Sexy Hats & Toothpaste Farts | Brokenwood | "The Power of Steam" | Mystery Maniacs Podcast EP233 - Mystery Maniacs

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Sarah (00:00):
Oh, no. You're gonna tell the story.

Mark (00:02):
I'm tell the story.

Sarah (00:03):
Brace yourselves, people.

Mark (00:20):
Hey, maniacs. Hey, maniacs. Mystery maniacs is a
comedy recap podcast dedicatedto mystery TV. Each week we dig
into an episode of the showincluding the murders, the
mayhem, the loonies andeverything else we love.

Sarah (00:35):
This week Broken Woods season six episode one, the
power of steam.

Mark (00:41):
I'm Mark.

Sarah (00:43):
That was steam. I'm Sarah.

Mark (00:46):
Sounded like a fart. I hope I don't fart, steam.

Sarah (00:50):
Kinda do. I I don't know. Oh, I don't Body temperature, I
guess.

Mark (00:54):
I guess.

Sarah (00:55):
Anyway I will. That note, ready to start?

Mark (00:59):
Wow. Yes. If you let your kids go to steampunk
conventions, they should be ableto listen to

Sarah (01:06):
this episode. Fake goggles and glue gears to

Mark (01:09):
their clothes. Lot of goggles in this episode.

Sarah (01:11):
They can listen to this podcast. Before we dive in two
exciting things. No threeexciting things.

Mark (01:18):
Three.

Sarah (01:18):
One, somebody has tickets. Yes. To Midsummer on
stage.

Mark (01:24):
In Sweden. They're in Sweden and they have tickets to
Midsummer on stage.

Sarah (01:30):
Because we're maniacs.

Mark (01:31):
I cannot believe they got tickets, first of all.

Sarah (01:34):
We have one correspondent. Yes. That's one
very exciting thing.

Mark (01:42):
Yes.

Sarah (01:43):
Two exciting things. Ludwig on BritBox, David
Mitchell's new mystery show.It's awesome. Two episodes are
up already in The US. Watchthem.

Mark (01:52):
I'm gonna say it's a detective show, not a mystery
show.

Sarah (01:55):
Okay. It's awesome. It's funny. It's like

Mark (01:57):
It's exactly like we thought it

Sarah (01:59):
was going It's got puzzly stuff and it's got David
Mitchell

Mark (02:01):
who I David Mitchell playing dual roles sort of.

Sarah (02:06):
Well, he's a twin but his twin is missing. We don't see
his twin so Yes.

Mark (02:10):
David, it's a fish out of water plus super brainiac

Sarah (02:14):
Puzzles. Plus,

Mark (02:16):
you know, your relationship with your
sister-in-law and family pasthistories. There's lots of stuff
there.

Sarah (02:23):
Very good. Yep. I think everybody will like it. Yes.
Third, and maybe the mostexciting, Halloween has started.
Yes. I have started garage time.

Mark (02:34):
Yes.

Sarah (02:36):
Spring break is usually the kickoff of garage time. Yes.
I'm stoked.

Mark (02:40):
We also watched Traders US the final and Traders UK this
week.

Sarah (02:45):
Yep. Both very good.

Mark (02:47):
And we tried to find Traders Canada and we're only
presented Traders Hungary. No.Not interested in. I wish we
could watch Traders Canada but

Sarah (02:57):
It looks like it's good. Not as good as The Power of
Steam.

Mark (03:01):
So The Power of Steam, 11/10/2019 directed by Oliver
Driver and written by Tim Baumand did you happen to notice who
else wrote it? No. A young manby the name of Nick Sampson. Ah,
Breen. Breen is the co writer ofthis episode.

Sarah (03:23):
I'm not gonna say that explains anything.

Mark (03:25):
No. Well perhaps the secret red hair mafia. Maybe.
Information Network.

Sarah (03:30):
But there's racism, homophobia, incels, and
steampunk all in the sameepisode. Yeah. It's a lot. It's
a lot. They could've leftsteampunk out of it, really.
I mean, didn't really matter.

Mark (03:42):
Were you confused at first as to like, Mike has a dog.
That's okay.

Sarah (03:47):
Mhmm.

Mark (03:47):
But Mike is like really close to that car at first and I
thought, is Mike driving thatcar? It was weird to me.

Sarah (03:55):
No. But he's so he's at the end of the drive that leads
to the aerodrome where the eventis happening and he's walking
with the dog which leads me tothink he lives really close to
there.

Mark (04:08):
We've done this in a number of episodes. You cannot
run a Georgian manor byyourself. Mm-mm. You cannot run
an asylum with two people. Nope.
You certainly cannot run aballooning company with one
person.

Sarah (04:26):
I assume that he has a helper who only shows up when he
has a booking.

Mark (04:30):
Maybe?

Sarah (04:32):
I mean, somebody has to pull the balloon down.

Mark (04:35):
Well somebody tied it down later on but

Sarah (04:37):
Well it's supposed to be. Yeah. Like he go he takes people
for rides which means it'stethered. You get in it goes up
it comes back down. Somebodyelse gets in.

Mark (04:47):
But filling the balloon full of gas

Sarah (04:50):
I don't think one person can set up a hot

Mark (04:52):
air think so either. So his escape seems a bit weird.

Sarah (04:56):
But anyway Maybe he's handier than you think he is.

Mark (04:59):
Yes. Michael is walking the dog and we see a scene later
across a lake where thefireworks are going. So, Mike
has gone around the lake withthe dog to walk the dog.

Sarah (05:13):
He's home.

Mark (05:14):
It's a lot of dog walking.

Sarah (05:16):
It's dark by the time he gets home with the dog. Yeah.

Mark (05:19):
It's a lot of dog walking.

Sarah (05:20):
That poor dog and its short little legs.

Mark (05:22):
Short little well, know a corgis. Deadliest breed.
Deadliest breed.

Sarah (05:27):
Kahu's gone. He's on an oil rig. So he's done. Yes. And
this see him again.

Mark (05:32):
The Sunday night steam fest party thing, I guess.

Sarah (05:37):
How do we know it's on a Sunday night?

Mark (05:39):
Because everybody's at work the next day, and I think
somebody says something aboutSunday or it's Monday or
something like that.

Sarah (05:48):
Well, it has all of the tropes of steampunk. There's a
penny farthing. There's a lot ofgears glued to things.
Everybody's got top hats andgoggles. Everybody.
Of course, it's random tubing. Ithink steampunk is cool,

Mark (06:02):
but Breen says it's Sunday night because he's making

Sarah (06:05):
Oh, that's right. He had, like, he had a fillet of lamb or
whatever.

Mark (06:08):
Yeah.

Sarah (06:09):
It's just, it's like Halloween steampunk, I guess.

Mark (06:12):
It is.

Sarah (06:13):
It's not

Mark (06:14):
Which is okay for

Sarah (06:15):
steampunk or something. You know? Here's what I don't
understand about this event.This is the Brokenwood Aeronauts
Steampunk Convivial, which is afantastic name.

Mark (06:24):
Yes.

Sarah (06:25):
It's being held at Alden's hot air balloon place.

Mark (06:30):
Yes. And he is JR Brocclesbury. Brocclesby.

Sarah (06:36):
And the point of this convivial is to raise money so
the people attending theconvivial can go to a different
bigger event somewhere else.

Mark (06:48):
The Omaru Steampunk Festival.

Sarah (06:51):
Which is a real thing and we'll talk about it. Yep. But I
don't understand how the peoplethere raising money for
themselves makes sense.

Mark (07:01):
Well, the closest I could get to that is it takes eighteen
hours by car to get there. Oh mygosh. From where they are, plus
a ferry ride.

Sarah (07:14):
Okay.

Mark (07:15):
So it is by no means easy to get to.

Sarah (07:19):
I understand raising money to go someplace. I just
don't understand how the samepeople can raise money for
themselves to go someplace.

Mark (07:26):
It is kinda like sports fundraising where you're kind of
selling like fundraising

Sarah (07:31):
stuff to your own parents Yeah. It'd be easier for them to
just pay for your trip. Yeah.Like that. Yeah.
Exactly. That's what I'mthinking.

Mark (07:39):
It's it's it's a little weird. I was very pleased there
was no silly mic noise No. Atany point in this.

Sarah (07:46):
There's no No. They got doctor devious behind the bar
and a scary woman in a gas maskmaking snacks. Yeah. I don't
wanna eat snacks from a lady ina gas mask.

Mark (08:00):
Yeah. She seemed extremely weird.

Sarah (08:02):
Kinda bane.

Mark (08:03):
Yeah. She was kinda bane. Do you wanna choose roll? I have
pigs in a brink. Sorry.

Sarah (08:11):
They covered the porta potties with bike wheels. Yes.
To make them blend in.

Mark (08:16):
Yeah. Which they didn't really need to do, but I
understand why.

Sarah (08:20):
It doesn't make them blend in. No. They look like
porta potties covered in bikewheels.

Mark (08:24):
They do.

Sarah (08:25):
And if anything should stand out, it's the toilets. You
should be able to find themeasily.

Mark (08:29):
That's absolutely true.

Sarah (08:31):
Plus they're blue and yellow. Bike wheels are not
gonna hide that.

Mark (08:34):
Nope. But luckily, our boys are there to do the
fireworks.

Sarah (08:40):
Who's a billion Nigel?

Mark (08:42):
Yeah, I think so.

Sarah (08:43):
Did you get nervous when the first one didn't go off and
they just walked right up to it?

Mark (08:47):
I was extremely nervous.

Sarah (08:48):
I was like wait, wait, wait. Make sure it's not going
to go off. They're so drunk.

Mark (08:54):
Yes.

Sarah (08:55):
At one point, they're talking to, I think, Breen, and
he's got like a whole armful andhe just starts to light them
like, what are you doing? Peopleare too drunk to be near
fireworks.

Mark (09:06):
And the old crotchety guy goes to the porta loos and opens
the door and goes, you.

Sarah (09:12):
Yeah. And goes in the ladies porta loo. I don't think
I've ever seen porta pottieslabeled men's and women's.

Mark (09:19):
They kind of self select I think. Like the most experience
I've had are like at camps orfestivals.

Sarah (09:27):
Usually, it's in a

Mark (09:27):
big line. Yeah.

Sarah (09:29):
I don't know. But porta potty exploding is really,
really gross.

Mark (09:34):
It is it is bad, bad news.

Sarah (09:38):
And I don't care how much they rope off. The fact that
there are things found likeoften trees that were in that
porta potty like ears and hatsYep. Means the other Stuff?
Things that were part of thatporta potty are also spread that
far. I'm not going anywhere nearthat joint.
No. No. No. No. No.
No. No. And yet another thing toworry about when you have to use

(10:01):
a porta potty. I thought it wasjust tipping over or catching a
disease now you got to worryabout it blowing up

Mark (10:07):
I think that it would be I think the mythbusters tried it

Sarah (10:10):
tried to blow one up I think so well Gina thinks it's a
landmine

Mark (10:14):
well of course we

Sarah (10:15):
should block single file so we have less chance of
setting off another mine I'msorry about the bad accent. You
have to expect it's the worstthing.

Mark (10:26):
She's totally A landmine? Really, Gina? She's completely
giddy that the victim is inseveral pieces.

Sarah (10:33):
It's like Tetris. But it don't have all the pieces.

Mark (10:38):
So let's talk about this thing of steampunk in Omaru.

Sarah (10:44):
The big event that they're raising money to go to.

Mark (10:46):
Yes. So they It

Sarah (10:48):
must be big enough to be well known enough that they
think that people watching theepisode will recognize what
they're talking about.

Mark (10:54):
Well, it is the home of Steampunk HQ, an art
collaboration and gallery in thehistoric Victoria precinct of
Oumuru, New Zealand. It wasopened in 2011. And they do in
fact have a festival. It is theannual steampunk news Steampunk

(11:14):
New Zealand festival

Sarah (11:16):
Not steampunk.

Mark (11:17):
Which is held on the Queen's birthday weekend early
in June. Three days of fashionactivities and art shows.

Sarah (11:26):
Wow. Three days? Three days.

Mark (11:29):
Now this town only has 14,000 people in it.

Sarah (11:32):
That's It must

Mark (11:34):
completely take over the town.

Sarah (11:36):
Oh, how many people attend?

Mark (11:38):
I don't know. It doesn't say, but it is. It has been
listed as one of the buildingitself. It's one of the highest
rated tourist attractions in NewZealand.

Sarah (11:49):
And I think

Mark (11:49):
they have a five story building with a locomotive all
decked out in front of it.

Sarah (11:55):
Dang. And it's in June, so that's the middle of winter.
Yeah. It's No wonder it'sinside.

Mark (12:00):
It's super That's cool. I guess it's a super

Sarah (12:04):
It's like Gen Con, but for steampunk.

Mark (12:05):
Yeah. And I guess, like, it's just created by a bunch of
artists who got together and didthis who liked steampunk. So I'm
assuming they kind of, like,just grew it naturally.

Sarah (12:18):
Mhmm. Well, that's how, like, Burning Man started.

Mark (12:21):
They have some artists. Like, they're so fun. They have
a gadgetorium, which is a secretroom in the building with
unusual creatures, relics, andmachines. A dress up booth.

Sarah (12:32):
We have a gadgetorium.

Mark (12:33):
They have a portal, a gateway to other dimensions,
both real and imagined. And aworkshop that has like a
permanent stage and all sorts offun super stuff and they have a
cool kind of merch too.

Sarah (12:49):
That sounds really cool. Too bad it's basically on
another planet from where welive.

Mark (12:53):
Yeah. Like, if I was in New Zealand, I would definitely
go here, but

Sarah (12:59):
You drive eighteen hours and get on the boat and
everything else to get there?

Mark (13:02):
Not in New Zealand. No. So we go back to the cop shop and I
am stuck. Yes. Because there's adifferent sign.
So now I am It's

Sarah (13:14):
not about Nigel's coffee cups anymore.

Mark (13:16):
Obsessed with the new sign. They don't spend enough
time on the new sign. I get acouple of words Oh, no. But they
don't say what it is. Hopefully,in the future, they don't change
it and I can find out what thesign says.

Sarah (13:36):
Do you want to guess what you think it says

Mark (13:39):
from what you can read? This

Sarah (13:41):
will be interesting.

Mark (13:42):
It says broken wood at the top and it looks like there are
circles or magnets on one sideand it's like it says blank
fridge watch society. I don'tknow what the fridge watch
society is.

Sarah (14:01):
I would think it would be the Brokenwood Police Station
fridge watch society. I guess.They're looking out for Nigel's
leftovers. Or maybe missus orMarlow's ear in a Tupperware
container.

Mark (14:13):
I guess? Sort of?

Sarah (14:16):
Fridges and workspaces are special.

Mark (14:19):
Yeah. And they don't stand in front of it enough and I'm
disappointed with them because Idefinitely wanted to see more.

Sarah (14:27):
We got to see plenty of Timmy Time toilet tanks.

Mark (14:31):
Yes. So Timmy is a special guy.

Sarah (14:34):
He's got a business. He's an entrepreneur.

Mark (14:36):
He is straight out of entrepreneurial.

Sarah (14:40):
Skill. He's doing better than Frodo.

Mark (14:41):
Like it's almost like it's AAA Timmies.

Sarah (14:47):
So he can be first in the phone book.

Mark (14:50):
So then he says that they has to do a little pro bono work
in the first year of business,which is straight out of
business Oh.

Sarah (14:58):
Richness you go to

Mark (15:00):
textbooks.

Sarah (15:01):
If you go to how to start your own business Yep. Seminar,
they'll tell you that.

Mark (15:06):
So then he's and this I think is a scene written by
Breen because he's also he'scleaning the port a loos

Sarah (15:15):
Mhmm.

Mark (15:15):
But he's also drinking and he drinks this stuff that's blue
Yeah. And you lose a sense of

Sarah (15:24):
Is he drinking cleaning fluid? And And he's a little too
wavy aroundy of the brush too.

Mark (15:33):
He is absolutely all those things. And then we get the
flashback with him and we seehow horribly racist Lionel is.
You know islanders in theirbright colors. What?

Sarah (15:48):
He's horrible.

Mark (15:50):
He is

Sarah (15:50):
horrific. I'm glad he blew up into a thousand pieces.

Mark (15:53):
And I love how Timmy's like, yeah, I have to deal with
white male crap all the time.Yeah.

Sarah (16:01):
Crap from white men. He's used to it.

Mark (16:03):
So you're you're talking about that that stuff and the
explosion, it reminds me TheWhat?

Sarah (16:11):
I was talking about what?

Mark (16:12):
The the stuff in the toilet Oh, exploding. It reminds
me I had a weird thing happenthis week. So we use this
charcoal toothpaste. Oh, no.

Sarah (16:24):
You're gonna tell the story.

Mark (16:26):
I'm tell the story.

Sarah (16:27):
Brace yourselves people. So It doesn't matter that it's
charcoal toothpaste.

Mark (16:31):
So it's black. Correct? Black is cool. Because black's
cool. And we are down near theend of a particular tube of this
toothpaste.

Sarah (16:41):
To the point where, and everybody will know, where you
have to like fold the tube overthe nozzle and like press into
it with your thumb to get thatlast bit out of the tube. That's
where it was at.

Mark (16:53):
Now, I was gonna wash my face after brushing my teeth. So
I did not have my glasses on.And I put the toothpaste tube
and squeezed it and it squeezeda little bit of toothpaste onto
my toothbrush. But then a jet oftoothpaste infused air or what

(17:13):
Sarah calls

Sarah (17:14):
Toothpaste fart.

Mark (17:17):
Shot out of the toothpaste tube and went directly into my
eyes.

Sarah (17:25):
We can laugh now because you're not blind, but you
thought you were. And if I hadto take you to the hospital and
explain that toothpaste fartedin your eyes, I don't know what
I would've said.

Mark (17:36):
For the second time in three years, I said to myself
with my eyes closed, that's it,I'm blind.

Sarah (17:46):
The time before was when the hornet swarmed you and went
inside your glasses. That time,time, it was toothpaste fart.

Mark (17:56):
They hurt.

Sarah (17:58):
I bet it did.

Mark (18:00):
So I started blinking my eyes hoping that I had sight and
regained my eyesight andeverything was fine. But they
were super red

Sarah (18:12):
Yeah.

Mark (18:12):
For a little while.

Sarah (18:14):
And, yeah. The moral of the story is, guys, look out for
your toothpaste. It's moredangerous than

Mark (18:19):
you when

Sarah (18:20):
you put Safety glasses. Yep. Goggles. Yeah. Steam pump
goggles.
That that would have saved youreyes if you'd had some on. I'm
gonna go into the bathroom andcatch you brushing your teeth
wearing goggles just in case.Holding the toothbrush and

(18:41):
toothpaste as far away from youas Just just just to be safe.
You never know. Well, doc, letme tell you what happened to my
husband's eyes.
They wouldn't believe me. Theywould think that I did it to
you. No. And we were lying.

Mark (19:02):
They would be like, how did you get toothpaste in your
eye?

Sarah (19:07):
Then And then it went went and then it was in my eyes.
So Lionel lights a lighter inthe porta potty. Never do that.
No. Boom.
Never ever do that. I don't carehow dark the porta potty is. You
don't wanna see.

Mark (19:24):
And we find that so the guy who runs the balloon place
is a suspect. Mhmm. The daughterof Lionel who has a girlfriend
that Lionel doesn't like, plusshe's Mallory.

Sarah (19:37):
Mhmm.

Mark (19:38):
Which Lionel doesn't like. They're suspects. It's nice that
Mike does an interview outsidewith them and a dog.

Sarah (19:47):
Because Willie is good to soften people up.

Mark (19:51):
I guess. Women like dogs.

Sarah (19:55):
Women like Willie.

Mark (19:59):
Wow. And considering where this is going in my discussion.
I'm So they talked to the thethe ladies. Poppy and Cleo.
Poppy and Cleo.
And then Frodo is justfantastic.

Sarah (20:18):
So His coffee truck is nice.

Mark (20:21):
Yes. So he comes up and he goes, I don't go in for that
kinky model train stuff. So

Sarah (20:30):
Have you ever considered making a steampunk persona? Like
a pasta dish? He was so high.

Mark (20:37):
He was so high. But okay, so he said kinky model train
stuff and for the first time inthis episode, there's another
point in this episode. I amreminded of extremely strange
eighties movies.

Sarah (20:52):
Wait a minute. Are you about to tell us about model
train porn?

Mark (20:56):
No. It's not model train porn but it's a movie entitled
Track 29. So Track 29 is a moviethat was directed by Nicholas
Rogue. Okay? So he's a wellknown weirdo director from the
eighties who I love his stuff.

Sarah (21:16):
Of course you do. It's weird. You love weird movies.

Mark (21:20):
I do in fact love weird movies. It was released in 1988.
I'm sure I went to the theaterto see this with my high school
friends. So it also stars TeresaRussell, Gary Old man and
Christopher Lloyd. Now this isthe synopsis.
Okay? Are you ready for this?

Sarah (21:41):
Okay.

Mark (21:41):
A doctor's wife tires of his obsession with model trains
and spends her days wonderingabout her son who she gave up
for adoption at birth. Whileeating at a roadside cafe, she
encounters a British hitchhikerwho turns out to be her son.
They spend time together tryingto find a bond, the son begins

(22:02):
to hate the husband and the wifebegins worrying about the safety
of her husband and his trainset.

Sarah (22:10):
Because Gary Old man who is her British lost child Yes.
Is a psychopath, is he not? Ithink I've seen a clip from this
movie.

Mark (22:21):
He wears a cowboy hat and a long sided toque. Mhmm. It is
a fever dream from start tofinish.

Sarah (22:30):
And this little scene in the train shop made you think of
that movie.

Mark (22:35):
Well mentioning the kinky stuff made me think of that.

Sarah (22:38):
Okay. I was

Mark (22:39):
like isn't there a Gary Old man movie with model trains
and Teresa Russell and Only you.Weirdness.

Sarah (22:47):
Alden says that Lionel was into Mary Blayne.

Mark (22:50):
Yes.

Sarah (22:51):
Do you know what Mary Blayne is?

Mark (22:52):
Though it's slang for Mary Jane.

Sarah (22:55):
No. Oh. It's slang for train.

Mark (22:58):
Oh yes. Yes. Yes.

Sarah (22:59):
I was like, oh, the Mary Blain. Is that a train? Is that
a famous train? No. It's justslang for train.

Mark (23:03):
It's just slang for train.

Sarah (23:05):
When Sims goes to the hospital to visit Alden for the
first time

Mark (23:09):
To do more illegal things.

Sarah (23:11):
The doctor is like, oh sorry to hear about Kahu and you
eating all the soup. If you everwant to come over for dinner

Mark (23:17):
Yeah. Like how does she know? Because there's a secret
Secret Ginger network.Information network.

Sarah (23:25):
That Breen has talked to the red haired doctor and said,
if you see Sims, offer to youknow take her out or something.
She's sad. I know. She doesn'tseem sad.

Mark (23:36):
Yeah. And it seems weird to put that in. It was a bit
weird. Especially since Simsbasically throws him out of bed
soon after. Yeah.
So I have a question.

Sarah (23:47):
She throws Alden out of bed. Not Breen No. Or Kavu.

Mark (23:50):
Yes. Okay.

Sarah (23:51):
And be careful with your pronouns. You could be
confusing.

Mark (23:54):
I could be confusing. I have a question. Mhmm. The
mayor. Mhmm.
The pharmacist. Mhmm. Does like,how does he do both of those
jobs?

Sarah (24:03):
Being the mayor of a small town is not a full time
job.

Mark (24:05):
I realize that, but it seems that he is full time
mayor, full time pharmacy.

Sarah (24:10):
He's also a full time gay person.

Mark (24:12):
Well, yes. They have secret meetings once a month.

Sarah (24:15):
Yeah. He is the representative gay person.

Mark (24:17):
He is on fire in this episode.

Sarah (24:19):
He's very funny. I like him a lot. Yeah. Mayor Neil.

Mark (24:23):
Yes.

Sarah (24:24):
He's almost always standing in front of the shoe
inserts. Yes. Don't know why.

Mark (24:30):
That pharmacy is clearly an actual pharmacy that they
filmed in.

Sarah (24:34):
I just think it's nice that he gives the medicine to
the man and says sorry for thedelay. And I'm thinking, there
wasn't even a line. You haven'tbeen to our CVS.

Mark (24:43):
Yeah.

Sarah (24:44):
You wait there for five hours to get something that's
already filled.

Mark (24:47):
Get drugs in The US, man.

Sarah (24:49):
Yeah, pay for them. Elsa says Bart talks in her sleep,
talks in his sleep. Can we talkabout Elsa? Elsa, the She Hulk
mom. Okay.
First of all, she has a bumpersticker that says mother knows
best.

Mark (25:05):
Yes.

Sarah (25:06):
No one should even sell that bumper sticker. No.
Shouldn't even exist. No.

Mark (25:10):
Not at all.

Sarah (25:11):
And anybody who buys one should get instantly
electrocuted.

Mark (25:15):
Yes.

Sarah (25:17):
Like, and teach you a lesson. Not kill you, but Yep.
Teach you a lesson. So she's atthe steampunk event because
she's spying on her son. Spying.
And though she A

Mark (25:27):
covert activity.

Sarah (25:29):
Though she has dressed in camo from head to toe and has on
face paint, she parks right atthe entrance in her mother knows
best car.

Mark (25:37):
Yes.

Sarah (25:37):
She's doing it wrong.

Mark (25:39):
Yes. She is very much doing it wrong.

Sarah (25:41):
She chases him around with medication.

Mark (25:45):
What? Do you think they're trying to imply that his
homicidal incelness is caused byhis mother.

Sarah (25:53):
It can't help. Yeah. You know?

Mark (25:56):
Like, I wanna be clear that incel and homicide are
like, they are the fault of theindividual.

Sarah (26:04):
Yes. Okay. Incel culture is horrific. They are not all
murderers. I would say most ofthem are not murderers and don't
even fantasize about murder.

Mark (26:15):
No. But they I love the joke that what's the difference
between what what's the samething between incel and excel?
They both don't understand datesproperly.

Sarah (26:24):
Oh. You mean like software?

Mark (26:27):
Yeah. Okay. It's a nerd joke.

Sarah (26:29):
That is a nerd joke. He's he doesn't have a hope, though.
No. Like, he's an awkward guy,who whose dad left and that
damaged him as a kid. But thathappens to a lot of people, and
they turn out just fine.
His mom is smothering. A lot ofpeople are raised by a

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smothering mother, and they turnout just fine.

Mark (26:53):
His boss is a crazy Homophobic Racist.

Sarah (26:57):
Racist. A lot of people have to spend time with
homophobic racists I would saythey're just fine.

Mark (27:03):
I would say that probably Lionel had a bigger effect on
him than anybody else.

Sarah (27:09):
Yeah. Because he's also a woman hater, Lionel. So he's a
homophobic, racist, misogynist.Yeah. I'm sorry.
I had to reach for that word.Yep. He's just horrible. I don't
know why Poppy even wants tohave a relationship with him.
Like I would be like countingthe days until I could get away

(27:30):
from him if

Mark (27:30):
I were I I understand it's her dad and everything, but
dude. No

Sarah (27:36):
thanks. But else

Mark (27:38):
And I I think it's absolutely not an accident that
his incel insanity causes thedeath of the person he cares
second most about.

Sarah (27:51):
Mhmm. It backfires. Yeah. Let's go back to Elsa though.
Now that we've talked about allthat.
Yes. We don't have to go back toany of that. No. We got it all
out. Yep.
What's Elsa's motive? Does sheknow Bart did something bad? Is
that why she's inserting herselfeverywhere? Is she just a
smothering, so smothering thatshe can't not be everywhere her

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son is? Like, what's her dealio?

Mark (28:15):
I think probably it's twofold. I think she worries the
worst has happened all the timeand so needs to needs to to,
like, come in and cover for him.And then also is smothering and,
like, I think she feels out ofcontrol and by controlling his

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life, which she should controlhis room a bit more.

Sarah (28:41):
It's a mess.

Mark (28:43):
That she regains some control, maybe.

Sarah (28:47):
I think Elsa needs a job.

Mark (28:49):
I don't think she's a very well developed character. She's
the the crazy mom.

Sarah (28:54):
But she's not even fun in her in her suffocatingness. No.
Like she's not like trying towipe his nose off and bringing
him lunch.

Mark (29:02):
No. You know? No. It's it's very weird.

Sarah (29:06):
She needs a job, a hobby, something. I don't know.

Mark (29:10):
So then they say that Poppy has a motive. And the
motive is she could inherit theshop.

Sarah (29:17):
Woah. Woah. How

Mark (29:21):
do you not think that shop isn't in a mountain of debt?

Sarah (29:25):
That place prints money. Are you kidding? He turns away
half the customers that come inrolling in money. I think the
way, in reality, I think the waya business like that stays in
business now is they do an equalamount of online sales as they
do in store sales.

Mark (29:44):
Yes. I don't I don't

Sarah (29:45):
They specialize. They have a lot of knowledge about
things. Yep. And so they findthings for people, for
collectors who are looking forspecific things. But that's not
going on here.
No. Like Lionel is not evenpaying close enough attention to
know that Bart is like crushingup drugs and putting it in the
diorama.

Mark (30:04):
And like okay, I just want to reiterate this point. Bart is
horrific. Yes. He is a horrificperson. Yep.
And he is, it comes off as shy,it comes off as slightly
awkward, it's not. No. He ishorrible.

Sarah (30:24):
Yeah. Don't confuse the two. No. Shy people are not all
horrible.

Mark (30:28):
My son has a variety of health issues. Yeah. Mental
health issues.

Sarah (30:32):
If she was treating his mental health as much as she's
treating his water retention,maybe he'd have a better life.

Mark (30:38):
I do like so Neil is his his is Mayor Neil is his uncle.
His uncle. And they missed agood joke there because he says,
well, I I must remind her of mybrother. And what they should
have said, what Neil should havesaid at that point in time was,

(30:59):
well, we're twins. Yeah.
Like, that's a good joke.

Sarah (31:03):
Yeah.

Mark (31:04):
It doesn't mean it doesn't mean anything but it's a good
joke. Yeah. But he says that shethat is his hypochondria is all
preventative.

Sarah (31:18):
Mhmm.

Mark (31:19):
And like he's only taking that stuff sounds like a lot of
it just to make her feel better.

Sarah (31:26):
He's not even taking it. Yeah. It's her preoccupation.

Mark (31:31):
Yeah. Absolutely.

Sarah (31:33):
So we don't know how the train store stays in business.
How does paws, claws, beaks andfins stay in business?

Mark (31:39):
Well Wanda is amazing. Okay.

Sarah (31:41):
Wanda is Cleo's roommate and she also works at the pet
store.

Mark (31:46):
So Breen goes to find

Sarah (31:48):
Cleo.

Mark (31:49):
Cleo. And Cleo's roommate, who we don't know works at the
pet store

Sarah (31:53):
at this point Oh. Is

Mark (31:55):
like, well, you know, she left and here's a lava lamp.

Sarah (31:59):
She just moved out. She did pay the rent. If you see
her, give her this lava lamp.Slam. And then thirty seconds
later, she walks out from behindthe counter at the bed store.

Mark (32:09):
Because Breen goes to the other house.

Sarah (32:11):
Yeah. Looking for her first.

Mark (32:13):
So their house That gives her

Sarah (32:14):
time to get to work. Is a train station.

Mark (32:17):
Is a train station. Yeah. That's beautiful.

Sarah (32:20):
That's kinda cool.

Mark (32:21):
It's a thing they mention they don't mention, but works.

Sarah (32:26):
Oh, remember that one that we saw online? I stalk
Rightmove, which is The UKversion of Zillow kind Oh

Mark (32:33):
my gosh.

Sarah (32:33):
And we saw this place that used to be a train station
and was now a house and they hadthese train cars fitted out as
like Airbnb's. It was so cool.Yep. And it was for sale. Yep.
We could have bought it andmoved there.

Mark (32:52):
Was like don't if it's this country. Anyway Yeah. She's
off today and we're really busy.Yeah. Breen's like

Sarah (32:58):
What? Well, you gotta move the iguana again. It's all
And

Mark (33:04):
then we see Frodo smoking.

Sarah (33:08):
He's vaping.

Mark (33:08):
He's vaping. And it produces a phenomenal amount of
I don't think they imagined itwas actually going to do that
much smoke.

Sarah (33:19):
Well, it doesn't matter because nobody's thinking about
it because Alden has just goneby on a bike in his hospital
gown with the wind in hismustache. That is the funniest
scene. Yep. And Frodo looks athis vape like what's in this
thing? He's thinking somebody'sgonna talk to him about pasta

(33:40):
again.
What's going on?

Mark (33:42):
So Breen goes back to the train station house and hears a
boom. And what it is is StarfireJones is making movie.

Sarah (33:52):
They wave those pistols around a lot.

Mark (33:55):
They do wave those pistols around a lot and the whole movie
subplot is weird and strange anddoesn't need to be there. But it
is weird that he edits theirmovies.

Sarah (34:06):
That Bart free. Edits Cleo and Poppy's movies. Yeah. I
mean, Bart's in love with Poppy.So he'll do whatever.
I guess. He'll do work for freefor them, I guess. Because what
does he say? It means that I canbe around people without being
around people?

Mark (34:26):
Yeah. I guess. Again, anything that is made to look
sympathetic for him, I'd justtest.

Sarah (34:33):
I'm not sympathetic to him for editing those movies.

Mark (34:36):
No. I don't want

Sarah (34:37):
He's got like a monitor size freeze frame of her open on
his second monitor. He's clearlyjust drooling over them.

Mark (34:46):
Yeah. I think so.

Sarah (34:48):
It is funny that Breen calls for armed officers.

Mark (34:52):
Yes.

Sarah (34:53):
When he hears the gunshots.

Mark (34:54):
Ten nine.

Sarah (34:55):
He's like, mister professional. Yep. Tucking in
the codes and stuff. Yep. Thenhe cancels it.

Mark (35:01):
Cancels it.

Sarah (35:02):
I don't think Starfire Jones' movies are gonna be very
good.

Mark (35:06):
No. I don't think But they're doing stuff.

Sarah (35:10):
Yeah. I I guess they're making And doing

Mark (35:13):
stuff. Why does Mike's whiteboard and his office have
all this stuff about business? Idon't know. Like all these
different companies and shellcompanies and money.

Sarah (35:25):
That's another case he's working on.

Mark (35:26):
Some other case he's working on.

Sarah (35:28):
I don't know. Would you want that job? Make up stuff
that looks like it's related tosomething that isn't this and
couldn't even remotely be this.

Mark (35:37):
Would I want that job? Of course I

Sarah (35:40):
would wear that erase board. And you need good
handwriting to do it. Let's talkabout Alden.

Mark (35:48):
Okay. The traitorous bastard.

Sarah (35:50):
He's got a great mustache though.

Mark (35:52):
He does.

Sarah (35:53):
And he's actually a kind person. Yes. He's kind to Cleo
and Poppy and wants to includethem in the new festival and
thinks that Lionel is a racistbastard.

Mark (36:03):
And I think he wants it to be inclusive not because it's
just a way to have it happen Butbut he believes in the
inclusive.

Sarah (36:10):
He actually is kind of a nice person.

Mark (36:12):
But he's bad at the gambling.

Sarah (36:16):
Well, if you borrow money from fast daddy's cash bonanza,
you're making poor decisions.

Mark (36:21):
You are making poor decisions.

Sarah (36:24):
Did he kill his first wife?

Mark (36:26):
I do not believe so. I think out of

Sarah (36:29):
the basket.

Mark (36:30):
I would have nothing to do with balloons if that was

Sarah (36:34):
No. If I Well, first of all, you'll never catch me in a
hot air balloon ever, ever,ever, ever, ever, ever. Yes. If
it was my only way of escaping,no. I will fight whatever it is
that's chasing me rather thanget into a hot air balloon.
It's a wicker basket up in theair.

Mark (36:56):
With with a giant flamethrower attached to it.

Sarah (37:00):
And no way to steer. No. No. Thank you.

Mark (37:03):
But they have a couple of nice shots. They have the nice
shot of the balloon outside thepolice station.

Sarah (37:09):
I love that he's making his great escape in a tethered
balloon.

Mark (37:12):
In a tethered balloon. I don't think you're supposed to
notice it's tethered.

Sarah (37:16):
Oh, no. He pulls himself down with the tether.

Mark (37:18):
Well, I know that.

Sarah (37:19):
Like, he's tethered. I think he's supposed to be so
concussed that he doesn't noticeit's tethered.

Mark (37:25):
I think so. And our friend

Sarah (37:27):
I'm with you.

Mark (37:28):
The bullhorn makes him

Sarah (37:29):
appear I'm with you. I don't think he killed his wife.
Yeah. I think he was so bereavedthat he changed his name and
moved to start over because hewas very sad.

Mark (37:39):
Yes.

Sarah (37:39):
But though I agree with you, I would never get into a
hot air balloon again if youfell out of the one I was in and
died. But if that was theirthing, then maybe

Mark (37:49):
Maybe?

Sarah (37:50):
I don't know.

Mark (37:51):
My notes just say, you need more than one person to
tether. So they go back.

Sarah (37:59):
I just love that he thinks somebody's trying to kill
him because he's so in debt toFast Eddie who is long gone that
he's escaping from the hospitaland running around in a hospital
gown on a bike. Oh, the rash youwould get from riding a bike and
No, thank you.

Mark (38:18):
They go go to Bart's house to see all his toys. Yeah,
they're toys. And he's got anice Masters of the Universe
shirt on though. I was impressedby that.

Sarah (38:28):
That he doesn't deserve to have.

Mark (38:29):
No. I agree.

Sarah (38:31):
Gina says there are fibers, green fibers on the ear
that missus Marlow found thatclearly belongs to Lionel, the
last Tetris piece that Gina'slooking for. Yep. Top hats,
they're not made out of unusualthings.

Mark (38:47):
No. Well, beaver fur.

Sarah (38:49):
Well, that's a real top hat. Yes. This is not a real top
It's probably made out of feltYeah. Or acrylic felt. But Gina
doesn't recognize those fibers.
Yeah. And Lionel says it tookhim a month to make it. Yeah. It
took you a month to hot gluesome crap onto a green hat.
Really?
No. He must be really bad at it.But if he puts together dioramas

(39:12):
and trains, he should be betterat

Mark (39:14):
it. Yeah. I would agree. Holden hides out in the cells
with the Poor

Sarah (39:21):
Willie locked in the cell.

Mark (39:22):
I did notice something in that scene though. They have a
sign that says interview inprogress.

Sarah (39:28):
Mhmm. That lights up.

Mark (39:29):
They never use that because people go in and out or
the door's wide open.

Sarah (39:33):
They're like always lit up. I also noticed more card
swiping in this episode. Thebeep from the card. Sims is
swiping a lot

Mark (39:40):
with her Yep. Fast Eddie was bad buggers.

Sarah (39:43):
So Lionel was wearing the green hat. Yes. Right? That he
made for Poppy that Poppy gaveto Cleo. Yes.
Cleo gives back to Poppy. Poppyputs it on Lionel's head. Lionel
goes in the porta potty, kaboomblows up Tetris everywhere.
Right? Yeah.
When they ask Poppy and Cleoabout the hat, Cleo says that

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Poppy gave her the hat as asymbol of their commitment.

Mark (40:10):
Yes.

Sarah (40:11):
So your racist, misogynist, homophobic dad makes
your girlfriend a hat and shegives it to you as a sign of
your commitment?

Mark (40:20):
No. No. He made the hat for his daughter. I know. And
then his daughter gave it to hergirlfriend as commitment.

Sarah (40:27):
Would you want that hat?

Mark (40:29):
I

Sarah (40:29):
As a sign of her commitment? Here. Here's a hat
my awful dad made.

Mark (40:35):
I think they were kinda implying that it was really a
nice hat.

Sarah (40:38):
Okay.

Mark (40:39):
Like a sexy hat. What is a sexy hat?

Sarah (40:43):
Cheers to sexy hats.

Mark (40:45):
What is a sexy hat?

Sarah (40:47):
I don't think I've ever seen a sexy hat.

Mark (40:50):
Hats are so now, I have a full head of luxurious hair, so
I don't need to wear a hat,unlike some people. Sarah's ex
husband.

Sarah (41:07):
Bald as a cue ball.

Mark (41:08):
But I don't know what a sexy hat is.

Sarah (41:11):
I mean there are certainly outfits that are
accessorized by a hat that aresexy outfits.

Mark (41:17):
Yeah, but like a sexy

Sarah (41:18):
hat for me by itself?

Mark (41:20):
For me to think a hat is sexy, it means that you the only
thing you got on is that hat.

Sarah (41:27):
And then

Mark (41:28):
And we know that a cowboy hat with a toque underneath does

Sarah (41:32):
not qualify. But the but then the hat isn't the sexy
thing. Yeah. Right? The hat justsitting there No.
Is not the sexy thing. I don'tcare how many pairs of goggles
it has glued to it or feathersor gears or whatever.

Mark (41:48):
So at this point in time

Sarah (41:49):
Maybe somebody will disagree with this. If you can
think of a hat that you think issexy all by itself Yep. In and
of itself it is an attractivething.

Mark (41:59):
It should be able to sit alone and you go, oh, hey there,
hat.

Sarah (42:03):
Well, I'm not trying to say that you wanna do something
with a hat. No. I'm just sayinganybody wearing that hat would
be accentuated by it.

Mark (42:13):
So Poppy and Cleo come under suspicion here.

Sarah (42:17):
Well, would inherit that shop.

Mark (42:20):
And there is the clear reference that needs to be made,
which is heavenly creatures.

Sarah (42:27):
Right. Because their movie is called what? It's a
play on heavenly creatures. Ididn't even write it down
because it was so lame.

Mark (42:34):
It's a play on heavenly creatures. So Heavenly Creatures
is a Peter Jackson movie. It wasthe first time that I had heard
of Peter Jackson. I rememberthat we

Sarah (42:44):
Now famous for the Hobbit movies.

Mark (42:46):
Yep. 1994. I remember this movie came out and I was like,
who is this Peter Jacksonfellow? Because he's a fine
director. Because HeavenlyCreatures is a very good movie.
It has Melanie

Sarah (42:58):
It's a good movie about two girls who kill one of their
mothers with a brick. Yeah. Andit's a good movie.

Mark (43:05):
It is. Okay. It stars Kate Winslet and Melanie Linskey who
has gone on to be a star in herown right. The two young people,
maybe the first movie they werein, just doing phenomenal acting
jobs. So they are recreating theParker Hume home murder case.

Sarah (43:29):
I know about the Yeah.

Mark (43:31):
The fifties where two young girls are in a special
friendship in the fifties, readfrom that what you will, who
will have a magical, strange,imaginary world, which

Sarah (43:47):
I know It's a folly folly do. Yes. Isn't that what they
call it? Yeah. When two peopleare mentally ill together.

Mark (43:54):
Yes. And they decide because they're being separated
that if they kill one of theirmothers then they won't be
separated.

Sarah (44:03):
Because one of the girls is gonna get sent off to a
school or

Mark (44:06):
Sent to South Africa. Yeah. So it's horrific. The
girls were underage. They servedfive years each.
One of the girls then went on tohave a difficult life
afterwards. But the young girlwho was from England originally

(44:27):
moved back to England and is nowbetter known as Anne Perry Mhmm.
And she has like a billionbooks. Yep. That she wrote.

Sarah (44:36):
Yep. She became a novelist.

Mark (44:38):
Basically took her own crazy little world that she
created and

Sarah (44:43):
started She started over.

Mark (44:44):
Started over and started writing

Sarah (44:46):
We've all done we all did things in our teenage years that
we look back and we go, why werewe so into that? I don't even
know why I like that. I had aBon Jovi poster.

Mark (44:53):
Oh. Come on. You're living on a prayer, man.

Sarah (44:57):
I'd never killed anybody with a brick.

Mark (45:00):
No. You know? But that that's you know, that movie must
have been huge in New Zealandbecause that case was so huge.

Sarah (45:09):
So they're making a steampunk version with Starfire
James or whatever her name is.

Mark (45:15):
Yes.

Sarah (45:17):
Where they get to cudgel her dad with a brick. What?
Yeah. These two are never gonnabe big filmmakers. No.
They just wanna wear corsets andtop hats and point flintlocks at
people.

Mark (45:31):
So and they end up that they're broken up. And Sims has
a really nice scene where shesays, you know

Sarah (45:38):
You guys actually seem to care for each other. Don't throw
it away so Don't

Mark (45:41):
be weird. Don't be weird? And then we have Don't

Sarah (45:47):
be like me, old and lonely, just eating soup.

Mark (45:50):
Just eating soup. Everybody knows. Everybody knows
about my soup.

Sarah (45:57):
Then From a can.

Mark (46:00):
And this is the thing we have not talked about from the
very beginning which is when thefireworks are happening, Bart
shows up, sees Cleo and Poppy atthe exact moment that Cleo has
been overwhelmed by the diureticand peace herself. Mhmm. She's

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embarrassed. She thinks Bart isembarrassed because she peed
herself, but Bart actually is

Sarah (46:27):
Is shocked that she's alive.

Mark (46:29):
That she's alive because he just blew her up.

Sarah (46:32):
No. He just locked her in. Yeah. It hasn't blown up
yet.

Mark (46:35):
And then it blows up.

Sarah (46:37):
Yeah. He thinks he locked her in the porta potty.

Mark (46:39):
The the absolute proof that Bart is horrific is if you
remember at the end of the ofthe cold open, he's sitting
there with Lionel's arm on hisshoulder screaming for somebody
to help him and he is the causeof it all.

Sarah (46:58):
Yeah. It's just Why is Oden in the porta potty?

Mark (47:02):
Because I think he's hiding from the loan sharks.
He's sad about it.

Sarah (47:08):
What what makes him think the loan sharks are at the
party?

Mark (47:10):
I don't know, but I think he's taking a moment to be
upset.

Sarah (47:15):
Okay. Yeah. Because he's like in there crying or
something.

Mark (47:19):
Yes.

Sarah (47:20):
And Lionel goes, oh, it's you. And goes into the next one
and then gets locked in.

Mark (47:24):
So his master plan is to blow her up at the steampunk
festival by giving her adiuretic forcing her to go to
the bathroom.

Sarah (47:34):
No. His plan is not to blow her up. His plan is to gas
her. Yes. That she'll just begassed to death people will find
her later.

Mark (47:41):
Yes. That's right.

Sarah (47:43):
It's because Lionel flicks the lighter that he blows
up.

Mark (47:47):
He kinda was trying to frame Timmy a bit.

Sarah (47:49):
Timmy, Alden, Lionel, everybody responsible for the
event Yeah. Certainly Yeah.Would be in trouble. Yeah.
Bart's not really thinking.
No. Like, he blows up Cleo andPoppy's gonna be like, oh, I've
loved you all along.

Mark (48:05):
No. Yeah. And he also like, he's just killed somebody
who is very important to him onaccident. He doesn't have a
second or moment of remorse

Sarah (48:18):
He just goes to work

Mark (48:19):
the next just goes to work the next day.

Sarah (48:22):
Yep.

Mark (48:22):
It's just really strange.

Sarah (48:25):
I don't know if diuretics work that way. Diuretics don't
make your bladder convulse.Yeah. What they do is they make
your body take more water out ofthe tissues. Yeah.
Rather than storing them.

Mark (48:38):
Yeah. It makes you go to the bathroom but not
explosively.

Sarah (48:41):
It makes you pee because your body is getting rid of
water. Yeah. And it just happensto fill your bladder. Yeah. It
doesn't actually act on yourbladder as far as I know.

Mark (48:51):
Not that I know of.

Sarah (48:52):
I take medicine that has a water pill as part of it,
which is a diuretic and itdoesn't do that. No. Of course
I've never stored up fifty daysof it and put it in a beer.
Yeah. That pre planning that hedoes, he's just despicable.

Mark (49:06):
He's he's poisoning her. I hope. For his amusement.

Sarah (49:11):
I hope Elsa has a long hard look at herself. Yeah.
After her son goes to jail.

Mark (49:16):
Well, what's his last line? Can I see my mom? Like,
they do a fantastic job ofmaking that culture and that
stereotype look as pathetic asit is.

Sarah (49:30):
Yep. Meanwhile, Willie Nelson.

Mark (49:33):
Willie Nelson. That's the dog's name.

Sarah (49:36):
Belongs to Petra, one of the ex wives.

Mark (49:38):
Petra Conway. Mike has

Sarah (49:40):
a good relationship with all of his ex wives who are
still alive.

Mark (49:43):
He does. And I think they all were would like she's like,
you got a red open like a

Sarah (49:51):
She trusts him to give him give his her dog to him to
look after. Like, they'reclearly friends

Mark (49:58):
clearly wanna spend time together.

Sarah (50:00):
Yeah. To get along. So after the credits, Poppy and
Chloe are gonna be okay.

Mark (50:04):
Do you think they stay or do you think they go on their
trip?

Sarah (50:07):
I think they get out of there.

Mark (50:08):
I think they that store is deader than

Sarah (50:12):
I think it's sold Yep. For whatever they can get.

Mark (50:16):
They're gone. They sold all the stuff online.

Sarah (50:18):
They take the lava lamp and they go.

Mark (50:20):
They go. Elsa. She's got a lot to look at in the mirror,
but she's going to be going tothe prison every week.

Sarah (50:29):
You think? Yeah. I don't know. I think her son is nasty.
She's gonna realize that.
He's gonna go to prison andElsa's gonna go, wait a minute.
I don't have anybody to worryabout. I can do what I want.

Mark (50:43):
No. I can I can be me?

Sarah (50:45):
I can join the secret ginger info network now if I
want No.

Mark (50:49):
I think she's gonna go every week to see him. I don't
think he's gonna do well inprison.

Sarah (50:55):
No. No. What about Alden?

Mark (50:59):
Well, Alden manages to be okay because the people who lent
him money are gone to jail.Mhmm. Now, usually in that
situation we get a a selling ofmarkers. Right? Yeah.
Right? Like

Sarah (51:15):
I'm gonna say that they didn't have a chance to do that.
I know. So he's free and clear.

Mark (51:18):
I think he's probably free and clear.

Sarah (51:20):
So he gets to keep on running his hot air balloon
business and start his festival?

Mark (51:24):
I think so.

Sarah (51:25):
Or you think it's tainted now?

Mark (51:26):
No. I think they they have the festival next year and they
insanely do it in dedication toLionel.

Sarah (51:37):
Little footnote at the in the booklet.

Mark (51:39):
But like Lionel though, I did like the line where Lionel
went, I did all the paperworkand the budgets and

Sarah (51:47):
the

Mark (51:47):
plan. I did like that because Alden is none of those.
No.

Sarah (51:53):
No. He's twirly mustache, big hat Yeah. Standing up in
front of the crowd guy. He's notno. He knows how to work the
mayor though.

Mark (52:00):
Oh, does.

Sarah (52:01):
He does a good job at that. Yeah. Wow. There's a lot
in this episode. I did learnwhat a dory is.
Lionel says he just wants a pissin a dory.

Mark (52:08):
Yeah. It's a cigarette.

Sarah (52:09):
It's a cigarette?

Mark (52:10):
Yep. Like a dart.

Sarah (52:12):
So I learned that. I learned what a Mary Blaine was
which is not Mary Jane.

Mark (52:16):
The, the ear found in the in the, grass, I think, might be
a little David Lynch homage.

Sarah (52:25):
It's a

Mark (52:25):
little blue velvet.

Sarah (52:27):
I just love that Mrs. Marlowe brings it in Tupperware
and says, just give it a rinseand get it back to me. Yeah.

Mark (52:35):
The next week, she's there with the cheese rolls.

Sarah (52:40):
As somebody who takes treats to work every week in
plastic containers Yeah. If Ishowed up on a Monday and people
are like, oh, cupcakes. And I'mlike, no. It's an ear. They're
like, ah.
They wouldn't eat cupcakesanymore. No. Especially if I
showed up the next week in thiswith the same container. Well,
after I got out of prison forwhatever I did to the person

(53:00):
whose ear it was, guess. I foundthis outside while I was speed
walking, para walking.

Mark (53:06):
Next week, episode two of season six, Real Paige Turner.
Not only is it a book episode,which is fantastic. Not only is
it a Mike's wife episode, whichis fantastic, but it is a Mike's
wife who is a suspect in themurder episode.

Sarah (53:23):
Alright. Wow. It's just I'm having trouble getting over
how awful Bart is.

Mark (53:34):
I had forgot I thought this was more steampunk than
incel, and it turned out to bemore incel than incel. Lionel's
awful. Bart's awful.

Sarah (53:43):
Yeah. Just irredeemable people.

Mark (53:45):
There's no two sides shown shown. They are shown as
irredeemable, horrible people,as they should be.

Sarah (53:52):
Yeah. Yeah. Well, Frodo's coffee shop has a really
beautiful menu. Yes. Though hiscoffee cups come in every color.

Mark (54:00):
And wow, that's a lot of smoke, Frodo. Do really need to
be smoking that much?

Sarah (54:05):
It's vape. That's a lot of vape. Mike gets the coolest
cup. It's black with a blacksleeve and a black lid.

Mark (54:11):
Yeah. That's a cool cup.

Sarah (54:13):
They should all look like that, but they don't.

Mark (54:15):
Definitely a cool cup.

Sarah (54:17):
No. Sims gets a green one later. Sims. That's it for the
power of steam.

Mark (54:23):
So next week, a real page turner on March 31.

Sarah (54:30):
See you then, maniacs.

Mark (54:31):
Bye, maniacs.

Sarah (54:32):
Bye, maniacs.

Mark (54:34):
Thanks for joining us on the mystery maniacs podcast. If
you enjoyed our crazy podcasttoday, don't miss out on future
episodes. Follow us on socialmedia for updates, beyond the
scenes content, and exclusivesneak peeks. Subscribe, like,
and share to spread the word.Bye, maniacs.

Sarah (54:52):
Okay. They have matching hats on, but when they were
walking up the hill, I thoughttheir heads were connected.

Mark (54:58):
And there is our outtake.

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