A Big Vat Of Blue Juice | Brokenwood | "Going To The Dogs" | Mystery Maniacs Podcast EP252
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Mark:All blue.
Sarah:Hey, maniacs.
Mark:Hey, mystery maniacs.
Sarah:This is mystery maniacs, a comedy recap podcast. Each week, we choose an episode of a mystery show and dive into the murder, the mayhem, the loonies, and everything else we love. It is a spoiler podcast. We're gonna tell you who did it. I'm Sarah.
Mark:And I'm Mark, and this is season nine, episode four of the Brokenwood Mysteries, Going to the dogs.
Sarah:Whoop. Whoop.
Mark:Whoo. Yeah. There's not a lot of dogs. My barber. There's more horses in this episode than there are dogs.
Sarah:You're right.
Mark:And there's no Frenchie and no English bulldogs.
Sarah:But there's a puppy party. There It's a puppy party.
Mark:Is a puppy party.
Sarah:Everybody who says puppy party seems silly when they say it, but
Mark:it's fun. I guess, sorta. We got a present this week. Oh boy, did we get a present. If this is being recorded on Saturday, Saturday night I will release the video to everyone.
Mark:I've only released it now to the people on Instagram and the special club. Yes. I'm close.
Sarah:From Surrey. Thank you. You. Thank you.
Mark:Thank you, Mark.
Sarah:Sent us a program from the Midsummer Murders stage show.
Mark:Which would have been awesome enough as is.
Sarah:But it gets better.
Mark:Oh, it gets better.
Sarah:Daniel Casey autographed it dedicated to the mystery maniacs.
Mark:It says in Mark's flipping through the program to find the signature. It says, Mystery Maniacs, lots of love, Daniel Casey. We felt very special. We didn't. Though Mark did let
Sarah:us know, Danielle Casey had never heard of the podcast.
Mark:Never heard
Sarah:of it. But that's okay. He's busy.
Mark:He's busy. A busy He's
Sarah:had five years to learn about us. That's okay.
Mark:Mean Well, it's it's okay.
Sarah:Not everybody's on the podcast, I guess. Whatever.
Mark:Yeah.
Sarah:Maybe he'll listen now. Maybe he'll be intrigued.
Mark:Maybe.
Sarah:Maybe he thinks that Mark from Surrey is crazy.
Mark:I don't. I am
Sarah:Some guy wanted my signature and then asked me about maniacs. I don't know.
Mark:The best part is the well, no. That that's all sorts of good parts. But there is another best part, which is you have to fill out a customs declaration when you're sending anything overseas. And the contents of this package were one secondhand theater program. Yes.
Sarah:Thank you, Mark. That was really nice of you to send it.
Mark:Absolutely. We're so happy have it.
Sarah:Speaking of gifts from Mark, our Mark, you
Mark:Yes. Have created a gift
Sarah:for our listeners this week.
Mark:Yes. So at the very start of the episode there's a newspaper. I will go into little parts of that soon. But on the back of the newspaper is a crossword And I was like, they must have one of those crossword making things that I can make a crossword for this episode. So I did.
Sarah:Now if you are a cryptic crossword aficionado or some kind of crossword expert, this is not gonna be challenging to you. It's a fun crossword.
Mark:This is high school English level comprehension.
Sarah:Oh, this is like study guide crossword? Yes. Let's make study fun crossword level?
Mark:Okay. That's what this is.
Sarah:It's if you've seen the episode, you should be able to fill this crossword. So it should be satisfying
Mark:It should be.
Sarah:For people who are bad at crosswords like me. Yes. I don't think I've ever finished a crossword. I have a PhD in English, and I cannot finish a crossword.
Mark:I tell you, dear listeners, there's a new book of Poirot puzzles out and before I did that book, I bought the Agatha Christie's kids puzzle book to work on first And I'm working my way through that to gain confidence. Because wow, I looked at the first one in the other book and I was like, Did
Sarah:that ever happen in that point? I don't
Mark:know logic. It's fun.
Sarah:Yep. Next week, we won't have an episode because Mark will be at a comic book convention. The Illinois Comic Con. You don't pronounce the s on the end. How long have you
Mark:lived in The United Illinois so There you That makes you a Which is in Peoria, Illinois. Yes. And I will be there Saturday and Sunday, so if you're in the area and like comic books, drop by. And also, I will be on a podcast Monday evening. All that information will also be in the A comic book podcast?
Mark:Yes. A comic book podcast by the people who print my comics. Oh. So there'll be lots of esoteric printing things. But if you wanna listen
Sarah:And no sucking up to keep your business. Right? Obviously. No.
Mark:I am a very small fry and they're big pawns. Yeah. So
Sarah:Alright. Are you ready to talk about going to the dogs?
Mark:Absolutely. So first of all, this this episode originally aired the 05/01/2023. Mike Smith directed this and it was written by Tim Baum and Mike Smith.
Sarah:So the big theme of this episode Yes. Far as I'm concerned Yes. Is stupid criminals. These are of all the crimes, because it's not just a murder, all of the crimes that are committed in this episode are committed by people who are incredibly dumb at being criminals.
Mark:Yes. This is stupid criminals and the ends of relationships. That's really what this episode is.
Sarah:Kinda. Yeah. I mean, Andrea the victim and her marriage to Craig definitely ends because she's dead.
Mark:Craig, the worst person ever at looking innocent.
Sarah:He goes out of his way.
Mark:If you rewatch the beginning like I did, you're like, wait a minute. He is so guilty, McIlterson. Yeah. Yeah. Like, he doesn't let them he forces them to go to a location.
Mark:He's like, never mind that. He's like, ready to touch the car. Like, he might as well have a t shirt on that said, murdered my wife, and all I got was this lousy t shirt.
Sarah:So let's just give an overview of the story. Right? Okay. We'll just do it briefly and not because there's too there's too much to talk about. Okay.
Sarah:So long story short, there's a puppy party, which is a part a dog training class at the park. Andrea, who's a veterinary nurse, is there with Julianne, who is the dog whisperer. They're doing the training. Andrea never goes home. Nope.
Sarah:Her husband reports her missing in the morning. They find her dead at the park, dead against a tree, bound to the tree
Mark:with horse bridle, horse reins. And we we don't mention this much anymore because usually we only have one dead body. But Andrea does chef's kiss version of dead body.
Sarah:I watched her eyes so closely waiting for her to blink. And she is on screen for longer periods of time than I cannot blink. Like, when I was rewatching it, I kept my eyes open as long as she did, and I didn't make it.
Mark:She does a really good job. She absolutely did a fantastic job.
Sarah:So she's bound to the tree, and then we find out that, of course, there's all this controversy at the vet's office. Yes. Her husband is the vet.
Mark:You mean the wisteria covered vet's office? Yeah. Oh my gosh.
Sarah:About that. It makes me
Mark:Everything in this episode is covered in wisteria.
Sarah:Makes me bitter.
Mark:Frodo's coffee card is covered in wisteria. No.
Sarah:So her husband Craig is the vet. His business partner is Bonnie, the other vet, who is the identical twin sister of Julianne the dog whisperer. Yes. So we have one actress playing two parts.
Mark:Yes.
Sarah:Then there are like little side characters there in the vet's office.
Mark:Yes. The worst run vet's office of all time.
Sarah:And then we have Ron, the world's grumpiest man
Mark:Yes.
Sarah:Who brings his dog to the puppy party.
Mark:Who is legitimately grumpy.
Sarah:And we'll talk about why he he deserves to be grumpy. Julian and Bonnie, the twins, don't get along.
Mark:No. But they say the same things about each other, which I thought was nice. Yeah. As well done.
Sarah:They are still twins. Yeah. Even though they do everything they can not to be twins. To be as legal least like each other as possible.
Mark:And we wanna say a couple of things. One, twins is a gimmick, but these two characters are played by one actress. It is not gimmicky the way they do it. There's only, like, maybe two scenes where you're like, wait a minute.
Sarah:Where they're in a scene together, not alternating camera shots, but you actually see them in the same shot. Like there's one shot in the lobby of the cop shop.
Mark:Yeah. And then there's no silly parent trap weirdness No. No. Screen thingies or
Sarah:But we should talk about how the actress differentiated one character from the other in her acting.
Mark:Yes. Interesting. Which I think she did a good job on.
Sarah:I do too. I do too. I think even even if you took their hairdoist away, you would still be able to tell them apart, which is another way that Bonnie is dumb, but we'll we'll get into that.
Mark:By the way, Bonnie is the killer.
Sarah:Yes. So in the end, we find out that Craig is deep in debt Yes. Gambling, overspending on the practice, all kinds of bad financial decisions.
Mark:Doping horses.
Sarah:And as a result, he is doping horse that he owns with Julianne
Mark:Yes.
Sarah:So that it can win races and get him and he places bets on the race.
Mark:And there's
Sarah:a horse race on the beach.
Mark:Sorta. Like, it gets better. But at the beginning, you're like, there are, like, four people at this horse race, but it gets better. But there is controversy
Sarah:Yes.
Mark:With the horse race.
Sarah:Subplot are Frodo is taking temporary custody of a tortoise named Hercules that he continues to lose.
Mark:Hercules. Hercules.
Sarah:And Chalmers and Missy may or may not have a relationship.
Mark:Well, I'll tell you what, they don't anymore. Never seen again.
Sarah:Really? This is our last Missy episode?
Mark:Last Missy episode.
Sarah:The episode ends with them riding horses on the beach, and you think, finally, they're gonna work this out and be together.
Mark:Poof. Oh. Don't worry. Beth goes poof for the next episode. So
Sarah:We also have Beth, Mike's partner, waiting for him to get a divorce.
Mark:Yes. She sent him leaves. Olive Branch.
Sarah:Yeah. Because she composted the divorce papers.
Mark:I I would like Go throttle her. Wherever she is, go throttle.
Sarah:Yep. I'll give you a call next time I'm near a phone.
Mark:I do know in the next episode, Beth and Mike go.
Sarah:Yeah. They go. They find her.
Mark:Yeah. They go find her.
Sarah:Which you finally you're like, finally.
Mark:I would have been like, as soon as if I was Beth
Sarah:When she came back from Australia and he hadn't done anything about it, I would have turned around and went right back. Goodbye.
Mark:Yep. I even before she went to Australia, I would have been like, let's go. We'll do it today.
Sarah:Yeah.
Mark:Get this work. Let's go.
Sarah:Get it done.
Mark:Yep.
Sarah:So in the end, we know that Bonnie did it because, well, she's a bad person. She's nasty.
Mark:Yes. Basically. She's arrogant.
Sarah:She's a bad vet. She kills animals on accident and doesn't take responsibility for it. I almost said credit for it.
Mark:She doesn't take responsibility for it. Yep. She blames other people. She bullies other people.
Sarah:She's just bad. Yep. She's a pucker lipped bad person.
Mark:Yes.
Sarah:That's the difference between
Mark:her and Julianne, by the way,
Sarah:is that she's constantly got a pursed puckery face and wears her hair back.
Mark:Okay. And she's a dumb criminal. Oh, the
Sarah:dumbest. So where shall we start?
Mark:How about the discussion of bondage?
Sarah:You mean the this is how Gina is awkward in this episode moment? Yes. Yes.
Mark:Luckily, she mentions Austrians and Norwegians and her awkwardness.
Sarah:Because, you know, Austrians are into that stuff.
Mark:Yeah. Mike is like,
Sarah:wow. In Vladivostok, only men ride horses and they ride them naked wearing only bearskin hats. Can That's my Gina impression.
Mark:I'm like, okay, riding a horse naked. Okay. I'm gonna do this in a way that we don't get in trouble.
Sarah:And you have to assume no saddle. You're Fairback naked.
Mark:You're a dude. Saddle is not important here. The problem is is there are parts that would be You'd be bouncing on your junk. Bouncing around. Would be a concerned about self castration at this point.
Mark:No. I wanna ride no. No.
Sarah:Real real men ride a horse naked.
Mark:They're not real men for long.
Sarah:I I always find the Gina weirdness funny. Yes. But then I also, in my head, kinda play out, like, if I were Gina, what was I expecting to happen if I wasn't so awkward and people actually responded. So they're at the crime scene. She's just walked up to inspect the body for the first time, which is a dead woman with her eyes wide open.
Sarah:She is almost as blue as her jumper, and she's bound to a tree with a set of horse bridles. And Gina turns to Mike and says, you know, what what what is your experience with bondage? Like
Mark:Which, of course, he's like,
Sarah:can you give us cause of death yet? You know?
Mark:And Sims, like, appears out of nowhere.
Sarah:Oh, sidles right up and is like, I'm I'm here for this conversation. I wanna I wanna hear your answer because she's so nosy. I love that about Sims. But, like, what does Gina expect him to say? Oh, oh, yes.
Sarah:I'm very into it. I have this equipment and that equipment, and this is what I like. Like, that's not gonna happen. This is not an appropriate place for that conversation to happen, Gina. So so why even say it?
Mark:Yeah.
Sarah:Because she's awkward. She wears a cowboy hat to a horse race on the beach.
Mark:And tries to get Sims to wear one, which is fantastic. We find out Sims has a brother.
Sarah:We know she has
Mark:a sister.
Mark:So we know she has a sister. Oh, boy. If you haven't seen that episode.
Sarah:It's in a later season.
Mark:And now we know that she has a brother that took her to a horse race and she lost all her pocket money.
Sarah:Who's she doing betting as a kid?
Mark:I do not know.
Sarah:Who's taking bets from kids? That was a shifty horse race they went to.
Mark:Apparently, was a shifty horse race.
Sarah:I don't understand this crime scene.
Mark:Okay. Yeah.
Sarah:Can we can we talk about can we just talk about the because so much of this hinges on so Bonnie is like the central spoke of deception. Right? She's manipulating everybody around her, culminating in this death. And she strikes me as an intelligent person But
Mark:evil, but person sees her, she's done.
Sarah:Well, that's that's the case with most murders.
Mark:No. Right?
Sarah:Okay. If one person sees you murder somebody,
Mark:you're done.
Sarah:Okay.
Mark:If there's one witness who lives, you're done. But, okay, but she takes the dead body from her house. From whose house?
Sarah:Her own house?
Mark:Her her own house. Mhmm. Which is a good idea?
Sarah:Kill her in your own house?
Mark:To remove her from her
Sarah:your house. Well, yeah. She's got no alibi if Andrea is found dead in her living room and Julian in Bonnie's living room.
Mark:I just came in and she would like that.
Mark:All blue.
Sarah:What's the kiss about?
Mark:That's the puckered lips. Oh. But then she says, I'm going to take her to an incredibly crowded public place.
Sarah:It's nighttime. The park's not crowded anymore.
Mark:There are people who go to parks at nighttime.
Sarah:Let's start with Andrea's evening. Let's back up.
Mark:Okay.
Sarah:So Andrea does the puppy party.
Mark:Okay.
Sarah:Right? Yep. After the puppy party, she gets a text, a call from a source that she thinks
Mark:is the vet's office saying that Ron has called and requested somebody comes out to his house right away because his puppy is ill. Which makes sense for her to go out there because Ron thinks that she killed his dog. Yes. So she's gonna wanna make amends to Ron.
Sarah:Right.
Mark:Right?
Sarah:And a good doctor of any sort, even a nurse, puts aside their own personal feelings about somebody and thinks about the patient. So even if she didn't want to have a confrontation with Ron, she cares about the dog. And if the dog's in distress, she's going to put her feelings about Ron aside, that awkwardness, which we'll talk about in a second, and goes there.
Mark:But that message is not tracked.
Sarah:Yeah. I don't know where the message comes Because if it was a call from the office, she would know who was calling her. Yes. If it was a text, it came from some text system that they have, I guess. I think that's the only explanation.
Sarah:So anyway, so she goes out there. And he says, I didn't call. The dog's fine. And they end up having a conversation about how it's not Andrea's fault that his dog died. It was actually Bonnie, the vet.
Sarah:Right?
Mark:Yep. And actually, we need to go a tiny bit back before this. In the afternoon before the puppy party, Andrea sends Bonnie a note that says, I'm going to expose you.
Sarah:Mhmm.
Mark:Okay? Because that's the inciting incident.
Sarah:Right. Okay?
Mark:Right. Because there's no reason for her to go to Ron's and because
Sarah:Bonnie has done some malpractice. Yep. Everybody's been covering for her. She's been blackmailing people to get them to cover for her. Andrea is done with it.
Sarah:And she's like, I'm leaving, and I'm going to expose this. I can't do this anymore. Right? Yes. How does Andrea get to Julianne's house?
Mark:In her car. Because she leaves an oil spot at Julianne's house.
Sarah:Why? Why does she go to her house?
Mark:I think she calls her
Sarah:Sorry, Bonnie.
Mark:I think she calls Bonnie, calls her and says, I want to talk about this note.
Sarah:And she goes to her house? I would say, no way, no how.
Mark:Never mind the fact that, okay, I joke joke that we've bought our dentist boats. Right? Yeah. And our vet is super good at understanding huge expenses.
Sarah:Mhmm.
Mark:They're they've been very good with us. Mhmm. But the house that Bonnie lives in is a freaking mansion. Yeah. And she lives alone.
Mark:And she yeah. So then So we're supposed to believe
Sarah:we're supposed to believe that Andrea goes to Bonnie's house willingly to discuss the fact that Andrea is quitting and is gonna end Bonnie's career. Yes. And she's willing to go there and be alone
Mark:with her. And Andrea says sorry. Bonnie says she's going to fess up to the vet council. Oh. The council of vets.
Sarah:So Andrea is like, oh, well then everything's okay. I trust you again. If you're going to admit what you've done
Mark:I guess I'll drink this drug tea then.
Sarah:Yeah. And then pass out on your couch so you can stick a needle in my back. Yeah. Step one of bad crime.
Mark:Yes. Okay. Like she could have put it in her leg.
Sarah:Anywhere where Andrea could have reached Yes. Would have been smart.
Mark:Yes. Right? Then you put her back in the car
Sarah:Driver to the park.
Mark:Drive her to the park, send the text to her husband, I can't take it anymore.
Sarah:And it looks like she's taken her own life using using drugs from the vet's office.
Mark:At least sort of. Yeah. They would eventually get through that. I think they're smart enough.
Sarah:It would, but she'd have a way better chance of getting away with that.
Mark:She would have gotten away in her company car. The company car is not a getaway vehicle.
Sarah:No. So Bonnie bundles Andrea's body back into Andrea's car, drives it back to the park where they had the puppy party.
Mark:Now I understand that Andrea is not she's not a big woman.
Sarah:No. But nor is Bonnie.
Mark:But nor is Bonnie. The carrying and the lifting and the You know the answer to that question? The machinations.
Sarah:Fireman's carry. Apparently, if you can do fireman's carry, you can carry somebody 20 times your weight if you know how to do it and lift with your knees.
Mark:Well, what needed to happen was Doctor. Death Magnet needed to show up and go, I taught her the fireman's carry. Goodbye.
Sarah:So uber strong Bonnie, Piles Andrea and
Mark:her uncle She hulks.
Sarah:She hulks it. Drives her to the back to the park where she was in the afternoon.
Mark:Bear in mind, driving with a dead body. Yeah. One single individual. Where is missus Missus m. M when we need her?
Sarah:So Craig notes that when he came looking for his wife at the park earlier, her car wasn't there. Or no, the night before, her car wasn't there.
Mark:At five at, like, 06:00
Sarah:or But now the car in the morning is there.
Mark:Again, he acts and sounds the most guilty possibly.
Sarah:I know. Andrea gets put against a tree and Bonnie binds her to the tree using horse a horse bridle that belongs to Craig.
Mark:Now, this is where I have a problem. At some point, previous to Andrea sending the email, Bonnie takes the reins.
Sarah:Mhmm.
Mark:What was she going to do with that?
Sarah:She swipes him from Craig's car, you know, just in case.
Mark:Just in case what?
Sarah:I don't know.
Mark:Just in case you're gonna kill somebody
Sarah:and Remember, she's blackmailing and framing everybody around her for everything that she's doing wrong. That's weird. That Craig is already committing crimes.
Mark:I know I know all of that, but her doing something specific of taking the reins is weak sauce. It's a bridle.
Sarah:Because taking the reins is something else. Okay. She's taking the reins on crazy and driving all the way home.
Mark:She's driving all the way home.
Sarah:But then after tying Andrea's body to the tree, I guess to frame Craig and Julianne because they own the horse that a bridle belongs to
Mark:I guess.
Sarah:She does the smartest thing. She puts up her hood, which you know in a show like this makes you invisible.
Mark:Because she has to be invisible because now she has a to do list.
Sarah:She has to get home somehow from there.
Mark:She has to get home. She also has to stop at the vet office.
Sarah:And break in.
Mark:She's like walking all over the place.
Sarah:Yeah. So she's
Mark:got She a has a hood up.
Sarah:She has to do a fake break in at her own vet's office Yes. And rummage the place so that it looks all turned upside down.
Mark:Then, okay, then the next problem I have is she comes back to work, she pretends work happens. We have a whole bunch of problems with the vet office that we'll get to. After a few days, while they're investigating, she could have leisurely drive away from Brokenwood. Right?
Sarah:Mhmm.
Mark:And been on holiday or something. I already planned this holiday. I just
Sarah:You mean she could have fled the scene?
Mark:She could have fled after a few days. Not right away.
Sarah:I don't think she could play that off because vets have schedules that go way out the wazoo. I mean, you know, we make appointments for Olive in like six months from now.
Mark:Maybe. But she waits till the very last minute to run away. But Bonnie is so bad. Yes.
Sarah:She has woven a web of people around her ready to turn on her at any moment because she's victimizing everybody, right? So Craig is deep in debt and has a gambling problem and is illegally importing anabolic steroids to use on a horse to win races.
Mark:With record.
Sarah:So she's got that on him, right? Brianna, the female Frodo
Mark:Yes. Who is the receptionist at the vet's office,
Sarah:knows about the shipments. And Bonnie has said, since you know about them, you're Yeah. Right? Prisha, who is the other vet, knows what's going on.
Mark:Has seen her kill animals.
Sarah:Has seen Bonnie commit malpractice, just negligent malpractice and surgery, causing the death of other people's pets. And when confronted, Bonnie has said, well, it would be too bad if something happened to your parents' immigration paperwork. Yep. Which is So everyone around her hates her. So She's created a human vice around her and thinks she's going get
Mark:away So with the moment there's any sign of weakness, they all cave.
Sarah:Right. So she kills Andrea because Andrea is going to expose her malpractice and tries to frame her own sister and Craig for the murder.
Mark:And then tells the people at the vet's office to lie for her. Yeah. She's a bad criminal.
Sarah:She's a bad criminal.
Mark:But she's good with the club, the golf club.
Sarah:She does hit Mike twice with the golf club and kicks Sims in the head.
Mark:Twice. And kicks Sims in the head. When Sims throws her down on the car, we're all like, yeah.
Sarah:Twist her arm tighter. She's bad.
Mark:I just wanted to see her try to hit Sims with the golf club hit Chalmers with the golf club and him go
Sarah:just It just bounces off
Mark:of him. Bounces off of him.
Sarah:Or he just catches it, snaps it in half, throws it over his shoulder. Yeah. What else you got? Okay.
Mark:The vet's office. Things that are problematic about the vet's office. Okay. Number one, the wisteria. Number two.
Sarah:If you've blocked it out or you just didn't care enough to know, the reason why we're so anti wisteria is that we had a wisteria tree that we nursed like another child for years. Years. Years. And it never ever bloomed. Never.
Sarah:It ripped an arbor out of the ground. Nope. But couldn't grow a single freaking flower.
Mark:Not a single one.
Sarah:It's dead now. It's gone.
Mark:We've killed it.
Sarah:It's eradicated from our yard. You
Mark:did murder against it.
Sarah:And since then, I have been bitter about wisteria. Anyhow.
Mark:Number two, other things that we're bitter about. If Brianna can get a job there, why can't they hire our children?
Sarah:It's on another continent on the other side of the planet.
Mark:She's a druggie and a bad witness and a bad manager. And dumb. And dumb. But she could get a job. I'm like, my kid could do both of most of my kids could do an awesome job there.
Mark:And we'll have the moral fortitude to go, no, I'm not lying for you.
Sarah:They also have a handwritten drug register that looks like.
Mark:We will get to that
Sarah:piece Scrooge's bank records or something. I don't know what that book is supposed to be.
Mark:There is stuff crossed out, and and whoever made that register went extra hard. Yeah. Like, there are at least three filled out pages.
Sarah:I think it's an old bank register.
Mark:Yep. That's what it looks like. Okay. Sarah. A woman has been murdered at this vet's office.
Mark:Okay? Now, who worked at this vet's office?
Sarah:Mhmm.
Mark:There's been a break in at this vet's office. Mhmm. There are suspected anabolic steroids related to this vet's office and animals have died.
Sarah:Mhmm.
Mark:Why doesn't Mike go, we're closing the vet's office?
Sarah:Oh, no. They're doing business like gangbusters. I mean, sick animals still need to see a vet even if it's a vet who probably will kill them.
Mark:No. They closed that up. You should keep this door locked.
Sarah:No. Here's another. Craig is so guilty. Whoop whoop whoop. Less than a half an hour after finding his wife's body, he's back at work.
Sarah:Literally, a half an hour.
Mark:And then he said the horse race cheering. Yeah. I was like, your wife died twelve twenty four hours ago, dude.
Sarah:Your business partner killed her and tied her to a tree. Yeah. And you're making bets on the horse race. Two days later.
Mark:Do you think you should close the office? Oh no. Then, okay. So the other part I have about the office that is problematic is that everyone has an office. Yeah.
Mark:Right?
Sarah:An office, office.
Mark:Only Brianna doesn't have an office. How do they have examination rooms in this place? Because they they do not have room for examination rooms because they just have offices. Now, we go to a vet that is busy. Mhmm.
Mark:They are a very busy vet vet. They don't overcharge or anything like that, but they are on the bone in terms of how they run. They have examination rooms, which are places where they can make money.
Sarah:Mhmm.
Mark:And then they have like a lab and offices in the back. Mhmm. They do not have palatial offices like these people.
Sarah:I don't think each of the vets has their own office in our practice.
Mark:No. I do not think so. On top of it all, the budget that they have for clothing, posters Branded swag. Branded swag. Cars.
Mark:Cars. Now I wanna say they did a great job with this. Mhmm. The production team did a great job with this. But man, I would be like, Bonnie, we are spending too much money on stickers.
Sarah:There's a sticker on the clipboard. There's a sticker on your monitor. There's a sticker on
Mark:your laptop. There's sticker on everywhere. Board. Put a sticker on it.
Sarah:It's it's heavily branded. It it is. There is the room where they keep the medications.
Mark:And dog bowls. You gotta have
Sarah:the clang of a bunch of metal dog bowls falling when you're pretending to break in.
Mark:There is no lock on that. No. Like, when we order our dog's allergy medicine.
Sarah:It comes from a dispensing machine or We
Mark:order it from the front office, they call back to the dispenser, the dispenser dispenses it and brings it to the front office and places it in a locked cabinet that they have to unlock when I go get the dog's medicine.
Sarah:Mhmm.
Mark:For her allergy pills.
Sarah:You know why? Because they don't keep blue juice in there. Blue juice?
Mark:Well I got to tell you Bonnie must have a vat of it at home with the size of the syringe that she puts in. It's a horse syringe. Like I thought that Andrea was going to have blue juice shooting out of her eyes and her nose and her mouth because that thing, like it takes a half an hour for her to shove all that blue juice
Sarah:in. If it takes two hands to inject somebody, you know the syringe is big.
Mark:Like, I've dealt with animal syringes. We had to put syringes in the cattle when I was a kid. I've actually done that. It is frightening and terrifying to do. They were not as big as those as that giant blue juice syringe.
Mark:Never mind the fact
Sarah:The blue juice comes in, like, one liter bottle.
Mark:Like, Brianna is gargling it in the background. I like blue. It's a fanny. It's a fun color.
Sarah:So they say they call it blue juice because it's it's pentobarbital. It's the medication they use to euthanize sick animals, right? And they make it blue, bright blue, so that it's not confused with anything else, and so you don't accidentally give a dog or a cat or whatever a dose of it when you meant to give them something else, right? I have questions. Yes.
Sarah:Why does it come in such gigantic bottles?
Mark:Well, we might have to do a camel.
Sarah:Then get out the camel sized jar. But for a kitten,
Mark:I would think that would be a bit
Sarah:of an overkill.
Mark:It would blow the kitten up like a butter.
Sarah:Oh, that's awful. I can't believe you said that. It's horrible. You don't have to use the whole bottle No. Is what I'm saying.
Mark:I would be confusing it constantly with antifreeze. What color would you
Sarah:make it though to make it dramatic so that no one confused it? Would you make it blue raspberry Orange maybe?
Mark:Red? Red?
Sarah:Acid green?
Mark:Maybe. That looks unhealthy. Those are better colors than You wouldn't
Sarah:inject acid green into something if you didn't mean to, but they just call it the blue juice, which makes it sound tasty.
Mark:Yes. Brianna thinks so. It's blue, my favorite color.
Sarah:If they're gonna make it blue, they could call it something better. Yes. The Cyan Slayer.
Mark:Not blue juice. Juice makes it sound like a drink. The Cobalt Killer. That's better. Cerulean Sleeper Juice.
Mark:Cerulean Sleeper Juice.
Sarah:That's all the blue names I have. So Bonnie operated on Ron's dog. So Ron, super grumpy Ron, brings his dog in to get, like, a vaccination.
Mark:Yes.
Sarah:And Bonnie gets it confused with another dog and does surgery on it instead.
Mark:And the dog is a heart condition.
Sarah:And dies. Which is And Ron's wife has just passed away too.
Mark:Yes. From an illness. So his best friend It was sudden.
Sarah:Dies, and then his dog best friend dies, and he's grumpy. At first you're like, God, that guy's an asshole. Why is he so mean? You know? And then you find out, and you're like, oh, really?
Sarah:He should be even meaner. I would be. I'd be real grumpy. I wouldn't even go to the puppy party.
Mark:No. And he's also like they do a good job of making him like, he's volatile. He's happy one minute
Sarah:Yeah.
Mark:And upset the next. That speech he gives to Mike is fantastic. It's great acting.
Sarah:About when his wife passed away
Mark:and the dog. The most unbelievable thing is that he has an EV. Yeah.
Sarah:Ron's not an electric car guy. No. Of course, this is New Zealand where people
Mark:are more sensible. And then okay.
Sarah:The only thing I don't like about Ron's character that I think is inauthentic is that I think we're supposed to believe that the vet's office has supplied him with the new dog as an apology. Yep. Which is incredibly insensitive.
Mark:Yes.
Sarah:I know we killed your dog. Here's another one. Right? Shut But he calls the dog it. Yes.
Sarah:And he's not very nice to it.
Mark:No, I don't understand that.
Sarah:I don't think Ron, who clearly loved his dog, would take his anger out on another dog. I mean, he's not mean to it. He doesn't kick it or anything. But the fact that I'm calling it it, because I don't even know if it's a boy dog or a girl dog, because we never really know, because he's so kind of detached from a really beautiful collie puppy
Mark:Yes. Who seems to be a good puppy. And then Bonnie involves him in another framing scheme, which I'm like, okay, this is your third framing scheme.
Sarah:Oh, you mean putting the blue juice bottle Maybe. By his trash bins?
Mark:Maybe. Maybe it's time to leave.
Sarah:Yeah. It's getting a bit complicated, Bonnie. How many people are you gonna try to frame? I mean, stick to one person. Frame Craig and be done with it.
Mark:Craig is already wearing his I did it t shirt.
Sarah:He already has access to the blue juice Yep. And mega syringes.
Mark:He has access to the blue juice, mega syringes.
Sarah:Andrea could be could be willing to expose him for what he's done.
Mark:They're married so they can
Sarah:be bitter with each other.
Mark:That he is gambling debts.
Sarah:Yep. Could be
Mark:in love with Julian. Yep. He could be in love with Julian. All sorts of things.
Sarah:Perfect perfect framing target. No. But no no Bonnie has to spread the love to everybody and she overplays her hand.
Mark:So let's talk about this horse race. Because first of all it's beautiful and must have been a fun day for them Yeah. To film.
Sarah:Because it's on the beach.
Mark:It's on the beach, there's horses, you're enjoying yourself.
Sarah:Horses are pretty on TV, I don't like them in person.
Mark:At first you're thinking maybe three people are here but Yeah. But then there are a lot of people.
Sarah:Yeah.
Mark:There are five horses in the race. What happens to me that bothers me about the race is the race starts and Missy Who's riding one of the horses. Is that Missy?
Sarah:No. It's a man.
Mark:No. It's a guy built like Chommers. In the distant shots of the race Yep.
Sarah:They've dressed a horseman up like Missy to ride the horse. What blew me away is that one of the horses totally cheats. The last horse totally cheats
Mark:and not anabolic steroids. Anabolic
Sarah:They Anabolic steroids. Have to go down the beach around a barrel and back. Yep. And there's one horse that just stops short of the barrel and just goes, whatever,
Mark:and Turns turns around. I'm losing anyway,
Sarah:it doesn't matter. I'm not going around that stupid barrel.
Mark:So this is all raised to raise money for charity. I'm going to give you a hint, writers. If you're going to say the money is to raise money for a charity, tell us what the charity is. Yeah. That it
Sarah:Just say the takes children's home.
Mark:It takes four more words, and it makes it more real.
Sarah:Yeah. A charity? Yeah. It's for charity?
Mark:It's just for charity.
Sarah:Do you think there are any actors who actually are identical twins? Yes. And like both of them are actors?
Mark:Yes. And I know two. Well, I know one. What? So when I was in college, I met and went to school with a woman by the name of Jack Hennessey.
Sarah:Okay.
Mark:Her sister is more well known, is Jill Hennessey. And she is well known for a show called Crossing Jordan. She was on Law and Order, and she's been in a bunch of other stuff, including Dead Ringers.
Sarah:And they're identical twins, and they're both actors?
Mark:They're identical twins, and at that time, they were both actors. That's got to be hard. It has to be super hard.
Sarah:Like, think Cameron Diaz, she was in Something About Mary. She has a twin sister, but they're not identical, and they're both not actors, right? No. But if you have an identical twin who's also an actor and you go out for the same parts, how do they decide?
Mark:Sure you Well, go out for twin parts,
Sarah:No, you don't. Because like in this episode, they save a ton of money having one actor play both parts.
Mark:Yeah.
Sarah:Why would they pay two people?
Mark:Yes. That's true.
Sarah:Would kind of be a bummer. Like if you wanted to be an actor, and then your twin says, me too, you got to take them out.
Mark:Yeah. You got to hobble them at least. Yeah, you get
Sarah:Facial deformity, I mean something.
Mark:Scar, something.
Sarah:Yeah, bald patch, I
Mark:don't know.
Sarah:Yep. Just so that, you know, you're not you're not in competition for the rest of your life.
Mark:Frodo.
Sarah:Those kids are mean. Okay.
Mark:I was ready to go to Broken Wood to to fight those kids from Frodo. Yeah. And Chalmers actually does it. I I watched.
Sarah:He didn't fight them. He didn't beat them up.
Mark:Didn't fight them, but he actually puts his handcuffs on the bikes.
Sarah:Yes.
Mark:It's it's a it's a clever little piece of of misdirection on the screen at that time.
Sarah:So Frodo has a tortoise because somebody came to the coffee cart and left their tortoise behind. He doesn't know who it belongs to, so he's taking care of it. And the tortoise is constantly getting away because he can't keep it in a box with some hay and some lettuce.
Mark:He has to let it free roam. He has to.
Sarah:And it constantly gets away. I do like that Chalmers comes up with the idea of putting the flag on the tortoise's back. He's quite proud of himself But for that then those jerk kids, first of all, they stand around a table and laugh at it. Look, a tortoise. What's even funny about that?
Sarah:Yep. But then they kidnap it and put it in a tree. If that tortoise had fallen off that branch, it could have cracked its shell and died. Yep. Those are bad kids.
Mark:Bad kids, b a d k I d s. I'm glad you can spell it.
Sarah:They're really bad. But Chalmers gets back at them by handcuffing their bikes together around a tree. They're like, woah, young man, you can't do that, whatever.
Mark:You can't just like take off? So Frodo
Sarah:puts Those kids are gonna be problematic in the future. Frodo puts because they clearly don't respect police.
Mark:Yep. Frodo puts the flag on the tortoise and during the chase scene Yes. The tortoise moves toward Is in the middle of the road.
Sarah:The car knocks the flag off of it but then Mike and Sims almost run Frodo over.
Mark:And Mike exclaims, Jesus, Frodo. To which I think we have a new law lord and savior. Well Jesus, Frodo.
Sarah:Mike is doing a bad thing. He's driving way over the speed limit. Does he have sirens and lights on? Nope. No.
Sarah:Because he insists on driving that old car
Mark:That isn't going fast enough, and Sims has to tell him.
Sarah:That
Mark:isn't do equipped. They do a number of Sims and Mike in the car with blue screens behind them that are all fun. Yeah. They're having fun.
Sarah:They're making the background look like it's going back real fast. Yeah. Sims is like, woah, and like getting thrown around the car. Yeah. I had the same thought that you did when people mentioned reporting Bonnie to the vet council.
Sarah:It's not like the Vets Association. When I hear vet council, I think
Mark:robes. Like purple robes with yellow trim around them. And
Sarah:they would have like like one one person would have like fuzzy cat ears on the hood. Yep. And then the other one would have like a big horse head.
Mark:They have giant vats of blue juice. What's their initiation like? I do not know.
Sarah:You get shot in the ass by that giant syringe. I'm just thinking about that.
Mark:You know, like, they're chanting and They have all these animals in cages. Yes. All
Sarah:you can see is the tip of their noses.
Mark:Brianna, are you guys done yet? I have to go to a concert.
Sarah:Yeah. I know. I don't wanna serve coffee at that council anymore. It's kinda creepy in there. You know?
Mark:Frodo's offering to sell a kid's fluffy. Do you know what that is? A what? A kid's fluffy.
Sarah:That's on the sign?
Mark:That's on the sign.
Sarah:He also has coffee to die for, which is kind of heavy handed in a murder mystery show.
Mark:It's kind of heavy handed.
Sarah:What on earth is a kids fluffy?
Mark:It's like frothy milk with a little bit of chocolate on top.
Sarah:Oh, I see. So it's like a kiddie cocktail coffee version. Yes. I see. That's a moneymaker, isn't it?
Mark:Yeah. I
Sarah:wonder if Starbucks has something like that. Bet
Mark:they do.
Sarah:Bet they do. They probably charge like $12 I still can't believe Bonnie hit Mike with a club.
Mark:Wow. Oh, could have broken his back. So, Mike goes into the front of the house, Sims goes around the back. They do a there's good visual storytelling because we see the door and we see the golf clubs and Bonnie goes, mhmm. Right?
Mark:I have an idea. I have an idea.
Sarah:I can fight these police persons with this club, Nick.
Mark:So then Mike walks in and you think he's safe and then she just whacks him.
Sarah:Whales on him. He doesn't do a very good job of defending himself either, and hits him while he's down too. She's despicable.
Mark:And then then they're in the car, her and
Sarah:Sims Sims catches her, she falls down, and Sims grabs her foot, and with her other foot, she just kicks her in the forehead.
Mark:Yes.
Sarah:Like Donkey kicks her.
Mark:The Sims should totally be messed up. Like, needs some blood and bruising.
Sarah:Or at least concussion
Mark:or something.
Sarah:She's got like hiking running boots on.
Mark:Yep. But they're in the car and Sims goes, I'm in pain. And Mike goes, uh-huh.
Sarah:What I really I love that when they so they catch Bonnie, and they get her back at the cop shop, and she's still acting like she didn't do it.
Mark:Oh, she totally lies to them.
Sarah:She's still like, well, isn't it convenient that I'm surrounded by people? I'm the only honest person of all the people I know. Everybody else is a liar and a bad person, obviously, and you're falling for all of their lies.
Mark:I have a note in the recreation. That sure is a lot of the Blue Jaws. But Also, she puts her hand on her face, which Gina would know that there was bruising on the face.
Sarah:Yes. But when they interrogate Bonnie, they use the psycho angle.
Mark:Yep.
Sarah:Like three inches away from one side of her forehead to make her look as unattractive and pucker faced as possible. And then it goes back to the regular camera angle for Mike and Sims. Blah blah blah blah blah blah. Psycho angle. Yes.
Sarah:Blah blah blah blah blah. Psycho angle.
Mark:But we now, Sarah and I are not master criminals. We only play them on a podcast. But we have devised a way in which she could have framed another person and it would have been perfect. Yeah. All she needed to do is after grappling with Andrea and filling her full of the blue juice.
Mark:Just imagine Hold on. I gotta refill this up.
Sarah:I just imagine Andrea's eyes, like, filling up like a gauge, like, to the full point.
Mark:Do you have enough in you yet?
Sarah:That's why she's so blue when you see her tied to the tree. Yeah.
Mark:She's got the blue juice.
Sarah:She's full of blue juice. The scion killer.
Mark:Okay. When she's done that and she's fireman carried her to the car, she needs to come back into the house and change her hair and her clothes. Let her
Sarah:hair down, shake it, shake it.
Mark:Shake
Sarah:it. Put on the hippiest, ugliest turtleneck and cardigan vest that she can find.
Mark:Get the Doors music going on in the car.
Sarah:And then dump the body in the park and then just walk away going, I think regular medicine is stupid and I believe in
Mark:plastic I'm dog whisperer.
Sarah:I like hippie things and
Mark:Would you like some dandelion tea?
Sarah:Julianne gets arrested for the murder. Yep. Julianne had a motive too.
Mark:If you can't frame your twin, who can you frame? Exactly.
Sarah:I mean, they don't like each other. Nope. That's perfect. Yep. It would have been so easy, but it tells us something about Bonnie's character.
Sarah:That no matter how evil she is, she hates her sister more.
Mark:Yeah, I think so.
Sarah:So much that she can't even lower herself to pretending to be her sister. Yep. And Julianne has every right to hate Bonnie. Totally. Was in vet school, and Bonnie called her tutors and told them she was cheating when she wasn't.
Sarah:She's horrible. Awful. I wouldn't even live in the same town with her.
Mark:No. No wonder they're both not married.
Sarah:What sister? I wouldn't Yeah. I'd be gone. Yeah. Or I'd steal her career and go off and actually be a vet somewhere.
Mark:It is sort of implied that if you have Chekhov's twins, you need a twin scene where you're not sure which twin is which.
Sarah:And you can always tell which one is which. The actress, like they must you must have to get in the headspace of one character or the other. Right? Yeah. When you're playing two characters, you got to define them for yourself.
Sarah:So I wonder if they filmed a majority of the Bonnie scenes and then a majority of the Julian scenes or vice versa so that she didn't have to go and obviously not every five minutes changing costuming and hair But and even in the same day, think it would be tough.
Mark:Filming is done in blocks of the same location at the same time.
Sarah:Right.
Mark:Right? So they film all of the stuff at the vet's clinic all at the same time.
Sarah:Yeah. Right. All the stable scenes.
Mark:All the stable scenes. Yeah. All that all at the same time. And if you notice in the stable scenes, when they do any sort of long shot, it's raining. Yeah.
Mark:And it's nowhere else in the episode. No. So, like, she would have done probably, let's do all the morning scenes with Bonnie at the vet. Mhmm. They do all the in the morning, they do all the scenes with Bonnie at the vet.
Mark:Bonnie in her office, Bonnie interacting with people, Bonnie doing all that stuff. Right? And then they would have reset the the set and then done any scenes like that with Julia. Julianne?
Sarah:Yeah. Yeah. So in the end, Thomas and Missy are on the same beach riding horses, and they look like they're having so much fun.
Mark:They're having a wonderful time. You're telling
Sarah:me Missy never comes back?
Mark:Never comes back.
Sarah:That's sad.
Mark:I know. Thomas deserves He's the only single guy in Brooklyn that's of any value.
Sarah:After the credits, it's kind of easier to list the people who don't go to jail. Yeah. Obviously, Bonnie's gonna go to jail. Yep. Is Craig gonna go to jail?
Mark:I think so because of what he's doing with the horses. And the sister knows all about that.
Sarah:Julianne?
Mark:Yeah. So they're both off the pogie, plus they tried to fraud defraud a charity.
Sarah:Julianne might get a lesser sentence because she wasn't the one acquiring the steroids and using her professional license to get them. Maybe. Craig's definitely gonna
Mark:Craig's up the river.
Sarah:He's definitely interested.
Mark:I love how it's an American company. He'll just send anything anywhere. Oh, yeah.
Sarah:So that means the clinic closes. Right? Unless Prisha buys them out, which she's not in a position to She
Mark:is not in a position to do.
Sarah:So Brianna's unemployed.
Mark:Finally, that clinic closes.
Sarah:Prisha's gotta find another job.
Mark:Brianna's gotta find another job. I think Ron's gonna be okay with his dog. I think so.
Sarah:He's gonna Yep. Come around. What a mess.
Mark:It's just a complete
Sarah:Where's Ursula the reporter or whatever her name is to cover this entire boondoggle for the newspaper?
Mark:Do not know.
Sarah:Because this is a multi page story Indeed. Everybody involved is either dumb or doing bad things except Prisha. Yes. I feel bad for her. I mean, Brianna is a victim of her own stupidity,
Mark:but, you know. And why is Brianna not dating Frodo?
Sarah:They are perfect for each
Mark:They are perfect for
Sarah:each other. Though they'd probably drive off a cliff in their first date
Mark:because And they're so
Sarah:Hercules is reunited with his owner, who's probably gonna forget him somewhere again because she's living at the memory center. They need to tie Hercules to her or
Mark:something. Something.
Sarah:But she seems very happy to have him back. Yes. So we were talking, and we agreed that we want to add a little segment here to the end of some of our episodes. Yes. We're getting to the holiday season.
Sarah:Sometimes the holiday season is, I don't know, a little dark and gloomy outside.
Mark:Don't Though it's like spring today and But blooming
Sarah:it was snowing We three days thought we would add a little recommendation section here at the end of the podcast where we would recommend something for the week coming up that Yes. We that we think is a good thing.
Mark:Yes.
Sarah:What is your recommendation
Mark:for the week? So my recommendation, I will play the the sister that is all touchy feely and everything here. And I'm gonna say that my recommendation is, there are a number of people who listen to this podcast who are not in the eighteen to thirty five demographic Mhmm. That are older than that. Yeah.
Mark:I'm not going to say anything more than that, but are older than 35.
Sarah:Yes.
Mark:Okay? It is of great benefit to me and my mobility that I do yoga on a regular basis and walk on a regular basis. It is good for my hips and it is good for my knees. Now, like, okay. I'm gonna say But the thing about your yoga is you don't go
Sarah:to yoga class. Watch yoga videos on YouTube and follow There is
Mark:so much on YouTube. You put in yoga and your particular situation. Be it older lady who is
Sarah:extremely something
Mark:like that, anything like that. You put in any sort of situation that you are
Sarah:Geriatrics over seven feet yoga.
Mark:You will get, oh, here's a whole entire course for you. Free. For free. That you can follow along with. So just move a little.
Mark:That's what I'm saying. And that is my recommendation that you find something that fits your level and now I'm not a doctor, I'm going to say the thing which is you shouldn't do an exercise program without your doctor's advice, which you should get, but my doctor loves that I do this. That you should do some stretching and yoga, it helps my joints immensely and walking.
Sarah:Mark can do the splits.
Mark:No, you can't. No, I can't. I'm just kidding. I can't. Can't.
Sarah:That's your recommendation for the week? Yes. Just try some yoga on YouTube? Yes. I wholeheartedly agree with that.
Mark:It's also good for your brain, but I won't get into
Sarah:that. I didn't know what your recommendation was going to be, and now I feel like mine's really lame.
Mark:No. No. No. There are no value judgments about recommendation. Next week, I might be like, you know, they have a pickle sandwich at Jimmy John's now.
Sarah:I do not recommend that. I love pickles, but the pickle witch is an abomination.
Mark:It is
Sarah:not They literally replaced the bread with a gigantic pickle
Mark:That's so wrong.
Sarah:At Jimmy John's.
Mark:Wrong. Wrongity wrong.
Sarah:Wrongity wrong wrong. Okay. So I have two then,
Mark:because I'm
Sarah:gonna do one that I was gonna do that is touchy feely like yours, but then I have another one that's fun.
Mark:Okay.
Sarah:So my touchy feely one, before I knew you were going to do a touchy feely one, is to send someone a thank you note.
Mark:Yes.
Sarah:I keep, in my drawer at work, I keep a stack of empty generic thank you cards. Yep. And once a week, I find some excuse to write somebody a thank you for something that they've done. And I did it. I started doing it because somebody did it for me, wrote me a thank you note for something that I didn't even think I deserved to be thanked for, but it was so nice.
Sarah:And it made me feel so good that I thought, that takes two seconds. I'm going to start doing that. And now I do it once a week. And some weeks it is harder than others to think of somebody to send a thank you note to. But I've always found somebody.
Mark:That is 100% a Dave Bell special too. My brother, who is a fantastic sort of people person like that, always sends handwritten thank you notes to so many people. I just drop them
Sarah:off at people's offices sometimes. And wow, does it make a difference?
Mark:It makes a huge difference.
Sarah:I really like writing them too. It's good for me. My fun one though Yes. Is to next time you're at the grocery store, it's that time of year where all the weird holiday flavored crap comes out. Yes.
Sarah:Try some new flavor of something. My example from this week is that we got the holiday flavored vanilla soda from Coca Cola. Yes. I'm not going
Mark:to say that it's bad. No. But it tastes
Sarah:a bit like cream soda mixed with Coke.
Mark:It's vanilla Coke y.
Sarah:It tastes like vanilla Coke, but a little bit different. Totally drinkable, but not like, oh. It's not cranberry ginger ale, which is my favorite season.
Mark:And we're also not going to promote alcoholic drinking on our show, but we also picked up some different flavored ciders.
Sarah:Oh, yeah. Those were fun.
Mark:And they were That was fun and good.
Sarah:But, you know, if you see some weird flavor for the holiday, try it. Yeah. You might like it. Absolutely. If you don't like it, share it.
Sarah:That's what I do. I go, I take it to
Mark:work, and I go to my team who work for me who can't tell me no. And I
Sarah:say, hey, I brought this stuff in. Taste it.
Mark:And they go, do I
Sarah:have to? Yeah, it's
Mark:The kids don't do it anymore.
Sarah:The kids don't fall for it anymore. But when I got the Thanksgiving dinner flavored jelly beans Yeah. Everybody on my team tried every flavor.
Mark:And it
Sarah:was great fun because I knew the green bean was absolutely freaking foul, they all ate it.
Mark:Remember, as a manager, use your power. That's right. Next time, season nine episode five, Shot of Love. This will be dropping on the December 1. So thanksgiving, Happy Thanksgiving.
Sarah:Wherever you are. Yes. We hope you
Mark:have a good turkey day.
Sarah:Yes. Alright. Bye, maniacs.
Mark:Bye, maniacs. Thanks for joining us on the mystery maniacs podcast. If you enjoyed our crazy podcast today, don't miss out on future episodes. Follow us on social media for updates, beyond the scenes content, and exclusive sneak peeks. Subscribe, like, and share to spread the word.
Mark:Bye, maniacs.
Sarah:I know they're like, I think Carmen Diaz has a twin sister, but they're not identical.
Mark:Maybe.
Sarah:Is it Carmen Diaz?
Mark:Yes.
Sarah:Is that right?
Mark:I think so. Riveting podcast there. Cameron Diaz.
Sarah:Cameron. Yes.
