yeah. I wouldn't blame her. I don't think they're gonna
be a couple for sure. They hadone afternoon delight over the
eggs. It's not like they had arelationship.

Mark (47:29):
Do they Do Ollie and his dead wife have children? I don't
think so. I don't think so. Sohe just has his ducks

Sarah (47:37):
And his

Mark (47:37):
pigs. And his

Sarah (47:38):
giant birds that we don't see that lay those big eggs.

Mark (47:43):
So he can go on being the eggman? Yeah. Not that like
anyone in this town wants to eatduck eggs at this point.

Sarah (47:51):
He's living off the land. Maybe there's a third sister
that we just don't know about.

Mark (47:57):
Who is even more crazy.

Sarah (48:01):
Who's perfectly normal and comes to help? I'm adopted.
It's okay. I'm normal. I guess.
Now,

Mark (48:12):
the question I have about after the episode is this. Mhmm.
We know that Don Ducker andMother Ducker Mhmm. Have
children. Mhmm.
They've gone to the city. Mhmm.Do they have a boy child and is
his name Donald? Yes. So thereis a Donald Ducker the fourth.

Sarah (48:29):
If there's not a Donna Ducker the third. These

Mark (48:34):
are our children, Donna and Dana?

Sarah (48:37):
Yeah. Donna and Dana out on the dick.

Mark (48:40):
They're listening to ee me nee mee. This is the worst New
Zealand impressions that

Sarah (48:45):
we've Don and Don Donna Ducker on the dick. Plucking the
ducks.

Mark (48:50):
Being dickheads.

Sarah (48:55):
I I see him as the kind of person who would be like, if
the first child is a girl, wemust have another one.

Mark (49:01):
Yo. Totally.

Sarah (49:02):
That's why I think they probably have a son, and I can't
imagine him having a son and notcalling him Don Ducker.

Mark (49:07):
I do wish there was a moment of come up and upence to
him. Yeah. Because you almostcould feel sympathetic for him
at the end because his wife didget shot even though she got
shot because she was sleepingwith the crazy lady's
Brother-in-law. Pretendbrother-in-law boyfriend.

Sarah (49:24):
Yeah. Eggman. Eggman. Cuckoo cuckoo chew. Ollie the
Eggman.
Yeah it would have been nice ifyou know, if if she'd been
winged or something and she cameout of the hospital before the
end of the episode and was like,I don't want anything to do with
you.

Mark (49:39):
Yes. I would have liked that.

Sarah (49:40):
A brush with death has made me realize life is too
short. I'm leaving.

Mark (49:44):
I also like that Sims did a great job. Everyone says you
did a great job and theneveryone moves on. Mhmm. They
don't make a big thing about it.They don't

Sarah (49:54):
Or she still can't make coffee.

Mark (49:56):
She's not perfect. They aren't like, we're so surprised
you did a great job, woman.

Sarah (50:01):
No. We expected you to and you did. Good.

Mark (50:03):
Yep. You're a good cop.

Sarah (50:04):
Yeah. So, yeah. Yeah. You should go join the DSA. No.
That is dead man don't ShootDucks, Babies.

Mark (50:15):
So in two weeks we have yeah, it's a weird I

Sarah (50:19):
laugh at my own jokes.

Mark (50:21):
It's a weird named episode.

Sarah (50:25):
How much men would a dead duck shoot if a dead duck could
shoot?

Mark (50:29):
I think Tim Baum had that idea and painted himself into a
corner and was like, well, she'sloony.

Sarah (50:36):
I I don't know what other motives she could have. Yeah.
I've always hated my sister. Shelooked at me funny just one more
time and I couldn't take it.

Mark (50:44):
And okay.

Sarah (50:45):
I found this baller hat and I got inspired. I don't
know.

Mark (50:48):
We're Ollie is already susceptible and open to other
activities. Mhmm. Or else hewouldn't have been going in and
talking to her.

Sarah (50:57):
Mhmm.

Mark (50:57):
Like, so Yeah. Because Why does he not why does she not
just seduce her brother?

Sarah (51:02):
Her brother just don't want anything to do with her.
She's Jenny.

Mark (51:07):
Then she would know that he had nothing, he didn't want
to do anything.

Sarah (51:11):
Yeah, well, that's not how real stalkers work. They
interpret everything the waythey want. There's no He smiled
at me that day. That means thathe actually loves me.

Mark (51:22):
But So show us that. I wish they had shown it.

Sarah (51:26):
A little bit more of her misinterpreting him?

Mark (51:29):
Yes.

Sarah (51:30):
Yeah. Maybe. You just want an inciting evidence.

Mark (51:33):
I do. I do. I'm a stickler for that.

Sarah (51:37):
I I'm telling you. I think she found that hat
somewhere in a junk sale and gotinspired. I can pretend to be
the ghost of Baker and finallykill my sister.

Mark (51:48):
And mother ducker.

Sarah (51:52):
Yes.

Mark (51:53):
Okay. So that like that's the part that I like that she's
nuts and then she finds out thatthat Ollie and Mother Ducker are
ducking and she goes and shootsher right away.

Sarah (52:06):
They're crushing eggs together.

Mark (52:08):
Like, I like that because

Sarah (52:10):
Yeah.

Mark (52:10):
That's what an insane person would do. Yep. So Okay.
So this episode drops on theApril 28. Mhmm.
We are taking a week off becauseI am doing free comic book day.

Sarah (52:23):
But not completely off because we will be releasing
another mini.

Mark (52:26):
Yes. So we have probably three episodes in May, '3 full
episodes, and six minis to go.Yeah. You could get you could
get nine episodes in May.

Sarah (52:43):
Yeah. We got a lot. Yeah. We're gonna be busy. It's gonna
be good.

Mark (52:48):
So we return to full episodes on the May 12. I cannot
believe it is the May 12already.

Sarah (52:55):
By then, I will be 50.

Mark (52:58):
Sarah's birthday is right around there. You have big
plans.

Sarah (53:03):
$35,000

Mark (53:06):
for 50 years old. Big birthday. Mother's We will be
covering the Fantastic Dead andBuried, is the episode where all
the female killers Mhmm. Comeback. Because remember Trudy's
in jail at this point in

Sarah (53:19):
time. Yeah.

Mark (53:21):
And then we'll start season seven with two of my
favorite named episodes. One,season seven episode one, The
Garrott and Winklebran, which isthe the episode in which they
evaluate the antiques. Yeah.

Sarah (53:37):
Like Antiques roadshow.

Mark (53:39):
Roadshow. And then The Witches of Brokenwood is the
next episode after Yes. So weexpect lots of Maniac material
in the month of May. It's ManiacMay.

Sarah (53:52):
I like it. Maniacal May.

Mark (53:57):
Somehow we generate that YouTube money to pay for HVAC,
baby.

Sarah (54:02):
Until then. Bye, maniacs.

Mark (54:04):
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. Why do I suddenlyneed to cough when I'm on

(54:27):
microphone?

Sarah (54:27):
Five. Four. Three. Two.

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