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Mystery Maniacs Episode! In Podcast 246, a killer uses a game and the victim’s plans to their advantage. Bingo!
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Bingo Card
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Welsh’s Tattoo
World Spoofers Site
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp69a_JviAc
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Sarah (00:00):
Arriba.
Hey, maniacs.
Mark (00:18):
Hey, mystery maniacs. Mystery maniacs is a comedy
recap podcast dedicated tomystery TV. Each week, we dig
into an episode of a showincluding the murders, the
mayhem, the loonies andeverything else we love. This
week Brokenwood Mysteries. ThreeCoins in a Fountain season eight
episode four.
(00:39):
Spoofing.
Sarah (00:41):
Spoofing. I'm Mark. I'm Sarah.
Mark (00:44):
If you let your kids spoof at the local pub, they should be
able to listen to the podcast.
Sarah (00:49):
Let them gamble? Yeah. Only on the last round.
Yeah.
Before we dive in, one of the listeners, Beatrice, emailed
us a fantastic mystery maniacsbroken wood
Mark (01:02):
An update card. An updated bingo card because Beatrice had
done the big go card, theoriginal bingo cards.
Sarah (01:08):
Yeah. For Midsummer. Right?
Mark (01:09):
For Midsummer, and these are the updated ones.
Sarah (01:13):
And we're gonna she emailed it to us, but we will
include it in the show notes soeverybody can grab it. I we
shouldn't give away all thesquares. I have to say my
favorite one is Nigel, the copupstairs.
Mark (01:29):
Yep. I I was kind of taken back by Mark forgets someone's
name.
Sarah (01:35):
Bingo. Or Mark repeats something Sarah just said.
Mark (01:43):
My other favorite is Mark repeats something Sarah just
said.
Sarah (01:47):
Aw. You're funny.
Mark (01:50):
So you can play along
Sarah (01:52):
Yeah.
Mark (01:52):
As you listen.
Sarah (01:53):
Or get a chuckle from reading it. It's fun. You,
Beatrice. It's so you, Beatrice.We've been watching Wednesday on
Netflix.
Yes. Well, is kind of a mystery.Yeah. It's just fun. It's like
brain candy.
Mark (02:05):
Well, summer is our fun time shows. So we get our big
brother in. We get our usually,we get a traitor in. And we're
watching Wednesday and Star Trekright now. I
Sarah (02:19):
have needed brain candy lately because my team just put
the finishing touches on acourse that's gonna be rolled
out to 90,000 students.
Mark (02:27):
And we bought a car
Sarah (02:28):
this week. You mean two hours ago?
Mark (02:32):
Yes.
Sarah (02:35):
It's been a day. It's been a week.
Mark (02:37):
Oh, also 40,000 students show up tomorrow.
Sarah (02:41):
Yeah. In the next few days.
Mark (02:43):
Yeah.
Sarah (02:43):
Whoo. Going to get exciting. It always does.
Speaking of exciting, just alittle show note. We're going to
change up our schedule just alittle bit for the next couple
of months.
We're going to we're going torelease a show every other week
just until the November. Yep.Just through September and
October. It's just too crazy. Iwould rather us say that now and
(03:06):
know, and we will definitelyhave a show out every other week
than try to get a show out everyweek and not be able to do it.
Mark (03:11):
We always get busy during this time. Everybody knows this.
We do a full handmade Halloweendisplay that hundreds of people
come to see in our front yard.There will be pictures. Don't
worry, I will post pictures ofall that goodness.
Sarah (03:28):
But it's also school starting and you've
Mark (03:29):
got a Yep. Couple of cons and you
Sarah (03:32):
Anybody out there who's an academic, and I know there's
a lot of you, you understand.
Mark (03:36):
Yes. It is our busy time unless we get midsummer dates
and news.
Sarah (03:43):
We will
Mark (03:44):
Then the schedule might need to change.
Sarah (03:47):
Yeah. We'll do a mini and announce
Mark (03:49):
But usually they've been releasing those in December
Sarah (03:52):
Yeah.
Mark (03:52):
And we've been doing the minis in December and the full
episodes in January.
Sarah (03:57):
Don't forget, you could be submitting a cake to their
contest right now.
Mark (04:05):
Oh, their social media
Sarah (04:08):
They just is so keep rolling out more
Mark (04:09):
and more like,
Sarah (04:12):
really? It's not a bad idea, but did you have to
introduce it like, hello, I havemade a cake. Oh, a cake? I don't
know what a cake is.
Mark (04:22):
These people are actors, and they're not doing
Sarah (04:24):
It's like they're purposefully doing a bad job.
Mark (04:26):
Yeah. Well,
Sarah (04:27):
I We know they're better actors than that.
Mark (04:29):
I I really hope there's no point in an episode where
they're doing like a bakeryepisode.
Sarah (04:35):
You know they're gonna have like a British Bake Off
theme
Mark (04:37):
episode this season.
Sarah (04:39):
They've got to. Are you ready to talk about Three Coins
in a Fountain?
Mark (04:43):
Three Coins in a Fountain released the 07/18/2022,
directed by David Dalla Tour andwritten by Tim Baum. This is
male maleness of mail townwritten all over.
Sarah (04:57):
But it has one of my favorite one episode characters,
and that is Pablo Picante, theWelsh.
Mark (05:04):
Pablo Picante, the Welsh is fantastic.
Sarah (05:09):
I need to take a leak.
The bathroom's down the hall.
No. I need to take a leak. Make a leak. Play leak.
I don't know what he said. Something about a leak.
After saying that Welsh peoplelook like leaks
Mark (05:21):
What what is fantastic is they play Pablo straight
Sarah (05:28):
Yes.
Mark (05:29):
Until the very last moment.
Sarah (05:32):
Yes. And then he's like,
Mark (05:33):
And even Dane is like, really, man?
Sarah (05:37):
Yeah. Come on. But he's just so fantastic. When when
he's in the horned helmet andthe and the sheep's wool, and
he's like, Arriba.
Mark (05:51):
Like, they direct the director must have said I'm
Sarah (05:56):
No. Just No. Bigger. Bigger. Bigger.
Bigger.
Mark (05:59):
Crazier. Bigger.
Sarah (06:02):
So Speaking of him, it's totally we're totally out of
sequence. I'm sorry. He's gotquite the tattoo on his belly.
Mark (06:09):
Yeah. It's a dragon.
Sarah (06:11):
I took a shot of it. It's not quite a dragon. I think it
may be like a winged Medusa.
Mark (06:16):
Oh, okay. I'll put that in the show notes.
Sarah (06:19):
The picture and see what folks think. Wow. He does say
the dragon is his is his spiritanimal. So
Mark (06:26):
But then he says something else.
Sarah (06:27):
I don't know. He's crazy.
Mark (06:31):
He has it out for pugs, though.
Sarah (06:33):
Yeah. Kill the pugs. I smell bacon.
It's a very funny character.
Mark (06:40):
It's definitely back to the funny.
Sarah (06:43):
Yes. We get a dead guy in a fountain. This is the worst
designed fountain ever. It is adeath trap waiting to happen.
I'm amazed that this is thefirst person to impale their own
head on that arrow.
Mark (06:54):
And those joggers are actively running around looking
for a dead body. Of course, theyare.
Sarah (06:59):
Wouldn't you be?
Mark (06:59):
They're like broken wood? We're at the fraught of an
episode. Let's look around forit's a dead body. We finally
found one. Ding.
Ding. Ding. Ding. We got abingo.
Sarah (07:10):
That's what you and I would be doing. You know it.
We'd be looking. Did you checkthat ditch over there? There
could be a dead body in thatditch.
That's a pretty good spot for adead body.
Mark (07:19):
So they do something weird off the top that is never
referenced, but is weird. And Idon't know why they do this. And
only maniacs like me would pickthis up. Did you notice the Gina
clone? No.
So when they start the episode,they follow a person in a bunny
(07:40):
suit
Sarah (07:41):
Mhmm.
Mark (07:42):
With a ponytail Mhmm. Towards the crime scene.
Sarah (07:46):
That's not Gina?
Mark (07:47):
That's not Gina.
Sarah (07:48):
Oh. I just thought it
Mark (07:50):
was is already there. Oh. Why they do that?
Sarah (07:54):
Does she have a sidekick?
Mark (07:55):
I don't know.
Sarah (07:56):
Who's a clone?
Mark (07:57):
Maybe she's part of Rabbit. I
Sarah (08:00):
think she means Rabbit. Russian abandoned brides in
district. What is It could havejust been rab. Yep. What would
the IT stand for if it wasrabbit?
In transit.
Mark (08:16):
I don't know what and, like, okay. I'm an abandoned
Russian bride and I see Chalmerswalk into the bar. I'm like,
hey.
Sarah (08:25):
I'm not abandoned anymore. I'm not
Mark (08:27):
abandoned anymore.
Sarah (08:28):
Hello, big boy. Want some borscht? Yeah. So Brad
Brunnheimer, the world spoofingchampion, newly crowned.
Mark (08:37):
First of all, that man is not from Massachusetts. I lived
with an individual fromMassachusetts. She may have been
a girlfriend.
Sarah (08:46):
He doesn't say things like, I put my khakis in my car.
Mark (08:50):
And that person is no person from Massachusetts.
Sarah (08:54):
He could be a cultured person from Massachusetts. I
have talked to people who livein Massachusetts who don't sound
like the roughest Bostonians. Idon't know.
Mark (09:03):
Okay.
Sarah (09:03):
So the the spoofing event has been held at The Snake And
Tiger, and Frodo, because healways ends up in the middle of
everything, has managed toattend.
Mark (09:12):
I have a question. Yes. Why do they stop and help Frodo?
Sarah (09:17):
Because they're good guys.
Mark (09:19):
One of them's a killer.
Sarah (09:20):
Not yet.
Mark (09:21):
Well, he will soon be, and the other two are vandals.
Sarah (09:25):
They're just having fun.
Mark (09:26):
Oh, okay. They're just boys being boys.
Sarah (09:28):
One of them is lying about his identity. Yes. But but
Tommy's a good guy.
Mark (09:35):
I guess.
Sarah (09:35):
He seems like a nice guy.
Mark (09:37):
I guess.
Sarah (09:38):
And Frodo is like a lost puppy that people wanna help, so
they help him. And then they'relike, hey. Wanna go to this
thing at The Snake And Tiger?Because, you know, that's the
only place events can be held inBrokenwood.
Mark (09:50):
I have a note here because what happens is we don't know
Frodo gets picked up by themyet. And Chalmers and Sims find
the graffiti. And my note is,don't they have cameras on this
stuff?
Sarah (10:08):
Yeah. But apparently, Pablo can throw a mud ball.
Mark (10:13):
Speaking of Pablo and Dane. That's his name. Right?
Sarah (10:18):
Tane.
Mark (10:18):
Tane. Sorry. Speaking of Pablo
Sarah (10:20):
and There's another square for your bingo card. Mark
gets a name wrong.
Mark (10:24):
Oh, Speaking
Sarah (10:25):
of, Tane. Uh-huh.
Mark (10:28):
I spent an enormous amount of time on that ticket stub.
Sarah (10:34):
Oh for the blacks game?
Mark (10:35):
Yes. So the All Blacks are the national rugby team of New
Zealand.
Sarah (10:41):
Mhmm.
Mark (10:41):
They play at Eden Park. It's a stadium. The section on
the ticket is two fourteen andthe date is sometime in November
for an exhibition game againstThe United States.
Sarah (10:55):
Okay.
Mark (10:56):
This never happened.
Sarah (10:58):
Okay.
Mark (10:59):
It has never happened. There is no section two fourteen
in the stadium.
Sarah (11:05):
It's a believable looking ticket, though.
Mark (11:07):
It's a believable looking ticket
Sarah (11:08):
If people had paper tickets anymore.
Mark (11:10):
Which is I wanted to look up how much that ticket would
cost. You wanted to know
Sarah (11:15):
if Brad had a good seat?
Mark (11:16):
Yeah. And he would have there are two hundred
secondtions that are on in theequivalent of end zones.
Sarah (11:24):
Mhmm.
Mark (11:25):
But there's not a two fourteen. Okay. So he would be
sitting as close to the field asyou could get.
Sarah (11:32):
Oh. So
Mark (11:32):
it's a good seat. It's a very good seat. But, yeah, the
all backs have not played TheUnited States in an exhibition
game at Eden Park. I checked.The last time
Sarah (11:45):
they played that took you a while.
Mark (11:47):
They played the USA Eagles, which I apparently are
the the American national rugbyteam, was in 2014 in Chicago.
Sarah (11:58):
I didn't know there was a professional rugby team that
represented The United States. Iknew there was Olympics and
university teams.
Mark (12:05):
Yeah.
Sarah (12:06):
So this event is a spoofing championship.
Mark (12:10):
Yes. And Frodo does a textbook excellent job of
explaining spoofing. Now we needto get something straight about
spoofing. At its core, it ismisogynistic. Understatement.
At its core, it is elitist and apoint of privilege. Yeah. It's
(12:34):
got special jackets.
Sarah (12:36):
Yeah. And they look just like that.
Mark (12:38):
And at its core, it is worse in reality than they
portrayed in the show.
Sarah (12:44):
Yeah. For one thing, they make it look like a lot more fun
on the show. Do a YouTube searchand and and watch a video about
an actual spoofing tournament.
Mark (12:54):
I will put the World Poofers Championship video Wow.
In the show notes.
Sarah (13:01):
It is
Mark (13:02):
so draw Along with their hall of champions on their
website that looks like it wascreated in 1994.
Sarah (13:09):
You know what they need? Pablo.
Mark (13:12):
Pablo needs If to
Sarah (13:13):
Picante actually played, then it would be a lot more fun.
Mark (13:17):
So the first time I went to England in '94, you you
you're flying into Heathrow andyou look out the window and
you're like, wow. They actuallydrive on the wrong side of the
road. Mhmm. Like, until youactually see it yourself, you
don't fully comprehend. Yeah.
They wear uglier coats in reallife than the coats they have
(13:41):
here.
Sarah (13:42):
I'm kind of surprised how much, like, Quentin and Tane and
Pablo wear the jackets. Yeah.Like, when you wear that jacket
during the event, I get, but whywould you wear it outside the
event?
Mark (13:54):
Frodo actually had some decent clothes that fit him too.
Sarah (13:57):
And then he puts on Brad's giant jacket.
Mark (14:00):
Yeah.
Sarah (14:01):
He looks like he's got two black eyes. Like, looks
tired.
Mark (14:03):
He does. He looks a little tired.
Sarah (14:05):
So spoofing is real Yes. Is the point. If you've never
heard of it before, it is real.
Mark (14:11):
So a quick rundown of the game. Each player has three
coins. You put you choose anumber between zero and three.
You hold it in your hand insecret. Everybody guesses how
many total coins there are, andthen you expose your coin.
Sarah (14:25):
And they play with four or five people. At a time.
Right? So it's between 15 ifyou've got five people. Yes.
And whoever gets the numberright or is closest Gets a
point. Gets a point.
Mark (14:41):
And whoever And the furthest away gets a negative
point.
Sarah (14:44):
Yeah. But if you go to the world spoofers site
Mark (14:51):
Yes. Under
Sarah (14:51):
resources. They have, of course, like darts and bowling
and other games, they've gotslang, the lingo that they use.
So it's almost like cockneyrhyming slangs.
Mark (15:03):
They're called calls.
Sarah (15:04):
Calls. So when you announce how many coins you
think everybody has total, theydon't just say 9, right? They've
got slang for it. Yes. And boy,if you didn't know how sexist,
racist, sort of gross Yeah.
Is. When you see this list, atbest, they are awfully proud of
(15:29):
how funny they think they are.And at worst, they are sexist
and racist.
Mark (15:33):
I was like, this is in print on your website.
Sarah (15:37):
A public website Yes. Where everyone can see. Some of
them are not so bad. Yes. So forexample, 13 is baker's.
Mark (15:48):
Yeah. For baker's dozen.
Sarah (15:49):
Right. If they're guessing that the total number
of coins is seven, they say it'sa Jimmy Bond. Right? Double 0
seven. Yeah.
But then there's things like, ifyou think the total is five, you
say Titanic. Why? We'll give theaudience two seconds to guess.
Because the Titanic sank. It'scinco.
(16:10):
Oh. And cinco is five inSpanish. That's one of those,
you're clever. You think you'refunny, don't you? But those are
like the least offensive.
Yeah. I'll give you one exampleof offensive that isn't nearly
the most offensive, One of thecalls is German date.
Mark (16:28):
Yes.
Sarah (16:29):
Do you want to guess what that is? Seven? No. It's nine
because if you take a Germangirl out, that's what you're
gonna hear most of. Nine.
Nine, which is no in German.
Mark (16:40):
Wow. Oh, it's it's not good stuff.
Sarah (16:43):
No. We think we can do better.
Mark (16:46):
So we've done better.
Sarah (16:48):
So so before we dive into the actual case, we're gonna do
some spoofing Yeah. Which is nota fun thing to listen to except
we've come up with our owncalls.
Mark (16:58):
And my calls are on a theme.
Sarah (17:02):
And we're gonna try to guess what the other person's
call means.
Mark (17:05):
As well as how many coins that are in their hand. Right.
Sarah (17:08):
So we each have three coins.
Mark (17:10):
Okay. Here are
Sarah (17:12):
the coins. Yeah. Okay. Are you ready? Yep.
Put your hand out. You have tolook at how many coins you I
have to cover how many coins Idon't have in my hand.
Mark (17:21):
Okay. Guess. I'm gonna say a leaky boat.
Sarah (17:26):
I'm gonna say Kino.
Mark (17:28):
Oh. Kino. Isn't that a game based on, like, fours? I
mean, is that why you say Kino?
Sarah (17:35):
No. I'm gonna guess yours first.
Mark (17:37):
Okay.
Sarah (17:37):
I think yours is five. Okay. Because a leaky boat
sinks. Cinco.
Mark (17:41):
Nope. Okay. What is it? It's six. Why?
Because it's six months in aleaky boat by New Zealand's own
split ends. I'll give you
Sarah (17:51):
a hint on Keno. It's people, not the game.
Mark (17:54):
Corozano Keno? Core four.
Sarah (17:57):
No. It's two for the Kino brothers, the twins on Antiques
Roadshow.
Mark (18:00):
Oh. So Sarah has one, and I have Three. Three.
Sarah (18:06):
So the answer is actually four. Neither of us got it
right.
Mark (18:08):
Nope. So nobody got any points.
Sarah (18:11):
No. Leaky boat. Mine was a nerd call, keynote, brothers.
Mark (18:18):
Okay.
Sarah (18:19):
Okay. Ready? Yep. I'm gonna guess bug bite.
Mark (18:25):
I'm gonna guess lonely. Lonely? Lonely. Bug bite,
mosquito, toe, two, two.
Sarah (18:33):
No. Oh. You're guessing one because one is the loneliest
number. Yes. You wanna you wannaguess again what bug bite might
mean?
Mark (18:41):
Bug bite. No. I don't know.
Sarah (18:43):
What are bug bites? Itchy. Itchy. Itchy is one in
Japanese. Oh.
Itchy ni sanshi go.
Mark (18:51):
So one. Yes. So we both bet one.
Sarah (18:54):
Yeah. And it's three.
Mark (18:58):
Boy, we suck at this game. So the score remains at zero.
Sarah (19:02):
Mhmm. One more time. Okay. What's your guess? Rings.
Power rangers. Four. No. Three?No.
Isn't there three rings?
Mark (19:14):
There there might be three rings, but In Lord
Sarah (19:16):
of the Rings?
Mark (19:17):
Yeah. But No. There's more than that. Mine are all song.
Sarah (19:20):
I don't know. What's rings mean?
Mark (19:23):
Five golden rings.
Sarah (19:25):
Five. Okay. What do you think Power Rangers means?
Mark (19:28):
Five, because there's five Power Rangers.
Sarah (19:31):
It is five, but that's not the reason why. It's because
it's go go Power Rangers, and gois five in Japanese. I gave you
that one. You have that. I gaveyou the clue.
I have two coins.
Mark (19:45):
I have two. So We were both wrong. Both wrong again.
Wow.
Sarah (19:52):
My other calls were for zero, it was Uranus. I think
that one's self explanatory.
Mark (20:01):
I guess so.
Sarah (20:05):
And then for three, I had threat. Okay. Triple threat.
Yeah. Four is for homage.
Mark (20:11):
Four homage. Quattro homage. Quattro homage.
Sarah (20:14):
You'll like six. Six is Molson for a six pack.
Mark (20:18):
Six pack.
Sarah (20:18):
Yeah. What were your other ones?
Mark (20:21):
For Zero, I had ride because in Smashing Pumpkins,
Zero, remember he goes, youwanna go for a ride?
Sarah (20:30):
I never would have guessed that ever ever ever.
Mark (20:33):
One is the lonely. Two is hearts.
Sarah (20:37):
Two of hearts. Two hearts that speak as one.
Mark (20:39):
Two hearts
Sarah (20:39):
I hate that song so much.
Mark (20:40):
Two hearts is beat as one by U2, not the the silly
Sarah (20:45):
Two of hearts.
Mark (20:46):
Not that song. Okay. Three is the big for the big three
killed my baby by the whitestripes. Okay. Four is friend.
I don't know. Because friend isa four letter word by cake.
Okay. Five golden rings and thensix is six months in the leaky
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boat by split ends.
Sarah (21:08):
Maybe there's somebody listening who would have guessed
yours, but I doubt it.
Mark (21:13):
Not sexist or racist. No. No. I think we passed the brief.
Sarah (21:20):
I mean, guys, they're really bad. If you wanna know
how bad they are, go look. Yeah.We'll include the link to the
world spoofers championchampion's website,
worldspoofers.com.
Mark (21:32):
And like, dude Wow. Dudes Put
Sarah (21:34):
on your don't be offended mans.
Mark (21:36):
Dudes in dude town. It's fully dude town.
Sarah (21:40):
It's fully dude town at the event at The Snake And
Tiger. Wait. How does a gameabout guessing coins become
something where you need hornedhelmets and swords? Like, how
does it devolve into that?
Mark (21:54):
I I don't know. I do not know.
Sarah (21:57):
But it does. Ray says spoofing is aspirational. So
aspirational's in there, butTrudy doesn't say anything about
not being a narc. Nope.Otherwise, we'd have that's a
bingo card right
Mark (22:09):
there. Yeah. That's a bingo. What happened is there
was a spoofing tournament.
Sarah (22:15):
Mhmm.
Mark (22:15):
This American showed up early to take advantage of these
hicks out in the bush by talkingto a local jeweler.
Sarah (22:25):
Because Brad, the victim, is a shyster, right?
Mark (22:28):
Yeah. And a magician.
Sarah (22:30):
Yeah. He's a con artist. Yes. And he's come to rip them
off because he knows in the lastround, are going to be great big
bets that happen. And he goes toCarla, the jeweler, to get a
trick coin made Yes.
That he can slide apart andtogether to represent one coin
or two Yes. To win and get themoney and split the money with
(22:51):
her.
Mark (22:51):
So he can change his number from 2 to 3 Mhmm. From 1
to 2 Right. Easily.
Sarah (22:57):
Yeah. Yeah. And he gets found out. Yes. And he gets
impaled by the little god oflove
Mark (23:04):
Yes.
Sarah (23:05):
In the back of his head.
Mark (23:07):
This at least at least this episode until the point
they find the coin in his mouthare legitimate in saying it's an
accident.
Sarah (23:18):
It could very well be an accident because like I said,
this is a really poorly madefountain. Yes. It is a death
waiting to happen. I'm surprisedthere aren't toddlers just
hanging off of it like a shishkebab.
Mark (23:28):
I totally don't usually, have a problem with, you know,
like, we found him with an axehalfway through his neck.
Sarah (23:35):
It could be an accident.
Mark (23:36):
Suicide possibly.
Sarah (23:38):
Maybe he was spinning it like a baton. No. It got stuck
in his neck.
Mark (23:43):
This is legitimately could be an accident.
Sarah (23:47):
But it wasn't.
Mark (23:47):
No. What it was was
Sarah (23:49):
Remember, spoiler podcast. Stop right now if you
don't wanna know who did it.Spoiler. Spoiler.
Mark (23:56):
Football player. And I know the New Zealand people are
like, he's a rugby player.
Sarah (24:00):
Yes.
Mark (24:01):
Football player, Welsh, the fantastic artist. Pablo. And
Richie Rich.
Sarah (24:06):
Mhmm. Quentin.
Mark (24:07):
Conway Twitty. That hat. Oh.
Sarah (24:10):
I think he totally pulls that hat off.
Mark (24:12):
I'd want to pull that hat off him.
Sarah (24:15):
He's handsome.
Mark (24:16):
It's way too big.
Sarah (24:17):
It works for him.
Mark (24:18):
No. It doesn't.
Sarah (24:19):
When Chalmers has it on, it works for him too.
Mark (24:21):
Works better on Chalmers.
Sarah (24:23):
When he tips his hat hat up in the back of the car, he
was like, Chalmers is lookinggood.
Mark (24:28):
While Ginger Welsh and the football player are vandalizing
the police station, choose adifferent place to vandalize.
Sarah (24:37):
I love that Pablo gets on Tane's shoulders to pain because
he's so wee and angry. RichieAnd he just happens to carry
spray paint around with him allthe time.
Mark (24:48):
Richie Rich decides to go back to confront the
Sarah (24:52):
Brad. Brad. Because he thinks he's cheated. He thinks
he's cheated. Now Clinton hasall the money in the world.
He's extremely wealthy, but
Mark (25:00):
But he can't buy winning. Sure you could, dude.
Sarah (25:02):
Well, I mean you
could, but you but you wouldn't have really won.
Mark (25:07):
Anyway, he goes back and kills him. Yeah. Because he's
meeting his accomplice who wasdressed as a man.
Sarah (25:14):
Brad is meeting his accomplice, Carla, the jeweler,
who's now John Ruby, who isclearly not a man. No. It's it's
bad makeup.
Mark (25:24):
It's bad to makeup. It's bad on the mannequin.
Sarah (25:28):
Yeah. When you borrow a beard from a mannequin in your
shop and slap it on your face,it's not gonna go well. No. It'd
be all dusty and stuff. Oh.
And she's not she's a veryfeminine looking woman. So
that's what happens.
Mark (25:44):
Right? He goes back and he kills him semi accidentally.
Sarah (25:49):
Well, when he picks him off the spike and slams him back
on it, it's not an
Mark (25:54):
accident Not an accident anymore.
Sarah (25:57):
Because Brad's standing there in the park with a paper
bag full of cash waiting forCarla so they can share the
money, and Quentin finds himthere.
Mark (26:05):
And the thing that I hate about Quentin other than his
gigantic hat that does not fithim is that he then takes the
money.
Sarah (26:14):
Yeah. Which he didn't need to do.
Mark (26:15):
He did not need to do.
Sarah (26:16):
Because he doesn't need the money.
Mark (26:18):
And he brags to to Sims that he does that $25,000 isn't
a lot to him.
Sarah (26:24):
Right. Because he's a tire magnate. He's a tire
magnate. Bingo. Just repeatedsomething
Mark (26:31):
So I the tire commercial that the football player does.
Sarah (26:37):
He just gave me a look, guys. Tire commercial used.
Mark (26:43):
Is it looks like it's filmed in an actual stadium.
Sarah (26:48):
It's a it's a good looking tire commercial.
Mark (26:50):
The phone number and the website on the end of the
commercial are nonexistent.
Sarah (26:55):
I'm glad you checked. Did you call the number?
Mark (26:58):
I did not call
Sarah (26:58):
the number. You just looked it up.
Mark (27:00):
I'm sure.
Sarah (27:00):
Okay.
Mark (27:01):
The the website does not work. But they they're famous
for having all black tires.Yeah. And that is a total goof
on the all blacks and how peoplelike
Sarah (27:15):
What what are tires usually? I mean, I know there's
white wall tires, but nobodymakes those anymore.
Mark (27:19):
No.
Sarah (27:20):
So all tires are all black typically, except for
maybe the brand name. And eventhat's usually just raised
letters.
Mark (27:29):
So the biggest problem I have with the episode is things
like, if they hadn't picked upFrodo, would this have happened?
Sarah (27:37):
What's Frodo got to do with it?
Mark (27:39):
Maybe. Yeah.
Sarah (27:40):
I think it still happens.
Mark (27:41):
I think the best part of Frodo is all of these silly men
constantly say this is a game ofskill. Yeah. Especially the
sims. Yeah. Frodo has neverspoofed in his life.
No. And he places fourth in thetournament.
Sarah (28:00):
But it's a game of skill, obviously. Mean, And if Brad and
Carla had decided to rendezvousafter the game at her jewelry
shop,
Mark (28:13):
none of None of this this would happen.
Sarah (28:15):
No. Well, I mean, Quentin may have still killed Brad, but
he would have had to look forhim and, I don't know, push him
out of the plane on the way tothe rugby match or something.
Maybe. It would not have workedout this way anyway.
Mark (28:29):
We see a reappearance of the hotel, the same bar, the
same airplane that was in theearlier airplane episode. All
those things are the same.
Sarah (28:41):
I was glad to see Alden Coombs again. Yes. He of the
steampunk hot air balloon. Yes.I was like, where do I know that
guy from?
Yep. I know he's been in anotherepisode and then I saw his
mustache. Was like, steampunk.
Mark (28:56):
But the ballooning job is is not going well.
Sarah (29:01):
Oh, no. It's in receivership.
Mark (29:03):
It's in receivership.
Sarah (29:04):
He's broke.
Mark (29:05):
His his lifelong dream is is not doing well. He's living
in a trailer.
Sarah (29:11):
We've okay. So Chalmers goes to Carla's he goes to
Carla's jewelry shop. The firsttime, she runs away and isn't
there. Yes. Suss.
Right?
Mark (29:23):
The second time, he surprises her, and that's why he
she's there.
Sarah (29:28):
But the first time she doesn't drive off, she hides. In
a yellow shirt. In a yellowdress behind a trellis that you
can see through. She's the worsthider. She's just standing there
in a bright yellow dress.
Don't see me. Don't see me.
Mark (29:46):
She's bad at disguise and bad at hiding.
Sarah (29:48):
He doesn't see her, so I guess it works. I don't know.
Mark (29:52):
But she's gonna use her half of the money, which amounts
to 12,000 u New Zealand dollars.
Sarah (29:58):
To bail out her business?
Mark (29:59):
To bail out her business. Okay. Now he has flown all the
way to New Zealand. Yeah. He'snot two k right away.
Sarah (30:08):
At least. He's not even covering his costs. I'm sorry.
He's not.
Mark (30:11):
Stay in a week in the hotel. That's another 2 k
minimum. Yep. Okay.
Sarah (30:18):
Are you basing the total winnings on how much Quentin
said he lost?
Mark (30:22):
Well, I I think she says there's 25 k in the bag or
something.
Sarah (30:26):
Okay. Because a lot of other people were putting down
bets too. If Quentin lost 25 k,there were other bets too.
Mark (30:31):
I I guess.
Sarah (30:32):
But still, it can't I mean, it's it's half of it, so
it can't be much. And 20 k most.I mean, that's not a that's not
a lot to bail out of business.
Mark (30:41):
And ginger pretend man
Sarah (30:43):
says Pablo Picante.
Mark (30:45):
No. No. Sorry. Not Pablo Picante. Oh.
I mean, the woman who pretendsto be a man.
Sarah (30:50):
Carla.
Mark (30:51):
Carla. She puts in $8. They would have looked at that.
It's not oh oh, it's just aroll. It must be $8.
People count things.
Sarah (31:00):
Not rich people.
Mark (31:01):
Oh, okay.
Sarah (31:03):
No. Okay. Not rich people. Money's whatever. She
could she could draw a a bigbill and just put it on a stack
of paper and they would go, oh,that's a
Mark (31:12):
roll of money. And then we have the writers coming up with
the most brilliant idea, whichwas all of the people who don't
matter got on a charter bus andwent back
Sarah (31:23):
to wealth. In
their horned helmets with their swords.
Mark (31:29):
Because there was, like, 40 people in that room.
Sarah (31:32):
And their bad porky pigeon pizza. Yeah. They just
took off. Only the realcharacters suck around. When Ray
comes in and he's like, hey.
There's no gambling. I don'thave a license for that. Pablo's
like, bring on the police. Killall the pugs.
He
(31:53):
is If you're gonna pretend to be Spanish, he's
studying a
Mark (31:57):
little bit. Yes. Hey. Isn't that the guy from the
steampunk episode?
Sarah (32:04):
So When when they question because so Ray's got
the black eye. Right? Because hetried to run away from Pablo and
ran into a door jam. He's noteven lying. He did run into a
door.
When they question him, Sims islike, isn't it awfully sexist?
And he's like, I'm not sexist.Both of my ex wives were women.
And Trudy's like, oh my god. GetI
Mark (32:26):
would like to tell you that my ex wife is also a
Sarah (32:29):
woman. Congratulations. You're not sexist.
I need to do a leak.
Mark (32:35):
Gina is inviting people to an event.
Sarah (32:39):
Rabid. Rabid. The Russian abandoned brides in district
fundraiser. I guess becausemoney heals a broken heart.
Mark (32:47):
Does she mean rabbit?
Sarah (32:50):
The flyer is pretty good, though.
Mark (32:52):
It is a pretty good flyer.
Sarah (32:54):
It's pretty well designed.
Mark (32:55):
Yep. And we find out that he had a coin in his mouth, and
it's definitely murder at thatpoint in time.
Sarah (33:03):
All the while, Sims, a detective, is trying to figure
out whether Mike has a newrelationship. She's just nosy.
Mark (33:12):
Well, she's nosy and her her hypocrisy is put on display
here. Yes. Because Chalmers asksalmost word for word the same
question she asked Mike.
Sarah (33:25):
About her and Quentin?
Mark (33:26):
Yeah. And definitely puts it out there that you're being a
bit hypocritical. And what Ilove is Kristen does not pay any
attention to that.
Sarah (33:37):
No. Not at all.
Mark (33:39):
No. Not a stitch.
Sarah (33:41):
Not at all. It reminds me of one of my favorite characters
in a book. She's an old lady,and she just loves to shove
through big crowds and go, nosyperson coming through. Excuse
me, I'm nosy. I have to getthrough here.
People just get out of her way.But Mike is is texting, right,
(34:02):
with Beth Yes. His new lady.
Mark (34:04):
And he lets Chalmers look because he doesn't know how to
do an emoji.
Sarah (34:09):
That kills Kristen.
Mark (34:11):
He purposely asked Chalmers, first of all. Second
of all Chalmers know how to doan emoji.
Sarah (34:19):
He's holding the phone in his hand, so it would be obvious
who he was texting. You can'tcompose a text without a two.
And he says, it's my nephew orwhatever. It
Mark (34:30):
just has a number.
Sarah (34:31):
But it's
Mark (34:32):
I looked at the
Sarah (34:33):
whole thing. That they say, just don't just don't use
eggplants. And he goes, I likeeggplants. And I immediately
wrote down, so does reverendGreen. Yes.
And doctor Plummer.
Mark (34:45):
Okay. Let's talk like eggplants. Let's talk about
doctor Plummer or how I like toname him the death magnet.
Sarah (34:53):
Yes. How
Mark (34:56):
many times in this show has Doctor Plummer been like,
I'm tangentially related tothis, but I'm somehow lying or
concealing something. So I lookcompletely sus, but I'm
absolutely innocent.
Sarah (35:11):
Well, least this time it wasn't patient confidentiality.
He was like, well, Carla was oneof my patients. No. No. He's a
horndog.
Yes. He is absolutely preparingto cheat on reverend Green with
John Ruby aka Carla. Comes homedrunk. Fine. He walked.
Okay. He wasn't doing anythingbad at the spoofing event. But
(35:33):
Except wanted
Mark (35:34):
hit on a woman's
Sarah (35:35):
He wanted to make out in the park with a stranger. Bad
reverend plumber.
Mark (35:40):
Who is a woman.
Sarah (35:41):
No eggplant for you. Death magnet. He is awfully
connected to death.
Mark (35:49):
It just makes me feel bad for the rev. Yeah. You know?
Because the rev is like, I'mglad that the rev goes, it's
02:30 in the morning. And youreek.
And you reek. You know? You'renot getting in my bed.
Sarah (36:02):
You need to make a leak.
What do you make out of the way Sims deals with flirting
with Quentin, pushing him awaybecause he's a suspect, totally
good. That's what she should bedoing. But then how she handles
it when she realizes he's nothe's not a good guy.
Mark (36:19):
I liked it except for his hat because I don't like his
hat. He is charismatic, and itis never implied that she is
interested in him for his money.That that is not even a thought.
Sarah (36:35):
When he has the little have dinner with me note in his
hand, it's really sweet.
Mark (36:40):
It's it's very sweet.
Sarah (36:41):
I would have gone out to dinner with somebody who did
that.
Mark (36:44):
He even says I could go to a cheap, uncomfortable place if
you wanted to or something.That's fine too.
Sarah (36:51):
Yeah. Yeah.
Mark (36:52):
So I'm not saying he's not charming But he is a psychopath.
Sarah (36:57):
Manipulative. The fact that he makes Vida pretend that
she can't speak because shedoesn't want to lie, and then
basically bribes all of hisfriends to also pretend she
can't speak, and they go alongwith it without him explaining
why. Poor Yeah. Frodo. She tellshim she's that she's a nun with
(37:22):
a vow of silence who justhappens to also be a chauffeur.
Mark (37:25):
Like,
Sarah (37:25):
have And he's so dumb.
Mark (37:26):
They have to give Frodo at least a decent reason. Welsh is
like, okay. I'm on board.Whatever.
Sarah (37:34):
He knows he's living a lie too. Yeah. So he doesn't
want anybody digging into that.Yeah. At least he gets some free
tires out of it, Frodo does,because Vida does have some
morals and feels bad.
Mark (37:45):
Yeah. But okay. We're not even sure that she's his cousin.
That's what he says.
Sarah (37:51):
I think she is. Otherwise, she wouldn't cover
Mark (37:53):
for it. She's then employed as his cousin. Okay. If
I have $800,000,000 Yeah. Okay?
I have $800,000,000 now. We'reclose to billionaires. Yeah. And
my cousins come to visit, I'mnot gonna ask them to drive
around.
Sarah (38:12):
Right?
Mark (38:15):
Even if they lived in the same town.
Sarah (38:17):
You can be my chauffeur.
Mark (38:18):
If I had $800,000,000 and my cousins lived in town, I
would even go, not not secondcousins, but first cousins.
Right? Mhmm. Like my my mom'ssister's kids.
Sarah (38:30):
That's what a cousin is.
Mark (38:31):
Yes. Yes. I would be if they lived in the same town and
I had $800,000,000, your houseand your car are paid.
Sarah (38:38):
Maybe she likes being a chauffeur. Maybe it's what she's
always wanted to do.
Mark (38:42):
Maybe. But he treats her like crap. So
Sarah (38:45):
I don't know. I think he's nice to her. Is he mean to
her other than making her liebecause he killed somebody?
Mark (38:50):
You know? That was insane. Lie, And she says, what have you
done? Yeah. Like, she recognizesright away.
Sarah (38:59):
At least she doesn't say, you did it again.
Mark (39:03):
At the same phone.
Sarah (39:06):
Why do you hate Brad so much? The last one was a Brad.
This is cultural harassment. Itis kind of. When it says kill
Oh, it's bugs.
When it says kill all the bugs,oh, it must be Pablo because he
can't can't spell pigs.
Mark (39:23):
I love that they did this. I don't know if you noticed
this. So okay. Let's go behindthe scenes into Greenland a
little bit. Ladies andgentlemen, the the set that is
the interior of the cop shop isin no way related to the out
tier outside of that building.
Sarah (39:40):
Right. They're two
Mark (39:41):
separate locations.
Sarah (39:42):
They are
Mark (39:42):
two separate locations. Yeah. The the location of the
cop shop is inside of a bigsoundstage. Right. It's an
interior
Sarah (39:51):
We get it. Set.
Mark (39:53):
Okay? Mhmm. They have painted on the way up the
stairs. You can see out thewindows the letters written on
the outside of the building.Nice.
Continuity. It's continuity.They did a really good job. That
is a good job.
Sarah (40:07):
Yep. Why did Pablo write kill all the pugs, I smell
bacon, when he is Australian?
Mark (40:14):
Well, okay. I think he's
Sarah (40:17):
the one who's culturally misappropriating things.
Mark (40:20):
Oh, I think so too.
Sarah (40:22):
He's the racist one because he's insinuating that
people who are Spanish wouldn'tknow pigs from pugs.
Mark (40:29):
And he's writing like he talks.
Sarah (40:32):
Yes. Yes. Now I wish he'd come back in another episode,
though. I like him so much.
Mark (40:37):
He was inebriated. Okay?
Sarah (40:40):
Yes.
Mark (40:41):
And we've all done silly things when inebriated. Now,
I've never vandalized a policestation,
Sarah (40:48):
but He does have to scrub it off while everybody watches.
Yes. He gets his comeuppance.And I don't think Tane knows
that he's really Dwayne. I thinkhe's fooled them too.
Mark (41:00):
Oh, he's totally fooled them.
Sarah (41:02):
Because Tane looks at him like, you piece of trash.
Mark (41:05):
Yeah. Tani does a good bit of acting there Mhmm. Where he's
like, wait a minute.
Sarah (41:12):
Though, I think he'll continue to be his friend and
let him do
Mark (41:15):
it. Maybe.
Sarah (41:16):
Because it's his thing. He's like Banksy, you know? He's
He's he's playing a part. It'shis his character that he plays
as an artist.
Mark (41:23):
That extended art scene. They they do such a good job of
it's just long enough to befunny, but not too long.
Sarah (41:34):
Yeah. I love it. And I think the impression I get
because of who he's hanging outwith is that he's managed to
create some kind of mystiquearound his art. So that black
canvas might actually bevaluable.
Mark (41:48):
Yes.
Sarah (41:48):
If people don't know that he's really Duane.
Mark (41:50):
Yes. This is how he chooses a color.
Sarah (41:54):
And then he collapses out love of his
Mark (41:56):
face. Kills the breeze.
Sarah (41:58):
Yeah. You
Mark (42:01):
asked me about Sims and when she finds out The way she
Sarah (42:05):
takes on Quinn.
Mark (42:06):
That he's the killer. I think it's great. I think it's
great that Mike is like, how doyou wanna do this? Yeah. And
she's like, let's
Sarah (42:14):
Fire fire with fire. He says, I can't wait to watch.
Mark (42:17):
So then Chalmers gets to play actor Yeah. And pretend to
leave the station. I think it'sa really good trick. I think so
too.
Sarah (42:26):
Plus, he looks super cool in the back seat.
Mark (42:30):
And so we find out that Vida can
Sarah (42:32):
she talk can can she talk, but she can spill the
beans.
Mark (42:35):
Yeah. She can spill the beans. And I think it's it's
good that Vida is like, yeah.We're gonna tell you right away.
Sarah (42:43):
Mhmm. Like think that was always her position is that she
wouldn't lie. That's why heasked her to just be quiet, you
know, because she was gonna behonest. Maybe she is a nun.
Mark (42:53):
Maybe. Who does Sims offer the stale ginger nut to?
Sarah (42:59):
I don't know.
Mark (43:00):
It's a cookie. She offers it to somebody. I don't know.
And I'm like, no. Pablo's not astale ginger nut.
He's a full on crazy ginger nut.
Sarah (43:11):
He's not stale. So then we get to the rabbit event.
Mark (43:14):
Yes.
Sarah (43:14):
Is Mike the only thing being raffled off to raise
money?
Mark (43:18):
I guess.
Sarah (43:20):
Sorta. Maybe. They must have had other things they were
raffling off too.
Mark (43:24):
They they must
Sarah (43:26):
be really lame.
Mark (43:27):
It it's a fundraising thing, I guess.
Sarah (43:31):
It's fundraising, not fundraising. They're not raising
any fun. There's like five womenat that table, the Russian
women. Yep. So they're having afundraiser to give money to five
ladies who are sad, I guess.
Mark (43:44):
I guess.
Sarah (43:45):
Because they've been lured there for
Mark (43:46):
no I like to think because friend of the show, Trudy, is
not super in this episode, butshe does make Ray tell the
truth.
Sarah (43:55):
Mhmm.
Mark (43:56):
Right? Because she knows Ray's completely innocent.
Right. So she's like, stopacting suspicious Ray and go
tell them. Yeah.
Okay? I think Trudy rigs thecontest because she knows that
Gina wants to win? No. She knowsthat this is Mike's new friend.
Sarah (44:13):
Oh. But Ray's the one who draw draws.
Mark (44:16):
Yeah. But I think, like She put it in
Sarah (44:19):
his hand and told him to pull it.
Mark (44:20):
Well, no one ever sees the little ticket.
Sarah (44:23):
Oh, that's true. He could say whoever he wants. He could
say her number. It could havebeen any number. Right?
Mark (44:28):
Yes.
Sarah (44:29):
How do you how do you feel about how Gina handles
meeting Beth and realizinggirlfriend.
Mark (44:35):
I love that Sims and Chalmers are like, okay. Here it
comes.
Sarah (44:40):
Yeah. Chalmers is getting ready to get up, and Sims grabs
him and, like, sits him backdown like, no. No. No. Get some
popcorn.
Mark (44:46):
It's it's
Sarah (44:46):
gonna explode. Going anywhere.
Mark (44:48):
Gina's head's gonna explode. Mhmm. I think that Gina
does her best, but it isunexpected.
Sarah (44:55):
Yes.
Mark (44:55):
And she says the thing with the lady with the bear or a
bear with the
Sarah (44:59):
lady. Yes.
Mark (45:00):
And I'm just like, those are the same thing.
Sarah (45:02):
Have a viper tooth. Yes. For luck.
Mark (45:05):
That tooth is way too big, but that snake is way poisonous.
Sarah (45:10):
I don't know if the tooth is too big because it's set in a
big piece of resin or something.The tooth in it is not that big.
Mark (45:17):
Maybe.
Sarah (45:18):
I don't wanna meet that snake.
Mark (45:19):
Oh, that snake is not a good snake.
Sarah (45:21):
I'm glad it lives in Siberia and not here.
Mark (45:24):
It kind of lives all over
Sarah (45:25):
Don't tell me that. Asia. Okay. I'm not going there
anytime soon. I like the wayGina handles it.
It's like she and Beth werecompeting, and Beth didn't know
it. And she's like, you havewon. Yes. I concede.
Mark (45:39):
Yep. And I'm going to go drink vodka with my friends and
not pout.
Sarah (45:42):
Nope. Nope. Though, if we could fast forward to a few
hours later, it might bedifferent.
Mark (45:47):
After a lot of vodka, it could be different.
Sarah (45:49):
Gina might be ax throwing at
Mark (45:50):
a tree of Beth or something. Flags off the entire
country of The United Statessaying, oh, well
Sarah (45:56):
They can't handle
Mark (45:56):
their can't handle their liquor. Well known that they
can't handle their liquor. NowI'm not saying that Americans
are great at handling liquor.Look at Tennessee, Texas, and
Florida.
Sarah (46:08):
Florida, man. That's all you need to know.
Mark (46:10):
But but wow. That just takes 300,000,000 people and
places.
Sarah (46:17):
It's a fun episode.
Mark (46:19):
It is.
Sarah (46:20):
I like Pablo a lot. I like that they introduced us to
something we'd never heard of.Yes. That is a real thing. I'm
not going to go to a spoofingtournament anytime soon.
As a matter of fact, if I see aperson in a jacket like that,
probably a man in a jacket likethat, I'm probably going to go
the other direction. But it's awhole culture that we didn't
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know anything about. And did youyou know, when something's a
spoof, like it's a fake
Mark (46:46):
Yes.
Sarah (46:47):
That the game is first and that term comes from the
game, not the other way around.Know that.
Mark (46:53):
Yeah. I did not know that. Because there is a spoofing
scene in a James Bond movie.Yeah. But, hey, try to look that
up.
Yeah. You get James Bond spoofs.
Sarah (47:04):
Yeah. You have to put in spoofing coin game James Bond.
Mark (47:09):
I still could not see get to the scene.
Sarah (47:11):
Oh, that's how
Mark (47:12):
I found it. Okay. Now, there's one thing that we
haven't dealt with Mhmm. Whichis Chalmers
Sarah (47:17):
You didn't like the hat. We know it.
Mark (47:19):
No. Chalmers and Sims bet and I don't like that Chalmers
tries to get out of it. SoChalmers Sims says that Mike is
with the old friend Mhmm. Whichhe is not No.
Sarah (47:34):
It's not Tanya.
Mark (47:35):
It's not Tanya. And Chalmers says, it isn't. And
then he how has he lost the betthen?
Sarah (47:42):
That's why I don't think he's trying to get out of it.
Okay. She's not able to proveYeah. That Beth is the old
friend. So he hasn't lost.
Okay. But she hasn't won either.Yeah.
Mark (47:52):
So maybe that'll reappear.
Sarah (47:56):
Like the coffee does? She turns her back and Mike and
Chalmers both put their mugsdown like, thank God we don't
have to drink this.
Mark (48:03):
Okay. Instantaneously put their their mugs down. Things we
haven't mentioned that, ThreeCoins in the Fountain is a name
of a film. It's an AudreyHepburn film I believe. And it
is no.
Maggie McNamara stars in
Sarah (48:23):
this film. Bet it's that era.
Mark (48:25):
Yes. It's it's, you know, rich white people in Rome and in
the sixties driving scooters andfalling in love and saying,
ciao. It's Roman holiday.
Sarah (48:36):
Yeah. Ciao. Yes. That is Three Coins in a Fountain. Yes.
Season eight episode four. Wewill be back in two weeks with
season eight episode five.
Mark (48:47):
So that is the September 1. Oh my gosh. The first of Oh,
Sarah (48:53):
I know. It's Labor Day.
Mark (48:54):
Oh, sweet Jesus.
Sarah (48:56):
We'll be back then. Yes. And until then, kill the pugs. I
smell bacon. Bye, maniacs.
Mark (49:03):
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
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Bye, maniacs. Uh-oh. Oh. Okay.
Sarah (49:25):
We'll do that over again.
Mark (49:26):
Bye.
Arriba.
Hey, maniacs.
Mark (00:18):
Hey, mystery maniacs. Mystery maniacs is a comedy
recap podcast dedicated tomystery TV. Each week, we dig
into an episode of a showincluding the murders, the
mayhem, the loonies andeverything else we love. This
week Brokenwood Mysteries. ThreeCoins in a Fountain season eight
episode four.
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Spoofing.
Sarah (00:41):
Spoofing. I'm Mark. I'm Sarah.
Mark (00:44):
If you let your kids spoof at the local pub, they should be
able to listen to the podcast.
Sarah (00:49):
Let them gamble? Yeah. Only on the last round.
Yeah.
Before we dive in, one of the listeners, Beatrice, emailed
us a fantastic mystery maniacsbroken wood
Mark (01:02):
An update card. An updated bingo card because Beatrice had
done the big go card, theoriginal bingo cards.
Sarah (01:08):
Yeah. For Midsummer. Right?
Mark (01:09):
For Midsummer, and these are the updated ones.
Sarah (01:13):
And we're gonna she emailed it to us, but we will
include it in the show notes soeverybody can grab it. I we
shouldn't give away all thesquares. I have to say my
favorite one is Nigel, the copupstairs.
Mark (01:29):
Yep. I I was kind of taken back by Mark forgets someone's
name.
Sarah (01:35):
Bingo. Or Mark repeats something Sarah just said.
Mark (01:43):
My other favorite is Mark repeats something Sarah just
said.
Sarah (01:47):
Aw. You're funny.
Mark (01:50):
So you can play along
Sarah (01:52):
Yeah.
Mark (01:52):
As you listen.
Sarah (01:53):
Or get a chuckle from reading it. It's fun. You,
Beatrice. It's so you, Beatrice.We've been watching Wednesday on
Netflix.
Yes. Well, is kind of a mystery.Yeah. It's just fun. It's like
brain candy.
Mark (02:05):
Well, summer is our fun time shows. So we get our big
brother in. We get our usually,we get a traitor in. And we're
watching Wednesday and Star Trekright now. I
Sarah (02:19):
have needed brain candy lately because my team just put
the finishing touches on acourse that's gonna be rolled
out to 90,000 students.
Mark (02:27):
And we bought a car
Sarah (02:28):
this week. You mean two hours ago?
Mark (02:32):
Yes.
Sarah (02:35):
It's been a day. It's been a week.
Mark (02:37):
Oh, also 40,000 students show up tomorrow.
Sarah (02:41):
Yeah. In the next few days.
Mark (02:43):
Yeah.
Sarah (02:43):
Whoo. Going to get exciting. It always does.
Speaking of exciting, just alittle show note. We're going to
change up our schedule just alittle bit for the next couple
of months.
We're going to we're going torelease a show every other week
just until the November. Yep.Just through September and
October. It's just too crazy. Iwould rather us say that now and
(03:06):
know, and we will definitelyhave a show out every other week
than try to get a show out everyweek and not be able to do it.
Mark (03:11):
We always get busy during this time. Everybody knows this.
We do a full handmade Halloweendisplay that hundreds of people
come to see in our front yard.There will be pictures. Don't
worry, I will post pictures ofall that goodness.
Sarah (03:28):
But it's also school starting and you've
Mark (03:29):
got a Yep. Couple of cons and you
Sarah (03:32):
Anybody out there who's an academic, and I know there's
a lot of you, you understand.
Mark (03:36):
Yes. It is our busy time unless we get midsummer dates
and news.
Sarah (03:43):
We will
Mark (03:44):
Then the schedule might need to change.
Sarah (03:47):
Yeah. We'll do a mini and announce
Mark (03:49):
But usually they've been releasing those in December
Sarah (03:52):
Yeah.
Mark (03:52):
And we've been doing the minis in December and the full
episodes in January.
Sarah (03:57):
Don't forget, you could be submitting a cake to their
contest right now.
Mark (04:05):
Oh, their social media
Sarah (04:08):
They just is so keep rolling out more
Mark (04:09):
and more like,
Sarah (04:12):
really? It's not a bad idea, but did you have to
introduce it like, hello, I havemade a cake. Oh, a cake? I don't
know what a cake is.
Mark (04:22):
These people are actors, and they're not doing
Sarah (04:24):
It's like they're purposefully doing a bad job.
Mark (04:26):
Yeah. Well,
Sarah (04:27):
I We know they're better actors than that.
Mark (04:29):
I I really hope there's no point in an episode where
they're doing like a bakeryepisode.
Sarah (04:35):
You know they're gonna have like a British Bake Off
theme
Mark (04:37):
episode this season.
Sarah (04:39):
They've got to. Are you ready to talk about Three Coins
in a Fountain?
Mark (04:43):
Three Coins in a Fountain released the 07/18/2022,
directed by David Dalla Tour andwritten by Tim Baum. This is
male maleness of mail townwritten all over.
Sarah (04:57):
But it has one of my favorite one episode characters,
and that is Pablo Picante, theWelsh.
Mark (05:04):
Pablo Picante, the Welsh is fantastic.
Sarah (05:09):
I need to take a leak.
The bathroom's down the hall.
No. I need to take a leak. Make a leak. Play leak.
I don't know what he said. Something about a leak.
After saying that Welsh peoplelook like leaks
Mark (05:21):
What what is fantastic is they play Pablo straight
Sarah (05:28):
Yes.
Mark (05:29):
Until the very last moment.
Sarah (05:32):
Yes. And then he's like,
Mark (05:33):
And even Dane is like, really, man?
Sarah (05:37):
Yeah. Come on. But he's just so fantastic. When when
he's in the horned helmet andthe and the sheep's wool, and
he's like, Arriba.
Mark (05:51):
Like, they direct the director must have said I'm
Sarah (05:56):
No. Just No. Bigger. Bigger. Bigger.
Bigger.
Mark (05:59):
Crazier. Bigger.
Sarah (06:02):
So Speaking of him, it's totally we're totally out of
sequence. I'm sorry. He's gotquite the tattoo on his belly.
Mark (06:09):
Yeah. It's a dragon.
Sarah (06:11):
I took a shot of it. It's not quite a dragon. I think it
may be like a winged Medusa.
Mark (06:16):
Oh, okay. I'll put that in the show notes.
Sarah (06:19):
The picture and see what folks think. Wow. He does say
the dragon is his is his spiritanimal. So
Mark (06:26):
But then he says something else.
Sarah (06:27):
I don't know. He's crazy.
Mark (06:31):
He has it out for pugs, though.
Sarah (06:33):
Yeah. Kill the pugs. I smell bacon.
It's a very funny character.
Mark (06:40):
It's definitely back to the funny.
Sarah (06:43):
Yes. We get a dead guy in a fountain. This is the worst
designed fountain ever. It is adeath trap waiting to happen.
I'm amazed that this is thefirst person to impale their own
head on that arrow.
Mark (06:54):
And those joggers are actively running around looking
for a dead body. Of course, theyare.
Sarah (06:59):
Wouldn't you be?
Mark (06:59):
They're like broken wood? We're at the fraught of an
episode. Let's look around forit's a dead body. We finally
found one. Ding.
Ding. Ding. Ding. We got abingo.
Sarah (07:10):
That's what you and I would be doing. You know it.
We'd be looking. Did you checkthat ditch over there? There
could be a dead body in thatditch.
That's a pretty good spot for adead body.
Mark (07:19):
So they do something weird off the top that is never
referenced, but is weird. And Idon't know why they do this. And
only maniacs like me would pickthis up. Did you notice the Gina
clone? No.
So when they start the episode,they follow a person in a bunny
(07:40):
suit
Sarah (07:41):
Mhmm.
Mark (07:42):
With a ponytail Mhmm. Towards the crime scene.
Sarah (07:46):
That's not Gina?
Mark (07:47):
That's not Gina.
Sarah (07:48):
Oh. I just thought it
Mark (07:50):
was is already there. Oh. Why they do that?
Sarah (07:54):
Does she have a sidekick?
Mark (07:55):
I don't know.
Sarah (07:56):
Who's a clone?
Mark (07:57):
Maybe she's part of Rabbit. I
Sarah (08:00):
think she means Rabbit. Russian abandoned brides in
district. What is It could havejust been rab. Yep. What would
the IT stand for if it wasrabbit?
In transit.
Mark (08:16):
I don't know what and, like, okay. I'm an abandoned
Russian bride and I see Chalmerswalk into the bar. I'm like,
hey.
Sarah (08:25):
I'm not abandoned anymore. I'm not
Mark (08:27):
abandoned anymore.
Sarah (08:28):
Hello, big boy. Want some borscht? Yeah. So Brad
Brunnheimer, the world spoofingchampion, newly crowned.
Mark (08:37):
First of all, that man is not from Massachusetts. I lived
with an individual fromMassachusetts. She may have been
a girlfriend.
Sarah (08:46):
He doesn't say things like, I put my khakis in my car.
Mark (08:50):
And that person is no person from Massachusetts.
Sarah (08:54):
He could be a cultured person from Massachusetts. I
have talked to people who livein Massachusetts who don't sound
like the roughest Bostonians. Idon't know.
Mark (09:03):
Okay.
Sarah (09:03):
So the the spoofing event has been held at The Snake And
Tiger, and Frodo, because healways ends up in the middle of
everything, has managed toattend.
Mark (09:12):
I have a question. Yes. Why do they stop and help Frodo?
Sarah (09:17):
Because they're good guys.
Mark (09:19):
One of them's a killer.
Sarah (09:20):
Not yet.
Mark (09:21):
Well, he will soon be, and the other two are vandals.
Sarah (09:25):
They're just having fun.
Mark (09:26):
Oh, okay. They're just boys being boys.
Sarah (09:28):
One of them is lying about his identity. Yes. But but
Tommy's a good guy.
Mark (09:35):
I guess.
Sarah (09:35):
He seems like a nice guy.
Mark (09:37):
I guess.
Sarah (09:38):
And Frodo is like a lost puppy that people wanna help, so
they help him. And then they'relike, hey. Wanna go to this
thing at The Snake And Tiger?Because, you know, that's the
only place events can be held inBrokenwood.
Mark (09:50):
I have a note here because what happens is we don't know
Frodo gets picked up by themyet. And Chalmers and Sims find
the graffiti. And my note is,don't they have cameras on this
stuff?
Sarah (10:08):
Yeah. But apparently, Pablo can throw a mud ball.
Mark (10:13):
Speaking of Pablo and Dane. That's his name. Right?
Sarah (10:18):
Tane.
Mark (10:18):
Tane. Sorry. Speaking of Pablo
Sarah (10:20):
and There's another square for your bingo card. Mark
gets a name wrong.
Mark (10:24):
Oh, Speaking
Sarah (10:25):
of, Tane. Uh-huh.
Mark (10:28):
I spent an enormous amount of time on that ticket stub.
Sarah (10:34):
Oh for the blacks game?
Mark (10:35):
Yes. So the All Blacks are the national rugby team of New
Zealand.
Sarah (10:41):
Mhmm.
Mark (10:41):
They play at Eden Park. It's a stadium. The section on
the ticket is two fourteen andthe date is sometime in November
for an exhibition game againstThe United States.
Sarah (10:55):
Okay.
Mark (10:56):
This never happened.
Sarah (10:58):
Okay.
Mark (10:59):
It has never happened. There is no section two fourteen
in the stadium.
Sarah (11:05):
It's a believable looking ticket, though.
Mark (11:07):
It's a believable looking ticket
Sarah (11:08):
If people had paper tickets anymore.
Mark (11:10):
Which is I wanted to look up how much that ticket would
cost. You wanted to know
Sarah (11:15):
if Brad had a good seat?
Mark (11:16):
Yeah. And he would have there are two hundred
secondtions that are on in theequivalent of end zones.
Sarah (11:24):
Mhmm.
Mark (11:25):
But there's not a two fourteen. Okay. So he would be
sitting as close to the field asyou could get.
Sarah (11:32):
Oh. So
Mark (11:32):
it's a good seat. It's a very good seat. But, yeah, the
all backs have not played TheUnited States in an exhibition
game at Eden Park. I checked.The last time
Sarah (11:45):
they played that took you a while.
Mark (11:47):
They played the USA Eagles, which I apparently are
the the American national rugbyteam, was in 2014 in Chicago.
Sarah (11:58):
I didn't know there was a professional rugby team that
represented The United States. Iknew there was Olympics and
university teams.
Mark (12:05):
Yeah.
Sarah (12:06):
So this event is a spoofing championship.
Mark (12:10):
Yes. And Frodo does a textbook excellent job of
explaining spoofing. Now we needto get something straight about
spoofing. At its core, it ismisogynistic. Understatement.
At its core, it is elitist and apoint of privilege. Yeah. It's
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got special jackets.
Sarah (12:36):
Yeah. And they look just like that.
Mark (12:38):
And at its core, it is worse in reality than they
portrayed in the show.
Sarah (12:44):
Yeah. For one thing, they make it look like a lot more fun
on the show. Do a YouTube searchand and and watch a video about
an actual spoofing tournament.
Mark (12:54):
I will put the World Poofers Championship video Wow.
In the show notes.
Sarah (13:01):
It is
Mark (13:02):
so draw Along with their hall of champions on their
website that looks like it wascreated in 1994.
Sarah (13:09):
You know what they need? Pablo.
Mark (13:12):
Pablo needs If to
Sarah (13:13):
Picante actually played, then it would be a lot more fun.
Mark (13:17):
So the first time I went to England in '94, you you
you're flying into Heathrow andyou look out the window and
you're like, wow. They actuallydrive on the wrong side of the
road. Mhmm. Like, until youactually see it yourself, you
don't fully comprehend. Yeah.
They wear uglier coats in reallife than the coats they have
(13:41):
here.
Sarah (13:42):
I'm kind of surprised how much, like, Quentin and Tane and
Pablo wear the jackets. Yeah.Like, when you wear that jacket
during the event, I get, but whywould you wear it outside the
event?
Mark (13:54):
Frodo actually had some decent clothes that fit him too.
Sarah (13:57):
And then he puts on Brad's giant jacket.
Mark (14:00):
Yeah.
Sarah (14:01):
He looks like he's got two black eyes. Like, looks
tired.
Mark (14:03):
He does. He looks a little tired.
Sarah (14:05):
So spoofing is real Yes. Is the point. If you've never
heard of it before, it is real.
Mark (14:11):
So a quick rundown of the game. Each player has three
coins. You put you choose anumber between zero and three.
You hold it in your hand insecret. Everybody guesses how
many total coins there are, andthen you expose your coin.
Sarah (14:25):
And they play with four or five people. At a time.
Right? So it's between 15 ifyou've got five people. Yes.
And whoever gets the numberright or is closest Gets a
point. Gets a point.
Mark (14:41):
And whoever And the furthest away gets a negative
point.
Sarah (14:44):
Yeah. But if you go to the world spoofers site
Mark (14:51):
Yes. Under
Sarah (14:51):
resources. They have, of course, like darts and bowling
and other games, they've gotslang, the lingo that they use.
So it's almost like cockneyrhyming slangs.
Mark (15:03):
They're called calls.
Sarah (15:04):
Calls. So when you announce how many coins you
think everybody has total, theydon't just say 9, right? They've
got slang for it. Yes. And boy,if you didn't know how sexist,
racist, sort of gross Yeah.
Is. When you see this list, atbest, they are awfully proud of
(15:29):
how funny they think they are.And at worst, they are sexist
and racist.
Mark (15:33):
I was like, this is in print on your website.
Sarah (15:37):
A public website Yes. Where everyone can see. Some of
them are not so bad. Yes. So forexample, 13 is baker's.
Mark (15:48):
Yeah. For baker's dozen.
Sarah (15:49):
Right. If they're guessing that the total number
of coins is seven, they say it'sa Jimmy Bond. Right? Double 0
seven. Yeah.
But then there's things like, ifyou think the total is five, you
say Titanic. Why? We'll give theaudience two seconds to guess.
Because the Titanic sank. It'scinco.
(16:10):
Oh. And cinco is five inSpanish. That's one of those,
you're clever. You think you'refunny, don't you? But those are
like the least offensive.
Yeah. I'll give you one exampleof offensive that isn't nearly
the most offensive, One of thecalls is German date.
Mark (16:28):
Yes.
Sarah (16:29):
Do you want to guess what that is? Seven? No. It's nine
because if you take a Germangirl out, that's what you're
gonna hear most of. Nine.
Nine, which is no in German.
Mark (16:40):
Wow. Oh, it's it's not good stuff.
Sarah (16:43):
No. We think we can do better.
Mark (16:46):
So we've done better.
Sarah (16:48):
So so before we dive into the actual case, we're gonna do
some spoofing Yeah. Which is nota fun thing to listen to except
we've come up with our owncalls.
Mark (16:58):
And my calls are on a theme.
Sarah (17:02):
And we're gonna try to guess what the other person's
call means.
Mark (17:05):
As well as how many coins that are in their hand. Right.
Sarah (17:08):
So we each have three coins.
Mark (17:10):
Okay. Here are
Sarah (17:12):
the coins. Yeah. Okay. Are you ready? Yep.
Put your hand out. You have tolook at how many coins you I
have to cover how many coins Idon't have in my hand.
Mark (17:21):
Okay. Guess. I'm gonna say a leaky boat.
Sarah (17:26):
I'm gonna say Kino.
Mark (17:28):
Oh. Kino. Isn't that a game based on, like, fours? I
mean, is that why you say Kino?
Sarah (17:35):
No. I'm gonna guess yours first.
Mark (17:37):
Okay.
Sarah (17:37):
I think yours is five. Okay. Because a leaky boat
sinks. Cinco.
Mark (17:41):
Nope. Okay. What is it? It's six. Why?
Because it's six months in aleaky boat by New Zealand's own
split ends. I'll give you
Sarah (17:51):
a hint on Keno. It's people, not the game.
Mark (17:54):
Corozano Keno? Core four.
Sarah (17:57):
No. It's two for the Kino brothers, the twins on Antiques
Roadshow.
Mark (18:00):
Oh. So Sarah has one, and I have Three. Three.
Sarah (18:06):
So the answer is actually four. Neither of us got it
right.
Mark (18:08):
Nope. So nobody got any points.
Sarah (18:11):
No. Leaky boat. Mine was a nerd call, keynote, brothers.
Mark (18:18):
Okay.
Sarah (18:19):
Okay. Ready? Yep. I'm gonna guess bug bite.
Mark (18:25):
I'm gonna guess lonely. Lonely? Lonely. Bug bite,
mosquito, toe, two, two.
Sarah (18:33):
No. Oh. You're guessing one because one is the loneliest
number. Yes. You wanna you wannaguess again what bug bite might
mean?
Mark (18:41):
Bug bite. No. I don't know.
Sarah (18:43):
What are bug bites? Itchy. Itchy. Itchy is one in
Japanese. Oh.
Itchy ni sanshi go.
Mark (18:51):
So one. Yes. So we both bet one.
Sarah (18:54):
Yeah. And it's three.
Mark (18:58):
Boy, we suck at this game. So the score remains at zero.
Sarah (19:02):
Mhmm. One more time. Okay. What's your guess? Rings.
Power rangers. Four. No. Three?No.
Isn't there three rings?
Mark (19:14):
There there might be three rings, but In Lord
Sarah (19:16):
of the Rings?
Mark (19:17):
Yeah. But No. There's more than that. Mine are all song.
Sarah (19:20):
I don't know. What's rings mean?
Mark (19:23):
Five golden rings.
Sarah (19:25):
Five. Okay. What do you think Power Rangers means?
Mark (19:28):
Five, because there's five Power Rangers.
Sarah (19:31):
It is five, but that's not the reason why. It's because
it's go go Power Rangers, and gois five in Japanese. I gave you
that one. You have that. I gaveyou the clue.
I have two coins.
Mark (19:45):
I have two. So We were both wrong. Both wrong again.
Wow.
Sarah (19:52):
My other calls were for zero, it was Uranus. I think
that one's self explanatory.
Mark (20:01):
I guess so.
Sarah (20:05):
And then for three, I had threat. Okay. Triple threat.
Yeah. Four is for homage.
Mark (20:11):
Four homage. Quattro homage. Quattro homage.
Sarah (20:14):
You'll like six. Six is Molson for a six pack.
Mark (20:18):
Six pack.
Sarah (20:18):
Yeah. What were your other ones?
Mark (20:21):
For Zero, I had ride because in Smashing Pumpkins,
Zero, remember he goes, youwanna go for a ride?
Sarah (20:30):
I never would have guessed that ever ever ever.
Mark (20:33):
One is the lonely. Two is hearts.
Sarah (20:37):
Two of hearts. Two hearts that speak as one.
Mark (20:39):
Two hearts
Sarah (20:39):
I hate that song so much.
Mark (20:40):
Two hearts is beat as one by U2, not the the silly
Sarah (20:45):
Two of hearts.
Mark (20:46):
Not that song. Okay. Three is the big for the big three
killed my baby by the whitestripes. Okay. Four is friend.
I don't know. Because friend isa four letter word by cake.
Okay. Five golden rings and thensix is six months in the leaky
(21:07):
boat by split ends.
Sarah (21:08):
Maybe there's somebody listening who would have guessed
yours, but I doubt it.
Mark (21:13):
Not sexist or racist. No. No. I think we passed the brief.
Sarah (21:20):
I mean, guys, they're really bad. If you wanna know
how bad they are, go look. Yeah.We'll include the link to the
world spoofers championchampion's website,
worldspoofers.com.
Mark (21:32):
And like, dude Wow. Dudes Put
Sarah (21:34):
on your don't be offended mans.
Mark (21:36):
Dudes in dude town. It's fully dude town.
Sarah (21:40):
It's fully dude town at the event at The Snake And
Tiger. Wait. How does a gameabout guessing coins become
something where you need hornedhelmets and swords? Like, how
does it devolve into that?
Mark (21:54):
I I don't know. I do not know.
Sarah (21:57):
But it does. Ray says spoofing is aspirational. So
aspirational's in there, butTrudy doesn't say anything about
not being a narc. Nope.Otherwise, we'd have that's a
bingo card right
Mark (22:09):
there. Yeah. That's a bingo. What happened is there
was a spoofing tournament.
Sarah (22:15):
Mhmm.
Mark (22:15):
This American showed up early to take advantage of these
hicks out in the bush by talkingto a local jeweler.
Sarah (22:25):
Because Brad, the victim, is a shyster, right?
Mark (22:28):
Yeah. And a magician.
Sarah (22:30):
Yeah. He's a con artist. Yes. And he's come to rip them
off because he knows in the lastround, are going to be great big
bets that happen. And he goes toCarla, the jeweler, to get a
trick coin made Yes.
That he can slide apart andtogether to represent one coin
or two Yes. To win and get themoney and split the money with
(22:51):
her.
Mark (22:51):
So he can change his number from 2 to 3 Mhmm. From 1
to 2 Right. Easily.
Sarah (22:57):
Yeah. Yeah. And he gets found out. Yes. And he gets
impaled by the little god oflove
Mark (23:04):
Yes.
Sarah (23:05):
In the back of his head.
Mark (23:07):
This at least at least this episode until the point
they find the coin in his mouthare legitimate in saying it's an
accident.
Sarah (23:18):
It could very well be an accident because like I said,
this is a really poorly madefountain. Yes. It is a death
waiting to happen. I'm surprisedthere aren't toddlers just
hanging off of it like a shishkebab.
Mark (23:28):
I totally don't usually, have a problem with, you know,
like, we found him with an axehalfway through his neck.
Sarah (23:35):
It could be an accident.
Mark (23:36):
Suicide possibly.
Sarah (23:38):
Maybe he was spinning it like a baton. No. It got stuck
in his neck.
Mark (23:43):
This is legitimately could be an accident.
Sarah (23:47):
But it wasn't.
Mark (23:47):
No. What it was was
Sarah (23:49):
Remember, spoiler podcast. Stop right now if you
don't wanna know who did it.Spoiler. Spoiler.
Mark (23:56):
Football player. And I know the New Zealand people are
like, he's a rugby player.
Sarah (24:00):
Yes.
Mark (24:01):
Football player, Welsh, the fantastic artist. Pablo. And
Richie Rich.
Sarah (24:06):
Mhmm. Quentin.
Mark (24:07):
Conway Twitty. That hat. Oh.
Sarah (24:10):
I think he totally pulls that hat off.
Mark (24:12):
I'd want to pull that hat off him.
Sarah (24:15):
He's handsome.
Mark (24:16):
It's way too big.
Sarah (24:17):
It works for him.
Mark (24:18):
No. It doesn't.
Sarah (24:19):
When Chalmers has it on, it works for him too.
Mark (24:21):
Works better on Chalmers.
Sarah (24:23):
When he tips his hat hat up in the back of the car, he
was like, Chalmers is lookinggood.
Mark (24:28):
While Ginger Welsh and the football player are vandalizing
the police station, choose adifferent place to vandalize.
Sarah (24:37):
I love that Pablo gets on Tane's shoulders to pain because
he's so wee and angry. RichieAnd he just happens to carry
spray paint around with him allthe time.
Mark (24:48):
Richie Rich decides to go back to confront the
Sarah (24:52):
Brad. Brad. Because he thinks he's cheated. He thinks
he's cheated. Now Clinton hasall the money in the world.
He's extremely wealthy, but
Mark (25:00):
But he can't buy winning. Sure you could, dude.
Sarah (25:02):
Well, I mean you
could, but you but you wouldn't have really won.
Mark (25:07):
Anyway, he goes back and kills him. Yeah. Because he's
meeting his accomplice who wasdressed as a man.
Sarah (25:14):
Brad is meeting his accomplice, Carla, the jeweler,
who's now John Ruby, who isclearly not a man. No. It's it's
bad makeup.
Mark (25:24):
It's bad to makeup. It's bad on the mannequin.
Sarah (25:28):
Yeah. When you borrow a beard from a mannequin in your
shop and slap it on your face,it's not gonna go well. No. It'd
be all dusty and stuff. Oh.
And she's not she's a veryfeminine looking woman. So
that's what happens.
Mark (25:44):
Right? He goes back and he kills him semi accidentally.
Sarah (25:49):
Well, when he picks him off the spike and slams him back
on it, it's not an
Mark (25:54):
accident Not an accident anymore.
Sarah (25:57):
Because Brad's standing there in the park with a paper
bag full of cash waiting forCarla so they can share the
money, and Quentin finds himthere.
Mark (26:05):
And the thing that I hate about Quentin other than his
gigantic hat that does not fithim is that he then takes the
money.
Sarah (26:14):
Yeah. Which he didn't need to do.
Mark (26:15):
He did not need to do.
Sarah (26:16):
Because he doesn't need the money.
Mark (26:18):
And he brags to to Sims that he does that $25,000 isn't
a lot to him.
Sarah (26:24):
Right. Because he's a tire magnate. He's a tire
magnate. Bingo. Just repeatedsomething
Mark (26:31):
So I the tire commercial that the football player does.
Sarah (26:37):
He just gave me a look, guys. Tire commercial used.
Mark (26:43):
Is it looks like it's filmed in an actual stadium.
Sarah (26:48):
It's a it's a good looking tire commercial.
Mark (26:50):
The phone number and the website on the end of the
commercial are nonexistent.
Sarah (26:55):
I'm glad you checked. Did you call the number?
Mark (26:58):
I did not call
Sarah (26:58):
the number. You just looked it up.
Mark (27:00):
I'm sure.
Sarah (27:00):
Okay.
Mark (27:01):
The the website does not work. But they they're famous
for having all black tires.Yeah. And that is a total goof
on the all blacks and how peoplelike
Sarah (27:15):
What what are tires usually? I mean, I know there's
white wall tires, but nobodymakes those anymore.
Mark (27:19):
No.
Sarah (27:20):
So all tires are all black typically, except for
maybe the brand name. And eventhat's usually just raised
letters.
Mark (27:29):
So the biggest problem I have with the episode is things
like, if they hadn't picked upFrodo, would this have happened?
Sarah (27:37):
What's Frodo got to do with it?
Mark (27:39):
Maybe. Yeah.
Sarah (27:40):
I think it still happens.
Mark (27:41):
I think the best part of Frodo is all of these silly men
constantly say this is a game ofskill. Yeah. Especially the
sims. Yeah. Frodo has neverspoofed in his life.
No. And he places fourth in thetournament.
Sarah (28:00):
But it's a game of skill, obviously. Mean, And if Brad and
Carla had decided to rendezvousafter the game at her jewelry
shop,
Mark (28:13):
none of None of this this would happen.
Sarah (28:15):
No. Well, I mean, Quentin may have still killed Brad, but
he would have had to look forhim and, I don't know, push him
out of the plane on the way tothe rugby match or something.
Maybe. It would not have workedout this way anyway.
Mark (28:29):
We see a reappearance of the hotel, the same bar, the
same airplane that was in theearlier airplane episode. All
those things are the same.
Sarah (28:41):
I was glad to see Alden Coombs again. Yes. He of the
steampunk hot air balloon. Yes.I was like, where do I know that
guy from?
Yep. I know he's been in anotherepisode and then I saw his
mustache. Was like, steampunk.
Mark (28:56):
But the ballooning job is is not going well.
Sarah (29:01):
Oh, no. It's in receivership.
Mark (29:03):
It's in receivership.
Sarah (29:04):
He's broke.
Mark (29:05):
His his lifelong dream is is not doing well. He's living
in a trailer.
Sarah (29:11):
We've okay. So Chalmers goes to Carla's he goes to
Carla's jewelry shop. The firsttime, she runs away and isn't
there. Yes. Suss.
Right?
Mark (29:23):
The second time, he surprises her, and that's why he
she's there.
Sarah (29:28):
But the first time she doesn't drive off, she hides. In
a yellow shirt. In a yellowdress behind a trellis that you
can see through. She's the worsthider. She's just standing there
in a bright yellow dress.
Don't see me. Don't see me.
Mark (29:46):
She's bad at disguise and bad at hiding.
Sarah (29:48):
He doesn't see her, so I guess it works. I don't know.
Mark (29:52):
But she's gonna use her half of the money, which amounts
to 12,000 u New Zealand dollars.
Sarah (29:58):
To bail out her business?
Mark (29:59):
To bail out her business. Okay. Now he has flown all the
way to New Zealand. Yeah. He'snot two k right away.
Sarah (30:08):
At least. He's not even covering his costs. I'm sorry.
He's not.
Mark (30:11):
Stay in a week in the hotel. That's another 2 k
minimum. Yep. Okay.
Sarah (30:18):
Are you basing the total winnings on how much Quentin
said he lost?
Mark (30:22):
Well, I I think she says there's 25 k in the bag or
something.
Sarah (30:26):
Okay. Because a lot of other people were putting down
bets too. If Quentin lost 25 k,there were other bets too.
Mark (30:31):
I I guess.
Sarah (30:32):
But still, it can't I mean, it's it's half of it, so
it can't be much. And 20 k most.I mean, that's not a that's not
a lot to bail out of business.
Mark (30:41):
And ginger pretend man
Sarah (30:43):
says Pablo Picante.
Mark (30:45):
No. No. Sorry. Not Pablo Picante. Oh.
I mean, the woman who pretendsto be a man.
Sarah (30:50):
Carla.
Mark (30:51):
Carla. She puts in $8. They would have looked at that.
It's not oh oh, it's just aroll. It must be $8.
People count things.
Sarah (31:00):
Not rich people.
Mark (31:01):
Oh, okay.
Sarah (31:03):
No. Okay. Not rich people. Money's whatever. She
could she could draw a a bigbill and just put it on a stack
of paper and they would go, oh,that's a
Mark (31:12):
roll of money. And then we have the writers coming up with
the most brilliant idea, whichwas all of the people who don't
matter got on a charter bus andwent back
Sarah (31:23):
to wealth. In
their horned helmets with their swords.
Mark (31:29):
Because there was, like, 40 people in that room.
Sarah (31:32):
And their bad porky pigeon pizza. Yeah. They just
took off. Only the realcharacters suck around. When Ray
comes in and he's like, hey.
There's no gambling. I don'thave a license for that. Pablo's
like, bring on the police. Killall the pugs.
He
(31:53):
is If you're gonna pretend to be Spanish, he's
studying a
Mark (31:57):
little bit. Yes. Hey. Isn't that the guy from the
steampunk episode?
Sarah (32:04):
So When when they question because so Ray's got
the black eye. Right? Because hetried to run away from Pablo and
ran into a door jam. He's noteven lying. He did run into a
door.
When they question him, Sims islike, isn't it awfully sexist?
And he's like, I'm not sexist.Both of my ex wives were women.
And Trudy's like, oh my god. GetI
Mark (32:26):
would like to tell you that my ex wife is also a
Sarah (32:29):
woman. Congratulations. You're not sexist.
I need to do a leak.
Mark (32:35):
Gina is inviting people to an event.
Sarah (32:39):
Rabid. Rabid. The Russian abandoned brides in district
fundraiser. I guess becausemoney heals a broken heart.
Mark (32:47):
Does she mean rabbit?
Sarah (32:50):
The flyer is pretty good, though.
Mark (32:52):
It is a pretty good flyer.
Sarah (32:54):
It's pretty well designed.
Mark (32:55):
Yep. And we find out that he had a coin in his mouth, and
it's definitely murder at thatpoint in time.
Sarah (33:03):
All the while, Sims, a detective, is trying to figure
out whether Mike has a newrelationship. She's just nosy.
Mark (33:12):
Well, she's nosy and her her hypocrisy is put on display
here. Yes. Because Chalmers asksalmost word for word the same
question she asked Mike.
Sarah (33:25):
About her and Quentin?
Mark (33:26):
Yeah. And definitely puts it out there that you're being a
bit hypocritical. And what Ilove is Kristen does not pay any
attention to that.
Sarah (33:37):
No. Not at all.
Mark (33:39):
No. Not a stitch.
Sarah (33:41):
Not at all. It reminds me of one of my favorite characters
in a book. She's an old lady,and she just loves to shove
through big crowds and go, nosyperson coming through. Excuse
me, I'm nosy. I have to getthrough here.
People just get out of her way.But Mike is is texting, right,
(34:02):
with Beth Yes. His new lady.
Mark (34:04):
And he lets Chalmers look because he doesn't know how to
do an emoji.
Sarah (34:09):
That kills Kristen.
Mark (34:11):
He purposely asked Chalmers, first of all. Second
of all Chalmers know how to doan emoji.
Sarah (34:19):
He's holding the phone in his hand, so it would be obvious
who he was texting. You can'tcompose a text without a two.
And he says, it's my nephew orwhatever. It
Mark (34:30):
just has a number.
Sarah (34:31):
But it's
Mark (34:32):
I looked at the
Sarah (34:33):
whole thing. That they say, just don't just don't use
eggplants. And he goes, I likeeggplants. And I immediately
wrote down, so does reverendGreen. Yes.
And doctor Plummer.
Mark (34:45):
Okay. Let's talk like eggplants. Let's talk about
doctor Plummer or how I like toname him the death magnet.
Sarah (34:53):
Yes. How
Mark (34:56):
many times in this show has Doctor Plummer been like,
I'm tangentially related tothis, but I'm somehow lying or
concealing something. So I lookcompletely sus, but I'm
absolutely innocent.
Sarah (35:11):
Well, least this time it wasn't patient confidentiality.
He was like, well, Carla was oneof my patients. No. No. He's a
horndog.
Yes. He is absolutely preparingto cheat on reverend Green with
John Ruby aka Carla. Comes homedrunk. Fine. He walked.
Okay. He wasn't doing anythingbad at the spoofing event. But
(35:33):
Except wanted
Mark (35:34):
hit on a woman's
Sarah (35:35):
He wanted to make out in the park with a stranger. Bad
reverend plumber.
Mark (35:40):
Who is a woman.
Sarah (35:41):
No eggplant for you. Death magnet. He is awfully
connected to death.
Mark (35:49):
It just makes me feel bad for the rev. Yeah. You know?
Because the rev is like, I'mglad that the rev goes, it's
02:30 in the morning. And youreek.
And you reek. You know? You'renot getting in my bed.
Sarah (36:02):
You need to make a leak.
What do you make out of the way Sims deals with flirting
with Quentin, pushing him awaybecause he's a suspect, totally
good. That's what she should bedoing. But then how she handles
it when she realizes he's nothe's not a good guy.
Mark (36:19):
I liked it except for his hat because I don't like his
hat. He is charismatic, and itis never implied that she is
interested in him for his money.That that is not even a thought.
Sarah (36:35):
When he has the little have dinner with me note in his
hand, it's really sweet.
Mark (36:40):
It's it's very sweet.
Sarah (36:41):
I would have gone out to dinner with somebody who did
that.
Mark (36:44):
He even says I could go to a cheap, uncomfortable place if
you wanted to or something.That's fine too.
Sarah (36:51):
Yeah. Yeah.
Mark (36:52):
So I'm not saying he's not charming But he is a psychopath.
Sarah (36:57):
Manipulative. The fact that he makes Vida pretend that
she can't speak because shedoesn't want to lie, and then
basically bribes all of hisfriends to also pretend she
can't speak, and they go alongwith it without him explaining
why. Poor Yeah. Frodo. She tellshim she's that she's a nun with
(37:22):
a vow of silence who justhappens to also be a chauffeur.
Mark (37:25):
Like,
Sarah (37:25):
have And he's so dumb.
Mark (37:26):
They have to give Frodo at least a decent reason. Welsh is
like, okay. I'm on board.Whatever.
Sarah (37:34):
He knows he's living a lie too. Yeah. So he doesn't
want anybody digging into that.Yeah. At least he gets some free
tires out of it, Frodo does,because Vida does have some
morals and feels bad.
Mark (37:45):
Yeah. But okay. We're not even sure that she's his cousin.
That's what he says.
Sarah (37:51):
I think she is. Otherwise, she wouldn't cover
Mark (37:53):
for it. She's then employed as his cousin. Okay. If
I have $800,000,000 Yeah. Okay?
I have $800,000,000 now. We'reclose to billionaires. Yeah. And
my cousins come to visit, I'mnot gonna ask them to drive
around.
Sarah (38:12):
Right?
Mark (38:15):
Even if they lived in the same town.
Sarah (38:17):
You can be my chauffeur.
Mark (38:18):
If I had $800,000,000 and my cousins lived in town, I
would even go, not not secondcousins, but first cousins.
Right? Mhmm. Like my my mom'ssister's kids.
Sarah (38:30):
That's what a cousin is.
Mark (38:31):
Yes. Yes. I would be if they lived in the same town and
I had $800,000,000, your houseand your car are paid.
Sarah (38:38):
Maybe she likes being a chauffeur. Maybe it's what she's
always wanted to do.
Mark (38:42):
Maybe. But he treats her like crap. So
Sarah (38:45):
I don't know. I think he's nice to her. Is he mean to
her other than making her liebecause he killed somebody?
Mark (38:50):
You know? That was insane. Lie, And she says, what have you
done? Yeah. Like, she recognizesright away.
Sarah (38:59):
At least she doesn't say, you did it again.
Mark (39:03):
At the same phone.
Sarah (39:06):
Why do you hate Brad so much? The last one was a Brad.
This is cultural harassment. Itis kind of. When it says kill
Oh, it's bugs.
When it says kill all the bugs,oh, it must be Pablo because he
can't can't spell pigs.
Mark (39:23):
I love that they did this. I don't know if you noticed
this. So okay. Let's go behindthe scenes into Greenland a
little bit. Ladies andgentlemen, the the set that is
the interior of the cop shop isin no way related to the out
tier outside of that building.
Sarah (39:40):
Right. They're two
Mark (39:41):
separate locations.
Sarah (39:42):
They are
Mark (39:42):
two separate locations. Yeah. The the location of the
cop shop is inside of a bigsoundstage. Right. It's an
interior
Sarah (39:51):
We get it. Set.
Mark (39:53):
Okay? Mhmm. They have painted on the way up the
stairs. You can see out thewindows the letters written on
the outside of the building.Nice.
Continuity. It's continuity.They did a really good job. That
is a good job.
Sarah (40:07):
Yep. Why did Pablo write kill all the pugs, I smell
bacon, when he is Australian?
Mark (40:14):
Well, okay. I think he's
Sarah (40:17):
the one who's culturally misappropriating things.
Mark (40:20):
Oh, I think so too.
Sarah (40:22):
He's the racist one because he's insinuating that
people who are Spanish wouldn'tknow pigs from pugs.
Mark (40:29):
And he's writing like he talks.
Sarah (40:32):
Yes. Yes. Now I wish he'd come back in another episode,
though. I like him so much.
Mark (40:37):
He was inebriated. Okay?
Sarah (40:40):
Yes.
Mark (40:41):
And we've all done silly things when inebriated. Now,
I've never vandalized a policestation,
Sarah (40:48):
but He does have to scrub it off while everybody watches.
Yes. He gets his comeuppance.And I don't think Tane knows
that he's really Dwayne. I thinkhe's fooled them too.
Mark (41:00):
Oh, he's totally fooled them.
Sarah (41:02):
Because Tane looks at him like, you piece of trash.
Mark (41:05):
Yeah. Tani does a good bit of acting there Mhmm. Where he's
like, wait a minute.
Sarah (41:12):
Though, I think he'll continue to be his friend and
let him do
Mark (41:15):
it. Maybe.
Sarah (41:16):
Because it's his thing. He's like Banksy, you know? He's
He's he's playing a part. It'shis his character that he plays
as an artist.
Mark (41:23):
That extended art scene. They they do such a good job of
it's just long enough to befunny, but not too long.
Sarah (41:34):
Yeah. I love it. And I think the impression I get
because of who he's hanging outwith is that he's managed to
create some kind of mystiquearound his art. So that black
canvas might actually bevaluable.
Mark (41:48):
Yes.
Sarah (41:48):
If people don't know that he's really Duane.
Mark (41:50):
Yes. This is how he chooses a color.
Sarah (41:54):
And then he collapses out love of his
Mark (41:56):
face. Kills the breeze.
Sarah (41:58):
Yeah. You
Mark (42:01):
asked me about Sims and when she finds out The way she
Sarah (42:05):
takes on Quinn.
Mark (42:06):
That he's the killer. I think it's great. I think it's
great that Mike is like, how doyou wanna do this? Yeah. And
she's like, let's
Sarah (42:14):
Fire fire with fire. He says, I can't wait to watch.
Mark (42:17):
So then Chalmers gets to play actor Yeah. And pretend to
leave the station. I think it'sa really good trick. I think so
too.
Sarah (42:26):
Plus, he looks super cool in the back seat.
Mark (42:30):
And so we find out that Vida can
Sarah (42:32):
she talk can can she talk, but she can spill the
beans.
Mark (42:35):
Yeah. She can spill the beans. And I think it's it's
good that Vida is like, yeah.We're gonna tell you right away.
Sarah (42:43):
Mhmm. Like think that was always her position is that she
wouldn't lie. That's why heasked her to just be quiet, you
know, because she was gonna behonest. Maybe she is a nun.
Mark (42:53):
Maybe. Who does Sims offer the stale ginger nut to?
Sarah (42:59):
I don't know.
Mark (43:00):
It's a cookie. She offers it to somebody. I don't know.
And I'm like, no. Pablo's not astale ginger nut.
He's a full on crazy ginger nut.
Sarah (43:11):
He's not stale. So then we get to the rabbit event.
Mark (43:14):
Yes.
Sarah (43:14):
Is Mike the only thing being raffled off to raise
money?
Mark (43:18):
I guess.
Sarah (43:20):
Sorta. Maybe. They must have had other things they were
raffling off too.
Mark (43:24):
They they must
Sarah (43:26):
be really lame.
Mark (43:27):
It it's a fundraising thing, I guess.
Sarah (43:31):
It's fundraising, not fundraising. They're not raising
any fun. There's like five womenat that table, the Russian
women. Yep. So they're having afundraiser to give money to five
ladies who are sad, I guess.
Mark (43:44):
I guess.
Sarah (43:45):
Because they've been lured there for
Mark (43:46):
no I like to think because friend of the show, Trudy, is
not super in this episode, butshe does make Ray tell the
truth.
Sarah (43:55):
Mhmm.
Mark (43:56):
Right? Because she knows Ray's completely innocent.
Right. So she's like, stopacting suspicious Ray and go
tell them. Yeah.
Okay? I think Trudy rigs thecontest because she knows that
Gina wants to win? No. She knowsthat this is Mike's new friend.
Sarah (44:13):
Oh. But Ray's the one who draw draws.
Mark (44:16):
Yeah. But I think, like She put it in
Sarah (44:19):
his hand and told him to pull it.
Mark (44:20):
Well, no one ever sees the little ticket.
Sarah (44:23):
Oh, that's true. He could say whoever he wants. He could
say her number. It could havebeen any number. Right?
Mark (44:28):
Yes.
Sarah (44:29):
How do you how do you feel about how Gina handles
meeting Beth and realizinggirlfriend.
Mark (44:35):
I love that Sims and Chalmers are like, okay. Here it
comes.
Sarah (44:40):
Yeah. Chalmers is getting ready to get up, and Sims grabs
him and, like, sits him backdown like, no. No. No. Get some
popcorn.
Mark (44:46):
It's it's
Sarah (44:46):
gonna explode. Going anywhere.
Mark (44:48):
Gina's head's gonna explode. Mhmm. I think that Gina
does her best, but it isunexpected.
Sarah (44:55):
Yes.
Mark (44:55):
And she says the thing with the lady with the bear or a
bear with the
Sarah (44:59):
lady. Yes.
Mark (45:00):
And I'm just like, those are the same thing.
Sarah (45:02):
Have a viper tooth. Yes. For luck.
Mark (45:05):
That tooth is way too big, but that snake is way poisonous.
Sarah (45:10):
I don't know if the tooth is too big because it's set in a
big piece of resin or something.The tooth in it is not that big.
Mark (45:17):
Maybe.
Sarah (45:18):
I don't wanna meet that snake.
Mark (45:19):
Oh, that snake is not a good snake.
Sarah (45:21):
I'm glad it lives in Siberia and not here.
Mark (45:24):
It kind of lives all over
Sarah (45:25):
Don't tell me that. Asia. Okay. I'm not going there
anytime soon. I like the wayGina handles it.
It's like she and Beth werecompeting, and Beth didn't know
it. And she's like, you havewon. Yes. I concede.
Mark (45:39):
Yep. And I'm going to go drink vodka with my friends and
not pout.
Sarah (45:42):
Nope. Nope. Though, if we could fast forward to a few
hours later, it might bedifferent.
Mark (45:47):
After a lot of vodka, it could be different.
Sarah (45:49):
Gina might be ax throwing at
Mark (45:50):
a tree of Beth or something. Flags off the entire
country of The United Statessaying, oh, well
Sarah (45:56):
They can't handle
Mark (45:56):
their can't handle their liquor. Well known that they
can't handle their liquor. NowI'm not saying that Americans
are great at handling liquor.Look at Tennessee, Texas, and
Florida.
Sarah (46:08):
Florida, man. That's all you need to know.
Mark (46:10):
But but wow. That just takes 300,000,000 people and
places.
Sarah (46:17):
It's a fun episode.
Mark (46:19):
It is.
Sarah (46:20):
I like Pablo a lot. I like that they introduced us to
something we'd never heard of.Yes. That is a real thing. I'm
not going to go to a spoofingtournament anytime soon.
As a matter of fact, if I see aperson in a jacket like that,
probably a man in a jacket likethat, I'm probably going to go
the other direction. But it's awhole culture that we didn't
(46:40):
know anything about. And did youyou know, when something's a
spoof, like it's a fake
Mark (46:46):
Yes.
Sarah (46:47):
That the game is first and that term comes from the
game, not the other way around.Know that.
Mark (46:53):
Yeah. I did not know that. Because there is a spoofing
scene in a James Bond movie.Yeah. But, hey, try to look that
up.
Yeah. You get James Bond spoofs.
Sarah (47:04):
Yeah. You have to put in spoofing coin game James Bond.
Mark (47:09):
I still could not see get to the scene.
Sarah (47:11):
Oh, that's how
Mark (47:12):
I found it. Okay. Now, there's one thing that we
haven't dealt with Mhmm. Whichis Chalmers
Sarah (47:17):
You didn't like the hat. We know it.
Mark (47:19):
No. Chalmers and Sims bet and I don't like that Chalmers
tries to get out of it. SoChalmers Sims says that Mike is
with the old friend Mhmm. Whichhe is not No.
Sarah (47:34):
It's not Tanya.
Mark (47:35):
It's not Tanya. And Chalmers says, it isn't. And
then he how has he lost the betthen?
Sarah (47:42):
That's why I don't think he's trying to get out of it.
Okay. She's not able to proveYeah. That Beth is the old
friend. So he hasn't lost.
Okay. But she hasn't won either.Yeah.
Mark (47:52):
So maybe that'll reappear.
Sarah (47:56):
Like the coffee does? She turns her back and Mike and
Chalmers both put their mugsdown like, thank God we don't
have to drink this.
Mark (48:03):
Okay. Instantaneously put their their mugs down. Things we
haven't mentioned that, ThreeCoins in the Fountain is a name
of a film. It's an AudreyHepburn film I believe. And it
is no.
Maggie McNamara stars in
Sarah (48:23):
this film. Bet it's that era.
Mark (48:25):
Yes. It's it's, you know, rich white people in Rome and in
the sixties driving scooters andfalling in love and saying,
ciao. It's Roman holiday.
Sarah (48:36):
Yeah. Ciao. Yes. That is Three Coins in a Fountain. Yes.
Season eight episode four. Wewill be back in two weeks with
season eight episode five.
Mark (48:47):
So that is the September 1. Oh my gosh. The first of Oh,
Sarah (48:53):
I know. It's Labor Day.
Mark (48:54):
Oh, sweet Jesus.
Sarah (48:56):
We'll be back then. Yes. And until then, kill the pugs. I
smell bacon. Bye, maniacs.
Mark (49:03):
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. Uh-oh. Oh. Okay.
Sarah (49:25):
We'll do that over again.
Mark (49:26):
Bye.
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